A report was drawn up against a Lipetsk communist for playing the USSR anthem at a meeting of the regional council

The police drew up a report against the deputy of the Lipetsk Regional Council from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Alexander Ushakov, who sang the USSR anthem to the music of the Russian anthem. about this . The communist told 7x7

Ushakov was accused of violating the procedure for the official use of state symbols of Russia (Article 17.10 of the Administrative Code).

He said that he sang the USSR anthem at a meeting of the regional council in November 2021 in response to the words of a LDPR deputy who compared Vladimir Lenin with Adolf Hitler.

On December 16, members of the commission on parliamentary ethics unanimously decided to report Ushakov’s actions to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the prosecutor’s office. The meeting of the commission was convened by its head, United Russia member Maxim Tolstopyatov.