The Federation Council decided to issue a warning to Senator Lyudmila Narusova for traveling to NATO countries without approval

It was decided to issue a warning to Senator Lyudmila Narusova for traveling to NATO countries without the consent of the Federation Council. write about this TASS and RIA Novosti .

As Vyacheslav Timchenko, head of the Committee on Rules of the Upper House of the Federal Assembly, told RIA Novosti, Narusova flew to Istanbul on July 19, and from there to the French city of Nice, returning to Russia on August 6. According to TASS, the official left the country not on July 19, but on July 18.

Soon, according to Timchenko, Narusova will be sent “a warning about the inadmissibility of traveling abroad without the approval of the leadership of the Northern Fleet, especially to NATO countries, during the period of the SVO.” As RIA Novosti’s interlocutor emphasized, as a senator, Narusova has access to classified information. Because of her trip, she missed two plenary sessions of the chamber.

A TASS source in the Federation Council said that, according to the Committee on Rules and Organization of Parliamentary Activities, Narusova’s trip “discredits the status of the senator and the chamber as a whole,” since NATO is “actually waging a war against Russia.”

that they plan to issue a “severe warning” to Narusova TASS also previously reported . In August, the senator’s daughter, Ksenia Sobchak, published a story on Instagram - Narusova was also present in the video. In her story, Sobchak said that she was in Marbella in Spain. Narusova herself then denied this information - she told reporters that she was in St. Petersburg.

Later, because of Sobchak’s story, the public movement “Call of the People” sent State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin, Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matvienko and Justice Minister Konstantin Chuychenko an appeal with a request to ban parliamentarians and their relatives from visiting “unfriendly countries.”

“They [high-ranking officials and their relatives] buy tickets there, check into hotels, purchase various goods, as a result of which VAT and other taxes go to the budget of unfriendly countries, which then allocate aid packages for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Also, countries opposing Russia can recruit government officials to carry out subversive activities within the Russian Federation,” the Paragraph publication quotes a fragment from the appeal.

In January, the State Duma obliged representatives of the lower house of parliament to notify about trips abroad. Earlier, Kommersant, citing a source in the authorities , said that regional deputies and officials were “strongly recommended” to refrain from taking overseas leave due to the war in Ukraine.