A candidate for the Irkutsk City Duma said that she was forced to withdraw from the elections by threatening her son
The director of the Irkutsk crisis center for women “Maria,” Natalya Kuznetsova, told the publication “Takiye Dela” that a deputy of the legislative assembly forced her to withdraw from the elections to the city duma under the threat of her son being detained for drugs. According to her, on August 28, a deputy of the legislative assembly of the Irkutsk region, Anton Krasnoshtanov, came to her, introduced himself as the director of the store and offered help to the Maria center.