A candidate for deputy was kidnapped in Novosibirsk
On the evening of December 10, 2005, in Novosibirsk, on the eve of the elections to the regional council, an attack was made on a candidate for the regional council from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation in the 38th constituency of the Leninsky district, TV journalist Andrei Zhirnov. Having kidnapped the candidate, unknown people cut his face. According to Oleg Poletaev, press secretary of the Novosibirsk branch of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, A.