Aty-baty, deputies - Newspaper Kommersant No. 182 (7383) dated 03.10.2022

Aty-baty, deputies - Newspaper Kommersant No. 182 (7383) dated 03.10.2022



By the end of the second week of partial mobilization, following the deputies of the State Duma (see Kommersant of September 26), officials and parliamentarians from the regions en masse rushed to the front. According to Kommersant's estimates, more than a dozen deputies of legislative assemblies have already been mobilized, and hundreds of municipal deputies have been mobilized. At the same time, not everyone goes to the military registration and enlistment offices voluntarily, many are mobilized according to the agenda. The question of the fate of the deputy mandates of conscripts is still open.

As Kommersant calculated, after the announcement of partial mobilization on September 21, at least ten deputies of regional legislative assemblies publicly asked to go to the front. For example, Ryazan United Russia Andrey Glazunov said that he would voluntarily go to Ukraine "to beat the Nazis and American mercenaries," since "Russia and the people now need to be defended shoulder to shoulder." In Buryatia, Namsarai Namsaraev, a member of the People's Deputy group, volunteered, and in Stavropol, a member of the Communist Party faction, reserve lieutenant colonel Vitaly Lozovoy, volunteered. Both stated that they consider military service to be their duty. Mr. Lozovoy, however, is already 62 years old, but if “the need arises”, he will “be sure to be called up,” Kommersant was promised at the military commissariat of the region.

In the Novosibirsk region, two volunteers were discovered at once - vice speaker of the legislative assembly Andrey Panferov and head doctor of hospital No. 34 Yaroslav Frolov, both from United Russia (ER). Mr. Panferov is a reserve lieutenant colonel with Afghanistan, Nagorno-Karabakh and Chechnya behind him. He himself explained to Kommersant that he had written a report and was now awaiting a decision to send him to the war zone. Mr. Frolov did not serve, but he is sure that "a doctor in this matter will not be superfluous." According to the regional authorities, United Russia members Rasim Gadzhiagaev from Dagestan, Maxim Gelas from the Rostov region and Dmitry Afanasiev from the Kaluga region have already gone to the front as volunteers.

Many are mobilized forcibly. For example, last week a deputy of the Samara provincial Duma from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Mikhail Abdalkin received a summons, on October 3 he was ordered to appear at the military enlistment office. “Are the children of ministers, governors, United Russia deputies, senators, oligarchs already at the front?” — not hiding the indignation, he wrote in social networks. The communist stressed that he would not lose his mandate, as "many would very much like," and would even continue to run social networks. His United Russia colleague Dmitry Kholin took the mobilization stoically: “Why hide? And how would I look into the eyes of the peasants. He has already been appointed deputy battalion commander of the 15th brigade of the 2nd Guards Army. Finally, Michil Nikolaev, a member of the State Assembly of Yakutia (A Just Russia – For Truth), said that waiting for the agenda “was exciting,” but after receiving it, he “felt absolute calm.”

We add that last week in the regional parliaments there was a massive talk about the readiness to go to the front in case of conscription. For example, such a statement was made by the speaker of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, Alexander Belsky (ER). The deputy of the State Council of Tatarstan from the LDPR, Eduard Sharafiev, demanded that “no reservations be made against him,” although a deferment from the call for mobilization is provided only for State Duma deputies and senators. And after the statement of the Vice-Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of the Vladimir Region, United Russia Roman Kavinov, about his readiness to be mobilized, Governor Alexander Avdeev even called on his colleagues to stop promoting on this topic.

At the municipal level, the number of mobilized deputies is already in the hundreds. In the Krasnodar Territory alone, 15 people were called up, Kommersant was told in the Kuban branch of EP. According to the speaker of the parliament of Dagestan Zaur Askenderov, there are nine such people in the republic. Basically, these are deputies of village councils who exercise their powers on an exempt basis, that is, teachers, state employees, employees of local enterprises. But they also call for more “status” mundeps: for example, members of the city councils of Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Tomsk, Cheboksary, Angarsk, Penza, Chita received subpoenas. True, not all in the end turned out to be fit for medical reasons. In Buynaksk, Dagestan, the military commissar sent summonses to absolutely all deputies of the city assembly. It is still unknown which of them will be mobilized: each case is planned to be considered individually, the administration specified. Perhaps the highest-ranking deputy of the municipal level, who is preparing to go to the front, is the vice speaker of the Novosibirsk City Council Yevgeny Yakovenko (ER).

As for the officials, here, too, we can already talk about hundreds of conscripts. For example, the governor of Primorye, Oleg Kozhemyako, said that 150 employees of the regional government received summons. True, his press service could not explain to Kommersant which of them was the most senior. According to Kommersant's source, there are no vice-governors, ministers, or even heads of departments among those mobilized. The government of the Samara region reported that almost 300 regional officials and deputies, including employees of the governor's administration, ministries, municipal administrations and subordinate organizations, received summons.

Ivan Esipov, the deputy head of the city committee for youth policy, will go to the front from St. Petersburg, Azat Badranov, the first vice-premier of the republic, from Bashkiria, Yevgeny Makarov, the chief federal inspector, from Kamchatka, and Ilya Shtokman, the first deputy head of the city administration, from Nizhny Novgorod. Mr. Shtokman will retain his position until he returns, the Nizhny Novgorod mayor's office said. It is interesting that if officials have no problems with this, then the fate of deputy mandates during the mobilization is still in question.

In particular, parliamentarians who work on a full-time basis do not have the right to engage in other paid activities, except for scientific, teaching or creative work. In the event of a call, such deputies will be put on allowance and, accordingly, will violate this ban. And the Mundeps should be completely deprived of their mandates during mobilization: this basis for the early termination of their powers is directly described in the federal law on local self-government. However, no such precedents are known so far.

According to the electoral lawyer Anton Rudakov, any process to deprive the deputy status will become an unnecessary scandal that requires the intervention of the federal legislator, so this issue is not raised yet: will it come? However, in the future, it seems logical to create the institution of "temporary suspension of powers" in connection with mobilization for military service, the expert believes.

Andrey Prakh, corset “Kommersant”



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