State Duma deputies did not want to recognize the activities of Gorbachev and Yeltsin as anti-people
The majority of State Duma deputies today refused to vote for the draft statement “On recognizing the political activities of the President of the USSR M.S. Gorbachev and the first President of the Russian Federation B.N. Yeltsin as anti-people,” proposed by the LDPR faction. A total of 86 deputies took part in the voting, 81 of whom voted for the statement. As LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky explained, the statement was prepared two years ago, but in order to…