The Crimean scandal has reached the State Duma
The incident in Kerch, when local officials in luxurious fur coats visited city residents who survived the siege of Leningrad and distributed bread to them, reached the State Duma.
Thus, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Anti-Corruption Committee Alexander Khinshtein, speaking from the rostrum of parliament, praised the head of Crimea, who demanded the resignation of the head of Kerch Maya Khuzhina and deputy Larisa Shcherbula, who posed in the photo next to an elderly survivor of the blockade in the corridor of her house, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. .
Khinshtein noted that Khuzhina and Shcherbula, after ridiculous attempts to justify revealing photos in luxurious clothes in a hurry, wrote letters of resignation.
“Yesterday, an extraordinary session of the Kerch City Council dismissed Speaker Maya Khuzhina and her deputy Larisa Shcherbula. This happened after a scandal with them presenting gifts to Kerch blockade survivors. Surely, many of you have seen these photographs where they presented commemorative medals and either bread or pies right in the hallways, without taking off their luxurious fur coats, which, to put it mildly, looked quite contrasting against the background of the veterans’ homes and appearance.
Moreover, when the scandal broke, both the head of Kerch and her representative could not find anything smarter than to say that veterans, in principle, did not need gifts, and they did not take off their fur coats because they were in a hurry. “We are grateful to the head of Crimea, member of the Bureau of the Supreme Council of United Russia Sergei Aksenov, who gave a harsh assessment to the Kerch leaders and demanded that they resign,” Khinshtein said.
Let us remind you that despite the public outcry caused by the scandalous photos with the siege survivor, neither Khuzhina nor Shcherbula were deprived of party cards - they remain members of United Russia. As Vladimir Konstantinov, secretary of the Crimean organization “United Russia” and speaker of the republic’s parliament, said, the officials were already punished: “They have already been punished - why punish them twice.”
It is noteworthy that Khuzhina and Shcherbula are called Konstantinov’s proteges. Allegedly, the public outcry surrounding the congratulations of the Kerch blockade survivors is connected precisely with the intra-Crimean struggle between Governor Sergei Aksenov and Speaker of Parliament Vladimir Konstantinov.
It is interesting that at the same time, the Minister of Information of Crimea, Sergei Zyryanov, who was considered Aksenov’s creation, lost his position, and “Konstantinov’s man,” the ex-head of the Sak administration Mikhail Afanasyev, was appointed in his place.
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