Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Markhayev (; born 1 June 1955, Sharaldai,

Bokhansky District Bokhansky District (; , ''Bookhonoi aimag'') is an administrative district of Ust-Orda Buryat Okrug of Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, one of the thirty-three in the oblast.Charter of Irkutsk Oblast Municipally, it is incorporated as Bokhansky Municipal ...

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) is a Russian politician who is currently a member of parliament, a deputy of the

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since 2021, as he already served a member of the State Duma elected in 2011. He had served as the

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from

on executive authority from 2015 to 2020. He was the First Secretary of the Buryat Communist Party.

Biography

Born in the family of a school teacher in village Sharaldai. In 1977 he graduated from the Buryat State University. From 1980 to 2007 he worked in the internal affairs bodies. Founder and first commander of the Buryat

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. He began his career in Ministry of Internal Affairs with the district police officer and was promoted to deputy minister of Ministry of Internal Affairs. In 2007, with the rank of colonel, he retired from service. In December 2007, Markhayev became the deputy of the

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, the head of the Communist Party faction.Вячеслав Мархаев. Лица власти
''лицавласти.рф.'' Retrieved 5 October 2018. During the

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he received a deputy mandate for the 6th State Duma of the

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on the

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list. Following the electoral victory of fellow communist Sergey Levchenko for governor of

in September 2015, Levchenko announced his intention to nominate Markhayev to the Federation Council. He officially resigned form the State Duma on 16 October 2015, two weeks after his appointment to the Senate. In 2017, Markhaev was nominated as one of the candidates for the head of Buryatia by

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, but he could not overcome the municipal filter. In 2019 he publicly condemned the heavy-handed police response to protests surrounding the

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. On 11 March 2020 he was the only member of the

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of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation who voted against the amendments to the Russian Constitution. He spoke out against the

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, although his criticisms only refer to Russia's military campaign outside of Donbas, while he fully supports the narrative that Ukraine is governed by "neo-Nazis".

Sanctions

Markhayev was one of the 324 members of the

the United States Treasury sanctioned on 24 March 2022 in response to the

. Markhayev was also sanctioned by the UK government in 2022 in relation to the

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Только один сибирский сенатор не одобрил пенсионную реформу

Вячеслав Мархаев — главные новости о персоне
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