Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Markhayev (russian: Вячесла́в Миха́йлович Марха́ев; born June 1, 1955, Sharaldai,

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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

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Biography

Born in the family of a school teacher in village Sharaldai. In 1977 he graduated from the

Buryat State University Buryat State University (russian: Бурятский государственный университет) is an institution of higher education in Siberia and the Russian Far East, located in the city of Ulan-Ude, Buryat Republic, Russia. Cour ...

. From 1980 to 2007 he worked in the internal affairs bodies. Founder and first commander of the Buryat riot police. 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 People's Khural of the Republic of Buryatia, the head of the Communist Party faction.Вячеслав Мархаев. Лица власти
''лицавласти.рф.'' Retrieved 5 October 2018. In 2011–2015, he was a deputy in the

of the Federal Assembly of Russia, and a member of its Committee for Security and Anti-Corruption. 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 March 11, 2020, he was the only member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation who voted against the amendments to the Russian Constitution. He spoke out against the Russia's "special military operation" in Ukraine, although his criticisms only refer to Russia's military campaign outside of Donbass, while he fully supports the narrative that Ukraine is governed by "neo-Nazis". He is one of the 324 members of the

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

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Вячеслав Мархаев — главные новости о персоне
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