Russia’s ruling political party is learning that it won’t be easy to silence Natalia Poklonskaya, the former Crimea attorney general now serving in the State Duma, and the only United Russia deputy to vote against controversial draft legislation that would raise the country’s retirement age.
Hours after a news report on Sept. 11 claiming that the party is planning to remove her from the State Duma’s Committee on Security and Countering Corruption, Poklonskaya made her own announcement: her other committee (which monitors lawmakers’ incomes) is auditing five United Russia deputies and one Just Russia deputy for potential involvement in undeclared “business entities,” including enterprises based abroad.
