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RFE/RL: Police Search Regional Parliament In Russia’s Sakha-Yakutia

Published April 27, 2018 at 11:18 am

Russian riot policemen take part in special security exercises at the Saint-Petersburg Stadium (Krestovsky Stadium) in Saint Petersburg on April 20, 2018, ahead of the 2018 FIFA World Cup tournament in Russia. The 2018 FIFA World Cup will be taking place in Russia from June 14 to July 15, 2018.

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Police are conducting searches in the building of the regional parliament, or Il Tumen, of Russia’s Far Eastern region of Sakha-Yakutia.

Local media reports quote sources in Il Tumen as saying searches are being conducted in the offices of three lawmakers—Yury Nikolayev, Aleksandr Uarov, and Dmitry Savvin—who are suspected of alleged bribe-taking.