Russia’s State Duma Commission for Ethics launched a probe into the visit of several Duma members (one communist and two Fair Russia party members) to the US Embassy in January. The commission requested from the deputies a written explanation of why they made the visit, after which the commission will decide whether or not the visit violated parliamentary ethics rules. “Now foreign intelligence officers advise Russian MPs on what laws to adopt,” stated the Duma’s State Security Committee deputy head Alexander Khinshtein. “This is inadmissible,” he added. “These deputies must surrender their mandates,” said Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the leader of the Liberal-Democratic Party faction in the Duma. Andrei Isayev, a top official of the ruling United Russia party and the head of Duma’s Labor and Social Policy Committee, stated that the discussion is very important because Michael McFaul, the newly appointed US ambassador to Russia, is an expert in “color” revolutions. His appointment “was no accident,” Isayev pointed out.
http://lenta.ru/news/2012/02/14/explain/
http://rt.com/politics/zhironovsky-mcfaul-protests-us-russia-duma-545/
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