Article: United Russia Deputy Complains of Kremlin Pressure, THE MOSCOW TIMES

Oksana Yablokova
The Moscow Times (Russia)
11-05-2004
URL: http://www.themoscowtimes.com/
United Russia deputies are under enormous pressure from the
presidential administration to approve Kremlin-backed legislation, and
a senior administration official told a group of deputies last summer that
they had not been popularly elected and must follow orders, United Russia
Deputy Anatoly Yermolin said.
Yermolin, the first State Duma deputy in the Kremlin-controlled
faction to publicly speak out against the Kremlin, made the accusations
in an open letter to the Prosecutor General's Office, the Constitutional
Court and Duma Speaker Boris Gryzlov, and he asked that he and his colleagues
be protected from ...

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