FBK published an investigation into the Speaker of Russia’s State Duma, Vyacheslav Volodin, and said that in 2025 alone he earned nearly 258 million rubles, while nearly 1 billion rubles sits in his bank accounts. The report also says that about 750 million rubles are held in the accounts of his 90-year-old mother, Lidiya Barabanova, and that his father-in-law, Yuri Polyakin, is building a house near Gelendzhik.

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During the discussion in the Duma of the new repressive law, Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin stated: «Those who left abroad and harm the country are not the opposition, they are traitors, they are criminals». A little earlier, he branded political emigrants with an even harsher word in the now-familiar style of Russian politics, calling the initiative «a law against degenerates». But apparently he was very nervous, so he accidentally inserted an extra word — «against».

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