Deputy Yushchenko: the Communist Party asked the head of the Investigative Committee Bastrykin to initiate a case against Zhirinovsky State Duma deputy Alexander Yushchenko told RIA Novosti about this.
The reason for the appeal to Bastrykin was Zhirinovsky's statements made on Thursday, November 25, at a meeting of the State Duma on the issue of depriving the immunity of the deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Valery Rashkin. During his speech, the leader of the Liberal Democrats called the deputy Nikolai Kharitonov a collective farmer and continued his accusatory speech against communists around the world.