PoliticsLawmakers are ‘watching with popcorn’ as a turf war erupts in Russia’s parliament

Russia’s new State Duma is seeing an internal power struggle between LDPR leader Leonid Slutsky and United Russia’s Pyotr Tolstoy. After lawmakers named Tolstoy the Duma’s top international affairs official, Slutsky refused to leave the office reserved for the committee chair in the Troekurov Chambers. Meduza’s sources say he is trying to make life difficult for Tolstoy.

Russian politicsState DumaLeonid SlutskyPyotr Tolstoy

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