“An internal audit is currently underway. The decision will be made by the credentials committee, which will identify the perpetrators of the incident, ”TASS quoted the representative of the regional Duma.

On Tuesday, June 23, the meeting of the regional Duma, which lasted almost 12 hours, was interrupted due to a brawl among the deputies.

The incident occurred during a speech by the chairman of the credentials committee, Nikolai Bushuyev, who announced the decision on violation by deputies Dmitry Chernyshevsky and Nikolai Bondarenko of parliamentary ethics at parliamentary committee meetings.

During reading the decision, Bondarenko got up from his place and began shooting on a mobile phone. Other deputies began to urge him to return to the scene, the incident grew into pouring water over each other and a brawl. Speaker of the Duma Alexander Romanov announced a break right during Bushuev’s speech.