“We are sure that this should be a representative of the Liberal Democratic Party,” he said to RBC.

According to him, party leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky put forward three candidates: this is Mikhail Degtyarev, chairman of the State Duma committee on sports, Sergey Zhigarev, head of the committee on economics and entrepreneurship, and Andrei Andreichenko, deputy.

As Cherkasov noted, these should be “the most professional and familiar candidates with industry and the Far East.”

July 9 Furgal was detained in Khabarovsk and taken to Moscow. A Basmanny court detained him for two months on charges of organizing the murders of businessmen in 2004-2005. He himself pleaded not guilty.