Earlier, the parliamentarian, speaking about the idea of ​​the US Treasury Department to place an image of a black activist Harriet Tubman on the bill, told the Moscow Says radio station that Putin's portrait could be placed on the five thousandth bill.

“I expressed the idea that certain symbols of a given era, a given time are placed on banknotes.

I was asked what could be on the bill now, I suggested that I do not see any other symbol than Putin, ”Kalashnikov explained.

His words are quoted by RIA Novosti.

Answering a clarifying question, he noted that he did not plan to bring the relevant question up for discussion.