Matvienko's telegram sent to the Tyumen Regional Duma says that it "learned with deep sorrow about the death of the Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Economic Policy Mikhail Nikolayevich Ponomarev."
“I ask you to convey my condolences to family and friends,” the text of the telegram from RIA Novosti quotes.
Earlier, a source in the Federation Council informed the agency about the death of Ponomarev at the age of 68.