CPRF faction in the State Duma

Communist Party of the Russian Federation Коммунистическая партия Российской Федерации
Chamber	State Duma
Legislature(s)	1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th
Foundation	13 January 1994
Member parties	CPRF Left Front DPA DZNS
President	Gennady Zyuganov (since 1994)
Vice presidents	Nikolay Kolomeitsev (since 2016)
Representation	57 / 450
Ideology	Communism Social conservatism
Website	Page on the State Duma website

The Communist Party of the Russian Federation faction in the State Duma is the deputy association of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation in the State Duma of the VIII convocation (2021–2026).

In the 2021 elections to the State Duma, the CPRF, according to official data, received 18.94% of the vote, which gave it the right to 48 deputy mandates. 9 people nominated by the party won the elections in single-mandate constituencies. Thus, according to the results of the elections to the State Duma, the Communist Party faction received 57 seats in the State Duma of the VIII convocation.[1]

The voting took place in a tense atmosphere and was accompanied by massive violations of electoral legislation, especially in Moscow, where opposition candidates supported by Smart Voting (Valery Rashkin, Denis Parfenov, Mikhail Lobanov, Anastasia Udaltsova, Sergei Obukhov, Mikhail Tarantsov, as well as representatives of other political forces Anastasia Bryukhanova and Sergey Mitrokhin) were in the lead all three days of voting, but after adding the results of remote electronic voting (DEG) they were defeated in all districts,[2] which significantly reduced the possible representation of the party in the new convocation of the Duma. The Communist Party of the Russian Federation did not recognize the results of the elections in Moscow, demanded that the results of the DEG be canceled as falsified[3] and organized mass protests in the format of meetings with deputies.[4]

On October 7, an organizational meeting of the faction was held, at which Gennady Zyuganov was elected its chairman, and Nikolay Kolomeitsev was elected first deputy chairman.[5]

Activities

In the election of the Chairman of the State Duma, the faction nominated Dmitry Novikov,[6] who received 61 votes against 360 from the current head of parliament Vyacheslav Volodin.[7] At the same time, in addition to the deputies of the faction, Oksana Dmitriyeva from the Party of Growth and part of the LDPR faction also voted for Novikov: Sergey Karginov, Sergey Leonov, Evgeny Markov, Dmitry Svishchev, Vladimir Sipyagin, Ivan Sukharev and Boris Chernyshov.[8]

On October 14, 2021, the United Russia faction blocked the proposal of the Communist Party faction to conduct a parliamentary investigation into the revealed facts of torture of prisoners.

• 96 deputies voted for the proposal of the CPRF (of which 1 deputy of the United Russia faction - Alexander Polyakov, 53 deputies of the CPRF faction, 23 deputies of the A Just Russia — For Truth faction, 12 deputies of the LDPR faction, 7 deputies of the New People faction);
• 261 deputies voted against (including 258 deputies of the United Russia faction, 2 deputies of the Communist Party faction - Sergei Gavrilov and Alexander Yushchenko, 1 deputy of the LDPR faction - Ivan Musatov);
• 1 deputy abstained (Oksana Dmitriyeva, not a member of the faction).[9][10]

On November 25, 2021, the deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Valery Rashkin was deprived of parliamentary immunity.[11]

• 341 deputies voted for depriving him of his parliamentary immunity and agreeing to initiate a criminal case against him (including 287 deputies of the United Russia faction, 20 deputies of the A Just Russia faction, 21 deputies of the LDPR faction, 12 deputies of the New People faction and 1 Deputy, not a member of the faction - Yevgeny Marchenko);
• 55 deputies voted against (including 54 deputies of the Communist Party faction and 1 deputy of the Just Russia faction - Dmitry Kuznetsov);
• 2 deputies abstained (both from the A Just Russia faction - Vadim Belousov and Nikolai Burlyayev).[12]

Composition

8th State Duma

The composition of the faction is indicated in accordance with the official publication of Rossiyskaya Gazeta[13] and the list of deputies on the official website of the State Duma.[14]

Constituency	Name	Date of birth	Place of birth	Party		Comment
Party list	Gennady Zyuganov (Party and faction leader)	26 June 1944	Russian SFSR (Mymrino, Oryol Oblast)		CPRF
Party list	Svetlana Savitskaya	8 August 1948	Russian SFSR (Moscow)		CPRF
Party list	Yury Afonin	22 March 1977	Russian SFSR (Tula)		CPRF
Party list	Andrey Klychkov	2 September 1979	Russian SFSR (Kaliningrad)		CPRF	Renounced the mandate, which was then transferred to Robert Kochiev
Party list	Robert Kochiev	16 March 1966	Georgian SSR (Tskhinvali, South Ossetian AO)		CPRF
Party list	Ivan Melnikov (1st Vice Speaker)	7 August 1950	Russian SFSR (Bogoroditsk, Tula Oblast)		CPRF
Party list	Vladimir Kashin	10 August 1948	Russian SFSR (Nazaryevo, Ryazan Oblast)		CPRF
Party list	Dmitry Novikov	12 September 1969	Russian SFSR (Khabarovsk)		CPRF
Party list	Nikolay Kharitonov	30 October 1948	Russian SFSR (Rezino, Novosibirsk Oblast)		CPRF
Party list	Nikolay Kolomeitsev	1 September 1956	Russian SFSR (Protsikov, Rostov Oblast)		CPRF
Party list	Sergey Shargunov	12 May 1980	Russian SFSR (Moscow)		CPRF
Party list	Vadim Kumin	1 January 1973	Russian SFSR (Chelyabinsk)		CPRF
Party list	Yury Sinelshchikov	26 September 1947	Russian SFSR (Bogucharovo, Tula Oblast)		CPRF
Party list	Kazbek Taysaev	12 February 1967	Russian SFSR (Chikola, North Ossetia)		CPRF
Party list	Alexey Kurinny	18 January 1974	Georgian SSR (Tskhinvali, South Ossetian AO)		CPRF
Rubtsovsk	Maria Prusakova	14 September 1983	Russian SFSR (Barnaul)		CPRF	Supported by Smart Voting in their constituency.
Party list	Anzhelika Glazkova	28 December 1968	Russian SFSR (Kostroma)		DZNS CPRF
Ufa (defeated) Party list	Alexander Yushchenko	19 November 1969	Byelorussian SSR (Mazyr)		CPRF	Supported by Smart Voting in their constituency.
Party list	Vyacheslav Markhayev	1 June 1955	Russian SFSR (Sharaldai, Irkutsk Oblast)		CPRF
Party list	Anatoly Bifov	7 January 1963	Russian SFSR (Baksan, Kabardino-Balkaria)		CPRF
Party list	Nikolay Arefiev	11 March 1949	Russian SFSR (Chagan, Astrakhan Obl.)		CPRF
Party list	Boris Komotsky	31 January 1956	East Germany (Potsdam)		CPRF
Syktyvkar	Oleg Mikhailov	6 January 1987	Russian SFSR (Pechora, Komi ASSR)		CPRF	Supported by Smart Voting in their constituency.
Mari El	Sergey Kazankov	9 October 1972	Russian SFSR (Maryino, Mari ASSR)		CPRF	Supported by Smart Voting in their constituency.
Party list	Irina Filatova	8 August 1978	Russian SFSR (Novosibirsk)		CPRF
Party list	Sergey Levchenko	2 November 1953	Russian SFSR (Novosibirsk)		CPRF
Irkutsk	Mikhail Shchapov	20 September 1975	Russian SFSR (Kirensk, Irkutsk Obl.)		CPRF	Supported by Smart Voting in their constituency.
Central Tatarstan (defeated) Party list	Artem Prokofiev	31 December 1983	Russian SFSR (Kazan, Tatar ASSR)		CPRF	Supported by Smart Voting in their constituency.
Party list	Maria Drobot	21 March 1982	Russian SFSR (Rostov-on-Don)		CPRF
Party list	Ivan Babich	2 September 1982	Russian SFSR (Nazarovo, Krasnoyarsk Krai)		CPRF
Party list	Nikolay Osadchy	8 December 1957	Russian SFSR (Tuapse, Krasnodar Krai)		CPRF
Sakhalin (defeated) Party list	Alexey Kornienko	22 July 1976	Uzbek SSR (Namangan)		CPRF	Supported by Smart Voting in their constituency.
Party list	Sergei Gavrilov	27 January 1966	Russian SFSR (Tula)		CPRF
Party list	Nikolay Ivanov	17 January 1957	Russian SFSR (Kursk)		CPRF
Party list	Roman Lyabikhov	7 May 1973	Russian SFSR (Severodvinsk, Arkhangelsk Obl.)		CPRF
Tver (defeated) Party list	Oleg Lebedev	12 October 1976	Russian SFSR (Tula)		CPRF
Engels (defeated) Party list	Olga Alimova	10 April 1953	Russian SFSR (Saratov)		CPRF	Supported by Smart Voting in their constituency.
Novomoskovsk (defeated) Party list	Vladimir Isakov	25 February 1987	Russian SFSR (Tula)		CPRF LKSM RF	Supported by Smart Voting in their constituency.
Party list	Anatoly Lokot	18 January 1959	Russian SFSR (Novosibirsk)		CPRF	Renounced the mandate, which was then transferred to Renat Suleymanov
Central NSB (defeated) Party list	Renat Suleymanov	24 December 1965	Russian SFSR (Novosibirsk)		CPRF	Supported by Smart Voting in their constituency.
Party list	Vladimir Blotsky	10 November 1977	Russian SFSR (Klin, Moscow Oblast)		CPRF
Party list	Mikhail Berulava	3 August 1950	Georgian SSR (Sukhumi, Abkhaz ASSR)		CPRF
Party list	Sergey Panteleev	4 July 1951	Russian SFSR (Zapolye, Vologda Oblast)		CPRF
Party list	Georgy Kamnev	5 October 1983	Russian SFSR (Serdobsk, Penza Oblast)		CPRF
Party list	Nikolay Vasiliev	28 March 1958	Russian SFSR (Grachyovsky Dist., Orenburg Obl.)		CPRF
Krasnogorsk (defeated) Party list	Konstantin Cheremisov	7 May 1960			CPRF	Renounced the mandate, which was then transferred to Boris Ivanyuzhenkov
Podolsk (defeated) Party list	Boris Ivanyuzhenkov	25 February 1966	Russian SFSR (Reutov, Moscow Oblast)		CPRF	Supported by Smart Voting in their constituency.
Party list	Viktor Sobolev	23 February 1950	Russian SFSR (Kalinino, Krasnodar Krai)		DPA CPRF
Omsk	Andrey Alekhin	9 February 1959	Russian SFSR (Novosibirsk)		CPRF	Supported by Smart Voting in their constituency.
Moskalenki	Oleg Smolin	10 February 1952	Kazakh SSR (Poludino, North Kazakhstan)		CPRF	Supported by Smart Voting in their constituency.
Tolyatti	Leonid Kalashnikov	6 August 1960	Russian SFSR (Stepnoy Dvorets, Buryat ASSR)		CPRF	Supported by Smart Voting in their constituency.
Party list	Mikhail Avdeev	6 March 1977	Russian SFSR (Moscow)		CPRF
Central Moscow (defeated) Party list	Nina Ostanina	26 December 1955	Russian SFSR (Kolpakovo, Altai Krai)		CPRF
Promyshlenny	Mikhail Matveyev	13 May 1968	Ukrainian SSR (Dnipropetrovsk)		CPRF	Supported by Smart Voting in their constituency.
Taganrog (defeated) Party list	Evgeny Bessonov	26 November 1968	Russian SFSR (Rostov-on-Don)		CPRF	Supported by Smart Voting in their constituency.
Party list	Nikolay Ezersky	8 May 1956	Russian SFSR (Palmino, Sverdlovsk Oblast)		CPRF
Babushkinsky (defeated) Party list	Valery Rashkin	14 March 1955	Russian SFSR (Zhilino, Kaliningrad Oblast)		CPRF	Supported by Smart Voting in their constituency. Deprived of mandate 25 May 2022, mandate transferred to Anastasia Udaltsova
Nagatinsky (defeated)	Anastasia Udaltsova	2 September 1978	Ukrainian SSR (Cherkasy)		Left Front CPRF	Supported by Smart Voting in their constituency. On 29 June 2022 Valery Rashkin's mandate was transferred to her.
Preobrazhensky (defeated) Party list	Sergei Obukhov	5 October 1958	Ukrainian SSR (Lviv)		CPRF	Supported by Smart Voting in their constituency.
Medvedkovo (defeated) Party list	Denis Parfenov	11 September 1987	Russian SFSR (Moscow)		CPRF	Supported by Smart Voting in their constituency.
Yakutsk	Petr Ammosov	22 September 1966	Russian SFSR (Yakutsk)		CPRF

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