Deputy given one-month speaking ban
The Russian State Duma on Friday ruled to bar Ilya Ponomaryov from speaking in the chamber for a month for "publicly using crude, offensive expressions that damaged the dignity and honor of other State Duma deputies and other people" , RIA Novosti reported.
Ponomaryov will be banned from taking part in plenary sessions from October 16 to November 16.
During a discussion on July 13, the A Just Russia deputy used the phrase "crooks and thieves."
State Duma Speaker Sergei Naryshkin expressed his disappointment that Ponomaryov could not summon up "the courage to apologize to his colleagues."
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