Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Markhayev[a] (Russian: Вячесла́в Миха́йлович Марха́ев; born 1 June 1955, Sharaldai, Bokhansky District, Irkutsk Oblast[1]) is a Russian politician who is currently a member of parliament, a deputy of the State Duma since 2021, as he already served a member of the State Duma elected in 2011.

Vyacheslav Markhayev
Вячеслав Мархаев
Member of the State Duma (Party List Seat)
Assumed office
12 October 2021
In office
21 December 2011 – 16 October 2015
Succeeded byYuri Tarmaev
Russian Federation Senator from Irkutsk Oblast
In office
2 October 2015 – 23 September 2020
Preceded byOleg Kankov
Succeeded byAndrey Chernyshev
Personal details
Born (1955-06-01) 1 June 1955 (age 69)
Sharaldai, Bokhansky District, Ust-Orda Buryat Okrug, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
NationalityBuryat
Political partyCPRF
SpouseLarisa Markhayeva
Children4
Education
Occupationpolitician

He had served as the Senator from Irkutsk Oblast on executive authority from 2015 to 2020.[2] He was the First Secretary of the Buryat Communist Party.[3]

Biography

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Born in the family of a school teacher in village Sharaldai. In 1977 he graduated from the Buryat State University.[4]

From 1980 to 2007 he worked in the internal affairs bodies. Founder and first commander of the Buryat riot police.[5] He began his career in Ministry of Internal Affairs with the district police officer and was promoted to deputy minister of Ministry of Internal Affairs. In 2007, with the rank of colonel, he retired from service.

In December 2007, Markhayev became the deputy of the People's Khural of the Republic of Buryatia, the head of the Communist Party faction.[6]

During the 2011 Russian legislative election he received a deputy mandate for the 6th State Duma of the Federal Assembly of Russia on the CPRF list.[7] Following the electoral victory of fellow communist Sergey Levchenko for governor of Irkutsk Oblast in September 2015, Levchenko announced his intention to nominate Markhayev to the Federation Council.[8]

He officially resigned form the State Duma on 16 October 2015,[9] two weeks after his appointment to the Senate.

In 2017, Markhaev was nominated as one of the candidates for the head of Buryatia by Communist Party of the Russian Federation,[10] but he could not overcome the municipal filter.[11][12][13]

In 2019 he publicly condemned the heavy-handed police response to protests surrounding the 2019 Moscow City Duma election.[14][15]

On 11 March 2020 he was the only member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation who voted against the amendments to the Russian Constitution.[16] He spoke out against the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, although his criticisms only refer to Russia's military campaign outside of Donbas, while he fully supports the narrative that Ukraine is governed by "neo-Nazis".[17][18][19][20]

Sanctions

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Markhayev was one of the 324 members of the State Duma the United States Treasury sanctioned on 24 March 2022 in response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[21]

Markhayev was also sanctioned by the UK government in 2022 in relation to Russo-Ukrainian War. [22]

Notes

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  1. ^ Also transliterated as Markhaev.

References

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  1. ^ Vyacheslav Markhayev on CPRF Website
  2. ^ Вячеслав Михайлович Мархаев // council.gov.ru
  3. ^ "Вячеслав Мархаев предложил проверить соответствие доходов и расходов главы правительства". kprf.ru. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
  4. ^ Вячеслав Мархаев | ЮГРАПРО // ugrapro.ru
  5. ^ "Вячеслав Мархаев: Националист — это не ко мне!". asiarussia.ru. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
  6. ^ Вячеслав Мархаев. Лица власти. лицавласти.рф. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
  7. ^ "Энциклопедия: Мархаев, Вячеслав Михайлович" [Encyclopedia: Markhaev, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich]. TASS (in Russian). Информационное агентство России ТАСС. Archived from the original on 25 March 2023. Retrieved 18 April 2024.
  8. ^ Stagis, Ivan (1 October 2015). "Вячеслав Мархаев: в Совете Федерации я буду представлять два региона" [Vyacheslav Markhaev: I will represent two regions in the Federation Council]. Asia Russia Daily (in Russian). Archived from the original on 6 June 2022. Retrieved 18 April 2024.
  9. ^ Fedorenko, Vladimir (16 October 2024). "ГД лишила полномочий Мархаева из-за запланированного перехода в СФ". RIA Novosti (in Russian). Moscow: Rossiya Segodnya. Archived from the original on 19 August 2020. Retrieved 18 April 2024.
  10. ^ "На должность главы Бурятии выдвинули шесть кандидатов". ria.ru. 3 July 2017. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
  11. ^ "Вячеслав Мархаев застрял на муниципальном фильтре". kommersant.ru. 25 July 2017. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
  12. ^ "Предложивший начать расследование против Медведева сенатор не прошел муниципальный фильтр в Бурятии". novayagazeta.ru. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
  13. ^ "Совет Федерации отказался рассматривать жалобу сенатора на муниципальный фильтр". novayagazeta.ru. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
  14. ^ "Senator and former riot police commander Vyacheslav Markhaev supported protesters in Moscow. We talked to him". meduza.io. Retrieved 13 August 2019.
  15. ^ "Irkutsk senator condemns police actions at protests in Moscow". meduza.io. Retrieved 13 August 2019.
  16. ^ "Поправочный стол закрыт". 2 March 2020.
  17. ^ Зюганов Геннадий Андреевич (5 March 2022). "Фашисты из Европы и террористы с Ближнего Востока поддерживают нацистов-бандеровцев. Заявление Председателя ЦК КПРФ Г.А. Зюганова". Kprf.ru. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
  18. ^ "'Defending the Donbas is one thing. Bombing Kyiv is another'. Russia's Communist Party officially supports the war against Ukraine. But its younger members are speaking out". Meduza. 10 June 2022.
  19. ^ "Новые акты нацистского террора на Украине". Kprf.ru. 6 March 2022. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
  20. ^ Зюганов Геннадий Андреевич (4 March 2022). "Г.А. Зюганов: Нет фашизму на нашей земле!". Kprf.ru. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
  21. ^ "U.S. Treasury Sanctions Russia's Defense-Industrial Base, the Russian Duma and Its Members, and Sberbank CEO". U.S. Department of the Treasury. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
  22. ^ "CONSOLIDATED LIST OF FINANCIAL SANCTIONS TARGETS IN THE UK" (PDF). Retrieved 16 April 2023.
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