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Former chairman (‘ataman’) of the Union of the Russian and Foreign Cossack Forces. Deputy of the State Duma. Deputy Chairman of the Duma Committee for CIS affairs, Eurasian integration and relations with compatriots. He supported the annexation of Crimea and admitted that Russian Cossacks were actively engaged in the Ukrainian conflict on the side of the Moscow-backed separatists. On 20 March 2014 he voted in favour of the draft Federal Constitutional Law ‘on the acceptance into the Russian Federation of the “Republic of Crimea” and the formation within the Russian Federation of new federal subjects – the “Republic of Crimea” and the City of Federal Status Sevastopol’.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-10-18 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.