Karapetyan is drunk and driving. “The scandal has already been taken under personal control by Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Yuri Ponomarev.” Sverdlovsk traffic police officially confirmed the detention of Zakso deputy Armen Karapetyan drunk at the wheel of a Mercedes! Alexey Korobeinikov, deputy of Sverdlovsk

Today, in court district No. 2 of the Zheleznodorozhny district of Yekaterinburg, a meeting was finally held to consider the administrative case of the deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the region Armen Karapetyan, who was caught drunk driving. The offender himself did not appear in the courtroom, as last time, sending his legal representative, lawyer Karen Guliants, to the meeting.

After reviewing the video materials, the court moved on to questioning witnesses. The first to testify was traffic police inspector Bazuev, who, together with his partner, Shmotyev, stopped two Gelendvagens on the night of December 9-10, one of which was driven by a deputy.

The cars were stopped because they were tinted. I checked the documents of the driver of the second car, driven by Karapetyan’s security guard, and Shmotyev went to the first car, and soon I came there too. Deputy Karapetyan, sitting behind the wheel, presented his ID as a member of the Legislative Assembly through the open window. When asked to present some other document, Karapetyan replied: “Isn’t that enough?” - Bazuev begins.

Inspector Bazuev also claims that during the conversation he smelled alcohol from Armen Karapetyan. There was a girl next to him in the passenger seat.

We invited Karapetyan to get into the patrol car, but instead, he got out from behind the wheel and got into the second Gelendvagen. And after a while he demonstratively moved from the front seat to the back. We had to call for reinforcements and soon 4 more traffic police crews arrived at the scene. Meanwhile, the deputy’s security guard got into the first jeep and began looking for documents, clearly not knowing where they were, Bazuev continues his testimony.

The inspector claims that Karapetyan got out of the car only after numerous demands. By that time, there were already many traffic police officers at the scene of the incident.

One of the inspectors was filming, and Karapetyan responded by hitting the camera. After this, the deputy tried to hide. He headed towards Krasny Lane, his guards tried to push us away from him. Because of this, force had to be used against the deputy,” explains Bazuev.

In the end, the DPS officers managed to seat Armen Karapetyan in a patrol car, but the deputy completely refused to blow into a tube or go for an examination to the traffic police department of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs in the city of Yekaterinburg. A report was drawn up against Karapetyan for refusing to comply with the demands of a police officer and for driving a vehicle without a license.

The deputy had to be taken to OP No. 11, and the car was taken by tow truck to the impound lot on Moskovskaya Street, 82.

After Bazuev finished testifying, the deputy’s lawyer, Karen Guliyants, went on the offensive. He begins to bombard the detective with additional questions. First: Why don’t the police have any evidence that Karapetyan was driving the first jeep? Why is there no video recording from the moment the cars were stopped?

The car recorder only works when the engine is running. At the moment when we stopped the Gelendvagens, the patrol car was standing with the engine turned off,” explains Bazuev.

Second question: In what cases can the police use physical force without warning? The lawyer insists that the inspectors used force against Karapetyan illegally. Also, the lawyer does not understand why traffic police officers were not satisfied with the deputy’s ID card as an identification document, because it contains a phone number and a photograph.

To drive a vehicle, a driver's license and registration certificate are required, explains Bazuev.

Regarding the issue of the use of force, the inspector refers to excerpts from the law.

The lawyer is not at all satisfied with the arguments of the traffic police officer. In addition, he insists on summoning the second inspector who detained Karapetyan to court, but the judge refuses him. The human rights activist is trying in every possible way to emphasize that the police committed numerous violations and also behaved in a manner unacceptable to their official rules.

After an hour-long break, Magistrate Yulia Denisova announces the verdict:

The court found that Karapetyan refused to undergo a medical examination for violating traffic rules; the defendant’s guilt is confirmed by the totality of evidence. The court found deputy Armen Karapetyan guilty and ordered him to pay a fine of thirty thousand rubles and deprived him of the right to drive a vehicle for a period of 1 year and 7 months.

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At this point there was an article entitled “The Golden Sum dissuaded, or Why the forecast of the editors of Kompromat-Ural regarding Ziya(v)udin Magomedov is coming true.” The text of the article dated April 4, 2018 consisted of five paragraphs. Only one of them mentioned Mikhail Kiyko. Mikhail Yuryevich is now the former general director of United Grain Company JSC (UGC). Kiiko stayed in this position for barely a year and a half and was fired in November 2018. JSC "OZK" is half owned by a businessman Ziyavudin Magomedov.

The mention in the above article about the “relationship of financial dependence” between Magomedov and Kiiko caused the latter’s displeasure. Mr. Kiyko’s application demanding the removal of the disputed article (all five paragraphs, and not just about Kiyko) was considered by a judge of the Arbitration Court of the Sverdlovsk Region Elena Seliverstova. She fully satisfied the claim, which was far-fetched, in our opinion.

On 01/09/2019 the decision came into force. Following the letter of the law, the editors of Kompromat-Ural deleted the text within the established period. Nevertheless, we will continue to appeal the illegal and absurd, in our opinion, judicial act and thank all readers who assist in this.

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The May holidays turned out to be hot for the correspondents of the Kompromat-Ural portal. We have new information at our disposal to continue the anti-corruption investigation against the deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Nikolai Brykin. This is a former general of the tax police and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and now a representative of the lower house of parliament in the Supreme Court (Brykin was delegated to the State Duma in 2016 on the list of United Russia from the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug and the Tyumen Region).

The scandals surrounding Brykin are caused by the fact that the Ugra entrepreneur is from the “list Titova» Konstantin Dyulgerov, forced to flee Russia due to pressure from the security forces, openly accused the retired general of organizing a custom-made criminal prosecution. Dyulgerov revealed the details of his misadventures in detail in an actual interview with Novaya Gazeta. The victim in the dubious case of Dyulgerov is Brykin’s son-in-law Sergey Kiryanov, and the hero of the scandal himself, as the editors of Kompromat-Ural found out, before being nominated to the State Duma, transferred multimillion-dollar development assets on the Black Sea coast to his daughter Valentin Kiryanov(in 2016, Breeze LLC, which was transferred to her, had assets worth almost half a billion rubles on its balance sheet!). Brykin ran for deputy as a modest representative of the “patriotic fund” (legally this was a fiction).

The other day, the editorial office of Kompromat-Ural received a response from the Assistant Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Valeria Volkova(Valery Georgievich came from the leadership of the Prosecutor General’s Office for supervision over the implementation of anti-corruption legislation). We contacted Yuri Chaika on the issue of verifying the accuracy of the declaration information about the personal welfare of Mr. Brykin. Is the people's servant living within his means, who in the shortest possible time after leaving the Ministry of Internal Affairs turned into a dollar millionaire, and then just as quickly got rid of his “deserved” wealth before the elections to the State Duma?

In a recent publication by our colleagues from the Tyumen publication 72.ru, it was noted that according to formal declarations, Nikolai Brykin hangs out at the bottom of the deputy rating: “for 2017, his income amounted to “only” 4.8 million rubles. Less than others, but don’t rush to conclusions. He owns two huge plots of land, a couple of spacious country houses and a modest apartment of 76 square meters. His wife has a larger apartment: 116 square meters. Also registered on it are four residential country houses and two plots of land. And all their family vehicles are registered to Brykin’s wife - a Toyota Land Cruiser, a Shore Land SRV31B trailer and a Sea Ray 185S boat. How the lady managed to buy all this “herself”, earning 2.9 million a year, one can only guess.”

An assistant to Yuri Chaika reported to the editors of Kompromat-Ural that “the powers to conduct appropriate checks in relation to deputies of the State Duma” are vested in the Duma commission for monitoring the reliability of income information, headed by Natalia Poklonskaya(she is also deputy chairman of the Committee on Security and Anti-Corruption). Therefore, according to Valery Volkov’s response, the appeal about Brykin was sent to the lower house. The editors of Kompromat-Ural will monitor the responses of the State Duma Speaker’s office Vyacheslav Volodin and the profile commission. In mid-April, Mrs. Poklonskaya confirmed to reporters that Brykin is indeed one of the five persons involved in anti-corruption checks carried out by the commission she heads. By the way, in this list Brykin is adjacent to the “pubic” deputy from the LDPR, the hero of immoral sex scandals Leonid Slutsky.

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11 thousand defrauded shareholders of the bankrupt investment fund "Yamal" can join the company of depositors of the bank "Ugra", whose claims are directed to the banker arrested the other day Alexey Khotin. As follows from published documents studied by the editors of Kompromat-Ural, more than a billion rubles from Yamal’s assets were used to purchase obviously illiquid bills of the Krasny Bogatyr company, controlled by Khotin. It is obvious that the banker could have pulled off such a large-scale scam only in collusion with the former managers of Yamal and the fund’s property management company.

Last November, the arbitration court’s ruling on the liquidation of the enterprise ended the inglorious history of the Yamal Fund OJSC, which was dubbed the “Yamal MMM” in the press. Almost 11 thousand residents of the Autonomous Okrug were defrauded by the fund's investors, including representatives of the small peoples of the North, whose small incomes were skillfully taken advantage of by swindlers.

In a letter to the governor of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug Dmitry Kobylkin from 2010, minority shareholders told how in the early 90s the former general director of the Fund Eugene Sklyarov actively traveled around the cities and towns of the district, not ignoring even the temporary camps of reindeer herders, met with people and persistently invited them to exchange recently received privatization checks for shares of the Fund.

At first, investors who responded to this offer felt confident: the fund converted the collected vouchers into shares of OAO Gazprom, which until 2008 made up 90% of its investment portfolio. And then events began that can only be explained by the selfish interests of the people authorized to make decisions...

Perm security forces hope to detain sooner or later the former chairman of the board of Ekoprombank JSCB Andrey Tueva(TIN 590301312244), who has been in Cyprus for several years, dodging in every possible way from extradition to Russia. According to investigators, Tuev’s machinations to withdraw assets brought the bank to financial collapse, sources of the Kompromat-Ural editorial office note. Today this is perceived satirically, but the accused New Cypriot himself was a member of the organization “Public Commission to Combat Corruption in the Perm Region” several years ago.

By August 1, 2012, Ecoprombank’s obligations to creditors exceeded the financial capabilities of the institution by 847 million rubles! And by the time the license was revoked on August 18, 2014, this amount had increased to 3.1 billion rubles. Ecoprombank was created in 1992 and took 252nd place in the TOP 300 banks ranking. It is believed that 53% of the bank’s shares belonged to the structures of the ex-CEO of Silvinit Petra Kondrasheva, the rest - to the deputy Vladimir Nelyubin(also in the dock, his criminal case is being considered in the Leninsky District Court of Perm) and his companions.

Former chairman of the board of OJSC JSCB Ekoprombank Andrei Tuev fled Russia shortly after the bankruptcy of the bank - on December 8, 2015. According to Interpol, Tuev, his wife Tatiana Mazuka, their son has been registered in Germany since 2011. The German identification cards issued to them, which were valid until the end of 2016, gave the defendants the right to permanent residence in Germany and to free movement in 26 member countries of the Schengen agreement, as well as in the Republic of Cyprus and more than ten other states not included in this agreement.

On June 2, 2016, Tuev’s wife flew from Moscow Sheremetyevo to Munich airport and never returned to Russia. In the bankrupt Ecoprombank, she worked as a member of the board, head of the treasury, and deputy chief accountant - and became suspected of complicity in committing fraud imputed to Tuev.

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After sending numerous appeals to the Presidential Administration, the Prosecutor General's Office, the FSB, the Investigative Committee and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the editorial office of Kompromat-Ural became aware of the arrest of a scandalous lawyer involved in numerous frauds with large property assets. Prisoner - 48 year old Karamzin Kantemir Feliksovich(TIN 773373042820, before changing my passport it was Artur Kokoev). In the registers of the Federal Tax Service he is listed as the director of Nobel Technologies LLC, co-owner of Lie Detector CJSC and Kamchatsky Bear LLC (a legal entity of one employee) and the former co-founder of International Lottery Company LLC (liquidated by tax authorities as inactive). Judging by the abundance of the same type of sugary and laudatory links given by Internet search engines in the first positions, Karamzin tried to hide from the public unpleasant, with a criminal odor, facts of his biography.

Readers and correspondents of the Kompromat-Ural publication are interested in Mr. Karamzin (Kokaev) due to information about his corrupt relationships with government officials and involvement in raider attacks. Now Karamzin is in a pre-trial detention center on suspicion of particularly large-scale fraud. He was detained upon returning to Moscow from the United States, where he ignored requests from Russian law enforcement officers for a long time. As Pravo.Ru reports, the arrest took place at the entrance to the Moscow Arbitration Court. At the same time, Karamzin “became ill,” but the emergency doctors who arrived found no reason for his hospitalization. Did your artistic abilities not help this time?

The circumstances of the arrest indirectly confirm the rumored version about the suspect’s close acquaintances with “werewolves in robes.” According to media reports, Karamzin’s preventive measure was specifically chosen not in the capital, but in the Moscow region - in the Balashikha city court, “due to his connections in the Moscow judicial system.”

In the comments of readers of the Rosbalt news agency it is reported (literally): “the corrupt judges with whom he dealt have long since been reassigned and promoted...” Sources from the Kompromat-Ural editorial team believe that FSB operatives will be interested in the arrestee’s revelations about his connections in the justice system and the actions of the “judicial mafia” (if, of course, there is one in our impeccable rule of law state). In the future, the recorded testimony may be useful for the Investigative Committee of Russia and the High Qualification Board of Judges. Our correspondents, in turn, are also ready to accept interesting information and make it available to the competent authorities. Write:compromising- ural@ protonmail. com

The editors of Kompromat-Ural keep under control information about schemes and scandals surrounding the Naftagaz company. Recent reports from corporate and law enforcement sources suggest that Tokay Kerimov, the beneficiary of Naftagaz, which includes Naftagaz-Burenie, plans to introduce enterprises into the so-called “controlled bankruptcy.” “The scheme may be as follows,” says a law enforcement officer, “not without the knowledge of Tokay Kerimov and the general director of Naftagaz-Burenia.” Islam Nazaralieva LLCs are registered in the name of third parties, where machinery and equipment are purchased with creditors’ money. Then all this is leased to NG-Burenie at prices with all the signs that they are obviously higher than market prices. Thus, Kerimov has two birds with one stone killed at once. Firstly, cash flows in, and secondly, the creditor’s debt to these same friendly companies is increasing.”

The editors of Kompromat-Ural are collecting new information from knowledgeable specialists to evaluate the presented version. According to the economist Andrey Weber, “such a scheme is used, as a rule, when deliberate bankruptcy is planned. In the situation with Naftagaz-Burenie, the owner Tokay Kerimov and the company’s management are acting according to a well-known scenario - they are doing everything to ensure that debts to friendly companies are higher than to other creditors. Then friendly firms will file for bankruptcy at NG-Burenia, Kerimov will appoint his own person as bankruptcy manager and bankrupt the company as he pleases, most likely transferring all the property to newly created legal entities with dummy owners. In this way, Tokai Kerimov will be able to introduce NG-Burenie into controlled bankruptcy,” the expert sums up his opinion.

It is worth noting that today Naftagaz-Burenie owes over 3 billion rubles to real creditors, and the debt to “front” creditors is likely to be approximately the same size.

The largest operator of waste reform, Municipal Unitary Enterprise of Yekaterinburg "Spetsavtobaza", for whose work the mayor is responsible Alexander Vysokinsky, under the pressure of public protest and the actions of inspection bodies, was forced to admit the exorbitance of his financial appetites. The day before, correspondents of the Kompromat-Ural project learned that Spetsavtobaza had changed its mind about seeking an increase in its tariffs through the courts. Let us recall that the consideration of the claim in the Sverdlovsk Regional Court ended in failure for the scandalous enterprise: Themis sided with the prosecutor’s office.

The resonance from the antics of the new leadership of “Spetsatobaza”, which appeared in the municipal unitary enterprise after Vysokinsky’s “reign” at the mayor’s office, has already reached Moscow. For now, it’s up to the federal government, but soon Vysokinsky may “arrive” from the Presidential Administration, which, as any official knows, is not to be trifled with. Head of the Federal Antimonopoly Service Igor Artemiev took personal control of the financial “wishlist” of the EMUP “Spetsavtobaza”. The head of the Regional Energy Commission (REC) of the Sverdlovsk Region may get it from Artemyev Andrey Grishanov. This governor's appointee Evgenia Kuyvasheva together with his subordinates, he agreed on tariffs for the garbage operator.

The chief Russian antimonopoly official officially confirmed the fact of an inspection in relation to the regional regional energy commission “in order to determine the reliability and economic justification of tariffs” EMUP “Spetsavtobaza”. According to the editorial office of Kompromat-Ural, the FAS Russia inspection has already pointed out signs of violations of the law committed by the REK members. Now Andrei Grishanov’s department has the right to submit objections to the central office of the FAS, but has not yet done so, Artemyev clarified. In any case, he promises to hold a special meeting of the commission in Moscow on the problem of inflated tariffs of the Yekaterinburg “Spetsavtobaza”. Our correspondents will monitor developments.

Meanwhile, the forecast made by analysts of the Kompromat-Ural portal in one of the previous publications is confirmed. We reported that this is a real Klondike for law enforcement (not only the prosecutor’s office, but, for example, the FSB and the Investigative Committee) and control and supervisory authorities (primarily the regional OFAS under the leadership Dmitry Shalabodova) may become the procurement activity of EMUP "Spetsavtobaza". In other words, where are the billions collected from citizens and businesses under the enslaving “garbage reform” flowing from the municipal enterprise? Particularly interesting are the facts of ignoring transparency requirements and manipulating procurement procedures...

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Armen Karapetyan, a member of the Sverdlovsk Legislative Assembly from A Just Russia, took the floor at the next meeting and made a critical speech against the chairman of the credentials committee, Alexei Korobeinikov.

As Ura.ru writes, Karapetyan did not like that the commission convicted him of driving while drunk. According to him, the commission examined complaints against him received from two voters. The applicants lived in two different cities - Yekaterinburg and Verkhnyaya Salda. Moreover, the statements were “written as carbon copies.”

Armen Karapetyan, deputy of the Sverdlovsk Legislative Assembly:

We all know how, on the eve of the elections, he ran like a gopher around the parties and looked for someone to go to the polls with. They dragged him into the Legislative Assembly by the ears, took him by the arms and legs... I feel sorry that Lyudmila Babushkina (Speaker of the Legislative Assembly - approx..

Karapetyan suggested that his parliamentary colleagues take Korobeinikov “for their upbringing.” He promised to bring all his voters to the next meeting.

Armen Karapetyan:

Having finished his speech, Karapetyan returned to his chair, but continued to shout insults at the “offender.”

In a conversation with a correspondent for the site, Alexey Korobeinikov admitted that it was unpleasant for him to listen to personal insults from Armen Karapetyan, but he had not yet decided how to react to them.

Alexey Korobeinikov, deputy of the Sverdlovsk Legislative Assembly:

As the chairman of the credentials commission, I did my job, and the commission made decisions on Deputy Karapetyan collectively. He was notified in advance - in accordance with the regulations, two days in advance - of the meeting; the corresponding registration of the letter is available in the apparatus of the Legislative Assembly. I don't understand why he got personal. Of course it's unpleasant. I can’t say yet how I will react to this, I think some time will have to pass.

According to Korobeinikov, until today he and Karapetyan had “normal working relations”; there were no disagreements between the two deputies.

Let us recall that in December 2016, Armen Karapetyan, who was driving Gelandewagen, . The deputy was drunk, but refused to undergo a medical examination. He waved his license, and his security tried to make it look like it wasn’t their boss who was driving. Court in January.

More than two months later, the incident was considered by the mandate commission of the Sverdlovsk Legislative Assembly. According to Alexey Korobeinikov, Karapetyan’s colleagues in parliament decided that they would deal with him.

The details of the case of drunk driving of the deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Sverdlovsk region Armen Karapetyan have become known. The people's choice's Mercedes, followed by an escort car with his guards, was stopped to check documents at 60 Chelyuskintsev Street on the night of December 9-10.

According to traffic police officers, the detainee showed signs of alcohol intoxication, so they asked him to undergo an examination. However, Karapetyan refused to do this, as well as show them his driver’s license. Instead, he showed the police his deputy's badge.

The deputy explained the refusal to undergo examination as follows:

Armen Karapetyan, deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Sverdlovsk region:

In the story of the program “Vesti. The duty department says that after the police stopped the car, Karapetyan moved from his car to the escort car into the passenger seat. One of his guards in the video tries to intercede for the chief: “The man was sitting in the back,” but this does not help - the deputy is taken into a police car. To prevent the guards from removing Karapetyan from the scene, traffic police officers had to surround him with a human shield.

The German SUV with Armenian license plates is still in the impound lot. Whose car it was and on what basis the deputy was driving it is not yet known.

Armen Karapetyan faces a fine of 30 thousand rubles and deprivation of the right to drive a car for up to 2 years.

Deputy Prosecutor General of Russia Yuri Ponomarev took control of the case.

Dmitry Serebrennikov, senior prosecutor of the Office of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation in the Ural Federal District:

Let us recall that Armen Karapetyan himself claimed on Monday morning that he was in Moscow this weekend and could not have been detained for drunk driving.

The Sverdlovsk traffic police department officially confirmed that the deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Sverdlovsk region,. "fair Russian" Armen Karapetyan, who was detained last weekend for drunken driving, was personally driving a Mercedes-Benz SUV, the VEDOMOSTI Ural correspondent reports. In addition, the scandal with the Ural parliamentarian has already been taken under control by the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation.

A special statement regarding this high-profile incident was made today by the acting deputy head of the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate for the Sverdlovsk Region, Dmitry Panfilov. He explained that on the evening of December 10, 2016 in Yekaterinburg, on Chelyuskintsev Street, State Traffic Inspectorate officers noticed a car with foreign license plates, which aroused suspicion. “The car was stopped. The driver was asked to provide documents - a driver's license. Instead, he showed the ID of a deputy of the Legislative Assembly with the last name Karapetyan. He refused to provide other documents,” says Panfilov.

In addition, traffic police officers suspected that the people's representative was drunk - he smelled of alcohol. However, he flatly refused to undergo a medical examination. “The deputy’s car was accompanied by another car. There were people inside who interfered with the procedures being carried out. Physical force was used against the deputy and one accompanying person. They were taken to Police Department No. 11 for processing. Now the administrative material has been sent to the magistrate’s court,” Panfilov said.

In addition, today it became known that Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Yuri Ponomarev took control of the case of deputy Armen Karapetyan’s drunken driving. “Yes, indeed, such measures were taken to exclude any unlawful influence on the results of the proceedings,” said Dmitry Serebrennikov, senior prosecutor of the Office of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation in the Ural Federal District (Ural Federal District).

The speaker of the Legislative Assembly Lyudmila Babushkina also commented on the scandal with deputy Karapetyan. According to her, they will not deprive the odious parliamentarian of his powers yet. “I saw the video. Moreover, I spoke with the deputy himself. His personal account of events differs somewhat from what I saw. We have no leverage to make decisions regarding his mandate. We will allow law enforcement agencies to make decisions. If they receive any materials, I will definitely send them to the credentials commission to give an ethical assessment of this episode,” Babushkina said at today’s meeting of the Sverdlovsk parliament.

“Fair Russian” Armen Karapetyan himself, who was also present at today’s meeting of the Legislative Council, flatly refused to give any comments to journalists from the Ural media.

Meanwhile, the leader of the “A Just Russia” faction in the Sverdlovsk Legislative Assembly, Andrei Zhukovsky, commented on the unworthy behavior of the parliamentarian. He believes that it is possible to punish Karapetyan only with moral condemnation. “Knowing Karapetyan’s tendency to sit behind the wheel of a car with security guards in the back seat, I have no doubt that it was him. But the deputy can only be punished with moral censure, since, for example, he does not receive a deputy’s salary. I called Karapetyan after the incident, and he convinced me that it was not he who was driving. In general, it seems to me that this incident is very well characterized by the following quote from the legendary Soviet film “The Diamond Arm”: “Shame on a drunkard and a rowdy!”, the “Socialist Revolutionary” explained.

Let us recall that a loud scandal surrounding deputy Karapetyan broke out the day before, on December 12, 2016. The federal TV channel “Russia 24” aired a short story about how traffic police officers stopped a car in which a people’s representative was traveling (it bears the very eloquent title “The guards of a drunken deputy tried to break through the traffic police “ring”). He was clearly drunk, but refused to undergo a medical examination. The recording shows that Karapetyan refuses to show his driver’s license, but instead shows the police his deputy ID cards. Moreover, Karapetyan’s guards tried to break through the police, but were stopped.

It is noteworthy that before the video recording appeared, Armen Karapetyan told the media that nothing of the kind happened at all, that no one stopped or detained him, and that he himself was in Moscow last weekend. However, after the release of the story on federal TV and detailed comments from representatives of the traffic police, he is unlikely to be able to deny this.