MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev proposed on Monday five candidates to the lower house of Russian parliament, including two high-level Crimean officials and Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov.
"I would like to bring the following candidates for the nomination from the party, I will list them in alphabetical order," Medvedev said at the ruling United Russia party high-level meeting.
In addition to Kadyrov, Medvedev proposed the candidacies of Crimean leader and prosecutor general, Sergey Aksyonov and Natalya Poklonskaya; film director and All-Russia People’s Front (ONF) co-chair Stanislav Govorukhin; Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin and head of Russia’s Republic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov.
Elections to the State Duma are scheduled for September 18.
