The detention of an influential senator of the Russian Federation was announced by the country's Prosecutor General from the rostrum of the Federation Council
The Federation Council today revoked the immunity of Senator Dmitry Savelyev (pictured) in connection with the establishment of his involvement in organizing the murder. His powers expire in the fall.
Russian Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov submitted a submission to the Federation Council, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
The voting took place at the very end of the meeting after the final speech of speaker Valentina Matvienko. The broadcast of the meeting was interrupted by applause, with which the senators, including Savelyev, stood up and greeted their leader, but the last frames show Krasnov entering the hall.
Political consultant Dmitry Fetisov was aware of how the performance took place.
“Prosecutor General Krasnov knows how to play both hardware games and symbolism. During his speech in the Federation Council, when presenting the issue of deprivation of immunity, he held a certain pause and did not mention Savelyev’s last name for longer than expected. Surely, in these few seconds, a number of senators remembered whether they had any sins and thought that they had come for them. This is the case when many politicians in our System can learn from Krasnov,” Fetisov wrote in his tg channel.
Savelyev was detained while leaving a meeting of the Federation Council. His membership in United Russia was suspended, and he was removed from all party posts.
Savelyev is a former paratrooper officer, father of 5 children. He was a deputy of the State Duma from 1999 to 2016. Then he became a member of the Federation Council from the Tula region, where the governor was then Alexey Dyumin, whom many experts consider a possible successor to Russian President Vladimir Putin. However, Fetisov points out that Dyumin could not refuse Savelyev’s appointment as a senator because he has some very influential friend.
“What scope for conspiracy theories about the struggle between the Kremlin towers!” exclaims political scientist Sergei Markov.
“Dima Savelyev is not just a senator. This group. If you compare the case of the Moscow Region and this group, then it is one third of the Moscow Region. No more, no less. Such a scale,” says his colleague Marat Bashirov.
According to Mash, the case of organizing a murder, in which Savelyev was detained, dates back to the time of his work at Transneft. In the late 1990s, he was the president of Transneft and was a member of the board of the Ministry of Fuel and Energy of the Russian Federation.