Member of the State Duma and leader of the United Russia faction in the State Duma. In that capacity, he participated in the ratification of government decisions on the ‘Treaties of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance between the Russian Federation and the “Donetsk People’s Republic” and between the Russian Federation and the “Luhansk People’s Republic”’.
Thereby he has actively supported actions and implemented policies which undermine or threaten the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine, and further destabilised Ukraine.
Former Deputy Speaker of the State Duma. On 20 Mar 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”.