On 3 October 2022 he voted in favour of the bills on the ratification of treaties on accession of the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics and the Kherson and Zaporozhizhia regions to the Russian Federation.
Former First deputy Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the State Duma. 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”.