In the election of the Chairman of the State Duma, the faction nominated
Dmitry Novikov, who received 61 votes against 360 from the current head of parliament
Vyacheslav Volodin. At the same time, in addition to the deputies of the faction,
Oksana Dmitriyeva from the
Party of Growth and part of the
LDPR faction also voted for Novikov:
Sergey Karginov,
Sergey Leonov,
Evgeny Markov,
Dmitry Svishchev,
Vladimir Sipyagin,
Ivan Sukharev and
Boris Chernyshov. On October 14, 2021, the
United Russia faction blocked the proposal of the Communist Party faction to conduct a parliamentary investigation into the revealed facts of
torture of prisoners. • 96 deputies voted for the proposal of the CPRF (of which 1 deputy of the United Russia faction -
Alexander Polyakov, 53 deputies of the CPRF faction, 23 deputies of the
A Just Russia — For Truth faction, 12 deputies of the LDPR faction, 7 deputies of the
New People faction); • 261 deputies voted against (including 258 deputies of the United Russia faction, 2 deputies of the Communist Party faction -
Sergei Gavrilov and
Alexander Yushchenko, 1 deputy of the LDPR faction -
Ivan Musatov); • 1 deputy abstained (
Oksana Dmitriyeva, not a member of the faction). On November 25, 2021, the deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation
Valery Rashkin was deprived of parliamentary immunity. • 341 deputies voted for depriving him of his parliamentary immunity and agreeing to initiate a criminal case against him (including 287 deputies of the United Russia faction, 20 deputies of the A Just Russia faction, 21 deputies of the LDPR faction, 12 deputies of the New People faction and 1 Deputy, not a member of the faction -
Yevgeny Marchenko); • 55 deputies voted against (including 54 deputies of the Communist Party faction and 1 deputy of the Just Russia faction - Dmitry Kuznetsov); • 2 deputies abstained (both from the A Just Russia faction -
Vadim Belousov and
Nikolai Burlyayev). == Composition ==