Pthe reason for the suspension of membership was a photo in social networks, in which a man with a gun poses next to the inscription “Chukotka 2021”, laid out from dead birds. The party noted that it may be about illegal hunting
Alexander Kramarenko
The secretary of the regional branch of the United Russia party, Sergei Nosov, suspended the membership of the deputy of the Magadan City Duma, Alexander Kramarenko, according to the website of the party’s branch in the Magadan region.
The decision was made “after the publication in a number of media outlets and social networks of reports about possible involvement in poaching”, the website says. Membership will be suspended until all the circumstances are clarified and a decision is made by law enforcement agencies.
On social media, a photo of a man was posted next to the inscription “Chukotka 2021”, laid out from dead birds. “The picture was posted to the Siberian hunter community’s Instagram on May 10, but was later deleted. It is worth noting that the hunting season in Chukotka opened only on May 15, as a result of which the law under Article 258 of the Criminal Code of Russia (illegal hunting) could be violated.)», & mdash; reported in the party department.
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Article 258 of the Criminal Code provides for a penalty of up to two years in prison, or from three to five years if the crime was committed as part of an organized group.
The fact that the man in the photo with the corpses of birds-Deputy of the Magadan City Duma Alexander Kramarenko, the day before reported “Novaya Gazeta”. The journalists estimated that there are about 150 dead birds in the photo. According to the rules, you can kill a certain number of different birds during the day or during the season. As the “New Newspaper” wrote, to get so much game, you need to be either a representative of the indigenous people (they are not subject to restrictions), or hunt in a large group.
Kramarenko told Novaya Gazeta that it was not him who was in the picture, but the photo itself, which was photoshopped, but a bunch of people who were hunting. After that, the editorial office received other photos confirming that it was the Magadan deputy who participated in the hunt with the mass extermination of the bird.
According to the website of the Magadas City Duma, Kamarenko was elected a deputy in September 2015. In September 2020, he was again elected as a deputy of the City Duma, but from a different district. Kamarenko is the deputy chairman of the Permanent parliamentary Commission on local self-government, as well as a member of the permanent parliamentary commissions on social policy and on municipal property and investment policy.