Ilya Ponomarev

Who is Ilya Ponomarev?

Ilya V. Ponomarev is a Russian politician. He is a member of the political party A Just Russia, a group opposing the policies of President Vladimir Putin, and as of 2012, had been elected to two terms in the State Duma. In September 2012, he was censured and temporarily banned from speaking in the Duma after calling Putin's United Russia a "party of swindlers and thieves". In October 2012, one of his aides, Leonid Razvozzhayev, was allegedly abducted from Kiev, Ukraine, while seeking asylum from charges that he had conspired with a Georgian politician and Russian opposition leader Sergei Udaltsov to cause mass rioting.