Vyacheslav Markhayev

Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Markhayev (Russian: Вячесла́в Миха́йлович Марха́ев; born June 1, 1955, Sharaldai, Bokhansky District, Irkutsk Oblast[1]) is a Russian politician, Senator from Irkutsk Oblast since 2015.[2] First Secretary of the Buryat Communist Party.[3]

Vyacheslav Markhayev
Вячеслав Мархаев
Member of the State Duma
Assumed office
19 September 2021
In office
4 December 2011 – 2 October 2015
Member of the Federation Council - Representative from the Executive Authority of Irkutsk Oblast
In office
2 October 2015 – 23 September 2020
Preceded byOleg Kankov
Succeeded byAndrey Chernyshev
Personal details
Born
Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Markhayev

(1955-06-01) 1 June 1955
Sharaldai, Bokhansky District, Irkutsk Oblast, RSFSR, Soviet Union
NationalityBuryat
Political partyCPRF
Spouse(s)Larisa Markhayeva
Children4
Alma materBuryat State Pedagogical Institute (1977)
Khabarovsk Higher School of MVD Rossii (1993)
Occupationpolitician

Biography

Born in the family of a school teacher in village Sharaldai. In 1977 he graduated from the Buryat State University.[4]

From 1980 to 2007 he worked in the internal affairs bodies. Founder and first commander of the Buryat riot police.[5] He began his career in Ministry of Internal Affairs with the district police officer and was promoted to deputy minister of Ministry of Internal Affairs. In 2007, with the rank of colonel, he retired from service.

In December 2007, Markhayev became the deputy of the People's Khural of the Republic of Buryatia, the head of the Communist Party faction.[6]

In 2011–2015, he was a deputy in the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of Russia, and a member of its CCommittee for Security and Anti-Corruption.

In 2017, Markhaev was nominated as one of the candidates for the head of Buryatia by Communist Party of the Russian Federation,[7] but he could not overcome the municipal filter.[8][9][10]

In 2019 he publicly condemned the heavy-handed police response to protests surrounding the 2019 Moscow City Duma election.[11][12]

On March 11, 2020, he was the only member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation who voted against the amendments to the Russian Constitution. The amendments include the statements that the marriage is the union between a man and a woman, as well as the explicit statement about the memory of our ancestors who transmitted ideals and faith in God.[13] In 2022 Markhayev condemned the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, declaring that the Kremlin had disguised its plans from the Duma.[14] He is one of the 324 members of the State Duma the United States Treasury sanctioned on 24 March 2022 in response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[15]

References
  1. Vyacheslav Markhayev on CPRF Website
  2. Вячеслав Михайлович Мархаев // council.gov.ru
  3. "Вячеслав Мархаев предложил проверить соответствие доходов и расходов главы правительства". kprf.ru. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
  4. Вячеслав Мархаев | ЮГРАПРО // ugrapro.ru
  5. "Вячеслав Мархаев: Националист — это не ко мне!". asiarussia.ru. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
  6. Вячеслав Мархаев. Лица власти. лицавласти.рф. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
  7. "На должность главы Бурятии выдвинули шесть кандидатов". ria.ru. 3 July 2017. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
  8. "Вячеслав Мархаев застрял на муниципальном фильтре". kommersant.ru. 25 July 2017. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
  9. "Предложивший начать расследование против Медведева сенатор не прошел муниципальный фильтр в Бурятии". novayagazeta.ru. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
  10. "Совет Федерации отказался рассматривать жалобу сенатора на муниципальный фильтр". novayagazeta.ru. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
  11. "Senator and former riot police commander Vyacheslav Markhaev supported protesters in Moscow. We talked to him". meduza.io. Retrieved 13 August 2019.
  12. "Irkutsk senator condemns police actions at protests in Moscow". meduza.io. Retrieved 13 August 2019.
  13. "Поправочный стол закрыт".
  14. Troianovski, Anton; Nechepurenko, Ivan (28 February 2022). "As Sanctions Batter Economy, Russians Face the Anxieties of a Costly War". The New York Times. Retrieved 1 March 2022.
  15. "U.S. Treasury Sanctions Russia's Defense-Industrial Base, the Russian Duma and Its Members, and Sberbank CEO". U.S. Department of the Treasury. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
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