INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Two Siberian opposition deputies backed by jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny have been stripped of their mandates over claims that they
had failed to submit personal income statements, a move the deputies themselves called politically motivated.The Novosibirsk City Council
voted by majority Wednesday to strip deputies Sergei Boyko and Helga Pirogova of their mandates, two years before they were set to
expire.Prosecutors had asked the local assembly earlier in June to strip the opposition deputies of their mandates for allegedly failing to
statements.She told The Moscow Times that both she and Boyko plan to make an appeal and sue the Novosibirsk City Council.On Wednesday, Boyko
He is now wanted by the Russian authorities.The two opposition politicians and their supporters have called the charges against them
deputies to lose their mandates after a one-year absence in Russia.
