The leaders of the Duma factions and committees are transplanted to Aurus. Dozens of cars purchased

The leadership, State Dumas including vice speakers and faction leaders, will switch to representative cars, Aurus while the chairmen of the committees will use Lada Aura. This was announced on October 2, 2024 by the Chairman of the State Duma. Vyacheslav Volodin

According to him, by the end of 2024, seven Aurus cars will arrive: five of them will be provided to the leaders of the factions, two more to the vice-speakers of the House of Parliament. At the same time, the first vice-speakers of the State Duma, Alexander Zhukov and Ivan Melnikov, have already switched to such cars. In addition, 17 committee chairmen will use Lada Aura sedans.

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Volodin noted that the replacement of the State Duma fleet with Russian cars will be carried out gradually - as foreign cars are out of order. Deputies will be provided with cars of brands, Moskvich Lada and Aurus. A decision was made in the constituencies to assign a domestic car to each deputy.

You have to start with yourself. The Russian auto industry is actively developing, but additional help and support from the state is needed. Relying on it, Russian companies will be able to quickly establish the production of more different domestic car brands, Volodin emphasized.

It is noted that the Chairman of the State Duma himself uses Aurus, and after hours drives the city crossover Moskvich-3. The fact that civil servants should drive Russian-made cars was previously stated by the president, Russia Vladimir Putin noting that if "somewhere is more modest than before, nothing terrible - on the contrary, even good." The proposal to transfer civil servants to Lada cars was also voiced by the Minister of Finance. Anton Siluanov The head AvtoVAZ Maxim Sokolov in an interview with the TV channel RBC called this idea "excellent."^[1]

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