Leonid Kalashnikov
Deputy Chairman of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation
Leonid Ivanovich Kalashnikov (Russian: Леони́д Ива́нович Кала́шников; born 6 August 1960) is the chairman of the State Duma Russia committee on Commonwealth of Independent States Affairs from 5 October 2016.
He is the Deputy for the Communist Party in the 7th State Duma of the Russian Federation.
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