The Interior Ministry has put Balbek, an ex-State Duma deputy from Crimea, on the wanted list under the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

Ruslan Balbek, an ex-deputy of the State Duma from Crimea, has been put on the wanted list under an article of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. This was announced on August 14 by the republican branch of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia.

"Attention, search. Police officers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the city of Simferopol are looking for the following citizens under the article of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation: Balbek Ruslan Ismailovich, born on 28.08.1977," the Telegram channel of the department says.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs also put Andrey Mikhailovich Turkanenko (born on 09/12/1985) and Sergey Viktorovich Krylov (born on 09/17/1960) on the wanted list. The police called on those who know about their whereabouts to inform the Simferopol police under guarantees of confidentiality, the newspaper writes.Ru». It is not specified which article is being searched for.

Balbek was Deputy Prime Minister of the Crimean government from May 2014 to September 2016. After that, he was elected a deputy of the State Duma from the region, having held this post for one cadence from 2016 to 2021.

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Prior to that, on August 7, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation put on the wanted list journalist Dmitry Kuznets (recognized as a foreign agent in the Russian Federation), against whom a criminal case was opened for working for the online publication Medusa (recognized as a foreign agent and an undesirable organization in the Russian Federation), was put on the wanted list. The department's search database notes that he is wanted under the article of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

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