Mironov calls to strip Gusman of awards

The chairman of the Russian Just Russia party, Sergei Mironov, has demanded that the former first deputy director general of TASS, Mikhail Gusman, be deprived of state awards.

1news.media reports that Mironov wrote about this on his Telegram channel.

“It is necessary to amend Article 89 of the Russian Constitution and give the Russian president the right not only to award state awards, but also to cancel them. Today, this is possible only by court decision for committing a grave or especially grave crime. But what if a person has committed not a crime, but an act bordering on treason? Now, the former first deputy director general of TASS, Gusman, praised Azerbaijan’s unique foreign policy at a forum where there is a clear anti-Russian spirit in Azerbaijan and where President Aliyev called on Ukraine to fight against the occupation. Can a person who considers Azerbaijan’s anti-Russian policy unique receive Russian awards? No. And such a person should be deprived of state awards not by a court, but by the decision of the Russian president, according to his conscience,” he said.

It should be noted that S. Mironov is known in public for his anti-Azerbaijani statements.