23 Facts About Vyacheslav Maltsev

Vyacheslav Vyacheslavovich Maltsev is a Russian politician, three-time member of the Saratov regional Duma.

Vyacheslav Maltsev is an active blogger, the author and host of the Russian language news program 'Bad News' on a YouTube channel Artpodgotovka.

In May 2016 Maltsev won the primary elections of the People's Freedom Party, PARNAS and was granted a 2nd place on the party's election list for the 2016 Russian State Duma elections.

Vyacheslav Maltsev was born on June 7,1964, in Saratov.

In 1981, he graduated from secondary school No 8, after which Vyacheslav Maltsev worked as a statistician in the Kirov district Committee of the Komsomol and enrolled in the evening department of the Saratov State Law Academy.

Subsequently, Vyacheslav Maltsev stated that he had sold all his property.

Vyacheslav Maltsev headed the committee on legality and combating crime, after which he became secretary of the Duma.

Vyacheslav Maltsev was ahead of the candidate from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Oleg Mironov.

Vyacheslav Maltsev was a deputy of the Saratov Regional Duma until 2007.

One of the rallies against Ayatskov was held in Moscow opposite the presidential administration building, where Vyacheslav Maltsev brought his supporters by bus.

In 2006, Vyacheslav Maltsev organized the Fridtjof Nansen Foundation and became its president.

Vyacheslav Maltsev organized this foundation in order to gather like-minded people and achieve the construction of a monument to Nansen Fritjof.

At the time of the voting stoppage, Vyacheslav Maltsev occupied the first place by a large margin, 5,471 votes were cast for him.

Vyacheslav Maltsev joined the officially unformed "New Opposition" movement, which was created by Mark Galperin.

At the airport, where he was supposed to be transferred to Moscow, Vyacheslav Maltsev had a heart attack.

In December 2011, Vyacheslav Maltsev began hosting the political channel "Artpodgotovka" on YouTube, the popularity of which increased dramatically after the elections to the State Duma.

Currently, Vyacheslav Maltsev continues to release the program "Bad News" on his video blog.

Vyacheslav Maltsev has been in jail for more than three years.

Vyacheslav Maltsev stressed that "every vote for PARNAS is a vote against Putin," and promised to initiate impeachment proceedings if the party passes the State Duma.

Matvey Ganapolsky and Daria Mitina note that with his rhetoric and behavior, Vyacheslav Maltsev resembles a politician from the LDPR party Vladimir Zhirinovsky, known for his harsh ambiguous statements.

Zhirinovsky himself, during the debate with Maltsev, claimed that Vyacheslav studied his, Zhirinovsky's, early speeches.

Vyacheslav Maltsev's grandmother worked as a deputy chairman of the regional executive committee in the 1930s and 1940s.

In 2013, Valery Vyacheslav Maltsev said that he would provide all possible support to the People's Alliance party in Saratov.