Svetlana Zhurova, an Olympic skating champion, will replace Ramazan Abdulatipov as a Dagestani member of the Russian parliament. She will no longer be a representative of the Kirov Region at the Federation Council, Vedomosti reports.
All candidates for parliament of the six calling from Dagestan have expired. Mamed Abasov, a candidate at the end of the regional list of 2011, acquired the mandate of Khizri Shikhsayidov and became an MP of Dagestan, deputy head of the executive committee of the United Russia Party, Constantine Mazurevsky, said.
Zhurova plans to focus on problems of sports and the Northern Caucasus Resorts.