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, Soviet Union

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, as Lyubov Timoshina) is a Russia

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n politician.

Since January 2000, she has been a deputy of the State Duma

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 and a First Deputy Speaker of it (Unity and later United Russia

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 faction).

When the city's counsil of the Ukrainian

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 town Stryi

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 decided on April 9, 2009 to remove a Soviet-era statue to the Red Army

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 soldier and move it to a museum of Soviet totalitarianism, saying the statue had no historical or cultural value. Sliska stated such decisions could only be made by a "criminal regime." "They have long turned a blind eye to Nazi marches, portraying those who massacred people as heroes," Sliska said, adding the decision revealed lawmakers` disrespect for the soldiers who liberated Ukraine.