Vyacheslav Markhayev
Вячеслав Мархаев
Member of the State Duma
Incumbent
Assumed office 19 September 2021
In office 4 December 2011 – 2 October 2015
Member of the Federation Council - Representative from the Executive Authority of Irkutsk Oblast
In office 2 October 2015 – 23 September 2020
Preceded by	Oleg Kankov
Succeeded by	Andrey Chernyshev
Personal details
Born	Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Markhayev (1955-06-01) 1 June 1955 (age 68) Sharaldai, Bokhansky District, Irkutsk Oblast, RSFSR, Soviet Union
Nationality	Buryat
Political party	CPRF
Spouse	Larisa Markhayeva
Children	4
Alma mater	Buryat State Pedagogical Institute (1977) Khabarovsk Higher School of the MVD of Russia (1993)
Occupation	politician

Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Markhayev (Russian: Вячесла́в Миха́йлович Марха́ев; born 1 June 1955, Sharaldai, Bokhansky District, Irkutsk Oblast^[1]) is a Russian politician who is currently a member of parliament, a deputy of the State Duma since 2021, as he already served a member of the State Duma elected in 2011.

He had served as the Senator from Irkutsk Oblast on executive authority from 2015 to 2020.^[2] He was the First Secretary of the Buryat Communist Party.^[3]

Biography

Born in the family of a school teacher in village Sharaldai. In 1977 he graduated from the Buryat State University.^[4]

From 1980 to 2007 he worked in the internal affairs bodies. Founder and first commander of the Buryat riot police.^[5] He began his career in Ministry of Internal Affairs with the district police officer and was promoted to deputy minister of Ministry of Internal Affairs. In 2007, with the rank of colonel, he retired from service.

In December 2007, Markhayev became the deputy of the People's Khural of the Republic of Buryatia, the head of the Communist Party faction.^[6]

In 2011–2015, he was a deputy in the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of Russia, and a member of its Committee for Security and Anti-Corruption.^{[citation needed]}

In 2017, Markhaev was nominated as one of the candidates for the head of Buryatia by Communist Party of the Russian Federation,^[7] but he could not overcome the municipal filter.^[8][9][10]

In 2019 he publicly condemned the heavy-handed police response to protests surrounding the 2019 Moscow City Duma election.^[11][12]

On 11 March 2020 he was the only member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation who voted against the amendments to the Russian Constitution.^[13] He spoke out against the Russia's "special military operation" in Ukraine, although his criticisms only refer to Russia's military campaign outside of Donbass, while he fully supports the narrative that Ukraine is governed by "neo-Nazis".^{[14][15][16][17]}

Sanctions

Markhayev was one of the 324 members of the State Duma the United States Treasury sanctioned on 24 March 2022 in response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.^[18]

Markhayev was also sanctioned by the UK government in 2022 in relation to Russo-Ukrainian War. ^[19]