MOSCOW (Reuters) - Ilya Ponomaryov has found the Russian parliament a lonely place since becoming the only deputy to vote against the annexation of Crimea.
Populist leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky's Liberal Democratic party wants the 38-year-old kicked out of the State Duma lower house for his "anti-state" vote, A senior member had to remind Zhirinovsky later that deputies cannot be expelled simply for the way they vote.
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