Women Reporters Accuse a Prominent Russian Lawmaker of Sexual Harassment, but His Colleagues Stand by Him

Just days before March 8, International Women's Day, at least three Russian women reporters accused Leonid Slutsky (pronounced as Sloo-tski), a populist parliament member, of sexual harassment. Yet, most of his political colleagues, including some women, are rallying behind him.

Leonid Slutsky, a member of the State Duma (the lower chamber of Russia’s parliament), is a veteran legislator, currently serving his fifth consecutive term in the Duma as a member of the rightwing populist Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR).

Slutsky currently chairs the parliament’s international affairs committee and served as deputy head of Russia’s delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) until Russia’s membership in the assembly was revoked in 2016.

Daria Zhuk of the independent TV Dozhd, Ekaterina Kotrikadze of RTVi, and Farida Rustamova (BBC Russian) have all come out publicly as Slutsky’s victims:

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