Sergey Smirnov will become the new Kremlin curator of the State Duma instead of Radiy Khabirov. He led the pro-Kremlin youth camp Taurida, headed the Public Chamber and won the European Cup in karate.
Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov denied the information contained in a Reuters story about Vladimir Putin's daughter. Previously, the agency said that the head of the project Innopraktika Katerina Tikhonova was the president's daughter.