Igor Lebedev, who is currently in Sochi, told a *Lenta.ru* correspondent that he "would not comment on that idiot."
"I consider it beneath my dignity to comment any further on the blog of Navalny, who was convicted of fraud," Lebedev said. http://lenta.ru/news/2014/02/18/bred/ "This is a provocation; there is nothing more to say here. After all the filth this man pours on honest and decent people, I believe the prosecutor's office should take a much closer look at Navalny's activities," Lebedev told Interfax on Tuesday. "Commenting on Navalny, who was convicted under an embezzlement charge—let's call things by their proper names—is beneath my dignity," added the deputy speaker of the State Duma (the lower house of Russia's parliament). http://www.interfax.ru/russia/news/359067 How convenient. You travel at taxpayers' expense from a luxury suite in Sochi to an apartment with seven toilets in Dubai. And to every complaint you reply: shut up, you idiots convicted of embezzlement. And yet you can't really answer him back by saying: you're an idiot yourself. He bought the apartment in Dubai at our expense, and in the State Duma he passes laws for us. And we paid for his apartment, and we obey his laws. I agree, it's not a simple question: which side are the idiots. Anyway, as I said, official inquiries have been sent. Now we wait for a response.