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receiving 29% and
Kislitsyn receiving 25% in a field of several other candidates. In the runoff two weeks later, Markelov was elected with 59% of the vote. In 1996, Markelov had been defeated by Kislitsyn, receiving 38% of the vote. Markelov was elected to a second 4-year term in 2004, receiving 56% of the vote.
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approved the indictment. According to this document, Markelov achieved the allocation of ₽5 billion of state support for the
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in 1992, and entered politics in 1999. Markelov is
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Gold bars, registered shares and a tractor. The participants in the court on the property seizure of the ex-head of Mari El Leonid
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