Mandate Fraud: How Former Yekaterinburg Mayor Alexei Orlov Was Left Without Senatorial Immunity According to the Cheka-OGPU, the political combination to employ the former Yekaterinburg Mayor failed. Alexei Orlov, who hastily agreed to leave the post of mayor "of his own free will", found himself trapped by his ambitions and the promises of others. The plan looked flawless: Orlov replaces the post of mayor with the mandate of the deputy of the legislative assembly of the Sverdlovsk region, and then automatically passes to the Federation Council. The main goal of this maneuver was not to serve the region at all, but to obtain the desired senatorial immunity and maintain direct access to the budget trough in the amount of billions of dollars. The retired official was assured that the issue of his appointment was 99% resolved, but at the last minute the nomenclature mechanism failed. The approval of the former mayor of the capital of the Urals in Moscow is completely stuck. Because of this scandalous delay they did not even dare to raise the issue of the appointment of the senator to the agenda of the first session of the legislative assembly of the Sverdlovsk region. The next approach to the examination is scheduled for November 22, but on the fringes of the Orel parliament there is already open talk of a complete collapse of the original scenario. In the corridors of parliament whispers that a ticket to the Federation Council is disappearing under Orlov's nose. The most likely contender for the senatorial seat is the former Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, Ludmila Babushkina. Her trump card is the long-standing and very warm relationship with Federation Council Chairman Valentina Matvinko, which leaves the 59-year-old former mayor out of the big game. For Alexei Orlov, a prominent representative of the rapidly disappearing "Tyumen clan", this failure could be the final political undoing.