In July, he sharply criticized the government response to the widespread flooding in Southern Russia Krymsk, which killed 172 people [REF].
In July 2013 Ponomarev took part in the meeting of Russian Pirate Party, where he announced that his support for Mizulina's bill was a mistake[REF] and later numerously voted against new initiatives by Russian government to restrict Internet freedoms and became instrumental in campaign against Russian version of SOPA [REF].