[5] Valery Rashkin was born on 14 March 1955 in the village of Zhilino, Nemansky District, Kaliningrad Oblast, in a large family of collective farmers.

In November 2006, at a meeting of the State Duma, Rashkin accused United Russia of corruption, referring to the fact that most of the officials prosecuted for it were members of that party.

The ethics commission found no indication of party affiliation in the cases; it considered Rashkin's statements inadmissible and deprived him of the right of speech during the Duma meetings for the next month.

In a commentary to Novaya Gazeta, the head of the Duma Ethics Commission Gennady Raikov noted that out of 297 persons listed, only 78 were prosecuted for crimes that could be classified as corruption, 61 people were convicted, but all of them were non-partisan.

[14] Euromaidan and the ensuing political crisis in Ukraine were regarded by Rashkin as the fascists' rise to power, caused by poverty, unemployment and corruption.

[17] In February 2015, Rashkin was included on the list of persons whom the European Union considers responsible for destabilizing the situation in Eastern Ukraine.

Leninsky district court of Saratov reduced the amount of compensation to one million, which Rashkin paid with 60 kilograms of low-value coins.

[21] In November 2012, Rashkin provoked a scandal, posting on Twitter about his wish to use Russian president Vladimir Putin as a target in a shooting tournament among State Duma members.

After receiving harsh criticism, Rashkin said that he meant a photo of the president, that his post was a joke, that beating mannequins with politicians' portraits is a Japanese tradition.

[22] In January 2016, Novaya Gazeta published the research of the academic degrees of the 6th State Duma members, made by Dissernet community.

[24] In April 2016, member of the State Duma from LDPR Mikhail Degtyaryov accused top Moscow communists Valery Rashkin, Vladimir Rodin and Andrey Klychkov of espionage and high treason, citing a report by Russia-1 TV channel, which claimed that the CPRF city committee cooperated with Alexey Navalny.

[28] CPRF's press secretary Alexander Yushchenko noted that Rashkin had never been fond of hunting and said that the Communist Party considers this event "another attack" on the MP.

Since Rashkin has parliamentary immunity, law enforcement agencies were able to take the case to court and bring charges only if the State Duma authorized the prosecution.

[31] On 22 April 2022, Rashkin was convicted by the Kalininsky District, Saratov Oblast court of illegal hunting and given a 3-year suspended sentence with a 2-year probation.