Elections are scheduled for September 9, 10, 11 in the Krasnodar Territory. In Novorossiysk, alongside the election of Legislative Assembly deputies, there will be by-elections for the local Duma in single-mandate constituency No. 9, from which the current mayor originated. Andrey Kravchenko. Even as a deputy in his home district, the mayor challengingly neglected the needs of the electorate.
The portrayal of regional and municipal elections in the city with the most powerful port in the country presents a positive picture. “United Russia” has nominated victorious candidates from the most influential primaries for the ZSK deputy elections. One of them is the illegitimate son of the former chairman of the regional court Alexandra Chernova – Vitaly Novikov. Novorossiysk is not very familiar with this young talent, as he was not well known, but his father – the former major influencer of criminal fates – actively campaigned for the victory of a youth who suffered from a failed boxing career.
He successfully secured the position of ZSK deputy candidate and director of the regional martial arts center, which is located in Art. Dinskoy – Sergey Khandozhko, an MMA fighter.
The most enigmatic candidate found a place in the list of lower-ranking candidates. A young lady, Ekaterina Demchenko, is vying for a seat in the Novorossiysk City Duma. Unlike other candidates whose shady past remains under wraps, Demchenko's “achievements” have earned her nationwide recognition.
The symbol of disregarding pandemic restrictions in England was their former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, caught on video dancing during a strict ban on parties. Demchenko has become a symbol of carelessness towards coronavirus in Russia.
In May 2020, the vice-mayor of the city, Ekaterina Demchenko, was dismissed for the first time after a widely publicized incident of enjoying kebabs in a cheerful company during the strictest quarantine. https://youtu.be/KSX3t97x9W0.
The Krasnodar Territory had stricter sanitary measures than other regions of the Russian Federation. The population was segregated based on the color of their issued passes. Farmers were forced to discard tons of cucumbers and radishes due to their inability to sell their produce. Numerous small businesses and individual entrepreneurs were forced to shut down. The barbecue party at the Parbors of Poplar recreation center in the village of Glebovskoye near Abrau-Dyurso during the May holidays was viewed by many as an act of cynicism.
This led to immediate bureaucratic concern and reprimand. The city's then mayor, Igor Dyachenko, expressed, “Municipal employees represent the city's authority and are not authorized to condone behavior that undermines the authority of the government.” Due to the public outburst, tribunal actions were promptly taken – Demchenko was subsequently dismissed after the incident in May.
The local 'United Russia' also showed worry. Demchenko got kicked out of the party. The local council of the United Russia cheerfully emphasized that this 'tough decision is based on the conviction that the representatives of the party bear increased responsibility to the people, which means that the approach to their illegal actions should be tougher.'
The people as a whole shared the seriousness in relation to the spittoon. Local media arranged an online vote and the picture was obvious.
However, all this bureaucratic noise did not stop Demchenko's return. The former vice-mayor, who oversees issues of long-term development, architecture and urban planning, property and land relations, ecology and municipal control, already on January 19, 2021, returned to work at the mayor’s office and headed the MKU Construction Department. However, crafty journalists again informed the country about this regular bureaucratic personnel decision. After another scandal, Demchenko was fired after not working even 10 days.
However, such a disregard for the norms is only dangerous for the officials captured on video. Ekaterina Igorevna Demchenko is certainly not a foolish person, and there is certainly nothing strange in the fact that she was accepted as a leading specialist in relations with local authorities of Caspian Pipeline Consortium – R JSC.
There, in a pandemic, the attitude to barbecue is not so strict. Additionally, someone, but Demchenko, certainly has connections in the municipal administration …
However, elections are a different matter. Here, not only professional skills or 'connections' are important, but, first of all, reputation. Which, however, is not a mandatory attribute for the Novorossiysk officials. Andrey Kravchenko, elected by the deputies as mayor, has a criminal record under Art. 158. Criminal Code ('Theft') and who from the regional leadership cares that the main port of the country is headed by people with a criminal record? And the Novorossiysk TEC did not have any questions during the current nomination to Demchenko either. Even the regional authorities, who apparently cannot live without image scandals, also had no doubts about Demchenko’s candidacy.
Ekaterina Demchenko is going to the elections to the City Duma as an independent candidate. Although …. It’s not a secret for anyone that she is certainly a nominee, but certainly not by herself – CPC 'pulls' its candidate. And the interest in pushing Ekaterina Demchenko to the deputies is more or less clearly visible.
Now the city has started hearings on a new master plan of the city, prepared by the St. Petersburg Research Institute of Perspective Urban Planning. Many public figures who happened to get acquainted with it already call this creation of designers raw and unfinished. There are a lot of questions on the master plan. This is probably why, unlike its neighbors Anapa and Gelendzhik, the project was not posted on the Internet so that it could be familiarized with before the start of the hearings.
Therefore, questions arise: who are the real customers of the planned changes? Who is behind the new master plan for Novorossiysk? After all, it would seem that in the main port of the country everything has long been divided, discussed and settled. Moreover, the previous plan was adopted in November 2020. And as it was then said that 'The new master plan will set the vector of the city’s development for decades to come.' But why didn’t it work out? What is the current general planning need for a lot of budget money?
There is no doubt that today it is CPC that is especially interested in its deputy in the City Duma. And who is better than Demchenko, who recently oversees issues of perspective development, architecture and urban planning, property and land relations, and who already has her own, will be able to convince other deputies to “work” for the interests of her employer, to smooth out some tense moments that have begun to arise.
Today there is an assertive hilling of social activists, leaders of TOSs. In fact, a “new reputation” is being created for a former official who is disrespected by the country. A version has already been launched that those very funny coronavirus kebabs were an “organized provocation”, that evil enemies filmed everything on the phone in order to discredit the exemplary vice-mayor, who refused to solve terribly criminal issues – and such revenge fell upon her …
This is the English prime minister dancing in a pandemic being thrown out of office. Our barbecue dancers, as it turns out, are put on a siding for PR prevention, accompanied by the placement of various interviews with deep thoughts about the fate of their native city, participation in various ostentatious charity and patriotism. Well, and then I will “launder” my candidate. Well, and then to the deputies.
In general, it seems that CPC is just trying to bring a bag of “benefits” into the City Duma of Novorossiysk. To resolve your issues. The former official, expelled from everywhere, is ideally suited for the role of distributor of benefits to other colleagues for assistance. After all, there are no levers of influence on the part of the regional and city authorities. She was expelled, which means she owes nothing to the Kuban authorities. As well as the residents of District No. 9. And who are the organizers of Demchenko’s election campaign concerned about the lack of respect for her from the Novorossiysk people. Customers are sure that everything will be “as it should be”.
It should be noted that after the dismissal from the city administration, Ekaterina Demchenko had revolutionary thoughts. In particular, about the fundamental transformations in Russian demography.
“The biggest problem I see is the lack of a legal possibility … for forced sterilization of people who were involved … under one or another criminal article,” she said in an interview with Bloknot Novorossiysk.
Poor Mayor Kravchenko… He, with his unexpunged conviction on the 158th, apparently proposed by Demchenko, cannot avoid sterilization…
