“A Just Russia” in Sevastopol brings a former BYuT member and an “Avlita” lobbyist to the legislative assembly

Sevastopol, July 15 (Navigator, Olga Nikolaeva) - Lists of candidates for elections to the legislative assembly of Sevastopol from the A Just Russia party have become known.

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Let us remind you that registration of candidates for deputies of the Legislative Assembly for the elections that will be held on September 16 ends on July 14.

Among the self-nominated candidates who have already submitted their documents are Yuri Doinikov, Konstantin Zatulin, Dmitry Belik.

The A Just Russia conference took place on July 7, in the absence of the city press. The local branch of the party exercised the right to approve the maximum number of candidates on party lists - 24 people, and 8 in single-mandate constituencies.

Here is a brief overview of the candidates' activities based on information from open sources.

According to the press service of the political party, the top ten party list included:

1. Mikhail Bryachak – chairman of the regional branch of the political party “A Just Russia”, deputy of the State Duma;
2. Anatoly Ponomarev is the chairman of the city organization of veterans of war, labor, labor, the Armed Forces and law enforcement agencies. Ponomarev also became a member of the public council under the investigative department of the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee for the city of Sevastopol.
3. Vladimir Andreev – Doctor of Economics, Professor, President of PJSC Yugreftransflot. According to media reports, Andreev was directly involved in the bankruptcy of state-owned enterprises and the transfer of their property to offshore zones.
4. Vadim Elizarov - People's Artist of Ukraine, General Director of the Sevastopol Academic Russian Drama Theater named after A.V. Lunacharsky; former director of the Sevastopol Dance Theater, which is now headed by his son Alexander. The Dance Theater insisted on transferring to it the building of the Ukraina cinema on Lenin Street, but did not intend to vacate the premises in the Palace of Childhood and Youth. The City Council never made a decision on this issue.
5. Leonid Kovyazin – entrepreneur;
6. Alexey Korchagin is the director of the communal out-of-school educational institution “Sevastopol Children and Youth Sports School No. 2”. In February 2014, former coaches of the school accused Korchagin of underestimating the salaries of the coaching and teaching staff, which led to the dismissal of one of their coaches. Earlier, the head of the South-Eastern branch of the political party "United Rus'" Vladimir Tyunin accused the director of Children's Sports School No. 2 of receiving currency for training female athletes from South Korea.
7. Yuri Tokarev – Deputy Director of the Institute of Biology of the South Seas (INSBYum);
8. Elena Khersonskaya is a lawyer and advocate, former chairman of the public council at the SSGA. At the end of 2013, at a meeting of the OS, a scuffle and fight broke out among members of the council she headed, caused by mutual accusations when considering the problem of the legality of a public post in the permitting center.
9. Valentin Zubenko is the manager of the affairs of the legislative assembly of Sevastopol, a pensioner.
10.   Sergei Nikonov is a deputy of the Legislative Assembly; before joining A Just Russia, he was a member of the Russian Bloc faction and a member of the permanent environmental commission. Head of the public organization "Sevastopol People's Control". Participant in the fight against the extraction of sea sand by Suesta, which, according to Nikonov, caused the arson of his car.

The list of single-mandate constituencies looks like this:

District No. 1 – Lidia Abuladze – economist at the Balaklava Mining Administration;

District No. 2 – Lydia Stolyarova – former representative of the State Service for Regulatory Policy and Entrepreneurship of Ukraine. Previously, she worked as a chief specialist in the department of pricing, tariff policy and regulatory activities of the Economics Department of the SSGA, and was a deputy of the Sevastopol City Council;

District No. 3 – Elena Khersonskaya;

District No. 4 - Alexey Korchagin;

District No. 5 – Vladimir Glinyanik – deputy of the legislative assembly, first vice-president of the Sevastopol Sailing Federation (PFS);

District No. 6 - Tatyana Ulyanova - deputy of the legislative assembly, since 2013 - head of the department of culture and tourism of the SSGA. She declared the irrelevance of the issue of transferring the Druzhba cinema to the Catholic community; at one time she lobbied for the issue of transferring the Ukraine cinema to the balance of the Sevastopol Dance Theater.

District No. 7 – Sergei Nikonov;

District No. 8 – Igor Loktionov – deputy of the Legislative Assembly, former BYuT member and member of the Party of Regions. Former deputy chairman of the SSGA, dismissed after the arrival of Sergei Kunitsyn. Loktionov spoke in favor of the interests of the stevedoring company Avlita (controlled by the Ukrainian oligarch Rinat Akhmetov) in the construction of a universal transshipment complex (coal terminal) in Sevastopol.