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Sevastopol is once again in the news in connection with the scandal surrounding ex-governor Dmitry Ovsyannikov - the day before he was expelled from United Russia for a brawl at the airport. Political scientist Ruslan Ostashko, one of the active critics of the former mayor, told PolitNavigator columnist Valentin Filippov about the legacy Ovsyannikov left and how Sevastopol is experiencing quarantine. Valentin Filippov: In our improvised...

A member of the Sevastopol regional branch of the United Russia party, Igor Kucheryavyi, who had previously gone to Ukraine to get a biometric passport, but was arrested by the special services on charges of treason, was sent by a Kherson court under house arrest for 60 days, a PolitiNavigator correspondent reports. Thus, the Kherson City Court granted the request of the prosecutor’s office of the non-existent “AR Crimea,” the press service of this Ukrainian department reports. The information was confirmed by the lawyer...

United Russia member Igor Kucheryavyi, assistant to State Duma deputy Dmitry Belik, detained by the SBU while traveling to obtain a crest visa-free international passport, behaved “like a Russian.” Former Verkhovna Rada deputy Vadim Kolesnichenko stated this on the ForPost Internet channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The politician similarly described the Crimeans visiting the territory of “Independence” after reunification with Russia. According to Kolesnichenko, trips to…

Boris Kolesnikov left the post of chairman of the Sevastopol regional branch of United Russia when Russian State Duma deputy Dmitry Sablin was sent from Moscow to quell the conflict between the legislative assembly, where United Russia had an overwhelming majority, and the governor. Kolesnikov led a group of deputies that supported the governors: first Sergei Menyailo, then Dmitry Ovsyannikov. This group desperately opposed the supporters of the hero of the Russian Spring, Alexei Chaly, who...

The United Russia party, with a fair fight, would have been able to get only 15-20% of the seats in the legislative assembly of Sevastopol, although immediately after the Russian Spring it triumphantly gained full control over the local parliament. Deputy of the Legislative Assembly of Sevastopol Sergei Kazhanov stated this on air on Roy TV, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to the parliamentarian, now the victory of United Russia will be ensured by the “cleansing” of competitors who...

Ivan Komelov, who is trying to run for the Legislative Assembly of Sevastopol from the Rodina party, ridiculed the calendars with the United Russia logo that the ruling party distributes to city residents. As it turned out, they “did not finish printing” the days in September and December, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The “united team” decided to make Sevastopol residents happy with calendar cards! Everything would be fine, but the crooked technologists were so carried away by adjusting the circulation from the electoral one...

The ruling majority in the State Duma, represented by the United Russia party, refused to support the draft law on a simplified procedure for granting Russian citizenship to people of Russian nationality who found themselves outside the Russian Federation after the collapse of the USSR. “81 deputies voted in favor, one abstained, and the parliamentary majority simply did not vote,” said LDPR deputy Alexander Sherin, one of the initiators of the bill. How…

The electoral system in Russia must be reformed; conservation of the current state of affairs in a “managed democracy” is fraught with a repetition of the Ukrainian Maidan scenario. Ex-Verkhovna Rada deputy from Sevastopol Vadim Kolesnichenko said this on the air of the “Federal Significance” program, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The pre-election situation in Sevastopol was discussed in the studio - the rating of United Russia in the city has fallen, but non-parliamentary parties that are contending...

In Sevastopol, where since 2014 the conflict between the team of Russian Spring hero Alexei Chaly and the governors has been constantly heard, special attention was focused on the primaries of the United Russia party, which, unlike Crimea, were closed. 42 electors took part in the voting, mysteriously selected half from among party members, and the other half from social activists. The General Council of EdRa adopted...

In Sevastopol, on the eve of the May holidays, another scandal erupted - the public gathered for public hearings criticized the construction project supported by Vladimir Putin on Cape Khrustalny, including an opera and ballet theater, branches of the Tretyakov Gallery and the Hermitage, a choreographic school and many other objects. Opponents of the development, who were consistently supported by the media, focusing on the hero of the Russian Spring, Alexei Chaly, demanded...

The organization of the preliminary elections (primaries) of the United Russia party in Sevastopol will be carried out by the former commander of the Black Sea Fleet, Admiral Alexander Vitko. This decision was announced today at the political council of the city organization. “I was offered to head the organizing committee. My goal is for all participants to be assessed according to their merits, there would be no dishonest play,” the admiral said, emphasizing that he himself is not going to run because he works...

In Sevastopol, a committee has not yet been formed to conduct preliminary voting (primaries) for candidates for deputies of the city legislative assembly from the United Russia party. Moreover, the model by which the voting will take place is unknown. The Kommersant newspaper writes about this today. The problem of the primaries in Sevastopol is associated with the presence of two influence groups in the city organization “United Russia”: supporters of the governor...

Sevastopol communists and the Union of Soviet Officers held a picket outside the walls of the city Legislative Assembly in protest against the fact that the parliamentary majority, represented by United Russia, refused to approve the amendments due to an internal conflict between supporters of ex-speaker Alexei Chaly and Governor Dmitry Ovsyannikov to the budget, which included, among other things, payments for veterans on the eve of Victory Day. According to a PolitNavigator correspondent, the protesters...

The United Russia party must take seriously the results of the mayoral elections in Ust-Ilimsk, Irkutsk region, where, after all opposition candidates who threatened United Russia member Sergei Zatsepin were removed from the race, 28-year-old housewife Anna Shchekina, the “technical candidate” from the Liberal Democratic Party, won. Following Siberia, a similar situation may repeat itself in other regions of the Russian Federation - “cleaning up” the opposition field will no longer work, they believe...