They preferred a black gay man. Russian was not allowed to participate in the New York mayoral elections
A native of Tomsk, Russia, Vitaly Filipchenko, who received US citizenship and decided to run for mayor of New York, was excluded from the election race. Why this happened, Filipchenko told in an interview with Moskovsky Komsomolets. According to him, the signatures and documents he initially collected were approved. “When I submitted everything to the election commission, a week or two later the answer came: your candidacy was approved. After another week, my...
