Igor Belousov

About the candidate:

UPD : On October 9, Igor Belousov withdrew his candidacy from the elections. He stated that the city could be effectively governed by the head supported by the governor.

The name of 52-year-old Khimki resident Igor Belousov in the current campaign is mainly associated with his departure from Yabloko immediately after the party nominated him as a candidate. But Igor Belousov has been playing on the political scene of the Moscow region since the early 2000s. In 2001, he became a deputy of the local Council, and from 2003 to 2009 he was deputy to the former mayor Vladimir Strelchenko. At the same time, the vice-mayor was a member of United Russia. But a month before the mayoral elections, the party in power expelled him from its ranks because he ran as a self-nominated candidate, while the party candidate was his former ally Strelchenko. In the elections in March 2009, Igor Belousov received 23% of the votes and took second place. Igor Belousov joined Yabloko to participate in the elections to the city parliament in December 2011, since it was possible to enter the Council of Deputies only through party lists. Belousov immediately headed the Khimki branch of the party. The newly-minted Yabloko member actively showed himself when he unsuccessfully tried to register the party list. The Election Commission then declared all collected signatures invalid. The party called the decision of the regional election commission to remove Yabloko political. In mid-August, Yabloko decided to nominate Belousov, despite the fact that it had long supported Evgenia Chirikova. The party wanted to register its candidate in case the defender of the Khimki Forest was not allowed to participate in the elections. Igor Belousov was against his nomination, refused to run and wrote a letter of resignation from the party. After a while, he registered as a candidate from the New Russia party. Yabloko, which has no complaints against the former member, relieved itself of responsibility for the candidate Belousov and officially announced its support for Chirikova. Belousov himself explained his decision by saying that he felt awkward - the party, on the one hand, had to support Chirikova, and on the other, could not help but support its nominee. Believing that the future head of the city should be non-partisan, Igor Belousov agreed with “New Russia” for ease of registration. Igor Belousov was supported by politician and businessman Mikhail Prokhorov. The candidate has served in the Pacific Fleet, worked in the metro, organized cooperatives, and later a chain of stores, and published the newspaper “Khimki is Our Home.”

This is what the candidate said:

About Khimki, its problems and what the city needs:

“This is my hometown, I was born here. I know its problems and have been dreaming of solving them for a very long time and realizing myself in this. First of all, these are the citizens of Khimki and their rights, which are violated. People cannot come home on time due to heavy traffic jams There are not enough kindergartens to provide for everyone. Over the past 8.5 years, people on the waiting list have not been given apartments, there is no municipal housing, although huge construction is underway in the city. More than 3 thousand apartments have disappeared in recent years. 8 years. It is necessary to reduce prices for housing and communal services - for some services they are 2-3 times higher, to increase teachers’ salaries, to solve the problem of corruption. I think that we will solve all these issues.”

About Khimki Forest:

“It’s a beautiful forest, I like it. I used to go there to pick mushrooms when I was little. It can’t be destroyed. They built the road, well, they built it, it needs to be put into operation as soon as possible, but under no circumstances should this clearing be expanded. And compensation payments to the city for passing the route Moscow - St. Petersburg through Khimki should be spent on landscaping in every yard and along the roads so that the cut down forest will come to people’s yards.”

About the Governor of the Moscow Region Sergei Shoigu:

“I have only positive emotions. He really expressed his opinion that he wants to hold fair, transparent elections, since people miss fair elections. I respect him very much for changing the head of Khimki - Vladimir Strelchenko. Strelchenko resigned early powers thanks to a conversation with the governor."

About competitors:

"Everyone is worthy people. Everyone comes with their own program, everyone wants to realize themselves. People will choose who will become the head. A healthy, normal competitor is the acting Shakhov, who has already proven himself. Evgenia Chirikova - I know her, I know her personally, She helped me a lot in her time."

About campaign financing:

“I contributed 100 thousand, the party will contribute, private donations from individuals and companies will be transferred.”

On a possible defeat in the elections:

“I am already participating in the fourth elections. In 2001, I was elected as a deputy of the Council of Deputies, in 2001, we ran together with Strelchenko, I was elected vice-chair, in 2009 I was legally second, but in fact we won - there were the elections are unfair. And now there’s another election. I’m participating, I hope that I can implement my program, but life doesn’t end there.”

The main slogan of the election campaign:

"My goal is to serve the people of Khimki."

The main thing in the election program:

"Separate the positions of the head of the city district and the head of the administration of Khimki. The head of the city district should be non-partisan, regulate relationships with political parties, public organizations. The head of the administration is a person who eliminates problems in the city. The government should be a coalition, deputy heads of administration should be representatives of all parties “Reduce prices for housing and communal services, remove intermediaries, directly supply gas, electricity, and water.”