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They don't need Bentley
Young and successful were elected to the municipality
They do not need Bentlayy. If the voters did not see a lot of diversity in the presidential election, then at the municipal level it was quite enough. About 200 independent candidates participated in the elections of deputies of Moscow municipal meetings, many for the first time in their lives, many have never previously engaged in politics. Who are these people and why they do it - found out The New Times
The 27-year-old Maxim Katz became the Internet star thanks to his leaflet: “The municipal meeting is a completely meaningless organ that does not have any powers. However, I decided to take part in these meaningless elections and now I give you a leaflet printed with my personal money. ”
Katz was elected at the Municipal Assembly of the Schukino district, which is located in the north-west of the capital: 103 thousand inhabitants, eight clinics and hospitals, four nuclear reactors, one working (Kurchatov Institute), not a single museum and a half-blanket of the Scarlet Sails Star Complex with a moorpot for yachts. The question is, why all this joy of Katsu, if he has no yacht, and most importantly, Poker.
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In Moscow, 125 areas, each has its own local government bodies, among which there is a representative - a municipal meeting. The meeting consists of deputies (at least 10) elected by the residents themselves. The meeting approves the local budget, reports on its execution, accepts plans and programs for the development of the region, is organizing sports and leisure work, issues of trusteeship, and guardianship. Deputies can dispose of the property in municipal ownership, make deputy requests, receive information, apply to the court with municipal disputes, make initiatives in the Moscow City Duma and proposals for construction in the executive city bodies. In short, there can be much on paper, in real life - practically nothing. But almost 200 independent candidates took part in the elections, and more than 600 under various pretexts were not allowed: mainly the commission shot independent applicants at the registration stage, finding fault with inaccuracies in the design of the papers.
Carteprier-urbanist
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Maxim Katz, tall, thin, nose with a hump, black hair to the shoulders, walks around the office in white socks, asks all guests to take it off, and if he sits, then choosing his legs. It is sprinkled with numbers and interest: 80% of the yards are designed for 5% of citizens - these are playgrounds for children under 8 years of age, and for more adult children, adolescents and infrastructure pensioners in the city is not provided. Katz has already built his quite decent business (more than 500 people work on it), and now he is interested in studying the cities and why "in some cities it is much more pleasant than in others." The Katsu office is located in a half -empty apartment on Malaya Bronnaya. From furniture-several tables forced by computers, two sofas and pizza boxes. Here, players participate in virtual poker tournaments, but compared with the main earnings it is rather an easy part -time job - Katz finances players from around the world to participate in “living” tournaments. This is expensive - the entrance to the game can cost $ 5-10 thousand, which means that Katz says, you need to have about $ 500 thousand - $ 1 million that you can use for the game. During the interview, Sergey Parkhomenko calls him and invites him to the radio. “This media is necessarily converted into something useful. Already now, my blog reads more than 100 thousand people, and this is much more serious and important for the implementation of my ideas than the position of deputy of the municipal council, ”Katz is sure.
Maxim does not classify himself either with the opposition or the “angry townspeople” and says that he pursues several goals. Firstly, get inside the meeting and arrange a show, public flogging: “There all decisions are made under the carpet, and I will shoot everything on video, publish photos, ask questions and illuminate how officials work. They do not want so many people to know about their divisions. ” The second goal is to develop the city. Katz at one time came to Copenhagen to the Honorary Member of the Royal Institute of British architects Jan Gale and at his own expense went to study at his company GEHL Architects - Urban Quality Consultants. Now says that mathematics and logic should be based on any changes.
Katz builds his campaign on the principle: the less work, the better. “I generally try to do not to run myself, but to sit on Twitter while leaflets are heard.” Katz printed leaflets, hired professional choppers, an advertising office for raising leaflets for apartments, promoters for distributing agites two days before the elections, several assistants who are engaged in a pre -election account, printing house and spacers, hired two grandmothers who walk around the district and tell their neighbors what a good candidate Maxim Katz (their work is supervised by the grandmother Maxim), and also organized a network of observers in ten areas in his area. “In Schukin, the elections were honest,” he said. “In poker, if you make a decision based on emotions, you instantly fly out into the pipe and lose all your money in a few days. For years, I have been trained not to make any business decisions based on emotions: only statistics, logic and mathematics, ”says Katz, explaining why he will make a good deputy.
Football player
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A candidate for deputies of the Pechatniki district meeting (southeast of Moscow, 74 thousand inhabitants, a monastery, a super-winged cement plant, an enterprise for cleaning the wastewater of the capital and the region) Maxim Motin looks around his cabinet and says that he does not love him. Motin heads the Consulting Company "Football Market" and the charitable organization "Football - Children" created by him. Now Motin is organizing a large tournament among 400 teams from orphanages, rushes around the office, gives instructions and sends letters to Voronezh, Rostov, Dagestan. Policy is a 28-year-old graduate of the journalism department for a long time, although he was always playing sports. “You can live in your apartment and improve it for a long time, but you still have to go to the stairwell, you need an entrance, the yard. You can’t block and say: I'm not interested in anything else. ” At a rally on December 5, Motin decided to go to the deputies on pure ponds, because it is "a way to really change power and the situation in the country, and not just speak." “Yes, this is a castrated organ, there are people who do not need it. But in this position I can solve the issues that bother my area. ” Motin sees his task as deputy in working with voters: meetings, receiving appeals, writing deputy requests. “Over time, I want to live in a country where people, in order to just live normally, should not have spent the lion's fraction of time in ships, complaints, quarrels with dees, and housing assets. We pay taxes, we must receive their services automatically. ” Motina is angry that even in order to choose, he is forced to ask for 25 friends to become observers and members of the commissions, although the system should work honestly and without them. Motin went around more than 2 thousand apartments, he gives out ads: “Sometimes on ... uy they send or swear that the child is sleeping. But the child is always sleeping! It's a shame that I want to help people, but I come across rudeness and anger. ” “We must make sure that in every district of Moscow there is a small Navalny at the local level. Then all the officials will go crazy and leave politics, because they will understand that they did not take place completely and they were crooks and thieves, ”the candidate is sure. If Motin copes with the role of deputy, then further - the Moscow City Duma, then the State Duma, and there is the presidency. "Is this we still have an elected position?" - he laughs.
Energetik-idealist
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Boris Livshits, a 31-year-old candidate from Konkov, works at the International Trade Center the head of the department in the non-profit partnership of the “Council of Market” for the organization of wholesale and retail trade in electric energy. Constantly smiles, wears bacenbard, for a long time and with pleasure talks about his work. “For me, the story with an election to the municipal meeting is obtaining a new case when I can say that I not only said how bad everything was, but I did something. I hope my case will be an example for people so that everyone can see: we need to take on the matter ourselves, we not only know how to set likes, ”Livshits explains his motives.
The campaign was not easy for the Livshitsa: the rivals were dirty, wrote meaningless complaints, some raised the Jewish question, insulting and mocking comments began to appear on his personal website. In Konkovo, Livshits would like to deal with playgrounds, here they are intended for children of 5–9 years old, but for younger children - no, to establish retail street trade, to improve the Bitsevsky park. The only useful thing Boris sees as a deputy is the opportunity to write deputy requests and not only in instance, but also to the enterprises of the district. Livshits do not think about further political career. “The question is whether it is possible to cooperate with the authorities is not yet decided for me. Is it possible to be in this system? I think the more caps and white there will be, the more the system will bend. Remember how in "Ploting above the cuckoo's nest" the hero says: "I at least tried." Here I am the same. "
A student-activist
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The 4th year student of the journalism department of Moscow State University, a member of the Citizen and Army human rights organization Vera Kichanova, who became famous last fall after the visit of President Dmitry Medvedev to the Faculty of Journalism, is elected a deputy in the youngest Tushin (north-west of the capital, the main attraction-the Khimki reservoir, and more than 100 thousand people live in the region). “I understand that this is an ephemeral organ without real levers of influence, but this is a good experience. In addition, the deputy can receive information from enterprises, bodies, administrations, find out where the budget money goes, and bring it to people, ”says Kichanova. Vera does not feel the election race - she saw rivals several times, but they are mostly experienced deputies of the municipal assembly, do not lead the campaign, but are limited to posters on information boards in the area. The main reaction of the inhabitants to Kichanov: "Isn't it too early for you, girl?" The 20-year Vera replies to this that in power it is already sitting too many old ones, it's time to dilute. Kichanova wants to organize a consultation for conscripts in the area, to join the draft commission, organize the flow of information between people and the authorities, as well as support people who create housing owners in the carcass.
Caratist banker
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A hefty guy in an expensive shirt, Denis Gakkal is elected to the Council of Dorogomilov (the road to Rublevka passes through him, here is the Kiev station, the worship of the mountain and a lot more, including 68 thousand inhabitants, many of them are worshiped and the Mercedes with flashing lights with flashing lights). He graduated from the Academy of the National Economy, seven years ago he came to work in a shipbuilding bank (he includes, according to Banki.ru, to the TOP-100 of Russian credit organizations), a junior operator, and he grown to the head of the department. Denis says that for his age (26 years) and experience it is a ceiling: “Basically, people sit 35 years old and older in such a position.” Gakal also has a black belt in karate, and he teaches adolescents and adults. Denis has extensive experience in communicating with the authorities: he is engaged in the creation and establishment of the work of new departments, and these are firefighters, police, dignitary inspectorate, tax, desks, councils, prefectures. “The country is in a stupor,” the candidate is sure. - It goes from above and below. People closed in their cells, think about family and work, and everything else is not interested in them. ”
On December 6, 2011, Denis reached the Triumphal Square: “I was always interested, but I did not go. And then I decided to go to look at those who gathered there. I saw adequate people who were tired of a lot - they were not only deprived of the right to choose, but also stolen their voice. ” Gakala was detained and kept in the Donskoy police department for 20 hours. “The cops were at first rage, but then calmed down, and it turned out that they are normal people who also infuriate a lot, but they did not believe that something would change.” Gakala was accused of resistance to police officers and fined 1,500 rubles.
After Bolotnaya and Sakharov, Gakal came to the conclusion that it was time to get down to business himself. In addition to the nomination to the deputies, he began to think about his own behavior, for example, he stopped violating the rules of the road.
According to the Internal Affairs Directorate, Dorogomilovo in CJSC - the hottest area: there is a market, station, shopping center "European", illegal immigrants - a complete set. Denis hopes that he will be able to change some things in the area: to increase the time of the green signal of a pedestrian traffic light on Dorogomilovskaya Street, because the grandmothers do not have time to cross the road, put a police booth on Ukrainian Boulevard and open simple grocery stores. “Although this is the center, here, poor people mostly live, they have nowhere to go for food - there is a“ cross ”and“ alphabet of taste ”, but this is not every pocket.”
The municipality for Denis is apparently the last step in politics, because he is not ready to go further: “I suspect that for this it will be necessary to compress your inner freedom, honesty and compromise with oneself. I am not ready for this. I do not need to be called a politician, because I, apparently, begin to engage in social activities. I have achieved what I need now, I have no family, and I don’t want it yet, I have work. I don’t need Bentley, do not need yachts and helicopters, now I want to give, do something for people. ”