Moscow landing in hot spots

Hot spots. People who have never had a relationship with politics decided to go into power - this is one of the most important results of the winter protests of the opposition. At first, independent candidates began to win in the municipal elections, then they began to take cities. Civil activists and observers from Moscow have already helped to win an opposition candidate in Yaroslavl. History is ready to repeat in Omsk and other cities. Where can the landing from observers and civilian activists be landed in the coming months - the New Times found out

“If I go through the primaries - I’m going to Omsk, I will participate in the mayor’s elections. Let everything turn out spontaneously, but you can’t refuse this. The main emphasis in the program is on social and improvement of the city, there are many ideas, ” - a blogger, entrepreneur, well -known photographer Ilya Varlamov was in Omsk only once in his life, but this does not bother him. As he told The New Times, when the Omsk civilian activists decided to nominate their single candidate for the post of mayor, Varlamov did not think that this would affect him. But then someone on Twitter offered the candidacy of Ilya, many supported her, and Varlamov, without hesitation, agreed.

28-year-old Muscovite Ilya Varlamov-photographer, popular blogger, founder of the Ridus Civil Journalism Agency-seriously perceived the idea of ​​becoming the mayor of Omsk

Omsk
Without the mayor, the regional center remained suddenly - in December 2011, the head of Omsk, Viktor Schreider, resigned and became a deputy of the State Duma, although officially the term of authority expired in 2015. In the city, Schreider’s departure is associated with a low result of “United Russia” in the Duma elections (the Party of power lost the Communist Party: 27% versus 30%) and a protracted conflict with the governor of the region Leonid Polezhaev. True, Polezhaev himself - an elderly man who led the region for almost 20 years - leaves his post in May. The 49-year-old general director of Gazprom Interregiongaz Omsk Viktor Nazarov will come in his place. The inauguration of the new chapter will be held on May 30. And on June 17, the mayor of Omsk was scheduled. Applications for registration are accepted from April 17.
“The mayor’s election will become a test for the new governor,” said political analyst Sergei Starovoitov, head of the regional club news agency. - “United Russia” is pulling with his candidate. Neither the regional elites, nor voters, nor new, nor the outgoing governor understand. There is no clear position, apparently in the Kremlin. So in this situation the opposition has a chance. ”
As soon as the City Council decided on the date of the election of the new mayor, local civil activists created the Citizen Mayor project. The initiator of the idea was Viktor Corb, editor-in-chief of the D-Info communication agency. He has been considered the most convinced by the local opposition for many years. “These elections need to be held non -standard. The situation is favorable due to the departure of the governor, and it is possible to use the energy of the December protests, ”said Corb The New Times.
Corb expressed the idea in his blog: a single candidate from civil society must be chosen on primaries. He was supported. The project settled on the Political Omsk portal (politomsk.ru), where biographies of candidates, their programs and other documents were published.
Test primaries took place on all popular Internet sites-in LiveJournal, Facebook and VKontakte-and ended on April 10. 23 people were included in the list of candidates, among whom not only Omsk human rights activists, civil activists and simply known people in the city were discovered, but also candidates from Moscow - blogger Ilya Varlamov and the head of the Center for Research of the post -industrial society Vladislav Inozemtsev. Varlamov defeated. Real primaries were supposed to pass from April 13 to 16 (at the time of signing the number, the general fraud was still unknown) and not only on the Internet: several weekends were organized in Omsk.
“People who confirming their participation in real primaries, and this is not 23, but ten people,” the civilian pact signed by us: all losers will support the victorious candidate in the elections. Well, or at least not to nominate your candidacy separately. Thus, we will also form a team for a single candidate, ”says Corb.
Varlamov took the elections in Omsk seriously. He quickly gathered the team: he attracted Maxim Katz, the young Moscow municipal deputy, and designer Artemy Lebedev, who did not fail to name in his LiveJournal “one of the most ... looking for cities”. The main idea of ​​the Barlamov team is the “City for People”. Varlamov offered ten steps to improve Omsk, which he once developed for Moscow: public transport priority, bicycle paths, a city center closed for entry of cars, infrastructure for the disabled, cleanliness and order on the streets. For the campaign itself, Katz, who has positive experience in Moscow, is designed to answer. “We will do the same: put down leaflets, walk in apartments, work with people. The old electorate of such as pensioners is also not a problem- you can always find grandmothers who will agitate their peers for money, ”said the New Times Katz.
Vladislav Inozemtsev, who positively appreciated the project “Citizen Mayor”, told The New Times that he was primarily nominated by Varlamov: “I decided that Omsk residents needed a wider selection of candidates. Nevertheless, most of the nominees are not professionals in politics. My competitors are aimed at solving some specific problems, but I proposed a program for the integrated development of the city. ” In the program of Inozemtsev - the fight against corruption, the development of local self -government, a change in the practice of collecting taxes, roads, ecology.
Political scientist Starovoitov believes that “citizen mayor” is a good but local project. More than 900 thousand voters in Omsk are registered. The Communists have a real opportunity to draw about 150 thousand, the EP has a little less, but it will be very difficult to organize his electorate, and even in the summer, a general citizenship candidate. “But the repetition of the situation with Yaroslavl is quite possible. If there is civil control, there are many observers, then the new regional authorities will be difficult to use the traditional mechanisms of falsifications, ”says Starovoitov.
The "old" parties have not yet decided on the candidates. Local LDPR and Fair Russia announced that they would call their proteges in May. The Omsk Branch of United Russia The New Times also said that they were still thinking. True, the speaker of the Omsk City Council, Unicorn Vyacheslav Dvorakovsky, announced his readiness for the elections. But in the party itself, his candidacy has not yet been discussed. He can also go self -nominated, so as not to get involved with a dull brand in front of his eyes.
The Communists, while they are taking place on the domestic primaries, call three names of possible candidates, but everyone is sure that they are nominated by the second secretary of the regional committee Andrei Alekhin. “The Communists are debatable. It is likely that they are not nominated at all, ”says political scientist Starovoitov. “But if they do this, they have every chance of victory.”
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These elections of the mayor of Omsk must be held non -standard, ”says local civil activist Viktor Corb. -The situation is favorable due to the departure of the governor, and it is possible to use the energy of the December protests

" Krasnoyarsk
The head of Krasnoyarsk, 63-year-old Peter Primashkov left the city for the same reason as Schreider Omsk-went to the State Duma. He headed the city for almost 15 years. The election of the new head of the city will be held on June 10. Registration of candidates will go until April 30.
“There is not a single registered candidate yet. There are 13 people who expressed their desire. All are self -nominated, ”says Krasnoyarsk political scientist Sergei Komaritsyn. - Among them there are city crazy types of Alexander Potlitsyn, who has been participating in all elections over the past 20 years. But not everyone will be able to collect eight thousand necessary signatures. ”
Official parties, as in Omsk, are still determined. United Russia holds the primaries that should end on April 13, but the local press and political scientists are convinced that the current acting will be the candidate The head of the city of United Russia Edham Akbulatov, who has already begun personnel permits in the local administration.
The Socialist-Revolutionaries were going to put on Valery Zubov, the ex-governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, the State Duma deputy, but the sources of The New Times in the party doubt that it will go to this: “He is so good.”
The Communist Party will also be carried out by the Communist Party of the Communist Party, but the secretary of the regional committee by ideology, Alexander Amosov, said that the Communists can support the 36-year-old self-nominated entrepreneur Mikhail Oskolkov. “He participated in the elections to the Legislative Assembly in the Kirov District, created the public organization“ Center for Civil Practices ”, they know him in the city,” says Komaritsyn. “True, he will most likely not pull the mayor, but, apparently, he hopes to create a party in the future.”
Oskolkov can also support the local "solidarity". “He is the only one who meets with people every day,” says Denis Styazhkin, co -chair of the Krasnoyarsk “solidarity”. - Quite a lot of people come to him. Advertising is already going on, agitation. Shraps can win if he is a single opposition candidate. True, he can be cut down during the submission of documents. ”
There are two more independent candidates: the head of the regional hospital of war veterans Alexei Podkorytov and businessman Konstantin Senchenko. Podkorytova is supported by the famous Krasnoyarsk businessman, deputy of the Legislative Assembly Anatoly Bykov, the former "aluminum king". And Konstantin Senchenko, according to rumors, is vested in billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov, who recently openly stated that he wanted to take a feasible part in the elections of the mayor of Krasnoyarsk. In the region there are the main enterprises of his company “Pole Gold”, Prokhorov himself is registered in the local village of nonsense - he is the most powerful taxpayer of the region, and since the time of the Norkelm leadership he has remained serious ties. Senchenko was a member of the “right business” when Prokhorov headed the party.
However, sources close to Prokhorov claim that the billionaire has not yet decided. “There is a chance that a separate candidate will be from Prokhorov,” says one of the sources.
Sergei Komaritsyn believes that the victory will remain with Akbulatov. “United Russia” is not too popular with us, but the power here ... consensus. A compromise between the local elite and the governor’s team. This is from the time when the edge was headed by Alexander Khloponin. There has never been a real struggle. ”
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United Russia in Krasnoyarsk is not too popular, but the power here ... consensus. A compromise between the local elite and the Governor's team

" Small cities
In the coming months, the mayor’s elections will be held in three district centers: Lysva in the Perm region, Zlatoust - in Chelyabinsk, Sredneuralsk - in Sverdlovsk. In Lysva, the mayor’s elections will be held on May 27, there are no real opposition among the candidates, everything is quiet, and civil activists are not waiting. Excesses are also not expected in Zlatoust. There the elections will take place on May 20. As the interlocutor in the city administration told The New Times, Vyacheslav Zhilin, who is currently acting as a mayor, wins on all surveys.
Next to Zlatoust is the village of Rosa of the Chelyabinsk Region. Six people have been starving for almost a week there for almost a week and to approve the budget of the village (the last chapter died in November 2011, and since then the local TIKs have not allowed the election): they have been writing letters to Putin and Medvedev, but there is neither official nor any other reaction yet.
An interesting situation may be in Sredneuralsk, where the vote is scheduled for May 27. The last head of the city, Viktor Zlotyev, resigned at the end of January - his grandson was detained for drug trafficking. So far, 12 people submitted documents. The EP, SR and the LDPR nominated their candidates. The remaining candidates are self -nominated, for the most part from Yekaterinburg. The main struggle may be unfolded between a candidate from United Russia, Vice-mayor Alexander Astakhov and the ex-director of the city-forming enterprise of the Central Ural GRES Boris Tarasov. Astakhov is running for mayor for the third time, but now he is supported by the leader of the Sverdlovsk United Russia Victor Sheptia. Journalist Andrei Petrenko from the Vedomosti Urals told The New Times that administrative pressure was already extending to the competitor of Astakhov - Tarasov: he had to submit documents to the commission twice, since for the first time his “Zaporili”.
The deputy editor -in -chief of the local newspaper PIK Aleksey Gerasimov believes that Tarasov still has good chances. Firstly, he is still supported by a very authoritative former mayor of villains in the city. Secondly, Tarasov is connected with the State Enterprise, and the city-forming enterprise plays a huge role in local elections. “But Sredneuralsk is a province, there is no special civic activity, there are no observers,” Gerasimov admits.
According to Grigory Melkonets, Deputy Executive Director of the Voice Association of Voice, all these elections in the Voice are tracking, but the capital observers are tracking in the “voice” in question: “It all depends on whether our activists are ready to pay for their trip - after all, these are all places distant from Moscow. It is unlikely that it will be possible to assemble a large team, but we will try. ”