The City Hall building is stormed in Elista

A group of people blocked the building of the Elista City Hall and tried to storm it. According to Interfax, the temporarily acting city manager Elista Mingiyan Yashaev announced this. "Attempts are made to bring to the city hall an Arthur Dordzhiev, who was not approved to the position of city manager. He is trying to illegally break into the city hall building along with a group of deputies. The first attempt to storm the building was repulsed by the police," Yashaev said.

According to the acting City Manager Elista, a large group of "hooligan youth" from among the supporters of Dordzhiev gathered in front of the mayor. "There are more than a hundred, there are only about 20 people in the city hall, and most of the women," Yashaev said.

He also said that the police and riot police were pulled to the conflict. “But it may happen that the forces of law will not be enough. Now we are practically an emergency,” the agency’s interlocutor said.

On Monday, the temporarily acting head of the Elista administration was appointed Mingiyan Yashaev instead of the disabled and. O. Mayor Ceres Denisov. At the same time, last week, a group of deputies tried to appoint Arthur Dordzhiev city manager, took advantage of the departure of the rest of the parliamentarians for the subbotnik. However, later the Chairman of the City Council stated that this decision of colleagues was made back and could not be considered legitimate.

Over the past months, the conflict has been continuing in Kalmykia between the head of the republic, Alexei Orlov, which is part of the political department of the United Russia regional branch, and Elista from the party in the Party of Government City Board. Dorjiev, whose supporters on Tuesday blocked the city hall, is considered the creature of Orlov.