The first one came out

The former mayor of the Ural city of Miass, Vladimir Grigoriadi, was sentenced to 8 years in a maximum security colony for receiving a bribe of 155 thousand rubles from local businessman Nikolai Zaitsev in 2004 for the allocation of land plots. Now he has become the first among the city leaders in Russia to serve time for taking a bribe and to be released “with a clear conscience.”

True, he still has a year and a half of correctional labor ahead of him. At the end of last year, the Kopeisk City Court rejected his request for parole, but replaced the punishment with labor service.

Grigoriadi got a job as deputy head of one of the utility companies in Miass. He was already planning to nominate his candidacy for by-elections to the city assembly, but the city election commission explained to him that amendments to the legislation adopted last year prohibited holding such positions even with an expunged criminal record. Residents of Miass who know him say that Vladimir Stillianovich is an experienced and extremely active leader. And behind bars, the former mayor was actively involved in production and even ensured that the medical unit in the colony was repaired and they began to build a temple, and he managed a club. And, as is customary in Rus', many already believe: his trouble was that he ended up in the leadership chair during the thieves’ years, when “they took everything.”

If Grigoriadi continues to work in the city utilities, there is no doubt that everything will be in good hands. No irony. It happens that people change.

I don’t know where or how, but in the Southern Urals the housing and communal services sector was and remains a source of personnel for the government and especially the deputy corps. In Miass, representatives of the government's personnel reserve will have someone to learn from.