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They sat down wrong
The newly-minted deputies creakingly divided the offices and chairs in the meeting room
21-year-old Legislative Assembly deputy Viktor Sysoev, who suddenly woke up famous - it was he who promised in his debut interview that he would “do nothing” in parliament - settled down in the representative office of the Mariinsky Palace. The rest sat down as speaker Vyacheslav Makarov indicated - they complained that they were in closets.
The deputies of the sixth convocation have not yet officially elected deputy chairmen of the Legislative Assembly (United Russia members Sergei Solovyov and Anatoly Drozdov are tipped for these posts) and heads of commissions (the Budgetary and Financial Committee will be headed, most likely, by LDPR member Maxim Yakovlev; the Legislation Committee will be headed by United Russia member Denis Chetyrbok), however They shared offices all week, quarreled terribly at the same time, and decided on the seating arrangement in the hall. “We decided”, however, it is said loudly - as they said, they sat down. The chairperson of the Assembly seats the deputies (there is a corresponding normative act of the city parliament).
The story with offices is simple - everyone wants space, a pleasant view from the window and a good aura. For example, it is a dubious pleasure to take the workplace of United Russia member Svetlana Nesterova, who is under house arrest on charges of fraud with the BFC amendment. But the ex-chairman of the Committee on Physical Culture and Sports, Yuri Avdeev, had to occupy it. The former head of the administration of the Knyazhevo municipality, Alexey Tsivilev, sat in Nesterova’s chair in the conference room. Both probably need to be more careful with the BFC amendment. It's better not to take it at all.
The office of Vyacheslav Notyag, accused of taking a bribe (it is assumed that he took it at his workplace), went to 75-year-old United Russia member Boris Ivchenko. The same one who sued the Dozhd TV channel because of their blockade poll. After the memorable video with Notyag extorting a bribe, Ivchenko most likely knows from what angle and where (under the map of St. Petersburg) he needs to be especially careful.
At the table of ex-parliamentarian from the United Russia billionaire Sergei Shatunovsky, in whose apartment in January 2016 the FSB conducted searches as part of a criminal case of a knowingly false denunciation (the deputy even after that left Russia, settling in the UK), sat down a former municipal official and an investigator of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Roman Koval. Koval, like Shatunovsky, is distinguished by his love for expensive cars, for example Mercedes of prestigious series. We can only hope that the newly-minted deputy will not get lost somewhere in Europe in the future, because you need money to buy good cars.
His colleague Irina Ivanova moved into the chambers of the scandalous communist Igor Korovin, who became famous for his fight with the 66-year-old wine boutique valet Alexander Pimenov. The story of the former owner of the premises does not bother her - he says there is more space there. Like in a parking lot, apparently.
Things are tight for Yabloko owner Mikhail Amosov, who, as he claims, has nowhere to put his assistants. This is probably why his process of recruiting assistants has stalled a bit. But 21-year-old football player Viktor Sysoev (son of United Russia skier Lyubov Egorova) can confidently form the apparatus. He entered the property of Zhirinovite Gennady Volchek, whose son, former State Duma deputy Denis Volchek, financed the Socialist Revolutionary campaign in St. Petersburg. Such is the cycle of fathers, mothers and sons in the Mariinsky Palace.
One of the largest offices was occupied by the head of the United Russia faction in the Legislative Assembly, Alexander Teterdinko. The ex-deputy chairman of the city election commission, who ran through the courts after the 2011 elections and said that there was no falsification, took the workplace of Vitaly Milonov, who moved to the State Duma.
An experienced apparatchik, a native of the A. F. Mozhaisky Military Space Academy, Mikhail Pogorelov, who has close relations with Vyacheslav Makarov (he is believed to owe his political career), settled in the chambers of ex-deputy Tatyana Zakharenkova. Which was connected by a close friendship with the former deputy head of the city parliament Sergei Andenko (on the sidelines they even said that they were in a civil marriage, but the politicians themselves deny this information). In any case, it was assumed that she, like Pogorelov today, owed her mandate to personal connections.
In the hall, in the place of Yabloko member Alexander Kobrinsky, who failed to be re-elected, the head of the Legislative Assembly, as if in mockery, seated his enemy, former Yabloko member Maxim Reznik.
It is not known for what merit, but the former head of the kindergarten, Yulia Martemyanova, settled in Grigory Yavlinsky’s corner.
It’s funny, but in the hall, in the chair of Yavlinsky, once a Duma deputy, and then the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly, was former Duma deputy Oksana Dmitrieva. The chair will probably become known as the throne of fading stars. Dmitrieva, however, continues to fight for her Duma mandate, claiming that the elections were rigged, but it is obvious that the enterprise is doomed to failure.
Most deputies are not superstitious, and they are not embarrassed that the premises in which they will have to spend the next five years have a dubious and sometimes criminal trail. At least in words they promise that they will not run around the Mariinsky Palace with a censer.