Proceedings and days of the deputy of the comb

For the St. Petersburg United Russia Drozdov, an attack on Novaya Gazeta journalist was the most noticeable event of a political career

Right in the corridor of the Legislative Assembly, the deputy from United Russia called the journalist of Novaya Gazeta in St. Petersburg Alexander Garmazhapov Garmazhopova. When the girl turned on the camera’s camera and began to walk after the deputy, demanding that he repeat this word on the video, Anatoly Drozdov knocked out the mobile from her hand and hit the door, trying to hide. "Deputy Comb!" - the journalist called him in response. Drozdov is known in St. Petersburg politics by the fact that in the 2011 elections he tried to push the ballots stuck in the cracks that he tried and could not put the falsifier there. The case hit the video, but Drozdov, who then did not go to the Legislative Assembly, despite all efforts, did not suffer punishment for trying to falsify.

An unsuccessful attempt to push the stuck pack of ballots. Now this person is a deputy.

59-year-old United Russia Anatoly Drozdov is a candidate of sciences, a reserve colonel who served in the Armed Forces for almost 30 years. In the nineties, he taught at the Budyonny Military Academy of Communications. At the beginning of the zero, he began a political career in the municipality of the Academic District of St. Petersburg: he was first a deputy of the district assembly, then the main administration, and later - the head of the municipality.

Drozdov’s colleague for the Legislative Assembly, the deputy of Yabloko Boris Vishnevsky could not remember any features about Drozdov: “He never differed in anything. In the last convocation, he hit in the middle of our cadence - he received a mandate when one of the deputies resigned his authority. No one as a political figure considered him. I don’t even remember that he spoke with some initiative. ” In this convocation, Drozdov “went to increase”-became a vice-speaker. The opposition part of the Legislative Assembly (and she is rather big) would like to see one of the two vice-speakers of the representative of the opposition, but this did not happen: all three United Russia, all three colonels, including the chairman. However, the vice speaker still does not perform any important functions, added Vishnevsky.

Garmazhapova herself recalls that in the last convocation, when meeting with Drozdov, she regularly teased the deputy, asked him to borrow a comb.

“He once promised that he would give it to me. That is, in the past convocation, he laughed and hesitated, ”she explained to“ New ”. - But on October 5, I did not say a word. I just walked along the corridor. The girls and I left the buffet ... "

Together with Alexandra were two colleagues who heard the deputy insulted the girl in response to the greeting of correspondents.

The editor -in -chief of the New in St. Petersburg Diana Kachalova wrote an open letter to the chairman of the Legislative Assembly. She pointed out that the name of her correspondent is not just easy to redo into offensive - this surname is Buryat, and many of them contain this set of sounds. “I am far from the idea that he wanted to violate the 282nd article of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, but this scandal has already received a resonance that is completely unnecessary for our city,” writes Kachalova. - Yesterday, the deputy of the State Duma Aldar Damdinov called the editorial office of Novaya Gazeta in St. Petersburg (before being elected to the Duma, the Minister of Education and Science of the Republic of Buryatia). He expressed his indignation at the fact that in the St. Petersburg parliament "switch to a man’s nationality and insultingly remake the names of their ancestors."

Open letter to the chairman of the Zaks of St. Petersburg
Dear Vyacheslav Serafimovich!

You, of course, are aware of the conflict, which occurred in the Legislative Assembly on Wednesday, October 5, when deputy Anatoly Drozdov offended the correspondent of Novaya Gazeta in St. Petersburg, distorting her surname to indecent, and allowed himself a petty assault (the video is in the editorial office, and also posted on YouTube).

In the editorial office of Novaya Gazeta in St. Petersburg, we analyzed the situation, talking with the witnesses of the incident, restored the picture of what happened, conducted a conversation with a correspondent and made appropriate conclusions for themselves. I, as an editor of the publication, believe that Alexandra showed excessive passionarity, which, however, in no way relieves responsibility from the deputy Drozdov.

You can object to me how the representatives of your press service did, that Garmazhapova showed unprofessionalism when she went behind Drozdov, emotionally demanding an apology. And I would agree with you, if not for one “but”. Our surnames with you, and the name of the deputy Drozdov is quite difficult to disfigure to indecent and beaten to beat. The Buryat surname of Garmazhapov is unusual for the ear of the average parliamentarian. Perhaps that is why she seemed so funny deputy Drozdov that he decided to practice her wit on her.

I am far from the idea that he wanted to violate the 282nd article of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, but this scandal has already received a resonance that is completely unnecessary for our city. Yesterday, the Deputy of the State Duma Aldar Damdinov called the editorial office of Novaya Gazeta in St. Petersburg (before being elected to the Duma, the Minister of Education and Science of the Republic of Buryatia). He expressed his indignation that in the St. Petersburg parliament they “switch to a person’s nationality and insulting the names of the ancestors” and said that he intends to raise this issue at a meeting of the United Russia faction.

In this regard, we would like to know whether the incident was analyzed in the Legislative Assembly, what conclusions Mr. Drozdov made, whether he was ready to voluntarily and inquiringly apologize to Alexander Garmazhapova and how hence the journalists can be protected from the rudeness of the people's deputies. Moreover, this is far from the first case of non -parliamentary behavior within the walls of the Mariinsky Palace.

With the hope of constructive cooperation,

Diana Kachalova,
editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta in St. Petersburg

Garmazhapova is going to turn to Medvedev demanding that Drozdov be eliminated from United Russia.

Members of the party itself react differently. MP Yevgeny Revenko condemned both participants in the conflict at the same time, emphasizing that Garmazhapova behaved provocatively: “Her behavior also cannot be called normal. At the same time, an experimental policy is distinguished by the ability to correctly and diplomatically behave in any situation and, moreover, not respond to various kinds of provocations. In a man man-we must apologize, and the journalist understand that such scenes cannot cause approval from the professional community. ” Another deputy from the “EP”, Olga Batalin, apologized to the journalist for colleagues who themselves could not admit that they had acted unacceptable, but added that the party had nothing to do with: “The fact that the man behaves not like a man is not like a woman is one trouble. But the other that, having chosen a deputy, he apparently does not understand the serious moral restrictions and responsibility that he took on with a mandate, ”she wrote on her Facebook page.

The journalist also publicly apologized to the deputy chairman of the ER CEC Konstantin Mazurevsky and the vice speaker of the St. Petersburg parliament Sergey Solovyov.

PS

But while the scandal has not subsided - the media recalled the claims and results of voting in the recent election to the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg at the weekend of the single -mandate Drozdov. The Party of Yabloko, which on September 18, filed a complaint with the court.