Who are all these people? Dossier on the winners of the United Russia primaries. Opposition primaries have entered the stage of conflict. Who is on the lists?

In principle, this is already a fact The publication of lists for St. Petersburg United Russia members is a great democratic progress, because - the general public has only learned about the lists of candidates nominated at the party conference.

One way or another, party members distributed among themselves 25 single-mandate constituencies and 25 party lists, each with three people. 14 current deputies won in the districts, one of whom is formally listed as a member of the A Just Russia faction. This is, first of all, the “top” of the United Russia faction: speaker (district No. 3), deputy speaker (No. 5), (No. 1), (No. 18), (No. 6).

In addition, first places took (district No. 16), (No. 9), (No. 8), Elena Rakhova (No. 7), (No. 12), (No. 22), (No. 25) and (No. 20).

At the same time, Sergei Soloviev, Anatoly Drozdov, Elena Rakhova, Igor Vysotsky, Andrei Gorshechnikov, Sergei Nikeshin, Alexander Kushchak, Lyubov Egorova and Elena Kiseleva simultaneously took first place in the party lists. It is not a fact that all of them will decide to move this way, but at least the leaders in these districts have been identified.

In addition, both the district and the first the line on the party list was “taken” based on the results of the primaries by the head of the Central District in district No. 2, the head of the Resort branch of United Russia, Alexander Vaimer in district No. 10, from the St. Petersburg branch of the Union of Pensioners of Russia (No. 15), the head of the Zvezdnoye municipal organization Pavel Zelenkov (No. 21), Chairman of the Smolny Sports Committee (No. 23), Deputy Head of the Pushkin Moscow Region Yuri Bochkov (No. 24), as well as Head of the Personnel Department of the ZS apparatus Mikhail Pogorelov (No. 11).

In other districts the leaders were divided. So, in conjunction with Vyacheslav Makarov the head of the Petrograd region will go, with Andrei Anokhin - pensioner Vladimir Kruglov, with Andrei Vasilyev - the head of the Krasnenkaya Rechka municipal organization Alexander Abramenko, with Sergei Andenko - the general director of Northern Alliance CJSC Mikhail Nakhodkin.

In the "list" part - not districts, but territories with regional groups of candidates. The territories, however, have the same boundaries as the districts, so for convenience it is easier to call them that.

In district No. 4 in the primaries the head of the Vasilyevsky municipal district, Konstantin Chebykin, won in the district; the head of the local administration of municipal district no. 7, Alexander Gogolkin, was on the list; in district No. 14 - the head of the Kalinin branch of United Russia Galina Nazarova and the deputy of the Legislative Assembly Andrei Chernykh; in district No. 17 - deputy chief of staff of the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly Denis Chetyrbok and deputy of the Legislative Assembly; in district No. 19 - the head of the Peterhof municipal organization Mikhail Baryshnikov and the head of the Krasnoselsky district. It is interesting that the former head of the Petrodvortsovy district, Valentin Shevchenko, also took part in the primaries for this district, but he was only in third place on the list.

Map of electoral districts made by the ECOM Center of Expertise

Deputies Andrey Chernykh and Vitaly Milonov became the only parliamentarians who conceded nomination in the district, limiting themselves to the party list. Considering that Milonov will most likely go to the State Duma, Denis Chetyrbok, who also occupies second place on the party list, actually remains the nominee on his territory. , who was supposed to be nominated on the list in this district, unexpectedly resigned as a senator the day before the primaries and dropped out of the political race.

Some current deputies were able to take only second place in the party lists. These are (District No. 24), (No. 1), (No. 7) and (No. 9). The State Duma deputy found herself in the same position, occupying only second place after Alexander Kushchak in the party list for district No. 8.

Even before the primaries from the race deputies and , and they themselves were “dropped” , . Marchenko will most likely run in the elections on his own, and as for Zakharenkova, this cannot be ruled out either. In addition, other United Russia members can become self-nominees, for example, the leader of the Young Guard United Russia"in the North-West. On Vasilyevsky Island, self-nomination is likely, the appearance of which was expected, but which did not even show up at the primaries: “I drew conclusions from the Duma primaries,” Vladimir Barkanov explained to the site.

Otherwise in the second and third The echelons contain municipal officials, assistants to deputies, party activists and functionaries. Second and third in district No. 21 are ex-deputies Vadim Voytanovsky and Vatanyar Yagya, in district No. 23 - Takhir Bikbaev, a participant in the gubernatorial elections in 2014, in district No. 11 - another employee of the Legislative Assembly, head of department documentation support Sergey Kupchenko.

Third places can be named immediately are obviously impassable. The second ones get a chance in districts where the leaders occupy both passing places: if they win both there and choose a mandate in the district, then the second numbers on the lists become first. The second numbers on the lists in such cases will be forced to work for the leader in the hope of just such an outcome. You will have to work a lot and spend a lot of resources, but the chances are significantly less; this group is in limbo. However, the primaries are not yet an approved list of candidates; It cannot be ruled out that someone will refuse to be nominated on the list or in the district and thereby promote the next candidate.

An exception may be district No. 17. If Vitaly Milonov leaves for the Duma or the Federation Council, Denis Chetyrbok wins the district, and the territory itself brings enough votes to United Russia, then the mandate of the Legislative Assembly deputy may fall into the hands of the head of the local administration of the Knyazhevo municipality, Alexey Tsivilev, who is third.

First places on party lists conditionally considered passing. The peculiarity of the St. Petersburg election system is that mandates will go to those who are ahead of their colleagues in other districts in terms of the number of votes. In general, about nine seats could be passable for United Russia according to the party lists, but here everything will also depend on how many people the party nominates in the citywide section. It could be one person, or three, or five. In addition, after Lyudmila Kostkina left the Federation Council, the senator’s seat became vacant; after the elections, deputies will have to nominate someone from their ranks for this seat, which means that another vacant seat will appear.

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Preliminary results of the United Russia primaries were announced in Yekaterinburg. As party representatives said at a press conference, the winners of the primaries were: deputies Ira Ovchinnikova (group No. 1), Sergei Melekhin (No. 2), Oleg Kagilev (No. 3), Alexander Myakonkikh (No. 4), Viktor Testov (No. 5), Deputy Head of Administration Mikhail Matveev (No. 6), Deputy Vladimir Kritsky (No. 7), Head Physician of the Yekaterinburg Perinatal Center Sergey Martirosyan (No. 8), Deputies Elena Deryagina (No. 9) and Nikolai Smirnyagin (No. 10), First Deputy Director Pavel Pustozerov (No. 11 ), general director of EMUP SUERZH Viktor Kartashev (No. 12), deputy Alexander Naidanov (No. 13), deputy of the Legislative Assembly Igor Volodin (No. 14), lawyer Alexey Vikharev (No. 15), head physician of MAU "Children's hospital No. 8" Dmitry Prazdnichkov (No. 16) , head of the Chkalovsky branch of United Russia Elena Bondarenko (No. 17), deputy Anatoly Sharapov (No. 18).

Many of the winners of the primaries are current deputies of the Yekaterinburg City Duma, and there is no point in representing them. However, some of the contenders for seats in the City Duma are newcomers. the site remembered what potential deputies are known for and what scandals they were involved in.

Mikhail Matveev. Kirov territorial group No. 6

Chief physician MBU "Ekaterinburg" perinatal center» Sergey Martirosyan beat his rivals Nikolai Batalov, Mikhail Smolyakov and Konstantin Shevchenko. Martirosyan mainly appears in the media, commenting on the prospects of Yekaterinburg to win the right to host the Expo 2025 exhibition or talking about his institution. However, in 2016, he commented on the “Top Secret” portal about a story with a patient who sued the perinatal center because doctors refused to help her during labor.

According to the publication, the patient went to the center, but the doctor said that she was having false contractions and sent her home. Having reached the apartment, the patient gave birth on her own in her own hallway, and then demanded half a million rubles from the institution as compensation for moral damage. Sergei Martirosyan then called the situation “a typical manifestation of consumer terrorism,” since the patient, according to him, herself refused hospitalization.

Pavel Pustozerov. October territorial group No. 11

Another winner in the Oktyabrsky district - first deputy director LLC "City Department of Road Construction Works" Pavel Pustozerov.

Before the primaries, leaflets were distributed throughout the Oktyabrsky district in which local residents were offered to vote for candidate Pavel Pustozerov, and in return receive 2.5 thousand rubles. The leaflet allegedly contained a direct speech from Pustozerov himself, who explained that sponsorship is compensation for voters who, due to the primaries, will be forced to miss going to summer cottage plot. Later, Pustozerov wrote a complaint to the organizing committee of the primaries regarding the fact of black PR.

Victor Kartashev. October territorial group No. 12

In district No. 12, the leader is the director of the EMUP “Specialized Department for Housing Operation and Rehabilitation” Viktor Kartashev. The candidate for the deputy seat is a non-public person, and before the primaries his name was practically not mentioned in the media.

In preparation for participation in the primaries, Kartashev held two festive courtyard events in his district during the New Year holidays, in which the head of the Oktyabrsky district administration Roman Rudometov and Legislative Assembly deputy Evgeniy Zyablitsev took part.

Igor Volodin. Ordzhonikidze territorial group No. 14

This winner of the primaries is not exactly a newcomer - he was already a member of the Unified State Duma, but in 2016 he was elected to the Legislative Assembly Sverdlovsk region. He is also the head of the Rancho real estate agency. In 2015, he was suspected of wiretapping FSB officers. As the Ura.ru agency reported then, the deputy was summoned to the building of the RF Investigative Committee for the Sverdlovsk Region and explained that, according to investigators, Volodin was “tapping and monitoring FSB officers in other ways.” The deputy himself then denied all accusations.

Igor Volodin was one of those who accused officials of wanting to “bring their people through with the help of primaries.” Together with deputy Anatoly Sharapov, member public chamber Valery Cherkashin and the head of the executive committee of the Chkalov branch of United Russia, Elena Bondarenko, he accused Vice-Governor Vladimir Tungusov of creating a list of agreed participants in the primaries - the so-called Tungusov list.

Alexey Vikharev. Ordzhonikidze territorial group No. 15

Lawyer Alexey Vikharev is the older brother of Yekaterinburg City Duma deputy Grigory Vikharev, who represents the LDPR. The entire Vikharev dynasty is involved in the utility business - they own several large management companies, concentrating in their hands most of the housing and communal services market of Yekaterinburg. Recently, Alexei’s brother Grigory made a careless statement on Facebook. Discussing shutdown hot water due to pressure testing, he stated: .

Dmitry Prazdnichkov. Chkalovsky territorial group No. 16

The second winner in the Chkalovsky district was the head of the district branch of United Russia, Elena Bondarenko. She, along with Igor Volodin, participated in a press conference at which some United Russia members announced the dishonesty of the primaries and spoke out against the “Tungusov list.”

Let us remind you that 186 deputies took part in the United Russia primaries, of which 18 people who won in their constituencies will be allowed to participate in the elections. It is assumed that they will participate in the city Duma elections as single-mandate voters. Those who took second, third or fourth place in their groups will also take part in the elections. They will top the list in the territorial group. Representatives of United Russia named those who took 2nd–4th place in their group, but it is not yet clear which of them will participate in the elections.

Participants in the primaries who took 2nd, 3rd or 4th place in their groups:

• Group No. 1: Alexey Borodin, Valery Cherkashin, Sergey Voronin
• group No. 2: Konstantin Savinov, Oleg Zabrodin, Alexander Goldenberg
• group No. 3: Anastasia Nemets, Andrey Sherstobitov, Galina Rassokhina
• group No. 4: Sergey Kolesnikov, Lyudmila Golubova, Tatyana Surmyatova
• group No. 5: Innokenty Sheremet, Timofey Zhukov, Natalya Rezchikova
• group No. 6: Alexander Khudyakov, Elena Kryukova, Mikhail Safronov
• group No. 7: Alexey Meshcheryakov, Natalya Petrova, Oleg Gushchin
• group No. 8: Nikolay Batalov, Mikhail Smolyakov, Konstantin Shevchenko
• group No. 9: Vitaly Krupin, Igor Usov, Alexey Meshavkin
• group No. 10: Sergey Boyarsky, Natalya Matveeva, Igor Pekhotin
• group No. 11: Mikhail Pleshakov, Nikita Girfanov, Alexander Kurelyuk
• group No. 12: Stanislav Lukin, Tatyana Trekina, Igor Kapustnik
• group No. 13: Elena Rogova, Dmitry Estekhin, Nikolay Maksimov
• group No. 14: Vladimir Smirnov, Vladimir Strugov, Leonid Polyakov
• group No. 15: Galina Arbuzova, Nikolay Antonov, Nadezhda Vorobyova
• group No. 16: Dmitry Sergin, Anton Poddubny, Andrey Stankevich
• group No. 17: Svetlana Palkina, Valery Bogdanov, Yuri Dozorets
• group No. 18: Larisa Alekseeva, Evgeny Shipitsyn, Victor Somikov.

The music played for a short time... from the last caucuses in Iowa, where Donald Trump surprised the entire sane population of the United States with his almost chivalrous behavior following the results of the first vote at the presidential campaign stage.
Trump, let me remind you, then sincerely congratulated the winner, Ted Cruz, and in general all his party colleagues who took part in the caucus.

But that was a week ago.
And just two days after the caucus, The Donald finally returned to his previous state (what we thought!). Trump accused Cruz of stealing his victory in Iowa by spreading false reports that Ben Carson, a retired black Republican neurosurgeon, intended to withdraw from the election.

Well, actually, there was a mini-scandal with Cruise.
It turned out that the Texas senator's campaign staff actually distributed social networks information that you, citizens, should not vote for Carson, was reported on CNN that after the caucus he will go home to Florida, which means he intends to withdraw from the elections in the near future (in fact, CNN did not report So).

Ted Cruz was shamed in every possible way and called a supporter of “Washington values” (by analogy with his own statement that “we all know what New York values ​​really are”), and Trump even threatened his competitor with legal action.

Cruise had to apologize and blame everything on his careless companions.

Separately, of course, the Texan’s victory speech delivered.
It seemed that it would continue until the primaries in New Hampshire, which will take place today, February 9.

Long after Iowa, people were trying to figure out why Donald Trump, who had been leading in the polls for six months before, lost to Cruz.
In the general rejoicing over the loss of a businessman and showman (and yet three months ago they didn’t even dare to imagine Trump among the top ten), the reason for the unexpected defeat somehow disappeared by itself. They only said that Trump’s leadership, as everyone predicted, is illusory and not worth a penny.

However, an explanation has been found for the victory of Bernie Sanders, a social democrat and the main competitor of Hillary Clinton, who six months ago was not even considered a competitor, just a statistic of the Democratic Party.
It turns out that opinion polls in the United States are conducted via landline phones, and among leftist youth the main voter is 73-year-old Sanders, landlines Not even at all. And so it turned out that Bernie lost the score (a few hundredths of a percent behind), but Hillary didn’t win either.

For a long time, evening comedy shows mocked people about this.

Well, Iowa is over, ahead of the New Hampshire primary, which is almost underway.

Among the Democrats (here, however, the word “among” sounds loud, because out of all five there are only two left, Bernie and Hillary; poor O’Malley with his 0.3% has not counted for a long time), victory today is predicted for Sanders, definitely.
And he is leading in the polls (and this includes young people who were unable to make home calls) - four different polls give Bernie/Hillary 54/42, 56/40, 61/35, 53/41.

In short, no chance for Clinton.
But it's important to remember that the worse Hillary does, the more likely it is that former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who has just reaffirmed his potential intention to run as a third-party candidate (independent), will enter the race.

As for the Republicans, surprise surprise! Donald Trump is again in the lead, and again with some phenomenal lead over the eternal number 2 in the polls and number 1 at the last Iowa caucus, Ted Cruz.
Moreover, Cruz is now third overall and inferior to Marco Rubio. This is what three independent polls look like for the Trump/Cruz/Rubio ratio: 13/34/13, 17/31/14, 16/30/10.

Well, all the more interesting it will be to follow the results of New Hampshire.

And yes, there were bipartisan debates last week.
With the Democrats, everything is as usual - Bernie insists like a clockwork that his campaign is not financed by corporations, but only by private donors, and that the average donation is $27, and Sanders repeated this at the debate five times; and Hillary emphasizes her experience as a government administrator (there is no point, she implies, in electing all sorts of former security guards as governors and presidents).

But the Republicans have more fun.
This time, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie shone (and for real, and not like the late King of Jordan). In a fantastically funny way, he caught Marco Rubio memorizing one single 25-second speech about how bad Barack Obama is, and answering any question with this mini-tirade. According to the principle “if you don’t know what to say, say that it’s all Obama’s fault.” So, in general, enjoy. But first, in defense of Rubio, I would like to say that, unlike his overseas colleagues, those who in their heads with two cross-shaped braces each, live on one sixth of the land, he has learned to say at least something coherently and without hesitation.

Candidates from Muscovites came to the region in large numbers

Shortly before the end of nominations for the primaries, a dozen United Russia members voluntarily left the race. Basically, the changes affected the general list and the constituency in which State Duma deputy Igor Igoshin is nominated. At yesterday's press conference, ProVladimir asked the organizers of the preliminary voting why their fellow party members left the race.

The secretary of the regional branch of United Russia, Olga Khokhlova, answered. Like several other opinion leaders, she also withdrew her candidacy. The deputy chairman of the Legislative Assembly did not speak for everyone, only for herself. It turns out that she did not set herself the goal of going to the State Duma.

“My task was to draw attention to the procedure. I succeeded: I registered, it went through the media, and I participated in the first debate. This attracted a lot of attention. By this time, a large and very good team had been created for one district, and for another, and for the federal list. I completed my task and honestly left the game.”

The only ones left are those who “they want to try their hand, they want to join the State Duma”. The rest, comparing their strengths with the capabilities of the leaders, decided not to participate in the struggle.

The fact that many United Russia members are simultaneously among the participants in the primaries and in the ranks of the organizing committee will not create a conflict of interest. This was stated by the head of the regional executive committee Artem Starostin.

So who will win the primaries in the Vladimir region? The fate of single-mandate constituencies is predetermined - “titans of the genre”, current State Duma deputies Igor Igoshin and Grigory Anikeev. The situation with the general list is more complicated. How many passing seats - one or two - the party members will get is unknown even to them. The party congress will decide on the principles for nominating candidates.

The leaders of the Vladimir part of the list are already emerging. And these are not local, but metropolitan candidates - 81-year-old parliamentary veteran Gennady Kulik and the recently appointed deputy chairman of the regional “Association of Lawyers of Russia”, ex-senator Mikhail Kapur (the first to file documents for the preliminary vote). Among the 15 participants, the party leadership is diligently promoting this particular couple. Neither of them has an election program published on their website. However, this is an optional touch, the organizing committee reported.

Mikhail Kapura and Gennady Kulik (from left to right)

Will it turn out that our region will eventually be represented by people who had nothing to do with the Vladimir region before the start of the primaries? And isn’t it a shame for the local United Russia members?

Although experience financial possibilities ordinary candidates and federal deputies are absolutely incomparable, the decision will still remain with the citizens who came to vote, Olga Khokhlova is convinced.

“I think that Irina Kiryukhina (head physician of Maternity Hospital No. 2, deputy of the Legislative Assembly) has no less opportunities to become the first at the head of the list. The same Alexander Tmenov (general director of the Degtyarev plant, Kovrov), who provides so many people with jobs, is the most important taxpayer in our region. There are people who can get more votes than those who came from our region at the federal level,” Olga Nikolaevna summed up.