The day before, Pamfilova said that she would ask Alexander Belsky to check for a conflict of interests. He and Vice-governor Nikolai Bondarenko were elected to the city parliament, both were nominated from United Russia
Nikolay Bondarenko
The vice-governors of St. Petersburg, Alexander Belsky and Nikolai Bondarenko, were relieved of their posts, the corresponding order was signed by Governor Alexander Beglov.
Also, the chairman of the city Committee on social policy, Alexander Rzhanenkov, the head of the Vyborg district administration, Valery Garnets, and the head of the Primorsky District administration, Nikolai Tsed, were dismissed.
The day before, the head of the CEC, Ella Pamfilova, said that the election commission had sent materials to the IC and the Prosecutor General’s Office on a number of violations at the elections held in St. Petersburg. In addition, she criticized Belsky. “Here we observe an absolute conflict of interests: a person who was engaged in domestic politics, at the same time went to the deputies and was engaged in the electoral process,” Pamfilova said.according to the head of the CEC, most of the complaints about violations in the elections of State Duma deputies came from St. Petersburg, and the city election commission has a “fifth column” that is not interested in identifying them. Pamfilova was especially dissatisfied with the way the St. Petersburg commission handled the situation with the “doubles” of the leader of the Yabloko faction in the legislative assembly of St. Petersburg, Boris Vishnevsky.
Belsky became the vice-governor of St. Petersburg in July 2020. He was responsible for issues of youth policy, press and interaction with the media, state policy in the field of public administration development in the territories of St. Petersburg districts‑St. Petersburg, the development of local self-government, and so on. Bondarenko, who was appointed vice-governor in 2015, was engaged in housing policy, housing and communal services and landscaping.
Both vice-governors participated in the elections to the legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg. Bondarenko won the elections to the city parliament, having been nominated from “United Russia” in the single-mandate district No. 12. Belsky passed the legislative assembly, being in the top five of the party’s list. “Fontanka” writes with reference to sources that Belsky alsothey are considered as a candidate for the post of the next speaker of the Parliament of St. Petersburg.
Rzhanenkov passed to the legislative assembly in the single-mandate district No. 2, and Garnets-in the 11th. The CED was elected to the State Duma in district No. 215. All of them were nominated by “United Russia”.
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