Nikita Yuryevich Belych

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Nikita Belych (right) with Russian President Medvedev (May 14, 2009)

Nikita Jurjewitsch Belych ( Russian: Никита Юрьевич Белых ; born June 13, 1975 in Perm ) is a Russian politician. He was chairman of the opposition party Union of Right Forces . From January 2009 to July 2016 he was Governor of Kirov Oblast .

Career

In 1996, after graduating from Perm State University with a degree in economics, Nikita Belych accepted a position at Perm Finance and Industry Group . In 1998 he joined the New Force (Russian Новая Сила ) movement led by Sergei Kirijenko , and in 1999 he became a member of the Union of Right Forces . In 2001 he was elected to the Parliament of the Perm Oblast. In the Russian parliamentary elections in 2003 he was put up as a candidate by the Union of Right Forces, but did not win a seat because the party failed at the five percent hurdle.

In May 2004 Nikita Belych was appointed Deputy Governor of Perm Oblast . He held this post until he was elected party leader of the Union of Right Forces in May 2005.

Belych achieved success in his efforts for an alliance with the second important liberal-democratic party, Yabloko , in the elections to the Moscow city parliament in 2005 . The jointly drawn up list of Yabloko-United Democrats received 11% of the vote and thus overcame the ten percent hurdle set for entry into parliament.

In September 2008, he resigned as chairman of the Union of Right Forces and left the party as he refused to merge with the other right-wing parties. On December 8, 2008, he was proposed as governor of Kirov Oblast by President Dmitry Medvedev . On December 18, his candidacy was confirmed by the local House of Representatives. He took office on January 15, 2009.

On June 24, 2016, Belych was arrested in a Moscow restaurant while accepting EUR 100,000. The investigating authorities accuse him that it was a tranche of a bribe totaling EUR 400,000. Nikita Belych denies the allegations. He was in custody taken and the Lefortovo prison spent. He faces up to 15 years in prison. A month later he was removed from his post as governor by the Russian president.

Nikita Belych is married and has three sons.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.gazeta.ru/politics/2008/12/08_a_2907016.shtml
  2. ↑ http://www.gazeta.ru/politics/2008/12/18_a_2913323.shtml
  3. ↑ Daniel Wechlin, Moscow: fall of a Russian reformer. In: nzz.ch. June 29, 2016. Retrieved October 14, 2018 .
  4. ↑ http://kremlin.ru/events/president/news/52609
personal data
SURNAME Belych, Nikita Yuryevich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Белых, Никита Юрьевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian opposition politician and chairman of the SPS party
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Perm