Photo: Natalia Gubernatorova
Mayor of Prokopy Kuzbass Vyacheslavsk Starchenko was expelled from United Russia. A similar decision was made with regard to City Council President Natalie Burdin.
According to the secretary of the Kuzbass regional branch, Senator Alexei Sinitsyn, the decision was made because of a banquet. in grief. According to him, they were responsible for implementing the decision of Kuzbass Governor Sergei Civilev to declare mourning. Both will also leave their municipal positions.
Earlier, MK Kuzbass wrote that the regional governor, Sergei Civilev, had removed the newly appointed mayor due to staff spreading on the Internet. It was noted that Starchenko held a banquet for friends on the occasion of his appointment as mayor. The problem is that the celebration took place on the day of the emergency at the mine, which killed 46 miners and five emergency services of the Ministry of Emergency Situations. Mourning has been declared in the region.
Now the former head of Prokopyev himself has denied the allegations of organizing a banquet. According to him, “there was no banquet and I was not there.” In addition, he did not hold any events on the occasion of his inauguration. Now he wants law enforcement to deal with the authors of the video. He also wants to meet with the governor to “objectively understand the current situation.”
Video blogger Tuligen Adamov told reporters that Starchenko was indeed at a scandalous banquet. However, he left shortly before a group of activists arrived at the restaurant. According to the blogger, he and his friends learned about the feast from “their people”, who informed about the holiday at the time of the mourning.