Unlike the special presidential vote when almost all candidates for presidency promised to bring Crimea back, elections to Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine changed the focus. Now representatives of ATO are on trend. As for candidates from Crimea, they are the smallest group of deputy contenders. About 6000 candidates for deputy’s seats were registered in the special elections to Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. This is the first election of deputies that will be held without candidates officially nominated and registered as candidates of Crimean majoritarian electoral districts, which were accounted 10 earlier. The analysis of the list of candidates showed that Crimean claimants for deputy’s seats are just 20. Those candidates who are not only were born in Crimea but also are really familiar with its problems as well as those who had to leave it being at risk of persecution after the annexation. The large majority of candidates are elected from party lists. It is expected that the ruling party “The Block of Petro Poroshenko”, which is concerned in European style and promises to step up sanctions for Crimea, will have the most of such candidates. The program of the Svoboda Party, which is the second party in representing candidates from Crimea, says “To demand the guarantee of Budapest Memorandum of 1994 from signatory states” while there is no word about Crimea. The programs of majority deputies also don’t cover the question of the peninsula. Such candidates are ready to enter the Rada (information is given according to the data from the Central Electoral Commission): the party list of “The Block of Petro Poroshenko” includes Mustafa Cemil, who is the fifth on the list of candidates, born November 13, 1943, with secondary education, Member of Parliament of Ukraine, non-party, registered in the city of Kiev; Yuri Mamchur, who is the sixth on the list of candidates, born August 15, 1971, with university degree, commander of troop command, non-party, resides at the city of Nikolaev; Vadim Denisenko, who is forty fifth on the list of candidates, born April 7, 1974, with university degree, director of “ACC media”, non-party, resides in the city of Kiev; Refat Chubarov, who is seventy first on the list of candidates, born September 22, 1957, with university degree, Chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People, registered in the city of Kiev; Dmitriy Bilotserkovets, who is seventy sixth on the list of candidates, born January 21, 1986, with university degree, assistant-advisor of the Member of Parliament of Ukraine, non-party, registered in the city of Sevastopol, Crimea; Alexander Mochkov, who is ninety seventh on the list of candidates, born May 27, 1981, with university degree, Member of Parliament of Ukraine, non-party, registered in the urban-type settlement Massandra, Yalta municipality of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. The party list of the All-Ukrainian Union “Svoboda” includes Oleg Gavrilko, who is forty third on the list of candidates, born January 19, 1960, with university degree, assistant-advisor of the Member of Parliament of Ukraine, registered in the city of Yalta, Crimea; Alexander Boltyan, who is fifty fourth on the list of candidates, born October 7, 1977, with university degree, assistant-advisor of the Member of Parliament of Ukraine, registered in the city of Evpatoria, Crimea; Anatoliy Dekin, who is one hundred thirty third on the list of candidates, born May 24, 1955, with university degree, assistant-advisor of the Member of Parliament of Ukraine, registered in the city of Sevastopol, Crimea. The party list of the Radical Party of Oleh Lyashko includes Inna Borduh, who is forth on the list of candidates, born January 12, 1986, with university degree, soloist of the Ensemble of Song and Dance of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, non-party, resides at the city of Kiev. The party list of the political party “People’s Front” includes Lyudmila Denisova, who is fifteenth on the list of candidates, born July 6, 1960, with university degree, Minister of Social Policy of Ukraine, registered in the city of Simferopol, Crimea. The party list of the All-Ukrainian Union “Batkivshchyna” includes Andrey Senchenko, who is thirty second on the list of candidates, born November 1, 1959, with university degree, Member of Parliament of Ukraine, Deputy Head of the Committee of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on Tax and Customs Policy, member of the political party the All-Ukrainian Union “Batkivshchyna”, resides in the city of Simferopol. The party list of People’s Power Party includes Andrey Shchekun, who is fifteenth on the list of candidates, born January 28, 1973, with university degree, director of LLC “Ukrainian center of information and publishing “Tavriya”, registered in the city of Bakhchisarai, Crimea. The party list of the All-Ukrainian Agrarian Association “ZASTUP” includes Victor Gritsay, who is thirty third on the list of candidates, born January 25, 1965, with university degree, deputy director of LLC “The Corporation “Agrocomplex”, registered in the city of Alushta, Crimea. The party list of the political party “United Country” includes Vitaliy Voichenko, who is eighth on the list of candidates, born May 24, 1973, with university degree, temporarily unemployed, non-party, registered in the city of Simferopol, Crimea. The party list of the political party “Opposition Block” includes Vadim Novinsky, who is eleventh on the list of candidates, born June 3, 1963, with university degree, Member of Parliament of Ukraine, non-party, resides in the city of Kiev.
Majoritarian constituencies. From the All-Ukrainian Union “Svoboda”: Eduard Leonov, single-member electoral district No.161, born January 3, 1974, with university degree, Member of Parliament of Ukraine (Svoboda party), registered in the city of Romny, Sumy region. From the political party “People’s Front”: Sergey Korovin, single-member electoral district No.60, born September 7, 1988, with university degree, deputy platoon commander of special police battalion “Azov”, non-party, registered in the city of Feodosiya, Crimea.
Self-nominated candidates are Vadim Kodachigov, single-member electoral district No.211, born October 21, 1969, with university degree, temporarily unemployed, non-party, registered in the city of Kiev; Yuri Tebenko, single-member electoral district No.213, born September 22, 1975, with general secondary education, private entrepreneur, non-party, registered in the city of Kiev. Political environment in Ukraine is traditionally short-term. Therefore the Crimean trend yielded the palm to the trend of ATO and Donbass. Even there out of three candidates from Crimea who were in the party list of Svoboda party are assistant-advisors of the Member of Parliament of Ukraine by occupation. The paucity of deputies from Crimea threatens with a long-term loss of lobbying and assertion of rights of the Ukrainian citizens stayed on the occupied territories.
