Recently, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Governor Ihor Kolomoisky lied about not intending to create "influence groups" or controlled factions in the Verkhovna Rada. However, there are at least 11 parliamentary candidates associated with Kolomoisky.
District No. 26 (Babushkinsky district, Dnepropetrovsk) — the executive chairman of the Dnepropetrovsk city public organization "Center for Social Technologies "PR Space" is running Andrey Denisenko, an associate of Right Sector leader Dmytro Yarosh. He is running for the Petro Poroshenko Bloc party.
District No. 27 (Zhovtnevyi district, Dnipropetrovsk) - the deputy head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional State Administration, a close associate of Mr. Kolomoisky, Boris Filatov, is running as an independent candidate.
District No. 29 (Yubileinoe urban-type settlement, Dnipropetrovsk region) - Chairman of the Board of the public organization "Dniprodzerzhinsk Human Rights Union" Vitaliy Kupriy (Read more about it in article BItalian Kupriy. Kolomoisky's shavka received an order to eliminate Poroshenko.), nominated by the presidential party Petro Poroshenko Bloc. An associate of Denisenko and Yarosh.
District No. 30 (Dneprodzerzhinsk) – Chairman of the Board of Directors of Dniproazot OJSC, Oleksandr Dubinin, is running for the BPP. Dniproazot is known to be controlled by Igor Kolomoisky.
District #39 (Vasyl'kivka, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast) – Dmytro Yarosh, the leader of the Right Sector party, is running for the election. The leader of the most active far-right political force in Ukrainian politics is currently fighting in the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) zone. A local, originally from Dniprodzerzhynsk, he has been close to Kolomoisky's closest allies for the past few months. Incidentally, Mr. Yarosh did not run on the Right Sector candidate list.
District No. 83 (Ivano-Frankivsk) – the current MP is running for the BPP Alexander ShevchenkoIn 2012, he ran in this constituency as the director of the Bukovel sports and entertainment complex, owned by Mr. Kolomoisky. It was he who recently knocked out MP Oleh Lyashko on the sidelines of the Verkhovna Rada.
District No. 89 (city of Snyatyn, Ivano-Frankivsk region) - Mykola Paliychuk, former chairman of the Ivano-Frankivsk Regional State Administration and godfather of another Kolomoisky associate, is running as an independent candidate. Igor Palytsia.
In District No. 123 (Peremyshliany, Lviv Oblast), Taras Batenko, director of the Druzhba Main Oil Pipelines branch of Ukrtransnafta, is running for the BPP. Given his business connections, he will be running under Mr. Kolomoisky's quota.
District No. 122 (Yavoriv, Lviv Oblast) – Volodymyr Parasyuk, a centurion of the revolutionary Maidan self-defense force and a fighter in the Dnipro-1 volunteer battalion, is running as an independent candidate. He made his own decision to enter mainstream politics, but the Dnipro-1 battalion receives funding from Ihor Kolomoisky's inner circle.
Particularly intriguing is the number of candidates Mr. Kolomoisky has nominated for various political parties. For example, Semyon Semenchenko, a hero of the Donbas volunteer battalion and its commander, who is also associated with the influential head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional State Administration, will be running on the Samopomich political party list as number 2. One of Kolomoisky's closest business associates (he was the chairman of the board of JSC Ukrnafta), current MP and chairman of the Odesa Regional State Administration, Ihor Palytsia, is running on the Petro Poroshenko Bloc list as number 34.
Once the new Verkhovna Rada finally begins work, then it will become clear how much influence the oligarch Kolomoisky has truly gained in big Ukrainian politics.
Anastasia Martsinyuk, National Bureau of Investigation of Ukraine
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