Former regionalist runs for mayor of Kryvyi Rih for Ucrop party

The country will soon hold elections again, this time for city mayors and regional council deputies. Pre-election campaigning is in full swing, and interesting details about various candidates are emerging.

Thus, former regionalist and a notorious local gangster – Nikolai Kolesnyk (nicknamed Tyson) is running for mayor of Kryvyi Rih from the Ucrop party.

«Відомий бандит - Микола «Тайсон» Колєснік, ручний бригадний Корбана, бувший член Партії Регіонів, фігурант багатьох кримінальних проваджень, рветься до мерського крісла Кривого Рогу під прапорами партії «Укроп»» (A notorious gangster – Mykola "Tyson" Kolesnyk, Korban's loyal brigadier, former member of the Party of Regions, subject of numerous criminal proceedings, is eager to get into the mayoral chair of Kryvyi Rih under the banners of the Ucrop party), said a certain Yakov Evgenyevich.

According to activists, it was Kolesnyk who organised the thugs in February 2014 who beat up peaceful demonstrators in the centre of Dnipro. How he ended up in Kolomoisky's team is a mystery.