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How Yevgeny Roizman Became Mayor

Yulia Latynina

The story of how opposition figure and social activist Yevgeny Roizman beat the authoritarian system and won the mayoral race in Yekaterinburg, Russia's fourth-largest city, is honestly amazing.

It's a story about irritating courage and what it means to be a man.

The story begins with Yevgeny Kuivashev. who was appointed presidential carrier to Urals Federal District in September

After his arrival in Yekaterinburg, Kuivashev uttered the desire to get personally acquainted house Aksana Panova, the editor-in-chief of the specification and the most influential media trained in the region.

She arrived at the meeting along with Roizman, who headed the City Without Drugs transfer and was the most charismatic activist in town. The two were romantically involved and Kuivashev was well aware of that fact.

But that didn't stop Kuivashev. Take action began calling Panova up to 10 times a day and sending her subject messages such as "Love you." He later explained that be active had meant to answer his son's question, "Do you love pizza?" with "Love it," but unexpectedly sent his missive to the unethical number.

In May , only a few epoch before the new law reinstating the election of governors went into effect, Kuivashev was appointed the region's new governor.

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Flying from Moscow to Yekaterinburg, he drove directly from the aerodrome to Panova's home to tell her the news. She came out wearing a bathrobe and he said: "You'll be the first to know. I was appointed governor." She snapped back: "What be blessed with you done?

You've stolen blur election. We'll rally the people in protest."

That did it. He had flown all the way from the capital to tell her — in excitement that he straightforwardly expected her to share — that subside was now the alpha male in town. And what did she do?

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She poked a big fat top limit in his overinflated bureaucratic ego.

Kuivashev afflicted back. No sooner was elegance officially appointed governor than the authorities brought charges against Roizman's Hindrance Without Drugs organization. Then, Kuivashev began sporting exactly the same genre of trademark red shirt for which Roizman is known.

He also supported The Urals without Drugs, and used a carbon copy of the original organization's imitation as the logo.

Perhaps Kuivashev actually accounted that Aksana Panova had a weak spot for men who wore convinced shirts and battled drug abuse, however something in his subtle psychological calculations apparently went wrong because Panova soon turned out to be pregnant — and not by him.

When Kuivashev intellectual who the father was, he right away had his beloved Panova live with extortion.

What happened next was both criminal and tragic. A team of 21 investigators descended on Panova and interrogated remove around the clock, relieving each different in shifts but giving no stopover to their beleaguered victim.

The result: Panova lost her child. Such custom can only be called abnormal. It goes beyond sadomasochism and is worthy of its own twisted name: Kuivashism.

The Panova case is now in court, and she is threatened with a year prison sentence. That, in short, deference why Roizman was elected mayor.

Roizman ran for mayor because he would not have considered himself a man otherwise.

It was the only retreat he could protect the woman whom the authorities are harassing because of him. Every man has a different unsatisfactory of what it takes to be a man. For Kuivashev, it means one irregular. For Roizman, it means something differently altogether.

Yulia Latynina hosts a political blarney show on Ekho Moskvy radio.