Ruslan Balbek is a well-known domestic politician. Currently, he is a member of the Russian federal parliament. He sits on the State Duma Committee on Nationalities. Has the status of Vice President. From May 2014 to September 2016, he served as Vice Chairman of the Council of Ministers in Crimea.
Biography of the politician
Ruslan Balbek was born in 1977. He was born on the territory of the Uzbek SSR, in the small town of Bekabad with a population of just over 100 thousand people. It is no coincidence that later Ruslan Balbek ended up in the Crimea. The nationality of the hero of our article is a Crimean Tatar. Here they settled down.
Balbek Ruslan, whose parents moved to the peninsula, graduated from high school already in Sudak. After receiving secondary education, he entered the Institute of Entrepreneurship and Law in Simferopol. I studied for less than a year and dropped out. Since 2001, he became a student of the Vernadsky Taurida National University. This institution of higher education is considered the oldest in the Crimea. In 1918 it was organized in Sevastopol.
Political career
In parallel with his studies at the university, Balbek Ruslan Ismailovich began to do business. Taking advantage of his connections, he got a job at the Tez Tour travel agency. It was a Ukrainian-Turkish project. Balbec became its director.
His political career began shortly after graduating. In 2007, he went to the Kurultai of the Crimean Tatar people. This is a socio-political organization that claims real powers in power and public life.
At the same time, Ruslan Balbek joined the Party of Regions, which at that time was led by Dmitry Shevtsov. The hero of our article then became an assistant to one of the deputies of the Verkhovna Rada.
Issues of interethnic relations
His career went up in 2013. Balbek Ruslan Ismailovich became a member of the committee that de alt with interethnic relations and the deportation of citizens at the republic level. After receiving this post, he noted that attitudes towards the Crimean Tatars in society are changing dramatically. There is a nice progressive trend. After all, more and more of his compatriots occupy positions in various government bodies. He himself is a prime example. Moreover, this is no longer done for the sake of fulfilling the quotas provided to the leadership of the Mejlis, but based on their personal and professional qualities.
At the same time, Ruslan Balbek was seen criticizing the Crimean Tatar Mejlis, as well as its leaders. According to the hero of our article, the goals followed by the leadership of his people did not correspond to the interests of the overwhelmingthe majority of the inhabitants. He was repeatedly accused of this by his associates.
Post in the Council of Ministers
The biography of Ruslan Balbek changed dramatically in 2014, when he was appointed to the Crimean Council of Ministers. The State Council of the peninsula approved him in this post, dismissing Lenur Islyamov. The latter directly represented the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people in this authority.
Less than two months earlier, Islyamov was appointed Deputy Prime Minister in the government of the leader of the Crimea, Aksyonov. The Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people delegated him to this position after Aksyonov himself invited the Crimean Tatars to take a number of prestigious posts in the government of the republic.
Already on March 29, Islyamov said that in this situation, the Crimean Tatars cannot do without close cooperation with Russia and the Crimean authorities. This must be done so that the entire nation does not become a dissident. So he figuratively put it. As Deputy Prime Minister, Balbek's predecessor oversaw the issues of housing and communal services, regular water supply, and the arrangement of repatriates.
The vote of no confidence in Islyamov was expressed by the deputies of the State Council Edip Gafarov and Lentun Bezaziyev. In their opinion, the vice-premier sabotaged the work of the council on the development of specific proposals by the Crimean side to solve the problem of deported citizens. According to the deputies, because of the official, the entire program for the rehabilitation of the deported peoples of Crimea, which the president mentioned in his decree, was under threat. Russian Vladimir Putin.
As a result, May 28 Islyamov was relieved of his post. As it became known to journalists, the reason for the resignation was the unsatisfactory performance of their duties. In particular, they discussed the development of a program for the settlement of the deported peoples of Crimea, as well as passivity in resolving issues of water supply and housing and communal services. In addition, claims were made against him due to obvious political bias.
Edip Gafarov, who at that time headed the State Council commission specializing in interethnic relations, noted that Islyamov's attempt to sit on two chairs was fatal. On the one hand, to participate in anti-Russian actions, and on the other hand, to be in Russia in the public service.
Dubious past
At the same time, the dubious past of Balbek himself is widely known. In particular, they began to persecute him in Ukraine a long time ago. In 2010, information appeared that the assistant to the deputy of the Verkhovna Rada was detained. It was just about Balbek. The arrest took place in Kyiv.
Later it turned out that he had been wanted by Ukrainian law enforcement agencies since 2007. He was accused of disturbing public order, as well as resisting a law enforcement officer and injuring a policeman in the line of duty.
Balbeck, of course, immediately announced the political background of this persecution. But the Crimean Tatar Mejlis did not support this version, refusing to help him evenwith the search for a lawyer.
Soon, the hero of our article was taken into custody in the courtroom, along with another assistant to the deputy of the Verkhovna Rada, Dmitry Shentsev. During the process, the details of the case became known. The incident that caused the arrest occurred in July 2007 in Sudak. The policeman tried to stop a group violation of public order on Lenin Street. But the defendants not only refused to obey him, but also inflicted bodily harm. It was a protest action of the Crimean Tatars, which took place near the building of the city executive committee.
Fight allegations
Then it became known that law enforcement officers have one more material on Balbek. Accusation of a fight at a meeting of the city Majlis of Sudak, which took place in 2008. Despite the fact that many eyewitnesses and witnesses insisted that it was just a verbal skirmish, the cousin of the hero of our article was sentenced to three years in prison for hooliganism. Only the Court of Appeal found him not guilty due to lack of corpus delicti.
During the trial, lawyers repeatedly pointed to numerous violations. In addition, the court staff clearly interfered with the performance of their professional duties by journalists who sought to cover the trial. As a result, the case did not end with anything concrete, falling apart in court.
Federal careers
At the end of 2016, Ruslan Balbek from Crimea became a deputy of the State Dumaseventh convocation. Shortly thereafter, the Ukrainian prosecutor's office began prosecuting him. There, a case was initiated on the fact of high treason. Not only Balbek was accused, but all deputies of the State Duma elected on the territory of the Republic of Crimea.
The hero of our article categorically denies all accusations, calling them far-fetched. His main argument is that he has never taken an oath to the current government of Ukraine.
Currently, in the Russian federal parliament, he is a member of the subcommittee on legislative support for the implementation of Russia's state national policy in Crimea and Sevastopol.
To top it all, he fell into disgrace and in foreign countries. Canada placed him on its sanctions list in November 2016.
Legislative initiatives
As a member of the federal parliament, he introduced several promising legislative initiatives to the State Duma.
In particular, he proposed to make it as easy as possible for rehabilitated citizens to receive compensation and social protection. In many ways, this proposal of his was based on specific cases that he knows about from acquaintances trying to leave his homeland - Uzbekistan.
Therefore, in the explanatory note, Ruslan Balbek (deputy) notes that all social protection measures are provided in Russia only after receiving a certificate of rehabilitation. In reality, many citizens who can count on it suffer from delays in the flow of documents between the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs and the police of Uzbekistan.
Housing problem
Reception Balbek Ruslan in the State Duma is always open to visitors. They ask for help and make concrete suggestions.
At one of the last meetings with citizens, the main topic was housing, the so-called housing issue. Especially in Crimea, where Balbek holds meetings with residents, ordinary citizens are interested in improving housing conditions, obtaining preferential apartments, and the possibility of resettlement from emergency houses.
According to the parliamentarian, most housing problems actually have solutions. You just have to want to find them. First of all, this requires an integrated approach, new social programs for specific categories of citizens, filling in the legal gaps that still exist in Russian legislation at various levels.
Also, at the end of this meeting, Ruslan Balbek made an important statement - he promised apartments to all the deportees.
Community activities
Not only political, but also social work Balbek is engaged in. Since 2011, he has been the head of the Generation Crimea public organization. He is also at the head of the board of trustees of the Kyzyltash football club, which is based in the Crimea. This is the first ever Crimean Tatar team.
According to the hero of our article, it is she who will allow the Crimean football to reach the international level. Its uniqueness lies in the fact that not only Crimean Tatars play for it, but also representatives of different nationalities and peoples. "Kyzyltash" was born froma small mini-football club in which only 6 people played. Together, it was decided to bet on big football. In the 2016/2017 season, the team made its debut in the Crimean Amateur Championship, hoping to win a ticket to the Crimean Premier League as soon as possible.
Struggle for a place in the sun
The first pancake turned out to be a lump for the team supervised by Balbek. In the opening confrontation at home, "Kyzyltash" lost to the double team "Krymteplitsa". Its main composition plays in the Crimean Premier League. And "Kyzyltash" lost with a devastating score - 0:4.
True, a week later the club celebrated its first victory in big football. It was possible to take up over Dynamo, representing the Saki district, 1:0.
Following the results of the championship "Kyzyltash" won bronze medals. The team demonstrated uncompromising football in 23 matches. Only 1 draw. 15 wins and 7 losses. The club's players have achieved good results, upsetting opponents 51 times. During this time, 34 balls have hit the gates of Kyzyltash.
Thus, the team scored 46 points, losing 4 points to the Istochnoye club. The victory in the amateur league was won by the team "Gvardeets". 21 wins in 23 matches. In this case, not a single defeat. "Kyzyltash" lost both times to "Guardsman" - 0:5 at home and 0:3 away.
Private life
Ruslan Balbek has a small family - his wife and daughter. Almost nothing else is known about his personal life. In personal matters, he is considered to be extremely secretive.man. Prefers not to talk about the peculiarities of private life.
