Goncharenko Alexey Alekseevich is a well-known Ukrainian politician. Former head of the Odessa Regional Council, head of the public organization "Quality of Life", he is also a deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the VIII convocation. It is known that Aleksey Alekseevich Goncharenko is the son of the former mayor of Odessa, Aleksey Kostusev. His political biography is full of high-profile scandals and controversial facts.
Goncharenko Alexey Alekseevich: biography
The future politician was born on September 16, 1980 in Odessa. His father was the mayor of the city A. Koktusev, his mother was a teacher. The parents separated when the boy was three years old. Has two sisters.
Education and career
Goncharenko Aleksey Alekseevich (photo presented in the article) was educated at the gymnasium, then at the Odessa National Medical University, from which he graduated with honors in 2002. During the period of study at the universitybecame interested in politics and became a member of the Green Party of Ukraine, the leader of its youth branch in the Odessa region, which received the name Zelenka.
To the end of his studies at the university, Goncharenko Alexey Alekseevich decided to devote himself not to medicine, but to politics. And yet it is known that between 1999 and 2001 he worked on an ambulance.
From 2002 to 2005 he studied in Moscow, at the Academy of National Economy under the Government of the Russian Federation. Here Goncharenko Aleksey Alekseevich received a second higher education (speci alty: economics and financial management). In 2006, the future politician under the J. Smith Foundation Program spent a month and a half on probation in England (Lewton, a suburb of London).
Political activity before Maidan
In 2001, Goncharenko became the leader of the youth organization of the Green Party of Ukraine (Odessa regional branch). In 2002, he unsuccessfully ran for the Odessa City Council (district in the village of Tairova). After the elections, Aleksey Goncharenko worked as an assistant to a city council deputy and studied at the RANEPA.
In 2005, he was elected to the post of chairman of the Odessa organization of the "Union" party. He was active and called for preventing the privatization of the port plant in Odessa.
At the end of 2005, the Union Party merged with the Party of Regions. In 2006, as part of the Party of Regions, Aleksey Goncharenko was elected to the Odessa City Council. The first decision successfully carried out by the young politician was the recognition of Russian as the second official language for the Odessa City Council. From 2007 to 2008, he worked as chairman of the commission for improving the managementcity structures.
One of the victories
In August 2009, a picket was organized at the airport of Odessa Goncharenko on the day of the arrival of President Viktor Yushchenko. The politician demanded that the head of state suspend the privatization of the plant. Viktor Yushchenko listened to him. The President promised that the privatization would be stopped if Prime Minister Y. Tymoshenko did not fulfill the requirements put forward by the young politician.
Despite the fact that in September the President signed a corresponding decree, a competition for the sale of the Odessa enterprise was still held in the State Property Fund. But many of its participants were frightened by the document issued by the president. As a result, due to the low price of the plant proposed by the winner, the commission had to cancel the results of the competition, and the enterprise remained the property of the state. Alexey Goncharenko declared it his victory.
Quality of Life
Since May 2009, Goncharenko has led the Quality of Life public association, which includes hundreds of residents of Odessa. In 2010, he won the elections to the Odessa Regional Council by a huge margin and was elected deputy chairman. In the summer of 2012, he unsuccessfully ran for the Verkhovna Rada from the Party of Regions.
Active "pro-Russian" position
It is known that the young politician Goncharenko was a rather active member of the Party of Regions, and often attended pro-Russian actions and regularly wore the St. George ribbon.
His career as a politician was accompanied by the proclamation of high-profile political speeches clearlypro-Russian content. For example, Aleksey Alekseevich actively defended the Russian-language policy in the Odessa region. In particular, he was opposed to dubbing foreign films in Ukrainian. To this end, near Odessa cinemas, he organized the installation of campaign tents. During Goncharenko's election campaigns, St. George's Ribbon was actively used at campaign tents.
During the rule of Yanukovych, the young politician often used the opportunity to appear in public in the company of odious politicians.
Maidan
Goncharenko Aleksey Alekseevich (post on the eve of the Maidan - deputy, and then chairman of the Odessa Regional Council) until the events that occurred in 2014 in Kyiv, was a member of the Party of Regions.
After the first blood was shed in the center of the Ukrainian capital, Goncharenko wrote a statement about leaving the party. At this time, there is a radical change in his position. Now he proclaims pro-Ukrainian slogans: he criticizes the capture of the Crimean Cabinet of Ministers by the "little green men", appears with the Ukrainian flag during the referendum held on the peninsula. Since November 2014, he has been a People's Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the VIII convocation from the BBP (Petro Poroshenko Bloc).
What's today?
Today his life is filled with a regular job at BP. It is known that journalists covering events in the Ukrainian parliament often manage to "catch" Goncharenko on "button pressing" - voting for absent deputies. Exceptparticipation in lawmaking, the people's deputy is engaged in the fact that from time to time he travels to the ATO, where he takes selfies with the military.
People's Deputy Goncharenko about the Odessa events on May 2
In 2014, Goncharenko arrived in Crimea to agitate against the secession of the peninsula from Ukraine. For this, the young deputy was beaten by local residents and expelled from the territory of Crimea.
During the Odessa tragedy on May 2, live on Savik Shuster's talk show, Deputy Goncharenko stated that he and his associates managed to "clear the Kulikovo field" from the separatists. The deputy spoke of himself as a direct participant in the tragic events. This speech allowed a number of politicians to accuse the MP from the BBP of involvement in the mass murder of people on May 2, 2014.
Scandals
In 2015, together with another people's deputy, Y. Mamchur, Goncharenko, a demonstration symbolic award was arranged for a Turkish pilot who shot down a Russian plane in the Syrian sky.
In February 2016, Oleksiy Goncharenko was tentatively nominated for the post of Ukrainian Minister of He alth by the BPP parliamentary faction. Interviews were actively distributed by the future minister, but the deputy Leshchenko announced violations during the procedure, and the issue of appointment was closed.
Participation in protests in Moscow
In March 2015, Goncharenko took part in the funeral procession dedicated to the memory of Boris Nemtsov, where he was detained by the police.
According to information provided by a law enforcement source to Interfax, Goncharenkowas supposed to become a defendant in a criminal case initiated in the Russian Federation in connection with the tragic events of May 2, 2014 in Odessa. On that day, about fifty people died in a fire in the House of Trade Unions, which occurred after street clashes. A criminal case was initiated against members of the Maidan Self-Defense, Right Sector, football fans, officials of the SBU and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, who were suspected of committing torture and attempted murder. But it became known that after interrogation on the same day in the evening, the people’s deputy was released, and at 22:00 he was already on the territory of Ukraine.
Vladimir Groisman, Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada, and Vladimir Ariev, head of the Ukrainian delegation to PACE, noted that there had been a violation by the Russian police of the diplomatic immunity of their fellow party member, which is a violation of international law.
Abduction
In February 2017, the media reported on the alleged "disappearance" of Deputy Goncharenko. Abduction was put forward as the main version. The information was confirmed by the prosecutor's office of the Odessa region, the SBU and the Prosecutor General of Ukraine Y. Lutsenko. Within a few hours, the deputy was safely “found” and stated that the kidnapping was staged during the ongoing special operation.
According to the information provided by the SBU, the attackers planned the real abduction of Goncharenko. He was allegedly going to be blinded and then thrown somewhere on the side of the road. Data on the planned crime against the people's deputy were received by the SBU in advance. By staging an abductionemployees went to the customer. It turned out to be someone Kushnarev, a deputy of the Limansky District Council (Odessa region), whose son died in the Odessa fire in May 2014.
Desecration of the Berlin Wall
In February 2017, on a fragment of the historic Berlin Wall near the German embassy in Kyiv, the People's Deputy wrote in large letters in German: "No!" (nein) and announced his action on Facebook by posting a photo of the event on his page. Goncharenko explained this act as a protest against the pro-Kremlin statements of the German ambassador to Ukraine, Ernst Reichel, who announced the possibility of holding elections in the Donbass before the withdrawal of Russian troops from the territory.
The German Embassy accused the MP of violating the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.
Goncharenko Alexey Alekseevich: family
Mother politician - M. F. Goncharenko - worked in the port of Odessa, in the Museum of the Navy, taught. Father who left the family early, A. A. Koktusev is a former mayor of Odessa, a recognized state and political figure in Ukraine. It is known that not only does he not maintain relations with his father, but is also his constant critic and political rival, People's Deputy Goncharenko Alexei Alekseevich. His wife Olga is his former classmate at the Medical University. The family brings up a son Alexei.
