Goncharenko Aleksey Alekseevich is a fairly well-known Ukrainian politician. Former head of the Odessa Regional Council, the 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 Goncharenko Aleksei Alekseevich is the son of the former mayor of Odessa, Alexei Kostusev. His political biography is full of high-profile scandals and ambiguous 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 is a teacher. Parents broke up when the boy was three years old. Has two sisters.
Education and career
Goncharenko Aleksei Alekseevich (photo presented in the article) was educated at the gymnasium, then at the Odessa National Medical University, where he graduated with honors in 2002. During his studies at the university, he became 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".
By the end of his studies at the university, Alexey Alekseevich Goncharenko decided to devote himself not to medicine, but to politics. And yet it is known that in the period from 1999 to 2001 he worked as 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 Aleksei Alekseevich received his second higher education (specialty: economics and financial management). In 2006, the future politician under the J. Smith Foundation Program trained for a month and a half in England (Lewton, a suburb of London).
Political activity before the 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 (a district in the village of Tairova). After the election, Alexey Goncharenko worked as an assistant to a deputy of the City Council and studied at the RANEPA.
In 2005, he was elected as chairman of the Odessa organization of the Soyuz party. He conducted active work, called for the prevention of 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, Alexey Goncharenko was elected to the Odessa City Council. The first successful decision by a young politician was the recognition of Russian as the second official language for the Odessa City Council. From 2007 to 2008 he worked as the chairman of the commission for improving the administrative structure of the city.
One of the victories
In August 2009, a picket was organized at the Odessa Airport Goncharenko on the day of President Viktor Yushchenko’s arrival. The politician demanded that the head of state suspend the privatization of the plant. Viktor Yushchenko, he was heard. The president promised that privatization would be stopped if Prime Minister Y. Tymoshenko did not fulfill the demands put forward by the young politician.
Despite the fact that the president signed a decree in September, a tender was held at the State Property Fund for the sale of an Odessa company. But many of its members were afraid of 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 competition results, and the enterprise remained the property of the state. Alexey Goncharenko declared this his victory.
"The quality of life"
Since May 2009, Goncharenko has been leading 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 wide margin and was elected deputy chairman. In the summer of 2012, the Party of Regions unsuccessfully ran for BP.
Active "pro-Russian" position
It is known that the young politician Goncharenko was quite an active member of the Party of Regions, and often attended pro-Russian actions and regularly wore a St. George ribbon.
His career as a politician was accompanied by the proclamation of high-profile political speeches of clearly pro-Russian content. For example, Aleksey Alekseevich actively defended the Russian-language policy in the Odessa region. In particular, he was an opponent of duplication in Ukrainian of foreign films. To this end, he organized the installation of campaign tents near Odessa cinemas. During the campaign, Goncharenko on campaign tents actively used the St. George ribbon.
During the reign of Yanukovych, the young politician often took the opportunity to appear in public in the society of odious politicians.
Maidan
Goncharenko Aleksei Alekseevich (a post on the eve of Maidan - deputy, and then chairman of the Odessa Regional Council) up to the events that took place in 2014 in Kiev, was a member of the Party of Regions.
After the first blood was shed in the center of the Ukrainian capital, Goncharenko wrote a letter of resignation from the party. At this time, a radical change in his position. Now he is proclaiming pro-Ukrainian slogans: he criticizes the capture of the Crimean Cabinet by the “green men” and figures with the Ukrainian flag during a referendum held on the peninsula. Since November 2014, he is the People’s Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the VIII convocation from the BBB (Petro Poroshenko Bloc).
What today?
Today, his life is filled with ordinary work in BP. It is known that journalists covering the events in the Ukrainian parliament often manage to “catch” Goncharenko at the “button-press” - voting for absent deputies. In addition to participating in lawmaking, the people's deputy is involved in the fact that from time to time he goes to the ATO, where he takes selfies with the military.
The people's deputy Goncharenko about Odessa events on May 2
In 2014, Goncharenko arrived in Crimea to campaign against the separation 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 on a live talk show of Savik Shuster, MP Goncharenko announced that he and his associates had managed to “clear 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 deputy of the BBP of involvement in the massacre of people on May 2, 2014.
Scandals
In 2015, together with another MP, Y. Mamchur, Goncharenko, a symbolic rewarding ceremony was held for a Turkish pilot who shot down a Russian plane in the Syrian sky.
In February 2016, the parliamentary faction of the BPP Alexey Goncharenko was tentatively nominated for the post of Ukrainian Minister of Health. Interviews were actively distributed by the future minister, but deputy Leshchenko announced violations during the procedure, and the question of appointment was closed.
Participation in protests in Moscow
In March 2015, Goncharenko took part in a mourning procession dedicated to the memory of Boris Nemtsov, where he was detained by the police.
According to information provided by a source from law enforcement agencies to Interfax, Goncharenko was to become a defendant in a criminal case brought in Russia in connection with the tragic events of May 2, 2014 in Odessa. That day, about fifty people died in a fire in the House of Trade Unions after street clashes. A criminal case was instituted against members of the "Independence Square", "Right Sector", football fans, officials of the SBU and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, who were suspected of torture and attempted murder. But it became known that after the interrogation on the same day in the evening the people's deputy was released , and at 22:00 he was already in Ukraine.
Verkhovna Rada Speaker Volodymyr Groysman and the head of the Ukrainian delegation to PACE Volodymyr Aryev noted that there was a violation by the Russian police of the diplomatic immunity of their members of the same party, which is a violation of international law.
Abduction
In February 2017, the media reported on the alleged “disappearance” of deputy Goncharenko. The abduction was put forward as the main version. The information was confirmed by the prosecutor's office of Odessa region, SBU and the prosecutor general of Ukraine Yu. Lutsenko. Within a few hours, the deputy safely “found” and stated that the abduction was staged during a special operation.
According to the information provided by the SBU, the attackers planned a real abduction of Goncharenko. He was supposedly going to be blinded, and then thrown somewhere on the sidelines. Data on the planned crime against the people's deputy were received by the SBU in advance. By staging the abduction, employees went to the customer. It turned out to be a certain Kushnarev, a deputy of the Liman District Council (Odessa region), whose son died in the Odessa fire in May 2014.
The desecration of the Berlin Wall
In February 2017, on a fragment of the historic Berlin Wall near the German Embassy in Kiev, the People's Deputy wrote in German in capital letters: “no!” (Nein) and announced his action on Facebook, posting a photo of the event on his page. Goncharenko explained this act in 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 People's Deputy of violating the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.
Goncharenko Alexey Alekseevich: family
The mother of a politician is M.F. Goncharenko - worked in the port of Odessa, in the Museum of the Navy, and taught. A father who left his family early, A.A. Koktusev - the former mayor of Odessa, a recognized statesman and politician of Ukraine. It is known that relations with his father are not only not supported, but he is also a constant critic and political rival of the People's Deputy Aleksey Alekseevich Goncharenko. Wife Olga is his former fellow student at a medical university. The son of Alex is brought up in the family.