Yevgeny Roizman

Yevgeny Roizman
Born	Yevgeny Vadimovich Roizman (1962-09-14) 14 September 1962 Sverdlovsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Residence	Yekaterinburg, Russia
Citizenship	Russian
Alma mater	Ural State University
Known for	Founder of "City without Drugs" Fund. Mayor of Yekaterinburg
Political party	A Just Russia (2005–2006) Right Cause (Pravoye Delo) (June–September 2011) Civic Platform (Since 2012)

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Yevgeny Roizman (Russian: Евге́ний Вади́мович Ро́йзман;(Eugene Roizman) born 14 September 1962) is a Russian politician, the Mayor of Yekaterinburg^[1] after winning the mayoral election in September 2013. He is known as a campaigner against corrupt police, illegal drug sellers and for drug rehab centers.

Early life

Born in a Jewish family, his father was a school teacher of Russian Language and Literature, mother was an artist. Roizman claims to have left home at the age of 14, to have traveled across the country and later to have started work at Uralmash as a welder. Later to have graduated from University as a Historian/Archivist.

Philanthropy

Roizman is the founder of Museum of Nevyansk Icon at Sverdlovsk region.^[2] This is the first famous private museum, where are unique collection of old believer icon-painting. It's located in the city of Ekaterinburg (Belinskogo st., 19). This museum has over 600 exhibits, including icons, gospel covers, crosses, books, wooden sculptures. The earliest icon is The Egyptian Mother of God (1734), the latest is Christ Pantocrator (1919). Yevgeny Roizman was engaged in the finding, searching and restoration of the icons.

Criminal record

He was sentenced to a two-year prison term in 1981 on charges of theft and fraud^[3] In 1999, Roizman cofounded the project City Without Drugs program. He operates a drug rehab center in Yekaterinburg, and has been accused by the city's officials of kidnapping drug-addicts^[1] and imprisoning patients and using violence as part of therapy,^[4][5] and was accused during the Yekaterinenburg 2013 mayoral race of entertaining strong ties with local mafia bosses,^[6] including members of the Uralmash gang.^[7] In September 9, 2013 he was elected as Mayor of Yekaterinburg.

Political career

Roizman was a State Duma deputy between 2003-2007, and attempted to run for parliament from the Fair Russia party in 2007, but was taken off the election list after a conflict with Fair Russia leaders.^[8] He is a political ally of Prokhorov^[9] and is supported by the Civil Platform party.^[8]

Mayor

He was elected Mayor of Yekaterinenburg on September 9, 2013, with over 30 percent of the vote, beating United Russia candidate Yakov Silin who got under 29 percent.^[10][11]

Gubernatorial Campaign

In May 2017, Roizman announced that he would stand in gubernatorial elections in September as the candidate from the liberal opposition party Yabloko. He will challenge acting Sverdlovsk Governor Yevgeny Kuivashev, a United Russia politician with whom Roizman has a longstanding personal rivalry.^[12]

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