The mayor of Zavolzhsk, Vyacheslav Kasatkin, got into a fight with acting mayor Andrei Ivanov, who held the position while the former was retired by decision of the local council. The mayor reported this to Ivanovskiye Novosti.
Zavolzhsk is located in the Ivanovo region, the population of the city is about 9 thousand people. Kasatkin was dismissed from the post of mayor of Zavolzhsk on February 21. The prosecutor’s submission stated that he had repeatedly used the official car for personal trips, including during off-duty hours to the dacha in the village of Dolmatovo. The mayor, however, called his suspension illegal, citing a breach of procedures. At the end of May, the Court of Appeal sided with him and reinstated Kasatkin in his post.
“Today I came to take up (duties), but Andrey Ivanov, acting head of Zavolzhsk, attacked me with fists. I approached him with a request to resolve some issues, in the foyer it turned out to be a natural fight. He kicked me in the face and back. Now I’m going from the emergency room, where I filmed the beatings, ”Kasatkin told Ivanovskie Novosti. After the conflict, he decided to file a complaint with the police.
In an interview with RBC, Kasatkin told the details of the conflict.
“The court was in Ivanovo. I arrived in my hometown, went to the acting, to Ivanov to discuss the situation. I went to the secretary, Ivanov was not in the office. I asked the secretary to call Ivanov. Then I went out into the foyer, standing, waiting. Then he (Ivanov) appears all white, began to swear. I offered to go to the office and talk there. He refused. He presses on, all nervous. I asked: “Do you want to fight me?”. He presses on me, I hold his hands so as not to get hit in the face, I try to calm him down. He grabbed my shirt and tore it. And there is a tiled floor. I slipped. We fell together. I hit my head on the tile. I try to get up, he kicks me in the face. The second time he hits on the back. That is, when I got up, he kicked me in the head and in the back,” said the mayor of Zavolzhsk. According to him, he did not receive serious injuries, but after a visit to the police, he decided to take a sick leave anyway.
RBC sent a request to the administration of the Zavolzhsky municipal district of the Ivanovo region.
While Kasatkin was retired, he accused the former military commissar, and now a deputy of the council of the city of Zavolzhsk, Dmitry Dvoretsky, of illegally providing mobilization armor to ten employees of the Volga municipal enterprise. Among the employees were the brother of the current military commissar, deputy Dvoretsky and employees of the military commissariat. Dvoretsky himself explained the reservations of the employees by the fact that MUE Volga is the key life support enterprise for the city.
