The mayor of Kursk retires due to criticism of Alexander Khinshtein
On April 7, mayor of Kursk Igor Kutsak announced that he was resigned due to family reasons that demand his “active participation”. According to the acting governor Alexander Khinshtein, he tried to dissuade the mayor, but Kommersant’s interlocutors in the city government are sure that it was strict criticism from the new leader of the region that caused Mr. Kutzak’s dismissal.
Alexander Khinshtein resigned about the mayor’s decision told At a meeting of the regional government. “I will not hide, we talked, I dissuaded him, but the motives and reasons that he have, obviously, did not allow this to do this,” said Mr. Hinshtein. Igor Kutsak himself, after the report on the situation in Kursk, explained that it leaves for family reasons: “A large number of family issues have accumulated (Mr. Kutsak has four children aged 2 to 15 years.« Kommersant »), therefore, my most active and active participation is necessary here. The city agenda cannot remain without a constant focus of attention and corresponding responsibility. ”
This week, the Kursk City Council will hold an extraordinary meeting at which the statement of Igor Kutsak will be considered and scheduled and. O. Mayor, as well as a competition for the selection of candidates for the vacant post.
It is obvious that the regional authorities will not have time to bring Kursk legislation in line with the new Federal Law on Local Self -government, which provides that in all regional capitals of the mayors will now be chosen from among the candidates proposed by the governors (See “Kommersant” from March 27). At the same time, the Kommersant source in the regional authorities has no doubt that the candidacy of the new mayor in any case will be agreed with Alexander Khinshtein. Whoever will be, the interlocutor of Kommersant was difficult to say.
Recall, Igor Kutsak He became the mayor Kursk at the beginning of 2022, when the region was headed by the current Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation Roman Starovoit. Prior to this, Mr. Kutsak led the property management committee for three years, and previously worked in the Interregional Territorial Administration of the Federal Property Management Agency in the Kursk and Belgorod regions. Already while working in the Kursk administration, Mr. Kutsak was trained in the program for the development of the municipal personnel management reserve of the Higher School of the State Administration of the RANEPA (the so -called school of mayors).
Immediately after being appointed to the Kursk region in December 2024, Alexander Khinshtein began to work Igor Kutsak with hard criticism.
In the first week of the work of the acting governor, he invited the mayor to head the Kursk Federation of skating sports due to ice on city sidewalks.
Then the head of the region demanded from the mayor to make the weekly detours of the territories and adjust the work of the administration as a whole: “He explained to Igor Vyacheslavovich that everything that was happening in the city is his area of responsibility, and the answers“ I don’t know ”,“ I don’t possess ”,“ I am not ready to say “I will not be accepted”.
The interlocutors of Kommersant, surrounded by Igor Kutsak and in the regional authorities, say that the mayor could not withstand criticism from Alexander Khinshtein. For three years, the mayor was not a defendant in scandals or resonant matters, and his information agenda was entirely positive: housing and communal services, roads, improvement, etc. However, according to the source of “Kommersant” in the regional government, “in reality, the situation for the better did not change.”
The interlocutor in the city government believes that the mayor showed himself as a competent, smart and cautious leader, who never made sharp statements and ambiguous attacks: “He did not work out with the acting, because the criticism went“ that mach ”(too strong. « Kommersant »). Yes, the city is in shit, but when 200 million rubles were taken from the budget, the number of benefits increased, the parking fee was canceled (for the period of the emergency mode – « Kommersant »), and in general, the city began to exist as an appendage of the region – what else to expect? Public drains became the last straw, scolded for everything: both for city and regional facilities. ”
Political scientist Alexander Germans agreed that the criticism of the work of the city administration was the main reason for the resignation of the mayor: “Igor Kutsak realized that his work in the mayor’s post would not bring any serious career advancements after he became the main lightning proxy for the new regional authority. Since Igor Vyacheslavovich is a proud and proud man, he refused to be a beating bag. ”
