Goncharenko Aleksey Alekseevich: biography, photo, family, wife, position

Goncharenko Alexey Alekseevich is a fairly well-known Ukrainian politician. The 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 VIII convocation. It is known that Goncharenko Alexei Alexeyevich is the son of the former mayor of Odessa Alexei Kostusev. His political biography is full of high-profile scandals and ambiguous facts.

Alexey Goncharenko: biography

The future politician was born on 16.09.1980 in Odessa. His father was Mayor of the city A. Koktusev, mother-teacher. Parents parted when the boy was three years old. He has two sisters.

Education and Career

Goncharenko Alexey Alekseevich (photo presented in the article) was educated in the gymnasium, then in the Odessa National Medical University, graduating 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 her youth department in the Odessa region, which was called "zelenka".

By the end of his studies at the Goncharenko University, Alexey Alekseevich 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 in the 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 got the second higher education (specialty: economics and financial management). In 2006, the future politician for the J. Smith Foundation program spent a month and a half in England (Lewton, London suburb).

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, unsuccessfully ran for the Odessa City Council (the district in the village of Tairov). After the election, Alexey Goncharenko worked as an assistant to the deputy of the City Council and studied at the Russian Academy of Sciences.

In 2005 he was elected to the post of chairman of the Odessa organization of the party "Union". He conducted an active work, called for the prevention of privatization of the port plant in Odessa.

In late 2005, the merger of the Party "Union" with the Party of Regions. In 2006, as part of the Party of Regions, Alexei 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 chairman of the commission on improving the administrative structure of the city.

One of the victories

In August 2009, at a Odessa airport, Goncharenko organized a picket on the day of the arrival of President Viktor Yushchenko. The politician demanded that the head of state suspend the privatization of the plant. He was listened to by Viktor Yushchenko. The president promised that privatization would be stopped if Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko did not fulfill the demands put forward by the young politician.

Despite the fact that the relevant decree was signed by the president in September, the auction for the sale of the Odessa enterprise was held at 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 state property. Alexei Goncharenko declared this his victory.

"The quality of life"

Since May 2009, Goncharenko has been leading the public association "Quality of Life", which includes hundreds of Odessites. In 2010, at the elections to the Odessa Regional Council, he won with a huge margin and was elected deputy chairman. In the summer of 2012 from 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 visited pro-Russian actions and regularly wore the St. George ribbon.

His career in politics was accompanied by the proclamation of loud political speeches clearly pro-Russian content. For example, Alexei Alekseevich actively advocated Russian-speaking policy in the Odessa region. In particular, he was opposed to duplicating foreign films in Ukrainian. To this end, he organized the installation of agitation tents near the Odessa cinemas. During the election campaigns of Goncharenko on the agitation tents the St. George ribbon was actively used.

During the reign of Yanukovych, the young politician often used the opportunity to appear in public in a society of odious politicians.

Maidan

Goncharenko Aleksey Alekseevich (post on the eve of Maidan - deputy and then chairman of the Odessa regional council) until the events that took place in 2014 in Kiev, was a member of the Party of Regions.

After the first blood was spilled in the center of the Ukrainian capital, Goncharenko wrote a statement on leaving the party. At this time, there is a radical change in his position. Now he proclaims pro-Ukrainian slogans: he criticizes the seizure of the Crimean Cabinet by "green men", appears with the Ukrainian flag during a referendum held on the peninsula. Since November 2014 he is a people's deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine VIII convocation from the BBP (Bloc Petro Poroshenko).

What today?

Today his life is filled with ordinary work in the BP. It is known that journalists who cover events in the Ukrainian parliament often manage to "catch" Goncharenko on "knopknot" - voting for absent deputies. In addition to participating in lawmaking, the People's Deputy is engaged in the fact that from time to time he travels to the ATU, where he makes peace with the military.

People's Deputy of Goncharenko about the Odessa events on May 2

In 2014, Goncharenko arrived in the Crimea to agitate against the separation of the peninsula from Ukraine. For this young deputy was beaten by local residents and expelled from the territory of Crimea.

During the Odessa tragedy on May 2, in a live talk show of Savik Shuster, Goncharenko was told 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 massacre of people on May 2, 2014.

Scandals

In 2015, together with another MP, Y. Mamchur, Goncharenko, an indicative symbolic rewarding of a Turkish pilot who shot down a Russian airplane in the Syrian sky was arranged.

In February 2016, the parliamentary faction of the BCP Alexei Goncharenko was previously nominated for the post of Ukrainian Minister of Health. The future minister actively heard interviews, but the deputy Leshchenko was told about violations during the procedure, and the issue of appointment was closed.

Participation in protests in Moscow

In March 2015, Goncharenko took part in a 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, Goncharenko was to become an actor in a criminal case instituted in Russia in connection with the tragic events of May 2, 2014 in Odessa. That day in a fire in the House of Trade Unions, which occurred after street clashes, killed about fifty people. The criminal case was brought against the members of "Maidan Self-defense", "Right Sector", football fans, SBU and MVD officials who were suspected of committing torture and attempted murder, but it became known that after the interrogation the same day, the People's Deputy was released , And at 22:00 he was already in the territory of Ukraine.

Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Vladimir Groisman and head of the Ukrainian delegation to PACE Vladimir Ariev noted that there was a violation by the Russian police of the lack of immunity of their party member, which is a violation of international law.

"Abduction"

In February 2017, the media reported on the alleged "disappearance" of MP Goncharenko. The main version was kidnapping. The information was confirmed by the Odessa Oblast Prosecutor's Office, the Security Service and the Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yu. Lutsenko. Within hours, the deputy 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 a real kidnapping of Goncharenko. He was supposedly going to be blinded, then throw somewhere on the roadside. Data on the planned crime against the People's Deputy were received by the Security Service in advance. Through the staging of the abduction, the employees came to the customer. It turned out to be someone Kushnarev, a deputy of the Limanskiy District Council (Odessa region), whose son was killed in the Odessa fire in May 2014.

Desecration of the Berlin Wall

In February 2017, on a fragment of the historical Berlin Wall, the German embassy in Kyiv had written in German in big letters: "no!" And wrote about his action in Facebook, posting an event photo on his page. This act Goncharenko explained the protest against the pro-Kremlin statements of the German ambassador to Ukraine Ernst Reichel, who announced the possibility of holding elections in the Donbass until the withdrawal of Russian troops from the territory.

The German embassy accused the People's Deputy of having violated the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.

Goncharenko Aleksey Alekseevich: family

Mother policy - MF. Goncharenko - worked in the port of Odessa, in the museum of the Navy, she taught. Father, who left his family early, AA. Koktusev is a former mayor of Odessa, a recognized state and political figure of Ukraine. It is known that the relationship with his father not only does not support, but is also his constant critic and political rival MP Alexey Goncharenko. His wife Olga is his former classmate in the medical university. The son of Alex is raised in the family.