The aunt is a Putinist and deputy of the State Duma of Crimea, and the nephew represents the pro-government “Servant of the People” in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. And this is not the script of the new series, but the real facts of the biography of People’s Deputy Vitaly Bezgin. Journalists decided to find out why Bezgin was included in the Russian sanctions list and investigated the further fate of his apartment in Yevpatoria. And we found a lot of interesting things.
Details of the journalistic investigation that led StopCor to the Crimean relatives of Mr. Bezgin are in the article by Artem Polikovsky.
Several years ago, People's Deputy from the Servant of the People Vitaly Bezgin was included in the list of Ukrainians on whom the Russian Federation imposed sanctions. It is no coincidence that the parliamentarian was included in the “black list” of the Russian Federation, because he is a Crimean by origin and had property on the annexed peninsula. We are talking about part of an apartment in Evpatoria.
However, as the register data shows, People’s Deputy Bezgin prudently transferred his share of housing to a certain Galina Gerasimova. According to media reports, this is his own aunt, who received Russian “ausweiss” after the occupation of Crimea.
Moreover, the defector actively supported the Kremlin’s aggressive policy. Gerasimova’s surname can be seen in the list of deputies of the so-called State Council of the Republic of Crimea of the 2nd convocation and among members of the pro-Putin United Russia party. For such “activity,” the woman was included in the Ukrainian “Peacemaker” base as an accomplice of Russian terrorists.
According to Myrotvorets, in the 1990s, Galina Gerasimova was an economist at the Planet boarding house, and from 2000 to 2014, she was deputy director for commerce and marketing. After the annexation of Crimea, she first became the director of the boarding house, and then headed the “Tourist Information Center” of the so-called Municipal Autonomous Institution of the Evpatoria Urban District of the Republic of Crimea “Evpatoria Cultural and Ethnographic Center “Little Jerusalem”. And since 2020, she has worked as deputy chairman of the Committee on State Building and Local Self-Government in the occupation parliament of the peninsula.
All this did not prevent Gerasimova from crossing the administrative border of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea with the Kherson region twice in 2018 - of course, using a Ukrainian passport. But the woman resold the Evpatoria apartment under Russian law. Vitaly Bezgin himself, whom journalists tried to contact for comment, has not yet responded to calls and SMS from media workers.
Let us remind you that people's deputy from the Servant of the People Irina Allahverdieva officially became the wife of her fellow countryman - businessman and deputy of the Nikolaev regional council Yuri Kormyshkin. It was to the family of Mr. Yuri that the Gauleiter of the occupied part of the Kherson region, Vladimir Saldo, at one time gave a boarding house on the Black Sea coast.
