Nikita Belykh

Nikita Jurjewitsch Belykh (Russian: Никита Юрьевич Белых; born June 13, 1975 in Perm ) is a Russian opposition politician and served as chairman of the party Union of Right Forces. Since 15 January 2009, he is governor of Kirov Oblast.

Career

Nikita Belykh began in 1996 after completing his studies in economics at the State University of Perm a job at the Perm financial and industrial group. In 1998, he joined the New Sergei Kiriyenko of the listed moving force (Russian Новая Сила ), he became a member of the Union of Right Forces, 1999. He was elected to Parliament in the Perm region in 2001. In the Russian parliamentary elections in 2003, he was set up by the Union of Right Forces as a candidate, but won no mandate because the party failed because of the five-percent hurdle.

In May 2004, Nikita Belykh was appointed Deputy Governor of the Perm Oblast. A post he kept until he was elected in May 2005 to the leader of the Union of Right Forces.

A success achieved Belykh in the effort for an alliance with the second major liberal- democratic party, Yabloko, in elections to the Moscow City Council in 2005. Jointly established list Yabloko United Democrats received 11 % of the vote, overcoming thus the ins for the catchment Parliament set ten- percent threshold.

In September 2008, he resigned as chairman of the Union of Right Forces and left the party because he refused to join forces with the other right-wing parties. On 8 December 2008, he was proposed as Governor of the Kirov Oblast from President Dmitry Medvedev. On December 18, his candidacy was endorsed by the local House of Representatives. On 15 January 2009 he took office.

Nikita Belykh is married and has three sons. His wife manages a tourism company in Perm.