The Mayor of Irpin, Oleksandr Markushin, has effectively become the main enemy of freedom of speech in the entire history of Irpin – according to the deputies of Irpin.
The executive committee’s staff list includes: advisors on information issues; personal photographers, organized by computer operators; IT specialists earning 145,000 UAH per month; an information department, a media protocol department, and a media interaction department; video operators with editing services funded by the budget and former video operators who believe they are still in demand.
All of this is happening at the expense of the budget of the ruined yet unyielding city-hero of Irpin. At the head of this dark assembly of budget fund misallocation is a black PR specialist. More on that later.
Markushin has completely usurped access to the opportunity for disseminating information on the official website of the Irpin City Council. The IMR website daily caters to the pomposity and complexes of a boy from “Zayir.”
In other words, Oleksandr Markushin has somehow decided that for over a year, no deputy or assistant of the Irpin City Council has access to promote their activities on the IMR website.
For example, the First Deputy of the Irpin Mayor, Andrii Kravchuk, informs the community several times a day about his activities. However, the last news related to his work on the IMR website is dated March 25, 2024.
As for the head of the largest deputy faction in the IMR, Oleksandr Pashynskyi, he was last mentioned in 2022.
The official city council website only highlights Markushin. In the mayor’s view (let me remind you, he is not legitimate), there is no place for Lidiia Mykhalchenko and Yuliia Ustytsia; mentions of Serhii Kanyura and Andrii Litvynov are rare.
In 2022, the baton became a hero, just as in the story of the Mezhyhirya kangaroos – it became the “golden baton.”
And, unfortunately, we must state clearly:
The Mayor of Irpin, Oleksandr Markushin, is an enemy of freedom of speech.