Niskovskikh did not make the final three candidates for mayor of Yekaterinburg.

      Sysert mayor Dmitry Niskovskikh has dropped out of the list of candidates for the post of head of Yekaterinburg.

      On Friday, January 16, Governor Denis Pasler selected three candidates to be presented to the deputies of the Yekaterinburg City Duma, the EAN agency reports. At the next session the deputies will hear the candidates' programs and elect the new head of Yekaterinburg.

      Earlier the commission selected four candidates out of six who had taken part in the contest. In addition to Sysert mayor Dmitry Niskovskikh, who was eliminated from the race by the regional head's decision, these are Legislative Assembly deputy Ekaterina Yesina (A Just Russia), director of the Institute of Economics of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences Yulia Lavrikova, and the incumbent mayor Alexey Orlov. It is from these last three participants in the "race" that the deputies are to choose.

      In a conversation with an EAN correspondent Dmitry Niskovskikh, who was nominated for the contest by the Council of Heads of Municipal Formations, called his participation "a good political experience." He added that in developing his program he focused primarily on the interests of Sysert's development as part of the Yekaterinburg agglomeration.

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Niskovskikh did not make the final three candidates for mayor of Yekaterinburg.

The mayor of Sysert, Dmitry Niskovskikh, has been eliminated from the list of candidates for the post of head of Yekaterinburg, the EAN agency reports. He was not included in the trio recommended by the commission to the governor.