Saturday, May 8, 2021

Wikinews extended invitations by e-mail from May 4-5, 2021 to multiple candidates running in elections for various posts in New York, New York, set to take place November 2, 2021. Of them, independent candidate for city mayor Vitaly Filipchenko agreed to answer some questions in a call on May 6, 2021.

Filipchenko is the first Russian candidate for New York City mayor, born in Tomsk, Siberia in 1973, according to news agency Sputnik. He has since naturalised as a United States citizen. According to the web site, Filipchenko has been educated in road construction and maintenance and owns a moving services company; he describes himself on his web site as a “small business owner”. On his web site’s platform page, he says that “[m]y English may not be perfect – but my platform is.”

He is registered on the New York City Campaign Finance Board as Vitaly A. Filipchenko.

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