18 Facts About Yevgeny Roizman

Yevgeny Vadimovich Roizman is a Russian opposition politician who served as the mayor of Yekaterinburg from 2013 to 2018.

Yevgeny Roizman campaigned against corrupt police, illegal drug sellers and for drug rehabilitation centers.

Yevgeny Roizman was born in Sverdlovsk to a Jewish father and a Russian mother.

Yevgeny Roizman's father was a power engineer at Uralmash, while his mother was a nursery teacher.

Yevgeny Roizman was sentenced to a two-year prison term in 1981 on charges of theft and fraud.

Yevgeny Roizman is the founder of Museum of Nevyansk Icon at Sverdlovsk region.

Yevgeny Roizman worked in finding, searching and restoration of the icons.

Yevgeny Roizman was accused by city officials of kidnapping drug-addicts.

Yevgeny Roizman was a State Duma deputy between 2003 and 2007, and attempted to run for parliament from the A Just Russia party in 2007, but was taken off the election list after a conflict with party leaders.

Yevgeny Roizman was elected Mayor of Yekaterinburg on September 9,2013, with over 30 percent of the vote, beating United Russia candidate Yakov Silin who got under 29 percent.

In 2018, Yevgeny Roizman resigned after Russian authorities decided to scrap mayoral elections in the city.

In May 2017, Yevgeny Roizman announced that he would stand in gubernatorial elections in September as the candidate from the liberal opposition party Yabloko.

Yevgeny Roizman challenged acting Sverdlovsk Governor Yevgeny Kuyvashev, a United Russia politician with whom Roizman has a longstanding personal rivalry.

Yevgeny Roizman was outspoken against the Russian invasion of Ukraine and called it the "betrayal of Russians".

In 2022, two protocols were drawn up against Yevgeny Roizman for "discrediting" the Russian Armed Forces due to his social media posts and a video, in which he pleaded not guilty on 29 March; the court would consider a third protocol on 7 April.

On 24 August 2022, Yevgeny Roizman was detained by police who said he was being charged with "discrediting" the military.

Yevgeny Roizman pleaded not guilty to the charge, which carried a maximum prison sentence of five years.

Yevgeny Roizman has kept a low profile since receiving the relatively lenient sentence of a fine.