Dobkin Mikhail - many consider him a puppet in the hands of business partner Gennady Kernes. Find out why the election video, where both appear, blew up the Internet on the very first day. Read the whole truth about his family, fortune and land scams!

Biography

Education

At the age of eight I went to first grade. At fifteen, after finishing eight grades at secondary school No. 97, he began working.
He received his first higher education at the age of thirty-two. He studied at the Kharkov National University of Internal Affairs, majoring in jurisprudence.

He had no special talent for studying. That is why, probably, in his inner circle they called him “the second proFFesor.” After all, Dobkin even had difficulty reading the text from the screen during the filming of the sensational video for the candidate for the mayor of Kharkov.

He received his second degree after five years of study at the Kharkov National Economic University. He mastered the specialty “international economics” at the age of thirty-seven. People who knew him claim that both higher educations were purchased, and in fact he did not study.

Motherland

I spent my childhood and youth in Kharkov. This is where he was born and raised.
Dobkin's parents are the same age. Mother - Alla Nikolaevna (born 1947) is still alive. Father Mark Moiseevich (born 1947) died in 2016. Mikhail Markovich has a younger brother, Dmitry. Since 2012, Dima has been a member of the Verkhovna Rada.

The fact that both brothers had a successful business was due to their father. According to skelet-info, for the last ten years of his life, Mark Moiseevich lived with his mistress Maria. The woman gave birth to his son Tolik. The boy was four years old when Mark Moiseevich Dobkin died.

So that the child in the person of the mother could not claim the inheritance, Dobkin had a terrible idea - to declare Maria incompetent through the court, that is, an alcoholic. According to rumors, this idea was suggested to him by Gennady Kernes. In this case, Mikhail will become Tolik’s guardian. And he will be able to dispose of his share of the inheritance.

Family: first wife - Lyudmila Vikentievna. The second is Alina Vladimirovna. Dobkin's children: daughters Alla (born 1993), Eva (born 2007) and Polina (born 2010), son Nikolai (born 2000)

Daughter Alla and son Nikolai from his first marriage. Daughters Eva and Polina are from the second.
The first wife (maiden name - Molotokas, born in 1962) is eight years older than her husband. Misha met her while serving in the army. She is the daughter of a general who was then a high-ranking political official. From her first marriage she already had a child - a girl of eight years old. But this did not stop her from giving birth to two more children from Mikhail.

The second wife is Alina Vladimirovna (maiden name - Bozhenko, born in 1979) nine years younger than him. She is the owner of twenty-five percent of the shares of the Kharkov TV channel “Channel 7”.

The couple got married immediately after divorcing his first wife in 2007. And in the same year, daughter Eva was born. Most likely, Mikhail’s relationship with Alina began when he was still married to his first wife.
Dobkin observes a happy pattern for the number seven. It is noteworthy that all of his daughters were born on the seventh. Their birth months: October, December, May.


In July 2018, a photo of his twenty-five-year-old daughter Alla appeared on Instagram in a swimsuit, showing off her slightly rounded tummy. As you know, on July 7, 2017, she married Kharkov businessman Oleg Gurevich. The girl was vacationing on the Italian island of Sardinia.
By the way, the bride posed topless at the wedding. Posted the photo on social networks. Her girlfriends are also photographed in lingerie. The wedding was overgrown with piquant details.

As for the successful life of the Ukrainian millionaire, he initially owes all this to his father. In Soviet times, he worked in the “1000 little things” store. Hid the necessary goods. And then resold them at a “margin”. Illegal commerce, accordingly, gave rise to crime led by Gepa (Gennady Kernes).

Nationality: in an interview with one author’s program, Mikhail Markovich Dobkin stated that he was half Jewish. My mother's blood is Ukrainian, Russian and Ossetian. My father has Jewish roots.
Hobbies, hobbies: football, fishing, traveling.
Career and social activities

He began his working career at the age of fifteen - immediately after receiving secondary education at school, he allegedly worked in production. However, there is no reliable information whether this fact actually took place in his life. As well as information regarding which company he worked at.

Most likely, he was only listed there. But in reality he helped his father run his business. Perhaps he was engaged in trade - at that time the Dobkin family opened the first cooperative. It was close, sewing fashionable pants.
1988-1990 - Military service.

For the next three years, it was again unclear whether he was working somewhere or simply living luxuriously on the money earned by his father, a businessman.
Since 1993 he has become a private entrepreneur. Dobkin’s first own enterprise was “Golden Autumn”. The second cooperative is “Progress-90”. His wife helped him with his trade. Managed several business structures.

Supervised several firms and companies for nine years. His business, like his father’s, was also protected by Gennady Kernes, the future mayor of Kharkov with a criminal past.

Then the area of ​​enterprises expanded. Several “Chernobyl” companies were founded. Regions affected by the Chernobyl accident were not subject to taxes. Sixteen Dobkin firms participated in the shadow schemes. The state lost billions of hryvnia from this.

Mark Moiseevich’s numerous connections helped him enter the fuel wholesale business easily and without problems. In addition to petroleum products, a channel was organized to import “Bush legs” into Ukraine (as chicken legs were popularly called at that time).
1998 - deputy to the Kharkov City Council.
1999 - Vice-President of the Kharkov Mini-Football Association.
2002 - entered the Verkhovna Rada as a non-party member.
2004 - confidant of Viktor Fedorovich Yanukovych in Kharkov, member of the political council of the Party of Regions.


2006 - despite his tongue-tiedness, he becomes the mayor of Kharkov. Kernes had to be his guiding shadow. He could be mayor himself. But then I would have found myself under the “orange” gunpoint, so I decided to stay “behind the screen.”

2010 - Yanukovych appointed Dobkin as chairman of the Kharkov Regional State Administration. If we talk about Kernes during this period, he received the post of mayor of Kharkov.
The debate between Dobkin and Tymoshenko on the Shuster live show in 2014 caused laughter and condemnation. Then the presidential candidate from the Party of Regions, Dobkin, countered with the candidate from the Batkivshchyna, Yulia Tymoshenko.

By the way, Petro Poroshenko and Sergei Tigipko were also invited to the First National. However, both did not show up. The choice of Mikhail Markovich as an opponent for the ex-prime minister was considered frankly weak.

2014 - participates in early presidential elections. The result is 3.03%.
In early parliamentary elections he receives a deputy mandate. He is elected to the Verkhovna Rada on the list of the Opposition Bloc.
July 13, 2017 - deprived of parliamentary immunity, detained and arrested.

He escaped imprisonment and gave a bail of fifty million hryvnia. The first part was contributed by Vadim Novinsky, the second by Boris Kolesnikov.

When on April 18, Mikhail testified regarding Yanukovych’s flight from Ukraine, he said that this was preceded by Viktor Fedorovich’s visit to Kharkov. He arrived on 02/21/14 in two helicopters.
By the way, in the case of high treason, out of the fifteen witnesses that Yanukovych’s defense wants to call, ten people left for Russia.


Declaration

According to the declaration for 2014, the total amount of his income in hryvnia was two hundred eighty-seven thousand four hundred ninety-four hryvnia. Other types of income - two hundred sixty-eight thousand three hundred eighty-five.

As for real estate, there is only one apartment per forty-four square meters. The mother owns two: both are almost seventy-nine square meters each. m.
Dobkin's vehicle fleet is impressive. You may ask: why does he need so many cars, and three boats? The question is probably rhetorical. Mere mortals cannot understand.

Among the vehicles, he is the owner of the following vehicles:
. Toyota Land Cruiser, 2013
. Toyota Land Cruiser, 2012
. Toyota Land Cruiser, 2007
. Boat Bass Pro, 2008
. Boat Silver Hawk, 2003
. Trailer PA-2-1, 2003
Owned by family members:
. Porsche 911 Turbo, 2011
. Mercedes-Benz GL, 2012
. Volkswagen Multivan, 2012
. Water remedy "Teremok".
. Boat Tracker Tundra, 2008
. Trailer Tracker T-21, 2007

Since 2015, it has been declaring huge plots of land that belong to the Triumph Housing and Construction Cooperative. Their total area is almost eighteen thousand two hundred and eighty-three square meters. There is even a wine cellar - almost two hundred square meters.

"Dacha cooperative "Veresk" (Zarechnoye, Volchansky district, Kharkov region) - sixty-two and a half thousand square meters of land and forest land.


Lists several watches in the declaration: Rolex, IWC, Patek Philippe, Jaeger LeCoultre, A. Lange & Sohne, Audemars Piguet. Antiques - five bronze figurines, three icons. There is even a set of golf clubs, many books, and jewelry.

The declaration includes women's clothing, bags, furniture, weapons, dishes, vases, paintings, and a safe. And even a collection of red and white wines, cognacs, whiskey and other alcohol in the amount of one thousand seven hundred and eighty units.

His modest salary for the year is sixty-one thousand five hundred and ninety-four UAH. A cash gift from my father - ten million hryvnia. Stores cash in the safe:
. Twelve million hryvnia.
. Four hundred seventy thousand dollars.
. Three hundred thousand euros.
Assets in precious metals in a safe box:
. One hundred thousand dollars.
. Five hundred thousand dollars.
. Five hundred fifty thousand euros.

The last two amounts belong to the wife. It is interesting that his mother, Alla Nikolaevna, appears in the declarations under the name of his wife. After all, the name and patronymic of his second wife is Alina Vladimirovna. And in the declaration, Alla Nikolaevna is indicated everywhere in the “wife” column. A mansion of one thousand one hundred square meters is also registered to the mother.

Photo



Video

Dobkin's campaign video on YouTube made him a bona fide Internet star. The video appeared in September 2007. Later, Mikhail Markovich, justifying himself, will say that the video was allegedly simply edited by his opponents.

He argued that this step was taken by his political rivals, who published the video. The video instantly hit the top ten. In the first 24 hours, one hundred and forty-five thousand viewers watched it.

In Dobkin’s video message to the Kharkov residents, Kernes actively helped him with obscenities all the time. The video is replete with profanity. The speech of the candidate for mayor of Kharkov also contains enough cynical statements.

Dobkin read for the first time the election program written for him. And several times I was indignant because I was confused. Due to the fact that he could not read and correctly pronounce what was written on camera, he said: “this is a very long sentence,” “this must be said in one breath,” etc. He was indignant at who even wrote such a program for him.

News, compromising evidence

For Dobkin, it all started back in the dashing 90s. Of course, this is thanks to his father. At that time, everyone who believed in honest business in Kharkov mysteriously disappeared in the forests of the city. But not the Dobkin family. Mark Moiseevich (father) had enormous connections in the right areas, so they entered the fuel market without any problems. After all, at that time he was completely corrupt in our country.

The number of companies that were opened at that time is simply impossible to calculate, because fly-by-night companies were quite normal. Further - even more interesting. Mark Moiseevich’s companies purchased petroleum products and gas condensate through the “Chernobyl” enterprises Brig, Burtex and Bizon, created with the participation of Alexander Bandurka.


Alexander Bandurka

But the last one is a legendary Kharkov character. While Dobkin Sr. was selling food under the counter, Bandurka was in charge of the Kharkov Department of Internal Affairs. By the way, it seems that it was the latter’s connections that helped the “duo” establish all the necessary contacts.

In 1997, Dobkin entered the National University of Internal Affairs with a degree in jurisprudence. By the way, there are rumors that he did this only because he dreamed of it since childhood, and when he grew up, he didn’t need the toy in the form of a diploma at all. By the way, in addition to this, it is important to add that the university at that time was headed by the same Bandurka.

A year later, Dobkin becomes a deputy of the Kharkov Council. His old friend Gennady Kernes, who has now retrained as a businessman, also ends up there.

By the way, Mikhail Dobkin always claimed that he had no business with Kernes, but this is not entirely true. In fact, Mikhail’s father understood that this could be fraught, so their “firms” were always parallel, worked through the same people, and did not intersect. After all, then Kernes was one of the most famous swindlers.

But the younger Dobkin did not have enough intelligence for this. In 1995, the old cooperative of Mark Dobkin was turned into the company “Ukrtorginvest” (OKPO 25611259, legal address: Kharkov, Suzdal ryady, 12). This was done for Mikhail, but Kernes got there through old criminal connections.

Drug addict politician

The first scandal involving cocaine occurred between Dobkin and Kernes in 2007. They were already quite famous then, so the publicity was decent. But the most interesting thing happened a little later, it was reported that “Dopa and Gepa” organized the beating of another deputy who sold them a low-quality “product.”


First family problems

They began after the first Maidan in 2005. The new people who received power decided that they were not obliged to share with the old ones and the first criminal cases began. Then Dobkin Sr. lost his entire business, and the youngest, according to rumors, got hooked on a lot of drugs. But, despite all this, criminal cases were not opened against politicians, but only covered up, or “squeezed out” their business.

As mayor, Mikhail Markovich Dobkin, like Kernes, abused his power. For example, he “skillfully” managed communal property and city land. As a result, he was charged with land fraud. After all, he caused millions of losses to Kharkov.

It is known that he repeatedly helped the heads of construction companies obtain land plots. The damage is estimated by the state at more than two hundred million hryvnia.

Scandals

Perhaps one of the first most serious scandals was related to the sale of land in the Kharkov forest park. If in the early 90s the territory of the forest park was 2385 hectares, then in 2009 it was already 2060 hectares, and in 2010 less than 1900 hectares. The main initiator of the distribution (or rather, sale) of plots was the secretary of the city council, Kernes, but the mayor only followed his lead. Moreover, Mikhail Dobkin did not come up with anything smarter than to build himself a mansion there behind a five-meter fence.

Speaking about Dobkin during Euromaidan, his open statements come to mind. He spoke of the protesters as "merry clowns." He called the opposition “monsters.”

On January 30, 2014, deputies from the Party of Regions, including Dobkin, came to the next session of the Kharkov City Council wearing black T-shirts with the inscription “Berkut”. Thus, demonstrating that they support the actions of special forces during clashes with protesters in the capital.

On July 13, 2017, the Verkhovna Rada gave permission to deprive Mikhail Dobkin of parliamentary immunity and his subsequent arrest.
At the beginning of 2008, the SBU transferred a criminal case to court about embezzlement of public funds in the Kharkov City Council. But the Kyiv District Court of the city of Kharkov refused to initiate a criminal case against the former Kharkov mayor. There were also accusations of separatism. But over time they were removed.


Now Dobkin lives well on stolen Ukrainian millions. This can be seen from his photos on social networks, which he posts without a twinge of conscience. Behind him one can see either a luxurious mansion or a swimming pool. Or he appears at a table in a cafe, drinks wine, eats overseas dishes.

And he speaks negatively about the current Ukrainian government. The escapee repeatedly complains about political repression against him. The scandalous people's deputy, for whom the deposit is fifty million, as for Ukrainian pensioners - fifty kopecks, speaks unflatteringly about the “terry devils” who ended up in the Rada. His behavior and statements are repeatedly ridiculed by bloggers on social networks.

As you can see, while the materials of the pre-trial investigation have been provided to the defense for review, the former mayor of Kharkov has more interesting “things to do”: for example, a vacation at the prestigious Forte Village resort in Italy. His daughter posted more photos of their family vacation on Instagram. The cost of living here is from six hundred euros per night.

Dmitry Dobkin is the younger brother of the odious ex-governor of the Kharkov region, Mikhail Dobkin. In confirmation of the expression “an apple from an apple tree,” with his actions he seems to want to outdo the elder Dobkin in shockingness. From the very beginning of his activity, he was blacklisted by the media as a person in politics with inappropriate behavior. During meetings, he dances behind the columns and drinks something unknown. He constantly feels his face, jumps up, scaring his colleagues in the Rada with his “movement”. At the same time, the “people’s deputy cocaine addict,” as he is called, orders tours worth hundreds of thousands of euros and accumulates cars, watches, sable fur coats and apartments in his collection.

Born on January 8, 1975 in the city of Kharkov (Ukrainian SSR). Father - Mark Moiseevich Dobkin, born in 1947. The elder brother is Mikhail Dobkin, ex-head of the Kharkov regional state administration.

Education

After school he studied at Kharkov National University. In 2002, he received a diploma from the Kharkov National University of Internal Affairs (specialty: “Jurisprudence”, qualification: “Lawyer”).

Family

The politician is married. His wife is Elena Mikhailovna Dobkina, 40 years old. The Dobkins have 2 sons.

Career and business

The future people's deputy's career began in 1991 at the Progress-90 production cooperative, where he worked as a simple salesman for a whole year. A few years later he rose to the position of director of Ukrtorginvest LLC. For three years he held senior positions in Nika LLC and Orbita Plus LLC. Dmitry Dobkin is also a shareholder (10.98%) of the Golden Gate JSCB in Kharkov.

Since March 2006 abruptly changes direction, goes into politics. Elected as a deputy of the Kharkov Regional Council of the 5th convocation, he deals with budget issues. And after 4 years, in 2010, he became a deputy of the Kharkov Regional Council of the VI convocation.

In the 2012 parliamentary elections he was nominated by the Party of Regions and became a people's deputy of Ukraine for the first time VII convocation. Member of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on State Construction and Local Self-Government.

Dmitry Dobkin does not hide the fact that he entered parliament thanks to the name of his older brother Mikhail.

He follows the beaten path, trying his hand at managing a large business, then becomes one of the most influential people in Kharkov. Being at the beginning of his journey, Dobkin Jr. does not yet know what exactly can ruin a deputy’s career. In the Verkhovna Rada he feels and behaves unusually. Although he managed to make his debut in a parliamentary fight for the podium in the name of party discipline, in his own words.

But the skirmishes at the podium did not help Dobkin get a seat in the budget committee of parliament, where he had originally intended. He got the committee on urban planning and regional policy. He planned to influence budget flows in a different way - through the inter-factional association of fellow countrymen's deputies "For Kharkov". Dobkin Jr. will be assigned the role of the main communicator with his older brother - that is, one of the key ones. He talks about plans for an ambitious regional unification so far without much specificity.

Business

A curious feature of the Dobkin family’s business empire is that almost all of the major assets in it were acquired sequentially. In the 1980s it was an ordinary grocery store in Kharkov. Mark Dobkin, his father, was then its director. On the wave of perestroika started with selling vegetables, as well as butter and sugar.

The sugar business prompted the need to start growing beets. And the supply of oil to Russia made it possible to find partners who paid in oil products. After this, Mark Dobkin’s eldest son, Mikhail, successfully made money by supplying toll oil to the Kremenchug Oil Refinery and Galychina Oil Refinery.

The cultivation of beets, meanwhile, was supplemented by grains, and they, in turn, suggested acquisition of a poultry farm in Novograd-Volynsky, which now provides Dobkin with 5-7% of the Ukrainian chicken market. When it became clear that developing a business in different industries is difficult without cross-subsidization and lending, Golden Gate Bank appeared.

The post of head of the supervisory board of this bank was held by Mark Dobkin’s youngest son, Dmitry, before entering politics. “Golden Gate” actively lends to utility companies in Kharkov and the region.

In 2012, information appeared in the press that the Dobkin family acquired another bank, in Dnepropetrovsk. Part of the Golden Gate management transferred to the new Melior Bank. But Dmitry Dobkin categorically denies any connection with the bank in Dnepropetrovsk.

Compromising evidence and rumors

Since 2015, Dobkin Jr. has been making the Internet laugh every now and then: journalists caught on video during meetings.

In the video, the people's choice stands in bewilderment against the wall, looks around in confusion and appears to be dancing, making strange steps with his left foot.

Dmitry’s brother, the ex-governor of the Kharkov region, claims that his younger brother’s eccentric behavior in the session hall of the Verkhovna Rada was caused not by drugs, but by worries about events in the country and region.

However, in May 2016, footage appeared on the Internet again showing Dobkin Jr. jumps up from his workplace all the time, constantly touches everything that comes into his field of vision with his hands, looks around in confusion, licks his lips and wipes his nose, crumples his hands.

According to informed sources, Dobkin Jr. is a “complete drug addict.”

He repeatedly underwent treatment for drug addiction, including abroad. They allegedly tried to block the addiction centers in the cerebral cortex through surgery, but this helped only for a short time. Some sources claim that Dobkin Jr. the bridge of the nose collapsed from constant consumption of cocaine, and a platinum plate was inserted into him.

While the governor of the Kharkov region and one of the main speakers of the Party of Regions, Mikhail Dobkin, calls Ukrainian nationalists “rare representatives of fauna” through the press, his younger brother Dmitry calmly tells reporters about a pleasant hunt in the Lviv region, where his friends usually dress in fascist uniforms. Dobkin is especially impressed by the “real German” machine guns.

Another scandal is related to bribery of voters in the Bliznyukovsky district of the Kharkov region in 2014. Employees of the district prosecutor's office addressed this statement to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The police opened criminal proceedings on this fact.

Dmitry Dobkin also got into trouble while hunting, his main hobby. His friends invited him to hunt, and from the very first shot Dobkin got a trophy - shot a goat. They cannot explain how this animal ended up in the forest where Dobkin was hunting. The owner of the goat immediately showed up. But it cost a fine.

Declaration

Dobkin Jr.’s declaration for 2017 was published in the Unified State Register. We are talking about the case of the seizure of property through abuse of power by the ex-mayor of Kharkov Mikhail Dobkin and his subordinates in 2008. Dobkin Jr., according to the declaration, has been using the specified property since June 30, 2017. Wherein area of ​​residential buildings (1136.9 and 127.6 sq. m.) and wine cellar (195.4 sq. m.) completely coincides with the area of ​​those that were arrested by the court on July 19, 2017. On February 6, 2018, they were arrested again.

In addition, 5 new cars and a trailer appeared in Dobkin Jr.’s declaration.

According to the declaration, in 2017 Dmitry Dobkin and his wife became owners of shares in the Vladimir-Volyn Poultry Farm with a nominal value of more than 5.2 million. Last year he declared 184,203 hryvnia in wages. And together with the inheritance from his father and the Privatbank loan, his income amounted to 997,209 hryvnia.

The deputy’s wife earned UAH 39,350 in 2017. from the Kharkov regional charitable foundation “Dmitry Dobkin”. The total income of the people's deputy's family, indicated in the declaration, amounted to 1,070,357 hryvnia.

At the same time, unlike the declaration for 2016, Dmitry Dobkin did not indicate either the funds associated with the exercise of parliamentary powers or compensation for renting a hotel room. All funds are listed as the property of Dobkin himself. This is 5.7 million hryvnia, 309,500 dollars and 1,208 euros.

Owned by the Dobkin spouses almost two dozen Hublot watches. Rolex, Breguet, Pierre Kunz, Harry Winston, Jaeger-LeCoultre etc. The deputy also declares a Heym carbine, his wife declares jewelry with precious stones. In the family car park– Toyota Land Cruiser, Lexus LX570 and Range Rover Supercharger. The people’s deputy also owns investment certificates of the unit venture non-diversified closed-end investment fund “Titul” for UAH 19.6 million.

People's Deputy of Ukraine of the VII convocation (Party of Regions faction)

Date and place of birth. Born on January 8, 1975 in the city of Kharkov (Ukrainian SSR).

Higher education. In 2002, he received a diploma from the Kharkov National University of Internal Affairs (specialty: “Jurisprudence”, qualification: “Lawyer”).

Career. D. Dobkin’s career began in 1991 at the Progress-90 production cooperative, where until 1992 he was a salesperson.

In 1995-2000, he served as director of Ukrtorginvest LLC.

From 2001 to 2002 he worked as commercial director of Nika LLC.

In 2002-2004 - commercial director of Orbita Plus LLC.

He is a shareholder (10.98%) of JSCB “Golden Gate” (Kharkov).

Political ambitions. Since March 2006, he was elected as a deputy of the Kharkov Regional Council of the 5th convocation, a member of the commission on budget issues.

In the 2012 parliamentary elections, he was nominated by the Party of Regions in single-mandate constituency No. 178 (Kharkiv region) and for the first time became a people's deputy of Ukraine of the 7th convocation. Member of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on State Construction and Local Self-Government.

He is a member of PR.

Compromising evidence. At the end of the 2000s, D. Dobkin found himself at the epicenter of a major drug scandal that erupted in Kharkov, in connection with which rumors were circulated about the politician’s addiction to drugs.

In the summer of 2008, a number of media outlets published a photocopy of the presentation of the Main Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine to the Kharkov Regional Council “on taking measures to eliminate the causes and conditions that contributed to the commission of the crime.” As the document testified, Mikhail and Dmitry Dobkin, together with Gennady Kernes, use cocaine - a certain Igor Gavrilov, convicted of drug distribution, allegedly stated this in his testimony. At that time, the existence of the show was doubted, considering the charges to be falsified. Although the existence of the document was confirmed at a press conference in Kharkov by the then head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, Yuriy Lutsenko.

Deputy of the Moscow District Council of Kharkov Oleg Medvedev was also interrogated in this case, who said that I. Gavrilov in 2004-2006 sold drugs in Kharkov and with him brought prohibited substances “to the apartment of D.M. Dobkin.” According to O. Medvedev, D. Dobkin used drugs with him.

However, Dobkin Jr., who was then on vacation, made a statement that he knew nothing about the performance.

The investigation brought the case of drug use and possession by Kharkov mayors to the court in early September, but on September 24, 2008 it was closed by the Dzerzhinsky Court of Kharkov.

Social activity. In 2001, he headed the Kharkov city public organization “Bear”.

Awards and regalia. Recognized with the Badge of Honor of the Mayor of Kharkov (2004).

Family. The politician is married.

Mikhail Dobkin, his older brother, heads the Kharkov regional state administration.

The network is discussing a video with Verkhovna Rada deputy Dmitry Dobkin, who during a meeting booked a trip for 135 thousand euros, and then hid behind a column, washed something down with water and began to behave strangely.

The network is discussing a video with Verkhovna Rada deputy Dmitry Dobkin, who during a meeting booked a trip for 135 thousand euros, and then hid behind a column, washed something down with water and began to behave strangely. His brother Mikhail, who is known online for his election video, had to defend himself, and Dmitry himself explained to reporters that he had gone to drink water.

Bloggers and journalists drew attention to the strange behavior of Dmitry Dobkin, a deputy from the Opposition Bloc, in the Verkhovna Rada hall on November 1. The deputy purchased a tourist ticket for 135 thousand euros, and then hid behind a column, washed down something with water and retreated into himself.

The video went viral and became the subject of jokes from bloggers.

This is not the first time that Dmitry’s strange behavior in the Rada has been filmed: in 2014, he danced in the aisles between deputy seats.

And in 2015, Dmitry Dobkin stood under the press box during a meeting and stomped his foot.

His brother, Mikhail Dobkin, the ex-governor of the Kharkov region, whom the Ukrainian authorities accused of separatism in 2014, stood up for him in a conversation with journalists and said that Dmitry behaved normally.

Why should I comment on nonsense invented by your colleagues who have been doing this for six months already?.. Do you think that if a camera is pointed at you, recording small pieces, you will look different?

Mikhail became popular on the Internet when in 2007 a video appeared on the Internet with the filming of Dobkin’s video message, which was directed by his friend, the mayor of Kharkov Gennady Kernes. Be careful, there is a lot of obscene language.

Journalists of the Ukrainian TV channel 112 November 2 contacted with Dmitry Dobkin himself. He claims that he only received an offer from a tour operator for a family New Year's holiday package to the Maldives for six people, but did not buy it.

Place of Birth: Harkov city

Marital status: wife - Elena Mikhailovna Dobkina, 08/29/1977

Education: In 2002 he graduated from the Kharkov National University of Internal Affairs, specialty: jurisprudence

He is a shareholder (10.98%) of JSCB Golden Gate (Kharkov). Dobkin’s older brother is also a people’s deputy of the 8th convocation, ex-head of the Kharkov regional state administration.

Political and business activities

from 1991 to 1992 - distributor of the Progress-90 Production Cooperative.

from 1995 to 2000 - director of Ukrtorginvest LLC.

Since 2001 - President of the Kharkov city public organization Medved.

From 2001 to 2002 - commercial director of Nika LLC and East Oil Group. The main activity of the latter was wholesale trade in fuels and lubricants.

From May 2002 to 2004- Commercial Director of Orbita Plus LLC.

Since March 2006 - deputy of the Kharkov regional council, member of the commission on budget issues.

October 31, 2010 elected deputy of the Kharkov Regional Council of the VI convocation from the Party of Regions.

Since December 2012- People's Deputy of Ukraine of the VII convocation, nominee of the Party of Regions in single-mandate constituency No. 178 in the Kharkov region. Member of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on State Construction and Local Self-Government.

In the fall of 2014, he was a self-nominated candidate for the Verkhovna Rada in early elections. Member of the Opposition Bloc faction.

Loud scandals

In the late 2000s, Dmitry Dobkin found himself at the epicenter of a major drug scandal that broke out in Kharkov, in connection with which there were rumors about the politician’s addiction to drugs. In the summer of 2008, a number of media outlets published a photocopy of the presentation of the Main Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine to the Kharkov Regional Council “on taking measures to eliminate the causes and conditions that contributed to the commission of the crime.” As the document testified, Mikhail and Dmitry Dobkin, together with Gennady Kernes, use cocaine - a certain Igor Gavrilov, convicted of drug distribution, allegedly stated this in his testimony. Deputy of the Moscow District Council of Kharkov Oleg Medvedev was also interrogated in this case, who said that I. Gavrilov in 2004-2006 sold drugs in Kharkov and with him brought prohibited substances “to the apartment of D.M. Dobkin.” According to O. Medvedev, D. Dobkin used drugs with him. However, Dobkin Jr., who was then on vacation, made a statement that he knew nothing about the performance. The investigation brought the case of drug use and possession by Kharkov mayors to the court in early September, but on September 24, 2008 it was closed by the Dzerzhinsky Court of Kharkov.

In 2014, he again found himself at the center of a scandal; in May, a Channel 5 journalist recorded on video the not entirely adequate behavior of a deputy in the session hall. Judging by his appearance and movements, the deputy was under the influence of a narcotic drug.

In recent days, there has been an active discussion on the Internet about the fact that People’s Deputy Dmitry Dobkin issued a trip to 3.5 million hryvnia for himself.

The video with Dobkin appeared on the Youtube channel on November 2, 2016. From the screen shot of his smartphone, it became known that he booked a tour for 6 people lasting two weeks. The deputy paid 135 thousand euros, or 3.5 million hryvnia, for the tour. The description of the video notes that the people's deputy hid behind a column in the parliament hall, threw something into his mouth and washed it down with water. After that, he began to behave suspiciously.