Borys Filatov


Borys Albertovich Filatov is a Ukrainian politician, journalist, lawyer, businessman, and the current Mayor of Dnipro. In 2014 and 2015 he was a member of the Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian parliament.

Biography

On 4 March 2014, he was appointed Deputy Chairman of Dnipropetrovsk Regional State Administration on internal affairs.
In the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election Filatov as an independent candidate won a single-member districts located in Dnipropetrovsk with 56.66% of the votes and became thus a member of the Ukrainian parliament. In parliament he joined the inter-fractional group Ukrop.
In the 2015 Ukrainian local elections Filatov was elected Mayor of Dnipropetrovsk as a UKROP representative. On 24 November 2015 Filatov resigned as member of parliament.
In June 2020 Filatov was one of the founders and joined the new party Proposition.

Scandals

In September 2014, Filatov threatened in public journalist Anatoly Shariy, using obscene words and promising to beat the journalist.
On April 7, 2020, Oleksandr Dubinsky shared a screenshot on his Facebook page in which, on behalf of Filatov, it was promised to shoot pets that residents walk in parks during quarantine. Later on, Dubinsky placed another statement saying that Filatov removed his initial post about pets from his page and affronted the mayor. In comments section under the Dubinsky’s post with insults, Filatov threatened Dubinsky using foul language with mutilations to be inflicted once they meet and literally said that Benia’s security staff won’t save him. Moreover, Filatov published a post himself where he called Dubinsky a “Bearded Nana’s sidekick”.