The occupation Duma of the Kherson region supported the candidacy of the current deputy head of the occupation government of the Kherson region, Semen Mashkautsan, for the position of head of that government.
Yesterday the occupation deputies approved the conclusion regarding the candidacy submitted by Volodymyr Saldo — Semen Oleksiyovych Mashkautsan — for the position of head of the Kherson region government.
After that, Saldo has the right to appoint “the head of the government”.
A resident of Moscow, Semen Maushkatsan became deputy to the occupation head of government as early as August 2022, while Volodymyr Saldo was in a coma after poisoning.
Not much is known about him. Mashkautsan graduated from Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov and the Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the Russian Foreign Ministry. Participant in the managerial personnel development reserve program.
Since 2015 — in leadership positions within the system of federal executive authorities, of which 6 years were at the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation.
He worked as an assistant to the Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation.
He headed the Department of Metallurgy and Materials of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation.
Interestingly, the occupation government of Kherson worked without a head for almost a year.
About the disappearance of Andriy Alekseenko, MOST wrote at the beginning of 2025.
Since the beginning of the year he stopped signing documents, and soon his portrait and surname disappeared from the occupation administration’s website.
The Russians and local collaborators did not comment on the disappearance of their official. Later we found his traces in Tyumen.
In 2021, before being sent to the Kherson region, Alekseenko was the mayor of Krasnodar and became involved in a corruption scandal: he was suspected of receiving a bribe of 1.5 million rubles in the form of an elite Perazzi shotgun. A video of his interrogation even appeared online. The case then died down, and, according to rumors, thanks to the support of the governor of Kuban, Veniamin Kondratiev, he kept his position for several more months.