Dmitry Belik

On 22 May 2016, he won the preliminary party vote of the United Russia party, and was nominated as a candidate for the State Duma in Sevastopol at the 15th party congress. In the parliamentary elections of the State Duma on 18 September 2016, Belik, as in Sevastopol single-mandate constituency No. 219, had won in a single-mandate constituency, gaining 46,960 votes (33.24%).

Since November 2016, Belik, and among the 6 members of the State Duma elected in Crimea, has been subject to sanctions imposed by the European Union, with a ban on entry to the territory of the European Community and freezing of their accounts in the EU.

Between 2016 and 2019, during the term of office of a deputy of the State Duma of the VII convocation, Belik co-authored 97 legislative initiatives and amendments to draft federal laws.

Since 2015, he has been wanted by the prosecutor's office of Ukraine on suspicion of high treason.

He had been the acting head of Sevastopol from 4 March 2014 to 13 May 2014 as he was an active participant in the occupation of Crimea by Russia.

From 4 March 2014 to 13 May 2014, Belik served as the acting head of the administration of Sevastopol. He supported the beginning of the temporary occupation of Crimea, and took an active part in the work of the occupying government.

Since 2014, he had been a deputy secretary of the Sevastopol Regional Branch and a member of the Regional Political Council of the Sevastopol Branch of the United Russia party.

Belik became the acting head of the Sevastopol Administration, on 7 March 2014, and issued an order banning the use of the state Ukrainian language in the Sevastopol City State Administration in office work and document flow and on the use of Russian as the official language for paperwork and document flow.

In the 6th convocation, he was the chairman of the standing commission on industry, agro-industrial complex, trade and entrepreneurship, and a member of the standing commission on social and humanitarian issues, as from 21 June 2013.

Simultaneously, from 21 June 2013, Belyk had become the deputy chairman of the Sevastopol City State Administration for Social Policy.

In the 2012 elections to the Verkhovna Rada, Belyk ran from the Russian Bloc party in the 224th constituency of Sevastopol; gaining 27.8% of the votes, and became the second after Pavlo Lebedyev. He did not participate in the repeated elections in connection with the transfer of Lebedyev to the post of Minister of Defense of Ukraine, but supporting the oligarch Vadym Novynskyi.

Since 26 December 2012, he headed the Coordination Council of Organizations of Russian Compatriots (KSORS) at the Consulate General of Russia in Crimea. On 16 July 2013, he announced his withdrawal from the Russian Bloc faction of the Sevastopol City Council.

On 30 December 2009, he initiated an extraordinary session of the Sevastopol City Council on the situation in Sevastopol from 26 December 2009. Then, the Svoboda party marched down Lenin Street, which the deputies demanded a ban on the activities of Svoboda members.

In 2008, he was one of the initiators of the installation of the monument to Catherine II, opposed the installation on the Grafskaya pier of the plaque "90 years of the Ukrainian fleet", was one of the initiators of the proposal to award Yury Luzhkov the title of "Honorary Citizen of Sevastopol."

In 2007, he founded the first private Orthodox general education school "Mariampol" in Sevastopol.

In 2006, he graduated from the Modern Humanitarian Academy in Moscow with a degree in economics.

From May 1995 to June 2013, he was director, then demoted to deputy director of the private enterprise Big Crimea in Sevastopol.

Dmitry Anatolyevich Belik (Russian: Дмитрий Анатольевич Белик; born on 17 October 1969) is a Russian politician who is currently a member of parliament in the State Duma of the VII convocation, a member of the United Russia party, and a member of the State Duma committee on control and regulations and a member since 5 October 2016.

Dmitry Belik was born in Kular, Ust-Yansky District, Russia on 17 October 1969. According to some other sources, they indicate that he was born on 1 January 1970.