Country cooperative "lake". Dacha cooperative "Ozero" How the "Ozero" cooperative turned into "Bank Russia"

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15 years of the most muddy "Lake" in the world! The history of the cooperative "Lake". On November 11, in the village of Solovyovka, Leningrad Region, the Ozero dacha consumer cooperative was established. For many years, these respected people, to the delight of Russia

Today, November 11, 2011, it is 15 years since the dacha consumer cooperative "Ozero" was established in the village of Solovyovka, Leningrad Region. There is a reason to remember this legal entity, because among those who founded it in November 1996 were the current ones: Prime Minister Putin, head of Russian Railways Vladimir Yakunin, banker Yuri Kovalchuk, Minister of Education and Science Andrei Fursenko.

Putin, Yakunin, Kovalchuk

The registration of the "Lake" coincides with the beginning of a new stage in the biography of Vladimir Putin. After the defeat of Anatoly Sobchak in the elections, he moved to Moscow, where in the summer of 1996 he joined the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation. By this time, he had experience in foreign intelligence and in the Committee for Foreign Economic Relations of the St. Petersburg Mayor's Office. As Vladimir Putin advances in power (first overseeing the foreign property of the Department of Affairs, then he will receive positions in the presidential administration (1998), appointment as director of the FSB, chairman of the government (1999), and become president in 2000 and 2004, prime minister in 2008 -m), the financial well-being and careers of partners on the "Lake" will grow rapidly.

In 15 years, the participants of the "Lake" will turn from entrepreneurs and middle-class officials into those who own Russia today. Their companies control the financial, fuel and energy, transport, banking, construction, media sectors and administrative resources. ?

Fellows on the Lake

The dacha cooperative "Lake" is located a two-hour drive (120 km) from St. Petersburg on the shores of Lake Komsomolskoye. The village of Solovyovka is on the southeast coast. A picturesque place - Karelian pines, clean air. It was here, while still an employee of the St. Petersburg mayor's office, that Vladimir Putin built his first dacha, which is rather modest by today's standards.

And Putin helped in acquiring a dacha on the shores of Lake Komsomolskoye Viktor Zubkov (the current First Deputy Prime Minister, and in those years a colleague in the St. Petersburg mayor's office). Vladimir Karmanovsky, the former chairman of the Priozersky city executive committee, processed the documents, about which he told the Metro newspaper (St. Petersburg, 09/20/2007): “Zubkov asked me to help with the documents for this dacha, and I helped. But everything was strictly according to the law. I remember once the three of us sat in a restaurant, had dinner, and talked. I even visited Putin’s mayor’s office, he treated me to whiskey with ice.”

Here, on November 11, 1996, a company of 8 people also established the Ozero dacha consumer cooperative. Its first co-founders were: Vladimir Smirnov, Nikolai Shamalov, Vladimir Yakunin, Vladimir Putin, Yuri Kovalchuk, Viktor Myachin, Sergey Fursenko, Andrey Fursenko.

Subsequently, the composition of the "Lake" has changed. Only Vladimir Smirnov, Nikolai Shamalov and Vladimir Yakunin remained from the "first draft". In recent years, new people have been added to them: entrepreneurs Vadim Mozhaev, Igor Ballandovich, Vitaly Votolevsky, Sergey Orlov, Alexander Antonov, economist Sergey Prushchak, as well as Olga Pershina and Andrey Levin.

Permanent co-founders of the dacha cooperative "Ozero" since 1996

Ozero co-founders who have left the registration lists by now

Members of the dacha cooperative "Lake", after 2002 and at the moment

Vladimir Smirnov is the permanent co-founder and director of the Lake. An entrepreneur who has known Vladimir Putin since 1991. He was the sole executive director with the right to sign in the St. Petersburg companies Inform-Future, Real Estate Projects and Investments Management LLC (UPNI) and Znamenskaya CJSC (registered by the Committee for External Relations of the St. Petersburg Mayor's Office in 1994). All these companies were founded by the German company SPAG (S.Peterburg Immobilien und Beteilgungen Aktiengesellshaft), created to invest in real estate in St. Petersburg.

Reports of Znamenskaya from the 1990s are available on the Internet. In them one can find a number of revealing nuances that characterize the scale of work with real estate, and the ease with which everything was coordinated. From the company's prospectus, for example, details of ambitious plans for the reconstruction of historical buildings in the center of St. Petersburg (residential and non-residential premises with a total area of ​​24,000 sq.m, on a land plot of 10,000 sq.m) become clear. “The main goal of the company's activity is to meet the demand for high-quality commercial space and to obtain maximum profit on this basis. As part of the aforementioned goal, CJSC Znamenskaya is implementing a project to create a Business and Trade Center worth 100 million USD. The basis for the implementation of the project are: Order of the Mayor of St. Petersburg "On the reconstruction of houses No. 114 on Nevsky Prospekt and No. 2/116 on the street. Vosstaniya" and the Exchange Agreement concluded between the City Property Management Committee of the City Hall of St. Petersburg and the Owner (i.e. CJSC "Znamenskaya". - Approx. ed.)". In 2002, judging by the information of the registrars of legal entities, Znamenskaya owned 160 properties in St. Petersburg alone.

In the context of the activities of the German company SPAG, created in 1992, when the current Russian prime minister headed the Committee on Foreign Relations of the St. Petersburg mayor's office, the name of Vladimir Putin himself was mentioned quite often. Although Vladimir Putin was not directly present in the SPAG project, but as a member of a certain advisory council, which Novaya Gazeta spoke about in detail earlier (see the issue of 09/08/2003), when she wrote about the checks of this company by the German Federal Intelligence Service BND. By the way, according to the results of investigations in Liechtenstein, one of the SPAG managers, Rudolf Ritter, was accused of money laundering for Russian criminal groups, but was later acquitted by the court. In the 1990s, in Moscow and St. Petersburg, it was common for the names of businessmen, officials and reputable entrepreneurs to appear in the reporting documents of companies. The authoritative St. Petersburg businessman Vladimir Kumarin-Barsukov (Tambov organized crime group, now in prison) was at one time related to both Znamenskaya and Petersburg Fuel Company, where Vladimir Smirnov, already the director of the Ozero dacha consumer cooperative, held the position CEO. Another curious coincidence. In two German telephone directories for 2003, in the section Russian-German joint ventures in St. Petersburg, you can find that the contact fax of the Inform-Future company (with which Vladimir Smirnov was connected through the Livcom company) matches the fax number indicated in the founding documents of the Lake.

After the "Lake" Vladimir Smirnov's career was successful. When Vladimir Putin became president in 2000, Smirnov received the position of general director of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Enterprise for the supply of products of the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation." From 2002 to 2007, he was the general director at OJSC Techsnabexport (the company represents the foreign economic interests of Minatom in transactions for the sale of uranium and isotopes on the world market). Then Vladimir Smirnov is an adviser to the director at Atomenergoprom. In 2007 - Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Kovrov Mechanical Plant (an enterprise of a machine-building and instrument-making complex that produces gas centrifuges for uranium enrichment). Today, Mr. Smirnov and his family are engaged in profitable and interesting projects. Since 2008 - on the board of directors of the National Space Bank. This Moscow bank is associated with enterprises in the aviation industry and defense structures (assets - 8.95 billion rubles).

Nikolai Shamalov is a permanent co-founder of the Lake, a dentist by his first education. In business since the early 90s. For a long time, being a representative of the German company Siemens AG, he supplied medical equipment to dental clinics in the North-West. From 2004 to 2010, Shamalov was a co-owner of the St. Petersburg bank Rossiya (a shareholder of 9.8% of the bank and an owner of 10.5% of the shares). In 2005, he was a co-founder of the Rosinvest company, which was building a health-improving complex near Gelendzhik, which was called the "palace for Putin" by the media. Because of this facility, the country learned details about the scope of Nikolai Shamalov's activities in the construction and investment business from 2005 to 2008. The source of information was Sergei Kolesnikov, Shamalov's partner, co-founder of the Petromed company, who in 2010 addressed an open anti-corruption letter to the president. He claims that his partner Shamalov is a participant in dubious transactions. In particular, because back in 2000 he offered his company "Petromed" "transactions on special conditions under which 35% of the contract had to go to foreign accounts" in the implementation of state health programs. But the main topic was the dubious story of the construction of a palace complex for recreation and entertainment in Gelendzhik worth $1 billion. And although Vladimir Putin's press secretary stubbornly claims that the prime minister had nothing to do with the facility, no one has yet explained why the construction was carried out by Russia's Spetsstroy, and the FSO provided security and control. Already after the hype in the media, businessman Alexander Ponomarenko acquired the pretentious building. However, earlier Nikolai Shamalov was considered the formal owner of the palace. Later it was confirmed that the companies mentioned by Kolesnikov as participants in the construction (Rirus and Indokopas) were connected with Nikolai Shamalov. In 2005, the investment company Rosinvest LLC was established. Its subsidiary, Lirus, signed an initial investment agreement with the Presidential Administration for the construction of a facility in the village of Praskoveevka. Then, according to the second, additional agreement, all property was registered with another company - just for Indokopas LLC (founder - Rirus LLC).

Interestingly, on the eve of construction in Gelendzhik in 2004, Lirus LLC acquired a 12.5% ​​stake in Sogaz (Gazprom's insurer). The price of the transaction was leaked to the press - more than 420 million rubles. At the same time, the structures of the St. Petersburg bank Rossiya acquire shares in Sogaz. By 2009, Lirus, according to media reports, receives only dividends from Sogaz for an amount almost comparable to the purchase price. A couple of years pass, and already in 2011 Lirus LLC is reorganized by dividing into two companies. The new legal entities - Lirus and Kordeks - belong to the same owner - Elbrus LLC, which was established in 2005 and specializes in medical equipment. The redistribution reduced the shares of all former Sogaz shareholders. Financial analysts did not rule out that "the co-owners of OAO Sogaz" redistributed the shares of the insurer intentionally in favor of one new shareholder, who could have received a controlling stake of more than 60%.

In addition to the above assets, Nikolai Shamalov owns 10% of Vyborg Shipyard, where he is a member of the Board of Directors.

Through co-founding in the companies Rosmodulstroy and UK Module, Nikolai Shamalov is connected with another member of the Ozero dacha cooperative, Vadim Mozhaev, now arrested under the article “Fraud” as a result of a corruption scandal related to the sale of tomographs (for more details, see below) .

By 2011, the fortune of Nikolai Shamalov is estimated at $ 500 million, as evidenced by the rating "The Richest Businessmen of Russia-2011" by Forbes magazine. According to the Finance magazine, which compiled a rating of wealthy St. Petersburg billionaires, Nikolai Shamalov currently has $620 million (with an increase of $30 million over the year).

The sons of Nikolai Shamalov - Yuri and Kirill, seem to have found themselves in the business projects of good friends and partners of the prime minister in the "Lake".

Yuri Shamalov, the eldest son (born 1963), was born in the village of Andrany, Mogilev Region. After the army, he worked in the state security agencies (1987–2007). In 1993–1995 - Specialist of the department for the development of foreign trade relations of the Committee for Foreign Relations of the Mayor's Office of St. Petersburg (which at that time was headed by Vladimir Putin). Graduate of the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia with a degree in jurisprudence (1993). Since 2005, President of Gazfond. Since December 2007, General Director of Gazflot LLC (according to media reports, the volume of construction of Gazflot, a subsidiary of Gazprom, by 2020 will amount to 88 units of vessels for various purposes).

The eldest son of Nikolai Shamalov turned out to be in demand in the big business of his colleagues in the Lake cooperative. Under Yuri Shamalov, a deal was made to redistribute the assets of the state company Gazprom in favor of Rossiya Bank (co-owners are Nikolai Shamalov and Yuri Kovalchuk). In 2006, Sogaz buys 75% plus 1 share of the largest company Leader (which manages Gazprom's pension fund Gazfond). The shares of "Leader" were sold by "Gazfond" itself, in which Yury Shamalov had been the president of the company for a year. That's just the amount of the transaction, according to experts, was modest - only 880 million rubles, while the profit of the company being bought then amounted to more than a billion rubles. Earlier, in 2004, the St. Petersburg Bank Rossiya bought 50% of the Gas Industry Insurance Company (Sogaz, a subsidiary of Gazprom) for $58 million (according to experts, the current value should be about $2 billion).

Kirill Shamalov, the youngest son (born 1982), a graduate of St. Petersburg State University with a degree in jurisprudence. Since 2004, he has been a legal adviser at OAO Gazprom, as well as an expert in the regional department for military-technical cooperation with Western European countries at the Federal State Unitary Enterprise Rosoboronexport. A year later, he was a legal adviser at Gazprombank. Until 2008 - in the apparatus of the government of the Russian Federation. There, Kirill advised the Department of Economics and Finance on the management of state property, as well as the privatization and reform of state-owned companies. Recently - Vice President of SIBUR for administrative business support (previously there was no such position in the company. - Approx. ed.). SIBUR is a petrochemical holding, in the past an asset of Gazprombank, but in 2010 50% of SIBUR went to a top manager of Novatek, which, in turn, is an asset of businessman Gennady Timchenko (by the way, he is quite can be called, if not a friend, then a “partner of the partners” of the prime minister, since in 2010 he is also affiliated with Rossiya Bank through the Swiss Maples SA and Transoil CIS).

Vladimir Yakunin is a graduate of the Leningrad Mechanical Institute and the former Red Banner Institute of the KGB of the USSR named after Yu.V. Andropov (now the Academy of Foreign Intelligence). In the early 1980s, he worked in the department of the State Committee of the Council of Ministers of the USSR for Foreign Economic Relations. Then the head of the so-called foreign department of the Physico-Technical Institute. A.F. Ioffe Academy of Sciences of the USSR. He worked there together with three future partners in the "Lake" - Andrei Fursenko, Yuri Kovalchuk and Viktor Myachin. Together they are in the Association of Joint Ventures of St. Petersburg. In 1991, together with Yuri Kovalchuk and Sergey Fursenko, he founded NTP TEMP LLP and became the vice president of the enterprise. All together they are trying to "reanimate" the then little-known bank "Russia". In 1993 - co-founder of Semiconductor Devices CJSC (became the founder of Rossiya Bank with a share of 11.59% of the authorized capital). During the same period, Yakunin was in diplomatic work as Secretary of the Permanent Mission of the USSR to the UN. By the time he joined the Ozero dacha consumer cooperative, Vladimir Yakunin had already been the head of the board of directors of CJSC International Center for Business Cooperation. In 1997, for two years, Yakunin headed the inspection of the Main Control Directorate of the President of the Russian Federation for the North-West (at that time, Vladimir Putin and Nikolai Patrushev were in turn the heads of the Main Control Directorate). During Putin's first presidential term, Yakunin becomes the country's chief transport worker. Since 2000 - already the Deputy Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation, two years later - the First Deputy Minister of Railways. His area of ​​work is overseeing the economic and investment activities of seaports. Since April 2001 - Chairman of the Board of Directors of JSC "Novoship" (Novorossiysk Shipping Company). Cooperation with Putin allows Yakunin to quickly move on: in 2003 he is the first vice president of Russian Railways, and since 2005, by government order, he has been appointed president of Russian Railways. In addition, the head of Russian Railways is the chairman of the boards of trustees of two foundations: the Center for National Glory of Russia and the Foundation of St. Andrew the First-Called. The first is unofficially referred to in the media as the "party of Orthodox Chekists", it includes Sergei Chemezov, Sergei Ivanov, Vladimir Kozhin, Viktor Cherkesov, Georgy Poltavchenko, as well as representatives of the Patriarchate. By 2003, Vladimir Yakunin was on the board of directors of OAO Ust-Luga Company1 (Sergei Orlov, Yakunin’s colleague in Ozero and Russian Railways business projects, is also associated with it. - Approx. ed.). Shortly after Vladimir Yakunin gets to the top management positions of the state-owned Russian Railways OJSC, he, according to the Panorama database, buys CJSC Millennium Bank in the same 2003. To date, the bank's own funds amount to 722.6 million rubles, and the authorized capital is 445 million rubles. Compared to the Rossiya bank, it is not much, but for “its own”, corporate bank, the amounts are sufficient. True, Yakunin's surname is not found in the bank's reports, but there are people there who are his direct subordinates or relatives in Russian Railways. In addition, Vladimir Yakunin is also associated with OJSC TransCreditBank2.

The President of Russian Railways JSC heads the board of directors (Sergei Orlov, Yakunin's colleague in the Ozero cooperative, is also there. - Note ed.).

Vladimir Yakunin is also a member of the board of the Non-State Pension Fund Blagosostoyanie3.

The children of Vladimir Yakunin are also busy in business. Sons are graduates of St. Petersburg State University (graduated from the Faculty of Economics and Law).

Andrey Yakunin (born in 1975) in 2009 was listed as the director of the British investment company Venture Investments & Yield Management (VIYM).

Viktor Yakunin (born 1978) in 2007 worked as director of legal affairs for the Russian representative office of the trading company Gunvor (with which the already mentioned Gennady Timchenko, a businessman who, according to media reports, is a member of the prime minister's circle of acquaintances, is associated).

Yuri Kovalchuk has been an acquaintance of Vladimir Putin since the early 1990s. In 1987–1991 employee of the Physico-Technical Institute. Ioffe of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Kovalchuk's career as a financier begins at the Association of Joint Ventures of St. Petersburg and at the Center for Advanced Technologies and Developments. Then, on the basis of the enterprise of the military-industrial complex "Svetlana", an "Engineering and Technical Center" is created. One of the projects of the “group of physicists” is the obkom bank Rossiya, which is being transformed into a joint-stock company by the end of 1991 by order of the mayor of St. Petersburg Anatoly Sobchak. A few months earlier, Sobchak instructed Vladimir Putin, as the media wrote, "to prepare documents for the creation of a fund for stabilizing the economy of the Leningrad region on the basis of the commercial bank Rossiya, with the involvement of foreign investors." The initial shareholders of the bank are St. Petersburg firms NPP Kvark (later Stream Corporation4), CJSC Bikfin, JV CJSC Bikar, CJSC TEMP, JV CJSC Technical Development Agency. Among their founders are Vladimir Yakunin, Yuri Kovalchuk, Viktor Myachin, Andrey Fursenko, Sergey Fursenko.

As Vladimir Putin consolidated in Moscow, the former physicist and now financier Yuri Kovalchuk in November 2000 headed the board of the St. Petersburg Foundation "Center for Strategic Research" North-West ". During the same period, he heads the board of the non-profit partnership "Russian League of Honorary Consular Officials". This enterprise with a mysterious but very solemn name was created even before the "Lake". The founders are Kovalchuk himself, Sergey Fursenko and other common acquaintances. The League united St. Petersburg businessmen who were transformed within the framework of this enterprise into honorary consuls. So, the honorary consul of the Philippines was Andrey Fursenko, and his brother got Bangladesh, other businessmen - the Seychelles and Brazil. Thus, it must be assumed that cooperation was established more effectively.

Since June 2005, Yuri Kovalchuk has been chairman of the board of directors of Rossiya Bank. Now the share of Yuri Kovalchuk in the authorized capital of Rossiya Bank is 28.5%, at the same time he owns 30.3% of the shares. Other shareholders of the bank include Surgutneftegaz, Severgroup (formerly Severstal-Group), as well as Transoil CIS, associated, as already mentioned, with oil trader Gennady Timchenko.

From 2004 to 2008, Yuri Kovalchuk's bank, with the approval of President Putin's acquaintances in the leadership of the state-owned company Gazprom, received at an attractive cost the assets of the gas monopoly - the companies Sogaz, Leader, Gazprombank (this asset worth
Bank Rossiya received $25 billion under a cashless share exchange scheme, according to experts). All this allowed to raise the bank in the rating. The bank's net assets grew from 6.7 billion rubles. at the beginning of 2004 (70th place in Russia) to 231.7 billion rubles. as of October 1, 2010 (19th place in Russia)."

After 2008, Yury Kovalchuk's business assets grew significantly. Vladimir Putin could well rely on his partner in the Ozero cooperative to create the National Media Group. It includes REN-TV, Channel One, Channel Five, the Izvestia publishing house, the Russian News Service radio station, the St. Petersburg Vedomosti publication, and others. ” over Gazprombank (the owner of Gazprom-Media), the zone of influence of Yuri Kovalchuk begins to spread to such assets as NTV and TNT channels.

According to the Finance magazine, the fortune of banker Yuri Kovalchuk today is at least $1 billion 100 million (with an annual increase of $130 million).

The son of Yuri Kovalchuk is Boris (born 1977). In 1999–2006. 1999 - 1998 - Legal adviser at the Federal State Unitary Enterprise Central Research Institute "Granit" and CJSC "Granit-3", Executive Director of the non-profit partnership "Russian League of Honorary Consular Officials". Then - assistant to Dmitry Medvedev (then the first vice-premier of the government), then director of the department of the government apparatus of the Russian Federation for the implementation of priority national projects (2006-2008). In 2009, he moved to Rosatom, then was appointed Chairman of the Board of JSC INTER RAO UES (the largest energy holding company operating in the field of export-import of electricity), and is also the head of the Board of Directors of JSC OGK-15.

Yuri Kovalchuk's brother Mikhail is in the director's position at the Kurchatov Institute.

Nephew Kirill Kovalchuk (born 1968). In 2000, he worked at LLC "Public Relations Development Group" (direction "management of strategic communications"). Since 2003 - in Techsnabexport (the co-founder of Lake Vladimir Smirnov also worked there). For some time he was associated with the "Center for the Development of the Russian Language" by Lyudmila Putin. He was related to the companies IK "Green Cape" ("daughter" of "Rosdorkontrakt") and "IK Omega", which successfully bought up Moscow enterprises, after which retail and office complexes arose on free areas (see "New" dated 03/01/2007) . In 2007–2010 - on the board of directors of IC Abros (subsidiary of Bank Rossiya). According to media reports, Kirill Kovalchuk is also affiliated with Zheldorconsulting and Grand Service Express (the company owns the most expensive Grand Express passenger train hotel on the Moscow-St. Petersburg route, ticket prices here range from 5,800 to 30,000 rubles) .

Viktor Myachin. Together with colleagues in the physics and technical department A. Fursenko, V. Yakunin and Y. Kovalchuk, he became a co-founder of Rossiya Bank. In 1999 - Member of the Board of Directors of Astoria Hotel Complex OJSC. Until 2004 - the head of the company "Abros" - an asset of JSC "Joint-Stock Bank "Russia". By 2009, Viktor Myachin had sold shares in Rossiya Bank and invested in real estate projects. Currently, he receives a stable income from leasing several business centers in St. Petersburg, and is also involved in the restaurant and hotel business - the St. Petersburg network Andersen-Hotel. According to the Finance magazine, Viktor Myachin's fortune is now estimated at $60 million.

Daughter - Natalya Myachina, an employee of the Andersen Hotel group of companies.

Andrey Fursenko. From 1971 to 1991 he was a researcher at the Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute in Leningrad. In 1992 - a partner of Yuri Kovalchuk, manages the enterprises of JSC "Center for Advanced Technologies and Developments", "Regional Fund for Scientific and Technical Development of St. Petersburg" at the production electronic company "Svetlana". I have known Vladimir Putin since 1993, since the scientific and technical projects that Kovalchuk transformed into commercial structures received the support of the Committee on Foreign Relations (FAC). After Vladimir Putin becomes president, Andrey Fursenko is appointed CEO of the Venture Innovation Fund (VIF), established by the Russian government with the participation of the government of St. Petersburg. Until 2003, Fursenko was also a member of AB Rossiya - as a member of the Audit Commission. Since 2001 - in the Center for Strategic Research "North-West" (here - Yuri Kovalchuk, and in the Moscow head structure of this fund at that time - Dmitry Kozak, German Gref, Elvira Nabiullina). Soon Andrei Fursenko was appointed Deputy Minister of Industry, Science and Technology of the Russian Federation (then Ilya Klebanov), and in 2003 - Minister of the Department. With the beginning of the second presidential term of Vladimir Putin, Andrei Fursenko was appointed Minister of Education and Science in March 2004 (to the present). From 2004 to 2009 - on the Board of Directors of OAO Russian Electronics. According to the collection "Power 2010", the information and analytical project "Panorama", Andrey Fursenko "is a co-owner of a consulting company in Cologne."

Sergey Fursenko - manager, producer. President of the Russian Football Union and the National Media Group. Brother of the Minister of Education and Science Andrei Fursenko.

Since 1979, for about 10 years he has been engaged in scientific and technical research at the All-Union Research Institute of Radio Equipment in Leningrad. From the beginning of the 90s until 1996, he was a director in commercial structures - Technoexan (export of high technologies) and NPP TEMP (development and implementation of high technologies in the field of ecology). After the establishment of the dacha cooperative "Lake", the activities of Sergei Fursenko are already connected with energy resources and television. In 1997–1998 he is the deputy general director of JSC Lenenergo, and then, until 2002, the head of the Shkola Producer Center CJSC and Igor Shadkhan Workshop LLC (this director is known for making several films about Vladimir Putin). From 2002 to 2003, Sergey Fursenko was responsible for the transportation, storage and use of gas at OAO Gazprom, and then for five years he headed a subsidiary of the gas monopolist, OOO Lentransgaz. In parallel, from 2006 to 2008, he headed the Gazprom football club Zenit, later becoming president of the Russian Football Union. In the same year, he headed the asset of Rossiya Bank - the National Media Group. Sergey Fursenko is a well-known lobbyist for the idea of ​​“winter football in Russia”, and it is already planned to come up with and build a new grandiose infrastructure with stadiums, arenas, etc. to transfer football clubs to these conditions. In terms of scale - almost an additional national project.

Vadim Mozhaev is a former director of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Directorate of a single customer-developer of Roszdrav", a partner of Nikolai Shamalov in the companies "Rosmodulstroy" and "UK module". A year ago, Vadim Mozhaev was arrested on charges of fraud. Together with officials from the Control Department of the President and the Ministry of Health, he was detained in the course of a campaign to combat abuses in public procurement.

Igor Ballandovich is a St. Petersburg businessman whose area of ​​interest is real estate, construction and trade. Heads the construction company Baltinvest. In 2002, he was listed as the founder of several St. Petersburg firms: the Melodiya Music Center, ZAO RUSKOL, etc.

Vitaly Votolevsky is an entrepreneur, he began to deal with St. Petersburg real estate back in 1991. In 1996–2000 - Head of Sberbank-VMB-Invest LLC (the company sold and bought residential and office real estate in the Northern capital, including in partnership with Sberbank). From 2001 to 2006, Vitaly Votolevsky was the head of Peterburgstroy Skanska CJSC (co-founder of the Finnish company SKANSKA EAST EUROPE OY - 80% in 2010). The company's management worked in the construction and real estate market of St. Petersburg in the early 90s. By 2004, Peterburgstroy Skanska becomes the largest development company in the construction market of St. Petersburg. The annual turnover of the company by 2005 is $28.6 million. By this time, the regular customers of the company are, as indicated on the website about the company: the administration of St. Petersburg, the Main Directorate of the Central Bank for St. FSB department for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region, Gazprom structures, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Sberbank of Russia. Among others, a certain Znamenskaya company is also listed as a partner (given the “brotherhood” of Vladimir Smirnov and Vitaly Votolevsky in the Ozero dacha cooperative, we can talk about the Znamenskaya, which was described above. - Approx. ed.). 2004–2005 - Vitaly Votolevsky is already an adviser to the Governor of St. Petersburg Valentina Matvienko on investment in construction. By this time, he is closely collaborating with his colleague on the "Lake" Vladimir Yakunin. By 2005, he heads a subsidiary of Russian Railways - CJSC Zheldoripoteka. Since 2010, Votolevsky has been the CEO of Roszheldorproject OJSC (the largest Russian company engaged in commercial real estate, design and survey work, construction, overhaul, reconstruction of railway, industrial, socio-cultural, housing facilities, is a subsidiary of Russian Railways OJSC) . Among other things, Vitaly Votolevsky is an adviser to the head of Russian Railways, Vladimir Yakunin, on housing policy and real estate projects.

Sergey Orlov is an adviser to the presidents of the Russian Railways OJSC (Vladimir Yakunin) and TransCreditBank OJSC. Graduate of the Faculty of Law of St. Petersburg State University. Since 1995, he has been a member of the boards of directors of large Russian companies (CJSC Rosvagonmash Investment Group, JSC Russian Railways Trading House, JSC Ust-Luga Company, JSC United Electrotechnical Plants, JSC Transcreditbank, JSC " Zheldoripoteka, OJSC Lengiprotran, etc.). Since 2006 - on the board of the ANO "Center for Organizational Support of Structural Reform in Railway Transport" and on the board of the Russian Railways Pension Fund - NPF "Prosperity" (see about the fund above).

Sergey Prushchak is an economist, general director of FSUE "ROSTEK" (the largest state holding that provides the activities of the Federal Customs Service of the Russian Federation). In 1991–1996 worked in the Committee for Youth Affairs of the City Hall of St. Petersburg; 1997–2000 - Assistant to Deputy Prime Minister Ilya Klebanov. Since 2000 he has been the head of FSUE ROSTEK State Customs Committee. Since 2004, at the same time, Deputy General Director for Economics and Finance of the state-owned enterprise of the Russian aircraft manufacturing company RSK MiG.

Alexander Antonov is the current chairman of the Ozero dacha consumer cooperative. We have not yet found any outstanding business operations on a federal scale, characteristic of most of the co-founders of Ozero, in which Alexander Antonov would be noticeable. A similar story is with two other co-founders of the dacha cooperative, Olga Pershina and Andrey Levin. Could the presence of such persons in Ozero mean that the main founders are already happy with what they have, and they only need nominal directors? Perhaps, but if this is not the case and these people think otherwise, then they have the opportunity to respond to this publication, as well as other participants in the story.
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On one of the sites where Internet users can evaluate the quality of banks, we came across a review about the St. Petersburg bank Rossiya, whose owners left the Ozero dacha cooperative. A client who wanted to open a “Festive” deposit after the New Year, but lost two hours in the bank office, not having received, in his opinion, high-quality service, wrote: “There was an impression that they didn’t really need individuals.” A similar story, apparently, happened with the country.

The Ozero dacha consumer cooperative on the shores of Komsomolskoye Lake in the Priozersky District of the Leningrad Region was established in November 1996 by eight citizens: Vladimir Putin, Yuri Kovalchuk, Nikolai Shamalov, Viktor Myachin, Vladimir Smirnov, Vladimir Yakunin, and brothers Andrey and Sergey Fursenko.

Occupation by one of the members of the Ozero cooperative, Vladimir Putin, as President of the Russian Federation in 2000 led to the subsequent rapid enrichment of the Ozero founders. First of all, we are talking about Yuri Kovalchuk and Nikolai Shamalov, who are included in the list of Russian billionaires and control respectively 33.5% and 12.7% of the shares of the St. Petersburg Joint-Stock Commercial Bank (AKB) Rossiya.

At the beginning of V. Putin's rule, Rossiya Bank was a small bank with assets of less than 1 billion rubles, not even among the hundred largest Russian banks. However, subsequently, large financial and media assets that previously belonged to the state company Gazprom were transferred under the control of this bank by state decisions at undervalued prices. Boris Nemtsov and Vladimir Milov wrote in detail about these schemes in their reports “Putin. Results” and “Putin and Gazprom”. Here is a brief chronology of the withdrawal of Gazprom assets in favor of Rossiya Bank:

In 2004, Gazprom sold its subsidiary Gas Industry Insurance Company (Sogaz), one of the largest insurance companies in Russia, which ended up under the control of Rossiya Bank structures. A 50% stake in Sogaz was sold by Gazprom for $58 million, while Sogaz is currently valued at $2 billion, according to our estimates.

In August 2006, Sogaz, which already owned the Rossiya letterhead, bought 75% plus 1 share of the Leader company, which manages Gazprom's pension fund Gazfond.

Gazfond is the country's largest non-state pension fund, whose pension reserves today amount to almost 300 billion rubles.

The shares of Leader were sold to Sogaz by Gazfond itself, the amount of the transaction was only 880 million rubles, although according to the results of 2006, the net profit of Leader alone amounted to 1.2 billion rubles. By the time the Leader management company was bought, the owners of Rossiya Bank had already prepared to establish control over the pension fund: in 2005, Yuri Shamalov, the son of Nikolai Shamalov, a shareholder of Rossiya Bank and one of the founders of the Ozero cooperative, became the President of Gazfond ".

As a result, Shamalov Jr., as the head of Gazfond, sold the shares of the company that manages the country's largest non-state pension fund at a fantastically low price to the bank of his father, Shamalov Sr.

After establishing control over Gazfond, Bank Rossiya took control of Gazprombank, one of the largest banks in the country. OJSC Gazprom, instead of selling Gazprombank shares at a public auction for money, at the end of 2006 ceded them to Gazfond, controlled by Rossiya Bank, through a cashless share swap scheme, as a result of which, by April 2007, control over Gazprombank (50 % plus 1 share) was consolidated by Gazfond, controlled by Kovalchuk, Shamalov and Co. Gazprombank, whose market value, according to experts, reaches 25 billion dollars, has left Gazprom's control, while Gazprom has not received a penny of cash for a valuable asset.

In July 2005, the shares of the Gazprom-Media group and the NTV and TNT TV channels were transferred to Gazprombank, Gazprom only received only $ 166 million for these assets from Gazprombank. However, already 2 years later, after Gazprom-Media in As part of the assets of Gazprombank came under the control of Rossiya Bank, Deputy Prime Minister (at that time) Dmitry Medvedev announced the data of a new assessment of the value of the assets of Gazprom-Media - $ 7.5 billion. Based on this assessment, it turns out that Gazprom gave these assets 45 times cheaper than their real value. All these transactions were approved by the Gazprom Board of Directors, the majority of which in the 2000s was always owned by state representatives who directly received directives on voting for decisions made by the leadership of the government subordinate to V. Putin. The first of the transactions to transfer Gazprom's assets under the control of Rossiya Bank took place in the summer of 2004, just a few months after Mikhail Kasyanov's resignation from the post of Prime Minister of Russia.

As a result of these manipulations with the withdrawal of assets from the state company Gazprom under the control of JSCB Rossiya, the bank's net assets increased from 6.7 billion rubles. at the beginning of 2004 (70th place in Russia) to 231.7 billion rubles. as of October 1, 2010 (19th place in Russia).

The total volume of assets withdrawn from Gazprom (that is, transferred from state ownership to private ownership of Vladimir Putin's neighbors in the Ozero cooperative) is about $60 billion (or 1.68 trillion rubles - twice the deficit of the Pension Fund countries).

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These transactions contributed to the growth of material well-being not only of Vladimir Putin's partners in the Ozero dacha cooperative, but also of Putin's relatives.

In particular, another shareholder of Rossiya Bank, which owns 3.9% of the bank's shares through the St. Petersburg firm Akcept controlled by it, is Mikhail Shelomov, cousin-nephew of Vladimir Putin. Mikhail Shelomov is the grandson of Ivan Shelomov, former head of the 7th department of the 1st department of the GUPT NKVD of the USSR and the older brother of Maria Putina, mother of Vladimir Putin.

Shelomov through the firm "Accept" (he controls 99.99% of its shares) also owns 12.5% ​​of the shares of the insurance company "Sogaz", the same one that was withdrawn from Gazprom in 2004 without competition and at a low price.

In the same Sogaz insurance company, today one of the largest insurance companies in the country, he works as deputy chairman of the board Mikhail Putin, another cousin of Vladimir Putin. In 2004-2007, Mikhail Putin headed the medical department of OAO Gazprom, through which medical equipment was purchased for a hundred million dollars a year.

As a result of all government-sanctioned transactions to transfer Gazprom's assets under the control of JSCB Rossiya, the founders of the Ozero cooperative, Y. Kovalchuk and N. Shamalov, are now on the official list of Russian billionaires. In the rating of billionaires by the Finance magazine, published in February 2011, Y. Kovalchuk ranks 115th with a fortune of 30 billion rubles, N. Shamalov - 184th with a fortune of 18 billion rubles.

In the same list - other shareholders of JSCB "Rossiya" and part-time old acquaintances of Vladimir Putin. In particular, the 17th line in the ranking of billionaires with a fortune of 271 billion rubles. occupied by Gennady Timchenko, co-owner of the oil trader Gunvor, which will be discussed separately. Timchenko owns a 9.6% stake in Bank Rossiya and has also benefited directly from transactions to sell Gazprom's assets to the bank at discounted prices.

182nd line in the list of Russian billionaires according to the magazine "Finance" with a fortune of 18 billion rubles. occupied by another shareholder of Rossiya Bank, Dmitry Gorelov, who owns 12.7% of the bank's shares. D. Gorelov is the president of the Petromed holding, one of the founders in 1991 of AOZT / CJSC Petromed, among the co-founders of which was the Committee for Foreign Economic Relations of the St. Petersburg Mayor's Office under the leadership of Vladimir Putin.

The son of Dmitry Gorelov, Vasily, together with Nikolai Shamalov, is a co-owner of the Vyborg Shipyard, which in 2006, immediately after it was acquired by this group of owners, received a contract from Gazprom for the construction of two offshore platforms for the development of the Shtokman field worth 59 billion rubles. Prior to this, the plant had not had any serious orders for 10 years.

By the way, the youngest son of Nikolai Shamalov, Kirill Shamalov, is also “attached” (the eldest son, we recall, heads Gazfond) - he works as vice president of the Sibur petrochemical holding for “administrative business support” (in other words, for the use of administrative resources ), who was appointed at the age of 26, less than 4 years after graduating from St. Petersburg State University.

The Sibur oil and gas chemical holding belonged to Gazprombank, but at the end of December 2010, Gazprombank sold 50% of Sibur to Leonid Mikhelson, the head of Novatek, a large stake in which belongs to the already mentioned Gennady Timchenko, a shareholder of Rossiya Bank. During 2011, as planned, Gazprombank will completely cede control over Sibur (100% of the shares) to the head of Novatek.

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Other founders of the Ozero dacha cooperative, after Vladimir Putin came to power, also took senior positions in federal authorities and state-controlled companies:

Vladimir Yakunin in 2000, he was appointed Deputy Minister of Transport, later 1st Deputy Minister of Railways, since 2003 - 1st Vice President of Russian Railways OJSC, and since June 2005 he has been head of Russian Railways OJSC, whose annual revenue is 2010 approached 2 trillion rubles.

Vladimir Smirnov in May 2000, he was appointed General Director of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Enterprise for the supply of products of the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation", and in 2002-2007 he headed OAO Techsnabexport, an enterprise of Minatom. It is one of the world's largest suppliers of goods and services in the nuclear fuel cycle, providing uranium enrichment services to about 40% of the world market. In 2007, Smirnov moved to the position of advisor to the director of the Atomenergoprom concern.

Vladimir Smirnov in his activities was closely associated with the well-known "authoritative" businessman Vladimir Barsukov (Kumarin), who is now in prison. In 1994, V. Smirnov headed the St. Petersburg branch of the German company SPAG, while Kumarin was a member of the board of this branch. In 1999, SPAG was accused by the German intelligence agency BND of money laundering, both for Russian criminal groups and Colombian drug dealers - SPAG director Rudolf Ritter was arrested in 2000. In 1996-2001. V. Smirnov - in senior positions in CJSC Petersburg Fuel Company (PTK). In the same years, Kumarin-Barsukov, who actually controlled the company, was the vice president of PTK. The security agency Reef-Security, controlled by Kumarin-Barsukov and V. Smirnov, guarded the Ozero dacha cooperative.

Sergey Fursenko, in 2003-2008 he worked as the director of Lentransgaz, one of the largest subsidiaries of Gazprom (revenue in 2008 - almost 50 billion rubles), since 2008 he headed the National Media Group controlled by Rossiya Bank ( NMG), which includes the REN-TV Channel Five and the Izvestia newspaper, and since the end of 2010 - 25% of the First Channel of Russian TV acquired from Roman Abramovich. In addition, S. Fursenko became the head of the Russian Football Union.

Andrey Fursenko in 2001–2003 - Deputy Minister, 1st Deputy Minister, Acting Minister of Industry, Science and Technology, since 2004 - Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation (this ministry administers federal budget expenditures on education and science for civil purposes, which in 2011 will amount to almost 800 billion rubles).

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Rossiya Bank, unheard of enriched as a result of the state's generous assignment of Gazprom's assets, is thus in fact a "family enterprise" of the founders of the Ozero cooperative: more than 50% of the bank's shares are owned by Y. Kovalchuk, N. Shamalov and Putin's relative M. Shelomov , their relatives work in high-ranking positions in the bank's structures - Shamalov's son heads the Gazfond pension fund, Putin's relatives own shares in the Sogaz insurance company and occupy high-ranking positions in it.

The world-famous Ozero cooperative was established in November 1996. Putin and seven of his friends decided to build dachas next door, on the shores of Lake Komsomolskoye near St. Petersburg.

In 2016, this amazing (new) formation turns 20 years old. And this is no longer a dacha cooperative, but a world-class organized crime group. In the fairy tale “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”, the gnomes mined gold and precious stones, and Snow White sat at home, washed, cleaned, cooked. In the "Lake" the gnomes stole, killed, sawed the budget, and Putin protected them from the side of the authorities. And portrayed Snow White on TV.

1. President of the Russian Federation Putin Mikhal Ivanych.

Five of the seven friends with whom Putin settled in the "Ozero" are businessmen, who can be called the "PTI group" - all of them in 1990-91. engaged in business at the Physico-Technical Institute. Ioffe. These are Yakunin, Kovalchuk, brothers Fursenko and Myachin. Of these, only one is a Chekist (Yakunin), the rest are former physicists. Type intelligence.

The FTI was the flagship of Soviet science. In the early 90s, with the blessing of director Zhores Alferov, five businessmen from the future "Ozero" created a group of firms and joint ventures (joint ventures with foreigners) at the institute. They were mainly engaged in trade - computers, scientific instruments, etc. True, at the FTI they were just starting out, then they spun up and began to work independently. But all the same warm company.

The building of the Institute of Physics and Technology at Polytechnic, 26.

Putin met these guys in 1991. They helped him pull off two of his very first scams, which later played an important role in the biography of the future president of the Russian Federation. This is the Raw Materials for Food scam and the takeover of Rossiya Bank (formerly owned by the CPSU). This gave Putin both the first big money and a place to store it. These same five friends formed the backbone of the new (already Putin's) shareholders of Rossiya Bank.

So, five of Putin's seven friends, with whom he established Ozero, are the FTI group, which is also Rossiya Bank. The two remaining summer residents are Vladimir Smirnov and Nikolai Shamalov. By the way, also intelligentsia. Smirnov in Soviet times was a researcher at LIAP (Leningrad Institute of Aviation Instrumentation), a laureate of the State Prize, and Shamalov was a dentist. Both then went into business.

If it can be called commerce, of course... One of them had his entire business connected with the Tambov organized crime group, the other with kickbacks to Putin from the supply of German medical equipment for the city.

Smirnov in the 90s. was essentially a deputy. head of the Tambov organized crime group in economics. The leader of this organized crime group, the largest in the city, was his friend and business partner Vladimir Kumarin (Kum). What they just did not stir up together. And money was washed with cocaine (SPAG company), and real estate was squeezed out, and the gasoline market in the city was seized (Petersburg Fuel Company). And in the latter case - after a series of showdowns with the use of all types of weapons. Everyone who stood in the way of Smirnov and Kuma to the PTK went straight to the cemetery.

Smirnov and Kum in their best years.

As for Nikolai Shamalov, he spent the entire 90s modestly sitting at the Siemens office in St. Petersburg. Sold equipment to city hospitals. Not forgetting to bring good kickbacks to the mayor's office for choosing the right supplier. On the basis of which he met Putin and was awarded a place in the Lake cooperative.

And in the 2000s, Shamalov also began working for Putin as a cellist. All sorts of offshore companies with billions in turnover, shares in banks and enterprises were also recorded on it. But at the same time, unlike Roldugin, he also carried out household assignments: he supervised the construction of the palace near Gelendzhik, bought furniture there, looked after the elite vineyards. Shamalov actively attracted his sons to his business. The elder Yuri became the head of the Gazfond (the pension money of Gazprom employees, which Putin and the Rossiya bank actually privatized).

"Lake" is not without reason compared with an organized criminal group. There are Tambov, there are Solntsevo, and there are lake ones. Everything is similar here: the ringleader, sixes, specialization - who controls what and from what money collects. And there is a common fund (its own bank), and clicks even for communicating with each other.

In the 2000s two defectors from the inner circle of the Kremlin fled to the West: Dmitry Skarga and Sergei Kolesnikov. Both provided Putin with household services. Skarga (former director of Sovcomflot) in 2002 ferried the super-yacht Olympia from Europe to Sochi (Abramovich's bribe to Putin). Kolesnikov (vice-president of the Petromed company), together with Shamalov, helped build a palace near Gelendzhik.

Once in the West, Skarga and Kolesnikov spoke about the customs prevailing in the Kremlin. Both of them, in particular, gave interviews for the sensational BBC film "Putin's Secret Riches", which was released at the end of 2015.

According to Skarga and Kolesnikov, Putin among his entourage has the nickname “Mikhal Ivanych” (chief in the “Diamond Hand”) and is a real godfather. The rest are all no more than sixes, even those who are on the Forbes lists. So, Timchenko (like a billionaire) admitted to Skarga in private conversations that all his actions are "controlled by Mikhal Ivanych." Those. he is a purely nominal oligarch.

And Kolesnikov, who worked with Shamalov, once decided to challenge some order of Mikhail Ivanovich. Decided to put in my 5 cents. In response, Shamalov laid siege to him: “He is the king, you are a serf! Your work is a slave - to fulfill!

By the way, the serf Shamalov was included in the Forbes list in 2011. And the serf son Kirill was married to the tsar's daughter in 2013, now it is a single clan of Putin-Shamalovs.

Beautiful couple, by the way. Putin has grandchildren, which will be necessary.

And here he is. Meet the king.

2.Bank-common fund

In August 1991, the GKChP coup took place in the USSR. After its failure, the former ruling party, the CPSU, was banned. At the same time, in St. Petersburg, this party had its own bank - Rossiya Bank. Its main owner was the Leningrad regional committee of the CPSU. When the CPSU was banned, the bank's activities were suspended.

In September 1991, Sobchak laid eyes on him. He issued an order to reform the bank: to select new founders for it (investors, preferably foreign ones) and create there the "Fund for Stabilizing the Economy of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region." This task was entrusted to Putin - Sobchak's deputy and head of the Committee on Foreign Relations (FAC) at the mayor's office.

The briefcase was heavy, I had to carry a lot.

Sobchak's order about the Rossiya bank was, in general, a Klondike. A bank with a license and the rest of the party money was lying on the road. Its former owners from the regional committee of the CPSU were in a hopeless situation. The question was who would go to the bank instead of them. Who gets there first. And it turned out to be businessmen from the “PTI group”.

Under the FAC, Putin had an Association of Joint Ventures. Yakunin and Kovalchuk actively hung out there. Putin contacted them, they mobilized their connections and bought the bank for themselves.

Of course, no "Economic Stabilization Fund" was created. But at the end of 1991, the five Yakunin, Kovalchuk, the brothers Fursenko and Myachin became (through firms controlled by them) the new owners of Rossiya Bank. Since then, for 25 years now, this bank has been a common wallet (of them and Putin). Or rather, in common.

In the 2000s, huge assets were collected in AB Rossiya. Sogaz, Sibur, Gazprombank, Gazprom-Media, everything that Mikhal Ivanovich dragged from Gazprom, from the budget, everything was registered with the bank and its structures.

The headquarters of AB "Russia" on the square. Rastrelli in Petersburg:

By the way, Roldugin's offshore companies were controlled from this building. All instructions to Panama about the $2 billion he was saving up for instruments for the orchestra (according to Putin) came from AB Rossiya.

Yury Kovalchuk has been in charge of the bank for many years, he (nominally) also has the largest block of shares. Kovalchuk - former physicist, laureate of the USSR State Prize, professor, nickname - "Slanting". Professor Yura Kosoi is now an oligarch and media mogul (owner of Channel One, Channel Five, NTV, Ren-TV, etc.). In 2014, the bank and personally Kosoy were sanctioned. In a US Treasury statement, Kovalchuk was described as Putin's "personal teller".

oblique. The keeper of the obshchak and the master of the TV.

On March 23, 2014, immediately after the imposition of sanctions, cashier Kovalchuk gave an interview to Dmitry Kiselev. He spoke about his love for Putin; about the fact that he has $15 billion worth of assets in the bank; and for some reason - about patriotism. Not a word about where the 15 billion came from in the bank, and whose they really are.

But that's nothing. Here is his neighbor on the "Lake" Yakunin in the 2000s. generally became the ideologist of patriotism. In August 2015, Yakunin wrote in his article "Globalization and Capitalism":

“It can be said that the ruling elite of the United States made a big mistake by placing the messianic conviction at the basis of the doctrine of globalization that they were appointed by the Lord to rule the world. As soon as the USSR disappeared, which periodically brought it to its senses, this "hegemon" in world politics broke so much firewood that, in fact, the masses of people perceive the United States as a rogue state.

In Soviet times, Yakunin was the head of the foreign department at the FTI (there was such a GB position in Soviet universities). Then the Lord appointed him head of Russian Railways. Now he is nostalgic for the USSR, which "brought to life" America. I would continue the topic. If in the USSR the head of the railways (then it was called the Ministry of Railways) built a villa with a fur coat storage, he would also be brought to his senses. Bullet in the back of the head. For theft in especially large ones at the same time there was a tower.

The main thing is that America does not capture us, you understand, right?

But back to the bank "Russia". From the "PTI group" there was also Viktor Myachin, also a former physicist and summer resident from the "Ozero". For many years he was a top manager and shareholder of the bank. But in 2009 he sold his share, bought various real estate in St. Petersburg and ... retired.

Although Myachin is the youngest of the lakes (born 1961), he has been leading the life of a retired oligarch for many years, not knowing what to do with himself. Either he crosses Greenland on snowmobiles, or he hunts rare sheep in Kyrgyzstan. Such Abramovich in miniature. Having nothing to do, he even began to play hockey in amateur tournaments.

Two more shareholders of Rossiya Bank from 1991 are the Fursenko brothers - Andrey and Sergey. Also lake brothers. The brothers did not achieve much success in business, but they proved themselves in other areas. Andrey Fursenko, a former professor at the FTI, has been hanging out in the government since 2000: either as a minister, or as a deputy. Minister, now - Putin's assistant for science and education. It is Fursenko who is the author of the Skolkovo project and the whole idea of ​​nanotechnology. Well, we can go no further, I think.

The two main nanotechnologists of the country. Andrey Fursenko - on the left.

As for Andrei Fursenko's brother, Sergei, he is also a former physicist. At first he worked at Gazprom (the head of Lentransgaz), but then he got tired of it, and he went to the football part. Taxied by FC Zenit, then by the RFU. After another failure of the national team, he was removed from there. Now in the Presidential Council for Physical Education and Sports.

Of course, I foresee the question. Well, it turns out that in the Ozero cooperative there are a bunch of former scientists, two professors, winners of prizes. And suddenly: there was Professor Kovalchuk, and now there is Yura "Kosoy", the holder of the obshchak. How so?

Who is surprised, I propose to look at this man with a poster:

Also a doctor of sciences (at 38), laureate of the Lenin Komsomol Prize for scientific achievements. And then he went into commerce and that's it - he became "Birch". And this poster he has, addressed to Putin (“I gave birth to you ...”), it is not so far from the truth:

Ironically, the conflict between Putin and Berezovsky began in 2000, when Putin took a controlling stake in ORT (Channel One) from him. Now Channel One is owned by Kovalchuk. Birch was replaced by Oblique. This is the main meaning of the reign of Michal Ivanych.

3. "Russian video". Side branch of Putin's mafia.

Speaking about the buyout of Rossiya Bank by the "PTI group" in 1991, one important detail should be kept in mind. The fact is that the communists (regional committee) were not the sole owners of the bank. They had simply the largest share (48%). The second large stake (42%) belonged to the Russian Video film studio, and another 10% were owned by small shareholders (Rus insurance company, Krasnoselskaya fur factory).

Of these former owners of the bank, only the regional committee of the CPSU in 1991 was in a stalemate. They had no choice but to give their share to those to whom the mayor's office indicated (Sobchak and Putin). The rest had no such problems.

Nevertheless, the "PTI group" took both the share of the regional committee and the share of the film studio. Small shareholders gave up their shares later. That is, Putin somehow agreed with the people from the "Russian Video" amicably. What were these people? - Pretty interesting characters. Putin collaborated with them not only in the 1991 buyout of the bank, but for many years afterwards. True, he prefers to keep quiet about what kind of cooperation it was.

This is the Soviet Screen magazine, No. 23, 1988.

There is a small note in the magazine: “Russian video” is starting.” It contains a story about a new company that has just been created under the Videofilm state association:

“Glorious news comes from Leningrad. The traditional rock festival, which took place in June this year, was completely filmed by the recently organized studio "Russian Video" (by order of the All-Union Production and Creative Association "Videofilm"), and now the editing of this material is underway (...) Commanded by Dmitry Rozhdestvensky - artistic director and chief director of Russian Video.

The founders of the company "Russian Video" were two childhood friends, former classmates - Dmitry Rozhdestvensky and Vladislav Reznik.

Rozhdestvensky - musician, director. Reznik is a former athlete, stuntman at Lenfilm. And besides - a mafioso, a close friend of the authorities Ilya Traber (Antiquarian) and Gennady Petrov (Gena Petrov) from the so-called. Tambov-Malyshev OPG. It took shape in the late 1980s. In 1989, they were divided into Tambov and Malyshev, of which the former later gained special fame, in fact becoming the largest gang in the city.

These are the friends that were (and are) the founder of Russian Video, Vladislav Reznik. And for the last 15 years, under Putin, Reznik has been a State Duma deputy of all convocations (from United Russia, of course). Since 2016, Deputy Reznik, along with Traber and Gena Petrov, has been wanted by Interpol in the case of the “Russian mafia” in Spain.

June 2008, Spain. The arrest of Gena Petrov by the Spanish police.

Well, in 1990, Russian Video, together with the regional committee of the CPSU, established the Rossiya Bank. Reznik in 1990-91 was in this bank deputy. chairman of the board. It turned out such a joint bank of the CPSU and the mafia. Since 1992, when Russian Video withdrew from the bank's shareholders, Reznik and Rozhdestvensky each went their own way. Reznik began to develop the insurance business, left for Moscow, was a top manager of Rossgosstrakh in the 90s. After an unsuccessful attempt to privatize it, he went into politics.

Deputy Reznik in the Duma.

As for Rozhdestvensky or "Dim Dimych", as he was called, he remained in the "Russian Video". But only the “Russian Video” itself has changed a lot. On its basis, a dozen and a half private firms with the same name were created, which were engaged in various types of activities (legal and illegal). Those. Russian Video has turned into a diversified concern.

The leadership has also changed. Now Rozhdestvensky managed everything in tandem with a certain Vladimir Grunin, a retired KGB colonel who oversaw the illegal part.

Russian Video is the dashing 90s in all its glory. Whatever they were doing. Here and cinema (including video piracy), and a casino. And his own TV channel - the 11th channel in St. Petersburg, now TNT. And smuggling - they had a naval base in Lomonosov on lease, where all the cargo went without customs. And more drugs, and cashed out with a cut of budget funds.

This is a well-known St. Petersburg journalist and political scientist Dmitry Zapolsky, who in the 90s worked on the Russian Video TV channel (hosted the author's program).

Dmitry knew the leadership of Russian Video well, as well as Putin, Sobchak, and many criminal leaders of the city. In an interview with Russian Monitor in 2015, Zapolsky recalled:

“In the 1990s, Putin oversaw the port of Lomonosov, it was a military base, where he had “his” admiral. And through this hole hundreds, and maybe thousands of tons of cargo were imported and exported daily without any registration. There were no customs, no border guards, no counterintelligence. Funny! Cocaine in St. Petersburg was like toothpowder. Generally everywhere. Even in Smolny, especially smart guys (...)

The port of Lomonosov itself formally belonged to the Russian Video company, which was controlled, on the one hand, by Kumarin, but was led by Mikhail Mirilashvili. The head of the company, Dmitry Rozhdestvensky, maintained warm relations with Putin, Chubais, and Narusova».

Naval base in Lomonosov on the outskirts of the Great Port of St. Petersburg. In the 90s - the main hole in the sea border of Russia:

Putin's "own admiral" in Lomonosov is Vladimir Grishanov, commander of the Leningrad naval base in 1993-95. It was he who leased the port of Lomonosov to the bandits.

Admiral Grishanov. Commander of the Naval Forces of the Tambov organized criminal group.

Kumarin and Mirilashvili, who controlled Russian Video and the port of Lomonosov, are Kum and Misha Kutaissky, respectively, the leaders of the two largest organized crime groups in the city. The backbone of the Kuma gang was made up of athletes, the gangs of Misha Kutaisi were people from the village of Kulashi in western Georgia (the place of compact residence of Georgian Jews). Mirilashvili's father was a major guild worker in Soviet times. Such an old mafia dynasty.

Mikhail Mirilashvili in the 90s was the president (head of the Board of Directors) of Russian Video. Dim Dimych Rozhdestvensky (General Director) provided current management. Colonel Grunin looked after him. That's how they worked.

October 2015 Delegation of the Russian Jewish Congress in Israel. Prime Minister Netanyahu embraces Misha Kutaisi (far left).

Roof "Russian video" it was not only bandits. Driving smuggling (including cocaine) through the naval base is not an easy task. Therefore, the bandits were supervised by Putin. He did this through his friend and trusted person in the criminal world - Roma Tsepov (aka Roma Producer).

Roma Tsepov:

Roma Tsepov, a former officer of the VV, was the leader of his own "Cop gang" (that was the name of the brigades from among the former policemen, security officers, VV officers, etc.). Roma knew both the main gangsters in Russian Video (both Kuma and Misha) well, and it was more convenient for Putin to work through him.

In fact, Russian Video had a so-called. "striped roof": bandits and cops / security officers in one bottle:

It remains to be added that in the early 90s Roma Tsepov cobbled together his gang together with the Chekist Zolotov (Sobchak's bodyguard, in the 2000s Putin's head of security). Now, as you know, Zolotov has a new important job - the National Guard of the Russian Federation. Such a striped cop gang for 400 thousand people.

In general, Petersburg is the birthplace of striped roofs. This is where they first appeared. Putin and Zolotov are the living embodiment of this phenomenon.

The photo below was taken in New York in August 2000. All the Chekists are here (from left to right): Zolotov (Putin's head of security), Murov (director of the FSO), Kutafin and Tretyakov (SVR residents in the USA).

Tretyakov was already working for the CIA. Soon he will become a defector. Based on conversations with him, journalist Peter Erli will write a book (“Comrade Zh”). It contains this interesting passage:

“When, in 2000, Zolotov (the leader’s guard) arrived in New York with a company, to ensure the security of the president’s visit, they were accompanied by the head of the Foreign Intelligence Service in this city, Tretyakov, and, one evening, the company went to a restaurant on Brighton Beach . There, Zolotov, according to Tretyakov, began to show off his hand-to-hand fighting skills - and, for no apparent reason, suddenly, with a flourish, hit Tretyakov in the forehead with his fist. Tretyakov flew off his chair to the floor and lost consciousness for a few seconds. Murov (head of the FSO) burst into swearing at Zolotov: “You could have killed him!” Zolotov apologized. After the visit, Tretyakov remembered the words of Deputy Murov about his boss and Zolotov - “Yes, they are all ordinary bandits there ...”

Firm "Zolotov, Kadyrov and sons". Bandits in the service of the bandit regime.

Returning to Russian Video, it is worth noting that the audience there was more colorful than just one-celled criminals like Zolotov. Both heads of the company (both Rozhdestvensky and Grunin) were seriously fond of medieval mysticism. They established their own knightly order (“The Sovereign Order of St. John of Jerusalem”), declaring it a division of the Order of Malta in the Russian Federation. After that, they accepted each other into the “Knights of Malta”: Rozhdestvensky became the “grand prior” of the order, and Grunin became his deputy.

The Russian Video mansion on Kamenny Island was hung with symbols of all kinds of secret brotherhoods, from the Maltese to the Freemasons, under which gentlemen knights sat and resolved issues of cashing and cocaine.

Dmitry Rozhdestvensky (far left, with a glass) in the company of influential politicians of that time.

Grand Prior Dim Dimych, according to Zapolsky's memoirs, liked to drink and was constantly drunk at work. His deputy, the Knight of Malta Grunin, Zapolsky describes as "a modest little man with a triangular belly," who in the KGB was engaged in "planning active operations." Active KGB operations are all sorts of dark things that Soviet intelligence did on the territory of foreign countries: assassinations, support for terrorists, disinformation stuffing.

According to Zapolsky, Colonel Grunin, having left the KGB, did not leave the profession. Those. worked on assassination orders. For many years, Russian Video has seen a series of strange deaths of employees associated with various illegal operations. Zapolsky counted 14 such corpses in Russian Video.

Suddenly, a completely healthy person had an asthma attack, another had a heart attack, a third had fainting while driving. When the tax police came to Russian Video in 1998 with a check, the chief accountant died abruptly. Suddenly, I fell ill with no clear reason, and even the doctors of the Military Medical Academy could not determine what the matter was. Yes, in fact, the founder and director of Russian Video, Dim Dimych, did not live long - he died at the age of 48 from a heart attack in 2002.

Rozhdestvensky's grave in St. Petersburg. A monument in the form of a piano (because a musician), a Catholic cross (because a knight of Malta), an Orthodox priest with a censer. Everything is as it should be.

In general, contract killings in gangster Petersburg with the use of SVR and GRU specialists is a separate issue. Every serious organized crime group has its own killer brigade. There was one in the "Lake", from the former Spartazov, military saboteurs.

This Putin brigade of killers was the first to come up with the idea of ​​blowing up hexogen in residential buildings. In October 1998, Dmitry Filippov, one of the richest businessmen in the city, was killed this way. He sponsored the opposition to Yeltsin, was a friend of Seleznev, the then speaker of the State Duma from the KRPF. Possessing extensive information about the St. Petersburg criminal cases, Filippov helped the investigation of the Prosecutor General against Sobchak and his team, which had been going on since 1996. His activity also threatened Putin, who since July 1998 took over as director of the FSB.

Filippov, apparently, was expecting an assassination attempt, he went with serious guards. But the professionals did it. Hexogen was laid in the ceiling of the entrance to his house and blown up by radio signal when he entered it.

The murder was attributed to the Shutov (Titych) gang, with whom Putin and Sobchak also had long-standing scores. They killed two birds with one stone, in short. This, by the way, is "planning of active operations." Not just to kill, but to translate arrows. True, Shutov and his criminals had no motive for committing such a crime. But these are all trifles.

And a year after that, before the elections, hexogen began to explode in Moscow ...

After 2000, the organized crime group expanded in breadth and depth. Now Putin has no shortage of killers. There is a private army of Kadyrov-Zolotov (battalions "North", "South"). But it's true, bastards. Putin also has a more serious private army - Wagner PMC (Wagner Private Military Company). It is based in St. Petersburg. In 2015-16 these mercenaries became famous in the rear of the DPR-LPR, where they killed objectionable field commanders, Cossacks.

Wagner is the pseudonym of their commander, Spetsnaz Lieutenant Colonel Dmitry Utkin. It so happened that in his views Utkin is a Nazi and a fan of the Third Reich, hence the "Wagner" (the composer who sang "Aryan" pagan mysticism). Wagners and Kadyrovtsy are private armies of the times of developed Putinism. These are no longer the killer brigades from the 90s. This is a new step.

In general, in a developed mafia state, private armies are normal. For example, in Colombia, the mafia also has its own armies. The Cali cartel had a private army, Los Pepes, in the 90s. She fought with the PMCs of the Medellin cartel. For what? - For the right to supply cocaine to the port of Lomonosov as well. Why is Putin's organized crime group worse than Medellin? - Yes, she is cooler!

4. Raw materials in exchange for theft

On April 25, 2005, in the Kremlin's Marble Hall, Mikhal Ivanych gave a speech to the Federal Assembly:

In it he said, in part:

“The collapse of the Soviet Union was the biggest geopolitical catastrophe of the century. For the Russian people, it has become a real drama ... "

Well, and further there, how the Russian people suffered during the collapse of the USSR, how they became impoverished, how “oligarchic groups”, acting for their own selfish purposes, robbed them, etc. The speech was interrupted by applause 26 times. Deputy Reznik from the Malyshevskaya organized crime group gave a standing ovation (just kidding).

Everything is fine, but there is a legitimate question: what did Mikhail Ivanovich himself do at the turn of 1991-92, when the USSR collapsed? Probably, he didn’t sleep at night, he was worried. Such a disaster all around! I propose to take a closer look at the affairs of the vice-mayor of St. Petersburg Putin in the winter of 1991-92.

At the end of 1991, this man was passing through St. Petersburg:

This is American photographer Dick Arnold. Former military pilot, Vietnam War veteran. In that war, the Americans fought with North Vietnam, and in fact - with the USSR, which stood behind it. It was a "hot" episode of the long-term Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States.

Dick Arnold came to St. Petersburg when the Cold War was coming to an end. The USSR lived out its last days. Arnold walked around the city, filmed the lines for bread, the downcast faces of the vanquished, the devastation. About how Soviet photojournalists walked around Berlin in May 1945.

He called this photo: “All day in line” (all day in line).

But his most striking impression was this woman (second from right), whom he saw in line for bread.

Many years later, Dick Arnold said that he remembered this look for the rest of his life:

Yeah. A man stood (was forced to stand!) in line for food. 46 years after the war in the USSR, in Leningrad, there was again nothing to eat. The queue was a humiliation. And then there's the foreign photographer. The woman struggled to maintain her dignity in this, in general, shameful situation. "If looks could kill, she would have killed me" Arnold recalled.

Then he tried to go into the store to take pictures of the people and the empty shelves inside. He was nearly beaten. “I was forced to flee,” he says.

This could very well be. In 1990-91. in the USSR, people in queues often lost their human appearance, fights and aggression broke out. A foreigner from a well-fed America who came to take pictures, like an excursion to a zoo or a cabinet of curiosities, could fall under a hot hand.

Leningrad, November 1990. Wine shop near Five Corners.

The disappearance of lines for bread and vodka in Russia after 1991 is the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century. We all mourn that great era.

The agony of the USSR ended on December 25, 1991. Around seven in the evening, Gorbachev announced his resignation, and half an hour later two tipsy workers from the Kremlin's servants climbed onto the roof of the Grand Kremlin Palace and removed the red flag. There were no honors or ceremonies. Truly an inglorious end.

The end of the USSR did not cause any emotions in anyone. The people were muzzled with queues, poverty, a mess. The former government was completely bankrupt.

Well, something like this, yes:

And only Mikhal Ivanovich did not sleep that night. Sobbed. A catastrophe, terrible, geopolitical, was coming and forcing him to act before it was too late. As early as December 4, 1991, he wrote a letter to Moscow, to the government, with business proposals.

It is clear from Putin's letter to Moscow that he is eager to save his native city from starvation. There are heaps of raw materials in warehouses in the Leningrad Region, he writes. Oil products, metals, timber. Do not waste good. Let's push it all abroad. And I will spend the money on buying food for the city. Promise! But most importantly, give me the right to issue export licenses myself.

As soon as Moscow gave the go-ahead, Putin immediately developed a frantic activity. He put together a group of specially selected people (friends, colleagues in the KGB, classmates at the university) and began to issue them licenses to export raw materials. Some were carrying oil products, others - aluminum, others - rare metals, timber, etc.

True, the firms to which he gave licenses were somehow strange. Or in general, the left, which then simply could not find (and the money too). Or they seem to be normal, but with such prices in contracts that raw materials were sold almost for nothing. For example, rare metals were exported by an office called "Jikop". Below is an expert assessment of the prices for metals in the contract with her, which was made later by the deputy commission of the Petrosoviet (the so-called Salie commission):

Niobium - the price is underestimated by 7 times, cerium - by 10 times, scandium - by 2000 times. Why did Putin and his PIC sign contracts on such strange terms? - To steal money. Together with especially close businessmen, of course.

By the way, "Jikop" is the company of Putin's classmate at Leningrad State University Ilham Ragimov from Azerbaijan. Now, as usual, he is a billionaire, co-owner of the largest Moscow markets and hotels. And it all started with scandium.

Interestingly, the licenses for "Jicop" and all the rest were issued by Putin's FAC for a rather narrow period of time: from 12/20/1991 to 01/13/1992. It can be said that Putin did not rest during those New Year holidays. Rushed to make money on "the biggest geopolitical catastrophe of the century".

Below is the very first license of Putin's FAC dated 12/20/1991. It was given to the Nevsky Dom company for the export of 150,000 tons of oil products to England for a total of $ 32 million:

As can be seen from the license, the refinery in Kirishi (Leningrad region) was the producer of petroleum products. At that time, Gennady Timchenko was in charge of export there. An experienced person in foreign trade, a Chekist, a friend of Mikhal Ivanych. But go ahead: it was not the plant itself that sent 150,000 oil products to England, but an unknown intermediary company. Documents from her were signed by certain Witenberg and Rusakov.

In 2008, when Timchenko was already a dollar billionaire, the Financial Times wrote about these deliveries through Nevsky Dom. Timchenko was indignant, made a refutation:

“The article says that I owned a company that “received a large export quota in Putin’s scandalous oil-for-food scheme.” I repeat - not me. The company that received the quota was, again, the state-owned Kirishineftekhimexport, of which I was an employee. I did not participate in this scheme. I don't remember any scandal. As far as I remember, the company delivered the food as promised.”

Chekist Timchenko has something with his memory. At the beginning of 1992, Marina Salier's commission found out that the Kirishi diesel fuel and gasoline went abroad, but not through Kirishineftekhimexport (the official exporter at the plant), but through the left-handed company Nevsky Dom. Neither she nor the money was ever seen again. To whom Vova Putin gave the right to export oil products was not clear. Without the help of the investigating authorities in any case.

Chekist Gena Timchenko, nicknamed "Gangrene". In Putin's team since 1991.

We must pay tribute to the abilities of Michal Ivanych. The scam went well. Putin and his companions stole about 100 million dollars. Yes, but... after all, it was a half-starved city where people stood in lines for bread.

The question arises: in that situation in December 1991, who behaved more worthily - a simple woman in line in front of the lens of a foreign photographer or the KGB marauder Putin, who tried to rob her in the end?

And what is most ridiculous, then this same KGB marauder also began to tell her on TV about the "major geopolitical catastrophe." On which he made the biggest loot. Bad situation, yes. This morality is called Chekism.

By the way, the guys from the future “Lake” also participated in that Raw Materials in Exchange for Food scam. In July 2001, Italian journalists published in the Reppublika newspaper a major investigation into Putin's affairs in the 1990s. Including the scam with raw materials. So, the Nevsky Dom company, which exported oil products and disappeared, according to the Italians, was controlled by Vladimir Smirnov from Ozero.

Other future summer residents were also noticed in this scam, namely the company NPP Quark (aka Stream Corporation since 1992). NPP Quark is Yakunin, Kosoy and the whole company. These guys helped with the export of aluminum and other metals. Like it or not, the Lakers started out as a gang of marauders. But why did you start? - They have remained so.

During the collapse of the USSR, Putin was an ordinary marauder, in the 90s - an ordinary bandit, after 2000 - an ordinary dictator of the Third World. And his lake lads followed him. The time will come, and a monument will be erected to this era. I even know which one. It will be Dzerzhinsky. With cello.

Original taken from navalny from the Ozero dacha cooperative to the Sosny dacha cooperative

What do you see in this photo?
If you see only a river, dachas, forest edges and mushroom clearings on it, then take a closer look.

Over there, right in the center of the photo, you see the perfect explanation of why the Toad_on_Pipe political regime is so vehemently refusing to ratify Article 20. The UN Convention on Combating Corruption reacts so painfully to attempts to introduce an article "illicit enrichment" into the Criminal Code.

If these measures were implemented, then this photo would bring big problems to some guys in the Kremlin and United Russia.

I explain in more detail and I am sure you will like this story.

This is the village of Leshkovo, Istra district, Moscow region. It is there that these wonderful rich palaces stand,

Now about each section separately. In the order, so to speak, of increasing interest.

One of them belongs to a "simple miner" and Secretary of the General Council of the "United Russia" party Sergei Neverov.

A question for everyone: can we believe for a second that an apartment of 67 meters in Novokuznetsk is comparable in cost to a huge plot on the banks of the Moskva River and a house that is probably twice as large as the main palace of pioneers in Novokuznetsk?

Of course not. We understand that Neverov is a disgusting liar and bribe taker, like everyone else in United Russia. And his mysterious sources of income are explained by only one word: "corruption".

Well, okay, rather already to the neighbors.
Meet Igor Nikolaevich Rudensky


http://www.duma.gov.ru/structure/deputies/131170/

A prominent member of United Russia and chairman of the State Duma Committee on Economic Policy.

With economic policy, Deputy Rudensky is doing very, very well.

Nikolai Ivanovich himself claims "Such construction projects as for the APEC summit are a recipe for a crisis." We can agree with this if we mean the crisis of the personal budget.
United Russia Ashlapov successfully overcame such a crisis, as can be seen from the size of his dacha.
The cost of the plot with the house is approximately 178 million rubles .

Apparently, in order not to suggest obvious parallels between the high cost of construction projects supervised by United Russia Ashlapov and the size of his estate, Nikolai Ivanovich did not declare it in full.

The actual site consists of three cadastral:

• Plot #1, area 11347 sq.m.


• Plot #2, 750 sq.m.


• Plot #3, with an area of ​​237 sq.m.

There are no second or third sections in the declaration.

We move on to the next, very wonderful neighbor.

Beautiful? It is immediately clear that a person with modern concepts of a country house lives here.
A European lives here.

Let's take a closer look at the biography of Sergei Eduardovich:

• In 1986-1987, he was an attaché, third secretary of the Directorate of the Socialist Countries of Europe of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs.


• In 1992-1993 - Second Secretary, First Secretary of the Russian Embassy in the Czechoslovakia.


• In 1993-1997, he was head of a department, head of a department, deputy director of a department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.


• Since April 9, 1997 - Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation.


• Since September 14, 1998 - Deputy Head of the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation.


• Since February 2, 1999 - Deputy Head of the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation - Head of the Office of the President of the Russian Federation for Foreign Policy.


• Since March 26, 2004 - Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation.


• Since May 21, 2012 - First Deputy Head of the Government Office of the Russian Federation


• Since May 9, 2013 - Acting Head of the Administration of the Government of the Russian Federation.


• Since May 22, 2013 - Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation and Head of the Office of the Government of the Russian Federation.

He has been in the civil service all his life. We can say that he dedicated it to us.
Servant of the people.

Let's look at income:
The meaning is simple:

Cunning United Russia swindlers figured out how to avoid declaring the land that belongs to them, and established a special "Country Non-Commercial Partnership", for which they decided to register part of their land. But United Russia's cunning plan was not so cunning. The fact is that it is necessary to declare not only what belongs directly to an individual, but also what is in actual use, and it doesn't matter who owns it : even a dacha partnership, even a mother-in-law, even an offshore company in the British Virgin Islands. This, by the way, explains the different dates of the purchase of plots by Sergei Prikhodko: he simply re-registered the plot belonging to him from a "dacha partnership" to himself.

In addition to the plots where United Russia residents live, Dachny Non-Commercial Partnership owns about 100,000 sq.m. land, including the burial mound of the XI-XII centuries, which is a monument of federal significance.

Here I would have moved on to organizational conclusions and moralizing, but we, while dealing with this case, noticed a strange thing.

Let's take another look at the two-year-old satellite image and our latest photo.

We see two changes

1. On the left, United Russia has another neighbor


2. The fences of Neverov, Rudensky and Ashlapov now stand close to the river

Who is this new neighbor?

And this is Nikolai Sergeevich Shustenko, president of the Basis Group of Companies.
His business is also closely connected with budget money, just like he himself is with his neighbors in the country.
In the last couple of years alone, his companies have won tenders for more than 5 billion rubles, mainly for the improvement of areas in the north of Moscow.

Here is the second section:

United Russia Neverov got 2140 sq.m from this site. (cost $428,000), United Russia Rudensky 4250 sq.m. (cost $ 850,000), United Russia Ashpalov 9600 sq.m. (cost $1920000).

Thus, we fix the fact: Deputy Neverov, Deputy Rudensky and former Deputy Ashlapov received income in kind from businessman Shustenko. He bought the land and gave it to the use and disposal of these swindlers.
The crooks have taken the land, stand on it and fence it off with fences.

The Anti-Corruption Foundation considers this a bribe that was paid to high-ranking United Russia officials for unknown services. Perhaps "help" in winning tenders for landscaping.

If Neverov, Rudensky and Ashlapov want to prove otherwise to us, then let them show the documents according to which the land was donated or sold to them, show that they paid income tax (if they donated) and explain why the land was not declared.

Well, now the moral part:
I hope you once again understand why United Russia and the Kremlin are so against the introduction of "illegal enrichment" into the Criminal Code.
If such an article existed, then all these miracle summer residents would be in the dock, where they would have to explain how much money all this was bought with.

I hope you all understand how important it is to support the common struggle of all normal people for the ratification of Article 20 of the UN Convention against Corruption and the introduction of this very “illegal enrichment”.

Part practical:
During this investigation, the Anti-Corruption Foundation found:

1. High-ranking civil servant Volodin violated the current anti-corruption legislation and filed an incorrect declaration of property, where he did not indicate most of the land on which his estate is located. We demand an official investigation and the dismissal of Volodin from public service.
Here is our official letter on the subject.
2. United Russia deputies Neverov and Rudensky, as well as former deputy Ashlapov, violated anti-corruption laws and provided incorrect information in the property declaration. We demand official recognition of this fact and the expulsion of crooks from the State Duma. We expect United Russia to expel these people from the party.
We ask the media to make official requests on this topic, since we ourselves cannot formally do this.
3. We accuse deputies Neverov, Rudensky and former deputy Ashlapov of taking a bribe from businessman Shustenko and demand a criminal investigation. Statement .
4. We believe that the property owned by civil servant Prikhodko is not even close to his income, and we demand that he explain the origin of the funds.

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We would love for you to help us spread this information. Surely, after all, the citizens of the Russian Federation will be curious to look at the dachas of "servants of the people" and together with us ask "what kind of money"?

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Any non-political blogs, communities are especially good.
This information is of interest to everyone.

If you have an account in Odnoklassniki, then please post it there (or ask your parents) and encourage everyone to spread the link.
Odnoklassniki is a social network where a bunch of people aged 50+ sit, who use the Internet, but don’t read any LiveJournal / Facebook - let's try to get them.

Well, of course, Twitter, VK, FB, that's all.

LiveJournal now allows embedding tweets, not just their pictures. If you click "retweet" right here, you'll be great:

Well, and a big thank you, of course, to the FBK employees who worked on this investigation. Separate.

The world-famous Ozero cooperative was established in November 1996. Putin and seven of his friends decided to build dachas next door, on the shores of Lake Komsomolskoye near St. Petersburg.

In 2016, this amazing (new) formation turns 20 years old. And this is no longer a dacha cooperative, but a world-class organized crime group. In the fairy tale “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”, the gnomes mined gold and precious stones, and Snow White sat at home, washed, cleaned, cooked. In the "Lake" the gnomes stole, killed, sawed the budget, and Putin protected them from the side of the authorities. And portrayed Snow White on TV.

1. President of the Russian Federation Putin Mikhal Ivanych.

Five of the seven friends with whom Putin settled in the "Ozero" are businessmen, who can be called the "PTI group" - all of them in 1990-91. engaged in business at the Physico-Technical Institute. Ioffe. These are Yakunin, Kovalchuk, brothers Fursenko and Myachin. Of these, only one is a Chekist (Yakunin), the rest are former physicists. Type intelligence.

The FTI was the flagship of Soviet science. In the early 90s, with the blessing of director Zhores Alferov, five businessmen from the future "Ozero" created a group of firms and joint ventures (joint ventures with foreigners) at the institute. They were mainly engaged in trade - computers, scientific instruments, etc. True, at the FTI they were just starting out, then they spun up and began to work independently. But all the same warm company.

The building of the Institute of Physics and Technology at Polytechnic, 26.

Putin met these guys in 1991. They helped him pull off two of his very first scams, which later played an important role in the biography of the future president of the Russian Federation. This is the Raw Materials for Food scam and the takeover of Rossiya Bank (formerly owned by the CPSU). This gave Putin both the first big money and a place to store it. These same five friends formed the backbone of the new (already Putin's) shareholders of Rossiya Bank.

So, five of Putin's seven friends, with whom he established the Lake, are the FTI group, which is also the Rossiya Bank. The two remaining summer residents are Vladimir Smirnov and Nikolai Shamalov. By the way, also intelligentsia. Smirnov in Soviet times was a researcher at LIAP (Leningrad Institute of Aviation Instrumentation), a laureate of the State Prize, and Shamalov was a dentist. Both then went into business.

If it can be called commerce, of course... One had all his business connected with the Tambov organized crime group, the other - with kickbacks to Putin from the supply of German medical equipment for the city.

Smirnov in the 90s. was essentially a deputy. head of the Tambov organized crime group in economics. The leader of this organized crime group, the largest in the city, was his friend and business partner Vladimir Kumarin (Kum). What they just did not stir up together. And money was washed with cocaine (SPAG company), and real estate was squeezed out, and the gasoline market in the city was seized (Petersburg Fuel Company). And in the latter case - after a series of showdowns with the use of all types of weapons. Everyone who stood in the way of Smirnov and Kuma to the PTK went straight to the cemetery.

Smirnov and Kum in their best years.

As for Nikolai Shamalov, he spent the entire 90s modestly sitting at the Siemens office in St. Petersburg. Sold equipment to city hospitals. Not forgetting to bring good kickbacks to the mayor's office for choosing the right supplier. On the basis of which he met Putin and was awarded a place in the Lake cooperative.

And in the 2000s, Shamalov also began working for Putin as a cellist. All sorts of offshore companies with billions in turnover, shares in banks and enterprises were also recorded on it. But at the same time, unlike Roldugin, he also carried out household assignments: he supervised the construction of the palace near Gelendzhik, bought furniture there, looked after the elite vineyards. Shamalov actively attracted his sons to his business. The elder Yuri became the head of the Gazfond (the pension money of Gazprom employees, which Putin and the Rossiya bank actually privatized).

"Lake" is not without reason compared with an organized criminal group. There are Tambov, there are Solntsevo, and there are lake ones. Everything is similar here: the ringleader, sixes, specialization - who controls what and from what money collects. And there is a common fund (its own bank), and clicks even for communicating with each other.

In the 2000s two defectors from the inner circle of the Kremlin fled to the West: Dmitry Skarga and Sergei Kolesnikov. Both provided Putin with household services. Skarga (former director of Sovcomflot) in 2002 ferried the super-yacht Olympia from Europe to Sochi (Abramovich's bribe to Putin). Kolesnikov (vice-president of the Petromed company), together with Shamalov, helped build a palace near Gelendzhik.

Once in the West, Skarga and Kolesnikov spoke about the customs prevailing in the Kremlin. Both of them, in particular, gave interviews for the sensational BBC film "Putin's Secret Riches", which was released at the end of 2015.

According to Skarga and Kolesnikov, Putin among his entourage has the nickname “Mikhal Ivanych” (chief in the “Diamond Hand”) and is a real godfather. The rest are all no more than sixes, even those who are on the Forbes lists. So, Timchenko (like a billionaire) admitted to Skarga in private conversations that all his actions are "controlled by Mikhal Ivanych." Those. he is a purely nominal oligarch.

And Kolesnikov, who worked with Shamalov, once decided to challenge some order of Mikhail Ivanovich. Decided to put in my 5 cents. In response, Shamalov laid siege to him: “He is the king, you are a serf! Your work is a slave - to fulfill!

By the way, the serf Shamalov was included in the Forbes list in 2011. And the serf son Kirill was married to the tsar's daughter in 2013, now it is a single clan of Putin-Shamalovs.

Beautiful couple, by the way. Putin has grandchildren, which will be necessary.

And here he is. Meet the king.

2.Bank-common fund

In August 1991, the GKChP coup took place in the USSR. After its failure, the former ruling party, the CPSU, was banned. At the same time, in St. Petersburg, this party had its own bank - Rossiya Bank. Its main owner was the Leningrad regional committee of the CPSU. When the CPSU was banned, the bank's activities were suspended.

In September 1991, Sobchak laid eyes on him. He issued an order to reform the bank: to select new founders for it (investors, preferably foreign ones) and create there the "Fund for Stabilizing the Economy of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region." This task was entrusted to Putin - Sobchak's deputy and head of the Committee on Foreign Relations (FAC) at the mayor's office.

The briefcase was heavy, I had to carry a lot.

Sobchak's order about the bank "Russia" - it was, in general, Klondike. A bank with a license and the rest of the party money was lying on the road. Its former owners from the regional committee of the CPSU were in a hopeless situation. The question was who would go to the bank instead of them. Who gets there first. And it turned out to be businessmen from the “PTI group”.

Under the FAC, Putin had an Association of Joint Ventures. Yakunin and Kovalchuk actively hung out there. Putin contacted them, they mobilized their connections and bought the bank for themselves.

Of course, no "Economic Stabilization Fund" was created. But at the end of 1991, the five Yakunin, Kovalchuk, the brothers Fursenko and Myachin became (through firms controlled by them) the new owners of Rossiya Bank. Since then, for 25 years now, this bank has been a common wallet (of them and Putin). Or rather, in common.

In the 2000s, huge assets were collected in AB Rossiya. Sogaz, Sibur, Gazprombank, Gazprom-Media, everything that Mikhal Ivanovich dragged from Gazprom, from the budget, everything was registered with the bank and its structures.

The headquarters of AB "Russia" on the square. Rastrelli in Petersburg:

By the way, Roldugin's offshore companies were controlled from this building. All instructions to Panama about the $2 billion he was saving up for instruments for the orchestra (according to Putin) came from AB Rossiya.

Yury Kovalchuk has been in charge of the bank for many years, he (nominally) also has the largest block of shares. Kovalchuk - former physicist, laureate of the USSR State Prize, professor, nickname - "Slanting". Professor Yura Kosoi is now an oligarch and media mogul (owner of Channel One, Channel Five, NTV, Ren-TV, etc.). In 2014, the bank and personally Kosoy were sanctioned. In a US Treasury statement, Kovalchuk was described as Putin's "personal teller".

oblique. The keeper of the obshchak and the master of the TV.

On March 23, 2014, immediately after the imposition of sanctions, cashier Kovalchuk gave an interview to Dmitry Kiselev. He spoke about his love for Putin; about the fact that he has $15 billion worth of assets in the bank; and for some reason - about patriotism. Not a word about where the 15 billion came from in the bank, and whose they really are.

But that's nothing. Here is his neighbor on the "Lake" Yakunin in the 2000s. generally became the ideologist of patriotism. In August 2015, Yakunin wrote in his article "Globalization and Capitalism":

“It can be said that the ruling elite of the United States made a big mistake by placing the messianic conviction at the basis of the doctrine of globalization that they were appointed by the Lord to rule the world. As soon as the USSR disappeared, which periodically brought it to its senses, this "hegemon" in world politics broke so much firewood that, in fact, the masses of people perceive the United States as a rogue state.

In Soviet times, Yakunin was the head of the foreign department at the FTI (there was such a GB position in Soviet universities). Then the Lord appointed him head of Russian Railways. Now he is nostalgic for the USSR, which "brought to life" America. I would continue the topic. If in the USSR the head of the railways (then it was called the Ministry of Railways) built a villa with a fur coat storage, he would also be brought to his senses. Bullet in the back of the head. For theft in especially large ones at the same time there was a tower.

The main thing is that America does not capture us, you understand, right?

But back to the bank "Russia". From the "PTI group" there was also Viktor Myachin, also a former physicist and summer resident from the "Ozero". For many years he was a top manager and shareholder of the bank. But in 2009 he sold his share, bought various real estate in St. Petersburg and ... retired.

Although Myachin is the youngest of the lakes (born 1961), he has been leading the life of a retired oligarch for many years, not knowing what to do with himself. Either he crosses Greenland on snowmobiles, or he hunts rare sheep in Kyrgyzstan. Such Abramovich in miniature. Having nothing to do, he even began to play hockey in amateur tournaments.

Two more shareholders of Rossiya Bank from 1991 are the Fursenko brothers - Andrey and Sergey. Also lake brothers. The brothers did not achieve much success in business, but they proved themselves in other areas. Andrey Fursenko, a former professor at the FTI, has been hanging out in the government since 2000: either as a minister, or as a deputy. Minister, now - Putin's assistant for science and education. It is Fursenko who is the author of the Skolkovo project and the whole idea of ​​nanotechnology. Well, we can go no further, I think.

The two main nanotechnologists of the country. Andrey Fursenko - on the left.

As for Andrei Fursenko's brother, Sergei, he is also a former physicist. At first he worked at Gazprom (the head of Lentransgaz), but then he got tired of it, and he went to the football part. Taxied by FC Zenit, then by the RFU. After another failure of the national team, he was removed from there. Now in the Presidential Council for Physical Education and Sports.

Of course, I foresee the question. Well, it turns out that in the Lake cooperative there are a bunch of former scientists, two professors, award winners. And suddenly: there was Professor Kovalchuk, and now there is Yura "Slanting", the holder of the obshchak. How so?

Who is surprised, I propose to look at this man with a poster:

Also a doctor of sciences (at 38), laureate of the Lenin Komsomol Prize for scientific achievements. And then he went into commerce and that's it - he became "Birch". And this poster he has, addressed to Putin (“I gave birth to you ...”), it is not so far from the truth:

Ironically, the conflict between Putin and Berezovsky began in 2000, when Putin took a controlling stake in ORT (Channel One) from him. Now Channel One is owned by Kovalchuk. Birch was replaced by Oblique. This is the main meaning of the reign of Michal Ivanych.

3. "Russian video". Side branch of Putin's mafia.

Speaking about the buyout of Rossiya Bank by the "PTI group" in 1991, one important detail should be kept in mind. The fact is that the communists (regional committee) were not the sole owners of the bank. They had simply the largest share (48%). The second large stake (42%) belonged to the Russian Video film studio, and another 10% were owned by small shareholders (Rus insurance company, Krasnoselskaya fur factory).

Of these former owners of the bank, only the regional committee of the CPSU in 1991 was in a stalemate. They had no choice but to give their share to those to whom the mayor's office indicated (Sobchak and Putin). The rest had no such problems.

Nevertheless, the "PTI group" took both the share of the regional committee and the share of the film studio. Small shareholders gave up their shares later. That is, Putin somehow agreed with the people from the "Russian Video" amicably. What were these people? - Pretty interesting characters. Putin collaborated with them not only in the 1991 buyout of the bank, but for many years afterwards. True, he prefers to keep quiet about what kind of cooperation it was.

This is the Soviet Screen magazine, No. 23, 1988.

There is a small note in the magazine: "Russian video" - begins. It contains a story about a new company that has just been created under the Videofilm state association:

“Glorious news comes from Leningrad. The traditional rock festival, which took place in June of this year, was completely filmed by the recently organized studio "Russian Video" (by order of the All-Union Production and Creative Association "Videofilm"), and now this material is being edited (...) Commanded by Dmitry Rozhdestvensky - artistic director and chief director of Russian Video.

The founders of the company "Russian Video" were two childhood friends, former classmates - Dmitry Rozhdestvensky and Vladislav Reznik.

Rozhdestvensky - musician, director. Reznik is a former athlete, stuntman at Lenfilm. And besides - a mafioso, a close friend of Gennady Petrov himself (the authority of Gena Petrov). Petrov is one of the founders of the Tambov-Malyshev organized criminal group, which in 1989 was divided into Tambov and Malyshev. For the last 15 years, Reznik has been a State Duma deputy of all convocations (from United Russia, of course). Since 2016, he has been wanted by Interpol in the case of the “Russian mafia” in Spain.

June 2008, Spain. The arrest of Gena Petrov by the Spanish police.

Well, in 1990, Russian Video, together with the regional committee of the CPSU, established the Rossiya Bank. Reznik in 1990-91 was in this bank deputy. chairman of the board. It turned out such a joint bank of the CPSU and the mafia. Since 1992, when Russian Video withdrew from the bank's shareholders, Reznik and Rozhdestvensky each went their own way. Reznik began to develop the insurance business, left for Moscow, was a top manager of Rossgosstrakh in the 90s. After an unsuccessful attempt to privatize it, he went into politics.

Deputy Reznik in the Duma.

As for Rozhdestvensky or "Dim Dimych", as he was called, he remained in the "Russian Video". But only the “Russian Video” itself has changed a lot. On its basis, a dozen and a half private firms with the same name were created, which were engaged in various types of activities (legal and illegal). Those. Russian Video has turned into a diversified concern.

The leadership has also changed. Now Rozhdestvensky managed everything in tandem with a certain Vladimir Grunin, a retired KGB colonel who oversaw the illegal part.

"Russian Video" is the dashing 90s in all its glory. Whatever they were doing. Here and cinema (including video piracy), and a casino. And his own TV channel - the 11th channel in St. Petersburg, now TNT. And smuggling - they had a naval base in Lomonosov on lease, where all cargo went without customs. And more drugs, and cashed out with a cut of budget funds.

This is a well-known St. Petersburg journalist and political scientist Dmitry Zapolsky, who in the 90s worked on the Russian Video TV channel (hosted the author's program).

Dmitry knew the leadership of Russian Video well, as well as Putin, Sobchak, and many criminal leaders of the city. In an interview with Russian Monitor in 2015, Zapolsky recalled:

“In the 1990s, Putin oversaw the port of Lomonosov, it was a military base, where he had “his” admiral. And through this hole hundreds, and maybe thousands of tons of cargo were imported and exported daily without any registration. There were no customs, no border guards, no counterintelligence. Funny! Cocaine in St. Petersburg was like toothpowder. Generally everywhere. Even in Smolny, especially smart guys (...)

The port of Lomonosov itself formally belonged to the Russian Video company, which was controlled, on the one hand, by Kumarin, but was led by Mikhail Mirilashvili. The head of the company, Dmitry Rozhdestvensky, maintained warm relations with Putin, Chubais, and Narusova».

Naval base in Lomonosov on the outskirts of the Great Port of St. Petersburg. In the 90s - the main hole in the sea border of Russia:

Putin's "own admiral" in Lomonosov is Vladimir Grishanov, commander of the Leningrad naval base in 1993-95. It was he who leased the port of Lomonosov to the bandits.

Admiral Grishanov. Commander of the Naval Forces of the Tambov organized criminal group.

Kumarin and Mirilashvili, who controlled Russian Video and the port of Lomonosov, are Kum and Misha Kutaissky, respectively, the leaders of the two largest organized crime groups in the city. The backbone of the Kuma gang was made up of athletes, the gangs of Misha Kutaissky came from the village of Kulashi in western Georgia (the place where Georgian Jews live compactly). Mirilashvili's father was a major guild worker in Soviet times. Such an old mafia dynasty.

Mikhail Mirilashvili in the 90s was the president (head of the Board of Directors) of Russian Video. Dim Dimych Rozhdestvensky (General Director) provided current management. Colonel Grunin looked after him. That's how they worked.

October 2015 Delegation of the Russian Jewish Congress in Israel. Prime Minister Netanyahu embraces Misha Kutaisi (far left).

Roof "Russian video" it was not only bandits. Driving smuggling (including cocaine) through the naval base is not an easy task. Therefore, the bandits were supervised by Putin. He did this through his friend and trusted person in the criminal world - Roma Tsepov (aka Roma Producer).

Roma Tsepov:

Roma Tsepov, a former officer of the VV, was the leader of his own "Cop gang" (that was the name of the brigades from among the former policemen, security officers, VV officers, etc.). Roma knew both the main gangsters in Russian Video (both Kuma and Misha) well, and it was more convenient for Putin to work through him.

In fact, Russian Video had a so-called. "striped roof": bandits and cops / security officers in one bottle:

It remains to be added that in the early 90s Roma Tsepov cobbled together his gang together with the Chekist Zolotov (Sobchak's bodyguard, in the 2000s Putin's head of security). Now, as you know, Zolotov has a new important job - the National Guard of the Russian Federation. Such a striped cop gang for 400 thousand people.

In general, St. Petersburg is the birthplace of striped roofs. This is where they first appeared. Putin and Zolotov are the living embodiment of this phenomenon.

The photo below was taken in New York in August 2000. All the Chekists are here (from left to right): Zolotov (Putin's head of security), Murov (director of the FSO), Kutafin and Tretyakov (SVR residents in the USA).

Tretyakov was already working for the CIA. Soon he will become a defector. Based on conversations with him, journalist Peter Erli will write a book (“Comrade Zh”). It contains this interesting passage:

“When, in 2000, Zolotov (the leader’s guard) arrived in New York with a company, to ensure the security of the president’s visit, they were accompanied by the head of the Foreign Intelligence Service in this city, Tretyakov, and, one evening, the company went to a restaurant on Brighton Beach . There, Zolotov, according to Tretyakov, began to show off his skills in hand-to-hand combat - and, for no apparent reason, suddenly, on a grand scale, punched Tretyakov in the forehead. Tretyakov flew off his chair to the floor and lost consciousness for a few seconds. Murov (head of the FSO) burst into swearing at Zolotov: “You could have killed him!” Zolotov apologized. After the visit, Tretyakov remembered the words of Deputy Murov about his boss and Zolotov - “Yes, they are all ordinary bandits there ...”

Firm "Zolotov, Kadyrov and sons". Bandits in the service of the bandit regime.

Returning to Russian Video, it is worth noting that the audience there was more colorful than just one-celled criminals like Zolotov. Both heads of the company (both Rozhdestvensky and Grunin) were seriously fond of medieval mysticism. They established their own knightly order (“The Sovereign Order of St. John of Jerusalem”), declaring it a division of the Order of Malta in the Russian Federation. After that, they accepted each other into the “Knights of Malta”: Rozhdestvensky became the “grand prior” of the order, and Grunin became his deputy.

The Russian Video mansion on Kamenny Island was hung with symbols of all kinds of secret brotherhoods, from the Maltese to the Freemasons, under which gentlemen knights sat and resolved issues of cashing and cocaine.

Dmitry Rozhdestvensky (far left, with a glass) in the company of influential politicians of that time.

Grand Prior Dim Dimych, according to Zapolsky's memoirs, liked to drink and was constantly drunk at work. His deputy, the Knight of Malta Grunin, Zapolsky describes as "a modest little man with a triangular belly," who in the KGB was engaged in "planning active operations." Active KGB operations are all sorts of dark things that Soviet intelligence did on the territory of foreign countries: murders, support for terrorists, disinformation stuffing.

According to Zapolsky, Colonel Grunin, having left the KGB, did not leave the profession. Those. worked on assassination orders. For many years, Russian Video has seen a series of strange deaths of employees associated with various illegal operations. Zapolsky counted 14 such corpses in Russian Video.

Suddenly, a completely healthy person had an asthma attack, another had a heart attack, a third had fainting while driving. When the tax police came to Russian Video in 1998 with a check, the chief accountant died abruptly. Suddenly, I fell ill with no clear reason, and even the doctors of the Military Medical Academy could not determine what the matter was. Yes, in fact, the founder and director of Russian Video, Dim Dimych, did not live long - he died at the age of 48 from a heart attack in 2002.

Rozhdestvensky's grave in St. Petersburg. A monument in the form of a piano (because a musician), a Catholic cross (because a knight of Malta), an Orthodox priest with a censer. Everything is as it should be.

In general, contract killings in gangster Petersburg with the use of SVR and GRU specialists is a separate issue. Every serious organized crime group has its own killer brigade. There was one in the "Lake", from the former Spartazov, military saboteurs.

This Putin brigade of killers was the first to come up with the idea of ​​exploding hexogen in residential buildings. In October 1998, Dmitry Filippov, one of the richest businessmen in the city, who had a conflict with Putin and Smirnov, was killed in this way. Hexogen was laid in the ceiling of the entrance to his house and blown up by radio signal when he entered it. Filippov was waiting for the assassination attempt, he went with serious security, but the professionals worked.

The murder was attributed to the Shutov (Titych) gang, with whom Putin and Sobchak also had long-standing scores. They killed two birds with one stone, in short. This, by the way, is "planning of active operations." Not just to kill, but to translate arrows. True, Shutov and his criminals had no motive, no technical skills, no RDX to commit such a crime. But these are all trifles.

And a year after that, before the elections, hexogen began to explode in Moscow ...

After 2000, the organized crime group expanded in breadth and depth. Now Putin has no shortage of killers. There is a private army of Kadyrov-Zolotov (battalions "North", "South"). But it's true, bastards. Putin also has his own private army - this is one secret PMC (private military company) under the Foreign Intelligence Service. It is based in St. Petersburg. In 2015-16 these mercenaries became famous in the rear of the DPR-LPR, where they killed objectionable field commanders, Cossacks.

This Putin PMC is also called the “Wagner group” or simply the Wagners. Wagner is the pseudonym of their commander, Spetsnaz Lieutenant Colonel Dmitry Utkin. It so happened that, according to his views, Utkin is a Nazi and a fan of the Third Reich, hence the "Wagner" (a composer who sang "Aryan" pagan mysticism). Wagners and Kadyrovites are private armies of the times of developed Putinism. These are no longer the killer brigades from the 90s. This is a new step.

In general, in a developed mafia state, private armies are normal. For example, in Colombia, the mafia also has its own armies. The Cali cartel had a private army, Los Pepes, in the 90s. She fought with the PMCs of the Medellin cartel. For what? - For the right to supply cocaine to the port of Lomonosov as well. Why is Putin's organized crime group worse than Medellin? - Yes, she is cooler!

4. Raw materials in exchange for theft

On April 25, 2005, in the Kremlin's Marble Hall, Mikhal Ivanych gave a speech to the Federal Assembly:

In it he said, in part:

“The collapse of the Soviet Union was the biggest geopolitical catastrophe of the century. For the Russian people, it has become a real drama ... "

Well, and further there, how the Russian people suffered during the collapse of the USSR, how they became impoverished, how “oligarchic groups”, acting for their own selfish purposes, robbed them, etc. The speech was interrupted by applause 26 times. Deputy Reznik from the Malyshevskaya organized crime group gave a standing ovation (just kidding).

Everything is fine, but there is a legitimate question: what did Mikhail Ivanovich himself do at the turn of 1991-92, when the USSR collapsed? Probably, he didn’t sleep at night, he was worried. Such a disaster all around! I propose to take a closer look at the affairs of the vice-mayor of St. Petersburg Putin in the winter of 1991-92.

At the end of 1991, this man was passing through St. Petersburg:

This is American photographer Dick Arnold. Former military pilot, Vietnam War veteran. In that war, the Americans fought with North Vietnam, and in fact - with the USSR, which stood behind it. It was a "hot" episode of the long-term Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States.

Dick Arnold came to St. Petersburg when the Cold War was coming to an end. The USSR lived out its last days. Arnold walked around the city, filmed the lines for bread, the downcast faces of the vanquished, the devastation. About how Soviet photojournalists walked around Berlin in May 1945.

He called this photo: “All day in line” (all day in line).

But his most striking impression was this woman (second from right), whom he saw in line for bread.

Many years later, Dick Arnold said that he remembered this look for the rest of his life:

Yeah. A man stood (was forced to stand!) in line for food. 46 years after the war in the USSR, in Leningrad, there was again nothing to eat. The queue was a humiliation. And then there's the foreign photographer. The woman struggled to maintain her dignity in this, in general, shameful situation. "If looks could kill, she would have killed me" Arnold recalled.

Then he tried to go into the store to take pictures of the people and the empty shelves inside. He was nearly beaten. “I was forced to flee,” he says.

This could very well be. In 1990-91. in the USSR, people in queues often lost their human appearance, fights and aggression broke out. A foreigner from a well-fed America who came to take pictures, like an excursion to a zoo or a cabinet of curiosities, could fall under a hot hand.

Leningrad, November 1990. Wine shop near Five Corners.

The disappearance of lines for bread and vodka in Russia after 1991 is the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century. We all mourn that great era.

The agony of the USSR ended on December 25, 1991. Around seven in the evening, Gorbachev announced his resignation, and half an hour later two tipsy workers from the Kremlin's servants climbed onto the roof of the Grand Kremlin Palace and removed the red flag. There were no honors or ceremonies. Truly an inglorious end.

The end of the USSR did not cause any emotions in anyone. The people were muzzled with queues, poverty, a mess. The former government was completely bankrupt.

Well, something like this, yes:

And only Mikhal Ivanovich did not sleep that night. Sobbed. A catastrophe, terrible, geopolitical, was coming and forcing him to act before it was too late. As early as December 4, 1991, he wrote a letter to Moscow, to the government, with business proposals.

It is clear from Putin's letter to Moscow that he is eager to save his native city from starvation. There are heaps of raw materials in warehouses in the Leningrad Region, he writes. Oil products, metals, timber. Do not waste good. Let's push it all abroad. And I will spend the money on buying food for the city. Promise! But most importantly, give me the right to issue export licenses myself.

As soon as Moscow gave the go-ahead, Putin immediately developed a frantic activity. He put together a group of specially selected people (friends, colleagues in the KGB, classmates at the university) and began to issue them licenses to export raw materials. Some were carrying oil products, others - aluminum, others - rare metals, timber, etc.

True, the firms to which he gave licenses were somehow strange. Or in general, the left, which then simply could not find (and the money too). Or they seem to be normal, but with such prices in contracts that raw materials were sold almost for nothing. For example, rare metals were exported by an office called "Jikop". Below is an expert assessment of the prices for metals in the contract with her, which was made later by the deputy commission of the Petrosoviet (the so-called Salie commission):

Niobium - the price is underestimated by 7 times, cerium - by 10 times, scandium - by 2000 times. Why did Putin and his PIC sign contracts on such strange terms? - To steal money. Together with especially close businessmen, of course.

By the way, "Jikop" is the company of Putin's classmate at Leningrad State University Ilham Ragimov from Azerbaijan. Now, as usual, he is a billionaire, co-owner of the largest Moscow markets and hotels. And it all started with scandium.

Interestingly, the licenses for "Jicop" and all the rest were issued by Putin's FAC for a rather narrow period of time: from 12/20/1991 to 01/13/1992. It can be said that Putin did not rest during those New Year holidays. Rushed to make money on "the biggest geopolitical catastrophe of the century".

Below is the very first license of Putin's FAC dated 12/20/1991. It was given to the Nevsky Dom company for the export of 150,000 tons of oil products to England for a total of $ 32 million:

As can be seen from the license, the refinery in Kirishi (Leningrad region) was the producer of petroleum products. At that time, Gennady Timchenko was in charge of export there. An experienced person in foreign trade, a Chekist, a friend of Mikhal Ivanych. But go ahead: it was not the plant itself that sent 150,000 oil products to England, but an unknown intermediary company. Documents from her were signed by certain Witenberg and Rusakov.

In 2008, when Timchenko was already a dollar billionaire, the Financial Times wrote about these deliveries through Nevsky Dom. Timchenko was indignant, made a refutation:

“The article says that I owned a company that “received a large export quota in Putin’s scandalous oil-for-food scheme.” I repeat - not me. The company that received the quota was, again, the state-owned Kirishineftekhimexport, of which I was an employee. I did not participate in this scheme. I don't remember any scandal. As far as I remember, the company delivered the food as promised.”

Chekist Timchenko has something with his memory. At the beginning of 1992, Marina Salier's commission found out that the Kirishi diesel fuel and gasoline went abroad, but not through Kirishineftekhimexport (the official exporter at the plant), but through the left-handed company Nevsky Dom. Neither she nor the money was ever seen again. To whom Vova Putin gave the right to export oil products was not clear. Without the help of the investigating authorities in any case.

Chekist Gena Timchenko, nicknamed "Gangrene". In Putin's team since 1991.

We must pay tribute to the abilities of Michal Ivanych. The scam went well. Putin and his companions stole about 100 million dollars. Yes, but... after all, it was a half-starved city where people stood in lines for bread.

The question arises: in that situation of December 1991, who behaved more worthily - a simple woman in line in front of the lens of a foreign photographer or the KGB marauder Putin, who tried to rob her in the end?

And what is most ridiculous, then this same KGB marauder also began to tell her on TV about the "major geopolitical catastrophe." On which he made the biggest loot. Bad situation, yes. This morality is called Chekism.

By the way, the guys from the future “Lake” also participated in that Raw Materials in Exchange for Food scam. In July 2001, Italian journalists published in the Reppublika newspaper a major investigation into Putin's affairs in the 1990s. Including the scam with raw materials. So, the Nevsky Dom company, which exported oil products and disappeared, according to the Italians, was controlled by Vladimir Smirnov from Ozero.

Other future summer residents were also noticed in this scam, namely the company NPP Quark (aka Stream Corporation since 1992). NPP Quark is Yakunin, Kosoy and the whole company. These guys helped with the export of aluminum and other metals. Like it or not, the Lakers started out as a gang of marauders. But why did you start? - They remained them.

During the collapse of the USSR, Putin was an ordinary marauder, in the 90s - an ordinary bandit, after 2000 - an ordinary dictator of the Third World. And his lake lads followed him. The time will come, and a monument will be erected to this era. I even know which one. It will be Dzerzhinsky. With cello.