"Novaya Gazeta" -Ryazan: How does Ryazan live in Karelia. Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Republic of Buryatia for Economic Development Aleksandr Evgenievich Chepik

Aleksandr Chepik “floated” in his testimony at the trial in the case of the head of the Ministry of Agriculture of Buryatia - during the trial, the new testimony did not agree with those given by the witness in January 2013. On May 20, the Ulan-Ude Railway Court heard the case of the former Minister of Agriculture Alexandra Manzanova accused of abuse of office. During the trial, the Deputy Prime Minister, Chairman of the Coordination Council for the Development of Entrepreneurship under the Government of Buryatia was interrogated as a witness in court Alexandra Chepika. In his testimony, the deputy chairman of the government was somewhat unconvincing , reported by the correspondent. IA UlanMedia from the scene.

During the interrogation, several inconsistencies in the testimony of the witness became clear, in addition, the deputy chairman several times, apparently, failed memory.

For example, he said that he did not remember such an organization "Siberian Garden", from which, one might say, numerous legal proceedings began.

Alexander Chepik "floated" in his testimony at the trial in the case of Alexander Manzanov. Photo from the scene of the event is his own. Photo by: Ekaterina Demina IA UlanMedia

The representative of the state prosecution began the interrogation of the witness with questions about what decisions the coordination council has the right to make and what character they are - recommendatory or determinative. Alexander Chepik explained that in relation to the Ministry of Agriculture, decisions are advisory, and in relation to other departments, depending on the situation.

As additional evidence, the defense provided a regulation on the Coordination Council, where in clause 4.4 it is said that, based on the results of the competition, the council can decide on the provision of state support to the applicant, its amount, or refusal of state support. The deputy chairman was asked a question: is it really so? After lengthy explanations and clarifications, the court managed to get an answer.

Alexander Chepik "floated" in his testimony at the trial in the case of Alexander Manzanov. Photo from the scene of the event is his own. Photo by: Ekaterina Demina IA UlanMedia

The Council did not decide on the allocation of subsidies. We considered this project as an investment one, - Alexander Chepik explained.

Here the first inconsistencies began. As it turned out, when Chepik gave his first testimony in January 2013, he said that only the council can make such decisions. When the court asked to explain the discrepancies in the testimony, the witness explained that he was in a great hurry that day, and he was in a hurry to follow.

I was under interrogation for literally five minutes. And about the decision of the council, I said "maybe he can accept," Chepik explained that his thoughts were presented incorrectly.

After the speech of a high-ranking witness, the court familiarized Chepik with the minutes of the council meeting of November 15, 2011. Two projects were presented for discussion of the council, one of which was the "Siberian vegetable garden". But, as it became known, at that time on November 7, the Ministry of Agriculture had already decided to allocate subsidies in the amount of 14.7 million rubles in the form of compensation for 60% of its "costs", and on November 9 this money had already been transferred to the Siberian Garden. Therefore, it turned out to be inconsistent - the council approved the project, which in fact had already been financed.

The court had questions: did the chairman of the council, Chepik, know about this, and why it happened. He explained this fact by the fact that the coordinating council meets once a quarter, and therefore the project was discussed later. And it didn't matter to the council whether it was subsidized. As the witness repeated once again, it was considered an investment project.

Also in the minutes of the meeting there was no signature of Mikhail Kostrikov, who, according to Chepik, was just announcing the proposal to vote on this draft. As a result, it was adopted unanimously by 16 votes.

After the interrogation of the witness, FSB investigator Alexander Silin, who conducted the interrogation in January 2013, was summoned to clarify the circumstances of the interrogation.

According to his testimony, firstly, the minutes record the start time of the interrogation - 15.00 and the end - 16.20. That is, the witness was clearly not under interrogation for five minutes, as he said. Chepik said that he now does not remember exactly how long the interrogation lasted, but it seemed to him that it was not long. As for the incorrect presentation, the investigator explained that the witness had read what he had written down, then asked to correct some of the details, after which he signed the protocol and agreed with what he had read.

Another nuance in the interrogation protocols of Alexander Chepik and other witnesses interested Alexander Manzanov and his lawyer Bator Zhamsaranov. In several minutes, the word "presentation materials" was emphasized. The defense suggested that, perhaps, the protocol was not recorded from the words of the witnesses, but was prepared in advance and certain parts of the protocol were simply copied and pasted into another document.

The protocol was written down from the words of the witness, the text was not written in advance. And I emphasized this word just for myself, I wanted to understand what kind of presentation documents were to be provided, but none of the witnesses could explain. Of course, I prepared myself before the interrogation, read the documents. And he clarified some points that the witness could not explain, - said Silin.

Zhamsaranov's lawyer asked Alexander Chepik to repeat the list of his duties, which were noted in the interrogation protocol. But alas, Chepik could not remember what his job responsibilities were.

At this, the court session ended, the next one is scheduled for June 27. It is planned to re-interrogate the employee of the republican Ministry of Agriculture Svetlana Petrova and attach to the case the photographic documents following the results of the court session, which took place at the Unegetei irrigation system. The court then plans to proceed with the debate.

As previously reported by newbur.ru, on May 14, the defendant, who is under house arrest, did not appear in court. Alexander Manzanov, together with an officer of the Federal Penitentiary Service for the Republic of Bashkortostan, who was supposed to deliver him from arrest to court, handed over his statement with a request to postpone the hearing until his recovery and a sick leave. This medical document indicates that Alexander Manzanov fell ill with acute respiratory infections on May 10. Manzanov himself told the court in his statement that he could not appear in court due to illness, his temperature before the hearing was 37.7 degrees. May 15 the defendant is at home by the attending physician.

Manzanov's lawyer Bator Zhamsaranov told Novaya Buryatia that his colleagues from Moscow, Oleg Dremov and Elena Karpukhina, did not arrive in Ulan-Ude because of Manzanov's illness. In this regard, the prosecution, represented by Darima Dugarova, who summoned the Deputy Prime Minister of Buryatia Alexander Chepik for questioning as a witness (the witness, by the way, appeared today), petitioned to postpone the trial until May 19. Bator Zhamsaranov agreed with this request.

However, the federal judge, Saidulla Khadzhaev, presiding over the trial, informed the participants of the trial that the impossibility of the defendant's participation in the court session due to illness can only be confirmed by the conclusion of the medical commission. The judge ruled to announce a break until tomorrow, and on May 15 to forcibly bring Alexander Manzanov to court in order to find out his condition. In this case, the summons to the court of emergency doctors in order to confirm Manzanov's illness is not excluded.

We will remind, as previously reported by IA UlanMedia, until June 30, the Minister of Agriculture of Buryatia, Alexander Manzanov, is under house arrest. Zheleznodorozhny District Court on March 20 and extended the term of house arrest Alexander Manzanov until June 30, 2014.

Based on the results of consideration of this petition, the judge decided to leave it without satisfaction, since the grounds for choosing a preventive measure in the form of house arrest did not change and did not disappear, - then the press secretary of the court Tatyana Altayeva said. - At the same time, Alexander Manzanov can still influence witnesses on the part of the prosecution, so the term of house arrest was extended until June 30, 2014.

Deputy Chairman of the Government of Buryatia for Economic Development admitted that he is most afraid of war and dreams of opening a business in Buryatia in retirement

Alexander Evgenievich, they write a lot about you, talk a lot, but you never talked about your family, where you were born and where you studied.

I was born in the small town of Rybny, Ryazan region. Approximately the same as our Gusinoozersk. Until the age of seven he lived with his parents in a graduate student hostel. My grandparents and parents were an example for me. My maternal grandmother worked like no one else works in life. Four hectares of potatoes, cucumbers, tomatoes - all this was grown and handed over to the collective farm.

In addition, she worked as a calf her entire life. 200 heifers and each one needs to be watered, fed. Water was carried from a well 200 meters from the farm - this is a colossal work, just a deadly horror. I did not know my maternal grandfather. He fought, ended up in a concentration camp, then fled from there, lived a little after the war. His paternal great-grandfather is from Belarus. I saw a photograph of a man in a tsarist military uniform with the rank of general. But grandfather never told anyone anything. Everything is burned out like a hot iron.

My great-grandfather, a tsarist officer, was tortured in 1938, left thinking that he was dead. But he survived. There was a terribly healthy man, and to this day in the attic of his parents' house there are nickels and horseshoes bent by him. My grandfather was a pedantic and extremely principled person. “Measure seven times - cut once” is about him. I don’t remember in what rank he returned from the war, but he was simply riddled with shrapnel and bullets and was constantly rubbing his shoulder. He was very demanding and painfully perceived injustice.

My father followed in grandfather's footsteps: he entered a military school. But I was there for exactly three days. Working as a mechanic at a factory, from the third time he entered the teacher of biology and chemistry. Now he is retired, but he still continues to teach physical education at school. There is simply no one to replace him. Mom has a large family - eight children, all of them settled in life. Now my mother works in the commission on juvenile affairs. In general, all the people with whom I grew up settled in life.

Mom's uncle, Vyacheslav Ivanovich, doctor of agricultural sciences, professor. One of the best specialists in the world in the field of beekeeping. Paternal uncle, Sergei Georgievich Chepik, Doctor of Economics, Rector of the University, Anatoly Georgievich Chepik, Doctor of Economics, Professor.

- What was the most memorable of your school years?

There was such a subject - initial military training. Our school was assigned to a higher military school. Every year we were taken to a military training camp, where they trained veterans. It was a serious school.

- It is known that your father will take part in the ceremony of lighting the Olympic flame. Why?

Our family was big. Every Saturday we met at my grandfather's, in the bathhouse. Before that, we ran and played football. In general, Rybnoye is a sports city, we have a whole dynasty of athletes. Uncle Seryozha is a candidate for master of sports in athletics, uncle Tolya is a master of sports, was a member of the Belarusian national athletics team, his father still has the best results in the Ryazan region in a number of distances.

I myself was one of the winners at the all-Union competitions. Rybnoye had a very strong team of skiers and track and field athletes. All my childhood I played for the Lokomotiv team. Unrealistically talented guys worked with me. All our training turned into a competition. We didn’t do our best at competitions as we did in training. Very tough competition within the team led to the fact that only the most strong-willed guys remained. Only the summer morning exercises were five kilometers of jogging, 200 push-ups, 70 pull-ups and, most importantly, swimming.

On the Oka River, it was necessary to swim 50 meters against the current three times. It seems garbage, but now I will not swim, I know for sure. Oka, like the Selenga, with a strong current. You swim, you swim, but constantly in one place. Stop, and the current carries back. At such moments, you want to drown. After breakfast, main workout: jogging for 25 kilometers or roller blades or imitation, in the afternoon speed work for 10-15 kilometers.

In winter, we ran 15 thousand kilometers a month. Now I think that the coach drove us too much. It is impossible to prepare for the competition on such volumes. And the guys were all from poor families, and good equipment is very important in skiing.

- Have you dreamed of continuing your career as an athlete?

In the last grade I played sports only for myself, I ran and went skiing. Preparing for admission, pulling up the school. He entered the Ryazan State Agricultural Academy with a degree in Accounting and Audit. From the second year he was a member of the national teams of our academy in skiing and athletics.

- Despite such a serious passion for sports, you were an excellent student.

Yes, if at school I had fours, then I graduated from the university with fives. There are two of us, in my opinion, the best students of the academy. Then, from the second year, he began to work. He cleaned and whitewashed farms, moonlighted as an accountant. He earned his first serious money, except for scholarships that he received for participating in competitions. Until he got married, he gave all the money to his mother.

From the third year I went to work in the structure of the international bank IFC. I really liked the English language, but at school I could not understand it. Therefore, I simply learned by heart, since I could not receive triplets. I have a good memory, I still remember some books by heart.

At some point I thought: Am I really dumber than everyone else? I began to study by self-instruction, then I met a technical school teacher in English. She helped me - corrected the pronunciation. By the third year, I improved English and passed the test of an international corporation. At first he worked as an auditor of the working group, and then began to work independently.

- When did you earn your first money?

He earned his first money at school - in practice, they hoed and harvested sugar beets, potatoes, and carrots. Then every evening after school they worked at the locomotive repair depot - also in practice. We studied at the railway school. There he also received his first specialty as a locksmith. Small money, but very important for the family.

- In your official biography, you worked at Sberbank. How did you manage to survive the 1998 crisis?

Yes, after IFC I went to work at Sberbank. He was engaged in securities. Then we lived just in chocolate. Then I wrote my program and developed a system for selling and buying securities, then I created a private bank. The technique allowed not to lose during the crisis, but, on the contrary, to earn. Having survived the crisis, we received a lot of money, then, by the way, and bought the first apartment.

Then he became the head of one of the largest international holdings. The factories were all over the world - in Tula, in Pervouralsk, near Manchester in England, in the States. Representative offices in almost all countries. The center of government was Tula, the center of trade was Stockholm.

- Alexander Evgenievich, we are all about work. Better tell us how you met your wife?

I have never met any of the girls. I had a principled position. I met my wife when she was 15 years old, I am 19. Never in my life, either before or after meeting, did not go to discos. But that evening, a friend asked to go with him, to intercede for him. He was often beaten, and I was an athlete, and all the guys who were engaged in martial arts were on the same team with me, so they respected me.

We talked with the guys, but since we came to a nightclub, we need to spend some time. I was engaged in dancing at school and when I started a slow dance, I could not resist and invited the girl to dance. So we met my wife Irina. She graduated with honors from high school, and then with honors from the Academy. Played a wedding. The eldest son Yegor was born in Ryazan, Fedor is already in Moscow. Ulyana was born already here, in Buryatia.

- What is Buryatia for you?

I reacted calmly to the fact that we were moving to Buryatia. I came, looked, I really liked everything. At first I lived alone, without a family. There was no apartment then, so he settled in the Center for Oriental Medicine. In the evening you will come home hungry late, the nurses will leave dinner for me - I always remember them with gratitude. Now Buryatia has become a homeland. All my friends are here, my parents are moving now. They were here, they like everything.

- Can you name your values?

Family, health. I want people to be happy. Of course, if you say that you don't want anything for yourself, it means lying. But while working in the government, you cannot think only of yourself. Then there is no motivation. The main motivation is the people behind the economic figures, indicators.

I really want people to live better. Our generation has passed. But with a kind word, I still remember the Soviet Union. The national question never arose: we are the Soviet people, that's all. There was some kind of union. When the Union collapsed, we still did not fully understand what was happening, no one understood, except for those who were at the top. One of the problems of society now is a certain lack of spirituality. Society has weakened control over the resolution of issues.

- The country again started talking about a possible crisis. How do you feel about this phenomenon?

I don't really believe in crises at all. There are objective things that really affect our life, and there is the attitude of people towards them. My grandfather was a flint man, but when he talked about the war, he always cried. People went through the war, but no one gave up. They worked, tried. Everything we have was built by our grandfathers who went through it all.

Did they live better than us? They lived from hand to mouth, but they were always happy, worked, were sure that they would do the best in life not for themselves, but for future generations. And now we have begun to earn a little less - and immediately there is a crisis. One should look for the good in everything. During the crisis, everyone began to live worse, but for those who did not relax, did not give up, there were opportunities to change something. During the crisis, the business I ran was developing like never before. You need to feel inner energy, some kind of drive.

- How do you feel about negative materials about yourself?

When they write objectively, I am calm. There are interesting proposals for government work. When a person writes from himself, he offers something useful. And sometimes, they deliberately compile the facts: 10% of the truth, the rest is a lie. They immediately come running, they say, pay the money, you can justify yourself. Nonsense.

I have not done anything that I would be ashamed of. There are, of course, mistakes, as without them. In general, the indicators say that everything was done correctly. It is unpleasant when people write lies about my colleagues who really work. I cannot slander anyone.

The one to whom the material was ordered has worked out his money, well done. I take it in a Buddhist way, calmly. By the way, I really like Buddhism. In fact, we do not know either Orthodoxy or Buddhism, we do not deeply study, although there is a thousand-year wisdom.

- Who do you see yourself as in 20 years?

In 20 years, I will open a business here, in Buryatia, in retirement.

- Is there a place you would like to visit?

Honestly, I want to go to the Muisky district, look deeper there. The places there are really cool. I liked it there very much.

- What are you afraid of?

Most of all I am afraid of war. Everything else can be experienced.

Photo by Mark Agnor.

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The history of chess is at least one and a half thousand years old. Invented in India in the 5th-6th centuries, chess has spread almost all over the world, becoming an integral part of human culture. There is an ancient legend that ascribes the creation of chess to a certain Brahmin. For his invention, he asked the rajah for a seemingly insignificant reward: as many wheat grains as there will be on the chessboard if one grain is put on the first cell, two grains on the second, four grains on the third, etc. It turned out that there is no such amount of grain on the entire planet (it is equal to 264 - 1 ≈ 1.845 × 1019 grains, which is enough to fill a storage with a volume of 180 km³). So it was, or not quite, it is difficult to say, but, one way or another, the homeland of chess is India. Not later than the beginning of the 6th century in the north-west of India, the first game known to us, akin to chess, appeared - chaturanga. It already had a quite recognizable "chess" look, but fundamentally differed from modern chess in two features: there were four players, not two (they played a pair for a pair), and the moves were made in accordance with the results of throwing dice. Each player had four pieces (chariot (rook), knight, bishop, king) and four pawns. The knight and king walked the same way as in chess, the chariot and bishop were much weaker than the current chess rook and bishop. There was no queen at all. To win the game, it was necessary to destroy the entire army of opponents. The transformation of chess into an international sport Since the 16th century, chess clubs began to appear, gathering amateurs and semi-professionals, who often played on a money rate. Over the next two centuries, the spread of chess led to the emergence of national tournaments in most European countries. Chess publications are published, at first isolated and irregular, but over time they are gaining more and more popularity. The first chess magazine "Palamed" began to be published in 1836 by the French chess player Louis Charles Labourdonnais. In 1837 a chess magazine appeared in Great Britain, in 1846 in Germany. In the 19th century, international matches (from 1821) and tournaments (from 1851) began to be held. The first such tournament, held in London in 1851, was won by Adolph Andersen. It was he who became the unofficial "chess king", that is, the one who was considered the strongest chess player in the world. Later this title was challenged by Paul Morphy (USA), who won the match in 1858 with a score of + 7-2 = 2, but after Morphy left the chess scene in 1859, Andersen again became the first, and only in 1866 Wilhelm Steinitz won the match against Andersen with a score of + 8- 6 and became the new “uncrowned king”. The first world chess champion who officially bore this title was the same Wilhelm Steinitz, defeating Johann Zukertort in the first match in history, in the agreement of which the expression "world championship match" appeared. Thus, a system of title succession was established without prior arrangement: the one who won the match against the previous one became the new world champion, while the reigning champion retained the right to agree to the match or reject the opponent, and also himself determined the conditions and place of the match. The only mechanism capable of forcing the champion to play with the challenger was public opinion: if a strong, admittedly, chess player for a long time could not achieve the right to a match with the champion, this was seen as a sign of the champion's cowardice and he, saving his face, was forced to accept the challenge. Typically, the match agreement provided for the champion's right to a rematch in the event of a loss; winning such a match would return the title to the previous owner. In the second half of the 19th century, time control began to be used in chess tournaments. At first, an ordinary hourglass was used for this (the time per move was limited), which was rather inconvenient, but soon the English amateur chess player Thomas Bright Wilson (TBWilson) invented a special chess clock that made it possible to conveniently implement a time limit for the entire game or for a certain number of moves ... Time control quickly entered chess practice and soon became widespread. By the end of the 19th century, there were practically no official tournaments and matches without time control. Simultaneously with the emergence of time control, the concept of "time trouble" appeared. Thanks to the introduction of time control, special forms of chess tournaments have emerged with a greatly shortened time limit: "rapid chess" with a limit of about 30 minutes per game for each player and "blitz" - 5-10 minutes. However, they became widespread much later. Chess in the XX century In the late XIX - early XX century, the development of chess in Europe and America was very active, chess organizations were enlarged, more and more international tournaments were held. In 1924, the International Chess Federation (FIDE) was created, initially organizing the World Chess Olympiads. Until 1948, the system of succession to the title of world champion, established in the 19th century, was preserved: the challenger challenged the champion to a match, the winner of which became the new champion. Until 1921, Emanuel Lasker remained the champion (the second, after Steinitz, the official world champion who won this title in 1894), from 1921 to 1927 - Jose Raul Capablanca, from 1927 to 1946 - Alexander Alekhin (in 1935 Alekhin lost the world championship match to Max Euwe, but In 1937, in a rematch, he regained the title and held it until his death in 1946). After the death of Alekhine, who remained undefeated in 1946, FIDE took over the organization of the world championship. The first official world chess championship was held in 1948, the winner was the Soviet grandmaster Mikhail Botvinnik. FIDE introduced a system of tournaments to win the title of champion: the winners of the qualifying rounds entered the zonal tournaments, the winners of the zonal competitions entered the interzonal tournament, and the owners of the best results in the latter took part in the Candidate Tournament, where the winner was determined in a series of “elimination” games, who was to play the match. against the reigning champion. The formula for the title match has changed several times. Now the winners of the zonal tournaments participate in a single tournament with the best (by rating) players in the world; the winner becomes the world champion. The Soviet chess school played a huge role in the history of chess, especially in the second half of the 20th century. The wide popularity of chess, active, targeted training in it and the identification of capable players from childhood (a chess section, a children's chess school was in any city of the USSR, there were chess clubs at educational institutions, enterprises and organizations, tournaments were constantly held, a large amount of special literature was published) contributed to the high level of play of Soviet chess players. The attention to chess was shown at the highest level. The result was that from the end of the 1940s and the pre-collapse of the USSR, Soviet chess players almost completely dominated world chess. Of the 21 chess Olympiads that took place from 1950 to 1990, the USSR team won 18 and became a silver medalist in one more, 11 out of 14 chess Olympiads for women were won during the same period and 2 “silver” were taken. Out of 18 draws for the title of world champion among men in 40 years, only once the winner was a non-Soviet chess player (it was the American Robert Fischer), and twice more the contender for the title was not from the USSR (moreover, the contender also represented the Soviet chess school, it was Viktor Korchnoi, who fled from the USSR to the West). In 1993, Garry Kasparov, the then world champion, and Nigel Short, who won the qualifying round, refused to play the next world championship match under the auspices of FIDE, accusing the federation leadership of unprofessionalism and corruption. Kasparov and Short formed a new organization, PSA, and played a match under its auspices. There was a split in the chess movement. FIDE stripped Kasparov of his title, Anatoly Karpov and Jan Timman, who at that time had the highest chess rating after Kasparov and Short, competed for the title of FIDE world champion. At the same time, Kasparov continued to consider himself a "real" world champion, since he defended his title in a match with a legitimate challenger - Short, and part of the chess community was in solidarity with him. In 1996, the PCA ceased to exist as a result of the loss of the sponsor, after which the PCA champions were called "the world champion in classical chess." Basically, Kasparov revived the old system of title transfer, when the champion himself accepted the challenge of the challenger and played a match with him. The next "classic" champion was Vladimir Kramnik, who won the match against Kasparov in 2000 and defended his title in a match with Peter Leko in 2004. Until 1998, FIDE continued to play the title of champion in the traditional way (Anatoly Karpov remained the FIDE champion during this period), but from 1999 to In 2004, the format of the championship changed dramatically: instead of a match between a challenger and a champion, the title was played in a knockout tournament, in which the reigning champion was supposed to participate on a general basis. As a result, the title constantly changed hands, and in six years five champions changed. In general, in the 1990s, FIDE made a number of attempts to make chess competitions more dynamic and interesting, and therefore attractive to potential sponsors. First of all, this was expressed in the transition in a number of competitions from the Swiss or round robin system to the knockout system (in each round - a match of three elimination games). Since the knockout system requires an unambiguous outcome of the round, additional rapid chess games and even blitz games have appeared in the tournament regulations: if the main series of games with the usual time control ends in a draw, an additional game with a shortened time control is played. Complicated time control schemes began to be used, protecting against severe time trouble, in particular, "Fischer's clock" - time control with an addition after each move. The last decade of the XX century in chess was marked by another important event - computer chess reached a high enough level to surpass the human chess player. In 1996, Garry Kasparov lost a game to the computer for the first time, and in 1997 - with an advantage of one point, he also lost the match to the Deep Blue computer. An avalanche increase in computer performance and memory capacity, combined with improved algorithms, led to the fact that by the beginning of the 21st century, open-source programs appeared that could play in real time at the level of grandmasters. The ability to connect to them the previously accumulated bases of the debut table of small-figure endings further increases the power of the machine's play, completely eliminates the danger of making a mistake in a known position. Now the computer can effectively prompt a human chess player even at the highest level competitions. The consequence of this was changes in the format of high-level competitions: special measures began to be used at tournaments to protect against computer prompts, in addition, the practice of postponing games was completely abandoned. The time allotted to the game has also decreased: if in the middle of the 20th century the norm was 2.5 hours for 40 moves, then by the end of the century it decreased to 2 hours (in other cases - even up to 100 minutes) by 40 moves. Current state and prospects After the unification match Kramnik - Topalov in 2006, the FIDE monopoly on holding the world championship and conferring the title of world chess champion was restored. The first “united” world champion was Vladimir Kramnik (Russia), who won this match. Until 2013, the world champion was Viswanathan Anand, who won the 2007 world championship. In 2008, a rematch took place between Anand and Kramnik, Anand retained his title. In 2010 another match was played, in which Anand and Veselin Topalov took part; Anand defended the title of champion again. In 2012, a match was held, in which Anand and Gelfand took part; Anand defended the title of the tiebreaker champion. In 2013, Anand lost the title of world champion to Magnus Carlsen, who won the match ahead of schedule with a score of 6½: 3½. The champion title formula is being adjusted by FIDE. In the last championship, the title was played in a tournament with the participation of the champion, four winners of the Candidates Tournament and three personally selected players with the highest rating. However, FIDE has retained the tradition of holding personal matches between a champion and a challenger: according to the existing rules, a grandmaster with a rating of 2700 or higher has the right to challenge the champion to a match (the champion cannot refuse), provided that funding is secured and the deadlines are met: the match must end no later than six months before the beginning of the next world championship. The aforementioned progress in computer chess has become one of the reasons for the growing popularity of non-classical chess variants. Since 2000, Fischer chess tournaments have been held in which the initial arrangement of the pieces is chosen randomly before the game from 960 variants. In such conditions, the huge array of opening options accumulated by chess theory becomes useless, which, as many believe, has a positive effect on the creative component of the game, and when playing against a machine, it significantly limits the advantage of the computer in the opening stage of the game.

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Editor-in-Chief of the Autonomous Institution of the Republic of Kazakhstan "Information Agency" Republic of Karelia "

Alexander Chepik is the prime minister of the government of Karelia, the first deputy head, in fact, the second person in the republic. She has been working here since March 2017 at the invitation of Artur Parfenchikov. He considers his work in power not a success, but a great responsibility.

- You are asking if I thought as a child that I would achieve great success. But, you know, I don't feel like a 100% successful person. Such work is not a success, it is a responsibility. You are responsible for the people who live in this republic. This is your personal burden, which you cannot shift onto anyone. Sometimes you think: do I need this? You go to bed and realize that you are working for a certain grandmother who thinks you are a scoundrel. But why a bastard? After all, you sincerely want everyone to live better. There was no road in the village - they built a road. And people begin to think that it has always been. After all, as usual they argue: everything that is done well is ourselves, and everything that is bad is the officials.

- Do you feel offended by this approach in a purely human way?

- Of course, sometimes it hurts. But I understand everything.

- How did Karelia accept you? Traditionally, it is considered that this is a very difficult region to adapt.

- There are many internal conflicts in Karelia. People try to look for contradictions. And it seems to me that in fact these conflicts do not exist. It is obvious to me that people here are open, understandable and very kind. But they have a sense of lack of attention. And it is objective. I will be frank: I had no idea that there were still such regions in Russia. The whole country has already gone ahead, and Karelia is still at the level of 20 years ago. Things that are elementary for the whole country today have to start from scratch.

- How did you decide to work in Karelia? Why did you agree in the end?

- I went to work in Karelia because Artur Olegovich called me (Artur Parfenchikov - head of the Republic of Kazakhstan, ed.). We have known him for a long time, we are friends. But by the time Artur Olegovich offered to work with him in Karelia, I already wanted changes (until 2017, Alexander Chepik held the post of Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Development of the Republic of Buryatia for almost 10 years - ed.). It is no secret that when a person works in one place for a long time, negativity inevitably accumulates. At some point, its volume becomes critical - and then you have to leave. But it is important to choose the right time for leaving, so as not to betray anyone, not to let down. And so I waited. When an offer came from Karelia, I felt that the moment had come. And I made a decision. Note that I did not move here as the prime minister. Initially, I was offered the post of deputy head for regional development. So when I moved, I did not have the task of growing in position. I wanted to help Artur Olegovich understand the situation.

- And how did you get out of international business in your time in the civil service?

- After a large metallurgical holding, I considered various job offers, but all of them were related to moving abroad. And I no longer wanted to leave Russia. The comrades offered to try their hand at the civil service. They suggested that they were looking for a specialist in economic issues in one of the regions. I came to Moscow, we met with the leader. I liked everything, and I decided to go to work in Buryatia.

- When you entered the university, did you consciously choose economics as your specialty?

- I am an accountant-auditor by profession. And it was a very interesting choice. Initially, I was going to enroll as a teacher of biology and chemistry. I was already preparing and taking profile exams, but decided to consult with my uncle. He worked as the director of a collective farm in the Ryazan region, and I usually discussed important issues for myself with him. And so my uncle says to me: look, you will prepare now, but if you do not enter, where I will take you - only as a shepherd. And in order to take it as a shepherd, you need to buy cows. Better study to be an accountant, then there will definitely be a place for you in my farm. And I agreed. These were the 90s. Times are very difficult. People survived. The question has always been how to make money for a piece of bread.

In addition to a university diploma, I have the second category of a locksmith, which I received at school. There was a state farm in our village. We all worked there from school. Two weeks in summer and a month in autumn - on potatoes. Plus, we had a railway depot nearby. We were lucky that we could also earn extra money there - we were paid and at the same time were assigned specialties. I still have this little book with the category of a locksmith somewhere.

And in school, I actually forced myself to love the English language. It was not given to me, and I came up with the idea of ​​memorizing everything that was asked. I got up at 4 in the morning and crammed. Because it was impossible to get triples - my father whipped me for triples. As a result, I myself did not notice how an interest in a foreign language appeared. At the university, with a tutor, I quickly caught up with other students, passed the exams, passed the competition, and already in my 2nd year started working for the World Bank Corporation. She was also involved in privatization. It was very interesting to me. There I made my first money.

- What did you spend them on?

- I really wanted to buy a leather jacket. But then they brought very good marathon sneakers. And I ran marathons. Best result - 1 hour and 13 minutes in the 22 kilometer race. And it was almost impossible to get such sneakers at that time. In general, I bought them. But he was so sorry for the shore that in the end he never put it on. It turned out silly. By the way, they are still preserved, although 20 years have passed.

- What did sport teach you?

- We got used to difficulties, learned to make decisions. Life directed, and we moved forward. For example, at some point I realized that I needed to improve my mathematics, and within a year I became the first in the class. I didn't try to stand out on purpose, but I knew that if I started to do something, I had to do it well. This was taught by sports. By the way, at school I had the biggest Komsomol badge - I was the best Komsomol member.

Alexander Chepik: “Together with the Head of the Nadvoitsky urban settlement - Guseva Marina Leonidovna. The doll is in my hands - an exact copy of it! We have very talented people in Karelia ... talented in everything! " March, 2017. Photo from the personal page of Alexander Chepik on Facebook

Competitions in cross-country skiing in the framework of the Olympics of the ministries and departments of the Republic of Karelia. The team of the Administration of the Head of the Republic of Karelia took the second place. Oleksandr Chepik has the best result in the intra-team competition. March 2017. Photo from the personal page of Alexander Chepik on Facebook

Alexander Chepik: “This is how we spend the New Year's Eve - with my dad we went skiing in Arshan. Father ran the top ten. In a month he is seventy years old! ”. December 2016. Photo from the personal page of Alexander Chepik on Facebook

- What is the main lesson of the parental home?

- I was born in the family of a student and a graduate student. The first 8 years we lived in a hostel in a room three by two meters. My parents are teachers. They are now over 70, and they still work at the school. The world of teachers is its own special world. People are constantly learning something, they have ambitions, a desire to achieve something.

My dad is a professional athlete. He was a member of the USSR national athletics team, therefore the circle of his acquaintances was the same: athletes, winners of world competitions. These are people who knew how to cope with any difficulties. I learned to win from them.

Mom is from a simple, distant Ryazan village. These are working people who started working at four in the morning. There was no other way to survive. Because the family is big, with many children. Grandpa came home from the war and died immediately. And all the load - 8 children - lay on my grandmother. She is from a dispossessed family, she did not have any relatives, she worked as a calf all her life. All my relatives are old people already, they are people from the plow, from the earth, real workers. For me, they are an example of real, honest work.

- What project do you consider the key in your career?

- I can name the steps that are important for me. After college, I left the World Bank Corporation, started working at Sberbank, then left to run a private bank. From there he went into the manufacturing business, the production of furniture. And then I was invited to work at a metallurgical enterprise. When I arrived, people weren't getting paid for years, but commercial theft was rampant - the entire parking lot was filled with luxury cars. I have succeeded in transforming a medium-sized, local crisis enterprise into a global giant with branches in many different countries. And today it still represents our country in the international market.

- Was there something that really surprised you in Karelia?

- I was always told: Karelia has a bad climate and difficult people. But then I arrived, saw everything with my own eyes and I want to say: the climate is excellent, I bastard with winter. And people ... People here are really open and kind. Yes, with their own ambitions, yes, with a difficult history and, as I said, with a completely fair sense of lack of attention from the authorities. But this is not their problem, but rather ours. And we will work with it. I already understand what needs to be done. And in 10-15 years it will be a completely different region.

- Let's talk more specifically: name one problem with which the current government must deal with me in the coming years. One priority for your team. What should you remember as a government?

- I want the children of those who live in Karelia today to live here too. The main problem of the republic now is the outflow of the population. Not only do we have a constant demographic outflow, the best youth are leaving us. The most talented graduates go, as they think, for happiness, for success, but not all of them will find what they are looking for. And therefore we need to make sure that people in Karelia feel comfortable and confident.

We are now developing a special program with the working title “I live in Karelia”. We will make roads. We will improve the housing and communal services issues. We are planning the construction of health care facilities and the social sphere.

I know what I am talking about, once I have already passed this path. 12-13 thousand people left Buryatia every year. Now there is no departure of the population, on the contrary, in the last two years there has been an influx. The only region of the Far East and Siberia that showed, according to the latest data, an increase is Buryatia. And it will be the same in Karelia. I know how to do it.

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You go to bed and realize that you are working for a certain grandmother who considers you a scoundrel, - Alexander Chepik

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Alexander Chepik reminded the Karelian journalists that he is an accountant-auditor by profession: “ It was a very interesting choice. Initially, I was going to enroll as a teacher of biology and chemistry. I was already preparing and taking profile exams, but decided to consult with my uncle, who was the director of a collective farm in the Ryazan region. And so he says to me: look, you will prepare now, but if you do not enter, where will I take you? Only a shepherd. And then you will need to buy cows. Better study to be an accountant, then there will definitely be a place for you in my farm. And I agreed. These were the 90s. Times are very difficult. People survived. The question has always been how to make money for a piece of bread. In addition to a university diploma, I have the second category of a locksmith - I received it at school. This little book is still somewhere».

He stated that after moving to Karelia he fell in love with the local climate: “ The climate is excellent, I am bastard from winter. And people ... People here are really open and kind. Yes, with their own ambitions, yes, with a difficult history and, as I said, with a completely fair sense of lack of attention from the authorities. But this is not their problem, but rather ours. And we will work with it. I already understand what needs to be done».

« You ask me if I thought as a child that I would achieve great success. But, you know, I don't feel like a 100% successful person. Such work is not a success, it is a responsibility. You are responsible for the people who live in this republic. This is your personal burden, which you cannot shift onto anyone. Sometimes you think: do I need this? You go to bed and realize that you are working for a certain grandmother who thinks you are a scoundrel. But why a bastard? After all, you sincerely want everyone to live better. There was no road in the village - they built a road. And people begin to think that it has always been. After all, as they usually argue: everything that is done well is ourselves, and everything that is bad is the officials", - Alexander Chepik said sincerely.

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Chepik Alexander Evgenievich was born on July 13, 1974 in the town of Rybnoye, Ryazan region. From 1991 to 1996 he studied at the Ryazan State Agricultural Academy with a degree in Accounting and Audit, Economist.

In 2015, Alexander Chepik defended his Ph.D. in economics from the Moscow State University of Economics, Statistics and Informatics.

Completed training at Moscow State University with a degree in English, degree of English proficiency is Upper intermediate.