Who does Rossel’s privatizer, “May” populist and simply rentier Alexander Burkov work with in Omsk? Biography of Acting Governor of the Omsk Region Alexander Burkov Personal life of Alexander Burkov.

In 2 months, the election campaign for the election of the head of Yekaterinburg will begin. If everything goes according to plan (more precisely, according to the current version of the city charter), then at a meeting on June 11, the City Duma will decide to call elections for September 8, 2013. Taking into account the holiday of Russia Day, the decision will be published on June 13-14. Nominations of candidates will begin 80 days before election day. So for now, from a legal point of view, we can only talk about applicants. Stylistically more correct - applicants for candidates. There are a great many surnames. For definiteness, it was decided to consider those who launched explicit advertising campaigns as applicants. UPImonitor analyzed the media activity (from the beginning of the year to mid-April) of Evgeniy Artyukh. Next up is a politician with the letter “B”.

Burkov Alexander Leonidovich. He turned 46 today. Deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation for the second convocation in a row. Both times he was elected from A Just Russia, whose regional branch he has headed for six years. He began his political career together with the legendary Anton Bakov - they have in their assets the movements "May", "Industrial Parliament", the Union of State Employees of the Urals and the election bloc "Peace, Labor, May" (essentially huge campaign networks that worked on populism). In 1994, he was first elected to the Sverdlovsk Regional Duma. From 1995 to 1998 he worked as the “Ural Chubais” - chairman of the Committee for State Property Management of the Sverdlovsk Region. In 1998 he was elected to the House of Representatives of the Legislative Assembly of the Sverdlovsk Region. And in 1999, he participated in the elections for governor of the Sverdlovsk region - and, unexpectedly for Arkady Chernetsky, reached the second round. He was re-elected to the regional Duma in 2000-2004. In 2007, he was elected to the State Duma on the Socialist Revolutionary list. In 2011, unexpectedly for Alexander Misharin, “A Just Russia” in the city of “collective Chernetsky” beat “United Russia” in the elections. By education, Burkov is a thermal power engineer. Candidate of Economic Sciences. Married, has a son.

According to data, from the beginning of the year to today, Burkov was mentioned in print and electronic media 48 times. Of these, 10 mentions were in federal media. In fact, he strives to seem like a politician at the federal level, both newspapers and old ones already recognize him as such. In regional media, the State Department appears less often than other candidate candidates, but it does not appear, for example, on Channel 4, and also - which is more significant! - receives airtime on (you know, you can’t get there without the approval of the embassy or the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company). Burkov systematically promotes himself in regional publications and flashes as an “oppositionist” on government publications, but on the “opposition” radio station he is mentioned extremely rarely (relative to other “record talkers”). Appears in the media of municipalities even less often and, for some reason, mainly in the Pervouralsk ones. Although, it’s clear why - in this cheerful city he also has political interests, albeit not as large-scale as in the regional center.

And, by the way, Burkov, although he is firmly connected with A Just Russia, the self-destruction of this party in recent years does not in any way worsen the image of Burkov himself. It’s funny, but if you follow a link from Wikipedia to Burkov the party member’s page, there’s actually a “404 error” hanging there.

Burkov does not promote himself on such a large scale as other candidates for mayor, but he is the only one who does this systematically. In the off-line media, he, as a regional party leader, is practically “not found” (which is why, by the way, he can be nominated either by A Just Russia, or by the Popular Front, or by the June, July, August movement). . But monitoring immediately reveals two main themes. Burkov is “Fair housing and communal services” and “For travel!” Two “public organizations” that are promoted by Burkov and “under Burkov”. Of course, these are again some kind of PR phantoms, like various variations of “May” at one time. But both act clearly on key points of social tension - deception of the population in the housing and communal services sector and the chaos in the field of public transport. And it doesn't matter what. It is important that Burkov, as an experienced politician, works to build up the nuclear electorate, without being distracted by the agenda. Moreover, both themes are universal. Now you can attack the city authorities with all your might - they are the source of troubles and misfortunes. In December 2011, the source was United Russia. The time will come - the guns will turn on the regional authorities.

At the same time, Burkov remains a systemic politician. And he didn’t scrape up any incriminating evidence on his back, except for the story of his own brother, who was caught in some minor (by today’s standards) act of corruption. Last year there was another story with an assistant to a State Duma deputy who was selling “places on the list,” but the scammer turned out to be a former assistant, and Burkov slightly “hiccups” on a tangent. It hasn’t leaked offline yet.

Burkov first became famous throughout Russia in 1999. Then Eduard Rossel ran for a second term, and the mayor of Yekaterinburg Arkady Chernetsky decided to fight him, who was talked into this adventure by the newly-minted “gray cardinal” Vladimir Tungusov. It was an epochal "battle of industrial and commercial capital." But Rossel’s sworn friend Bakov helped out his senior comrade by starting an equally adventure with Burkov (in 2003, Bakov would repeat the trick - but this time on his own). The entry into the second round of the odious - at that time - young politician instead of the lordly mayor practically saved the governor's career.

Elections for the head of Yekaterinburg will be held in one round. But this only increases the cost of Burkov’s participation in them. The mayor's office can either bet on Burkov's victory or use it to completely take away votes from everyone in favor of its other candidate. Tungusov forgave Burkov for 1999 a long time ago, since then they have been practically comrades-in-arms. The main Sverdlovsk Social Revolutionary can deny any connection with the “collective Tungushin” as much as he likes, tell any stories to the embassy or residence - their joint venture on December 11th will always be the clearest proof of the effectiveness of the combination of a talented political manager and a charismatic young politician.

And among the candidates currently identified, Burkov is still the most charismatic. He is such a “mother-in-law candidate” (evil tongues gossip that

Svetlana Bocharova, Ekaterina Vinokurova, Anna Cherkasova

[…] According to the investigation, Myasin and Karagod worked as assistants to deputies on a voluntary basis. Deputies Beschetnov and Burkov on Monday completely disowned these people. Thus, deputy Beschetnov told Gazeta.Ru that he did not know who he was talking about: “Myasin is not my assistant, even on a voluntary basis. This is the first time I’ve heard this person’s first and last name.”

Burkov confirmed that he knew Karagod: for three years he was listed as his assistant and worked in the protocol department of the central office of the SR, but a week before the incident at National he resigned of his own free will.

["Novye Izvestia", 07/12/2011, ""Political scam" for Okhotny Ryad": The conspiratorial "mediation institute" that Myasin represents clearly demonstrates a fraudulent scheme, believes the chairman of the Center for Combating Corruption in Government Bodies, Viktor Kostromin. The expert assures that the direct purchase of seats in parliament took place five or six years ago, but today it is a pointless exercise. Therefore, it is not worth considering 7.5 million euros as a fixed fee for a deputy seat. “It’s just that now there is a different way to enter party lists. This is when a person who has finances and wants to participate in politics helps the party financially, and only then can his candidacy be considered for inclusion in the electoral lists. And everything that goes along the “cache” line is a deliberate deception. Always before elections, the Ostap Benders become more active and are engaged in taking away banknotes from overly gullible citizens,” Mr. Kostromin explained to NI.[…]
Deputy Konstantin Beschetnov said yesterday that he was hearing the first and last name of his supposed assistant for the first time. Even on a voluntary basis, no Vladimir Myasin works for him. But, despite the deputy’s attempts to disown his social activist assistant who was selling parliamentary seats, it can still be said that for A Just Russia Mr. Myasin is not just a man from the street. According to information available to NI, Vladimir Myasin was a regional political strategist for the Socialist Revolutionaries. During last year's December election campaign, he oversaw the Belgorod region, and at the March 2010 elections, Mr. Myasin was a commissioner of the Kaluga regional branch of A Just Russia.
As for Myasin’s wanted accomplice Leonid Karagod, his Duma boss, deputy Alexander Burkov, is perplexed as to how this person can even be involved in such a case. […] However, according to some sources, Leonid Karagod is also far from being an ordinary social activist. A couple of years ago, he worked as deputy head of the special projects department of the A Just Russia party. - Insert K.ru]

“What happened came as a surprise to me... Karagod seemed to me like an adult who had seen life,” Burkov told Gazeta.Ru. - All this reminds me of some kind of election games, I don’t know the second person at all. Maybe some kind of provocation... Although, of course, it’s difficult to vouch for a person in this situation.”

An informed source in United Russia told Gazeta.Ru that State Duma deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Konstantin Shirshov was also detained at the site of the transfer of money. This information was confirmed by United Russia deputy Alexander Khinshtein.

Konstantin Shirshov

A Just Russia considers the incident a provocation. “This is a rather strange message, and everything needs to be looked into in detail, but this is very similar to an election provocation,” Mikhail Yemelyanov, first deputy head of the A Just Russia faction in the State Duma, told Interfax. He noted that accusations of selling places on the United Russia list were brought against people “who do not determine anything in the party.”

The version of provocation is also supported by the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. “This funny trajectory looks too caricatured, as if something will be transferred from A Just Russia through the Communist Party of the Russian Federation to the presidential administration for United Russia.” This is the wildest fantasy that can only be born. I had to re-read the message about this story three times to understand who wanted what,” Ivan Melnikov, deputy chairman of the State Duma from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, told Gazeta.Ru. The moral, according to the communist, is that deputies should be more attentive to the formation of a staff of public assistants, “of which each deputy has four dozen.”

The head of the International Institute of Political Expertise, Evgeniy Minchenko, did not rule out provocation.

“You cannot get on the party lists by transferring something to someone through someone else. You can get a place for money, that is, for some contributions to the party, when everything is done semi-officially and an agreement is drawn up,” the expert explained.

The reason for such incidents is the lack of a civilized market in Russia that would allow interested businessmen to get into the State Duma, says Pavel Tolstykh, head of the Center for the Study of Problems of Interaction between Business and Government. Until 2004, interested citizens could run in a single-member district without being associated with political parties, but now there is no such opportunity, the expert says.

There are no official rules for including candidates on party lists, so the situation forces us to look for “people who will ensure correct communication” in the party apparatus, giving them a chance to get into the State Duma, or people in the internal management of the presidential administration who oversee the process of compiling party lists and influence the composition of the future Parliament, noted Tolstykh. In civilized countries, a businessman will be asked to invest a certain amount in an election campaign and begin to be socially active in order to get on the list, said Gazeta.Ru’s interlocutor. In Russia, virtually the same thing is happening, but due to the uncivilized nature of the market, there are many scammers on it, the expert says.

According to Tolstoy's estimates, 40-60% of deputy seats in the State Duma were, nevertheless, occupied in this way. The expert considers the amount of 7.5 million euros to be realistic; in other Duma parties, passing seats are valued cheaper, the cheapest are in A Just Russia, whose chances of getting into the future State Duma are not yet obvious. The scheme described by the Investigative Committee for selling a place on the United Russia list does not surprise the expert: assistants to deputies from one party could well know the right people in another.

The trend of the past year has been the complete emasculation of at least some independence from the institution of heads of federal subjects.

Analysts of the Kompromat-Ural portal note.

There are no visible benefits for the country from “defederation”. At the time of the cancellation of full-fledged gubernatorial elections, they explained to us that this measure would become an effective barrier to the transit of crime into power. But judging by the content of the criminal cases of Vyacheslav Gaizer, Alexander Khoroshavin, Alexander Solovyov, Leonid Markelov and other regional baron-appointees, there is an obvious assumption that there are only more criminals in power, and the scale of corruption has increased many times over. Moreover, the listed criminal governors are only those who were allowed to be captured. It’s scary to imagine how much is actually being cut. So why not bring back the good old elections instead of the current pathetic parody with municipal and other filters? For many, the answer is obvious: in the current “stable” scheme, it is much more convenient to divide regional seats among “our own”. And saw, saw, saw...

One of these “insiders” in 2017 turned out to be 50-year-old Sverdlovsk businessman and politician Alexander Burkov, who was seated by Moscow as governor of Omsk. In the turbulent 90s, he, in the role of “local Chubais,” “steered” privatization in the Sverdlovsk region in the team of the then governor Eduard Rossel. Then he organized the “May” movement, the methods of which, by today’s standards, would be considered ultra-extremist (remember, at least, the spontaneous incursions of Burkov’s “storm troopers” into administrative buildings and the forceful seizures of bureaucratic offices!). Against this background, Alexei Navalny’s opposition actions are simply games in the sandbox and an example of civilization. As the Kompromat-Ural editorial columnist recalls, Burkov’s implacable opponent in the “May” period of his career was the general director of the nascent UMMC-Holding, Andrei Kozitsyn, who then also tried his hand at elections and public politics. With the money of the aspiring oligarch, Yekaterinburg television workers produced propaganda films about the “political adventurer” Burkov, in which the “May” movement was characterized as openly fascist.

Heil Burkov!

It was a fun time. By the way, Burkov was helped in clearing up the political clearing by his then comrade-in-arms in “privatization” and a prominent participant in raider disputes Anton Bakov. Kozitsyn, to put it mildly, also did not like him and by force, under the cover of Rossel, forced him out of the Serov Metallurgical Plant. But creative enthusiasm is a thing of the past. Today, both “Maits” live in abundance from what they “honestly earned” in the dashing 90s and prudently became supporters of “sovereign” statehood. The more imposing Bakov has plunged headlong into the monarchy and is driving around the world with a fake crown of the Russian empire: who would take it?

And to the active Burkov, without the slightest experience of even municipal or industrial management, but who knows how to keep his nose strictly to the wind, the Kremlin recently gave the governorship in the Omsk region without any elections. Here, command to your health... Andrei Anatolyevich probably crossed himself: what a blessing that Omsk is not a priority for him! According to the editors of Kompromat-Ural, the holding had a small asset, UMMC-Vtortsvetmet Omsk (TIN 5507226205), and even that was liquidated in 2014. A terrible dream of young Kozitsyn during the creation of UMMC is coming true. He and his retinue fly to a meeting with a big local boss, to politely and courteously negotiate corporate projects. And in an important office he is met by the former “May” scoundrel and, as it turned out, not a fascist at all, but a whole governor, Alexander Leonidovich Burkov! This is not irony of fate - rather, homeric laughter.

Interlocutors of the Kompromat-Ural editorial board among informed Omsk residents do not expect fundamental improvements for the region from Burkov. “A strange, I would say, random tourer - that’s what he looks like. What is his background? Team? Here and there... Speaking at rallies and on the sidelines Mironova Is intriguing an experience for the first person in Omsk? Maybe his friend with an Armenian surname will come from Yekaterinburg, they will use the road budgets,” the Omsk deputy, who asked not to publish her name, is indignant. Apparently, the “friend” for road budgets is the notorious Armen Karapetyan, businessman and deputy of the legislative assembly of the Sverdlovsk region from A Just Russia. Thanks to Burkov, the odious businessman Karapetyan, even after the most shameful stories, not only retained his deputy mandate, but also again received a passing place on the party list. Sources who know Burkov’s relationship with the brawler Karapetyan point to a “financial motivating factor.”

However, it is not only and not so much the deputies who are watching the new Omsk governor. His activities are of interest to the regional prosecutor Anastas Spiridonov, head of the FSB Vasily Kondratenko, Head of the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee Andrey Kondinu, Head of the Regional Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Leonid Kolomiets and other security forces of the Omsk region and the Siberian Federal District dedicated to fighting corruption.

So, so, how many will stick this time?

Omsk colleagues asked the editors of Kompromat-Ural to cover “personal dossiers” on VIP officials surrounding Varangian Burkov in the regional leadership. The first among them is his chief of staff Yuri Karyuchin. More recently, he literally defended the previous governor with his back Victor Nazarova from press questions about the resignation, but the resignation took place, and Karyuchin serves the new boss. Does this mean that Petrovich will die for the incoming boss? Two years ago, compromising information was published in the media regarding Karyuchin. The text caused irritation and was even censored and removed from some Omsk resources. It gives the impression that the nosy Karyuchin will really find a common language with the privatizer-“Mayan” Burkov.

Alexander Leonidovich Burkov began and developed his political career in his native Urals - in the Sverdlovsk region. Here he took his first steps as a deputy from the A Just Russia party and carried out a number of social innovations. In this regard, his appointment as acting governor of the Omsk region in 2017 turned out to be quite unexpected. Burkov himself, however, considers this step “logical.”

“It is easier for a new person to build equidistant relations between government and business, political and economic elites in the region,” he said, commenting on his appointment.

Childhood and youth

Alexander Burkov (emphasis on the “y”) was born on April 23, 1967 in the mining town of Kushva, Sverdlovsk Region. This is where his parents are from, but his paternal grandfather moved here from the Volga expanses - from the Republic of Mari El. My father worked as a crane operator at a local rolling mill factory. Mom worked on the railway: from a ticket cashier in 40 years she rose to the rank of deputy station manager.

Alexander Burkov in childhood and his mother

At first, the family - parents and two children (another older brother Victor) - huddled in a communal apartment. Then the plant gave my father a separate apartment. His childhood, like that of many boys of that time, was spent in the yard.

“We climbed around construction sites and old houses that were being demolished. He broke both his legs and arms. And, of course, boy fights were a common occurrence,” the governor recalls.

As he grew older, the young man became interested in athletics and also played volleyball and basketball as part of the school team. I tried to spend my leisure time on the move, as a result of which I did not study brilliantly.

“And I didn’t strive to be an excellent student,” he says now in an interview.

The student was especially weak in the humanities subjects: Russian and English, but physics and mathematics were among his favorites. Therefore, the guy, long before graduation, decided to enter the Ural Polytechnic Institute (UPI). Having become a student at the Faculty of Thermal Power Engineering, Alexander moved to Sverdlovsk. He lived in a dormitory and was a drummer in a construction brigade. Names his student years

"the most fun and interesting part of life."

Career and politics

Burkov graduated from university in 1989, becoming a thermal power engineer. I immediately got a job in my specialty at the TEA Malachite enterprise. But the time was difficult, the 90s were approaching, salaries were small, and they were delayed. By that time, Alexander Leonidovich was already married, he had to support his family. I had to earn extra money, worked in “menial” jobs, but was able to earn money and solve the housing problem.

In the early 90s, Alexander Leonidovich tried to do business. He worked in a management position in the East Line private enterprise, and was responsible for cargo transportation, as they say now, logistics. However, he did not see any use for his knowledge and abilities in business and decided to try himself in the civil service: in 1992 he was invited as a specialist at the Working Center for Economic Reforms under the Government of the Russian Federation. Here Alexander Leonidovich began his political biography.

After 3 years of work at the center, he earned the position of head of the Regional Policy Department. By this time, he already had a deputy mandate in the Legislative Assembly of the Sverdlovsk Region (subsequently elected several times - in 1998, 2000, 2004).

Having proven himself to be a good manager, in 1995 Burkov received an important position - deputy chairman of the regional government for state property management. He was involved in the nationalization of Ural enterprises and fought, in his words, against “privatization.” He worked in the team of the then governor Eduard Rossel.

In 1998, due to a conflict with the governor, Burkov left his position and resigned, incl. and parliamentary mandate. But relatives of Kushvina supported their fellow countryman in difficult times and nominated him as a deputy to the regional legislative assembly for the Kushvinsky district. And soon Burkov organized and led the “May” movement, the goal of which was to eliminate another social injustice - cutting pensions for Russian pensioners.

In 1999, Alexander Burkov was nominated for the post of head of the region, and according to the voting results he took second place (28.25%), losing to his former leader, Eduard Rossel. Burkov was 32 years old at that time.

During his time as a politician, Burkov became the initiator of several social movements and organizations: “Industrial Parliament of the Sverdlovsk Region”, “For social guarantees for workers “May””, “Union of State Employees of the Urals” and others. The All-Russian public association “Russian Union of House Councils” (RSDS), which he created, received the widest response, implying reform of the problematic sphere of housing and communal services in the real interests of the owners.

Later, in 2013, the first congress of the RSDS was held and the “Fair Housing and Communal Services” program was presented, the implementation of which is now carried out by the Centers for the Protection of Citizens' Rights of the A Just Russia party in 78 regional capitals across Russia.

Burkov has shared the interests, goals and objectives of the A Just Russia party since 2007. It was then that he became secretary of the Bureau of the Council of the regional branch of the party “A Just Russia: Motherland / Pensioners / Life” in the Sverdlovsk region.

In the same year he became a State Duma deputy from the Right Russia party. In 2011, he was elected to the Presidium of the Central Council of the party. He headed the committees on transport, housing policy, and resolved issues of organizing the preparation and conduct of election campaigns. He worked in the State Duma as first deputy head of the A Just Russia faction. In 2013, the politician was awarded the medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II degree.

In October 2017, the president appointed Alexander Burkov as acting governor of the Omsk region.

Immediately after the appointment, a collage was made on Twitter from photos of Alexander Burkov and two other appointed heads of regions - (Samara region) and (Nizhny Novgorod region). The creators of the collage noted the striking similarity between the officials and began joking about

“the secret factory of governors and cloning technologies used by the Kremlin.”

Personal life

The politician does not like to talk about his personal life. It is only known that Alexander and his beloved wife Tatyana have been together for over 25 years. The young people studied together at UPI, but began dating only after graduating from university and soon got married.

Governor Burkov's wife was born into an intelligent family: her mother is an economist, her father is an engineer. She was engaged in business and opened several outerwear stores in Yekaterinburg. With the birth of her son Volodya in 2012, she left her job and devoted herself to her family.

The spouses have a joint hobby. Both are keen cross-country skiers. And my husband is also an avid hunter. He is not active on social networks; he has an Instagram account for the press service.

Alexander Burkov now

On September 9, 2018, Alexander Burkov won the election for governor of the Omsk region, gaining 82.56% of the votes. Despite the fact that his acquaintance with the Siberian region is just beginning (he arrived there for the first time in October 2017), the politician is determined.

Burkov is convinced of the high industrial and agricultural potential of the region and intends to realize the existing opportunities.

“A Siberian is not only one who was born in Siberia, but also one who came here to live and work. For me, Omsk is not a springboard. I came here for a long time,” he says.

At this point there was an article entitled “The Golden Sum dissuaded, or Why the forecast of the editors of Kompromat-Ural regarding Ziya(v)udin Magomedov is coming true.” The text of the article dated April 4, 2018 consisted of five paragraphs. Only one of them mentioned Mikhail Kiyko. Mikhail Yuryevich is now the former general director of United Grain Company JSC (UGC). Kiiko stayed in this position for barely a year and a half and was fired in November 2018. JSC "OZK" is half owned by a businessman Ziyavudin Magomedov.

The mention in the above-mentioned article about the “relationship of financial dependence” between Magomedov and Kiiko caused the latter’s displeasure. Mr. Kiyko’s application demanding the removal of the disputed article (all five paragraphs, and not just about Kiyko) was considered by a judge of the Arbitration Court of the Sverdlovsk Region Elena Seliverstova. She fully satisfied the claim, which was far-fetched, in our opinion.

On 01/09/2019 the decision came into force. Following the letter of the law, the editors of Kompromat-Ural deleted the text within the established period. Nevertheless, we will continue to appeal the illegal and absurd, in our opinion, judicial act and thank all readers who assist in this.

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The May holidays turned out to be hot for the correspondents of the Kompromat-Ural portal. We have new information at our disposal to continue the anti-corruption investigation against the deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Nikolai Brykin. This is a former general of the tax police and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and now a representative of the lower house of parliament in the Supreme Court (Brykin was delegated to the State Duma in 2016 on the list of United Russia from the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug and the Tyumen Region).

The scandals surrounding Brykin are caused by the fact that the Ugra entrepreneur is from the “list Titova» Konstantin Dyulgerov, forced to flee Russia due to pressure from the security forces, openly accused the retired general of organizing a custom-made criminal prosecution. Dyulgerov revealed the details of his misadventures in detail in an actual interview with Novaya Gazeta. The victim in the dubious case of Dyulgerov is Brykin’s son-in-law Sergey Kiryanov, and the hero of the scandal himself, as the editors of Kompromat-Ural found out, before being nominated to the State Duma, transferred multimillion-dollar development assets on the Black Sea coast to his daughter Valentin Kiryanov(in 2016, Breeze LLC, which was transferred to her, had assets worth almost half a billion rubles on its balance sheet!). Brykin ran for deputy as a modest representative of the “patriotic fund” (legally this was a fiction).

The other day, the editorial office of Kompromat-Ural received a response from the Assistant Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Valeria Volkova(Valery Georgievich came from the leadership of the Prosecutor General’s Office for supervision over the implementation of anti-corruption legislation). We contacted Yuri Chaika on the issue of verifying the accuracy of the declaration information about the personal welfare of Mr. Brykin. Is the people's servant living within his means, who in the shortest possible time after leaving the Ministry of Internal Affairs turned into a dollar millionaire, and then just as quickly got rid of his “deserved” wealth before the elections to the State Duma?

In a recent publication by our colleagues from the Tyumen publication 72.ru, it was noted that according to formal declarations, Nikolai Brykin hangs out at the bottom of the deputy rating: “for 2017, his income amounted to “only” 4.8 million rubles. Less than others, but don’t rush to conclusions. He owns two huge plots of land, a couple of spacious country houses and a modest apartment of 76 square meters. His wife has a larger apartment: 116 square meters. Also registered on it are four residential country houses and two plots of land. And all their family vehicles are registered to Brykin’s wife - a Toyota Land Cruiser, a Shore Land SRV31B trailer and a Sea Ray 185S boat. How the lady managed to buy all this “herself”, earning 2.9 million a year, one can only guess.”

An assistant to Yuri Chaika reported to the editors of Kompromat-Ural that “the powers to conduct appropriate checks in relation to deputies of the State Duma” are vested in the Duma commission for monitoring the reliability of income information, headed by Natalia Poklonskaya(she is also deputy chairman of the Committee on Security and Anti-Corruption). Therefore, according to Valery Volkov’s response, the appeal about Brykin was sent to the lower house. The editors of Kompromat-Ural will monitor the responses of the State Duma Speaker’s office Vyacheslav Volodin and the profile commission. In mid-April, Mrs. Poklonskaya confirmed to reporters that Brykin is indeed one of the five persons involved in anti-corruption checks carried out by the commission she heads. By the way, in this list Brykin is adjacent to the “pubic” deputy from the LDPR, the hero of immoral sex scandals Leonid Slutsky.

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Media partners of the Kompromat-Ural editorial board ask our observers to cover a resonant story, which for unknown reasons remains without a proper reaction from the St. Petersburg prosecutor's office, headed by Sergei Litvinenko, and the head office of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region, which is headed by Novel Plugin. We are talking about the fact that “the fugitive billionaire Aghajan Avanesov, who is on the federal wanted list for transferring about nine billion rubles abroad, lives quietly in a hotel in St. Petersburg...” “Why is no one looking for a wanted billionaire?” journalists ask rhetorically, probably sadly once again becoming convinced that “everyone is equal before the law and the court” - these are beautiful and meaningless words from the Constitution of the Russian Federation.

“For a couple of years now, the former head of the board of directors of StarBank, Agadzhan Avanesov, has been on the federal wanted list. Investigative authorities in St. Petersburg are looking for him as part of a criminal case for theft on an especially large scale. We are talking about the delivery of a large batch of fish products worth 131 million rubles, which the partners of Fish Factory LLC did not receive. This company is also part of the business of banker Avanesov. A large trading company paid all the cash tranches in full, but the fish never arrived.

In September 2017, the investigative department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Kalininsky district of St. Petersburg opened a criminal case under Part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (fraud). As part of this case, in the fall of the same year, the property of Fish Factory LLC was arrested by court decision...

Do you know about other criminal authorities who are formally wanted, but selfishly motivated security forces do not bother them? Report to:compromising- ural@ protonmail. com

“In Russia, I think the judiciary should be subject to lustration. Totally. Because what we have under the guise of justice is an insult.” “I believe that complete lustration of the judiciary would be extremely desirable. The current Russian court is a stronghold of lawlessness.” These and other bold statements were recently made in various media by a famous scientist, Doctor of Historical Sciences Valery Nightingale.

“With high confidence,” he predicts the beginning of a serious political crisis in Russia in 2020 and calls not to have any illusions about law enforcement officers, who are unleashed and armed to the teeth, who will supposedly stand up as a monolithic wall to protect the current regime. “Even ordinary security forces are experiencing increasing pressure from the authorities - remember how much news there has been lately about the suicide of certain security forces,” notes Valery Solovey.

Observers of the Kompromat-Ural project drew attention to the interview, or rather, even an extensive conversation between Valery Dmitrievich and an Ekaterinburg journalist Evgeniy Senshin on the current topic: “Should we expect a revolution in Russia?”

During an information investigation regarding a large coal “baron” Dmitry Bosov(TIN 770400406175), interesting facts about his biography and the peculiarities of doing business were revealed. This includes connections with the arrested ex-minister Mikhail Abyzov and crime bosses, and illegal coal mining, and offshore companies, and environmental pollution, and Italian villas. However, this time he managed to win the battle with his competitors and the details that emerged did not affect his fate in any way.

At the end of March, it became known that the Krasnoyarsk department of the FSB of Russia opened a criminal case against unidentified persons from among the leaders of the Arctic Mining Company (AGK), part of the VostokCoal group, which is owned by Dmitry Bosov and Alexander Isaev(TIN 502482607042). The third co-owner of Arctic Mining Company LLC (AGRK, INN 7707255694), according to the editorial office of Kompromat-Ural, is the notorious oligarch Bokarev Andrey Removich(TIN 771312791603), partner of UMMC beneficiaries Iskandar Makhmudov And Andrey Kozitsyn.

The intelligence services were interested in the illegal mining and sale of coal, RBC writes, citing a source familiar with the investigation and an interlocutor at the Ministry of Natural Resources. An unnamed source claims that the case was initiated on the basis of illegal business activity (Article 171 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The Nezygar Telegram channel even published photographs of the decision to initiate a criminal case dated April 8, and then the protocol of interrogation of the general director of AGK Vadim Bugaev(TIN 420523793968), which took place on April 17.

“El Dorado in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, or the Minister’s “Candle Factory” Kolokoltseva“- this is the title of an anti-corruption journalistic investigation recently published in the media. The editors of Kompromat-Ural carefully studied the resonant materials. As the authors believe, “it seems that a giant “raspberry” has grown and expanded in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation: the generals of the department may be involved in possible fraudulent tricks of the “Main Center for Communications and Information Protection of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation.”

Apparently, the alleged fraud may be on a gigantic scale, since the editors have received shocking documents about what is going on in the labyrinths of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation at 16 Zhitnaya Street. And this is a continuation of the topic that was covered in the recent investigation “Mislanded Cossack in a state corporation” Rostec". The material described the virtuoso schemes that the Federal State Institution (FKU) “Main Center for Communications and Information Protection of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation” uses to chop “cabbage.” And one of the “carriers” of information, a certain colonel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Ruslan Suleymanov, who magically escaped prison, is now doing chemical work at the Rostec Group of Companies.

And although the “ulcers” in the Ministry of Internal Affairs have long been opened, the “boils” have been cleaned out, but things are still there! But at PKU, bosses still change like socks. There are already criminal cases filed here. There are requests for an international search, but the office is working, billions are flowing and flowing in the “right” direction. El Dorado - a fairy-tale wonderland - blooms and smells in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. And only Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev, for some unknown reason, clearly does not notice what is happening?

In general, we are talking about possible “corruption schemes” in the department of General Kolokoltsev...

To become the author of an article in a foreign scientific journal indexed in the authoritative databases Scopus or Thomson Reuters (especially if it is ranked in the first quartile), you need to do long and persistent research. Or just have a thousand dollars. In Russia, there are dozens of companies offering anyone (including people who have no idea about science) to become a co-author of a scientific publication in any specialty of their choice - the article itself will be written by anonymous “slaves”, you will only be asked to say your name and transfer an amount (usually modest). Journalists conducted a test purchase, turning their correspondent into a specialist in the field of economic education. As it turned out, such services are very popular in Russian universities.

Many Russian scientists have received spam in their mail with numerous offers to publish for money in scientific journals. Real scientists, as a rule, are not interested in this, since they care as much about the number of publications as the Hirsch index (which takes into account the citation of articles). But for universities, the number of publications is important - the state takes this parameter into account when allocating funding (hoping thereby to raise Russian universities in world rankings). Universities, in turn, come up with their own financial incentive schemes for teachers with a large number of foreign publications indexed in authoritative databases such as Scopus or Thomson Reuters. Of course, teachers quickly adapted to the new requirements and found a loophole - publications in so-called “predatory journals” that do not carefully check the quality of articles, but are indexed in Scopus or Thomson Reuters. HThe number of Russian publications in unscrupulous foreign journals indexed by Scopus increased sharply in 2013, and by 2018 the total number was 15 thousand.

This problem itself is known, and Scopus is trying to combat this kind of practice. What is less known is that in Russia there has developed a huge market for the sale of co-authorship in this kind of journals, when scientists not only do not want to write a good article, but do not want to write anything at all, simply wanting to become the author of an indexed publication for money. Moreover, there are many exchanges that act as intermediaries between buyers, editors and literary slaves, allowing you to choose in advance which journal, on what topic and when you want to publish.

If you are aware of the manipulations of Russian candidates, doctors, associate professors and professors, please report to the editors of Kompromat-Ural:compromising- ural@ protonmail. com