FBK investigation: will Medvedev be removed and Navalny imprisoned? What about the influence on Navalny’s positions? Minors hostages of a political program
The oppositionist wants to combine the democratic masses and the embittered people
Looks for painful reference points of power and tries to use them. He was already a nationalist. Nationalism did not pass. But when they introduced a new national holiday in Russia - November 4, Nationalist Day - we thought: here it is, the main force. It is nationalism that will break through this rotten government. And thousands of people on the Russian March - isn’t it beautiful?! But after Crimea, Donbass, almost our Russian nationalism was blown away, and they all quarreled among themselves there. And Navalny left Russian nationalism.
He was (and is!) a liberal. But the liberals are shrinking like shagreen leather. Today liberals are irrelevant. Yes, they no longer consider Navalny one of their own.
Navalny raised children to fight. This seemed like a very promising move, because children are our future. But the children went one, two, three times and stopped. Some were scared, some were not allowed in by mom.
Now Alexei Navalny is a trade union leader. He wants to raise the masses of state employees, and there are millions of them. There are masses of dissatisfied doctors and teachers, and there are many of them too. In principle, perhaps Navalny doesn’t care about these state employees, doctors and teachers, but he again found a weak point - Putin’s May decrees. Many of them are practically impossible, but he promised. And Navalny is hitting on these promises. He hammers and hammers with his small-caliber machine gun around the perimeter, from all sides. But where is the result?
In principle, we see that on the battlefield these political chess are played by two grandmasters - Navalny and Putin. The rest either became spectators, fans, or became shriveled, cowardly, always whining, or became involved in power. And only these two play.
Remember how Karpov and Kasparov did this once before and after perestroika? Kasparov then personified the emerging young democratic forces, yes, the “child of change,” but Karpov - the bureaucratic system, the machine, the favorite of Brezhnev, who was no longer alive, the conqueror of the “traitor” Korchnoi. Oh, how we rooted for Kasparov back then! He won.
Now the situation is different. So far, Putin is outplaying Navalny in all respects (however, if you remember that very first main match, because then Karpov led 5:0, and then became exhausted - and Kasparov still won). Putin is pressing all over the field. He is both a nationalist (after the capture of Crimea), and a socialist (yes, with meager, but increases in pension), and a patriot-statist, and a liberal (in economics and on “Echo of Moscow”). Yes, Putin is everywhere, he is comprehensive. In principle, he built a rather cozy system that you don’t want to leave. The same liberals are ready to hold rallies, stand up in single pickets, but in the evening they need, and simply need, a cup of strong coffee at Jean-Jacques. Exactly the same way, Navalny (with all due respect to him for his many-day imprisonment) wants to speak at a rally, and expose the powerful bosses with the propagandists who have joined them - and go to Mexico on vacation, and to Thailand, and in Barcelona to treat his eyes, doused with brilliant green powerful titushki, and not in Moscow. In addition, Alexey himself very often plays by Putin’s rules, attacking first of all the president’s entourage, and not himself.
...And there are also people about whom Putin thinks so much on TV and who want to use Navalny without any TV. So, these people, in principle, are becoming more and more indifferent to the higher authorities, but at the same time they do not fully believe Navalny, they do not support him. Cause? It’s easy to talk about redneck people, idiots, stupid TV viewers to whom you can hang anything on their ears. No, people are very wise in their own way. Understand: everything that is happening now is the reaction of the people to perestroika, to those very 90s, humiliated and insulted. The people, in their collective unconsciousness, experienced enormous humiliation in that past time and still feel absolutely deceived and deceived. The people had reached such a state that at the turn of the century it was enough for them to show their finger, smile, say: I belong to you, I am for you, I am for truth and justice - and they, the people, followed their new shepherd, without hesitation and without looking back . This also needs to be taken into account, of course.
Alexey Navalny wants to cross a snake and a hedgehog: the democratic masses and the embittered people. This is exactly what happened at the end of perestroika, in the early 90s, when, in addition to the democrats taking to the streets, the stores ran out of food. The weight reached the floor, a critical mass formed by itself - and the USSR collapsed, the government collapsed.
Now, it seems to me, the situation is not the same, so Navalny is losing for now.
VILLAGE BORSHCHEVKA (Tambov region), April 4 - RIA Novosti. Behind the “so-called investigations” lies an attempt to drag people out onto the streets, to achieve political and selfish goals, said Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. According to him, this is a “dishonorable position.”
Previously, Alexey Navalny posted on his channel in YouTube a film that tells how the Russian prime minister allegedly acquired various property with the help of non-profit foundations. Medvedev’s press secretary Natalya Timakova said that it makes no sense to comment on this “investigation,” emphasizing that Navalny’s material is of a clearly pre-election nature, as he himself says at the end of the video.
"Who benefits from this? It benefits those who order these kinds of stories and materials. These are, as a rule, people who have very specific political goals. They are trying to show that the authorities behave badly, and they are better than everyone else. Everything would be fine if there weren’t a very specific story behind it. The story is to get people out onto the streets and achieve their political goals,” Medvedev said at a meeting with Rusagro workers.
According to the prime minister, “all these stories that are being filmed, by the way, are being filmed for a lot of money, and this money is collected, of course, not from the people, but there are private sponsors who are behind it all, they are aimed at achieving a very specific political result."
“And everything is done according to the principle of “compote”: they take all sorts of different dregs, collect all sorts of nonsense: if it concerns me, then about people I know, about people I’ve never heard of, about some places where I’ve been , about some places that I have also never heard of. They collect some pieces of paper, photographs, clothes and then create such a product and present it,” Medvedev noted, clarifying that it is quite difficult for the viewer to understand this, “ and if you pay well for it, then the product turns out to be quite good.”
Minors hostages of a political program
The political goals of such activities, the prime minister believes, are completely obvious.
“The character you are talking about, he openly says: everyone is bad and elect me president. Without any embarrassment. And for this he drags people into the streets, very often minors. Which, in my opinion, is practically a crime. And he makes them hostage to their own political agenda,” he said.
Medvedev emphasized Navalny’s criminal record, whom the court, during a retrial, found guilty in the Kirovles case and sentenced to five years probation.
“In this regard, there should be no illusions. Nevertheless, through social networks, young people are pulled out, these youth come out with certain slogans. And, unfortunately, they come out in violation of the law. That is, in essence, they are being put under the law enforcement machine, and they are... they then suffer for this. This is a dishonest position. This is simply a way to achieve one’s own selfish goals. I cannot describe it any other way,” the prime minister continued.
Responsibility to citizens in continuing work
Medvedev also expressed his personal attitude towards Navalny’s film.
“You know, in general my nerves are strong, otherwise I would not be able to work in the positions in which I work. I worked as president, and in the government when I work, if I would react every time to this kind of attack, to this kind of kind of provocation, then I simply wouldn’t be able to do normal work,” he said.
“I continue to work, do my job. This is my responsibility to the citizens of the Russian Federation,” Medvedev concluded, noting that provocations are the simplest thing that can be done.
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On Wednesday, April 19, Chairman of the Russian Government Dmitry Medvedev delivered his annual report to deputies of the State Duma of the Russian Federation. After the speech, the parliamentarians addressed the Prime Minister with their comments. The main intrigue of the meeting was related to the investigation of Alexei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation, “He’s Not Dimon,” published at the beginning of March this year, about the secret assets that, according to the FBK, are at the disposal of Medvedev. The day before, the leadership of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation asked its deputy Valery Rashkin a question on this topic. Nevertheless, Medvedev was asked what prevents him from defending himself from Navalny’s “attacks.”
Medvedev's speech began around noon. Main political event year, the prime minister called elections to the State Duma of the Russian Federation. The main thing in the work of power for Russians is the ability to win honestly and cleanly, the head of the Cabinet noted. “People voted for stability and at the same time for development,” the prime minister explained.
At the same time, Medvedev said that the struggle during the presidential race in 2018 will be serious. “But we have never turned political struggle into war and we do not intend to do so,” the prime minister assured. According to Medvedev, “only those who hardly care about how Russia will live, those who want to isolate and weaken our country,” will benefit from this.”
According to Medvedev, 2016 was a year of austerity of resources. In the economy, we have realized the possibilities of situationally responding to crisis phenomena, the head of government noted. “We have to rely only on ourselves, they continued to put pressure on us with sanctions (...) and oil was cheap,” but “today no challenges scare us.” “Our economy is developing, even though everyone predicted a disaster for us,” Medvedev said.
“All assessments are conditional, but it still matters. The two largest rating agencies of the Big Three - I mean Fitch and Moody's - have changed their forecasts for the Russian economy from “negative” to “stable” over the past six months. another one, S&P, raised it to “positive,” the head of the Cabinet recalled, “And by the end of the year, Russia may once again return to the category of countries with an investment rating. And that means additional features for the influx of finances, and other tasks,” the prime minister explained.
On solving demographic problems
Medvedev then began to list the results of the government's work. In particular, increasing life expectancy. "Since 2006 (and why do we take 2006 - it was during that period that we began to implement the first national project) it has grown by 6 years and reached almost 72 years. This is the most high rate in the entire history of the country,” the prime minister said, followed by applause.
Medvedev also reported an increase in the birth rate. More than 10 years ago, we got serious about demography, the prime minister noted. “The situation then seemed insurmountable,” but now “we have surpassed many European countries in terms of birth rates,” said the head of the Cabinet.
According to him, there is another problem to be solved. Currently, the generation born at the turn of the 90s is entering childbearing age, which is not as numerous as the previous ones, and therefore the country is facing not the most favorable trends in demography. “But we have proven that any, even the most negative, trends and tendencies can be reversed. To do this, we need to continue to support families, use not only those measures that have proven themselves, but also take new ones,” the head of the Cabinet continued.
The prime minister also called the reduction in the number of orphans in Russia from 120 thousand in 2012 to less than 60 thousand in 2016 an important achievement.
About the development of healthcare
Another result of the government's work is the development of healthcare. According to Medvedev, the infant mortality rate in the Russian Federation for recent years decreased by almost half, largely due to the construction of new perinatal centers. “Both maternal and infant mortality are decreasing. Since 2011, the infant mortality rate has almost halved. And in 2016, compared to 2015, by 7.7%,” the prime minister said (quoted by TASS).
As Medvedev noted, in 2016, according to the World Health Organization, Russia was among the ten countries that have made the greatest progress in the fight against heart and lung diseases and diabetes in recent years; The number of deaths from these diseases is decreasing.
The issue of construction of new high-tech medical centers using personalized health technologies, the prime minister said. “We are now considering the issue of creating new centers in the regions where nuclear and regenerative medicine methods and modern personalized health technologies will be used,” said the head of the Cabinet. Medvedev recalled that such centers have already been created throughout the country.
Medvedev also drew attention to the development of telemedicine and information technology, “so that people can easily make an appointment with a doctor, get the necessary certificate, and have access to their medical record.” According to him, this year a priority project for the development of air ambulance will be launched in 34 regions of the country, for which 3.3 billion rubles will be allocated. In addition, almost 2.3 thousand new vehicles have already been purchased from the federal budget to update the ambulance fleet.
In addition, the government will try to support domestic pharmaceutical manufacturers and prevent drug prices from rising, Medvedev said. The Prime Minister recalled that in six regions of the Russian Federation, a labeling system is already being built in pilot mode, designed to protect people from counterfeit medicines. By the end of 2018, all manufactured drugs must be labeled, Medvedev emphasized.
About indexation of pensions
During his speech, Medvedev proposed discussing the possible economic consequences of indexing pensions for working pensioners in the country in the future. “I know that deputies from the Communist Party have a question regarding the further indexation of pensions for working pensioners. Let’s discuss the social and economic consequences of this,” the prime minister said.
The prime minister also promised that this year pensions will be indexed in accordance with the law. “In addition, from February 1, we switched to indexing all federal social payments based on actual inflation. This is the first time this has been done,” Medvedev said.
About unemployment and income levels
Medvedev predicts unemployment will fall below 5% this year. “The unemployment rate was 5.5%. This year we expect that it should drop below 5%. This is close to the world average,” the head of the Cabinet noted.
Medvedev promised that the government "will help people who have lost their jobs and those who are at risk of being fired." “Both we and the regions have all the tools for this,” he is confident.
According to Medvedev, minimum size wages (minimum wage) in the Russian Federation in the next few years will be raised to the subsistence level for working citizens. “Last year we raised the minimum wage twice - to 7,500 rubles, although this was also not easy, and I had to hold several meetings on this topic, explain why this needs to be done. From July 1 of this year, the minimum wage will rise to 7 800 rubles. And in the next few years - to the level of the living wage of a working person,” Medvedev said.
The prime minister promised that the government will continue to work to increase wages for workers in the fields of education, healthcare and culture and will bring them to the indicators outlined in the “May decrees” of the president, Interfax reports.
Medvedev: we do not plan to raise taxes in 2017
During his speech, Medvedev said that at least in 2017 there are no plans to increase taxes in the country. According to the head of the Cabinet, so far, even without increasing the tax burden, tax collection remains high.
The moratorium on raising the levy level has been in effect for three years, and most of the changes adopted in the taxation system last year were aimed specifically at improving collection rates, the prime minister explained. “In the first quarter of this year, tax revenues increased by almost a third compared to the first quarter of last year. This is actually a very important indicator, although Winston Churchill said that only spending is popular, and collecting money to ensure it can never be popular But we managed to increase tax collection,” Medvedev concluded.
About a “careful” increase in tariffs in the Platon system
Also during his speech, Medvedev said that, thanks in part to the Platon system, which caused protests by truckers across the country, the share of overloaded highways in the Russian Federation is last year has decreased, and the collections from it amount to 20 billion rubles. According to the head of the Cabinet of Ministers, last year over 3 thousand km of roads were built and reconstructed, 22 thousand km were repaired, seven bridges were built, and 30 more were repaired.
“The number of congested highways has decreased by a quarter. And this is the result of various measures, including the launch of the well-known Platon system, which is now collecting 20 billion rubles,” the prime minister said. “And we, taking into account the different positions and opinions of the carriers themselves, did not increase it (Platon’s tariff) significantly, but tried to do everything quite carefully,” Medvedev concluded.
About 99% completion of the state defense order
Also during his speech, Medvedev said that the state defense order in 2016 was completed at a record level of 99%. “As for the nuclear weapons complex, which is very sensitive for our country, this figure was 100%,” the prime minister said.
Medvedev noted that the military-industrial complex was the first to face sanctions from NATO and EU countries, and therefore it was in the defense industry that import substitution was the first to begin. “As a result, production volume in the defense industry increased by more than 10%. And labor productivity growth for the year was 13%,” the head of the Cabinet reported.
To prevent scientists from being “lured” to the West, spending on science is increasing
Medvedev reminded the deputies that “just recently, Western foundations of all kinds, without hesitation, carried out selection at Russian universities, they simply came and lured away the most talented, there was a real hunt for talent.” But in Russia it was considered unfashionable to go into science. “Today we are doing everything to overcome this intellectual “failure,” Medvedev stated. “General spending on science has been growing in recent years. It is also important that private capital money has begun to flow into this area.”
The Prime Minister recalled the increase in grants for young candidates and doctors of science, the launch of the Megagrants program and the creation of 160 international-level laboratories under the leadership of world-famous scientists on the basis of Russian universities and scientific organizations. According to him, another 40 such laboratories will begin operating in 2017.
On the implementation of the program for resettlement from emergency housing
Medvedev announced the completion of the task set by the president for resettlement from emergency housing, recognized as such as of January 1, 2012. “We are talking about resettling 3 million square meters, where almost 200 thousand people live, this year,” the prime minister explained.
According to him, during the implementation of the program since 2008, over 860 thousand people from more than 13 million square meters have been resettled. m of emergency housing. Last year, 176 thousand people moved to new apartments. In the country as a whole, the 2016 targets for this program were achieved by 105%, Medvedev noted. In 14 regions, housing recognized as unsafe as of January 1, 2012 has already been liquidated.
Answers to questions from deputies
Medvedev's speech in the State Duma lasted about an hour. From approximately 13:00 to 14:30, the prime minister answered questions from representatives of the Duma factions.
In particular, the Prime Minister was asked about the indexation of pensions of working pensioners. Medvedev said that this issue is not closed and the government will formulate its position in the near future. “The problem exists, we are not closing this topic, we will return to discussing this issue. In the near future we will formulate a position on how to proceed further, because there are different proposals for working pensioners,” Medvedev said.
Medvedev called the US missile strike in Syria "an act of military aggression"
Answering questions from deputies, Medvedev commented on the US missile attack on a Syrian government airfield in Homs province on the night of April 7 in response to an alleged chemical attack in Idlib, which the American side attributes to the forces of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. According to the Russian Prime Minister, the Americans are fighting not against terrorists, but against political power in SAR.
“The first action that the American administration carried out in the Syrian direction was a strike against government troops. That is, the fight was launched not against terrorists, but against the political power of Syria,” Medvedev said. The head of the Cabinet of Ministers added that “further escalation of violence will only lead to the destruction of the Syrian state, its fragmentation and at least a partial victory for terrorists, and this is categorically not in line with our plans.”
According to Medvedev, from the point of view international law US actions are “an act of military aggression,” while Russia’s participation in resolving the situation in Syria is “based on the legal invitation of the current Syrian government.” “And the Americans used force without the sanction of the UN, in violation of international law. And this is an act of military aggression,” Medvedev said, adding that the “Islamic State”* (a terrorist group banned in the Russian Federation) benefited from the US actions.
At the same time, Medvedev called the alleged chemical attack on April 4 in Idlib a “well-thought-out provocation” that bore fruit for the US administration. According to him, the objective circumstances of this incident, “what actually happened there, whether the warehouse chemical weapons, or in general all this was invented and inspired,” a competent commission must find out. Russia’s task is to contribute to the investigation of what happened, “and not immediately label the Assad government,” Medvedev noted.
Medvedev believes that there are few protesters against “Platon” in the country
Medvedev also answered a question about the Platon system of collecting fees from drivers of heavy trucks. According to him, the number of truckers protesting against this system is insignificant. “If we talk about those who are now in a state of so-called strike, then this is approximately 480 people. Please note that 800 thousand cars are registered in the Platon system. That is, in other words, this is a rather small number of people,” - the prime minister explained.
At the same time, Medvedev emphasized that it is the carriers unregistered in Plato who make certain demands, since registered carriers want to work in the “white” and not the “gray” zone.
At the same time, Medvedev admitted that certain complaints against the Platon system are fair and instructions have been given on them. “I met personally with the leaders of truck drivers, they raised a lot of different questions, many of the questions are absolutely fair - which relate to a number of technical problems, for example, the maximum axle load, the quality of the tracks, issues related to liability for violating traffic rules, and, of course, payment issues in the Platon system. Instructions have been given on all these issues,” the Prime Minister said.
Medvedev refused to comment on “Navalny’s attacks”
A representative of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation faction asked Medvedev what was preventing him from defending himself from the “attacks (of the founder of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, oppositionist Alexei. - Note website) Navalny." "What prevents you from refusing the services of Kudrin and Nabiullina, who you fired (ex-Minister of Finance Alexei Kudrin and head of the Central Bank Elvira Nabiullina. - Note website) and defend against Navalny’s attacks?” asked Nikolai Kolomeytsev, a deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.
The prime minister responded in a harsh tone that he did not intend to comment on this topic. "I have already spoken on this topic. I will not in a special way comment on the absolutely false products of political crooks. And I believe that the faction of the Communist Party that I respect Russian Federation should refrain from this,” Medvedev snapped, followed by applause.
Medvedev’s call was supported by State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin. “By the way, the country has already suffered from this once, and first of all the CPSU. Therefore, conclusions must be drawn,” said the head of the lower house.
On the improvement of the Volga and the elimination of environmental damage on Lake Baikal
Answering one of the questions from deputies, Medvedev announced the government's intention to introduce a bill on the improvement of the Volga River basin, similar to the measures taken in relation to Lake Baikal. According to him, this will happen in the next one and a half to two months.
We are talking about solving problems such as the discharge of waste from industrial and agricultural enterprises into the Volga, the improvement of both the river itself and its tributaries, including biological self-reproduction in them.
According to Medvedev, “the money has already been partially allocated, it is not very large - it is several billion rubles.” At the same time, according to the Ministry of Natural Resources, general level The funds needed to improve the Volga will amount to about 200 billion rubles, the head of the Cabinet added.
Medvedev also said that work to eliminate environmental damage on Lake Baikal must continue. The Prime Minister noted that the lake is the largest reserve drinking water on the planet and “the pearl of our nature.”
According to the Prime Minister, work to minimize the accumulated environmental damage on the lake will continue within the framework of the relevant Federal Target Program. “At the moment, amendments to the program and amendments to the law on Lake Baikal are being prepared. I would ask you to take part in this,” Medvedev addressed the deputies.
The head of government called on the authorities of the Irkutsk region and Buryatia to “be as attentive as possible to the decisions they make” regarding Lake Baikal, and not to shift this responsibility onto the shoulders of the federal center.
Medvedev said that Russia “feeds itself”
Medvedev also said that Russia has reached an unprecedented level of food security and is “feeding itself.” "Let's not lie: the harvests we are harvesting are significantly different from what was in Soviet times(...) We have achieved the levels of food security that are laid down in the Doctrine (of food security of the Russian Federation) and which we have never achieved in previous years - neither in the post-Soviet nor in the Soviet period," the Prime Minister noted.
According to Medvedev, “we, in essence, feed ourselves.” “This is an outstanding result,” the prime minister concluded. According to him, this result is the result of work under the rural development program over the past 10-12 years.
Medvedev ended his report to the State Duma with a call to preserve the best government in the world
Following his speech in the State Duma, Medvedev called to protect the best government of the Russian Federation in the world and the best State Duma deputies in the world, RIA Novosti reports. “Colleagues, we must definitely take care of the best government in the world, the best deputies in the world State Duma“Certainly, there’s no better way to say it,” summed up the head of the Russian Cabinet of Ministers.
What did the deputies decide to ask Medvedev about?
According to the procedure described on the State Duma website for the work of the lower chamber on April 19, Medvedev’s speech was allocated for the entire day’s session. In the morning and evening, deputies must consider bills.
In total, according to Rossiyskaya Gazeta, the prime minister will be asked 22 questions - five from each faction and two from “non-factional” deputies. Usually there were fewer questions, only 12. Each parliamentarian will have a minute to ask the head of the Cabinet. Medvedev is not limited in time either during his speech or in his answers to deputies.
The topics of the deputies' questions were previously approved by the State Duma Council. Thus, United Russia is interested in whether the maternity capital program will be extended after 2018. According to the first deputy head of the faction, Andrei Isaev, main goal EP will find out how the government plans to ensure economic growth and protect the social rights of citizens. United Russia also wants to hear about the results achieved in import substitution.
This topic will also be raised by the Communist Party of the Russian Federation - the communists have prepared the question of measures to displace imports from retail chains. The faction will also ask when the government intends to restore the indexation of pensions for working pensioners. In addition, the communists are interested in the fight against unemployment, the progress of privatization and the presence of foreign capital in the Russian economy.
LDPR deputies prepared questions about the search internal sources for economic growth, rural development, increased investment and others. The Liberal Democrats will also ask the Prime Minister about social topics- growth of the minimum wage above the subsistence level, transport tax reform, introduction of a progressive tax scale. Vice Speaker of the State Duma Igor Lebedev also added a question about the operation in Syria and its cost to the budget.
"A Just Russia" will ask a question about the process of development of the Arctic zone. The Socialist Revolutionaries will also ask Medvedev about the government’s position on protecting the rights of Chernobyl victims. Another topic is housing and communal services. The head of the faction, Sergei Mironov, is waiting for the prime minister’s reaction to the joint appeal of the leaders of the three opposition Duma factions on the topic of overhaul, in which parliamentarians demanded that the program be recognized as a failure and that measures be taken.
A deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation was prohibited from asking Medvedev about the FBK investigation
The day before, Communist Party deputy Rashkin was forbidden to ask Medvedev a question about the investigation “He’s not Dimon for you” at government hour in the State Duma. As the faction leadership told Vedomosti, at the meeting the communists came to the conclusion that “there are plenty of other topics for questions.” Another interlocutor in the faction noted that “everyone should be like Rashkin, but, unfortunately, this is impossible.”
In March, after the FBK film about Medvedev was published, Rashkin sent a parliamentary request to the head of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, in connection with the anti-corruption investigation. “I will demand an answer to my request,” the deputy commented the day before on the faction’s decision to prohibit him from asking his question to the prime minister.
Two days earlier, Medvedev met with Russian President Vladimir Putin at his residence in Novo-Ogarevo. The Kremlin explained that the prime minister came to the head of state to discuss his report to parliamentarians, scheduled for April 19.
*"Islamic State" (IS, ISIS, Daesh) is a terrorist group banned in the Russian Federation.
He's not Dimon for you
It was a huge job, and at first we were not at all sure that it could be done on our own. But we did. We found and filmed (!!!) all the residences in Russia and abroad, found the damn elusive yachts and scrupulously used geotags, photos from Instagram and archival records to establish where and who sailed on them. They were hiding from the FSO guarding the facilities. We spent hundreds of man-hours analyzing social networks and looking for the necessary photos. They shoveled through offshore documentation. We looked at domain names. We literally looked at every photo of the main character for a year to find the right sneakers and shirts (that’s where it all started). We went to Tuscany to photograph vineyards, and to the Kursk region to photograph cows.
Damn, we even bought the rights to the song by the group “Combination” to make this movie more fun for you to watch.
Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev is not at all the harmless and comic character he seems to be. Don't let it deceive you sleeping in meetings , badminton, or passion for gadgets.
This is a very cunning and greedy person, clearly slightly obsessed with residences and luxury real estate and, for the sake of owning them, created one of the largest corruption schemes in the country. And, we must give him his due, one of the most sophisticated.
We found, described and documented the existence of a network of charitable and non-profit foundations organized by Medvedev's proxies and relatives. The word “charitable” should not confuse: the only recipients of “help” here are Medvedev and his family.
They use the funds to receive “donations” (read: bribes) from oligarchs and state-controlled banks and spend the funds on the purchase of palaces, yachts and vineyards in Russia and abroad.
And yes - it's very clever. Who owns, for example, Medvedev’s secret dacha in Plyos, about which we did a lot of research? Formally, no one. A charitable organization - the Gradislav Foundation, which means there is not even individuals- the ultimate owners, because the property of a non-profit organization ultimately belongs only to it, and not even to its founders.
In fact, everyone understands: the dacha belongs to Medvedev. She is protected by the FSO. The service department is located there. There is even an official no-fly zone above the Plyos dacha.
That is, the corruption scheme is based on the creation of a charitable organization with a reliable person (classmate, relative) at the head. After which you can safely pump the organization with money and buy palaces-yachts with it, without fear that someone will poke it in your face with a piece of paper where your name is in the “owner” column.
There’s just one problem: there can’t be too many reliable people. If there are a small number of individuals involved in organizing, financing and managing the heap charitable foundations, the main feature of which is the ownership of property by Prime Minister Medvedev, then everything becomes clear: this is corruption.
Starting with these fun colored sneakers,
we have established and documented the entire corruption empire of Dmitry Medvedev, the funds that make up it, and his closest confidants.
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— bribes from oligarchs Usmanov and Mikhelson;
- money from Gazprombank, which has been seen many times before to act as a “wallet” to cover the expenses of high-ranking officials (see the “Vinokur case” and “Sechin’s wife’s salary case”);
— transfers from other companies (for example, a subsidiary of Bashneft).
This money was used to build, purchase and maintain:
Medvedev’s family estate and agricultural complex in Mansurovo:
Mansurovo
Mountain residence "Psekhako" in Sochi:
Vineyards in Anapa and Tuscany:
Milovka, which we showed earlier:
And much more, which we talk about in our investigation. In its video version. And in its detailed text version with all the documents.
Here I will briefly talk about only one episode, which is enough to send both Medvedev and Usmanov to the dock.
Do you know how this object worth 5 billion ended up in Medvedev’s possession?
Alisher Burkhanovich Usmanov, one of the richest oligarchs in Russia with a fortune of $12.5 billion, simply donates both land and a mansion to Medvedev’s foundation.
What should I call it? That's right: a bribe.
That's what we call it in our crime report. And in general, this entire investigation of ours, both as a whole and broken down into episodes, will be turned into statements of crimes.
Yes, we understand that now the authorities will do everything to prevent any steps that law enforcement agencies are obliged to take. That is, what happened with Chaika will be repeated. But, as they say, you have to live long in Russia. Sooner or later we will achieve our goal and see all the characters in the dock. And sitting next to them will be those who will block the investigation now.
However, even this is not the main thing now. You and I understand very well that the Kremlin will devote its main efforts not to working with “law enforcement officers” (otherwise Chaika and Bastrykin themselves don’t understand what to do), but to stop the spread of information about the investigation .
They have 100% control over their servants in uniform, but public opinion and the heads of citizens are not so easy to control. Yes, of course, zombie guy, that’s all, but nevertheless, with our joint efforts we can easily make a hole in the picture of the world of the average citizen of the Russian Federation.
Let's make efforts to achieve this together. Moreover, it has such an attractive and understandable format, with aerial filming. We must ensure that all those 20 million people below the poverty line look at Medvedev’s apartments with elevators for cars and angels for fireplaces.
Don't fall into the trap Why should I spread this link, everyone has already seen it" Not all. It is your link, your comment that is missing. It’s not enough to just throw it on Facebook today. Today. And then tomorrow. And just to be sure, in two days.
A couple of emails. SMS to your beloved grandmother. A letter to a classmate with the subject " look at Medvedev's castle in Italy».
By the way, I want to say that in social networks For older people, this kind of visual content works even better. Video clip about Medvedev's Milovka It has 4.2 million views on YouTube, and 7 million on Odnoklassniki. This is despite the fact that we ourselves did not post it on Odnoklassniki - people themselves stole it from their accounts.
If you don’t want to send it to your grandmother, but want to send it to a foreign friend, no problem - here’s a description of the investigation in English.
A separate appeal to journalists:
First of all, how much can you be afraid? You can't spend your whole life publishing what not scary.
Secondly, this is your traffic, your clicks, your circulation. People read nothing better than investigations of corruption with such texture.
Thirdly, this is your chance to make your profession interesting and rewarding. Each episode of this investigation can and should be supplemented with its own story. Comment from an interested person. Just going to the scene of the event. We have revealed only the most basic things. Who knows, maybe you will get attached to something (like we do to sneakers) and find something that will make you the main journalist in the country. Your name will be mentioned in journalism departments when talking about how to do investigations.
In general, dear everyone, help. Our work has no meaning unless millions know about it. This is our joint project with you, and your contribution is no less important.
Well, don’t forget that I need your signatures in support of the nomination. The Anti-Corruption Foundation exists and does such investigations only thanks to. Support us if you think we are doing something useful.
They unite and protect each other to build palaces for themselves, and let us act together to regain our country.
Dmitry Medvedev's press secretary Natalya Timakova said that the Anti-Corruption Foundation's investigation into the prime minister's "secret empire". It has a “clearly expressed pre-election character. According to her, it is “pointless” to comment on these accusations, Interfax reports.
Tied together different facts, we eventually came to a whole grandiose corruption empire, where there are vineyards in Anapa, vineyards in Tuscany, a mountain residence, two estates on Rublevka... It is difficult to describe this investigation in a few words, it is very large, and it simply shows that a person spent 70 billion rubles for entertainment. Georgy Alburov
The director of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) of Alexei Navalny, Roman Rubanov, sent on Thursday to Investigative Committee Russia (ICR) a statement to initiate a criminal case against Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and businessman Alisher Usmanov under Art. 290 of the Criminal Code (taking a bribe) and Art. 291 of the Criminal Code (giving a bribe). Vedomosti
Mansions, vineyards, yachts: Dmitry Medvedev broke the law?
The Anti-Corruption Foundation has published a large-scale investigation about Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. It follows from the material that people and charitable foundations associated with Medvedev own several luxury residences in Russia and abroad, agricultural land and two yachts. Alexei Navalny calls Medvedev’s actions a criminal offense; in an interview with Dozhd, he said that the prime minister “can be sent to the dock even tomorrow.” Deputy General Director of Transparency International - Russia Ilya Shumanov explained to Meduza that from the point of view of the letter of the law, it is difficult to blame Medvedev for anything.
Legal argumentation is the weakest point of the new Anti-Corruption Foundation investigation. I don’t see anything illegal in what Mr. Medvedev did. The fact is that due to gaps in Russian legislation, it turns out that all the assets listed in the investigation are registered in accordance with the law. That is, if you look precisely from the point of view of the letter of the law, everything is completely legal.
The assets discussed in the investigation belong to non-profit charitable organizations. For example, the residence donated by [businessman] Alisher Usmanov is his contribution to the NGO. Such organizations formally do not have owners and do not involve making a profit or withdrawing assets. These assets are managed by a hired manager, and it is difficult to determine who the real owner is. I will not evaluate the arguments related to sneakers and hacked emails, because they are outside the legal field and legal expertise.
Dmitry Medvedev himself in the documentation charitable organizations, appearing in the investigation are not mentioned. It mentions people close to the prime minister and, in particular, [his classmate] Ilya Eliseev. One could say that he is the nominal owner of these non-profit funds, but [in fact] he is quite a self-sufficient figure. Since 2005, Eliseev has held the position of deputy chairman of Gazprombank and is on the board of directors of Gazprom-Media, so he could have acquired all these assets himself and used them. It turns out that Medvedev may not be involved in all this.
The form of a non-profit organization is a corruption-prone hole in the Russian legal field. In this case, a legal scheme provides the opportunity for illegal enrichment and avoids liability. I think, commenting on the investigation, Medvedev and Eliseev will point specifically to legal side, and the ethical side will be behind the scenes.
FBK conducted a good, logical investigation. If the prime minister uses the property of the deputy chairman of the board of Gazprombank, who studied with him in the same course, this creates a situation of conflict of interest. This is a sign of a corruption offense for which there should be some kind of responsibility. But the investigation's findings do not mention a conflict of interest.
IN European country this whole situation would be a reason for the resignation of the prime minister and the cabinet, but in Russia this is unlikely.
“We found 80 percent of the schemes in 20 percent of the time spent”Interview with Georgy Alburov, one of the authors of the investigation into the property of Dmitry Medvedev
Georgy Alburov and quadcopter. Photo: Evgeny Feldman for FBK
- Did this investigation really start with a pair of sneakers seen on Dmitry Medvedev?
Of course, it started with many things at the same time, but a pair of sneakers is such a very important expressive part, it really helped us a lot. It turned out that the entire corruption scheme can be traced back to the purchase of this pair. These sneakers were ordered for one of the people closest to Prime Minister Medvedev. We began to look at what else there was behind this man - and immediately went out to vineyards, houses, including an estate in the old village of Mansurovo, where Medvedev’s ancestors lived. Yes, the sneakers helped us a lot.
Was the whole scheme drawn up quickly or was it difficult to find people close to the prime minister and identify them?
We found 80 percent of the schemes in 20 percent of the time spent. With the rest it was more difficult - we went from one legal entity to another, we did not see any connection. Then people from one of our schemes suddenly found themselves connected to companies from a completely different part of the scheme. It began to become more complicated and confusing, but with each new discovery it was clear: all these people we are talking about are directly related to Dmitry Medvedev. There were no particular difficulties with identification: lists of Medvedev’s classmates are publicly available and open. It was more difficult to identify the students, but we identified them by year of graduation.
There was still a question about one person; we could not verify him. Someone Vitaly Golovachev. He was in the insurance business in the late 1990s - he litigated on behalf of insurance companies, then disappeared for ten years and suddenly showed up as a top manager at Gazprombank, at the Meritage company, at the Dar charity foundation ( all organizations appear in the FBK investigation - approx. "Jellyfish"). Unfortunately, it was not possible to communicate with him.
- From your point of view, did all these people hide their activities very much?
Most likely, Medvedev was confident that he would transfer all the property to some non-profit foundations that do not pay taxes. He will appoint his classmates there, or their students, in cases where classmates are too pale, and this scheme will work. Yes, it is quite reliable in terms of management: all these people are close to Medvedev, super-confidants. But the problem is that the number of such people is very limited. Such a scheme could have been identified a long time ago.
- How many people were involved in the investigation?
Six months ago we started... At first there were two people, towards the end four people were involved in the investigation, and another six were involved in the website, video, graphics, music and other things. I will say this: the amount of effort we spent on making all this look good, readable and remembered is even greater than the amount of effort [spent] on collecting facts.
- Tell us about the quadcopter; filming from it is a separate important part of the investigation.
The quadcopter is our faithful fighter, he has been with us since last year and helps us a lot. This is a basic model and can be purchased at any hardware store. It shoots well: we learned how to work with it and smooth out some technical difficulties. If you estimate roughly, 20 million people have seen the video that was made with its help. This is ours indispensable tool and practically a member of the team.
-Are the rights to the songs of the group “Combination” the same beautiful detail as with the sneakers? Why do you need them?
It's not that simple! At some point we realized that we were using the song too many times. And I wouldn’t want YouTube to ban us for copyright infringement. So we went to the owners of these songs and formalized the purchase of the rights to use them. The copyright holders, interestingly, were very surprised; no one had ever bought the rights to songs from them in their lives; they didn’t even have a template agreement. It cost quite a bit of money, about 10 thousand rubles per song. It's worth it so we don't get banned.
With your investigation, you have convincingly proven that Dmitry Medvedev’s inner circle lives well. Do you think you have convincingly managed to prove that all these people were buying everything they could in the interests of the Prime Minister?
Yes, anyone can come to us and ask: what does Medvedev have to do with it? His classmates, relatives and friends are here. But we have collected enough facts for ourselves and everyone else to answer this question. Look: how many people are there in the world to whom [businessman] Alisher Usmanov gives estates, and even a real palace on Rublyovka? Not much. Medvedev visited all these facilities and used them. We convincingly prove this.
In Psekhako we photographed the pipes using a drone country house in the mountains and compared with those that Medvedev posts on his Instagram. These are the same pipes. Regarding the yacht, we found the geolocation of this yacht over the past two years. She went to Plyos four times, where Medvedev has his residence, and twice for the holiday. Scarlet Sails» to St. Petersburg. This is a holiday for graduates, a beautiful event, fireworks. Shipping is closed there at this moment. The only yacht for which an exception was made is the yacht “Photinia”, with which Medvedev took his photographs and also posted them. All this is ironclad evidence.
Part of the property you are talking about is registered in charitable foundations. Have you seen their reports? Who are they helping at all?
This is an interesting question in the sense that we don't know - they don't publish their reports. They do not submit reports to the Ministry of Justice, as required by law. Our fund is renting, but they are not. This is a direct violation of the law. They can be found on the website tax office, but it is difficult to draw correct conclusions from the information from there. For example, they issue a cadastral valuation for real estate, and the estate on Rublyovka, with a market value of two billion rubles, is valued much lower.
- How do you like the first one?reactionfor investigation?
I read the reaction of [Prime Minister Natalya] Timakova’s press secretary... You know, all my life I was sure that she was a rather reserved person from whom one could not hear words like “I will not comment on the words of this opposition criminal-politician.” What kind of state did she have to be brought to in order for her to utter such words? But our investigation did it - very nice. I hope there will be more substantive comments, including from law enforcement agencies.
May I live like this, Dimon!
I strongly advise you to watch the film of the Anti-Corruption Foundation about Medvedev’s dachas, vineyards, estates and yachts. And watch it not even to find out what specific estates, apartments and mountain ranges belong to Dmitry Anatolyevich, what they look like and where they are located. And watch in order to experience this feeling. This feeling will not necessarily be indignation, disgust or disgust. Although what you will see is criminal and shameful for the country. No! I'm talking about something else.
Look at all this splendor, and then listen to yourself. And inside, if not everyone, then very many, this insidious voice will sound: “Damn! Yes, I wish I could live like this!” Really, looking at the swimming pools and the car elevator and the marble staircase in the apartment like a palace, didn’t you want to live like that for at least a couple of days? And a mansion in St. Petersburg, and a 17th century villa in Italy, and a family estate in Kursk, and just an estate in Plyos! We are not holy ascetics or altruists. But for the most part we work a lot for little money. And here, on the screen, there is such a life that we cannot even dream of. But someone lives such a life, and we know this person, and he is one of those who controls us!
In the end, Navalny says words that are completely obvious, but no less correct: there, at the heights of power, all this is not a secret - because at the heights of power they all live one way or something like this, in accordance with the positions they occupy and the degree of their arrogance. And I would be surprised if there is anyone among them who lives differently. And this is precisely why they strive for power. That is why power is the main asset in Russia. Neither your talents, nor your brains, nor your resourcefulness or ingenuity - nothing matters here. Only position and authority matter.
In Russia there is no point in becoming Elon Musk, because people who change the world are not needed here. We need people here who will leave everything as before. Russia doesn't need people who make money thanks to incredible technologies or modern production. Because it is troublesome and time-consuming, and the risk is high. You can make money much easier and much faster by being a prosecutor, judge, minister or even prime minister, as it turns out. More precisely, not to earn, but to receive.
In developed countries, money is important because it gives power. In Russia, on the contrary, the authorities give money. And the authorities can take away the money. Ask Khodorkovsky, who was the richest man in the country and set out to change something in politics - what happened to him and did he like it? That is why the current oligarchs do not make the same mistakes and will donate billions to all sorts of fake funds and give away estates in order to remain oligarchs, and not sew mittens in prison.
Navalny made a powerful film, but I doubt that this film will blow up society. And not only because a minority of the population will still know about it. And also because millions of our fellow citizens themselves would like to live like this, and to live like this, not thanks to their talents and enterprise, but in order to have power, and to have everything that this power can give in our country. And she can give anything - if only she had imagination and arrogance.
The Kremlin responded to the FBK investigation into Medvedev’s real estate within 24 hours
The Kremlin is not “in detail” familiar with the Anti-Corruption Foundation’s investigation into Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev’s real estate. The investigation was published the day before, March 2. The Cabinet of Ministers stated that it is of an election nature.
Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov answered the question of whether the head of state Vladimir Putin is familiar with the investigation of the Anti-Corruption Foundation of Alexei Navalny about the “secret real estate” of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, an RBC correspondent reports.
“We are not familiar with the details. We saw the media reports. These are not the first examples of the work of this famous convicted citizen. There is nothing to add to what was said by the press secretary of the Prime Minister,” he said.
The day before, commenting on the investigation, the press secretary of the head of the Cabinet of Ministers, Natalya Timakova, said that the material was of a clearly pre-election nature. “Navalny’s material is clearly pre-election in nature, as he himself says at the end of the video. It makes no sense to comment on the propaganda attacks of an oppositional and convicted character who said that he is already waging some kind of election campaign and is fighting the authorities,” she noted.
The FBK investigation was published the day before, on March 2. It says that Medvedev owns “huge tracts of land in the most elite areas, manages yachts, apartments in old mansions, agricultural complexes and wineries in Russia and abroad.”
The authors of the investigation draw their conclusions based on data from Rosreestr, extracts from various registers of legal entities, as well as publications in the media and posts on social networks. At the same time, the FBK points out that the real owner of the assets “is almost impossible to track, since, being registered with charitable foundations, they do not belong to anyone.”
Such objects, according to FBK, are, in particular, real estate in the village of Znamenskoye near Rublevo-Uspenskoye Highway, an estate in Kursk region, a winery in Italian Tuscany and a number of others. Medvedev’s property is managed by his friends, classmates and confidants, the investigation states.
The effect of an unexploded bomb: how the media did not notice Navalny’s investigation into Medvedev
FBK head Alexei Navalny called the investigation into the “secret empire of Dmitry Medvedev” published by the Anti-Corruption Foundation the foundation’s most ambitious project. Russian media reacted differently to the investigation; many ignored the FBK publication. Not only federal television channels, but also the media, which previously paid more attention to Navalny’s publications, decided not to write or talk about the investigation.
TV and Radio
Federal TV channels “Pervy”, “Russia 1” and NTV never mentioned Navalny’s investigation on their broadcast, it follows from the data of “Medialogy”, prepared at the request of Dozhd. Among cable TV channels, RBC paid attention to the investigation (17 materials during the day). From information radio stations, the publication was discussed by “Echo-Moscow” and “Business FM” - 33 and 4 materials, respectively. Kommersant FM and Vesti FM did not talk about the investigation.
Newspapers
Of the newspapers published on Friday, only two publications wrote about Navalny’s investigation: Vedomosti and Novaya Gazeta. Newspapers “Kommersant”, “Izvestia”, “AiF”, RBC, “Moskovsky Komsomolets”, “ Komsomolskaya Pravda" and "Nezavisimaya Gazeta" did not write anything about the oppositionist's publication.
In Vedomosti, the FBK publication was devoted to the column “New Feedings” by Maria Zheleznova and Nikolai Epple in the opinions section, a material retelling the essence of the investigation “Premiere Show” on the second page, as well as Maxim Trudolyubov’s column “Inverted Tradition.”
Novaya Gazeta published the commentary “Reception against the successor.” It called the investigation “weighty and uncompromising”, seeing in the FBK publication the beginning of Navalny’s election campaign. “Navalny’s investigation highlights a non-obvious fact: Dmitry Anatolyevich is really the second person in the state<…>To be honest, I don’t know who else in our country is allowed to have such a resource - financial and political,” writes Novaya Gazeta editor-in-chief Alexey Polukhin.
Internet media
According to the Yandex-news service, the first news about the investigation appeared in online media at 13.15. Among the first to write about him were Mediazona, Republic, Echo of Moscow, RBC, Tsargrad (as well as Meduza, which is not indexed in the service). On the Kommersant website (owned by businessman Alisher Usmanov, whom Navalny mentions in the investigation), at 15:48 a news item was published under the heading “The Anti-Corruption Foundation has published another investigation.” Forbes published an article about “the fate of the site from Alexei Navalny’s investigation.” Life only posted a comment from Medvedev’s press secretary Natalya Timakova.
The websites of three major news agencies responded to the investigation after Timakova's comment at 2:40 p.m. At the same time, RIA Novosti did not retell the essence of the investigation in its report. “Earlier, Navalny posted a film with an “investigation” against Medvedev. Its authors stated that they spent more than six months collecting material,” RIA wrote.
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Alexei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation has published a large investigation about the “secret empire” of Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. In particular, it says that the head of government controls several charitable foundations, to which 70 billion rubles are transferred, including, as Navalny claims, bribes from entrepreneurs Alisher Usmanov and Leonid Mikhelson.
"Leader of the Ruling Party" United Russia“Owns real estate throughout the country, he owns huge tracts of land in the most elite areas, he manages yachts, apartments in old mansions, agricultural complexes and wineries in Russia and abroad,” FBK claims.
FBK video about Medvedev’s “secret empire”:
Another investigation about Medvedev, but not as large-scale, by FBK in September last year.
March 2, 15:13“Navalny’s material is clearly pre-election in nature, as he himself says at the end of the video. It makes no sense to comment on the propaganda attacks of an opposition and convicted character who said that he is already waging some kind of election campaign and is fighting the authorities,” RBC press said. -Medvedev's secretary Natalya Timakova.
March 2, 16:54 The investigation was commented on by the general director of Seim-Agro JSC Andrei Medvedev, whom FBK calls cousin Prime Minister.
Andrey Medvedev<...>stated to RBC that “he received neither help nor interference from the said person [Dmitry Medvedev].” “If this were really the case, as a true patriot of our state, I would be truly saddened. Such accusations have no basis. This is fiction and folklore,” he is sure.Andrei Medvedev refused to confirm to RBC his family connection with the Russian prime minister. “This is a purely personal question, I do not consider it necessary to answer it,” he said.
Also, according to him, "on at the moment Seim-Agro has no relation to JSC Kurskproteplitsa. In the investigation, FBK Kurskproteplitsa was named as the main founder of Seim-Agro. “I have nothing to do with this [Kurskproteplitsa] enterprise. Except that it is located 100 meters from my enterprise. Previously, there may have been some kind of relationship. But at the moment I am not ready to confirm to you nothing. I can say that now they are not there,” said Andrei Medvedev.
RBC
Meanwhile, FBK director Roman Rubanov sent a statement to the Investigative Committee demanding that a criminal case be initiated against Dmitry Medvedev and businessman Alisher Usmanov under Articles 290 (taking a bribe) and 291 (giving a bribe) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. In addition, Rubanov asks to initiate a criminal case under Article 160 (embezzlement) in connection with investments from the Dar Regional Non-Profit Projects Fund.
The statement (Rubanov) states that the fund involved in the formation of property, by law, does not have the right to dispose of it except for the purposes defined by its charter, for example, to transfer it to third parties without receiving equivalent compensation. Among the goals of the fund are social support and protection of people with disabilities, satisfaction of spiritual and other non-material needs of citizens, protection environment etc."Vedomosti"
March 3, 09:28 Ilya Eliseev, who appears in the investigation as a former classmate of Medvedev and the formal owner of a number of assets of his “secret empire,” said that the Dar Foundation is not connected with Medvedev.
The foundation, which received an estate on Rublevka as a gift from Alisher Usmanov, is not connected with Dmitry Medvedev, a classmate of the prime minister claims. “The recent news stories are an example of obvious political propaganda and have no real basis,” said Ilya Eliseev in a statement received by Vedomosti in response to a request to comment on the FBK investigation into the activities of companies allegedly associated with the prime minister.Eliseev is the chairman of the supervisory board of the Dar Foundation, the Fund for Support of Socially Significant State Projects (Sotsgosproekt), the Fund for Support of Winter Olympic Sports and the Fund for Social and Cultural Initiatives (FSCI). The post of president of the FSCI since its creation in 2008 has been occupied by the prime minister's wife, Svetlana Medvedeva.
"Commercial and non-profit organizations, in which I act as a shareholder, founder or manager, are engaged in economic and other activities permitted by law in my interests or for charitable purposes. With none of the politicians or government officials did these legal entities are not connected,” Eliseev emphasizes in his statement.
"Vedomosti"
March 3, 13:52 Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov, like Medvedev’s press secretary Natalya Timakova, commenting on the FBK material, called Navalny “convicted.”
“No details, we are not familiar (with the investigation). We saw the media reports. This is not the first example of the creativity of this famous convicted citizen,” Interfax quotes Peskov. “There is nothing to add to what was said by the press secretary of the Prime Minister.
