Ksenia Sobchak said that she was waiting for Maria Maksakova after returning to Russia. Childhood and education of Vladislav Surkov

In February, former Russian State Duma deputies Maria Maksakova and her husband Denis Voronenkov suddenly emigrated to Ukraine. After leaving their homeland, the couple spoke unflatteringly about Russia, about the annexation of Crimea and Russian-Ukrainian relations. After emigrating, Maksakova, who is also an opera singer, was fired from the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music, and Voronenkov was put on the federal wanted list - he was suspected of fraud on an especially large scale.

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On March 23, Ukrainian media reported that Denis Voronenkov had been shot dead in the center of Kyiv in the morning. The killer died on the operating table - Voronenkov's bodyguard managed to shoot him several times.

Ksenia Sobchak could not stay away from what happened. In her column, she discusses what the future might hold for Maria: “Yesterday, my beloved and beautiful friend Tanya Arno wrote: “Unfortunate Maria Maksakova. Yes, she fled to Ukraine for her husband, but she set many people up with this act of hers. Friends and colleagues promptly disowned the political fugitive. There are no complaints here. We live in such a time." From these words: “No complaints, we live in such a time” - I shuddered. Are we really living in such a time?

After Maria left for Ukraine, according to Xenia, she "became persona non grata one day."

“Do all those who talk today on the Internet and air about Masha Maksakova and even sympathize with her understand the cruelest collision of her fate, which will begin to unfold in the next few months? Of course, now she is experiencing a huge tragedy, but life takes its toll, and after the loss of loved ones, sooner or later you have to return to reality. Let's try to understand what this will mean for Maria Maksakova. She left for Ukraine for her husband and his business, and I know from many close people that this was his decision. Then a lot was said about Putin, the bloody regime and the fact that Crimea is not ours, and everyone understood that this was a condition for their acceptance in the new country. Masha is a passionate person, and the words of the former United Russia member and girlfriend Natalya Surkova, of course, had a lot of propaganda weight, ”Sobchak shared.

At the same time, Ksenia is sure that “no one in Kyiv needs Maria”: “She is used to living openly, beautifully and brightly, among many friends. Sooner or later, she will want to communicate, tour, sing, and even, perhaps, build a personal life that was so tragically cut short. Of course, she can do this not in Kyiv, but only in Russia.”

But she can only return to Russia if she renounces her husband, as Sobchak is convinced: “Her life in Russia will become possible only at the cost of public humiliation. And, perhaps, one day she will have to answer the question: “Why did you return to this Russia that you hate so much?” She will have to tell Dmitry Kiselev in an interview that she didn’t mean it at all.

Opera singer and former State Duma deputy Maria Maksakova lost her job in Russia. The Gnessin Russian Academy of Music fired her for "absence from work."

"They collected supporting documents that she was not there, sent telegrams to her twice, to which they received no answer. They drew up an act stating that she was absent during working hours, and, in connection with labor legislation, they fired her," the academy said, " - the interlocutor at the academy told RIA Novosti.

Maria Maksakova and her husband, also a former State Duma deputy Denis Voronenkov, left Russia last year. There, Voronenkov testified against Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, who had fled to Russia.

In early March, Voronenkov was arrested in absentia in Russia in the case of a raider seizure of a building in the center of Moscow, the Investigative Committee put the former deputy on the federal and international wanted list.

In Ukraine, Denis Voronenkov received citizenship. According to him, he was given a passport because he has relatives in Ukraine. Previously, Present Time spoke with Voronenkov about his testimony against Yanukovych, the vote for Russia's annexation of Crimea, and his relationship with Russian presidential administration officials.

I'll take advantage of the fact that I'm not the first person to interview you since you left Russia. I am interested in your impressions of the reaction to your words, which was heard in Russia.

I'm surprised, of course, by the resonance. Big, unexpected for me, because I did not say anything that I did not say while I was in Russia. You can bring up any of my interviews, I don’t know, even to Moskovsky Komsomolets before leaving.

I have always talked about the ugly conditions in which people are kept in our country, the entire system of the Federal Penitentiary Service, how it oppresses human dignity and deprives a person not only of health and strength, but also of the right to some decent life in the future.

Did you understand that your husband is part of the system, and the system always works the same way, which means that he is also involved in these landings simply by the fact of his existence in it? Or don't you think so?

No, I do not think so. First, he worked by profession. Indeed, he was an investigator, a senior investigator, a deputy prosecutor. He really worked for quite a long time in the system of the military prosecutor's office. Of course, I am far from being such a brilliant lawyer as he is, but still I graduated from the Moscow State Law Academy. I was interested in a lot of his biography: how he worked, what he did. I have a certain view on what methods he used, what was the norm for him and what was not. Everything that is happening now is completely out of his arsenal.

You have already been asked about this. You look like a man who lost more than your husband by leaving Russia. Do you discuss it with him at home?

We discuss many things at home. Life is so unpredictable. I cannot say unequivocally that I have lost more, because I am not so attached to any particular place due to my profession. Only that for some time I will not sing in Russia.

- Will you be in Russia?

Certainly.

- Where?

I have enough... Why should I tell you now? It is not safe.

- But you have plans.

Of course, I have contracts.

Yes, it all works. I just noticed that on your site Maksakova.ru, nothing is said about anything, and it seemed strange to me.

Well, just why do any tips to do? I am constantly attacked by all these trolls, bots. Why should I provide them with work?

- Do they continue to attack or have they forgotten about you a little?

No, they don't stop. And the funny thing is that the reaction of my environment, not even too close, but just good friends, is completely different. People understand. And how should the wife behave, I wonder? I'm just wondering how she should behave, from the point of view of those people who pour some kind of slop on me from morning to evening. How should she behave in order to evoke some positive feelings in them? One person even wrote to me that in the depths of their souls they cannot even dream that their own wives would do such an act for their sake.

- That is, the reaction of the Yudashkin family did not hurt you?

I think this is a phrase taken out of context, maybe. I don't know how they, maybe they called on the phone, they called on time, not on time, as they introduced themselves.

They said, in fairness...

Well, Valentin didn't say anything at all. Marina said. I think that these are phrases taken out of context, which are simply presented in this way.

Has anyone else disowned you publicly?

Well, they took revenge on my students at the Gnessin Academy. Yes, there is nothing to say. My poor students. Imagine - a person who deliberately enrolled in a course with a certain actor, master, in order to learn from him. There are not so many vocalists, there are many who, due to their age, can no longer show their voice. There are those who, in principle, cannot do this, because they did not sing professionally on the opera stage.

And there are teachers who, like me, combine the opera stage and teaching. It is clear that such people have a large flow of applicants. And if they have already come to me, I always tried to do something complex. See what repertoire they need not only now for the exam, but so that it is useful to them, so that they win competitions, so that they associate their future life with it. The atmosphere in the class was very good, they liked it very much. And they were just shocked.

- Is it difficult for you to get on the course?

I don't have infinite rubber time. The husband looked at the number of people with horror. For some reason, it always worked out for me, they were interested in how I deal with everyone. On Monday I came at 12 o'clock, and all of them, 20 people, were already sitting. I practiced with everyone, and they all sat and listened to how I practiced with everyone else.

Although there are teachers who have subtracted some recipes, which seem to them to be universal, and they all do the same things, each student is given the same advice. But all students are at different points of development, and one thing is useful to one, another is useful to another. What I said yesterday to one girl, today, for example, will not help another girl, and in two months I may say the same to her.

- Are you jealous of their success, by the way?

Vice versa! I always admire. I am filled with pride. We had a reporting concert at the end, literally a month has not even passed yet. It is usually difficult to arrange a class concert because there are no spectators. Few people go, but we have assembled a whole Shuvalov living room, a large hall. About 150 people came, they were still standing.

They are already being followed. There, the audience already has favorites in my class. I can already hear whispering: "Oh, that's Nadya Simonyan, I really like her." Someone says, "Oh, well, Jirin is our main star."

- Do they write to you?

They write, of course.

- What do they write?

- "Maria Petrovna, what can we do for you?" They even pissed me off. I say: "You think about yourself for now."

- So they perform well, in your opinion?

Yes. Very.

Can I tell you a little about your parliamentary activity? I remember your speeches in the State Duma. They were resonant, it's a pity if someone forgot about it. But at the same time, it seems to me that the laws that you wrote in co-authorship or yourself were very different. It cannot be said that you had only a human rights line or only a protective line. They are kind of chaotic, sorry. That is, on the one hand, for example, the law on gay propaganda, but then there is the law in which you propose not to put people in jail until children reach 14 years of age. One contradicts the other.

And why plant up to 14 years?

Yes, but why sign up for a ban on gay propaganda, knowing what law people are actually passing, realizing that they simply forbid talking about everything?

I publicly repented that I did not consider at that moment ...

- I don't want you to repent. I want you to explain another thing to me.

I made a correction. I spoke with her from the podium. I demanded the abolition of these humiliating norms.

This is God bless him - by the way, I have no doubt. I'm interested in something else. Can you tell me the logic of working with deputies at the time when you worked in the State Duma? How did it happen that you were offered one or the other? Did you do it deliberately? How do they work with people?

I just did not offer, thank God. For example, the law that is in force, on patronage - I wrote it myself, with my own hand. Nobody let me down. Deputies live in a completely different regime, they do not create these laws themselves, with rare exceptions.

There are helpers for that. Or?

No, there are completely different places for this, where these laws come from. I am not revealing any secrets now, this is a well-known fact. In order for the law to pass, it goes through long approvals ...

Does Irina Yarovaya bring laws from the presidential administration in an envelope, or does she receive them by fax, or do they come to her by email?

I can't answer you because we don't know her that well.

- But you worked with her. You wrote the law together with her. How did she explain it to you?

You should have asked my husband the question. He served on her committee. I think that he knows more about how the Yarovaya laws were passed. For example, I do not support even her last law, the infamous one.

- Spring package. What kind of person is she?

To comment on a person and talk about his qualities, you need to know him well. I can judge her literally as superficially as you can. And some things that she says and does also cause complex reactions in me. This is a cognitive dissonance when a good goal seems to be declared ...

- But she is nice to people in the hallway?

Her mood is different. Hello.

- He's healthy. Doesn't he walk arrogantly, doesn't look down on other deputies?

Greeted me.

I greeted you. Okay. And what about the other deputies-artists, of whom there were quite a few in the last Duma of the sixth convocation, what was their work expressed in? List some of them? Kobzon, who else?

Kobzon and Govorukhin, Kozhevnikova.

- How are they, what was their activity?

They are all very different. First, Iosif Davydovich has been for countless years, I just don't want to make a mistake, four convocations?

- Four convocations.

Therefore, he has a lot of experience, he feels very confident. For 20 years, this can be called the acquisition of a profession. As for Masha Kozhevnikova, she came with great enthusiasm. It was felt that she was delving into some things. But, as I understand it, she soon came to the conclusion that it is easier to pass those laws that have passed all the stages of coordination than to prove that something is needed ... The system is inert. She works to get out, to kick off some initiatives. It is so arranged that it is impeccable in the sense of refusal. The refusal is multi-stage, and there is no one to present claims to.

Over the past few days, events have been taking place that can be presented as a "PR thaw": "we will show that we are not cannibals." Dadin was released, Chudnovets - these are two cases monitored by our TV channel. I think you also heard about them, these are high-profile criminal cases in Russia. Here is the March in memory of Nemtsov allowed. They even said the other day that the Nemtsov memorial on the Moskvoretsky bridge, that is, the people's memorial, where people bring flowers, will, of course, be dismantled, but not completely, a little, but they will leave it for the first time. It seems to have something to do with...

I have known Boris for many, many years. I was, in my opinion, about 17 years old when he appeared for the first time at our house. He was, of course, an amazing person.

Do you understand what is happening, why did such, you know, cautious attempts to reconcile with an organization called the presidential administration suddenly appear in Russia?

I understand very well why this is happening. A big bet was made on a change in the policy of the US presidential administration, and everyone was waiting for this moment. And when it now became clear... Do you understand what it means to remove all messages about the President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, from the agenda? He probably doesn't care. The Russian economy is 2% of the global one. Probably, it is not so important for Trump whether his activities are covered in Russia. But first, the Duma gets up and applauds his election while standing, and now they are thinking how to do it in order to abruptly stop talking about him.

- And what about Volodin, how do you like him?

Well, what can I tell you about Volodin?

- I wonder what kind of person he is. He is a rather private person, not many people spoke to him.

I have never been on his team. Vice versa.

- So it's even more interesting, that is, you were Volodin's opponent. Tell me what opponent he is.

You understand, an opponent with an administrative resource. I don't know if he opposed me or the administrative resource is in his hands. How do you think?

- I do not know.

From my point of view, an opponent is someone who is equal to you in a fight, if this is a dialogue, then these are frank statements. I do not hide what I think on each issue. I am a sincere person and I value this. And other forms of communication, when one thing is declared and demonstrated, and another is done - I cannot call it rivalry or call it an adversary.

Does he ignore people who are no match for him at receptions, or does he communicate calmly? Can I approach him at the buffet table and talk?

You can come up. Anyway, I didn't have any problems with it. I could come. It's hard for me to say about the others.

- Did you ask him for your husband, did you talk to him about it or did you not happen?

I did not have a chance to directly ask, because it seemed to me that this was a little not his area of ​​​​responsibility. If you think I would lose my dignity...

- No, I thought that maybe the guards would simply not let you in.

Absolutely calm. If I thought that this would solve anything, I would forget about pride or whatever. I could ask anyone. I asked everyone in my circle who, as I thought, could influence this.

And why do you think that Surkov could influence? Well, this has already been discussed, so I can probably ask: why did you think that this person could influence?

I couldn't ask him. I could only consult with him.

- That's how.

These are different things. Of course, he could not influence. But I could advise. I value the fact that I could and can, I hope, consult with him, because he is a very intelligent person.

What passions does he live by?

He is a real intellectual, real. Reader, all-knowing.

What is his purpose? Intelligence can be evil or good. Intelligence can be humane or, for example, so exquisitely savage.

He has a melancholy intellect.

- How is it - a sad intelligence?

Sad.

- Surkov has a sad intellect - I see the title.

If you ask him to give him some such characteristic, then there is a lot of sadness in him. So real, intellectually understanding, because knowledge multiplies sorrow. This definition is very appropriate.

From the outside, it seems that after you said that Surkov could not help you or did not want to, at least that is how you were understood ...

I didn't say he couldn't help. I said that I talked and asked absolutely all the people who, as I thought, could influence the situation.

And after Denis [Voronenkov] said that Surkov was not for the annexation of Crimea, but was against it, and these words spread very well everywhere, in my opinion, he should become his representative in Russia, there is no better person than your husband to be a negotiator on behalf of Surkov in Ukraine. Didn't get in touch with you?

No. I think that no one even thought about such a multi-move. You just told me, and I barely followed your thought.

Well, it's a very simple idea. You have done everything to become his negotiator.

Firstly, his position was heard many times in the press. And my husband is not the first person to talk about it. Just for some reason, it caused such a reaction precisely from the words of my husband.

- Because he is a person who knows him and possesses him at the same time ...

This was said by other people who know him.

Well, maybe that worked. Do the secret services ask you the same questions as I do, or do they have other questions?

Well, no one ever asks me about anything.

- And your husband?

Here it is, again, to him. No, I'm not because...

- Let's just not deny that they are talking to you.

Wait, I think this is wrong. Talking about some strange people, things, giving characteristics, this is one thing. But not about my husband, who is not far away and to whom you can ask any question.

I already talked to him. I'm interested in what they want from you, or rather, how you can be useful to them. Why did they let you stay here?

I think it's just legal. Ukraine allows, of course, to obtain citizenship. He has next of kin...

I will explain: Maria, you understand that the Ukrainian society is at war, and it, of course, thirsts for the blood of the enemy, because there is a lot of grief, tears, and killed people who demand revenge.

Ukrainian society is great, you understand? They are so well done in relation to the fallen in a righteous battle. How do they do it? It is impossible to walk through Boryspil airport without tears, do you understand?

I understand. But your husband is not bad at all in order to take out this anger on him. He was not the initiator, I have no doubt about it at all, but he was involved in everything that happened in Russia against Ukraine.

He didn't fight the system because he didn't think at that stage that he would have to leave. He did not take part - on the contrary, he spoke at the faction and warned that it was all strange and bad. But, unfortunately, the situation did not allow him to turn around in any way. It was dangerous, let's say, directly for his life.

- We can say that you convinced the Ukrainian special services that your husband, for example, I suppose ...

I don't even have contact.

- Not you - he convinced that he is a man about business, not about politics.

I can't comment on talk about... You're asking me now, and I don't even know. I do not evade the answer, but you make me fantasize about what I do not know.

- And how is your husband really - is he more of a businessman or more of a politician? How do you think?

My husband is a lawyer. First of all, he is an excellent teacher, a brilliant lawyer who knows and loves his profession well. He taught and headed the Department of Theory of State and Law. This is the core around which everything else is already being acquired. He loves the profession very much, he reads this particular literature, he really likes the state and society, its development.

I just think about this: here you are - an artist, and an artist is very famous and successful, and besides, this is a special genre that has its fans, very loyal fans. Opera is not pop music, it is a specific thing. And next to you is a person who is investigating criminal cases. It's a very different life.

At the time of our meeting, he was no longer investigating criminal cases, he was a deputy.

And you find yourself drawn into the history, as you say, of the war of the special services. What does the Russian war of special services look like, what can it be compared to? Can it be compared with the criminal showdowns of the early 90s?

It's more like, because the intelligence agencies, let's just say, you said it in a very general way...

- In general, of course, these are probably some people personally.

No, it is such a big system, consisting of many millions of people working in it. Formally, they are divided into different services, which have now grown so much that, in my opinion, they have no one to fight with. A rare case when such a spiritual, strong-willed person, like my husband Denis, rebuffs these people in general, do you understand?

They have long weaned themselves from such encroachments. It seems to me that the next stage is already an internal struggle. Less and less remains of what can still be taken away, they have practically already covered the entire space with themselves. In the future, this system will begin to turn its own weapons inward.

If it were about the interests of the state or other serious things, but these are banal economic wars that are waged in order to acquire some kind of funds, benefits, and so on. It's not a secret: according to article 159.4 ("Fraud in the field of business activity",expired from July 8, 2016), propose to introduce an amnesty, because fraud is interpreted very broadly. People sit on it, in general, innocent, I think, about 60 percent. And everyone understands this, on both sides.

Why does society itself allow its citizens to be treated like this? There is not enough blame for these processes. I don't think there is any more war. How to compare a person with his ability to defend himself, even knowing them well, even being a very good lawyer, and a huge system that has all the fullness and the whole set of tools.

It is very interesting for me to watch you, because you talk like a good prosecutor in court, and your husband talks like an investigator. He is an investigator, and he talks like an investigator. I interviewed him, and it seems to me that not journalists should talk to him, only an investigator can talk to him, because only he knows how to do it. You don't evade the answer. And he avoids answering. Didn't it seem that way to you from the interviews he gave?

I, as you rightly said, was involved in this situation, I look at it from the side. For me, a person who is accustomed to great inner freedom, this situation is shocking. People around are not shocked, but I am shocked. I don't understand how you can do all this with him. There is cognitive dissonance going on in my head. I either see something wrong or hear something. I don't understand how to put it all together.

And in people, even with whom I talk or with whom I complain, from whom I seek sympathy, this does not cause such a reaction as it does for me, you understand? When I talk about the system, it's probably not worth talking about all these people, probably among all these millions there are very decent and worthy people. Of course, I have no right to speak of everyone as some kind of evil. But the part of the system that I encountered horrified me personally.

Do you expect that someone you know from your social circle may soon be in your place and even here, what do you think? Or is it unlikely?

No, not likely. This is very likely. Of course, our example is undeservedly exaggerated in the Russian media. I believe that this is not a phenomenon that needs to be discussed 24 hours a day for weeks on end.

- But it slightly destroyed the picture of the patriotic world.

No, this is an edification. So that those who are thinking about such a step understand that something terrible will happen.

What will be terrible? Well, there will be public censure, but at least they'll stay alive, they can take away the money if they can. They will remain to live simply away from their homeland, but not in prison. That's all that happened to you. For many, this is just a choice. The price is understandable, it is high, but it seems to me ...

Some are not ready to just get off the couch. When the arrests were taking place in 1937, then there was no such surveillance system as there is now. A person could simply leave, but they sat and waited, although they knew, felt, even understood many of them.

Well, Solzhenitsyn wrote that some sat down and left, and that was how they escaped. But few, really.

But why did they sit and wait? The same thing: many can leave, but not many do. Few get up off the couch, you know?

- God be with her, with Russian politics. You know, I really want to talk to you about art.

And I want to. Do you know how tired I am of all this? You can't even imagine. I used to get nervous when I went on stage. But this healthy phenomenon is courage, not frenzied fear, but some kind of excitement when a person enters the stage. It's good, it adds interest. But now I realized that I go on stage just to relax. And now for three hours I will listen, thank God, to music, I will just forget about everything that happens there.

I will have a wonderful plot, because the characters that I sing, they are still with a criminal inclination, but still it's "as if", it's all make-believe, it's still not real. It is always more interesting to look at the charm of a negative character. It starts from childhood: everyone wants some evil wizard to come.

- They hunted down the orphan.

Yes, and then he is saved - that's all. I love different roles, I sing not only negative ones, but often. I really live on stage, like in a fairy tale.

- Have you already sung to someone in Ukraine?

Well, I sing every day.

- Where? I don't know anything about it, tell me.

I don't sing on stage every day now. I have lessons, I teach the program, I have performances.

- I'm very interested in what your next performances will be.

They won't be long in coming, I don't want to prejudge for my own safety.

Are they here or in other countries? Everything, I just want to ask. Will it be in Ukraine or in other countries?

Both this and that.

- For reasons of your own safety: do you somehow take care of her or do you now live at random?

No, when I lived in Moscow for the last year, my security was no better than it is now. To live and be afraid is, you know, it is possible... There is total mortality on earth.

- No, well, at least someone is looking after you, at least one person you trust?

I won't tell you about it. It will be the most wrong thing. Let it remain a mystery.

Let it remain a mystery. Thanks a lot. Maria Maksakova.

I got the property of the river, the property of the center for the protection of the disabled, flew with friends in a helicopter to pick mushrooms in the Tver region and on a private plane to Dubai. These and other cases of the wife of the assistant to the president of the Russian Federation are in the March 8 investigation of the TsUR.

"Swan Lake"

The possessions of Surkov and Dubovitskaya

Surkov's neighbors, it must be said, are very difficult. The founders of the Swan Lake non-profit partnership, which unites neighbors on the street of the same name, are the ex-speaker of the Federation Council Vladimir Shumeiko, the first wife of the first and last vice-president of Russia Alexander Rutskoy Nelli, businessman Vasily Znamensky, businesswoman Yulia Belakhova (Pelmeshka network) and two former top managers of Lukoil-Neftekhim, Alexei Smirnov and Alexander Rappoport (his older brother Andrey headed the Moscow School of Management Skolkovo last year, Vladislav Surkov was the curator of the Skolkovo project, as you know, for many years).

Residents of Swan Lake and adjacent territories are also another presidential aide Igor Levitin, lawyer Anatoly Kucherena, billionaire Andrey Melnichenko, the new owner of Yves Saint Laurent's house in Normandy Siman Povarenkin (co-owner of Chocolate Girl and gold mines in Armenia and Georgia) and half-brother of the former first lady of Ukraine Lyudmila Kuchma Yuriy Tumanov. Since 1997, Tumanov has been the chairman of the board of directors of Kyivstar, Ukraine's largest mobile operator. In 2005, he profitably sold the Ukrainian share of the company to the Russian Alfa Group. Before Tumanov, the land was owned by a refugee from western Ukraine, and now a resident of Chicago, 67-year-old Al Dolgonos, who in the 2000s, together with his countryman Leon Dickopf, made a fortune in the alcohol trade in Moscow.

Girls and thieves

Numerous friends of the hostess and admirers of her husband's talents reached out to the Surkovs' house. Gradually, "Swan Lake" became a venue for prestigious parties.

Top row (left to right): Inna Malikova, Oksana Ozhelskaya and three guests. Bottom row: Miroslava Duma, Natalia Dubovitskaya, Dina Khabirova, two guests, Svetlana Bondarchuk

The composition of the closed club has changed over the years, but its constants have remained: the wife of the ex-Minister of Communications Leonid Reiman Olga (president of the charity fund "Who else if not me?"), the mother of two children of the head of Alfa Group Mikhail Fridman Oksana Ozhelskaya, editor-in-chief of Russia Today Margarita Simonyan, mother of two children of Anatoly Kucherena Olga Maidan, socialite Miroslava Duma, restaurateur Dina Khabirova, former instructor of the Ezhvinsky district committee of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League of Syktyvkar Elena Menshikova (now posing as a volunteer of the Sofia Charitable Foundation), sportswear salesman Irina May, sister of singer Dmitry Malikov Inna and A-Studio vocalist Katie Topuria, whose father, thief in law Andro Sanodze, died of an overdose in a colony in 2010.

A few years ago, Topuria was brought to the Surkovs by another regular participant in the gatherings - opera singer and ex-State Duma deputy from United Russia Maria Maksakova-Igenbergs, who at that time lived with an influential thief in law Vladimir Tyurin, nicknamed Tyurik (Tyurik was put on the international wanted list, Spain is seeking his extradition).

Maria Maksakova

The correspondent contacted one of the regular participants in the Surkovs' bachelorette parties, and she secretly said that among themselves they jokingly called Maksakova Masha the Poor:

At first there was a perennial story with Tyurik which the Spaniards are still looking for. After Tyurik, the owner of pawnshops, Jamil Aliyev, appeared and he began to have problems with business. Now a criminal case has been opened against Denis Voronenkov. They did not have time to get married, as they had to flee to Ukraine.

Alexander Buynov with guests

ends in the river

The Odintsovo district has invested 50 million rubles in the construction of treatment facilities and a dam in order to dam this river and create a forest lake. According to local residents, Nelli Rutskaya, the founder of the Swan Lake National Park, became the main enthusiast of its expansion: “She constantly told them (the Odintsovo administration) that the village was called Swan Lake, and sewage flows instead of swans,” the hostess told the TsUR correspondent one of the mansions.

Then miracles began: according to Rosreestr, on February 20, 2013, Alexander Rappoport, co-founder of Swan Lake, became the owner of half of the dam on the rescued Likova River with an area of ​​21,048 square meters. And two months later, Dubovitskaya turned out to be the mistress of the other half of the reservoir with an area of ​​21049 sq.m. Moreover, in the documents, the river passes as a land plot "for housing construction and recreational purposes."

Half of the Dubovitskaya dam is located on this "land plot"

Dammed river Likova

In the mid-1990s, the institute's director, academician Viktor Pivovarov, decided to engage in housing construction and for this purpose took multimillion-dollar loans from three banks. However, the hired workers plundered building materials, tools and equipment, organizing a point of sale right nearby - on the Minsk highway. The building is up. VNIISSOK was frequented by bankers with financial claims against the academician. A showdown began with the participation of the FSB special forces and the Solntsevo lads. And soon two solvers appeared in Pivovarov's office - Timur Klinovsky and Alexander Kozyrev.

They repaid all their debts to banks, and in return received 400 hectares of institute land, - deputy Trishin said. - If it were not for the jambs with the construction site, the land under the Swan Lake, the Likova River would never have been in private hands.

It must be added that the “white knight” Timur Klinovsky is a well-known person in the Moscow region. He participated in many land transactions in prestigious areas of the region. Some of them even caused social tension in the form of rallies under the slogan “Klinovsky! Return the stolen lands to the peasants!”

Place for the disabled

Let the people rally behind the fence, and we will return to the estate Surkov, where guests tired of water attractions dress up in costumes from the era of Marie Antoinette.

There is enough space in the estate to feel like ladies-in-waiting, pose for photographers in the open air and ride in Catherine's carriages. In addition to the pond, five more land plots with a total area of ​​28,293 sq.m. have been registered on Dubovitskaya. Particularly interesting is the plot of 9000 sq.m, according to the documents located at the address: Odintsovo district, the village of Borodki, Center for Social Protection of the Disabled LLP.

According to the Spark database, the Center for Social Protection of the Disabled LLP was registered in 1994 in Moscow at 23 Vorontsovskaya Street. In the documents of the Federal Tax Service, this two-story house has repeatedly appeared as a place of mass registration of one-day firms. In total, 2937 offices registered in it. In the early 2000s, the well-known pimp Valya-Spitsa had her own office on the second floor of the "rubber" house and took orders from clients. Now the entire building is rented by the Granit-Center Research and Production Enterprise OJSC, which provides services of a different nature - informational - for the Moscow government and the Ministry of Defense.

The administration of the Odintsovo district did not hear about any center for the disabled, but deputy Trishin said that this land plot was also sold for debts of VNIISSOK to banks. Timur Klinovsky also appeared in the deal. So that the inspection authorities would not have any questions, a center for the disabled appeared on paper.

Among the disabled, among the first in need of protection, were the mother and mother-in-law of the current presidential envoy in the Volga Federal District, Mikhail Babich, the savior of the river Nelli Rutskaya, Natalya Rappoport, whose husband sold the Dubovitskaya reservoir, as well as the former employee of Alfa Development Sergey Arnautov and a certain Muscovite Irina Levitina.

In March 2005, according to Rosreestr, the only disabled person was Natalia Dubovitskaya, who bought 9,000 sq.m from the previous owners.

Mushrooming by helicopter

The geography of bachelorette parties is not limited to the possessions of the Surkovs. The visiting meetings of the club are often held abroad. For example, a company headed by a permanent chairman flew to the United Arab Emirates in a private jet. According to the private carrier Business Jets, a round-trip flight for a company of 8-10 people costs from $53,000 (on a ten-year-old plane) to $100,000 (on a new board). It is unlikely that the girlfriends saved on the plane, since they did not waste time with the hotel - One&Only The Palm in Dubai (the price of a room per day is $2.5–3.5 thousand).

In a private jet on the way to Dubai

Elena Menshikova, a volunteer of the Sofia Charitable Foundation mentioned earlier, posted on VKontakte a meeting of the club in 2013 in the French ski resort of Megeve, where royalty like to stay. In the same volunteer account, there are several shots from the ice cave of Chamonix and uncorked Dom Perignon pink champagne (price in France from €160, in Russia - from 30 thousand rubles), which was used to greet the regulars of Swan Lake who descended from the mountains.

Natalia Dubovitskaya (in yellow, top row)

Mushroom hunting in Zalesye

As the wife of Vladislav Surkov, Natalia Dubovitskaya received ownership of the river, the property of the disability protection center, flew with her friends by helicopter to pick mushrooms in the Tver region and on a private plane to Dubai. These and other cases of the wife of the Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation  -  in the March 8 investigation of the TsUR.

"Swan Lake"

Presidential aide Vladislav Surkov and Natalia Dubovitskaya live 12 km from Moscow along the Minsk highway near the village of Borodki. In the elite village of Gribovo on Swan Lake Street in two houses (598 sq.m and 762 sq.m) on five hectares with a forest and a man-made pond measuring 4.2 hectares. They are separated from their neighbors by their own entrance with a security house (176.8 sq.m). In order to fence off completely, in 2013 the couple purchased a plot of 1854 sq.m, which was intended for the construction of a road, and installed a barrier.

The possessions of Surkov and Dubovitskaya. Photo: SDG

Surkov's neighbors, it must be said, are very difficult. The founders of the Swan Lake non-profit partnership, which unites neighbors on the street of the same name, are the ex-speaker of the Federation Council Vladimir Shumeiko, the first wife of the first and last vice-president of Russia Alexander Rutskoy Nelli, businessman Vasily Znamensky, businesswoman Yulia Belakhova (Pelmeshka network) and two former top managers of Lukoil-Neftekhim Alexei Smirnov and Alexander Natanovich Rappoport. Alexander Rappoport was born in the Lugansk region in 1971, where Andrei Natanovich Rappoport received his passport in 1979, until 2016 he headed the Moscow School of Management Skolkovo. The press service of the Moscow School of Management Skolkovo claims that they are not relatives. For a long time, Vladislav Surkov was the curator of the construction project for the construction of the Skolkovo Innovation Center near the business school.

Residents of Swan Lake and adjacent territories are also another presidential aide Igor Levitin, lawyer Anatoly Kucherena, billionaire Andrey Melnichenko, the new owner of Yves Saint Laurent's house in Normandy Siman Povarenkin (co-owner of Chocolate Girl and gold mines in Armenia and Georgia) and half-brother of the former first lady of Ukraine Lyudmila Kuchma Yuriy Tumanov. Since 1997, Tumanov has been the chairman of the board of directors of Kyivstar, Ukraine's largest mobile operator. In 2005, he profitably sold the Ukrainian share of the company to the Russian Alfa Group. Before Tumanov, the land was owned by a refugee from western Ukraine, and now a resident of Chicago, 67-year-old Al Dolgonos, who in the 2000s, together with his countryman Leon Dickopf, made a fortune in the alcohol trade in Moscow.

Girls and thieves

In March 2004, Vladislav Surkov became deputy head of the presidential administration, and five months later, the daughter of a policeman and housewife, Natalia Dubovitskaya, purchased property in Gribovo. At the same time, she joined the management of Novlyansky Starch Plant JSC, Aston Starch Products LLC, Placement Investments LLC and R-syndicate LLC (at the moment, Dubovitskaya no longer manages these structures).

Numerous friends of the hostess and admirers of her husband's talents reached out to the Surkovs' house. Gradually, "Swan Lake" became a venue for prestigious parties.

Top row (left to right): Inna Malikova, Oksana Ozhelskaya and three guests. Bottom row: Miroslava Duma, Natalia Dubovitskaya, Dina Khabirova, two guests, Svetlana Bondarchuk. Photo: Facebook

The composition of the closed club changed over the years, but its constants remained: the wife of the ex-Minister of Communications Leonid Reiman Olga (president of the charity fund "Who else if not me?"), mother of two children of the head of Alfa Group Mikhail Fridman Oksana Ozhelskaya, chief Russia Today editor Margarita Simonyan, mother of two children of Anatoly Kucherena Olga Maidan, socialite Miroslava Duma, restaurateur Dina Khabirova, former instructor of the Ezhvinsky district committee of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League of Syktyvkar Elena Menshikova (now posing as a volunteer of the Sofia Charitable Foundation), sportswear salesman Irina Mei, sister singer Dmitry Malikov Inna and A-Studio vocalist Katie Topuria, whose father, kingpin Andro Sanodze, died of an overdose in a colony in 2010.

A few years ago, Topuria was brought to the Surkovs by another regular participant in the gatherings,  -  opera singer and ex-State Duma deputy from United Russia, Maria Maksakova-Igenbergs, who at that time lived with an influential thief in law Vladimir Tyurin, nicknamed Tyurik (Tyurik was put on the international wanted list, Spain is seeking his extradition).

Maria Maksakova at the plenary meeting of the State Duma. Photo: Alexander Shalgin / press service of the State Duma of the Russian Federation / TASS

Now the diva, along with her new husband, former communist deputy Denis Voronenkov, recently put on the federal wanted list, is hiding in Ukraine.

The TsUR correspondent contacted one of the regular participants in the Surkovs' bachelorette parties, and she secretly said that among themselves they jokingly called Maksakova Masha the Poor:

At first there was a long history with Tyurik, whom the Spaniards are still looking for. After Tyurik, the owner of pawnshops, Jamil Aliyev, appeared and he began to have problems with business. Now a criminal case has been opened against Denis Voronenkov. They did not have time to get married, as they had to flee to Ukraine.

Alexander Buynov with guests. Photo: VKontakte

Judging by the photos on Facebook, sometimes the co-chairman of the central headquarters of the All-Russian Popular Front Stanislav Govorukhin, director Fyodor Bondarchuk, Natasha Koroleva with Tarzan and Alexander Buinov joined the girls, and Vladimir Vinokur entertained everyone with anecdotes.

ends in the river

The entertainment program of Surkov's wife's club, in addition to feasts, includes boating on the dammed river Likova. The river serves as a dividing line between Swan Lake and the rest of Gribovo. The end point for the Likova River is the large water artery Dunno.

The Odintsovo district has invested 50 million rubles in the construction of treatment facilities and a dam in order to dam this river and create a forest lake. According to local residents, Nelli Rutskaya, the founder of the Swan Lake National Park, became the main enthusiast of its expansion: “She constantly told them (the Odintsovo administration) that the village was called Swan Lake, and sewage flows instead of swans,” the hostess told the TsUR correspondent one of the mansions.

Then miracles began: according to Rosreestr, on February 20, 2013, Alexander Rappoport, co-founder of Swan Lake, became the owner of half of the dam on the rescued Likova River with an area of ​​21,048 square meters. And two months later, Dubovitskaya turned out to be the mistress of the other half of the reservoir with an area of ​​21049 sq.m. Moreover, in the documents, the river passes as a land plot "for housing construction and recreational purposes."

Half of the Dubovitskaya dam is located on this "land plot"

How the purchase of the river is consistent with the Water Code of the Russian Federation, where such transactions are expressly prohibited, we could not find out. On the other hand, Mikhail Trishin, a deputy of the three-member constituency No. 3 of the Lesnoy Gorodok urban-type settlement in the Odintsovo district, told the TsUR how the reservoir had passed into private hands: “Of course, all this is not entirely legal, but Surkov resolved all issues with the regional government. You see, literally everyone was connected, and there was a special meeting of the government. Together with Surkov, I then went to the governor Gromov, and along the way, Kucheren's lawyer made a request.

Dammed river Likova. Photo: CIAN

According to deputy Trishin, all the surrounding land, including the Surkovs' personal pond, used to belong to the All-Russian Research Institute for Vegetable Breeding and Seed Production (VNIISSOK) and legumes and onions were grown on it.

In the mid-1990s, the institute's director, academician Viktor Pivovarov, decided to engage in housing construction and for this purpose took multimillion-dollar loans from three banks. However, the hired workers plundered building materials, tools and equipment, organizing a point of sale right nearby  -  on the Minsk highway. The building is up. VNIISSOK was frequented by bankers with financial claims against the academician. A showdown began with the participation of the FSB special forces and the Solntsevo lads. And soon two solvers appeared in Pivovarov's office - Timur Klinovsky and Alexander Kozyrev.

They repaid all their debts to banks, and in return received 400 hectares of institute land,  -  Deputy Trishin said. -  If it were not for the jambs with the construction site, the land under the Swan Lake, the Likova River would never have been in private hands.

It should be added that the "white knight" Timur Klinovsky  -  is a well-known person in the Moscow region. He participated in many land transactions in prestigious areas of the region. Some of them even caused social tension in the form of rallies under the slogan “Klinovsky! Return the stolen lands to the peasants!”

Place for the disabled

Let the people rally behind the fence, and we will return to the Surkovs' estate, where guests, tired of water attractions, dress up in costumes from the era of Marie Antoinette.

There is enough space in the estate to feel like ladies-in-waiting, pose for photographers in the open air and ride in Catherine's carriages. In addition to the pond, five more land plots with a total area of ​​28,293 sq.m. have been registered on Dubovitskaya. Particularly interesting is the plot of 9000 sq.m, according to the documents located at the address: Odintsovo district, the village of Borodki, Center for Social Protection of the Disabled LLP.

According to the Spark database, the Center for Social Protection of the Disabled LLP was registered in 1994 in Moscow at 23 Vorontsovskaya Street. In the documents of the Federal Tax Service, this two-story house has repeatedly appeared as a place of mass registration of one-day firms. In total, 2937 offices registered in it. In the early 2000s, the well-known pimp Valya-Spitsa had her own office on the second floor of the "rubber" house and took orders from clients. Now the entire building is rented by the Granit-Center Research and Production Enterprise OJSC, which provides services of a different nature - information - for the Moscow government and the Ministry of Defense.

The administration of the Odintsovo district did not hear about any center for the disabled, but deputy Trishin said that this land plot was also sold for debts of VNIISSOK to banks. Timur Klinovsky also appeared in the deal. So that the inspection authorities would not have any questions, a center for the disabled appeared on paper.

Among the disabled, among the first in need of protection, were the mother and mother-in-law of the current presidential envoy in the Volga Federal District, Mikhail Babich, the savior of the river Nelli Rutskaya, Natalya Rappoport, whose husband sold the Dubovitskaya reservoir, as well as the former employee of Alfa Development Sergey Arnautov and a certain Muscovite Irina Levitina.

In March 2005, according to Rosreestr, the only disabled person was Natalia Dubovitskaya, who bought 9,000 sq.m from the previous owners.

Mushrooming by helicopter

The geography of bachelorette parties is not limited to the possessions of the Surkovs. The visiting meetings of the club are often held abroad. For example, a company headed by a permanent chairman flew to the United Arab Emirates in a private jet. According to the private carrier Business Jets, a round-trip flight for a company of 8-10 people costs from $53,000 (on a ten-year-old plane) to $100,000 (on a new board). It is unlikely that the girlfriends saved on the plane, since they did not waste time with the hotel  -  One&Only The Palm in Dubai (the price of a room per day is $2.5–3.5 thousand).

In a private jet on the way to Dubai. Photo: Facebook

On one of the trips to the Emirates, the Russians were accompanied by the manager of a large international real estate agency Knight Frank, Italian Roberta Pat. She also visited with them on the island of St. Bartholomew in the Caribbean. Along with real estate in the UAE, Monaco, Switzerland, Singapore, her company's portfolio includes five mansions in the neighborhood of Swan Lake worth from $2.5 million.

Elena Menshikova, a volunteer of the Sofia Charitable Foundation mentioned earlier, posted on VKontakte a meeting of the club in 2013 in the French ski resort of Megeve, where royalty like to stay. In the same volunteer account, there are several shots from the ice cave of Chamonix and uncorked Dom Perignon pink champagne (price in France from €160, in Russia - from 30 thousand rubles), which was used to greet the regulars of Swan Lake who descended from the mountains.

There are also entertainments in Russia: in Zalesye, Tver region, the company in full force flies every year by helicopter for chanterelles (mushrooms do not grow in Gribovo). Hummers and one of several existing Shaman all-terrain vehicles worth 5.9 million rubles are waiting for them on the spot.

Mushroom hunting in Zalesye. Photo: VKontakte

Previously, the land of the hunting farm belonged to OJSC Tverkhimvolokno, but after the bankruptcy of the enterprise, Alfa-Bank became the owner. The organization of hunting for the VIP is directly handled by the general director of Zalesye LLC Vladimir Smirnov. In Spark, you can find out that Zalesye LLC with an authorized capital of 15 million rubles is a structural unit of the bank, and in 2015 the revenue amounted to 24,208 rubles. The LRC sent an official request to Alfa-Bank, who paid for the helicopter, the rental of SUVs and the services of guides, but there has been no answer for more than a week.

By the way, a basket of chanterelles in the capital's markets during the season costs 700 rubles.

Surkov Vladislav Yurievich

Place of work: Administration of the President of the Russian Federation

Positions: in 1999-04 - Assistant and Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration (AP) of the Russian Federation. In 2004-08 - Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation - Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation. Since 2008 - First Deputy of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation.

Participation in business

In 1987, Vladislav Surkov was the head of the advertising department of the Center for Intersectoral Scientific and Technical Programs (TsMNTP) - the Youth Initiative Foundation under the Frunze District Committee of the Komsomol.

Since 1988, he has been the administrator for relations with customers of the Kamelopart cooperative and the head of the Metapress Market Communications Agency at the state-cooperative association Intersectoral Scientific and Technical Programs (MENATEP), into which the TsMNTP was transformed.

In fact, the Metapress agency acted as the advertising department of the MENATEP group founded by Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Leonid Nevzlin and their partners. Formally, the department existed in the form of a separate company - CJSC ARC Metapress. Surkov's wife Yulia Vishnevskaya, his friend Sergey Astanin and Avancorp LLP, registered at Surkov's address, became the shareholders of the CJSC. The co-owners of LLP according to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities are Vladislav Surkov, Andrey Ivanitsky, Alexander Kosyanenko.

In 1991-1996 Vladislav Surkov was deputy, then head of customer service, head of the advertising department and deputy head of the public relations service of the commercial investment bank MENATEP (Interbank Association of Scientific and Technological Progress).

Official Vladislav Surkov and his son, businessman Artem Surkov, are waiting for President Medvedev to approach the stand of the Surkov family's innovative business

In 1992 - President of the Russian Association of Advertisers. In 1996-97 - Vice President and Head of Department at ZAO Rosprom.

In 1997-98 - First Deputy Chairman of the Board of Alfa-Bank OJSC (the holding belongs to Mikhail Fridman and Petr Aven).

In 1998-99 - First Deputy General Director, Director of Public Relations and Executive Secretary of the Open Supervisory Board of OJSC Public Russian Television. In 2004-2006 - Chairman of the Board of Directors of state-owned OAO AK Transnefteprodukt.

Impact on business:

The events were financed by private business. The press published information about the methods by which Yakemenko and Surkov collected money. According to Yakemenko, the search for sponsors did not cause problems, since the refusal of businessmen to finance his projects was seen as "a manifestation of an unpatriotic position."

More than $2 million was raised for the Seliger-2005 camp. Expenses increased significantly in subsequent years. In 2010, only the head of the ONEXIM group, Mikhail Prokhorov, donated $ 10 million to the needs of the Seliger-2010 program. In 2011, Rosmolodezh planned to spend at least 178 million rubles on Seliger, which is almost twice as much as in 2009 and 2010

From Prokhorov's personal funds, the Russian Pioneer magazine is financed, where Vladislav Surkov, under his last name, led an author's column. The Russian Pioneer published and advertised the novel Near Zero, published under the pseudonym Natan Dubovitsky. The authorship of the work is attributed to Surkov (his wife's name is Natalia Dubovitskaya). The amount of the royalties paid to the author through the publishing business of Mikhail Prokhorov is unknown. The artistic level of the novel was repeatedly criticized - before collaborating with the Russian Pioneer, Vladislav Surkov tried to write stories, but, according to the recollections of his colleagues, he initially assessed his literary abilities as "not brilliant".

The lack of control over the spending of funds collected from businesses to solve the problems of the presidential administration and its leaders created opportunities for action outside the legal field. Simultaneously with the presentation of the Nashi movement, detachments of militants appeared in Russia, terrorizing opposition activists, journalists and human rights activists criticizing the authorities. Vasily Yakimenko, in his speeches, recommended that his colleagues, fans of the Moscow Spartak football club, be entrusted with forceful opposition to the opponents of the authorities.

According to politician Ilya Yashin,fan group supportersGallant Steeds (CSKA), led by Aleksey Mitryushin, who joined the Nashi movement, beat him on Yakemenko's instructions. Roman Verbitsky, the leader of the group Gladiators, became a member of Nashi and the head of the voluntary youth squad (DMD) of the movement. Fans from this association were used to guard the camp on Lake Seliger and other Nashi events. On March 5, 2005, Verbitsky posed for photographers during a militant raid on the headquarters of the opposition National Bolshevik Party (NBP). As a result of the attack, the oppositionists who were in the premises were severely beaten.

On August 29, 2005, Verbitsky was identified during a pogrom in the reception room of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (KPRF). During this attack, football fans from the Gladiators group used clubs and traumatic weapons, beating seven people, including women. The rioters were taken to the Danilovsky police station. According to the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, an employee of the presidential administration, Nikita Ivanov, a native of the Gleb Pavlovsky Effective Policy Foundation, who is considered a confidant of Vladislav Surkov, went to this police station in order to release them. Verbitsky and other detainees were released by the police.

Ivanov currently holds the position of adviser to the secretary of the presidium of the pro-government United Russia party, supervised by Surkov. According to the personal data of the participants in the 2011 United Russia primaries, in addition to party activities, Ivanov continues to work as an adviser to the first deputy head of the presidential administration of the Russian Federation. According to Boris Nemtsov, Ivanov is responsible for communication between Vladislav Surkov and the leadership of the Moscow police department, ensuring that decisions are made on the use of force to counter certain protests.

In 2010, unknown persons inflicted serious bodily harm on Oleg Kashin, the journalist who first wrote about the attack on Yashin, who repeatedly criticized Nikita Ivanov, Vladislav Surkov and Vasily Yakemenko. Before that, an article was published on the website of the pro-government movement “Young Guard of United Russia” with a call to “punish” Kashin. When the correspondent announced the possible involvement of Yakimenko in the attack, the latter went to court with a claim for the protection of honor and dignity. The lawsuit was won by Kashin.
In 2010, the Internet publication Marker, owned by a publisher close to Surkov, Aram Gabrelyanov, published a series of compromising articles aimed at discrediting the leaderFederal Space Agency (Roscosmos) Anatoly Perminov. In response, the press secretary of Roskosmos stated that the stake in the Marker newspaper and its associated publications "owned through intermediaries by one of the high-ranking officials who loves to engage in black PR and other literary delights. By the media, these words wereinterpreted , as an allusion to the writing hobbies of Vladislav Surkov. Ultimately, Perminov was fired.

Glavkino is implementing a development project in the Krasnogorsk district of the Moscow region, building a private film studio (the so-called "Russian Hollywood"). The construction should be completed with VTB's loan funds. In 2009, the Kommersant newspaper mentioned the likely inclusion of the General Director of Channel One, Konstantin Ernst, who collaborates with Vladislav Surkov, into the beneficiaries of Glavkino. Referring to the management of Glavkino, a Kommersant correspondent reported that "Mr. Ivanitsky is a person affiliated with VTB, and thus the company is actually controlled by the state."

In 2010, according to publications, VTB Bank allegedly withdrew from the founders of Glavkino, assigned its share to a certain individual, but did not stop financing Ivanitsky's project.

Earlier, Andrey Ivanitsky owned OOO ON, the founder of OOO Gorodskaya Pressa registered in Ryazan. The second participant of the "City press" is the company "RAARS". Tatyana Vladimirovna Odintsova works as its general director, the owner of the authorized capital is Delta Mash LLC. The owners of the last legal entity were Mikhail Yuryevich Ivanitsky and Andrey Uraev's Morden Invest CJSC.

Andrey Ivanitsky owned 19.9% ​​of the shares in OJSC KPZ Novlyansky, affiliated with Surkov’s wife, and 16.52% in OJSC Ibredkrakhmalpatoka. Subsequently, Promregionbank, registered in Tomsk, whose branches also operate in Moscow and Ryazan, became a shareholder.

According to disclosed data, in 2011 Ivanitsky directly controlled 30.03% of Promregionbank LLC, Natalia Dubovitskaya's partner in the Ryazan business Alexandra Petrova - 10%, Andrey Uraev - 19.99% (through Ost-Finance LLC), Konstantin Kekhoyas - 19.99% (through Graz LLC), Sergey Astanin - 19.99% (through Center-Plus LLC).

Konstantin Kekhoyas is Andrei Ivanitsky's partner in Tekhprom LLC, the owner of the Ryazan-based Business Alliance LLC and structures involved in the oil and gas business.

Andrey Uraev (on the picture)- former stunt coordinator, partner of Natalia Dubovitskaya in the starch business and a close friend of Vladislav Surkov. Uraev heads the Aegis Foundation, and together with the presidential administration finances film projects. The Egida Foundation, the presidential administration and the head of the Council for Culture under the President of the Russian Federation, actor Yevgeny Mironov, distribute sponsorships received by the heads of Russian theaters. Yevgeny Mironov, Andrei Uraev, director Kirill Serebrennikov and theater critic Roman Dolzhansky are the founders of the Territory Cultural Foundation.

Every year, this organization, with the support of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation and the Ministry of Culture, holds a large-scale festival "Territory", the purpose of which is "acquaintance of creative youth with the best manifestations of contemporary performing arts." According to the monitoring of public procurement, in 2007-10. CF "Territory" allocated 46 million rubles from the budget. (more than $1.6 million). In addition to the festival, the state finances the "exchange events with the Republic of Abkhazia" planned by Uraev and Mironov's structure and the "German cultural program in Russia." Evgenia Shermeneva, director of the Territory CF, simultaneously heads the New European Theater Festival Non-Commercial Partnership (NP Festival NET). In 2007-10 the organization received 24 million 450 thousand rubles from the budget. (the first and second parts of the trenches). The amount of extra-budgetary contributions, which are considered the main projects of Andrey Uraev, is unknown.

The Vedomosti newspaper names the head of the Egida CF, considering possible versions of the attempt on the life of journalist Oleg Kashin, who criticized the leader of the Nashi movement Vasily Yakimenko and other members of Vladislav Surkov's entourage. Shortly before the attack, Kashin reported that Andrey Uraev personally prepared the text of the novel "About Zero", the authorship of which is attributed to Surkov.

At the same time, the journalist pointed out that the fast political career of the former Nashi press secretary Robert Schlegel, nominated to the State Duma from the United Russia party, was allegedly connected with his marriage to Uraev's daughter. After the attack on the author of these allegations and the ensuing scandalous publicity, Schlegel publicly denied information about his marriage to a relative of Uraev, joined the appeal to the President of the Russian Federation with a request to help solve the crime against Kashin.

However, the facts say otherwise. Wife of Robert Schlegel