Where does Shoigu's daughter work? Children of Sergei Kuzhugetovich Shoigu

31.05.202427.05.2017

The eldest son of the Chairman of the Duma of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, billionaire, entrepreneur Roman Abramovich Arkady Abramovich(born 1993) has his own investment company - ARA Capital Limited, named after Arkady's initials. In addition, he owns a 26% stake in Crosby Asset Management. Both companies specialize in investing in oil and gas assets around the world. Currently, VTB Capital is a subsidiary of the second largest Russian bank by assets - VTB.

The eldest son of the director of the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) of the Russian Federation Mikhail Fradkov Petr Fradkov(born 1978) - Deputy Chairman of Vnesheconombank, since 2011 for the insurance of export credits and investments (EXIAR), of which VEB is a shareholder.
In December 2012, he was removed from the board of Vnesheconombank.
Previously, Pyotr Fradkov worked as deputy representative of Vnesheconombank in the USA (2000‑2004); Deputy General Director of OJSC Far Eastern Shipping Company (2004-2005); Deputy Director of the Directorate - Director of the Department, First Deputy Director of the Directorate of Vnesheconombank (2004-2005).

The youngest son of the head of the SVR Mikhail Fradkov Pavel Fradkov(born 1981) August 27, 2012 Deputy Head of the Federal Agency for State Property Management (Rosimushchestvo).
Prior to this appointment, he held senior positions in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of the Russian Federation and the Federal Security Service (FSB) of the Russian Federation.
He graduated from the Moscow Suvorov Military School (1998), the FSB Academy (2003) and the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign Ministry (2005).

Son of Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak Alexey Kozak(born 1984) since 2009, has held the position of investment manager in the department of direct investments and special projects at VTB Capital.
In 2008, Alexey Kozak worked at the Ministry of Regional Development of the Russian Federation. In 2005, after graduating from the Higher School of Economics, he took the position of head of the capital markets department at MacBright&Partners, specializing in real estate transactions.

Son of Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov Petr Zhukov(born 1983) - co-owner and member of the supervisory board of the Moscow bank Unifin.
Since January 2006, Petr Zhukov owned 20% of Unifin shares; in the spring of 2007, he reduced his stake to 4.6%. From 2004 to 2007, he worked in the London office of the Swiss UBS Investment Bank, and for some time worked at Vneshprombank. In 2004, he graduated with honors from the Faculty of Law of the Higher School of Economics, Candidate of Economic Sciences.

Son of Russian FSB Director Alexander Bortnikov Denis Bortnikov(born 1974) has been a member of the board of JSC VTB Bank since November 2011.
Denis Bortnikov has been working at VTB Bank since January 2006, until 2007 he served as deputy manager of the St. Petersburg branch of Vneshtorgbank OJSC (now VTB), in 2007-2011 he was deputy chairman of the board - head of the department, first deputy chairman of the board, chairman of the board of OJSC Bank VTB North-West", in March-November 2011 - head of the North-West regional center, senior vice-president of OJSC VTB Bank. Before joining VTB, Denis Bortnikov worked at OJSC Industrial Construction Bank (1996-2004), in 2004-2006 he was an advisor to the manager, deputy manager of the North-West branch of Guta Bank. Denis Bortnikov graduated from the St. Petersburg University of Economics and Finance in 1996.

The eldest son of the Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Nikolai Patrushev Dmitry Patrushev(born 1977) since May 2010, has been Chairman of the Board and member of the Supervisory Board of OJSC Rosselkhozbank.
Dmitry Patrushev is a graduate of the State University of Management (1999), the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2004), Doctor of Economics. In 2004-2010, he worked at VTB Bank, where since 2007 he held the position of senior vice president of the bank.

The youngest son of the Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Nikolai Patrushev Andrey Patrushev(born 1981) since February 2012 of the Russian-Vietnamese company Vietsovpetro, whose members are Zarubezhneft OJSC and PetroVietnam. Before this appointment, since the fall of 2011, he worked at Zarubezhneft, where he oversaw the Vietnamese direction.
Andrey Patrushev graduated from the FSB Academy (2003), served as deputy head of the 9th department (oil and gas complex) of the "P" ("Industry") department of the FSB of the Russian Federation. In 2006, he was appointed advisor to the chairman of the board of directors of Rosneft, who at that time was Igor Sechin (then deputy head of the presidential administration), and was later transferred to the post of head of one of its subsidiaries. In 2011, he left the state-owned company of his own free will.

The eldest son of the head of the Russian Presidential Administration Sergei Ivanov Alexander Ivanov(born 1977) since April 2012, has been Deputy Chairman of the state corporation "Bank for Development and Foreign Economic Affairs (Vnesheconombank)". Alexander Ivanov has been working at Vnesheconombank since 2006, and in 2007-2011 he served as Director of the Structured and Debt Finance Department. From 2002 to 2006, he worked at VTB OJSC, where in 2006 he was Managing Director of the Department of Corporate Development and Financial Assets. In 2000-2002, Alexander Ivanov was an expert in the department of Russian banks, banks of the CIS and Baltic countries of the Department of Interbank Cooperation of Vnesheconombank.
He graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2000), and the Financial Academy under the Government of the Russian Federation (2003).

The youngest son of the head of the Russian Presidential Administration Sergei Ivanov Sergey Ivanov(born 1980) - Chairman of the Board of OJSC SOGAZ (since 2011), member of the Board of Directors of OJSC Gazprombank.
Sergei Ivanov Jr. has been working at Gazprombank since 2004. In 2005, he was appointed to the position of vice president of Gazprombank, in 2008 he was promoted to member of the board and first vice president, and in 2009–2011 he served as deputy chairman of the board of Gazprombank.
From 2003 to 2005, Sergey Ivanov worked as the chief expert of the international projects department at OAO Gazprom.
In 2001, he graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation with a degree in Finance and Credit.

Son of Federation Council Chairman Valentina Matvienko Sergey Matvienko(born 1973) - General Director of CJSC VTB Development; the company implements construction projects in St. Petersburg.
From 2004 to 2006, he served as vice president for information technology at VTB, then headed the VTB Capital company, later renamed VTB Development. At the same time, he worked at Bank St. Petersburg, first as head of the information technology directorate, and in April 2003 he took the post of vice president. In July 2010, Sergei Matvienko left the bank, while remaining the beneficial owner of 4.12% of the bank's voting shares.

The daughter of Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu (born 1977) is the director of the Center for Emergency Psychological Assistance of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations.
She began working as a psychologist at the Center for Emergency Psychological Assistance of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation in 1999. Two years later she became deputy director. In 2002 she was appointed director of this center.
Graduated from the Faculty of Psychology of Moscow State University, Candidate of Psychological Sciences.

Son of Sberbank head German Gref Oleg Gref Since 2009, he has held the post of vice-president of the consulting group NEO-Center LLC for strategic development. In 2003-2009 he worked at Deutsche Bank in London, then in the Russian branch of the bank.
In 2004 he graduated from the Faculty of Law of Moscow State University.

The eldest son of the governor of the Kemerovo region Aman Tuleyev Dmitry Tuleyev(born 1968) is the head of the Federal State Institution “Federal Administration of Highways “Siberia” (Sibupravtodor) of the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation.

Son of the head of the Federal Security Service (FSO) of the Russian Federation Evgeny Murov Andrey Murov of the Board of Directors of JSC Federal Grid Company of the Unified Energy System (JSC FGC UES), executive director of JSC IDGC Holding.
He came to IDGC Holding to the position of deputy chairman of the board in February 2012, in June he became deputy chairman of the board at FGC UES, and in July - executive director of IDGC Holding OJSC.
Before that, since 2004, he worked at Pulkovo Airport (St. Petersburg), where he held the following positions: First Deputy General Director - Director of the Production Complex (2004-2005), and. O. General Director of Pulkovo Airport (2005‑2006), General Director of Pulkovo Airport (2006‑2012).
In 2003-2004, he worked as director for general issues at General Data Comm. In 2002-2003, he was general director of Eurostroykomplekt (a construction organization subcontracted by the State Unitary Enterprise Vodokanal St. Petersburg).
Graduated from the Faculty of Law of St. Petersburg State University (1993), the Interindustry Institute for Advanced Studies and Retraining of Managerial Personnel at the St. Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance with a specialization in management (1998); Candidate of Economic Sciences.

The son of one of the richest people in Russia, entrepreneur, chairman of the board of directors of Sistema JSFC Vladimir Evtushenkov Felix Evtushenkov(born 1978) - First Vice-President of JSFC Sistema, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bashneft oil company. From 2003 to 2008, he headed the company OJSC Sistema-Hals.
In 2000, he graduated from the A. S. Griboyedov Institute of International Law and Economics, majoring in jurisprudence.

Daughter of Vladimir Yevtushenkov Tatiana(b. 1976) is an adviser to the president of Sberbank, a member of the board of directors of Mobile Telesystems OJSC (MTS).
Since 2002, she has been vice president of MTS OJSC for investments and corporate development.
Graduated from the Financial Academy under the Government of the Russian Federation.

The material was prepared based on information from RIA Novosti and open sources

The personal life of the top officials of the state is hidden from the eyes of the general public, but this does not make interest in it less, and the family of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation is no exception. So who is Sergei Shoigu’s wife and does he have children?

Life partner of the Minister of Defense

Sergei Kuzhugetovich met his future wife Irina Antipina while studying at the Krasnoyarsk Polytechnic University. Their romance continued throughout their years of study, and in their fifth year they decided to get married, and since then they have been going through life together. Irina Shoigu, like her husband, was also able to achieve a lot in life.

She is a successful businesswoman, managed the travel company Expo-EM, and back in the nineties, together with the wife of Sergei Khetagurov, who was Shoigu’s deputy in those years, she formed the consulting company Albion-AG LLC, and later Irina went into construction business and together with her son Matvienko Sergei she created the company “Barvikha, 4”.

In the photo - Shoigu with his wife and daughter

In addition, the wife of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation is the dean of the faculty of the Higher School of Sports Industry at the Russian Economic University. Plekhanov, is a member of the board of trustees of the children's social fund "Republic of Sport" and the public organization "International Humanitarian Dimension", which is engaged in the development of cultural and business relations in different countries of the world. The wife of Sergei Shoigu was successful not only as a businesswoman, but also as the mother of two daughters - Yulia and Ksenia.

Children of Sergei Shoigu

The daughters of Irina and Sergei Shoigu received an excellent upbringing and education. The eldest daughter, Yulia, is a psychologist by training and heads the Center for Emergency Psychological Assistance of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations. After graduating from the Faculty of Psychology of Moscow State University, she first worked as a simple psychologist, and only after that she took a higher position.

Yulia Sergeevna, as a psychologist, worked with people who were victims of terrorist attacks and man-made disasters not only in Russia. Her personal life has already taken shape - she got married and gave her parents grandchildren - Dasha and Kirill.

In the photo - Sergei Shoigu's eldest daughter Yulia

The youngest daughter of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Ksenia, graduated from the Faculty of Economics of MGIMO, and, according to some sources, currently works at Gazprombank.

In the photo - Sergei Shoigu with his youngest daughter Ksenia

Biography and career of Sergei Shoigu

The future successful politician was born in the small Tuvan town of Chadan, his father was the editor of a local newspaper, and later became an employee of the party and Soviet bodies - by the time of his retirement, Kuzhuget Sereevich was the first deputy of the Council of Ministers of the Tuvan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. Sergei Kuzhugetovich's mother Alexandra Yakovlevna first worked as a livestock specialist, and then was the head of the planning department of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Tuva, and was elected several times to the Supreme Council of the Republic.

After graduating from high school, Sergei Shoigu went to Krasnoyarsk, where he graduated from the Polytechnic Institute with a degree in construction engineer. After graduating from university, the future Minister of Defense worked for fifteen years at large Siberian construction sites, where he held leadership positions.

Shoigu's political career began in the late eighties, when he became the second secretary of the Abakan Committee of the CPSU, then was an inspector of the Krasnoyarsk Regional Committee of the CPSU. Sergei Shoigu’s wife accompanied her husband to all construction sites, and when he went to Moscow, she followed him.

Having moved to the Russian capital, Shoigu took the position of Deputy Chairman of the RSFSR State Committee for Architecture and Construction, and a year later, on his initiative, the Russian Rescue Corps was created, of which he became the head.

A few years later, this department was transformed into the State Committee of the Russian Federation for Civil Defense, Emergency Situations and Disaster Relief, which Sergei Kuzhugetovich headed from 1991 to 1994. In 1995, he began to actively engage in political activities - he became a member of the “Our Home is Russia” association, and a few years later he headed the political party “Unity,” which was later transformed into the “United Russia” party. In 1994, Shoigu became the Minister of the Russian Federation for Civil Defense, Emergency Situations and Disaster Relief, and in this position he personally led many rescue operations, which gained him enormous popularity among Russian citizens.

Shoigu also had the opportunity to serve as governor of the Moscow region, although he was in this position for only a short time, only about six months, and then he was appointed Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation instead of Anatoly Serdyukov, who was dismissed.

Habits and hobbies of Sergei Shoigu

Sergei Kuzhugetovich calls communication with nature the best rest and means of relaxation after hard work.

He loves horse riding, football and fishing. Shoigu loves good cuisine, meat, fresh fish and good wine, and the Minister of Defense is also a heavy smoker, and is not going to give up this bad habit, which, according to him, he enjoys.

She was born in 1977. Her parents Sergei Kuzhugetovich and Irina Aleksandrovna studied together at the Faculty of Construction of the Krasnoyarsk Polytechnic University.

My father was born into the family of the famous party leader of the Tuvan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, newspaper editor Kuzhuget Shoigu and livestock specialist Alexandra Yakovlevna Kudryavtseva, who was from the Lugansk region. Mother Irina, nee Antipina, was the daughter of the head of a construction organization in Krasnoyarsk.

During their student years, Sergei and Irina began a warm relationship, which grew into a strong marriage. From Krasnoyarsk, immediately after graduating from university, the young family moved to Kyzyl, where Sergei began working in his specialty. But a year after the birth of their daughter, due to the appointment of the head of the family to the position of foreman of a large construction organization, they moved to Achinsk, then to Sayanogorsk, and then to Abakan.

In parallel with his main activities, Sergei Kuzhugetovich took the post of second secretary of the regional branch of the party, but almost immediately in 1990 he was transferred to Moscow.

, Julia's father

Due to the frequent moves of the family, Yulia constantly changed her place of study during her childhood. But she finished her tenth year in Moscow. After which the girl entered the psychology department of Moscow State University. Such a desire to study human mental health turned out to be natural for her. It is known that her two paternal aunts, Larisa and Irina, devoted their lives to working as psychiatrists.

Much later than her graduation from the university, in 2003, Yulia defended her PhD thesis on a topic that reveals the problems of selecting cadets for the ranks of the Ministry of Emergency Situations.

Scientific works

Yulia Shoigu - Director of the Center for Emergency Psychological Assistance of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia

The girl’s rapid career growth is due to her strong character, strong-willed acumen, intuition and a whole store of knowledge, which she successfully applies throughout her entire career. In addition, Yulia is also a co-author of the textbook “Psychology of Extreme Situations.” The book reveals aspects of people's behavioral reactions in emergency conditions. It was created to help rescuers, firefighters, and psychologists.

Personal life

Little is known about Julia’s personal life. Her husband Alexey Zakharov holds the post of chief prosecutor of the Moscow region. Alexey Yuryevich is from the Arkhangelsk region, he is 6 years older than his wife.

The husband received higher education at the Saratov State Academy with a degree in jurisprudence. Before his appointment to his last position, he served as a prosecutor in the city of Zhukovsky, Moscow and Kaliningrad.

Yulia Shoigu and her husband Alexey Zakharov

At the moment, Alexey Yuryevich has been awarded the rank of state councilor, 2nd class, which corresponds to the military rank of lieutenant general of justice. Alexey and Yulia have two children - daughter Dasha and son Kirill.

The media do not have much information about the biography of the young, confident head of the psychological service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations. You won’t find personal photos of Yulia and her family on the Internet or in the press. Basically, the entire review of information comes down to covering her professional activities. It is known that Yulia Sergeevna has awards of honor: medals “For Services to the Fatherland”, “For the Commonwealth in the Name of Salvation”, “For Distinction in Service” and other awards.

Yulia has a younger sister, Ksenia, an ambitious girl who studies at the Faculty of Economics at MGIMO. in 2010, she starred in a family friend’s film “Burnt by the Sun 2,” but did not continue her acting career after that.

Ksenia Shoigu, Yulia's sister

Currently, she is the curator of the Ministry of Defense project to revive the standards of the GTO “Race of Heroes,” which took place in many Russian cities in 2015. It is noteworthy that participation in the competition required a fee, the cost of which in different regions ranged from 1,700 to 3,000 rubles.

6-year-old Daniil was conceived on an Emergencies Ministry plane

Maintaining a second family is not cheap for the minister

Rumors that the country's main rescuer has an illegitimate son were at one time actively circulated in the corridors of power and journalistic circles. But since no one saw the boy in person, the conversations somehow imperceptibly faded away. To our freelance correspondent Arthur Horst We managed to find a cute boy and his wonderful mother in one of the elite villages near Moscow.

Happy childhood

Of course, we were unable to obtain direct evidence that 6-year-old Daniil was actually conceived on the plane of the Ministry of Emergency Situations. However, the minister’s all-knowing neighbors claim that this was exactly what happened.

According to the words of a venerable old man, a neighbor of a noble family in an elite cottage community, Alexander Ivanovich, a certain Elena Sh-va worked as a flight attendant on a plane of the Ministry of Emergency Situations and accompanied the best minister of Russia on all his difficult business trips. And one day, during his return from a difficult expedition filled with courage and heroism, a dead tired Shoigu (after all, he plows like a red people's commissar) could not resist the charms of a beautiful blonde. Soon a charming baby was born, whom Sergei Kuzhugetovich and Elena named the beautiful name Daniil.

Danya is like two peas in a pod, both in appearance and character. Sergei Kuzhugetovich dotes on his reflection. The minister saved up money and built an excellent house for his son on the banks of the Moscow River, surrounding it with a 4-meter brick fence, and assigned personal bodyguards to the heir and his mother. The impregnable fortress is guarded around the clock by armed policemen. This is clearly stated on the bright sign on the gate. People from the Ministry of Emergency Situations say that to celebrate, Sergei Kuzhugetovich even named one of his six bases in Khakassia, where he comes six times a year to hunt, in honor of his son - “Daniil and Co.”

The minister, as a decent person, did not divorce his legal wife Irina, with whom he has two daughters. Moreover, Shoigu’s eldest daughter gave him a grandson last year. Sergei Kuzhugetovich himself took her and the baby from the Family Planning Center on Sevastopolsky Avenue in the capital - he didn’t even trust his son-in-law with his own son upon discharge! He put his daughter and child in his armored jeep and personally drove him home.

By the way, he drives up to his son’s village along narrow concrete paths in the same jeep. The people there, although not mere mortals, are openly afraid of the minister’s tough temperament. Six-year-old Daniil Sergeevich, despite his young age, is already well aware that his dad is a very respected person, therefore he behaves very confidently in public. Moreover, his uncle, a policeman, is always present behind him, accompanying the boy on walks. However, on the day we were able to meet the baby, he was with his grandmother, Elena’s mother. She lives with them constantly and, together with a young governess, is raising her grandson.

Sandhill General

The day was unusually sunny and warm. On the playground, comfortably located on a picturesque hill next to Shoigu Jr.’s mansion, three-year-old children frolicked in a small sandbox. The elderly nanny kept jumping up to the bullies and shaking grains of sand from their panama hats. On a swing, two girls about five years old were arguing passionately about something.

Look, look, Danka is coming! - one of them shouted and pointed her hand towards the overweight woman and boy slowly rising into the clearing.

Galya, will you play with him? - another girl asked her friend.

No, I won’t, he’ll give orders again like a general...

Let's hide!

And both of them skipped into a house painted with flowers with benches inside. But little Shoigu immediately guessed the plans of his insidious friends and immediately rushed to their hiding place. Rushing into the house, he grabbed one of the girls by the hand and began to pull her out. The girls ran out of the house screaming and climbed up the wooden stairs to the roof. Flushed Daniel shouted: “I’ll save you now!” - rushed after them. The rest of the kids joined the game of rescuers:

Well, the quiet life is over, the commander has appeared,” concluded someone’s nanny, politely greeting Daniil’s grandmother. Having caught her breath from walking, the minister’s would-be mother-in-law closely examined everyone present and slowly sank onto an empty bench. At that moment, Daniel’s scream was heard in the house.

To whom I tell: stop fighting!

Sitting on benches in the house, two three-year-old toddlers beat each other in the faces with their fists and did not listen to the orders of their commander. Daniel ran up to the adults with a frightened face.

Hurry up, look, they are hitting each other!

The women immediately rushed to separate the boxers.

Well done, Danya, he saved the little ones from bruises,” some old man praised the future Emchees member and, turning to our correspondent, said:

He is an athlete and practices wushu at the children's center!

Little superman

The children's center, which was mentioned on the site, is located in a neighboring village and is an elite preschool institution with a set of academic disciplines designed to comprehensively develop a child from a good family. The cost of a subscription, of course, is not affordable for everyone.

Entrance to this village, which is located three kilometers from Rublevo-Uspenskoye Highway, is strictly by permit. But our correspondent, accompanied by one of the local inhabitants, managed to enter the reserve and communicate with the administration of the center. All the floors in the elite establishment are covered with expensive carpets; guests, as in a hospital, are offered to put shoe covers on their feet. The prices are impressive: general education subjects - 6 thousand rubles. per month, English - 15 thousand, art studio (music, painting) - 9 thousand, acting and choreography (taught by professional artists) - 13.5 thousand and, finally, Wushu - 9 thousand. Total - 52,500 rubles per month.

In the photo albums offered to us for review, Daniil Shoigu is present in all guises: actor, dancer, artist, musician. But the most impressive pictures are those where Danka kills an imaginary enemy with karate kicks and punches.

We were kindly shown around all the premises of the children's supercenter.

In the classroom for classes in general education subjects (mathematics, literature, natural history), there are small tables with chairs, and on the wall hangs a large board from the floor to the middle of the wall. The closet contains numerous board games and school supplies.

The English class looks more like a miniature theater hall with stages, built-in spotlights in the ceiling and complex equipment for creating special effects. Performances are staged here in Russian and English.

The dance hall is arranged according to all the laws of choreography: with a huge mirror on one side and a barre on the other. It is here that Daniil Shoigu practices Wushu with his personal trainer. Recently, by the way, another championship took place in Moscow, where Danka won his first belt in the preschool age category. His wonderful father, a lover of strength sports, does not spare money for this for his son.

Emergency situations and the work of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations

According to the website of the Ministry of Emergency Situations

How do Russians evaluate the work of ministers?

Minister	Works	Can not manage	I don't know how to
Sergei Shoigu, head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations	75%	9%	16%
Sergey Ivanov, head of the Ministry of Defense	51%	26%	23%
German Gref, Minister of Economic Development and Trade	45%	32%	23%
Alexey Kudrin, head of the Ministry of Finance	39%	25%	36%
Dmitry Medvedev, first deputy prime minister	37%	21%	42%
Mikhail Zurabov, minister of health	24%	50%	26%

Results of the 2006 VTsIOM survey.

Yesterday, the pro-Kremlin newspaper Izvestia, closely associated with the administration of the President of the Russian Federation, organized a leak of very interesting information. According to the publication, in September this year, gubernatorial elections will allegedly be held in 24 regions of the country. They say that the powers of 13 heads expire this year, and in four regions there have been high-profile resignations of their leaders. Where are the other seven?

As if to confirm these assumptions, over the past 24 hours, Vladimir Putin accepted the resignation of three governors from the “hit list”: Irkutsk - Sergei Eroshchenko, Kamchatka - Vladimir Ilyukhin, Leningrad - Alexander Drozdenko. At the same time, “taking into account the results that have been achieved recently in the service in the Leningrad region,” the head of the country asked Drozdenko to carry out his duties until the single voting day, that is, until September, and wished him success. By the way, the first two will also have to continue working with the “acting” prefix.

We also note that all three submitted their resignations of their own free will in order to minimize the chances of success of future competitors in the 2015 elections.

Unfortunately, in modern Russia, the vicious practice of “voluntary resignation” has developed, pursuing an obvious goal: to discourage potential rivals, not to give them time to organize an election campaign, so that they can then return to their old chair with pomp. It’s not for nothing that they say “when you leave, go away,” that is, be a man of your word. Alas, opportunistic interests prevail in this case, and this should be accepted as an objective reality.

As for the inclusion of the head of Kalmykia, Alexey Orlov, in the Izvestia forecast, not everything is so simple here. Firstly, not more than a year ago, Alexey Maratovich already took a similar step (voluntary resignation), and Putin also wished him success in his work. Then early elections took place, in which Orlov confidently won, maybe not with the same “percentage” that was officially announced, but the fact remains a fact. Secondly, by sending his, so to speak, protégé into retirement, Putin is thereby admitting a personal mistake, which, you will agree, is in the category of science fiction. And thirdly, in the eyes of the Kremlin, the leader of the steppe region is completely loyal to the current government; there are no significant failures on his record (with the exception of protracted terms with those displaced from dilapidated housing); At the very least, the republic is developing, investments are coming in (maybe not in such quantities as we would like), there are no large delays in wages, no ethnic conflicts have been noticed, and, thank God, there are no terrorist attacks either.

And fourthly, whoever compiles ratings for governors! If we take them on faith, then it is high time for at least half of the regional heads to resign, but for some reason Putin does not fire them. So the newspaper’s references to names from the presidential administration, especially to certain State Duma deputies, are unconvincing in this context.

It seems that the Izvestites were somewhat hasty with the resignation of the head of the Republic of Kazakhstan. But at the local level, this publication ( http://izvestia.ru/news/586327 ) caused the effect of a bomb exploding; some local “experts” immediately put Orlov into circulation and immediately began to look for an alternative to him. Kirsan Ilyumzhinov’s brother Vyacheslav emerged from oblivion; the name was given to the former representative in the Federation Council from the executive body of state power of the Republic of Kalmykia Batu Khasikov, at the same time his promoter, also from the former - the captain of the Kaveen team of the RUDN University Sangadzhi Tarbaev and some others.

“Moscow has already decided who to appoint. Most likely, the head will be either Batu Khasikov or Sangadzhi Tarbaev, users write on the local information portal Kalmykia.ru. – Grandmothers will like Sangadzhi Tarbaev most of all. Those who enjoy drinking and shaking their fists will, of course, support Batu Khasikov.<…>So it is still unknown who the population will support more. Tarbaev's electorate may turn out to be large. And the Kremlin takes into account the tastes of ordinary people. After all, the new head needs to be popular for a longer time.” Well, and so on, in the same vein.

Some publications mention in vain the name of Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and his daughter Ksenia. Thus, the news agency Insider.org claims that “the ex-senator nicknamed Bonecrusher, having started an affair with Ksenia Shoigu, is laying claim to the position of leader of Kalmykia.” And he explains: “Apparently, difficult times indeed await Alexei Maratovich. Because, as Batu Sergeevich likes to boast on occasion - probably being confident that he caught God by the beard - his “five minutes before his father-in-law” (Sergei Shoigu) is now “digging the earth with his nose”, intriguing for the removal of Orlov and his replacement with Khasikov "

In other words, Alexei Orlov’s resignation is being gossiped about as a fait accompli. Of course, these delusional insinuations, apparently, do not have any, even the slightest, solid basis. Someone just needed to make waves. But what purpose is being pursued by this is still unclear. Or did Sergei Kozhugetovich really make a fuss? In this case, Serdyukova will become prime minister of Kalmykia!

Dmitry MUKHTAROV