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Life was a success
Putcheists and their supporters have successfully used the benefits of a market economy
Participants and accomplices of the August coup are a convincing confirmation of the well -known fact of human nature: a person will always and everywhere be able to adapt. Despite the fact that the majority of those who tried to preserve the alliance from their words and intentions did not refuse, they more than successfully fit into a new reality for them.
Here are just a few examples.
Activities
Oleg Baklanov (Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee on Defense Issues) and Alexander Tizyakov (President of the Association of State Entities), both - members of the State Emergency Committee, went to hospitalism: the first many years headed by the board of directors of the corporation of OJSC Rosobschemash (the enterprise is under the jurisdiction of Roscosmos). Bizakov in the early 2000s was listed as a co-founder of AOZT Antal (Mechanical Engineering), the Severnaya Kashim insurance company and a number of other businesses.
Yuri Prokofiev also found himself in the New World, the former 1st Secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the CPSU, who actively supported the coup: now he is the director of Tv-Inform JSC, which supplies to the ministries and departments of information managerial networks, among the main users-the Foreign Ministry, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the Central Election Commission.
Vasily Starodubtsev, another member of the State Emergency Committee, also completely developed - he was 9 years (from 1997 to 2005) headed by the Tula region. (This area was just headed by a native of intelligence-the owner of the Seventh Continent, billionaire Vladimir Gruzdev.) But Starodubtsev was not lucky for old age-his son-in-law Arsen was arrested in 2008 and accused under Part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code (“Fraud on an especially large scale”) in a custom -made business (raider seizure of property), received a term of five and a half years, which was serving in the Tula colony of general regime, released ono several months ago.
Bankers
The greatest inclinations of entrepreneurial activity, it would seem, was possessed by the first and last Prime Minister of the USSR Valentin Pavlov, now deceased. In the late 1980s, the author collaborated with the American journal Institute Investor (aka Wall Street Bible) and talked a lot with him-Pavlov very sensibly reasoned about exchanges, promotions, investments and IPO. He was a brilliant economist and a good person, largely similar to Viktor Gerashchenko. In the early 90s, Pavlov headed a very average hour of industry and did not succeed-the bank revoked a license. In 1996, a year after leaving the hour of PROMOBank, Pavlov became an adviser to Promstroybank, but he also revoked a license in 1999.
Another member of the State Emergency Committee, Valery Boldin, became an adviser to the president of the Oil Bank Igor Linshitsa and held this post until his death in 2006. In the same year, Neftyanaya was deprived of the Central Bank of the license for violation of the law "On countering the legalization (laundering) of income received by criminal means and the financing of terrorism."
Patron and analysts
The most successful businessman from among officials who played an important role in organizing a putsch should be recognized as Lieutenant Colonel of the KGB Alexei Egorov - yes, the very one who, together with the KGB General Vladimir Zhizhin, was instructed to prepare the documents of the coup. In the current official press portrait, one can read this: “A collector, philanthropist, member of the Board of Trustees of the State Tretyakov Gallery, Deputy General Director of OJSC Severstal (on communication with state structures). Collector of the private collection "Russian and Western European artists of the XVI - mid -20th century." -There Repin, Castello, both Bryullov, Lansere, Serov, F. Vasiliev, Vasnetsov, Makovsky, Kvarengi, Sofya Delvig, Bernstein, Glebov-Sudeikin and Francois Boucher, as the newspaper "Evening Moscow" reports from the exhibition from the collection of a well-known philanthropist. He is a “briffure of the defense industry,” reports “Red Star”, vice president of OKB named after A.S. Yakovleva and OJSC Russian Insurance Center (insurance of “space risks and the military -industrial complex”, the site said).
In the "damned nineties" Egorov worked with Dmitry Zelenin (businessman, later Tver governor) in the company "Microdin", then became the first deputy chairman of the board of Rato Bank. For its short-lived existence (the license was recalled in 1997), the bank became famous for two things: firstly, Rato-Bank paid the most generous interest on some deposits of citizens who occupied responsible posts in law enforcement agencies-hundreds of percent per annum in US dollars; Secondly, after the controlled bankruptcy, large amounts belonging to FAPSI (the Federal Agency for Government Communications and Information, formed from several departments of the KGB of the USSR), which kept the main accounts in this bank (in the media, the scam was widely covered by Alexander Hinstein) disappeared from there.
Alexei Egorov lives at the cottage in Tagankovo (2nd Uspenskoye Shosse), they say he bought it from Yegor Stroev (until August 1991-a member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, was responsible for agricultural policy, in 1996-2009-the governor of the Oryol region). Egorova’s neighbor-Doku Zavgaev, in 1991 the head of the Supreme Council of the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, who strongly supported the State Committee for Economics. Zavgaev managed to visit the Prime Minister of Chechnya, the President of Chechnya, the ambassador to Tanzania, the deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Hems, the General Director of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and in 2009 he was appointed ambassador to Slovenia.
Night people
The main organizer and inspirer of the State Emergency Committee Vladimir Kryuchkov also found application in the new market reality: in the mid-90s, he became the chairman of the board of directors of the Region JSC-a company created in 1993 by Vladimir Yevtushenkov (under the patronage of Yuri Luzhkov). “Region” was a kind of information and analytical brain “System”. The main profile is the collection of operational data, compromising evidence and information about signed documents, affairs and business contacts of political competitors of Luzhkov - Berezovsky, Chubais, Kiriyenko and others. By the way, Vladimir Kryuchkov was specially invited to the inauguration of Vladimir Putin on May 7, 2000: he was already 76 years old at that time. Here is how the press wrote about this: “Out of all, near the wall, there was only one invited - the former chief of the State Security Committee Vladimir Kryuchkov. An old man of short stature, he could hardly stand and rose, perhaps, only once when they played the music of the anthem of Russia ”(Kommersant dated May 10, 2000)
The established life experience was able to send other pepper participants in the business direction. Major General Vladimir Medvedev went to the security business, the head of the Gorbachev’s personal protection, Viktor Karpukhin, the head of the group “A” (Alfa), also went into private detectives.
Putin and Parnassus
It is impossible not to mention another active figure of the era, not deprived of a commercial vein, is the leader of the LDPR (in 1991 - LDPSS) Vladimir Zhirinovsky. He publicly supported the State Emergency Committee and called them opponents "the back of society." Now Zhirinovsky does not like to remember this - for he called these words, in fact, and Vladimir Putin himself, who, in those August days, was an assistant to the mayor of St. Petersburg Anatoly Sobchak. Sobchak, as you know, was actively opposed by the GKChP, and his assistant (since June 1991 - the head of the Committee on External Relations), someone Putin, on August 20, 1991 wrote a report on dismissal from the KGB (transferred to the current reserve of the KGB). And here's a strange coincidence: the first thing that Vladimir Putin did, having engaged in external ties, created the investment zone in the Pulkovo heights and called it “Parnassus” * * http://www.gov.spb.ru/gov/admin/derr/reg_viborg/invest/parnas .. She flourishes the world with beer "Baltic", for example. Why is it surprised when the Ministry of Justice does not register the party of the same name? Parnassus is an expensive brand. Very expensive.