Potanin can lead Olympstroy

The head of the Interros company Vladimir Potanin in the near future may be headed by the Olympstroy state corporation. This was reported by "New Gazeta" with reference to a source in the presidential administration. According to him, the Kremlin and the White House are unhappy with the course of preparation for the Olympics. The source of the publication claims that the last straw was a storm, which actually destroyed in December 2009 all objects of the future cargo port at the mouth of the Mzymta River. At the same time, the first thing the new m say, which was supposed to protect the port from the waves.

Now the terms of completion of the construction of the port are unknown, although it was through this transport hub that a large share of building materials was supposed to act. According to the newspaper, the entire Olympic project is now under threat, and the builders tried to write off their own flaws on the rampage of the elements. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in Sochi rests regularly and knows that there are no ten-point storms there, the newspaper writes.

According to the publication, in connection with the catastrophic progress of construction, the government apparatus against ordinary rules began to use information from open sources, including from the opposition press, in the preparation of Olympic reports. The third shift of the head of Olympstroy will look somewhat frivolously in three years, but the project really needs to be saved, the New Gazeta believes.

According to the source in the administration, the anti -crisis manager should be “rich enough not to steal, loyal to the Kremlin, independent of local influence groups, but at the same time familiar with the rules of doing business in the region. Vladimir Potanin satisfies such requirements, says Sochi for a long time in the sphere of interests of Potanin. Rosa Khutor's subsidiary is one of the largest private investors in and unlike Oleg Deripaska, who was just “washed away” by the airport, Potanin is quite successful. The forum will break off.

In addition to this project, which is positioned as commercially successful, Potanin is engaged in Sochi with charity capacity with a sports slope. He invested $ 150 million in the Russian International Olympic University, which, upon completion of construction in 2013, will be presented to the state. This is a kind of Skolkovo with a sports bias - a school for future champions.

According to Novaya Gazeta, it was the ability to voluntarily share the earned with the state that vice-prime minister Igor Sechin forced Putin to pay attention to Potanin's candidacy. If so, then the potential head of Olympstroy should have no problems in the government of the government. Meanwhile, the press service of the Interros holding told Gazeta.ru that Potanin does not plan to lead Olympstroy. The Interros states that the information published in Novaya Gazeta is the “pure fantasy”.

In June 2009, Olympstroy was headed by the founder of the Baltika brewer, Taimuraz Bolloev, replacing Viktor Kolodyzhny as president of the corporation. Kolodyzhny led Olympstroy since April 2008. Before that, he was the mayor of Sochi for four years. In mid-May 2009, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak, who oversees the government preparations for the 2014 Olympics, said that Koloyzhny was on the next vacation. The first head of Olympstroy was the ex-head of Transneft Semyon Weinste. He left his post voluntarily.