Marina Salier died

In St. Petersburg, Marina Evgenievna Salier died from an extensive heart attack, reports Fontanka.ru. Salier is a St. Petersburg politician, ex -chairman of the Free Democratic Party of Russia, a member of the Party of People's Freedom. Salier was a People’s Deputy of Russia from 1990 to September 1993, a member of the Constitutional meeting.

Known as an active critic of Vladimir Putin since his work at the St. Petersburg City Hall. In 1992, Salier headed the Commission of the St. Petersburg City Council, created to investigate Putin’s activities as chairman of the Committee on External Relations. After the commission submitted the results of the investigation, the City Council adopted a resolution calling for the mayor to resign Putin and instruct the prosecutor to investigate the suspicions of corruption and theft of funds. The mayor ignored the recommendation.

In March 2010, Salier said that in 1992, according to documents signed by Putin, rare earth metals, oil products and other raw materials worth more than one hundred million dollars were taken abroad. In exchange for St. Petersburg, within the framework of the barter agreements, the food parties were supposed to enter, but they did not receive.

According to Salier, firms that were supposed to put food in the city simply did not exist. Another feature of the agreements was that prices were very underestimated in them - "not tens, but hundreds of times." As a result, a rare -earth metal scandium, which cost at least $ 2,000 per kilogram, was sold at a price of a little more than 70 German brands. According to Salier, "not only Putin, but also Sobchak was engaged in this case."

Marina Salier recalled that in her book “from the first person. Talking with Vladimir Putin”, which was published in 2000, the future president denied the fact of his participation in the issuance of licenses. According to him, he did not have the right to issue licenses, which was the prerogative of federal, not regional authorities. At the same time, in the personal archive of Salier there are several similar documents with the signature of Putin.

According to Salier, she did not receive direct threats, but she was afraid of her life. At the same time, she did not leave the country. “I am a cosmopolite, of course, but I can live only in my country. I am glad to my lake much more than I would be glad to such a chair in which Lyudmila Narusova sat in the film about Sobchak,” Salier said.