Cooperative "Lake Geneva"

President of Russian Railways, Vladimir Yakunin and his wife Natalya, founded a charity fund in Geneva - already the second recently, RIA Novosti reports. The task of the Andrei First -Called Foundation is to support the research and preservation of the Russian national heritage, as well as the promotion of the peaceful coexistence of various peoples and religions, the release of the Swiss official trade bulletin said. The foundation date of the fund is July 23. Natalya Yakunina became president of the fund, Vladimir Yakunin - vice president.

In early August, it became known that the Yakunins also became co -founders of the enduum of the world public forum "Dialogue of civilizations". This fund was also created in July and registered in Geneva, it was also headed by Natalya Yakunina. Vladimir Yakunin became vice president. The purpose of this fund is to “stimulate and support research and activities in the field of political and social sciences, religion and culture, dialogue on political and economic issues, the search for a compromise in the event of social unrest and international disputes.” Vladimir Yakunin is the founding president of the "Dialogue of Civilizations".

The enduum is a part of the property of a non -profit organization formed at the expense of donations, transferred to the trust management of the management company to receive income used in the future for the goals that are determined when creating NGOs.

In recent months, the head of Russian Railways had several times ended in the center of high -profile media and corruption scandals. So, on July 16, the famous blogger and fighter with corruption Alexei Navalny, who later became a candidate for mayor of Moscow, published the results of the investigation of Yakunin's activities. Navalny published a scheme for the business empire of the head of Russian Railways, drawn up for offshore companies. "The cost of this empire is billions of dollars. The Yakunin family is one of the richest families of Russia and the world. This is a real mafia family that exists because it works for the mafia boss Vladimir Putin, allowing them to rob everything around," Navalny wrote on his blog.

Earlier, Navalny already accused Yakunin of owning the estate in the Moscow Region worth almost $ 100 million, next to which the forest and the river were illegally fenced.

In mid -July, the Khoroshevsky court of Moscow recovered in favor of Yakunin 80 thousand rubles from journalist Sergei Dorenko in a lawsuit to protect honor and dignity. Yakunin sued Dorenko at the end of January. The reason for the lawsuit was the reporting of a journalist on the morning air of the radio station on November 14, 2012. "Yakunin wrote a letter to the deputy chairman of the government Dvorkovich with a request to give money. I think that Yakunin is the next for Serdyukov," Dorenko said. “Because it is not easy to turn a profitable company into a loss -making company,” he continued. “For this, it is necessary to bring assets to your daughters somehow, to give profitable contracts to all kinds of left -handed companies - a lot of work.” "To turn the potentially profitable Russian Railways company into a murmur is a murmur - this is only Vladimir Yakunin," the journalist said.

On June 19, several news agencies, including RIA Novosti, Interfax and ITAR-TASS,, citing the government’s press service, reported that Yakunin was relieved of the post of head of Russian Railways of his own free will. It was also reported that the head of the company was appointed Alexander Misharin, the first vice -president of Russian Railways since December 2012, and a governor of the Sverdlovsk region in the past.

Almost immediately, several senior officials, including presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov, the head of the press service of Prime Minister Natalya Timakov, and press secretary Yakunin Alexander Pirkov, refuted the message. They explained the appearance of the press release by the machinations of hackers.

Yakunin himself on his blog called the resignation message "impudent provocation." He also noticed that the “competent authorities” should figure out the situation. To the request to comment on the message, the head of the Russian Railways replied that "he does not respond to the inscription on the fence."

Meanwhile, in mid -July, Forbes, citing a source in the White House, said that the investigation in the fact of sending a false message about Yakunin's resignation failed. Allegedly, the sender used a secure communication channel and special services managed to track traffic only to the Netherlands. Official sources in the government, FSO and the FSB did not comment on the situation.