Resignation of a pharmacist

The culprit of the crisis with medicines for beneficiaries has been found - Prime Minister Fradkov gave a fundamental assessment of his activities and miserably fired him. The culprit, however, turned out to be not the Minister of Health Zurabov, as inattentive voters might have thought, but his subordinate, the head of Roszdravnazdor Ramil Khabriev. Newspapers have already written about the unsinkability of Minister Zurabov, that Putin never surrenders his people under public pressure.

Khabriev is, of course, a figure. Khabriev is, of course, convincing. And if the president and prime minister had ordered the dismissal of not some Khabriev, but a pharmacist in a rural pharmacy, it would have been even more convincing.

In connection with the obvious unsinkability of Minister Zurabov, four circumstances are striking.

First. The resignation of the Minister of Health Mikhail Zurabov does not require the arrest of the head of the Federal Compulsory Medical Insurance Fund and Zurabov’s former partner, Mr. Taranov; no criminal cases related to the Pension Fund and Social Security; no interrogations of high-ranking officials who also happen to be chronic alcoholics who have been up since nine in the morning; no searches, some of which are widely covered in the media, while others, on the contrary, are not covered in the media. But the crowd is excitedly retelling the details about the seized gay video with the participation of very high-ranking officials.

To resign the Minister of Health, it is enough to know that this man, being the owner of the private insurance company MAX, was the inventor of the health insurance scheme, according to which money for work performed by one budget organization is transferred by the budget through a private structure. That is, the budget is on one side, the budget is on the other side, and in the middle is MAX and Mr. Zurabov.

The second circumstance is that “public demands” have nothing to do with Zurabov’s resignation. It was not the public that arrested Taranov. It was not the public who carried out seizures in the Pension Fund.

And it was not the public that a couple of months ago brought to First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev a project to unite into one whole all three main funds (Pension, Social Insurance and Medical Insurance) located under Zurabov. A project that was discussed in the most serious and most secret way and which pulls the financial stuffing of his chair out from under Zurabov.

The third circumstance is that Mikhail Zurabov is no better or worse than many others. He is certainly no worse than the Minister of Agriculture, Mr. Alexei Gordeev, with his passion for placing quotas on everything that swims, runs and flies. And no worse than Leonid Reiman, who was actually convicted by a Zurich court of having an unnatural connection for an honest official with the offshore IPOK fund.

The fourth circumstance is that when Dmitry Medvedev ordered the development of a project to merge funds (that is, a project to gut Mikhail Zurabov), detailed lists of strange banks through which budget money flowed appeared; unimaginable cross-credits ahead of deliveries; late payments. In a word, a tangled and viscous network, the only connecting force in which was Zurabov himself.

The purpose of this system was obvious to all concerned. But it was also obvious that without Zurabov it would collapse in the pre-election year, and Dmitry Medvedev himself would be the last one. And Medvedev waved his hands: “Don’t touch!” Mr. Zurabov found himself in the role of the cunning Minister of Police Fouche, who, in response to the order of Emperor Napoleon to transfer all matters to his replacement, so thoroughly destroyed all the papers that it turned out: the French police are Fouche, without him they do not work.

And if you don’t know what all this is called together: MAX, insurance schemes, never-drying alcoholics in responsible positions, gay porn, cross-mutual lending schemes, “let’s take away his feeding trough” and “don’t touch!!!” - then I’ll remind you. This is called strengthening the vertical of power.