Murder of the mayor of Tuchkovo

On December 13, 2009, Vitaly Ustimenko, the mayor of Tuchkovo and the head of the Ruza district branch of the Union of Russian Paratroopers, was killed in his home, together with his wife. The inexperienced killer was immediately caught and took all the blame on himself: they say, he committed the murder because Ustimenko did not fulfill some election promises given to him.

They didn’t pay much attention to the murder, but in vain: the fact is that Ustimenko had just been elected mayor of Tuchkovo, in October 2009. His opponent, the current mayor, was supported by United Russia, and Ustimenko, respectively, by A Just Russia. Vitaly Ustimenko, thus, turned out to be almost the only candidate who won the election for a representative of United Russia. He was elected and killed.

Here we need to make a retreat and explain that the Russian mayor’s office is corrupt. The main, systemic reason for this corruption is the fact that any municipal facility does not earn money itself, but receives money from the center. Where does this lead? Here, for example, is the simplest scheme. A developer is building a house in the city. In addition to bribes paid in cash, he must set up shops, a kindergarten, a fire station near the house - in fact, the city should do this, but the city does not have money, so the infrastructure is imposed on the contractor. In addition, the contractor gives a third of the apartments to the city - under an investment agreement. What's going on with these apartments?

Here's what: the mayor of the city convenes a meeting at which he announces that it is necessary to make the citizens happy. Already today. And for this, for example, it is necessary to green the city by planting flower beds in the area. But there is no money in the budget for flower beds, so the city takes out a bank loan. The loan is spent on the construction of flower beds, which is carried out by a company close to the mayor. And in order to repay the loan, you have to sell the apartments owed by the developer. At cost, of course - the city will not profit. So they make money on apartments three times: first by receiving a kickback from the developer, then by making money on landscaping, then by selling the apartments allegedly at cost (and stealing everything from above), while those on the waiting list, the disabled and orphans do not receive apartments for years.

The same thing happens with any municipal facility. If a person wants to put up a stall, the area around the stall needs to be landscaped. Cover it with, say, tiles, purchased from a specific contractor. And the fact that this particular slab from this particular contractor is five times more expensive is not relevant. If an event is held, participants are given flowers purchased from the mayor’s wife’s store. If a store opens, does one of the mayor’s relatives share in it, and so on.

The fact is that, as I already said, the mayor still receives all budget money from the center. He is not interested in the city collecting more taxes. He is interested in milking the city for everything. The mayor's position turns into a resource with which he milks enough money from the city to buy himself an extension of office.

At the municipal elections in Astrakhan, United Russia supported the current mayor, and his competitor was the very popular, rather nationalist-minded Oleg Shein, who joined A Just Russia. Shein's people were beaten right in the streets by bandits, real terror began in the city - the current mayor won, and the commission, which came to the city and carefully listened to the complaints of the beaten people, found no violations in the elections.

The situation in Balashikha was even more comical: there the current head was opposed by his former deputy, the son of the late KGB general Trofimov. Balashikha is the patrimony of Alpha and Vympel, the alma mater of the security forces, and accordingly, the current mayor was supported by United Russia, and his competitor was supported by the almighty Lubyanka. Lubyanka flew by like plywood over Paris.

And only in Tuchkovo an alternative candidate (who was also supported by rather large “paratroopers”) defeated United Russia, and it didn’t turn out well - they killed him right there.

Is this murder an exception? Again, no. In 1997, a certain Vasily Karelin, a candidate for the post of mayor of Gelendzhik, was killed. There were two attempts on his life and he was eventually shot dead. The killers were imprisoned; they were a certain Bulygin and Bragin. After sitting for some time, they were offended because the customer not only did not get them out of prison, but did not even pay money for the murder, and they named the customer. According to the killers, he turned out to be someone Sergei Ozerov, then a competitor of Karelin, and now a deputy from United Russia. The matter was not allowed to proceed.

A bandit nicknamed Molchan was killed in Vladimir. They hired a killer, who stated that the person who ordered the murder was Molchan’s accomplice, a certain Dmitry Kaznin. Kaznin is again a deputy of the local assembly and a member of United Russia. It immediately became clear that the killers had maliciously slandered Kaznin, the charges were dropped, and the venerable deputy was released.

A certain businessman Vasilyev was killed in Perm. When the killer was caught, he stated that businessman Vasiliev was ordered to him by someone Alexey Medvedev due to a business conflict. Alexey Medvedev is the son of State Duma deputy from United Russia Yuri Medvedev. The case, naturally, fell apart.

Just before the New Year, defrauded shareholders protesting against the pyramids were beaten half to death in front of the State Duma building. But the beaten shareholders, ordinary citizens whose money was taken from them, were not protesting against some kind of pyramid - they were protesting against the Druzhba-2 company, which is controlled by State Duma deputy and member of United Russia Marina Ignatova. And therefore, these people were beaten, and Ms. Ignatova and Gryzlov and K., who were members of various charitable foundations organized by her, looked on from above from the window.

“United Russia” is not the CPSU. The CPSU was a party of fanatics, careerists, bureaucrats - whatever. But her goal was power. Therefore, not only from a convicted criminal, but from a suspect, the CPSU got rid of it instantly.

People who join United Russia often view membership as an indulgence. Who buys indulgences? Thieves, pedophiles and murderers.

A paradoxical situation is emerging in Russia: the money accumulated by a bandit or mayor gives him the opportunity to buy himself an extension of power, and the extended power allows him to collect new money. This circle is broken extremely rarely: as, for example, in Tuchkovo. But even here the person who broke the circle was immediately killed.