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How does the center for gifted children Sirius work and who lobbies its interests in the State Duma?

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Children's Center "Sirius" in Sochi is one of the favorite projects of Vladimir Putin. The president put some of his friends in the leadership, gives others citizenship in the walls of the educational center.

DOXA, along with the Dumabingo project, learned which of the Russian officials_z in the State Duma lobbying the interests of Sirius, which the president is so proud of.

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The main pride of the president

“I used to know very little about Sirius. This is a star, this is something about education and the Olympiad, something for too talented, inaccessible, ” writes a teacher from Udmurtia, who recently returned from Sochi on the social network VK. There is the Sirius Center for gifted children.

The educational center in Sochi was created on the initiative of Vladimir Putin in 2014, a year after the Winter Olympiad. Today, Sirius is not only busy with the educational center - this is the only On November 9, 2020, a bill on the federal territory of Sirius was introduced to the State Duma, only three deputies opposed. So the children's center became the first federal territory of Russia. In fact, this is an independent region inside the Krasnodar Territory. Federal territory in Russia. Sirius owns approximately 1,400 hectares of land in the Krasnodar Territory.

"The first progress in the creation We are talking about creating the federal territory "Sirius". Sirius was not at the end of 2020, but earlier - when the constitution changed. If the constitution had not been added to the creation of federal territories, Sirius would not have been “Sirius”, ”says the expert“ Dumabingo. - Since 2021, federal legislation began to be changed for the work of Sirius. The government made amendments to the budget and tax code, and deputies of the 7th convocation of the State Duma and senators proposed amendments regarding individual development programs of the federal territory, the rules for concluding concession agreements A special type of agreement, during the conclusion of which state or municipal property is transferred to a private investor for its reconstruction and further operation. and agreements on public-private partnerships. ”

The educational center has three main directions: sport, science and art. Sirius has been working for a year, about 800 children and adolescents aged 10 to 17 years from different regions of Russia every month. Education at Sirius is free, a competition for training is about 50 people per place. Expert council is engaged in selection in areas. Since the beginning of the war, the center accepts students from the occupied territories and transfers humanitarian aid to Donetsk. For example, before the New Year, Sirius sent 17 tons of “help for children of Donbass”.

For the school, from the occupied territories, the Talent and Success Foundation, together with the “All -Russian Popular Front”, developed two programs for “integration [students] into modern educational space”. One of them is associated with Russian culture, the other with information technologies. “It is necessary that they have the same opportunities for development as all other children in Russia,” said Elena Shmeleva at a meeting with students from the occupied Genichesk.

Vladimir Putin personally heads the Board of Trustees of Sirius. The President is so valuable by the children's center that it gives out some teachers of Russian citizenship. So, German Hans-Joachim Fry, Creative Head of the Talent and Success Foundation The Sirius Head organization shortly before the start of the war received a Russian passport from Vladimir Putin, and after the invasion - the Order of Friendship, also from the hands of the president. Another first -person friend of the cellist Sergei Roldugin is one of the founders of the Talent and Success Foundation and is also part of the Sirius board of trustees. The surname of the cellist is repeatedly found The president was widely learned about the president in 2016, after the publication of the Panama Archive. In the investigation, journalist_ki found that the company Roldugin, who claimed that he had never been engaged in business, received money stolen from the Russian budget. In investigations of corruption and presidential offshores. Roldugin also heads the jury of the Constellation talent contest in the children's center. This year awarded three musicians at once, the cellist commented: “It's simple, these are children!”

Sirius guarding the sovereignty of Russia

“First of all, Sirius is designed to play a significant role in strengthening the country's technological sovereignty. This is always important, but especially now - I will not say for what reasons, ”Vladimir Putin said in Sochi a few months after the start of a full -scale invasion.

Then his favorite talked with the president - Elena Shmeleva. In 2015, at the personal invitation of Vladimir Putin Shmelev, she began to lead the Talent and Success Foundation. Two years later, in 2017, she headed the initiative group to nominate Putin to the president. In the summer of 2022, Shmeleva, along with the ONF, organized a trip to Sirius for 150 teachers from the DPR and LPR, which were "very expected" in the educational center. At one of these meetings, Shmeleva said that in Donetsk a center would also be built, similar to Sirius, “How we agreed with Denis Vladimirovich Pushilin The head of the self -proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic . ” Following the teacher, 33 students from the occupied Genichesk and Lugansk arrived in Sochi. Students of the Agrarian College of LGAU were expected to get acquainted with the “last achievements of Russian science” and the cultural heritage of Russia. It was not difficult to organize trips, because Shmeleva is a co -chairman Together with Shmeleva, Zakhar Prilepin, military -players Julia Baranovskaya, deputy Valentina Tereshkova and others are included in the Central Headquarters of the Popular Front, “military presenter”. Central Headquarters of the ONF.

Vladimir Putin personally created the “All -Russian Popular Front” as a movement that supposedly should fight corruption. As DOXA found out , the ONF and structures associated with it receive tens of millions of rubles for propaganda projects from the presidential grants. For example, the Popular Druzhina project won more than 18 million in the “Patriotic education of citizens of the DPR” in the competition of presidential grants. From the beginning of the war, ONF launched the “Everything for Victory” project, as part of it, the volunteer collection is collected for Russian military money, helmets, body armor and other equipment.

"Presidential Lawyer" and pop-rock

Together with Elena Shmeleva, the State Duma deputy Sergei Kabyshev worked in the election headquarters of Vladimir Putin-he led the legal service, because of this, some media call him a "lawyer of the president." Like Elena Shmeleva, he is part of the Commission of the Council of United Russia on Education and Science.

Kabyshev was lobbying the law on the creation of a special administrative district (SAR) with tax privileges for resident_K on the territory of Sirius. “SAR - territories on which there is a special legal and tax regime similar to offshore. Now there are two such territories in Russia: in the Primorsky Territory on the island of the Russian and in the Kaliningrad region on the island of Oktyabrsky. The deputies proposed to make one in the territory of Sirius. The idea of the work of the SAR is that the Russians transfer their companies from foreign offshore zones to Russian offshore and used tax bonuses, ”the expert of Dumabingo explains.

At the end of September, at a meeting with a student of St. Petersburg State Unitary Enterprise, Kabyshev announced the importance of "the formation of a clear value-semantic paradigm of the civilizational development of Russia." But the youngest daughter of the deputy Angelina Kabysheva joins the “spiritual and moral ideals” abroad: presumably, the girl lives in the United States. Previously, she released a pop-rock song in English under the pseudonym Angie Grayfox. One of her producer_k was Alexei Prokofiev, the former musical director of Larisa Dolina.

Screenshot from the music video of the daughter of Sergey Kabyshev

In addition to the lobbying of the interests of Sirius, Kabyshev also defended the Russian language from borrowing, and the law on education - from the phrase “educational service”. “In fact This amendment is the usual rearrangement of words in the law and wordblast, ”concludes the expert“ Dumabingo ”. They thought to remove the “service” from the law after the appeals of the teacher, who did not like this expression.

"Goryacheva says"

Sirius’s interests are promoted by one of the youngest deputies of the State Duma Ksenia Goryacheva from the party “ New People This party was founded by the creator of Faberlic cosmetic company Alexei Nechaev. “New people” were created with the participation of the brothers Mikhail and Yuri Kovalchukov, friends of Vladimir Putin. ". She single -handedly introduced a bill that enshrines the status of a federal state body for the election commission of the Sirius election commission. Goryacheva suggested that the personnel service of the CEC apparatus, and not the apparatus of the Sirius election commission, engaged in personnel work.

The deputy actively leads social networks and communicates with the subscribing, but about Sirius in her posts not a word.

More about Ksenia Goryachev can be found on the site "Duma"

Separate patrimony in Sochi

“Sirius is a small territory in which the state invested a lot of money. There was a modern infrastructure for the 2014 Olympics. Then almost all real estate from this territory passed into the possession of the Talent and Success Foundation, which is headed by the friend of Putin's daughter Elena Shmeleva. The territory has tax preferences for business. Now 900 organizations have already been registered there that can work on privileged tax rules. And the deputies make initiatives so that Sirius becomes even more attractive. This is a very special territory, the emergence of which became possible thanks to the special attitude and location of the first persons of the state, ”concluded the expert Dumabingo.

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