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Who is mr volodin?
Going up. “Strong party builder” - as they say about the new Kremlin curator of Russian domestic policy Vyacheslav Volodin alone. "Extraordinary official" - others. “If a gifted person says that God kissed him, then, then, Volodin kissed the devil,” the first secretary of the Saratov regional committee of the Communist Party of the Communist Party, Olga Alimova, hut. Who is he, the person who replaced Vladislav Surkov in the Kremlin, - versed The New Times 
The small homeland Vyacheslav Volodin moved to Moscow from Saratov back in 1999, but his influence on the life of the small homeland is so great that it seems absurd from the side. The perfectly obedient branch of United Russia, the manual faction of this party in the regional Duma, owed to all university rectors, completely loyal media editors. The associates of Volodin say that he simply loves his native region, opponents - that he considers it as a spare airfield. And one of many interlocutors The New Times, who agreed to tell about Volodin’s personality only on the condition of anonymity, says that the region for him is approximately like a quiet hobbitan for the sovereign of the world of Saruman who decided to become.
Until the end of the 90s, the biography of Vyacheslav Volodin did not make an impression of outstanding. He graduated from the Institute for Mechanization of Agriculture, make a career after which it was possible either in the village or in Komsomol. In 1990, he became a deputy of the Saratov City Council, after the coup in 1991 he turned out to be one of the two deputies re -elected there. In 1992, he was seen by the mayor of Saratov to Yuri Kitov and became his deputy. But soon he met the future governor of the region Dmitry Ayatskov, the most important politician at the early stage of Volodin's career. In 1993, Volodin headed Ayatskov’s headquarters in the Federation Council elections, and he won, ahead of the then governor Yuri Belykh. He was considered a favorite in these elections, Kitov took third place and soon committed suicide. “Be cursed! Ayatskov, Naumov
* * Sergey Naumov - relative of Dmitry Ayatskova, now Vice -Rector of Ran. , Volodin. Tired of lies, betrayal, struggle, bullying, ”his suicide note quoted the Saratov media.
From 1996 to 1999, Volodin-vice-governor of the Saratov region. “The second person who was slowly and consistently tried to become the first,” recalls the interlocutor of The New Times, who then worked in the governor’s apparatus. “Sometimes there was a feeling that he was planning his steps for six months or a year in advance.” “An extraordinary, very capable official,” recalls Olga Alimova. - But initially sharpened to solve all problems only in their favor. Very shallow, but always loved to surround themselves with those who are lower in order and intelligence. Against their background, he looked just brilliant. "
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“Volodin is my most big personnel mistake,” Ayatskov said in his hearts
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In Moscow - in exile, the conflict Volodin and Ayatskova did not have a starting point. Just the governor drew attention to the growing influence of his deputy, and he did not like it. The regions of the region began to lead people loyal to Volodin one by one. Yesterday's associates began to be divided into "Volodinsky" and "Ayatskovsky". The position of the second vice-governor was introduced in the regional government to neutralize Volodin. There were rumors that in the 2000 Governor’s elections, Volodin could compete for dominance in the region with his chef. Both refuted this, but more and less appeared together. “Ayatskov made the only right decision - he took advantage of the influence in Moscow, played on the ambitiousness of Volodin and squeezed it out of the region to increase,” says a former employee of the apparatus.
“Volodin left almost nowhere. It was not easy for him to rise again, but he demonstrated political talent. When he left his post, he arranged all his people, from the secretary to the driver. He does not forget his own, ”says Alexander Lando, deputy of the Saratov Regional Duma, one of the most faithful associates of the current first deputy head of the presidential administration.
1997 Tandem Ayatskova and Volodin - the very case when the student surpassed his teacher in April 1999 Vyacheslav Volodin went into the “Fatherland - All Russia” Luzhkov, Primakov and Shaimiev, and with the beginning of the election campaign in the State Duma was headed by his headquarters. It was then that Sergey Dorenko accused Luzhkov of all, including rather exotic, sins and demonstrated on the air the anatomical details of Primakov’s operation. Volodin coped: OVR scored 13.3%, he first became just a deputy of the State Duma, and then the head of the faction. In the news releases, Volodin for some reason was shown exclusively with Primakov, and they impressed the mentor and the best student extremely satisfied.
The Saratov elites rested from Volodin not for long. The decision on the merger of “unity” and “fatherland” in one party seemed quite logical for Moscow seemed a cruel joke to the Saratov region. Two sincerely and fiercely hated clans were announced: now you are one. Volodin and the head of the unity of Ayatskov, who headed the local branch of the “unity”, were even able to appear several times together in public, but no more. And then the situation in which for one mandate fought from two to six members of the same party became the norm. For example, at the benefits of the State Duma in the city of Rtishchevo, a member of United Russia from Ayatskov managed to defeat a member of the United Russia from Volodin. And Volodin got only the title of "Honorary Resident of Rtishchev."
In 2003, Volodin himself re -elected to the State Duma from the city of Balakovo, in the district cleared from serious competitors, with a Caucasian scope, gaining 82% of the vote there - one of the highest results in the country among single -mandate. And if in Moscow he was then one of the many leaders in the power of “United Russia”, then in Saratov his influence began to be called “demonic”. “Volodin is my most big personnel mistake,” Ayatskov said in his hearts. It was a black period of his career: a criminal case on exceeding official powers amid a sharp loss of popularity. On the day when the case against Ayatskov was opened, Volodin arrived in the Saratov region on an unscheduled visit. According to official information, I watched KVN with the participation of local teams.
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In one of the regions of the region, school notebooks appeared with inscriptions on the cover like “Vyacheslav Volodin thinks of us, Vyacheslav Volodin - bold in first grade”
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In 2005, local hair crew became the first region of the Russian Federation, where the new governor was appointed according to the scheme proposed by Vladimir Putin. Political life was rapidly degrading. Supporters of Volodin in all available ways criticized the supporters of the governor, all together took up arms against the mayor of Saratov. Then the alignment of forces in the elites changed, and at the same time everyone continued to be in the same party.
Volodin appeared in the city, only to open the new university corps “built with the support of the party” or report the allocation of budgetary funds “on the party line”. In the desire to please him, local bosses often overdone. In one of the regions of the region, school notebooks appeared with inscriptions on the cover like “Vyacheslav Volodin thinks of us, Vyacheslav Volodin - bold in first grade” or “I will study for five, I will behave well to become like Vyacheslav Volodin! I don’t want to let him down. ” Scanned copies of covers have got on the Internet. They say that the best friend of Saratov children Volodin was in such anger that the local United Russia announced the release of notebooks with a provocation. Later, a video from the train came on the Internet, where the students traveling on an excursion to Moscow gratefully sang: “This is Volodin issued a decree to find our best class.”
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News about Volodin’s visit to the Saratov region - always the number one plot in the news TV newspaper. An impeccable image is reinforced by claims against opponents from both United Russia and Volodin himself - with the complete loyalty of the prosecutor's office and judges. The former Minister of Road Construction, who was sitting in prison for the theft of budgetary funds, Gevorg Jlavi, who accused Volodin of a similar crime, received in addition to a period of nine months for slander. The editor of the newspaper, who wrote that allegedly during the rest on the Volga, Volodin accidentally shot from a gun for spearfishing a girl - the note was called the "Garpun Party" - went to amendments. Volodin’s personal life for observers is covered with darkness: from the official biography it follows that he is married and has a daughter Svetlana. However, in the last declaration of the official’s income, the traces of Svetlana are still traced - she is listed in the assistants of the State Duma deputy from United Russia, also a native of Saratov, Alexander Solovyov, and not a word about his wife. When, after December 4, rumors about the possible election of Volodin by the speaker of the State Duma, political scientist Stanislav Belkovsky said that Volodin could become the first gay in this post. Then, however, he issued a refutation: “Mr. Volodin could not become the first gay in the post of the State Duma speaker, since in 1996-2003 this post was already held by another famous gay-Gennady Seleznev. Therefore, Vyacheslav Volodin can become the second gay - the speaker of the State Duma in post -Soviet history. " However, no one risks understanding whether it is or not: the journalist and political strategist Eduard Abrosimov, who raised the topic of Volodin’s sexual orientation in the media, received 8 months for slander in 2005. Little is known about the hobbies of the official: other passions, except hunting, have not been noticed.
The topic of business Vyacheslav Volodin is also taboo in Saratov, they are not even told about this here anonymously. In 2006, the Finance magazine estimated its condition at 2.7 billion rubles, in 2009, Volodin declared an income of 360 million rubles, and in 2010, after the transition from the State Duma to the Government of the Russian Federation, only 6 million rubles. The origin of the money is associated with the holdings "Bouquet" and "sun products", which arose in the late 90s on the basis of the Saratov Girkombinat. Now the holding accounts from 11% to 25% of the Russian mayonnaise and margarine market.
The curator of the main apologists of Vyacheslav Volodin are in the ranks of the “Young Guard of United Russia”. “Through the party, he supervised and supported this project,” confirms the leader of Mger Timur Prokopenko. - He did not forget and then, entrusting our representatives a place in the coordination council of the All -Russian Popular Front. And a 20 percent quota for young people in the 2007 election lists-its decision. ” Work with youth Volodin, apparently, really considers it important, so that all kinds of pro -Kremlin activists may not be afraid that with the departure of the ideologist of “ours” Vladislav Surkov, they will remain unclaimed. “He for healthy competition and will let himself prove himself to everyone,” Timur Prokopenko is sure. “The main thing for him is to pursue Putin’s policy with an iron hand.” The only thing that activists may have problems with the need to explain: why do you need bots in LiveJournal, videos on YouTube, etc. According to numerous evidence, Volodin, like Putin, does not use the Internet and does not know how to work with a computer.
For a long time, people familiar with Vyacheslav Volodin, having learned that he would oversee his domestic policy, were rather surprised. The ONF supervised by him turned out to be a non -cable project. On the other hand, the luck of the front is that, unlike United Russia and Dmitry Medvedev, he did not give Vladimir Putin a reason from him. Just because nothing happened on its site. “In Moscow, Volodin was perceived as a strong professional from the region. And that he could defeat Surkov himself, no one could have imagined, ”says Olga Alimova. “Surkov was perceived as the author of rather elegant decisions, Volodin is much more straightforward and, possibly, decisive,” says the source of The New Times. “This one will work to win Putin in the first round without looking at all protest rallies.”
From the place - the authorship of the first serious domestic political events of 2012, Saratov experts confidently attribute to Volodina. “The resignation of the Arkhangelsk and Volgograd governors just 1.5 months before the elections under Surkov would be nonsense, but we have been familiar for a long time,” says the Saratov political scientist. - We have all the heads of the districts know that for a bad result in the elections they are responsible for the head and nothing else. The story with the “cool on vacation” by Nikita Belykh is also a classic hardware stand, tested in Saratov more than once. What, the prime minister with the curator of domestic policy does not know who they have on vacation, and who is not? It is no coincidence that at the same meeting a portion of criticism was received by a longtime “favorite” Volodin - the Saratov Governor Ipatov. Moreover, the prime minister reported the governor for reducing per capita income, although this is a consequence of the growth of federal taxes. ”
In December 2011, United Russia gained 64.9% of the vote in the Saratov region (more than 90% in certain areas). For comparison, in the neighboring Samara region - 39.3%, in Volgograd - 35.9%. “Many did not even vote for the party, but for Volodin personally,” the regional deputy Alexander Lando is convinced. “Volodin is a very strong party builder. Very skilled organizer and administrator. This is given to him by the Almighty. And education. Do he have weaknesses? I don’t see them at all, ”said Dmitry Ayatskov, The New Times. Last summer, he headed the Volga Institute of the Palace named after his idol Peter Stolypin. As they say, the appointment was not without Volodin's help.
“He has his own road, I have his own. Thank God they do not intersect, ”said the former Saratov governor even before he became obliged to his former deputy with a new quarry of career. - He will go up to the end, until last breath. This is Volodin. "
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