State Department Money for Edra

The New Times found documents

Exposure from the letter of the Tyumen “Young Guard EP” to the USAID office, spelling and punctuation saved by the United Russia agent. The closure of the Russian representative office of the US agency for international development (USAID) put members of the United Russia party in an awkward position: they do not get tired of rejecting contacts with the agency. The New Times received irrefutable evidence that the United Russia is cunning: cooperation was carried out by a very broad front in a week the position of government representatives evolved from the complete denial of any connections with American institutions to the consent of what was the case, worked together, but did not take money. Thus, a member of the Public Chamber and the former member of United Russia Sergey Markov admitted that the United Russia really took part in the seminars held by USAID, but they could only drink coffee and there are dinners paid by the Americans. Sergei Markov forgot to cope with his ex -wife Lina Markova, who works financial director of the Moscow Representative Office of the International Republican Institute (IRI), whose programs paid for USAID, otherwise she would tell him that the matter and coffee had not been limited. Politician Boris Nemtsov provided The New Times one of the documents that he refers to his blog: a payroll for transport expenses during a round table of a democratic organization of women. In addition to representatives of the regional branches of the Yabloko party and the leaders of various NPOs, the Vedomosti signatures are the signatures of Yulia Yakovenko, the head of the Center for Social and Conservative Policy in the Far East (she received 23,256 rubles for the tickets of Vladivostok-Mosquitoes) and Vera Pronkina, the head of the Novosibirsk Regional Department of Youth Affairs (her ticket from Novosibirsk was worth 17 789 rubles). Both ladies, members of United Russia, are regional coordinators of the Personnel Reserve project, in which they came to training in the capital.

Boris Gryzlov and Konstantin Kosachev with representatives of the Republican Party of the United States Black Hall and Bobe Bennett at the United Russia Congress in 2008. Treat the Life according to the source of The New Times in the USAID itself, these examples are a drop in the sea among the projects in which the United Russia took part. “We conduct hundreds of trainings throughout the country on various topics: social development, leadership, work with law enforcement agencies and authorities ... and we try to invite all participants in the political field, not only the opposition. Members of United Russia were often so delighted with our programs that they complained: they are not taught in the party itself, and if they organize seminars, then by propaganda brainwashing. In the same Novosibirsk, we always worked very actively with Vera Pronkina, spent a dozen forums there at our expense. Members of United Russia and the Young Guard constantly participated in them. ”

According to the same source of the magazine, USAID cooperation with officials and party members was so wide that the latter, probably, themselves were upset by the Kremlin’s decision to close the agency. So, IRI experts, who conducted numerous sociological studies, not only provided data to the then chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs Konstantin Kosachev, but also advised him on the issues that should be covered in every project. A survey before the Moscow City Duma elections in 2005, a study on the level of democracy in Russia in 2006, polls on the socio-political situation in the Russian Federation in 2007 and 2008, research on the influence of the 2008 crisis, on the election in Sochi-this is an incomplete list of research prepared for the money of the State Department, which were actively used by State Duma deputies. In 2007 and 2008, the same IRI brought representatives of the American Republican Party to the congresses of United Russia, paying them tickets, since 2006 the agency cooled the forum in Foros, where groups of up to 30 people brought. “Party representatives are right that we did not transfer any money to their account,” says the source of The New Times, “but they are deceiving when they say that they did not cooperate with us at all. So, for example, the deputy chief of the agitation and propaganda department of the United Russia Executive Committee, Igor was too assured the press that he took part in the debates organized by us in Novosibirsk, Magnitogorsk, Samara, Chelyabinsk and Moscow Region in 2010, but except for the road and accommodation he did not receive any money. In fact, about 15 thousand rubles were paid for each event. There is no crime in this, but why lie? "

Payment statement for expenses during a round table of a democratic organization of women in Moscow May 25–26, 2010
Click to enlarge the help of financially, however, the fairy tale “We simply invited us” refutes another document that is at the disposal of The New Times, is a letter from the representative of the “Young Guard” in Tyumen, in combination with the assistant member of the Federation Council Stepan Kirichuk Irina Bragina, who in 2010 “offers services” organized by the team of the newlyweds of the Support Fund Youth Initiatives "Civil University". In an “commercial proposal” attached to the letter, Ms. Bragin boasts high posts of the “experts” of the fund and describes his “competitive possibilities”: “Organization of turnkey projects and extensive experience in interaction with VIP-punches. It is not very clear from the proposal what the Tyumen young guards want specifically, but to the question of The New Times, a source in USAID replied: “We ourselves did not understand. For them, the main thing is the budget. ”

“Such requests are not at all uncommon,” explains the same source. - We constantly receive such letters from various regions and from a variety of organizations, starting from MSTU. Bauman and ending with the Effective Policy Fund. We do not think at all that the participation of the “Young Guard” in our projects is something reprehensible. Developing democracy, it is impossible to teach people on the principle of "it gave it, did not give it to this." But it becomes a shame when those who asked for money yesterday, today they say that our activity is aimed at destabilizing the situation in the country. In my opinion, the deputies themselves destabilize the country when they close the programs that were taught someone at least something. ”