Time of chameleons

Portraits of opportunists

One of the most ridiculous news on November was brought by the Caregraduate of the Party of the Just business, which announced rebranding: “We refuse the word“ liberal ”. Now this party will acquire a "national-patriotic bias." Otherwise, they say, the elections are never won. You who “hesitate with the general line” is not new, but right now they have become especially in demand. The New Times publishes portraits of opportunists, with the name of which the repressive laws of the latest time are associated

Elena Mizulina, Irina Yarovaya, Pavel Krasheninnikov - at the beginning of the Putin rule it was impossible to imagine why the career of these democratic politicians would develop.

Mizulina was one of the most famous people of the “Yabloko”; In the 1999 elections, she walked along the list of the party after Grigory Yavlinsky and Sergei Mitrokhin. Now she is a deputy from “Fair Russia”, the author and co -author of bills changing the rules of the game in the information space, - one of them (about the black lists of sites) Runet owes a recent scandal with blocking the comic encyclopedia “Lurcomorye”.

Yarovaya was also an “apple tree” - almost ten years. But having chosen to the Duma from United Russia, it became the main public defender of the most “dragon” laws of last summer: not without her participation, many NPOs are now forced to wear the stigma of “foreign agents”, and the slander article has again become criminal (“Speed ​​amendments”, the New Times No. 23–24 of August 13, 2012).

Finally, Pavel Krasheninnikov is a brilliant lawyer, in the biography of which both the post of head of the Ministry of Justice under the late Yeltsin, and membership in the ATP. Now he is also in the party in power, and the Committee headed by him has recently held a law from which it is still unclear what to expect - in accordance with the new amendments to the articles of GOSTINA and Spying for treason, it seems that they can take anyone (“Spy because the Spy”, The New Times No. 31 of October 1, 2012).

Elena Mizulina

Elena Mizulina. 57 years. Head of the head of Russian history of the Yaroslavl State Pedagogical Institute (1987–1992), member of the Federation Council (1993–1995), State Duma deputy from the Yabloko faction (1995–2001), member of the Soyuz of the Right Forces (2001–2003), a representative of the State Duma in the Constitutional Court (2004–2007), State Duma deputy from the State Duma from the State Duma from the State Duma from the State Duma "Fair Russia", chairman of the State Duma Committee on Family, Women and Children (since 2007).
Laws * a law that tightens the punishment for pedophiles (author); “On the protection of children from information causing harm to their health and development” (he divided all information products into groups and ordered information resources and media to put on the content of labeling (12+, 16+) (author) (author); on the black lists of sites, offering to block Internet resources that pose a threat to children (author); * The bill “On Offending the Feeling of Beliefs” (supported).

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I acted as a co -author of the bill on criminal punishment for insulting the feelings of believers, because its developer Yaroslav Nilov acted as my co -author of the Law on Black Lists and Antipedophile. I would remove the expansion formulation of “and otherwise offending the feelings of believers”, and the law itself is clean, I have many letters from believers who support him

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The fact that Elena Mizulina visited three parties does not bother her current associates at all. They believe that such mobility is a forced measure; In Russia, a stable political system did not immediately appear.

Only former comrades in the ATP and Yabloko are sharply said about it: Leonid Gozman and Sergey Mitrokhin find that she follows political trends - if Mizulin, for example, sees that the general line is bending towards clericalization, then he immediately shows legislative concern for the feelings of believers. It is believed that she puts forward the initiatives herself, without other people's decisions. “But if they ask her something, she will certainly do it,” says Mitrokhin. As for the price of the issue, Georgy Sadchikov, also a former “apple -chip” and once a friend Mizulina, claims that she does not require money for her services: “She is more likely to worry things like studying for her son or position for her husband.”

The price of loyalty

Little is known about the deputy life of Mizulina. She lives in the apartment of her son (area of ​​212 sq. M). The office is standard for the chairman of the committee. The car is also laid - Audi A8. Over the past year, she and her husband officially earned about 4 million rubles together. In an interview with The New Times, Mizulina said that this was a little: “If you buy something: a tributary in a sanatorium, an annual subscription for fitness-it is already hard.” In addition, significant funds go to charity and gifts to voters.

Much more about the well -being of her family can be learned from open sources.

The husband of Mizulina (like her, a former university teacher from Yaroslavl; and in the “apple” period of the career of Elena Borisovna - the head of the Yaroslavl cell of the party), he serves as the director of the Center “Higher School of Management” of the Russian Academy of National Economy and the Presidential Service.

Something is also known about the son of Nicholas, a graduate of MGIMO, Berne and Oxford Universities. In 2008, it is known from the press release about his appointment to the post of adviser to the Brussels office of the company Hogan & Harston that “Mr. Mizulin began his career as a legal adviser to the Russian Energy Company”-which, and in open sources, this information cannot be found. For four years, he has repeatedly changed the place of work and is now a partner of the law firm Mayer Brown. It is considered a big specialist in the WTO. It's funny, but the last event at which his father Mikhail Mizulin was noted is the conference “WTO and Russia, which was held in October of this year. Questions, risks, practical recommendations for business. ”

As for the daughter of Mizulina-Ekaterina, she, according to the SPARK system, managing the Moscow Fund of Social and Legal Initiatives "Legal Capital": this organization is engaged in financial mediation, publishing and advertising activities.

Mutual assistance

The New Times asked Elena Mizulin for what reasons she changed three parties. It turned out that she left the “Yabloko” in the ATP, because she had disagreements with Grigory Yavlinsky. And from the ATP - because the party did not go to parliament. She chose “fair Russia” because there “a lot of my colleagues who have left Yabloko for various reasons. It turned out, I left Yabloko and almost returned to it. It is ideologically close to me, ”Mizulina The New Times explained.

She talks about her legislative activity quite frankly: there are agreements between deputies - they say, I will support your law, and you support my. For example, now she acts as an ardent of the creation of a system of juvenile courts, and in 2000 she was one of the co -authors of the law, which just suggested their creation.

“It was just a political exchange. I entered there as the author and put my signature in exchange for Lakhova (initiator of the law.-The New Times) promised to support my amendments to the Code of Criminal Procedure. But before that, I held negotiations in which I found out that this law had no chance of adopting, otherwise my surname would not be there. ” Her support of the bill "On the Self of the Feelings of Believers" is a move from the same series.

Pavel Krasheninnikov

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Pavel Krasheninnikov. 48 years. Head of the Department of Civil and Economic Legislation of the Ministry of Justice of Russia (1993–1996), State Secretary and Deputy Chairman of the State Committee of the Russian Federation for Antimonopoly Policy (1996–1997), First Deputy Minister of Justice Sergey Stepashin, then-head of the Ministry of Justice (July 1997-the beginning of 1999), deputy of the State Duma of the III, IV convictions from the party of the SPS, IV convictions from the party. Deputy of the State Duma of V and VI convocations from the United Russia party, the head of the State Duma Committee on Civil, Criminal, Arbitration and Procedural Legislation (from 2007 to the present).
Laws * through his committee, amendments to the articles of GOSTain and Spying passed; Return to the Criminal Code of the article “Kleland” (co -author); The Law on NPO - foreign agents (supported).

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The law is an art of possible, it is a compromise. We must negotiate with everyone: with political forces, with influential people, with the regions, I apologize, with the oligarchs

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It is impossible to find a person who would say that Pavel Krasheninnikov “blurted out” or switched “to the dark side of force”. They say that he is “a highly professional” (the words of the former Member of the ATP Alexander Barannikov), a “democratically thinking” person (lawyer Mara Polyakova), “who never changed his views” (general conviction).

“Behind him we were behind a stone wall,” recalls his former ATP comrade Lev Levinson.

Nowhere else

Krasheninnikov passed into United Russia after the ATP did not go to the State Duma in 2003. “Pavel Vladimirovich came to deputies from the post of Minister of Justice and always positioned himself not as a member of a particular faction. It is logical that later he again moved to where real power, ”says former member of the ATP Vladimir Yuzhakov. Another reason, the sources of The New Times call Krasheninnikov’s desire to preserve the Duma Committee on Legislation.

He simply explains his transition - he did not want to leave politics, and there was no choice in the parliament: “To the Communists, LDPR or“ Motherland ”? Have mercy ... ”True, he admitted that even though he changed the party, he still adheres to the legal views.

When, in conversations with his acquaintances, The New Times touched the topics of the laws under which he put his signature, Krasheninnikov, unlike Mizulina and Yarova, rushed to protect. Former SPS colleagues are confident that if it were not for him, then it would be even worse ”that Krasheninnikov allows himself to argue with people from the presidential administration and already“ defended many things that were liberal ” - without him, the law on extremism would be tougher, and the article“ Slander ”would have turned out to be even more terrible:“ In any case, there is no prison - and this is part of it either. merit, ”Levinson is sure.

Lawyer Henry Padva, a member of the Association of Russian Lawyers, which Krasheninnikov heads, recalls that the initiatives of these laws do not belong to him and often the documents simply go through his committee: “He depends on the authorities, the presidential administration, his party. I treat him well, but I do not think that he is a very independent politician, like the majority in the Duma. ”

And Mara Polyakova says that such a lawyer as Krasheninnikov cannot help but understand what institutional damage is able to cause the GOSTINE Law: “This is not Paul level at all.”

The price of loyalty

Pavel Krasheninnikov earned almost 4 million rubles in 2011, he owns a land plot of 3312 square meters. m, house with an area of ​​483 square meters. m, three apartments and non -residential premises with an area of ​​363 square meters. m. A co -owner of this property is a spouse who earned 1 million 865 thousand rubles over a year. He also has an expensive car - Lexus Rx (he explained the purchase by selling an apartment in Bashkiria). In a conversation with The New Times, Krasheninnikov specified that if he wanted, he would find a place where you can earn more. He said that in addition to the deputy salary, he receives dividends from the sale of books - for example, a six -volume commentary on the Civil Code.

However, the interlocutors of The New Times argue that the main wealth of the parliamentarian of this level is the connection, and here Krasheninnikov has no equal.

Together with the Chairman of the Accounts Chamber Sergei Stepashin, ex-governor of the Novgorod region, Mikhail Prusaku and ex-employee of the Ministry of Justice Alexander Urmanov Krasheninnikov, even established the NGO-the “Fund for Legislative Assumptions”, which specializes in legal issues (in particular, do examinations on acts of the constituent entities of the Federation). “This helps us maintain a reputation,” the deputy of The New Times explained.

He refutes the rumors of close friendship with Dmitry Medvedev: "If I were friends with him, I would already work elsewhere."

What made him support the frankly repressive bill on GOSTIN? Krasheninnikov emphasizes that the law was not initiated by him, the government lowered it: "We introduced only after we finalized it." Despite the criticism of experts and panic of human rights activists, he is sure that the amendments became clarifying, and not expanding the circle of possible traitors of the homeland to infinity. As for the Law on NPOs, under which he put his signature, “there were many signatures, we agreed that we all signed up, so I also signed up-if several factions support some idea, then why not?”

Irina Yarovaya

Irina Yarovaya. 46 years. Deputy Prosecutor of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Head of the Investigative Department of the Prosecutor's Office of the region (1994–1997), Member of the Council of People's Deputies from the Yabloko party (1997–2007), Deputy Chairman of the Party (since 2004), State Duma deputy from United Russia (to the present), Chairman of the State Duma on Safety and Countering Corruption (since 2011).
Laws * about NPO - foreign agents (co -author); On the return to the Criminal Code of the article “Clever” (co -author); “On insulting the feelings of believers” (co -author).

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When I was in the Yabloko faction, I never supported their “all -playing”, took an active position and thereby differed from other party members. I believe that today for Russia it requires not uninitiated patriotism, but effective. So I moved to another party

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“Prosecutor from Kamchatka”, “very closed”, “tough”, “irreconcilable”, “it is clear that the service in the investigating authorities has been imprinted on it” - describes the ardent former and current colleagues. Indeed, neither in open sources, nor from colleagues and acquaintances, the clear picture of her life cannot be composed, it is not clear even how many times the spring was married and who her current husband was. Finally, of the three deputies whose portraits were prepared by The New Times, she was the only one denied the magazine in an interview.
The New Times sought an interview with Yarova for two weeks. Her spokeswoman Oleg Zhdanov Julil for a long time-said that until November 12, Yarovaya is in Kamchatka, it is impossible to contact her: "Difference in time, poor connection." But having returned to Moscow, the deputy could not find time: either a conference, then shooting on television. “She does not refuse, she simply can’t,” Zhdanov dodged until he hung up. Apparently, The New Times is about the proximity of her spouse to criminal business, about the close connection with Kamchatka bankers, about endless failures in the elections - according to Yarova, not what her voters should know about.
For the sake of mandate
Yarovaya is a deputy who has never been elected to the State Duma. During the “apple” period, she suffered three times the election. And only with the transition to United Russia she managed to get a mandate: in 2007, the then governor of the Kamchatka Territory Alexei Kuzmitsky, and in 2011, President Dmitry Medvedev handed it to her.
“Probably, the presidential mandate is working out and does this not in the best way for the folk chosen one,” commented on the New Times commented on the latest legislative initiatives of Yarovaya Ex-deputy from ER Lyubov Slisk.
Former Yabloko's, Former Yarovoi metamorphoses colleagues are still surprised: the executive secretary of the party of the party of Galina Mikhalev is perplexed by how it was possible to evolve from democratic views to conservative-preservatives, and the current leader of Yabloko, Sergei Mitrokhin, frankly called it the “conjunker” and “political servant”.
But the people who worked with her in Kamchatka do not see anything surprising in the career of Yarova. Former Employee of the Unity Cycs, Konstantin Chapter, who, in 2000-2002, worked as a party guide to the Far East, remembers that she always dreamed of becoming a “federal level star” and directly said that “she was ready to fight for something if there was some kind of position.”
Kamchatka
In Yabloko, Yarovaya, according to the heads, went because other parties in Kamchatka were not popular (in the 1995 elections, Yabloko received 20.43%in the Kamchatka region, 1st place in the region.-The New Times). She quickly established herself with a fundamental, convinced democrat. “There was no reason to suspect it of“ apple ”beliefs that are different from“ apple ”,” says Alexander Osovtsov, director of the Open Russia Foundation (established by the shareholders of Yukos in 2001. “The New Times). “Yarovaya was an active listener of the“ Public Policy School ”, which was organized by the Fund.”
According to the interlocutors of The New Times, there was no big money at Yabloko then, but Yarovaya was a wealthy woman. Political scientist Maxim Tikhonov, who worked with her in 2003 before the elections to the State Duma, says that her second spouse Victor (he couldn’t name the name, but the Internet remembers everything: most likely, we are talking about businessman Viktor Alekseenko, who was a co-owner of one of the fish factories of Kamchatka.-The New Times) was not poor: “I remember, they had two other and some other and some other and some other and some other and some other real estate. Victor went to the right -handed jeep. "
According to the chapter, Yarovaya also contributed to the family budget: there were a number of banks who lobbying their interests in Kamchatka and invested money in the opposition, including the Yarovaya. The heads calls the bankers Anatoly Dubodel from Rostrobank, who financed the electoral block “For Kamchatka” in 2001, and the owner of Kamchatagropombank Dmitry Poster.
Правда, по словам Максима Тихонова, к 2003 году у семьи появились проблемы — якобы муж Яровой был близок к криминальному бизнесу, появились долги. И часть денег, выделенных на избирательную кампанию «Яблока» Ходорковским, пошла на их погашение. Бывший менеджер ЮКОСа Алексей Кондауров подтвердил, что компания давала деньги камчатскому «Яблоку», главой которого была Ирина Яровая — «это общеизвестный факт». Но это было финансирование именно партийных, а не личных нужд, подчеркнул он.
Желанием заполучить наконец мандат и вырваться с Камчатки в Москву за более стабильным положением собеседники The New Times объясняют решение Яровой о выходе из партии. По словам Галины Михалевой, ушла она очень просто — пришла к Явлинскому и спросила, гарантирует ли он ей наконец место в Госдуме. Ответ был отрицательным, и Яровая написала заявление об уходе. Ряд источников The New Times утверждает, что в то время Ирину Яровую взял под свое крыло глава камчатского отделения «Единой России» Борис Невзоров, бывший опер, — на Камчатке ему приписывают контроль над рядом предприятий рыбной отрасли.
The price of loyalty
Согласно декларации о доходах, в 2011 году Яровая заработала 2 млн 450 тыс. рублей, у нее нет ни машин, ни квартир, только депутатские апартаменты площадью 87 кв. м, а ее муж (в декларациях фамилии супругов тоже не указываются) и вовсе принес в семью чуть меньше полумиллиона рублей. Кабинет у нее обычный, «не навороченный». Пользуется служебной машиной Audi A8. Некоторые источники утверждают, что дополнительный заработок она могла иметь, когда занималась законами о рекламе — одно время ее даже считали представителем «водочного лобби». А нынешние законопроекты — вынужденные политические шаги; такая работа не оплачивается.
Один из источников, близких к администрации президента, объясняет: в последнее время АП действует прямолинейно — если раньше нужные законы вносились через разных депутатов и какие-то «неприятные», но нужные Кремлю нюансы обычно появлялись в поправках лишь ко второму чтению законопроектов, то сейчас используют лишь нескольких депутатов. «Расплачиваются с ними полномочиями, должностями и возможностью построения карьеры в политике». Яровая просто одна из команды. За год членства в партии власти она добилась включения в Генеральный совет, а также возглавила «Консервативно-патриотический клуб» внутри ЕР. Только за свой первый срок внесла больше 70 законопроектов.

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