Aikidoka and system integrator

What is known to the new deputy head of the presidential administration Sergey Kirienko

On October 5, Vladimir Putin appointed the First Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration Sergei Kirienko, the former head of Rosatom, who in 1998 for several months headed the Russian government. It is the first deputy head that oversees domestic policy in the administration-because of this, it is generally accepted that a person who occupies this position largely determines the public climate in the country and the relations of the state and the opposition; The era of the two previous first deputies - Vladislav Surkov and Vyacheslav Volodin - were very different from each other. Medusa remembered what Sergei Kiriyenko noted until today, and found out from his acquaintances and colleagues, as he was in previous positions.

The youngest prime minister in history

In April 1998, President Boris Yeltsin unexpectedly appointed 35-year-old Kiriyenko, who worked as the Minister of Fuel and Energy, the head of the Government of the Russian Federation. Before that Kiriyenko, who graduated from the university in Nizhny Novgorod and was well acquainted with the then governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region Boris Nemtsov, was engaged in business - he worked in banks and oil companies. Unusually young politics in glasses was quickly nicknamed the Kinder Surprise. Kiriyenko markedly changed the structure of the government and attracted fresh personnel - his team received the name of “young reformers” - but against the backdrop of a sharp decrease in oil prices, attempts by liberal reforms crashed, and Kiriyenko’s resignation was sent on August 23, a week after his government declared a default on state -owned -worn, immersed the country into a severe economic crisis.

Boris Nadezhdin, politician, in 1998 was an assistant to Kiriyenko : “Since 1997, I was Kiriyenko's right hand. He worked as an adviser for Nemtsov [in 1997-Deputy Prime Minister of the Government of the Russian Federation], when he said that he was taking away from the lower talented and promising banker. I began to help Kiriyenko enter the work in the Ministry of Fuel and Energy. When he became the Prime Minister, I became his legal adviser and for three months was the most terrible person in the White House, as he was the last barrier. He very quickly understood how it all works, I was even surprised. The period of adaptation of Nemtsov in the White House, for example, took more time. As for the default, it was simply necessary for someone to do dirty work. It was clear that the country was rolling to default, and the “family” wanted to make default with the help of Kiriyenko and the technocratic government, and then return the [Victor] Chernomyrdin to the place, but it was not possible. ”

Oksana Dmitrieva, deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, in 1998-the Minister of Labor and Social Development : “Kiriyenko and I have different approaches in the economy for the role of the market, according to liberal methods, but I can say for sure that Kiriyenko is a democrat. We worked in the government for only four months in a difficult period, there were very different people in the office of ministers, but during this time there were no undercover intrigues and generally a tendency to this. The relationship was quite open, there was a democratic style of communication within the government - however, then it was perceived for granted.

For that composition of the government, the appointment was unexpected, no one was preparing for this role, and in fact in these four months we only got acquainted with business. If we talk about the formation of Kiriyenko as a statesman, it is better to judge not for these four months, but by the embassy [in the Volga District at the beginning of the zero] and “dew” - when a person could build politics, choose a team, build personnel.

The commission, which made a decision on the default of 1998, was not Kiriyenko. Yuri Maslyukov and I and the Minister of Industry and Trade at the time of default, then the first deputy prime minister-approx. Medusa ) did not support default, but the decision was not made at a government meeting. Maybe it was imposed from the outside. ”

Sergei Aleksashenko, an economist, in 1998 - the first deputy chairman of the Board of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation : “Kiriyenko, completely unexpectedly in May 1998, turned out to be the prime minister, and, frankly, he was not ready for this role. He lacked life experience and knowledge, because he only recently arrived from Nizhny Novgorod, he had no connections in Moscow and bureaucratic confidence. I don’t know if someone could have prove himself in that situation in that situation in his place, but his main time took to study and understand the tasks. He often found himself in a topic - for example, categorically refused to meet with the deputy head of the IMF David Lipton, who decided to help Russia. He was training, but there was little time, and the change of driver in a train flying downhill does not always help.

Kiriyenko held a meeting at which a decision on default was made. He listened to two alternatives - default or the inclusion of a printing press and budget financing at the expense of the Central Bank. Whether he understood the whole depth of the problem, whether he was aware of what decisions were signed, it is unclear, but we explained everything to him, and he made the correct, in my opinion, the decision. ”

Founder of the "Union of Right Forces"

Having left the civil service, Kiriyenko took up party construction - already at the end of 1998 he created the political movement “New Power”, which soon became part of the new Liberal Party “Union of Right Forces”. It was Kiriyenko who headed the party list in the State Duma elections in December 1999-the ATP went to the Duma, gaining 8% of the vote and taking fourth place, which eventually became the best result in the history of the party. Then the politician claimed the post of mayor of Moscow, competing in the election with Yuri Luzhkov (Kiriyenko took second place, receiving 11.9% of the vote; Luzhkov won with a result of 69.9%). In parliament, Kiriyenko did not sit long - already in May the new President of Russia Vladimir Putin offered him the position of his plenipotentiary representative in the Volga Federal District.

Boris Nadezhdin, politician, member of the political councils of the “new power” and ATP : “After leaving the government, Kiriyenko asked me to engage in his movement“ New Power ”, to which I wrote the charter. He is a fantastically smart, very efficient person and can take responsibility. He is one of the most powerful managers that I saw in my life. But in the Duma he was simply not interested, and he tried to stay away from politics, because his element was management. When he was appointed envoy, he was very pleased. ”

Leonid Gozman, politician, former member of the Political Council of the ATP : “We had a collegial leadership in the ATP. Kiriyenko was fame, people in the regions who associated their fate with him - and the fact that he became one of the co -chairs of the ATP and the head of the faction was an absolutely adequate decision. The role of Sergei was huge, although not the same as Yavlinsky’s in Yabloko or Zhirinovsky in the LDPR. I still have the most positive memories of him as the head of the faction. He led it more than effectively. The ATP faction is not a “united Russia” to you, it is a set of ambitious bright public people with a political past and ambitions. With him, no one left the faction, there were conflicts, but there were no scandals. We had less than 10% in parliament, but all the rational laws that the Duma adopted either on the initiative of the ATP, or with our active support, and this, of course, is the merit, including Kiriyenko.

As for the [slogan of the ATP in the 1999 elections] “Kiriyenko - to the Duma, Putin - to the presidency”, after all, in 1999, Putin was a man whose name was directly related to [former mayor of St. Petersburg Anatoly] Sobchak, a man set by our President Yeltsin. In addition, was the only real alternative to the tandem of Primakov - Luzhkov. I believe that then, in 1999, Yeltsin had no choice and it was less than evil. ”

Plenipotentiary in the Volga Federal District

The decree on the division of the territory of Russia into seven federal districts, in each of which its representatives were supposed to oversee the realization of the constitutional powers of the president, Vladimir Putin signed on May 13, 2000 - and five days later Sergey Kiriyenko became the first plenipotentiary in the Volga fola, which includes 14 regions. In this post, he worked for more than five years-in parallel, in 2001, heading the State Commission on Chemical Disarmament.

Evgeny Semenov, political scientist, head of the Nizhny Novgorod branch of the Civil Society Development Fund : “For Kiriyenko, the definition of a“ system integrator ”has been enshrined in the time of work as a plenipotentiary as a plenipotentiary. Kiriyenko is a powerful intellectual machine that has the advantages of strategic thinking. The most important management quality of Kiriyenko is the ability to create not just effective teams, but working systems that retain their effectiveness for a long time and can be instantly mobilized. As the first envoy in the Kiriyenko FFO, it was necessary to solve a difficult task - to bring the legislation of regions into line with the Constitution of Russia. It was very difficult to solve this problem in the polyconfessional and multinational district, where the traditions of political fronting caused by the era of the “parade of sovereignty” were very difficult, but Kiriyenko brilliantly coped with the problem. It is important that there were no new conflicts and confrontations. ”

Andrei Klimentyev, the Nizhny Novgorod businessman and politician, ran for the mayors of Nizhny Novgorod in 1998 and 2002, has several convictions : “In the time of [Kiriyenko], all the elections were fabricated by the Demshiza. I went in the fall of 2002 to the mayor’s elections, scored twice as many united Russians, but Kiriyenko organized frauds with ballots like envoy. At night, crosses were placed in the ballots in the ballot, and there were six times more damaged ballots ( as a result, Klimentyev was removed from the election - approx. Medusa ). He said that the election was a war, and stood up for the wide backs of the Ephesians and cops. Now is Putin’s time - and other maneuvers. Kiriyenko was the first secretary of the Gorky regional committee of the Komsomol, but we have the Soviet Union now, so it does not matter who is [in power]. [As the head of Rosatom] Kiriyenko was kidding, now they sent another to feed. ”

Head of Rosatom

In November 2005, Kiriyenko was appointed head of the Federal Agency for Atomic Energy, which two years later was transformed into a vertically integrated state corporation Rosatom. Over ten years of Kiriyenko’s tenth in this post, most of the company's indicators have grown : the production of nuclear power plants has increased, several new powerful power units have been launched, the company has many foreign orders, presumably, the construction of the Academician Lomonosov floating nuclear power plant is close to completion. On the other hand, critics indicate that Kiriyenko’s ambitious promises were fulfilled, the company continues to absorb a huge amount of state money, the commissioning of the Academician Lomonosov is delayed all the time, and in general - developed countries have long ceased to rely on atomic energy.

Ivan Grachev, State Duma deputy in 1993-2003 and 2007-2016, deputy chairman, and then the chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Energy : “When I talked with Kiriyenko two years ago, Rosatom had international orders for $ 150 billion - this is more than the entire defense industry. Orders in many regions: Iran, China, Vietnam, Southeast Asia, back in Turkey and Latin America. Moreover, this is not just the replication of something old-there are new, rather interesting developments on fast neutron reactors, on the alteration of the post-fucusim standards of water-water reactors. Financing of science was also organized quite decently - not everything can be told, but what I knew made a very good impression.

The planning horizon in Rosatom was thirty years. The era of hydrocarbons will never end, the nuclear energy will occupy 20% and more from all the energy of the world for another fifty years, and Sergei Vladilenovich perfectly understood this. In general, as a prime minister, I knew him little, and his rule ended quite sadly. Therefore, when I met him as the leader of Rosatom, I admit, I was very surprised at how everything was arranged there. ”

Bulat Nigmatulin, Doctor of Technical Sciences, a member of the Scientific Council of the Institute of Natural Monopolies, a member of the nuclear Society of the Russian Federation : “On the one hand, there are a lot of potential or already signed contracts for the construction of nuclear power plants abroad in Rosatom. On the other hand, six to seven power units were built under Kiriyenko in Russia. But we do not have such a large increase in electricity consumption, therefore, construction is not particularly necessary. Yes, these power units were introduced in return for failed - but the old blocks could be reconstructed, and not to build new ones instead, it is cheaper. Back in 2008, I said that all the programs and general electricity development schemes until 2020 and 2030, which were then accepted, are the nonsense of the dog. There were very ambitious growth rates of electricity consumption, infidels, overstated two to three times. And then we still lived with 7% of GDP growth per year, and now the economy is not growing - but there is a tough connection between the growth of the economy and energy consumption. People who painted these programs - academics, the Ministry of Energy, RAO UES - did not take this connection. All this was ignorant! Yes, we have a rich history of atomic energy, there are a lot of developments, but all this should be commercialized. And the construction [domestically] does not contribute to this. You need to be more economical, careful, think about the people, and not just about the development of their projects. ”

A fan of martial arts

Like Russian President Vladimir Putin, Sergey Kiriyenko is fond of martial arts. Since 1998, he has been engaged in Aikido and has the fourth given on it. Since 2005, the official has been the president of the National Council of Aikido of Russia, as well as the co-chair of the Russian Martial Arts Union (another co-chair-Yuri Trutnev, deputy chairman of the Russian government and the presidential plenipotentiary in the Far Eastern Federal District). In 2013, Kiriyenko spoke about his hobby like this: “Aikido is harmony, the world is harmony, and if you are in harmony with yourself and in harmony with the world, then you will invincide. Any aggressor violates the harmony of the world, and that means it is enough to turn his aggression against him so that the balance is restored and good triumph. Here is such a pretty philosophy, for me it has long ceased to be a purely sports element. It is very relevant for life in general. ”

Igor KASTYUKEVICH, Executive Director of the National Council of Aikido Russia : “Sergey Vladilenovich is a practitioner Aikidoka himself, he trains, he has quite good skills for the application of this martial art, the fourth Dan Aikido Aikikai. This is not to say that he is simply the nominal president of the National Council of Aikido Russia. Sergei Vladilenovich heads the Presidium, which is a fairly effective body - for example, resolves issues related to the regional policy of the organization. Now, the Congress of the International Federation of Aikido was held in Japan - the composition of the delegation was approved by Sergey Vladilenovich. ”

An official out of politics

Despite the rather vivid political past, Sergei Kiriyenko, in recent years, a person who will now oversee the presidential administration, avoided comments on pressing issues-even when what was happening directly concerned the liberal opposition, to which the official once belonged. Medusa almost failed to find the public statements by Kiriyenko, not directly related to the activities of Rosatom; The official spoke even about the current situation in Ukraine and the accession of Crimea exclusively in the context of the concerns of the state corporation: so, in 2015 he noted that Ukraine fulfills its obligations on the transit of nuclear fuel, and in 2014 stated that the construction of nuclear power plants in the Crimea was not planned.

Kiriyenko changed himself only in connection with the murder of Boris Nemtsov, with whom he was associated with a long relationship: talking with journalists after a farewell ceremony with an opposition politician on March 3, 2015, the head of Rosatom expressed confidence that the murder was politically motivated and was an “attempt to destabilize the situation”. “Boris was chosen for this as an ideal goal. No matter how scary, this is true, ”Kiriyenko said then.

Leonid Gozman : “The fact that Kiriyenko came to Nemtsov’s funeral is important, because the presidential administration was quite demonstratively distant [from them]. Он был одним из немногих, кто этот человеческий жест сделал, хотя ужасно, что мы живем в такое время, когда нормальное поведение становится подвигом. Он вообще человек умный, технологично ответственный и, что редко в политике, порядочный. Можно возразить, что порядочный человек не может работать на путинскую систему, и в этом есть резон, но я не помню, чтобы он кого-то обманул или какие-то подлости делал. Я не знаю, сможет ли он что-то хорошее сделать на новом посту, но уверен, что он будет вести себя по-человечески».

Борис Надеждин : «Кириенко, безусловно, за демократию и рыночную экономику, но что с его взглядами происходило в последние 15 лет, мне неизвестно. В последние годы он никак не комментировал политику и занимался реформированием атомной области. Для меня было полной неожиданностью, что он согласился на должность в администрации президента. Раньше он был прагматичным бизнесменом, но высказывался за демократию. Впрочем, Путин абсолютно так же высказывается».