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Cartel Medinsky
The Ministry of Culture of Russia is preparing a lawsuit to protect the honor and dignity for the Yabloko party, which published an investigation on signs of a cartel conspiracy during the state procurement of the department. The Center for the Anti -Corruption Policy of Yabloko has found that over the past 3 years, the most state orders for various festivals have received structures related to the environment of the Minister of Culture of Russia Vladimir Medinsky.
In the amount of the company, subordinate to the Ministry of Culture, earned 106.3 million rubles on state orders. We are talking about Rosturism and the theater art studio. The Yabloko party asks to check the discovered facts by the Federal Antimonopoly Service.
The Ministry of Culture says that the information of Yabloko does not correspond to reality and defines the reputation of the department, but to draw conclusions about the cartel conspiracy on the basis that "Medinsky is familiar with a half of the country and almost all of Moscow at least - funny."
Vladimir Medinsky and the head of the Mikhailovsky Theater Vladimir Kekhman
Recently, Vladimir Medinsky has become a member of several high -profile scandals associated with the possible falsification of one of his scientific monographs and the disruption of the premiere of ballet Kirill Serebrennikov “Nureyev” in the Bolshoi Theater.
The investigation of Yabloko says that employees of the Center for Anti -Corruption Policy of the party tracked 12 public procurement with suspicions of conspiracy, organized since 2014 by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation and the structures subordinate to it: the Federal Agency of Rostourism and the budgetary institution of the "Studio of Theater Arts". The state order was divided by 4 companies connected through former founders.
Analysts found that several companies participating in the public procurement are connected by a common phone or addresses with the company of the former business partner of Medinsky- Yegor Moskvin , who is now part of the supervisory board of the Russian Military Historical Society. The initial data of the listed legal entities coincide with the coordinates of the company Corporation CJSC I, which belongs to the father of Medinsky Rostislav Medinsky by 69%.
Another close to Medinsky, Elena Krechetova , is the founder of the Media-Consulting company and leads the RVIO target capital fund. According to the estimates of Yabloko lawyers, Krechetova received more than 35 million rubles at auction from the Ministry of Culture and Rostourism.
The head of the Yabloko Anti -Corruption Center , Sergei Mitrokhin, says that there is no reaction of the Federal Antimonopoly Service to the investigation of the Ministry of Culture yet, and explained why the party decided to check it: it was the Ministry of Culture:
Tenders pass clearly fictitious, very skillfully imitating competitiveness
“We found the suspicious activity of a number of structures that belong either to the relatives of Mr. Medinsky, or his business partners in the past, and in some ways, apparently, in the present,” says Mitrokhin. -Someone enters into some advice with him, and used to be engaged in commercial activities with him. And all this happened in a very slender picture. In the investigation, not very large amounts appear, of course, we have finds in the field of public procurement and larger size, but you feel the systematic nature of this activity. Because tenders are carried out clearly fictitious and very skillfully imitating competitiveness. As for the indignation of our investigation by the Medinsky, he, apparently, is now in the nervous state about his dissertation and other claims to his work, and here we are! But we never suck anything out of the finger, our work is based on open sources, we delve deeply in them, and the information that we find is absolutely reliable, ”said Sergey Mitrokhin.
Sergey Mitrokhin
One of the authors of the investigation Alexei Karnaukhov is talking about the prospects of a judicial lawsuit against the Yabloko party:
All the data that we presented are taken from open sources
- The information that we announced in the investigation did not refute. They simply called him "funny." There is no answer on the merits. All the data that we presented are taken from open sources, it is easy to check them. And if a trial suddenly begins, we willingly introduce them to the public again. But it seems to me that there are no judicial prospects. From the media reports , it is not entirely clear what exactly is going to protect the Ministry of Culture - either the honor and dignity of Medinsky, or the business reputation of the department. If the honor and dignity of Medinsky, then it is not entirely clear what the Ministry of Culture has to do with it, because it is a private person, this is an individual, an individual person, and the ministry should not do this even theoretically. As for the reputation of the Ministry of Culture, I believe that the only person who really spoils this reputation is the Minister of Medinsky himself, with whom all the latest investigations, loud events are associated, and our episode is only one in a long series of others, ”says Alexei Karnaukhov.
Indeed, the Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Vladimir Medinsky is one of the main Russian newsmakers of the last weeks. Not so long ago, from the submission of the Dissernet project, he was almost deprived of a scientific degree, suspecting the unfair training of a doctoral dissertation . However, on July 7, the dissertation council on the history of the Belgorod State University concluded that the dissertation of Medinsky meets the necessary requirements. Now this decision should be considered by the expert council of the Higher Attend of History, and then the Presidium of the Higher Attestation Commission. The final decision will be approved by the Ministry of Education and Science.
Medinsky is called one of the initiators of the cancellation of the ballet of Kirill Serebrennikov Nureyev, whose premiere was supposed to take place at the Bolshoi Theater, and now transferred for an indefinite period. The media write that the performance was shot according to the call of Medinsky, on which the confessor of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin was “pressed” by Bishop Egorievsky Tikhon (Shevkunov) . Medinsky allegedly scared the director of the Bolshoi Theater Vladimir Urin with possible pickets of Orthodox activists and asked to think about the transfer of ballet for later.
Poster of the ballet "Nureyev" in Bolshoi
Director Vladimir Mirzoev believes that Vladimir Medinsky, who heads the Ministry of Culture since 2012, has well fit into Russian political life. According to the director, Medinsky can be called an ideal official:
All his decisions coincide with the party line
- He is a spineless creature with the appearance of an intelligent person. Medinsky’s tongue is well suspended, it is not often found in the official environment. Medinsky is the author of some books that, probably, part of the public reads with pleasure, says Mirzoev. - Probably, the level of intelligence and articulation, which demonstrates Medinsky, is considered sufficient and desirable for a person who occupies a ministerial post. He is an absolutely ideal patternedly thinking official, all his decisions coincide with the party line. All activities as Minister of Culture are an ideal mirror of those people who make political decisions in the country.
Removing the ballet "Nureyev" on the call of the minister is not the first case of the official’s intervention in the affairs of the repertoire theater. Vladimir Mirzoev believes that sooner or later the loud premiere will take place - perhaps next year, after the election, when the political agenda in Russia will change a bit:
It's just a soldier - they give him a task, he performs it
- I agree with the opinion of commentators who believe that the Kremlin did not want to take part in acute discussion. The hero of the production of the Bolshoi Theater Rudolf Nureyev is an obviously inconvenient person for modern Russian authorities from all points of view. And the Orthodox patriots again go against the liberal intelligentsia, the Kremlin needs to take some position, talk on this topic, take part in this. This is very inconvenient, because Putin announced that he will now be with the Orthodox youth ... It is better to transfer it so that there are no awkward situations. As for the participation of Medinsky to all this-maybe if he was asked to call and say something to the director, he did it. But he is not a political subject, this is just a soldier who is given an order, and he fulfills it, - says director Vladimir Mirzoev .