A person who does not ask for anything

How Sergey Shoigu settled in the near circle of Putin and whether he will become his successor

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As the presidential election approaches, the domestic political class falls into an explained hysteria. After all, not only the result of Vladimir Putin’s unanimous elections is obvious, but also the fact that, having become the president again, he can come up with some new configuration of power, which will inevitably lead to a shake of the near circle. And each time going crazy with expectation, the security forces converge in a merciless subcover battle, the purpose of which is to take a place closer to the throne and discredit potential competitors. In 2007, it consisted in the confrontation between the FSB and the State Drug Control, in 2012-in the battle between the Investigative Committee and the Prosecutor General. Today, the trial of Alexei Ulyukaev has turned into a frank trolling of the heavyweight of domestic politics by Igor Sechin. At the same time, the other court sentenced in the form of a conditional term to two senior generals of the Ministry of Emergencies - Vladimir Artamonov and Valery Akimov. Their crime looks simply ridiculous against the background of the homeric proportions of domestic corruption: one fictitiously issued his wife to work at the Research Institute, which was led by the other, while the amount illegally assigned was already a whole million rubles. It is no coincidence that the Rupres agency suggested that the purpose of the investigation was to receive a compromising evidence for the Minister of Defense Sergei Kozhugetovich Shoigu - a man who is loved by both the Russian people and all the Russian chiefs. A unique person in a kind. After all, the basis of his survival, with all leaders, was the lack of even the smallest hint of his side for the presence of presidential ambitions. Meanwhile, it was Shoigu who is constantly present in the short list of Putin’s possible successors. It was Shoigu in the second half of the 2000s that became one of the nearest Putin confidants. Moreover, he is the only one of the special services and not St. Petersburg. Other important factors played a role here.

Code of the "Soviet" person

Children's years of Shoigu (namely, they say, they are determining in the formation of character) were quite similar to the semi -pure childhood of Vladimir Putin. He was born on the very outskirts of the Soviet Empire - in the small Tuvan city of Chadan. Despite the fact that his father was in the post (he was the editor of the district newspaper) was, of course, to the local authorities, the boy led a non -“elite” life. No wonder he had a yard nickname "Shaitan". It was certainly not different in his studies (now the minister explains it with a freedom-loving character), the wall on the wall participated in mass fights, the seething Yenisei crossed the dispute, and also crossed the river and during the ice drift, jumping from the ice to the ice, and once jumped from the 10-meter bridge in the middle of the wheel of the wheel from the Belarus tractor. The limit of his boyish dreams was the work of a driver-lady. Isn't it enough, it’s quite like what we know about the childhood of the Russian president?

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In the 1960-1970s, the songs of bards were very popular, singing a yard boyish fraternity, as an alternative to cardboard Soviet virtues, which necessarily implied hypocrisy. The guys from the gateway tried to follow their code of undeclared virtues-this is, first of all, loyalty to friendship, the willingness to come to the aid of a comrade, a sense of gratitude to anyone who made you good, willingness to answer the good story in trouble. There is a suspicion that Vladimir Putin is longing about this lost boy in his terrarium in his terrarium. In general, both Shoigu and Putin - initially lived according to the Code of the "decent" Soviet man.

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Shoigu certainly did not differ with zeal in his studies (now the minister explains it with a freedom -loving character), the wall on the wall participated in mass fights, the seething Yenisei crossed the dispute, and also crossed the river and during the ice drift, jumping from the ice floes to the ice

It is enough to recall the history of Shoigu’s relationship with Oleg Shlenin, secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, who in Soviet times contributed a lot to the career growth of the current Minister of Defense. “Seryozha is married to the daughter of our former Achinsk neighbor Alexander Antipin. The husband at that time was the first secretary of the city party committee, ”the wife of Shenin Tamara recalled in an interview with profile magazine. - We were very friends with this family, and my husband took patronage over Seryozha. When we moved to Abakan, the husband specially created for Sergey Abakanvagonstroy and raised the new head of Tuva from him. He later made him the secretary of the Abakan city committee of the CPSU for construction. When, in 1991, the husband, a member of the State Emergency Committee, was arrested and was in the "sailor silence", Seryozha disappeared and appeared only when public opinion in relation to us changed. The first time he called my house, and we secretly met him in the yard. Later, when the husband was released, Sergey came to visit us. Then he said to her husband: “I have never been to a bastard. You are my second father. "

It is appropriate to recall how Vladimir Putin removed Anatoly Sobchak from the country when a criminal case was opened against it.

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Organizer

When and if it comes to choosing a successor, the current president will primarily be interested in the ability of this person to guarantee him the safety and safety of capital. This is what Putin Yeltsin promised at one time. And he fulfilled the promise. Today, in the entire Putin’s environment, Sergey Shoigu is most likely ready to fulfill such obligations.

However, the successor must have another important quality: the ability to maintain power and rule the country. It seems that Putin has a firm opinion: Shoigu has these qualities. Blat blad, but still he did his career not in the offices, but at large Soviet construction sites. For success, we needed the ability to command thousands of the lowered poor fellows, including former convicts (which made up the main labor force), courage, and speed in decision -making. And Sergey Shoigu seemed to have these qualities. And most importantly, the successful construction manager is obliged to have systemic thinking, the ability to build multi -level schemes - where to send brigades, where to bring materials, how to provide housing and nutrition of workers. Moreover, it is necessary to create such systems daily, in real time.

The successor must have another important quality: the ability to maintain power and rule the country. Putin seems to have a firm opinion: Shoigu has these qualities

These managerial talents blossomed when, after the collapse of the USSR, Shoigu, according to the patronage of the head of government, Ivan Silaev, headed the State Committee for Emergency Situations, which later turned into the Ministry of Emergencies. For a few months in the country, which literally cracked at the seams, an effective, working structure was created. At the disposal of Shoigu, civil defense troops were transferred (19 regiments - almost 10 thousand military personnel). The regiments of the GO were not better than the notorious building battles - they sent the finished officers there and completely no suitable draftees. In just three years, Shoigu turned them into selected military units. Of course, he was helped by the fact that it was then from the humiliating lack of money from the army, special forces of other law enforcement agencies began to quit personnel officers. But to the honor of Shoigu, we note: he - the only Russian leaders realized how to use the potential of these people.

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The former USSR was covered by bloody fratricidal conflicts: South Ossetian, Abkhaz, Transnistrian, civil war in Tajikistan. And everywhere, even before the conclusion of agreements on the commissioning of peacekeepers, Shoigu and his employees turned out to be in the war zone. They exported thousands of refugees from Tkvarchel and Dushanbe, delivered food to Tskhinvali and Transnistria, conducted humanitarian convoys to Yugoslavia, saved the elderly and children in Chechnya. It was then, in 1992, Sergey Shoigu from the senior lieutenant of the reserve immediately turned into a general. In most cases, the assignment of a high military rank to a civilian is profanity and harms the case. However, in this case, it should be admitted that it made sense. By the will of the circumstances, Shoigu had to coordinate real military operations involving army formations and units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. To establish such an interaction, the military rank was necessary. But it would not help too much, do not possess, I will repeat, Shoiga with a striking organizational talent.

For 20 years, Shoigu turned the Russian corps of rescuers from a small group of 16 people into a modern powerful department, whose staff is about 350 thousand employees. The efficiency of the Emcheesites was especially striking against the backdrop of the helplessness of other security forces. In conditions when another was painfully born on the wreckage of one political system, people who were intended to protect the state: military, police, Chekists - demonstrated in all critical situations amazing stupidity, and often cynical indifference. And suddenly a man appeared who saved everyone, fed and heated. During the time, while Shoigu commanded the Ministry of Emergencies, more than four hundred humanitarian and rescue operations were carried out. An earthquake in Neftegorsk, Lena Flood, a plane crash in Irkutsk, the capture of a school in Beslan, terrorist attacks in the subway and explosions of houses. Everywhere where the head of the Ministry of Emergencies appeared, panic and confusion stopped immediately. And the point was not only in reasonable orders that provided work. They say that, without finding workers who could smash the batteries on all floors of a house with a thawed heating network, the minister forced to do this all his retinue. And, of course, he dragged the batteries himself.

During the time, while Shoigu commanded the Ministry of Emergencies, more than four hundred humanitarian and rescue operations were carried out. Wherever the head of the Ministry of Emergencies appeared, panic and confusion stopped immediately

However, periodically clouds were thickened over the head of the Ministry of Emergencies. So, in 2006, a gang consisting of Moore workers, headed by Lieutenant General Vladimir Ganeyev, who led the Security Service of the Ministry of Emergencies, was disclosed. During the investigation of this particular case, the term “werewolves in uniform” arose. But Sergey Kuzhuhetovich can well be called the “Teflon” minister - troubles do not stick to him. Its associates have the ability to cut in the bud any hint of a scandal. Say, judging by the statistics, the notorious hazing was present in parts of the Ministry of Emergencies. However, not a single case came to the surface, did not attract the public.

Reformer

Having headed the military department in November 2012, Shoigu instantly understood how important the reforms of his predecessor were in this post Anatoly Serdyukov. Their meaning was in decisive care of the principles of mass mobilization, consecrated by one and a half centuries of domestic history. As a result, the rejection of parts of the incomplete composition, the meaning of which was to prepare for the reception of thousands of reservists, provided the Kremlin with several dozens of formations that were ready to act immediately after receiving the order. The strategy of the head of the military department was to, on the one hand, to demonstrate the "army public" a gap with the legacy of the predecessor, and on the other, it is a legacy to preserve. And he succeeded. Shoigu was created by the defense center of the Russian Federation, which, due to modern technical means, ensured immediate bringing the order for warhead formations. Shoigu introduced the so -called “sudden checks” into army everyday life, which made it possible to find out the real readiness of the compounds. Of course, it was Shoigu's organizational abilities that ensured the military success of operations in Crimea and Syria. We note, however, from the beginning of the Ukrainian crisis, the head of the military department did not give a single interview. He brings his faithful position to the population through the regular broadcast of his speeches at the College of the Ministry of Defense.

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Having headed the military department in November 2012, Shoigu instantly understood how important the reforms of his predecessor were in this post Anatoly Serdyukov. Their meaning was in decisive care of the principles of mass mobilization

Entertainment organizer

It is also important that in recent years, Putin has been spending a lot of time together with Shoiga on vacation: the footage of the recent fishing of the president has been memorable to everyone. Moreover, this is definitely the slightly extreme rest that the head of state likes so much to resist the inevitable old age. “A real male rest is, on the one hand, extreme things, and on the other, at least a short -term feeling of freedom and unity with nature. And there are extraordinary horses! Not parquet, but serious. They snow on the belly, and they walk along it like ships. And I tell you, I saw many in their lifetime, including Siberian guys, but few are capable of, like Vladimir Vladimirovich, to withstand many hours riding along the most difficult mountain paths, ”says Sergey Kuzhuhetovich. People who know in Moscow cabinet secrets claim that the Russian Geographical Society headed by Shoigu was recreated to fulfill the function of a travel agency for one single person - Vladimir Putin. True, due to the international isolation that occurred as a result of the Ukrainian crisis, this excursion bureau is forced to limit themselves to the territory of Russia. Nevertheless, all the extreme escapids of the national leader - ringing rims and tigers, diving into the depths of Baikal and the Black Sea, flights on a deltaplane along with cranes - is the figure of their organizer Sergei Shoigu. Rescuer, professional and extreme. This is what he likes so much to the chief chief of the country. A person who does not ask for anything, and, moreover, ready to give.

People who know in Moscow cabinet secrets claim that the Russian Geographical Society headed by Shoigu was recreated to fulfill the function of a travel agency for a single person-Vladimir Putin

Of course, successful survival in the Putin Byzantium for Shoigu did not pass without a trace. A person who once considered it necessary to demonstrate that he completely cannot stand the lyso-observation, today considers the norm that his giant portraits flaunt in each office of the department led by him. In any, even quite friendly, criticism, he now sees an attempt on his own authority and, worse, the information campaign paid by the “enemies”. To the question: “What subordinates do you prefer: performers who clearly execute your commands, or like -minded people?”, He replies: “like -minded people who clearly execute commands.”

But the fact remains: Sergey Shoigu is the most talented organizer from among the Putin's close associates, the most skillful courtier and at the same time a folk favorite. The one whose ambitions still extend much further than the post of Minister of Defense ...