
The head of the Kemerovo headquarters of the opposition Alexei Navalny Ksenia Pakhomova said on October 31 that her mother Natalya Pakhomova was dismissed from the art school No. 50, where she was appointed director just two weeks before. “Mom had previously said in personal conversations that she could be fired for the fact that her daughter is the coordinator of Navalny’s headquarters,” Ksenia Pakhomova told Meduze; She has been working as a coordinator of Navalny’s headquarters in Kemerovo since August 2017.
Natalya Pakhomova told Medusa that on September 14, the city administration employees under a fictional pretext called her to the circus building in the center of Kemerovo-at that time her daughter Ksenia with a laptop was sitting there and on Skype participated on the cactus program on the YouTube Canal of Alexei Navalny. According to Natalia Pakhomova, near the circus the head of the Department of Culture, Sports and Youth Policy of the City Hall Kemerovo Irina Sagaidak met her. She led her to her daughter and asked with irony whether to arrange Ksenia to work in the city administration.
On September 18, the director of the School of Arts No. 50 was dismissed for financial violations related to the collection of money from parents. Sagaidak proposed to take his position Natalia Pakhomova, who worked as deputy director for educational work. “I immediately decided to clarify the situation and asked if at my work the fact that my daughter was headed by the headquarters of Navalny. I am a system of a system and have been working in it for a long time. Sagaidak answered me that it was not 1937 now, that I can go calmly to sign documents, ”says Natalya Pakhomova. On October 13, she took office, and on October 31 she found out that she was dismissed - without explaining the reason. “When I was a head teacher, I had a labor agreement and could not dismiss me, although the school principal already said that they wanted to dismiss me because of Ksenia. When I myself became the director, I took my labor to the Department of Culture, Sports and Youth Policy, ”Pakhomova explains. The City Hall Kemerovo could not promptly comment on the rapid dismissal of the school principal.
Alexander Stepantsov - he and Ksenia Pakhomova have been meeting about his deduction for five years - found out on October 11, after the shares in the city on October 7 in support of Navalny. It was organized by the city headquarters led by Pakhomova. “The action was on Saturday, and on Monday Sasha was called to the dean and said that he had [educational] debt. Despite the fact that what can be the student with increased scholarships, ”Ksenia is indignant. Stepantsov was not present in support of Navalny.
Alexander Stepantsov told Medusa that he graduated from the Institute of Economics and Management at the Kuzbass State Technical University (KuzSTU) with the Red Diploma, then he entered the budgetary department at the magistracy of the Institute of Information Technologies, Engineering and Automotive at KuzGTU. There, he graduated with honors from the first year, at the beginning of the second he was expelled - for poor performance. “Formally, I was expelled for the fact that I did not submit a report on practice, which did not even have a name. On October 10, the dean of our institute Dmitry Stenin personally told me that I have a week to eliminate debt. I passed everything to the teacher less than a day later. But the very next day I found out that I was expelled. Stenin said that, according to the teacher, I had no progress, ”Stepantsov explains. Familiar teachers explained to him that they usually do this when you need to get rid of the student, added Stepantsov.
He filed a statement on the illegal deduction to the court, the trade union and the prosecutor's office, and also sent a letter to the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation. “Even if we proceed from the version that I was fired due to academic debt, they had to give me the deadlines to repay me twice-in fact, not a single one was provided,” he says.
On the day when Ksenia Pakhomova went on the live broadcast of the Cactus program, to the circus building in the center of Kemerovo, where she was sitting with a laptop, and her grandmother Lyubov Nesterov also brought her grandmother. She works as a caretaker in the Kemerovo Regional Museum of Fine Arts. According to Natalia Pakhomova, officials were already planning to dismiss Nesterov for supporting Alexei Navalny - however, the museum’s leadership stood up for Nesterov and asked her to “influence” her granddaughter (in fact, she had to meet with her granddaughter near the circus building).
On October 7, when Ksenia Pakhomova held a promotion in support of Navalny, the museum’s leadership wanted to take her grandmother and there - so that she would talk with her granddaughter; But Nesterova’s love refused. “The museum employees treat her well, they were even ashamed for the fact that they forced her to do this, and in the end they lagged behind her. Although so far my grandmother is on sick leave. It will come out - let's see what will happen, ”says Ksenia Pakhomova.
Sasha Sulim