"Loss of trust"

Yuri Luzhkov “Moscow and Life” was published in Eksmo. NT publishes the chapter about the most dramatic episode in his career

Yuri Luzhkov, Mayor of Moscow in 1992-2010

Yuri Luzhkov:

Oddly enough, in democratic Russia, my resignation took place according to a long -known scenario, which was played under the Soviet regime. In order to remove the leader who had fallen from the clip, it was published in the body of the Central Committee of the Party of the newspaper Pravda or in Izvestia of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR with a “party criticism”, after which the resignation followed. So did this with Molotov and sent the former prime minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR as an ambassador to Mongolia.

Under Gorbachev, after an article on the shortcomings in the construction of Moscow, he lost his membership in the Politburo and the office of the First Secretary of the CPSU MGK Victor Vasilievich Grishin.

* We are talking about the scandal with the installation of the monument to Peter I in the center of Moscow. The public accused the mayor of indulging the ambitions of the author of the monument to Zurab Tsereteli.

It was clear to me that it was time to leave that on the eve of May 9, Victory Day, in 2010, on television showed the colonnade of the Bolshoi Theater, hung with portraits of Stalin. That computer picture of Stalin with a large theater was on a par with Peter’s picture with Columbus's feet*.

The provocation on the eve of Victory Day is on the conscience of television and political breeders. They knew well: there is no such decision of the Moscow government on the portraits of Stalin at the Bolshoi Theater and cannot be. But they fulfilled the order - by deception, discrediting Luzhkov humiliated him in the eyes of public opinion, I would say in a boorish and ugly way.

I have no illusions regarding Stalin and Stalinism. My father’s sister was sitting in the camp and told me a lot about the horrors of the Stalinist camps.

How did I cause the discontent of President Medvedev? The fact that publicly, contrary to him, said: the heads of the regions should choose the people, and not deputies of local meetings. After which Medvedev advised disagreeing with him to resign. Which I did. But he did not accept her. ( Read more about this - in an interview with Luzhkova’s wife, Elena Baturina , which she gave along Skype in the midst of the scandal around the resignation of the mayor of Moscow ).

The last drop of hatred, which resulted in my “renunciation” from power, is associated with the history of “Leningradka” outside of Moscow, not related to the decisions of our government. At the request of the editorial office, I wrote in the article in the article that you can argue and continue to protest the defenders of the Khimki forest, but my approach is that the laid out main route needs to be completed. The Khimkinsky forest should not be cut, and the road to the city somewhere in the new Riga, there are more space, fewer forests. But since the state designed, built the road, and if the Khimkinsky forest was cut down by 80 percent and the path is laid, then to stop work, to pay incredible fines to firms for the losses incurred.

I was called to the presidential administration and did not hide that the decree was being prepared “by distrust”, they offered to submit an application for care of my own free will. And then "I will leave calmly." They gave time to think and, in order to think faster, showed fakes on the central channels, documentary television films “The Case in Kepka” and “Moscow, which we lost”. ( In his memoirs, the former mayor of Moscow also claims that the report of Boris Nemtsov and Vladimir Milov “Luzhkov. Itogi” , which was released in Senyabre 2009, was inspired by the presidential administration to force him to resign ).

Such paintings are prepared for more than one day or a month. The task of removing me stood for a long time. Everyone saw on TV the so -called Cherkizon, a huge and ugly Cherkizov market belonging to Telman Ismailov. Telman knew my attitude to this market well. I would never allow his organization.

Cherkizon did not appear on the municipal territory, on the federal land transferred by the Institute of Physical Education, of course, not for trade.

I repeatedly protested against what was happening there. But they sent me away and answered: "We will figure it out ourselves." That market was a very profitable investment of minimum funds at maximum profit. In the existence of Cherkizon, many were vitally interested in, starting from the leadership of the institute, ending with power structures that were well aware of the outrages, slave work of emigrants and all other criminal affairs. ( Read more about the situation around the Cherkizov market - in NT materials).

I warned Telman several times. I had a good relationship with him, told him that at the first stage, when I had to open the markets everywhere, Cherkizon suffered in a hopeless position. The market filled the Luzhniki, even at the Tverskaya at the Executive Committee of the Moscow City Council, they traded in hand, Gaidar proposed erecting a monument to the Korobeinik as the Savior of the Fatherland.

He told Telman: “This stage of crazy merchants with rats and a quick garbage will pass. - convinced. “Build a modern shopping center, and you will secure the future in Moscow.” I regret that everything came out with him.

Telman Ismailov, with all what was silent about, helped a lot for many people, cultural figures. They would not have survived without his funds, so at the holidays the brightest stars of the theater, cinema, and pops shone in his house, which showed on television. ( Now Telman Ismailov is arrested in absentia , his whereabouts are unknown ).

The Great Galina Vishnevskaya compared unprecedented after the resignation of the campaign of bullying me and my wife, with the one that was conducted in Soviet times against Mstislav Rostropovich and her. ( Read more about this - in an interview with Yuri Luzhkov NT immediately after the resignation ).

All the overthrow took place on the eve of my birthday, September 21. On this occasion, I received a lot of congratulatory telegrams. In one read: “You use well -deserved authority as a competent and experienced professional, an energetic head, endowed with organizational talent. I wish you success in responsible work, health and all the best. ”

It was signed by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

In another telegram, gratitude was expressed for the "fragrance of Moscow, the restoration and construction of churches and monastic monasteries." In a telegram, I wished me “the spiritual world, prosperity in the indiscriminate God's help in my works” Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus' Cyril.

In a letter to Medvedev, I wrote that in our country the fear of expressing our opinion has existed since 37, and in the Duma they say that the parliament is not a place for discussions. There will be a situation in which only the words of one leader will be “cast in granite” and they need to follow in everything implicitly. And he gave a negative assessment of his work as the President: "Your administration has brought a political situation to a dead end." The letter ended with the words: “It is impossible to persuade me to submit an application“ at a personal request ”. I don’t hold on to the chair, but I’m cherishing the Muscovites with the service. ” ( Letter of Yuri Luzhkov Dmitry Medvedev, published by NT ).

The next morning, resignation followed. Despite the fact that in two years of reign, Medvedev not only did not make me a single claim, but also awarded repeatedly. And suddenly something incredible happened.

For everyone who asked me why the “renunciation”, I replied: “My resignation is injustice and lawlessness. And revenge for my refusal to support Medvedev’s nomination for the second presidential term. ” Yes, it was. Twice, on his behalf, my old acquaintance, a well -known entrepreneur addressed me with such a request. I refused twice.

In the State Duma, Zhirinovsky, demanding the resignation, called my team the Moscow Mafia. He handed over to Putin red color a folder with "compromise". Putting through the pages, Putin read out loud that Luzhkov “passes the most fat pieces into the hands of foreign citizens, preparing for himself the“ departure paths ”, which caused laughter in the hall.

The Deputy Prime Minister of the Moscow Government Ryabinin was tried for corruption, it was discussed in the folder. The matter ended that the defendant was justified and apologized to him.

Seven years have passed since then. "Where is the landings?" - I repeat Putin's winged words. They are not, as there was no "Moscow mafia."

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