Companies from the "Belousov list" were offered to invest in the project of the fund of Putin's alleged daughter

This week, officials presented businesses with a list of projects that private exporting companies from the "Belousov list" may be offered to invest in - their implementation should help fulfill Vladimir Putin's decree and increase investments to 25% of GDP. The Bell has reviewed this list and found a new project from the Innopraktika fund, which is headed by Vladimir Putin's alleged daughter Katerina Tikhonova. At least 15 of the largest companies with state participation and private investors will be offered to participate in it.

Details

• The project is called ANO "Innovative Engineering Center". It follows from the document that it is being implemented by the project company of the Innopraktika Foundation. All projects on the list were announced by various ministries. The Innopraktika project is on the list of the Ministry of Economic Development and the Ministry of Finance (their representatives and those in Innopraktika itself did not respond to The Bell's request).
• The total cost of the Innopraktika project is 1.05 billion rubles. But this is the investment amount only for the pilot version, which is supposed to be implemented in Krasnoyarsk Krai. "Then other subjects of the Russian Federation," the document says.
• As possible support measures for the implementation of the project, the document names the inclusion of “at least 15 major customers (companies with state participation) and private investors with contributions in a total amount of at least 1,050 million rubles” in the ANO “Innovative Engineering Center” participants.
• The document also lists seven tasks that the project is intended to solve – from the creation of at least 3,000 high-performance jobs by 2026 and the reorientation of corporate investment programs toward Russian technologies to the creation of a “belt of 1,000 technology companies around Russia’s leading technical universities by 2026 with a total revenue of up to 100 billion rubles.”

Context

• The Autonomous Non-Commercial Organization "Innovative Engineering Center" was registered on April 10, 2018 in Moscow. Its sole founder is "Innopraktika". The founder of "Innopraktika" itself (official name - the "National Intellectual Development" fund) is Moscow State University, and the CEO is Katerina Tikhonova, who is considered the youngest daughter of Vladimir Putin (he himself has not confirmed this).
• The fund first became known in 2015, when RBC found out that Innopraktika, under Tikhonova's leadership, was developing a concept for creating a technology valley at Moscow State University. The largest Russian companies and members of the Forbes list were also supposed to participate in its financing.
• Innopraktika also has its own experience working with large corporations. In 2017, Rosneft became its largest customer, having concluded five contracts with the fund for 258.45 million rubles. From 2015 to 2017, the amount of Innopraktika's contracts with Rosneft and its subsidiary, the Arctic Research Center, amounted to 600 million rubles.

Projects for the "Belousov list"

• The list includes 394 projects worth 11.4 trillion rubles. There are many versions of the list, a source in one of the ministries claims. But an employee of one of the companies on the "Belousov list" confirmed to The Bell that the Innopraktika project is in the version of the document that was submitted to the company.
• The most expensive of the projects announced by the government are infrastructure projects (you can read more about this here ). But in addition to global construction projects, there are other interesting initiatives - for example, businesses may also be offered to finance the creation ofa cellular network for special services and officials or the commissioning of an "information system to ensure the integrity, stability and security of the functioning of the Russian segment of the Internet."
• The conversation about business joining in the implementation of Putin's May decree began with the presidential aide Andrei Belousov writing him a letter, proposing to confiscate "excess profits" of 500 billion rubles from metallurgical, chemical and coal companies. The government did not support the initiative and, as an alternative, suggested that business increase investments in projects needed by the country.
• It is unclear what these projects will be, how the final selection will be carried out, and whether businesses will have the opportunity to decide for themselves what to invest money in. So far, the companies themselves have presented their list of projects for approximately 7 trillion rubles, and the government has presented its list for 11 trillion.
• The government list was compiled more for reference purposes – to discuss the Finance Ministry’s bill on the protection and promotion of investments, says a source in one of the departments participating in the discussion.
• But businesses are still afraid that they will be forced to invest in non-core projects. “They don’t tell or explain anything to businesses. The only thing that is clear is that ‘we need to share’,” a top manager of one of the companies on the “Belousov list” recently complained to Vedomosti. “At first they just wanted to confiscate the money. Business tried to explain that such actions would practically destroy the economy. Now they still want to confiscate the money, but in a way that makes it look more civilized.”

Irina Malkova, Maria Latsinskaya