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Medusa correspondent Ivan Kolunov was detained on June 6, 2019 in the center of Moscow. He is accused of trying to spread drugs. The Medusa editors, representatives of the Russian and international journalistic community believe that Golunov is persecuted in connection with his professional activities. Ivan's articles published on Medusa have high social significance; The heroes of his texts can be involved in the persecution. Therefore, we open access to the investigations of Golunov under the Creative Commons CC BY license: this means that you can reprint them in your publication, on your website, in your blog to any of the platforms - without asking for our permission. Just indicate that their author is the correspondent of the Medusa investigation department Ivan Kolunov.

Before Medusa, Ivan Kolunov was a Slon.ru correspondent (now - Republic), Forbes , Vedomosti, RBC and Rain TV channel. Ivan's specialization is an investigation into corruption. In Medusa, Golunov has been operating since 2016, he is the author of more than 100 investigations, articles and notes. From today, all of them are available for distribution by Creative Commons license.

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The main investigations of Ivan Golunov on Medusa

The "Christian state" does not exist. But behind him, perhaps, the FSB . "Medusa" tells what the "Christian state" is-and how the history of extra-church Orthodox fundamentalists-radicals in Russia developed. For this text, the author’s team with the participation of Ivan Golunov received the editorial award .
Linds for 200 thousand: how and why they plant trees on Tverskaya - and whether they are worth the money paid for them . The favorite topic of Ivanan’s investigations is the expenses of the Moscow City Hall for improvement. In November 2016, linden was planted on Tverskaya Street in Moscow - despite the fact that the city was already snowing. Ivan found out why the trees are planted in November, how their cost for the city budget in a few weeks fell in half who is engaged in the new phase of landscaping and why purchase linden in Germany.
Moscow purchased garlands for Tverskaya for two million rubles. They are five times cheaper . The purchase price of one of the most noticeable decorative elements of the New Year's decoration of Moscow in 2017 - garland on Tverskaya in the form of Fuepers - was overpriced by about five times, and they appeared a few days earlier than the contract for their installation was concluded.
Wizers from the Rotenberg brothers. Those who earned in the New Year’s design of Moscow . The expenses of the Moscow budget for the New Year’s city registration in 2017 increased by more than ten times: the capital spent almost seven billion rubles in a total of almost seven billion rubles to update festive illumination, light installations and other jewelry. Ivan Kolunov carefully studied how, to whom and what the money went to, and found out how much Santa Claus sled cost, how the Christmas trees in Moscow squares are connected with the landlorders of the central streets and what the brothers Boris and Arkady Rotenbergs have to do with this.
The manager against Porn "Medusa" found a man because of which Pornolab, Brazzers, MDK and dozens of other resources blocked in Russia . A resident of Togliatti and an employee of Togliatti State University Ruslan Okhlopkov is one of the most active fighters with pornography and "immorality" on the Russian Internet. According to the Togliatti activist, who is also an accredited expert at Roskomnadzor, Pornolab and Brazzers, the MDK community and almost a hundred less popular sites and VKontakte community. Ivan Kolunov established the identity of Okhlopkov, and also found out what methods his “Political Practice” organization fights against the magazine Maxim, the Barbie dolls and the film “Gorky” - and how law enforcement agencies react to their complaints.
One absolutely happy village. As close to Vyacheslav Volodin, they improve the villages, earn on mayonnaise and become saints . The Vyacheslav Volodin made a large political career in Moscow who was born in the Saratov village. At first he was one of the leaders of the United Russia parliamentary faction, then he worked in the government apparatus, then supervised the domestic policy in the presidential administration (it was with Volodin that it was customary to associate a strict struggle with the opposition after the protests of 2011-2012), and now he returned to the Duma, where he was elected a speaker. Volodin and financial success accompanied: in 2016, almost 540 million rubles on accounts in Russian banks appeared in his election declaration. At the same time, as Golunov discovered, while Volodin was moving along the career ladder, his Saratov friends and fellow countrymen built successful businesses and received state contracts, a woman who is called the mother Volodin in the media, invested hundreds of millions of rubles in the improvement of two Smolensk villages, and the policy of the politician ranked the saints.
Who came up with renovation. The Moscow authorities planned a massive demolition program for three years, and then decided to make it a political project . How did Golunov found it out, a large-scale Moscow renovation program was planned since 2014, and its specific outlines were presented to Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin in August-September 2016. To turn renovation into a political project with voting for demolition and a large media campaign invented the then vice-mayor Anastasia Rakov-that is why Sobyanin and his deputies pretended to launch a demolition program due to the initiative from below.
Penthouse the size of two Eliseevsky. As the Vice-mayor of Moscow, Moscow Peter Biryukov, earned billions and bought mansions and apartments on them . An Ivan Biryukov, the head of the Moscow City House, was a beloved character in the investigations of Golunov, bought up nine penthouses in an elite residential complex for his family.
IC3PEAK and Husky were checked for extremism at the request of the General Derio organization. It is connected with the ONF, the Federal Penitentiary Service and the Moscow Housing and Public Utilities . Isan Golunov and Irina Kravtsova found that one of the most high-profile cultural and political scandals of 2018, the massive abolition of concerts of popular performers, was initiated by one strange organization associated, again, with the Moscow Mayor.
Moscow needs to get rid of six million tons of garbage. What regions will be taken to and who will do it. After the garbage bunters that occurred in the suburbs in 2018, several landfills and training grounds were closed here - and Moscow began to put garbage. The construction of the Shies training ground in the Arkhangelsk region has already begun, but this will not be limited to this. As Medusa found out, they want to bring garbage from Moscow to the Kaluga region, to other regions of the Arkhangelsk region and several more regions of the European part of Russia. In Moscow, three overloads are built for packaging this garbage, one of them is inside the third transport ring, near the Volgogradsky Prospekt metro. Golunov talks about the plans of the Moscow City Hall to remove garbage to other regions of Russia.
Now we will play the hospital. How two businessmen earned billions on fake diagnoses and cosmetics with “intelligent sugar crystals.” There are a lot of advertising medical centers in Russian social networks that offer everyone to undergo a free examination on a “federal” or “urban” program. Customers who respond to advertising invariably diagnose rare diseases with the help of “unique devices” - and offer to immediately join the program of their treatment, directly in the office of the center, taking a bank loan for its payment; As a rule, we are talking about hundreds of thousands of rubles. As Golunov found out, who specifically for this text passed a false “examination”, these centers are a new project of two businessmen who previously developed a Kirby vacuum cleaners network (they were imposed on customers at high prices) and spread out a similar scheme of Desheli cosmetics. Clients are regularly outraged by the activities of these companies and even sue them - however, this does not interfere with the businessmen and their agents to earn billions of rubles.
Coffin, cemetery, hundreds of billions of rubles. As officials, security officials and bandits share the funeral market - and what does Tesak have to do with it . About two million people die in Russia. The turnover of the funeral industry is only officially about 60 billion rubles a year; The size of its shadow sector, according to the authorities, can reach 250 billion. Over the past thirty years, the ritual market in Russia has been shared several times - representatives of organized crime, security forces, and the state participated in this. As a result, excesses constantly arise in different regions: from shootout at the Khovansky cemetery in Moscow to throwing corpses through a fence in Yekaterinburg, unauthorized mass burials in Togliatti and the cemetery owner in Omsk. Golunov figured out how the ritual market was arranged in Russia - and found out how control over it gradually passed from people close to criminal structures to people associated with the state.
In Moscow, they laid more granite than they are mined in Russia. Because of this, Siberia has a shortage of stone for tombstones. Who earns on Moscow bridges and borders? According to Medusa, for seven years, the Moscow City Hall spent more than 189 billion rubles on the improvement of streets and parks, almost half of this amount in 2017. One of the largest articles of city expenses in the framework of the program “My Street” is concrete and granite tiles and borders. As Golunov found out, Moscow needs so much granite that it has to be imported from China and from Ukraine-and due to large capital orders of granite in the Urals and Siberia, problems arise among manufacturers of tombstones and grave plates. At the same time, companies winning contracts for the supply of granite are often connected with Moscow officials who oversee the My Street program - and granite itself is not very suitable for the Moscow city environment.
Moscow was going to pay 2.2 billion rubles for developing the concept of improvement. The tender was canceled due to the Medusa correspondent . I have many investigations of Ivan Golunov, a tangible result: for example, in 2017 he found that the Moscow authorities were going to spend almost 2.2 billion rubles on developing the concept of improvement of Moscow streets for the next two years. In past years, the Strelka Bureau was engaged in this work - and received half as much money for twice as much work. After the Medusa asked officials as part of the public hearings procedure, the tender was canceled.
He watches that we live well as in the Ust-Labinsky district of the Krasnodar Territory created the cult of Oleg Deripaska : February 9, 2018, the Ust-Labinsk court in the Krasnodar Territory decided to block information about the investigation of the opposition Alexei Navalny, in which he talked about businessman Oleg Deripaske, Vice Prime Minister Sergei Prikhodko and "Sex hunter" Nastya to the fish. As a result of this resolution, many Russian media had to remove part of the materials, and a number of photographs taken by a fish took from the social network. In the 40,000th city of Ust-Labinsk, Oleg Deripaska lived from early childhood; He is still registered in the Ust-Labinsky district, pays taxes here and monitors what they are spent on. Medusa correspondents Irina Kravtsova and Ivan Kolunov found out how the real cult of Deripaska developed in a small town.
Ramzan Kadyrov left Instagram on the Chechen social network. Who made it? How is it connected with the head of Chechnya? At the end of 2017, it became known that the accounts of the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov on Instagram and Facebook were blocked. On the same day, Kadyrov announced that he had started an account in the new social network - Mylistory. She appeared in applications stores in August 2017, her main content concerns Chechnya. Ivan Golunov and Alexander Gorbachev learned how the developers of Mylistory are connected with Kadyrov and what the private center of military training has to do with it, where Chechen fighters sent to Syria trained.
“The musicians are silent and are afraid to defend the studio” as the legendary sound recording House, which is now owned by the presidential managers, is connected with Dmitry Medvedev’s sneakers : in Moscow, since the summer of 2018, two state -owned enterprises exchange property: the VGTRK media holding and Izvestia Publishing House (no longer related to the newspaper and the site). The main asset, turning from VGTRK to Izvestia, is a recording house in Malaya Nikitskaya. He was changed to the building, in which the studio of the current show “60 minutes” Olga Skabeeva and Evgeny Popov is located. Since August, the musical community writes petitions to the country's leadership: they believe that the new owner plans to eliminate unique studios in which generations of academic musicians were recorded and, until recently, rehearsed two national orchestras. As Ivan Kolunov found out, the 38-year-old Ekaterina Smirenskaya, the daughter of the business partner of Vladimir Dyachenko, is headed by Izvestia, who is known for the investigation of the Corruption Fund “He is not Dimon” as a person in whose name Dmitry Medvedev makes orders in foreign online stores.
The journalist "Medusa" applied for the repair of the lantern. He waited 789 days - and in the end the lantern simply dug up : Ivan not only writes investigations about the Moscow City Hall - he, like a real active citizen, cannot pass by a single staggering tile or hole in the asphalt. He necessarily writes a complaint against it and achieves a reaction from local authorities. Sometimes this ends with curioses: once Ivan, 789 days, corresponded with officials about the extinguished lantern on the square near Vnukovo Airport-and in the end this lantern was simply bored.
The sensation of a roughly painted cheap fake restoration of the Stone Flower fountain at VDNH cost more than a billion rubles. Medusa found out who was doing it : in early April 2019, photographs of the restored fountain “Stone Flower”, one of the four historical fountains of VDNH, appeared on social networks, almost three billion rubles were spent on the reconstruction of which. Activists are outraged by the “clumsy” type of fountain after restoration, and experts recommend waiting a couple of years until the fountain over time under the influence of external conditions will take a more natural color. As Ivan Kolunov found out, the company was engaged in the restoration of the Stone Flower, which wins all the largest contracts for restoration and was involved in several loud corruption scandals, and recently offered the French authorities to help the Notre Dama after the fire.
Successors. For five years, “black creditors” took more than 500 apartments from debtors in Moscow and the environs. Medusa tells how this business works : the last major investigation of Ivan before the arrest. He found out that in Moscow and the surroundings there are “black creditors” - microfinance organizations (MFIs), which are deceiving the housing of debtors. Meduza managed to find about 500 apartments lost by its owners over the past five years - without a court decision. However, the scheme is not limited to simple “squeezing” housing: perhaps this is only one of the elements of the international money laundering system.

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