Completely swollen

The condition of the oligarch Potanin will fluff. Despite all the troubles that fell on Norilsk. Where do the frantic profits come from?

This world was not invented by us: environmental disasters in Russia, caused by the activities of the largest resource -mining companies, do not affect the course of their shares. Even if these problems cost from $ 2 billion. On Friday, fresh statdressed from Bloomberg (BBI) appeared about how the welfare of the 500 richest people in the world is growing. This index is calculated precisely on the basis of the cost of shares of companies owned by billionaires. In Nornical, Vladimir Potanin has the largest share-more than a third, and he, according to BBI, is the richest of the Russians, the 46th line of the rating. And continues to get rich. Despite the stream (as if someone was jinxed) of the Norilian disasters for the past 11 months.

Personally, his cardiogram is given to the anamnesis of each thickness - his money, of course. Climbs of fate, ups and falling. Including Potanin, and this is a very visual illustration of the values ​​of our common world with him, and this is a very sensitive measuring instrument: not only dragonflies never sleep, money, all the more, the same. And they also tremble. Well, Norilsk never sleeps. He smokes this money in continuous mode 24/7.

So, to the values ​​that BBI recorded.

• On April 1, S.G. Potanin's fortune is estimated at $ 30 billion .

• A year before, to all formidable Norilsk cataclysms, $ 23.9 billion .

On May 29, a simultaneous spill of oil products occurs, the largest in the Arctic in history. 28.4 billion at that time Potanin and on June 2 - 28.9 billion. Then, with the intervention of Putin, with the first assessments of the scale of the disaster, there is a certain fall, but shallow, short, interspersed with unexpected upsets (correlations with the course of emergency liquidation are not visible), from late October - long growth. On February 5, the court rewards Norilskell with record payments for a disaster of 2 billion - and this is also marked only by the smallest fluctuation.

• The collapse of the graphics from a mark of 34 billion to 28.1 - the most rapid and the most significant - begins on February 21 : the day before, a collapse with victims at the enrichment factory occurs .

• And then - the most significant for the market, the most important factor: on February 24, Norilskel reports on the flooding of mines, and key, that is, about possible problems with raw materials. The fact that already from February 12, water went to the mining of the Oktyabrsky and Taimyr, and the work in these mines was partially suspended.

And Potanin loses weight sharply.

And from March 25 - it will get chopped again. To the current 30 billion. He had the same amount on January 1. Now even a little more - in the first quarter he added 16.8 million in the end of all ups and falls. Well, from April 2 last year - 6.1 billion. And it could have been 12 billion - if not for the flood in the mines.

Once again: according to Bloomberg, Potanin got rich over the past 12 months by $ 6 billion. And we live with this with all in one reality. These are the meanings of the world visible.

Right now, on February 21 , according to Bloomberg, Potanin reached its highest point - 34 billion.

Some secrets of such success, presumably, will soon be told. The state began the audit in Norilsk and Moscow. Based on the interest of his bodies, it is clear that the 90s, the issues of privatization of the concern , the collateral auction decided not to touch-this was checked by the counting chamber, the Prosecutor General’s Office: the rules were possibly illegal and certainly unfair, but this is not to the owners of Norilsk Nickel, they acted within the framework of those rules. Interest is manifested in the closed economic cycle that it is uninterrupted in the Norilsk Promraion (NPR), a penny for a penny folds the condition of individual compatriots. To the empire created in the NPR. Therefore, it is the FAS under the guise of the Prosecutor General’s Office that checks the huge arrays of documentation seized last winter in Norilsk and in Moscow, the central office of Norilsk Nickel.

Indeed, the NPR is a rare example of squeezing leisure and natural resource, and human. There are more impressive examples of the operation of one thing, but in order to so comprehensively, systematically and to the stop ... From the 90s, Norilskel put several hundred prominent characters in power structures, starting with deputy prime ministers in the Russian government, and all of them contributed to one degree or another, the formation of this purely feudal, but, from the point of view of a business, a perfect mechanism, and covered these threads and these threads and these thread They braided. But will they be able to unravel now? There was no team for now.

• A typical resident of the NPR, having received a salary at one of the Norilsk Nickel enterprises, will return them to his breadwinner.

• The atypical, having received a salary in an institution of the budget sector or earned in a private company, will also give this money to Norkel. Since the whole infrastructure is it.

Shops pay crazy money for thermal energy supplied by Norkelm. For carrots and cabbage, supplied by Norkelm, by its courts in the framework of the Northern Formation. If a person flies somewhere-he flies from him, Norilsk Nickel, an airport . On his plane. Twisted to him. Everything is “to the family, to the house”, the money goes along the closed contour. Since the entire infrastructure is controlled by Norkelm, all the energy, including hydroelectric power stations and thermal power plants, Norilskgazprom, supply of gasoline and diesel. Even some functions of the state, Rosprirodnadzor, Roshydromet, such as, for example, tracking the emissions of the plant, went to the Norilskel itself.

Or.

Railway. She is the only one here in Russia - private. 333 km of a detailed length. This is a natural monopoly, but the Russian Federation does not set tariffs here. This is the patrimony of Norilsk Nickel. Why? Because it is on the bones of the convicts? No, they didn’t guess. In 2011, the Ministry of Transport explained the lack of state regulation by the fact that the road was not connected to others and serves 98% of Norilsk Nickel. But here I personally went on it in the 90s more than once-where am I and where is the Potanin? Yes, in the 90s passenger messages were buried, but where these 98%came from, it is also no secret to anyone in the NPR. Entrepreneurs say that their goods that are not related to Potanin, due to the lack of alternatives, are forced to formalize through agent organizations related to Norilsk Nickel. And their cargo is already held as a “plant”. They lie, probably.

Gas. The extraction, transportation and consumption of its main volume is also a purely “Norilsk Nickel” business, and for some reason, the regulation of prices for it is not the direct competence of the regional authorities. At the same time, the region includes in the calculations the cost of gas from the "daughters" of Norilsk Nickel as economically justified costs, and in 2007-2018. The tariff was approved with an increase of 15%, and in the last two years with an increase of 19.5% (which is significantly higher than the growth rate of prices and inflation in the country). How is it reflected in the communal apartment, clear.

The seaport of Dudinka. And this, as you guess, is also Norilikel. Nine berths with a length of 1.7 km. At the same time, the boundaries of the port of the port, approved by the Government of the Russian Federation in 2009, according to experts, have excessive length - about 20 km on both sides of the port borders. On the landing lands adjacent to the ports, plots for “agriculture” (south and north of the port to the borders of the city, along the riverbed) were formed, users are affiliated with Norilsk Nickel. For what? It is likely that none of the competitors be adjusted. The probability of organizing an alternative port is simply reduced to zero. And rent is issued. Everything works on Norilsk Nickel, the interests of the rest of the subjects - according to the residual principle.

Avia. The Norilsk State Airline was bankrupt in 2002 (when the former general director of Norkel and the future deputy prime minister of the Russian Federation, and then the Governor of Taimyr Khloponin moved to the Governors of the region), his base departed to CJSC Alykel (later Norilsk Airport LLC)-“Daughter” of Norilsk Nickel and airlines “Taimyr” (she, later, “Nordstar”), which quickly turns into the property of Norilsk Nickel. In 2011, Aeroflot also sold his “daughter” “Nordavia” (regional airlines). Stock packages went back and forth, but in the Norilsk Nickel circuit.

In 2018, at the appeal of the Krasnoyarsk Governor of the USS, the assistant to President Belousov launched the process of consolidating the monopoly in Norilsk air transportation. Fedzacon, a government resolution were adopted, a draft agreement was prepared ( signed only now , in March S.G.) between Norilsk Airport, Nordstar, regional authorities and the Federal Air Transport Agency. All in order for the Nordstar company (read Norilskel) with the filing of the USS to become a “basic carrier” on flights to Norilsk (the president put a resolution in this letter: “I ask Medvedev to support”). That is, for Norilsk Nickel and there are exclusive conditions.

Well, yes, about the uniqueness of the NPR songs sang to us and sing all our lives. But what is this uniqueness? 10 commandments there are not acting on the fact that the houses are on stilts and winter for 9 months? The Criminal Code begins to work somehow differently? Or people there people like to receive less, but to pay more? What is the uniqueness of Norilsk Airport, Nordstar aircraft? Their wings are not like that? There are more absurd days? "Black Purga"? Well, there is Anadyr, there is Yakutia, Magadan, other ports, where all the same is enough, but they got rid of the monopoly. In the 90s and the beginning of the zero, they sang to us the same thing about the uniqueness of the Krasnoyarsk airport, explaining the monopoly and defense from extraneous carriers with it. Patriots paid twice: tickets to Moscow “Krasaire” cost more than from Moscow, say, to New York. The Krasnoyarsk people rode by train to Novosibirsk or Irkutsk and flew from there. For the FAS, everything is unambiguous: it is unacceptable to own one group and the port, and the fuel complex, and transportation, it should all be different subjects. Otherwise, restriction of competition, tyranny, wild prices. This is twice two.

These songs - from the moment of the emergence of the NPR. Extreme conditions - therefore, no democracy, only one -manual. The mayor here is called the deputy director of the plant on household issues, in the 90s they said: why did you get to the bottom of the mayor? He has two functions - to ask for money from the plant and light a city Christmas tree for the New Year. So it was always, everything was determined by the interests of the plant and in a strange way has been preserved so far. Say, DNA is lame, so here we must live differently, in serfdom.

If it worked, and damn it. But how it works, we see for the past 11 months.

It is interesting that the Prosecutor General’s Office cannot yet establish, on the basis of which Norkel is mostly used by the land and real estate related to the airport (with the exception of the part that it has been transferred without bidding by 49 years by order of the Government of the Russian Federation dated 04.23.2013 No. 664-r)-the origin of property rights or lease is not transparent. There is no information about the bidding, the boundaries of real estate are not installed on a public cadastral map.

Stories from the 90s are repeated, when the NPR wanted to stand out from the region and leave for Taimyr-at that time a separate subject of the federation (in fact, the NPR was an enclave of the region in Taimyr). The Krasnoyarsk governor Zubov, who opposed the Norilsk branch, was almost removed. And he told me that to confirm his innocence, there was not enough Stalin's times of the map, which determined the borders of the NPR, his extraterritoriality. Much later, for some reason she was found on the hangar. In the archives of the exploration expedition in the Boguchans.

Since the state is already restoring its rights in the seaport and the river, a lawsuit was filed on the demand for part of the berths, apparently, the same should be waiting for the airport. Well, why would he be an exception?

Well, it completes the picture of the new serfdom in Siberia, where it has never happened, the headquarters of Norilsk Nickel-it is located for some reason not in Norilsk, but in Moscow City, in the skyscraper Mercury Tower. There was no serfdom in Siberia, but the Gulag was-and this Moscow “Golden Tower”, from where, probably, it is possible to make out the distant northeastern gnomes that give billions into the mountain-the direct consequence of the Gulag. Camp traditions. And these fashionable young people in the tower, as it seems to me, are from that breed. Effective Stalinist managers. Everything is from him, and the Stalin Gulag is exhausted, all the Potaninsky trillions.

Norilsk Nickel is not to blame for its origin, history, that it is so great and dominates the Krasnoyarsk North. The Russian state is to blame - it must limit Potanin's appetite. Actually, now this taming of a business empire is planned, since many other influential groups come here to the Arctic- only Sechin and its East Oil will mention. Sichin will not repeat behind Musa Bazhaev: about how Bazhaevskaya “Russian Platinum” 10 years ago tried to compete with Norilskel in the NPR, to pinch off the Potaninsky cake, “New” told . The municipality simply refused Bazhaev in the withdrawal of the land under the road to the Chernogorsky deposit purchased by him. And all the comments of Norilsk Nickel and the local authorities came down to the fact that Platinum would have to solve the issues of energy, gas, water supply, transportation of ore, concentrate, etc. That is, build "New Norilsk". And in the yard - another millennium.

So I will not say that the cardiogram released by Bloomberg is an illustration of some special lead or, indirectly, an increase in hatred, revolutionary sentiments. No. If you proceed from camp traditions,

This is, perhaps, only a schedule for fattening a “wild boar”. Whoever does not know, a “ boar ” (or “canned”, “stew”) in the Gulag called a man who was inclined to escape, took with him, and then, in ordeals, they ate a hungry taiga.

In the 90s, a meme about a boar was especially popular among bandits and in business. Some elected business was fed, then taken away. See the history of Khodorkovsky.

Two recent agreements with a edge of 120 billion and 150 billion rubles, other projects that Norkel hastily undertook to finance until they canceled the inspections that were going on in relation to the company. The mechanism is launched.

The other day in Norilsk, they detained (but released, without arresting) the head of the legal department of the city hall Alexei Sitnikov - he is suspected of particularly large fraud, the case (excited on March 26) concerns his participation in the affairs of the Yubileinsky Educational Fund, where he was formally listed as an adviser. In reality, questions to the official who crossed all the mayors (and in the last elections he himself was put forward to mayor), who thoroughly knows why and how this closed circuit was formed exclusively in favor of Norilsk Nickel, there may be much more.