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Portrait "Sirius", schools for gifted friends

Mikhail Maglov, with the participation of Roman Badanin and other journalists "Agency"

February 16, 2022

The Sirius school is the favorite brainchild of Vladimir Putin, and its leader Elena Shmeleva is the favorite of the president, to whom he trusts many responsible tasks. In practice, the school was created by methodologists from Putin’s entourage for money, withdrawn from the budget and at the business. If you study the costs of Sirius, it turns out that the main goal of its existence is the content of objects remaining from the scandalous Sochi Olympiad.

On November 20, 2014, a flight aircraft with four colleagues on board flew from Moscow to Sochi. These were Elena Shmeleva, the current head of the Center for Gifted Children Sirius, and three employees of a little -known organization with an intricate name - the Institute of Drumming Research “Management of Human Resources” named after E. L. Schiffers - Igor Chausov, Alexander Chikurov and Andrey Andryushkov. President Vladimir Putin flew there and at the same time - among other matters, he visited the Sochi Sambo tournament.

Three weeks after this trip, Putin will announce the opening of Sirius. From that moment, Shmeleva will become one of the most influential women in Russia, and her colleagues from the unknown institute will take an active part in raising Russian children. Of course, all this happened for a reason.

What else was entrusted to head Elena Shmeleva

In recent years, Elena Shmeleva became the favorite of the president. She was entrusted not only by the leadership of the children's center, but also put the head of the council of the first federal territory Sirius. In 2018, Shmeleva also became one of Putin’s leading headquarters, and after the election was included in the Presidium of the Council for Science and Education under the President. In March 2020, Shmeleva headed the Yandex public interests Council, created to hold the Golden Promotion and having the opportunity to block the consolidation of more than 10% of the company's shares in one hand. In August 2021, Shmeleva also entered the board of directors of Rostelecom.

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An example to all the guys

In the parliamentary elections of 2021, Shmeleva entered the first five of the United Russia list along with much better famous ministers of defense and foreign affairs. In addition to Shmeleva, the Minister of Defense Sergey Shoigu, the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov, the doctor Denis Protsenko and the Commissioner for the Rights of the Child Anna Kuznetsova entered the top five. Only Kuznetsov became the deputy, the rest refused the mandates. Shmeleva “did a lot for the formation of a new, very interesting center for working with gifted children,” presented her president at the congress of the ruling party.

Putin generally often recalls Sirius, over the past 4 years, Putin has become twice as often than in previous years to mention a children's center in his speeches - as an example of a correctly organized educational project.

However, it is correctly organized only from the point of view of Russian realities.

What is Sirius and what it does ↓

The Sirius Educational Center exists within the framework of the Talent and Success Foundation, which was established on December 24, 2014. Amendments to the Constitution, adopted in 2020, made it possible to create the first federal territory "Sirius" and change legislation on its territory. The children's center was exempted from the payment of property tax, in the part of the Olympic objects. For residents of the Scientific and Technology Center, separate tax conditions were created, and allocation from the Krasnodar Territory made it possible to attract additional state funding-the budget of the federal territory for 2022 amounted to 3.3 billion rubles.

Sirius works in several directions:

1. Educational shifts students from all over the country come to shifts that last 24 days. All shifts are divided into several areas: science, art, sports and literary creativity. Invited lecturers and full -time teachers work with children. Schoolchildren are selected by the expert council. There are additional shifts in cooperation with large corporations and shifts to prepare for school Olympiads.
2. Grants. Since 2015, 5,000 grants have been issued to talented students (since 2020 - 6,500 grants) in the amount of 20,000 rubles monthly, the operator has become the Talent and Success Foundation.
3. Sirius University. It is planned to create a full -fledged university with a separate campus, while four programs for masters and three for graduate students are working.
4. The innovative scientific and technological center "Sirius" -the largest companies in the country have opened their representative offices in the center, for them they made tax benefits for 10 years.
5. Kindergarten and Lyceum. Provided primarily for children of Sirius employees and employees of the Sirius IntC. Some places for education are free, such as mathematical classes. But part of the education is paid. Now the Talent and Success Foundation is the Sirius Head organization - the country's largest educational organization - its annual state financing is comparable to the content of leading universities in the country - Moscow State University. Lomonosov and St. Petersburg State University, moreover, the only one that has a special administrative status enshrined in the rewritten constitution. In 2020, a number of amendments were made to the Russian Constitution, including article 67, it was possible to provide for the possibility of creating individual federal territories. In the same year, the first such territory was declared by a separate law - Sirius. This result was achieved by the good old team methods - the financial documentation “Talent and Success” studied by the “agency” shows who and how effective this project contains.

Even the founders for the Talent and Success Foundation were selected according to the principle of proximity to Putin and Kovalchuk

Sergey Roldugin, cellist

A close friend of Putin from youth. He performed the nominal owner of offshore companies, on the accounts of which huge funds were accumulated, the true owner of which, according to journalists, was the President of Russia himself. Roldugin is a shareholder of the Bank "Russia", which is controlled by Yuri Kovalchuk.

Yuri Temirkanov, conductor

For a long time he worked with Roldugin in St. Petersburg.

Valery Kamensky, hockey player

Hockey star playing with Putin in the team of the night hockey league. Also, the president of the Figure Skate, Alexander Gorshkov, became the “Sports Quota” by the co -founder.

Svetlana Zakharova, ballerina

Former soloist of the Leningrad Mariinsky and other ballet troupes. In 2007, she unexpectedly got into the federal list of United Russia in the elections and became a deputy of the State Duma. The decision to include it was personally poured by Vyacheslav Volodin, then the deputy chairman of the Duma, which was regarded as evidence of a special attitude to Zakharova by the president, recalls an eyewitness to those events. Zakharova is not only listed as the founder of Talent and Success and a member of the Council for Culture under the President, she also publicly supported many Putin initiatives. For example, after the annexation of Crimea Zakharov, born in Ukraine, signed the appeal of cultural figures in support of Putin's policy.)

Ivan Yashchenko, mathematician

The co -founder of the fund also became mathematician Ivan Yashchenko, who, together with Mikhail Kovalchuk, is included in the Council for Science and Education under the President. Another mathematician and co -founder of the Foundation Stanislav Smirnov leads the laboratory at St. Petersburg State University.

Andrey Fursenko, Presidential Assistant

The chairman of the Presidium of the Board of Trustees of the Fund was the assistant to the president Andrei Fursenko, who worked in the Soviet years at the Physics and Technical Institute. Ioffe together Yuri Kovalchuk. Fursenko and Kovalchuk - Putin's neighbors on the famous country cooperative "Lake".

In February 2015, Putin came to the Sochi Hotel Azimut, built by billionaire Viktor Vekselberg. Vekselberg took up the construction of the hotel in 2010 after "he received an offer that could not be abandoned." At this place, the hotel was to be built by the owner of the Cherkizov market Telman Ismailov, who fell into disgrace with the former mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov, and his project was deleted from the Olympic construction site. For the construction of the hotel, Vekselberg had to take Vnesheconombank loans. “I propose to transfer it (hotel) for teaching children - here they will be able to deal not only in study, but also to develop sports winter areas - this is popular hockey and figure skating,” Putin said right there. Vekselberg gave the hotel, which was upset, recalls a person familiar with him, although he later said that his costs were "compensated to a penny." In April 2015, “Talent and Success” transferred 7.5 billion rubles controlled by the Vekselberg of the company “Directorate for Design and Construction”, which could correspond to the cost of building Azimut the cost of building an Azimut complex of two Forbes hotels at 16 billion rubles. Now in the former hotel of Vekselberg there are the main premises of Sirius.

Sirius owns 17 objects in Sochi and the environs

The first depositors of Sirius were state -owned companies - already in January 2015 VTB, VEB, Sberbank and the Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games transferred Shmeleva in the amount of 18 billion rubles. VTB-15 billion, VEB-1.5 billion, Sberbank-1.1 billion, Sochi-2014 organizing committee-493 million. This was not enough, and in July 2016, captains of the Russian business convened in Sochi with Putin. The meeting was attended by Roman Abramovich, Petr Aven, Victor Vekselberg, German Gref, Sergey Galitsky, Sergey Generalov, Oleg Deripaska, Vladimir Yevtushenkov, Suleiman Kerimov and other large businessmen and managers - at the initial stage they collected a total of 2 billion rubles. But the main thing is that from that day a kind of unspoken dachshund has been introduced for Russian oligarchs - they annually introduce at least a million dollars each to the Sirius budget, followed by the financial documentation of the Shmeleva Foundation.

Donors of the Foundation "Talent and Success"

2015-2020, rubles

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In some cases, a dachshund can grow. As a rule, jumps can be due to the fact that an oligarch is necessary for a particular assistance in the state or in the life of his business a large transaction, as a rule, requiring the Kremlin’s approval. For example, in 2017-18. The largest private sponsor of Sirius was Igor Antoshin, depositing a total of 5.8 billion rubles-it was then that he sold a significant part of his shares of Fosagro to the rector of St. Petersburg Mining University, Vladimir Litvinenko. The latter was Putin’s supervisor and is considered a person very close to the President, for which he was gifted with a billionth share in Fosagro, and where the Soviet scientist had money for these transactions, is unknown. A similar story with Suleiman Kerimov, most of which came to Sirius at the moment when Kerimov was arrested in France, and Russia achieved (as a result successfully) his liberation. Finally, most of the 1.6 billion donated to the Foundation Dmitry Mazepin falls on 2020, when the billionaire became the main shareholder of Uralkali, and soon, after a protracted conflict, he took control of the Togliattiazot plant. Even the family of the former Kuban governor and then Minister of Agriculture Alexander Tkachev made increased contributions - they personally came from the young son -in -law Tkachev Roman Batalov, to whom a high -ranking official rewrote his business.

But even with such large -scale financing from the business, Sirius has not yet fulfilled the goal announced by Putin at the very beginning - the project should become non -state, the head of state said, announcing the creation of the center. As follows from the estimates of the Agency, the Talent and Success Foundation received direct state funding at least 27.2 billion rubles. Another 23.6 billion came from companies where the state is a key shareholder. Private business donated three times less - 17.5 billion rubles.

Another promise is not fulfilled. Back in 2016, the head of the presidential administration, Anton Vaino, said that an enduum is being created for the fund, "which will allow us to reach full funding without a state participation by 2019." However, neither legally nor in practice “talent and success” has never become an enduation. The enduum is such a fund in which property is sacrificed, and the profit from the management of this property is used with specific purposes, for example, for the education of children. As the financial documentation “Talent and Success” shows, state contributions to the fund - from the budget and from state -owned companies - continue now. In particular, the budget for the 2022-24 years has direct state financing for 5.9 billion rubles for Sirius. The management company, as it implies the status of the enduum, has not been created, the fund controls the whole property directly.

Perhaps such generous financing has an additional goal - all the money that the state and business donate to “talent and success” come to accounts at the Bank “Russia”. This is not a financial organization alien to Putin, in which not only the closest friends of the president own, but also his former mistress Svetlana Krivolikiy. Surely, at the time of the creation of Sirius, the bank fell under foreign sanctions, which promised him potential problems with liquidity. Then Putin publicly supported Russia, opening his salary account in it. However, the receipts of Sirius are much more important for the bank than the President’s pay.

For all the time of the educational project, 92 billion rubles or $ 1.22 billion were received in the Bank of Russia.

at the rate for January 2022.

At the same time, a significant part of these funds did not go to the education of children, but was converted into a deposit lying in Russia: at the end of 2020, it was over 19 billion rubles, according to the financial report of the fund. Criticism of the president did not affect the situation with the deposit of money. In November 2016, the chairman of the Accounts Chamber Tatyana Golikova reported to Putin that only 15.5%was spent from the state allocated by the state. To which Putin said: “Nevertheless, we set up three hundred million there, and 15 percent are used. This means either still the work is not expanded yet properly, or so much money is not needed, then we will direct it for other goals. We have where to send money in the social sphere. ” The Talent and Success Foundation, as well as its private donors, did not answer the questions of the Agency about the financing of Sirius, ignoring them.

If you know how closely the whole history of Sirius is connected with the environment of Yuri Kovalchuk, the preferences of the Bank "Russia" will not seem amazing.

How much money the Talent and Success Foundation spent on children and how much on the maintenance of buildings, including construction

Source: Analysis of the annual reports of the Talent and Success Foundation, posted on the portal of the Ministry of Justice of Russia

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How methodologists began to teach Russian children

“You know, now I’ll reveal one secret to you, one of the small projects,” Putin has so modestly in December 2014 announced the launch of Sirius. Shmeleva later said that she received an invitation to interview the Kremlin only in January next year and at that meeting with the president was amazed at how Putin worked the Sirius plan. The truth is only that the plan of this center was really developed by Putin's closest encirclement. To tell this story, you need to know one term - "Methodology."

Methodology is a doctrine of methods for studying an object or phenomenon. One of the main methodologists in the USSR was now the late Georgy Shchedrovitsky, one of the creators of the Moscow logical circle. His son and student Pyotr made a good career in Putin Russia - including thanks to ties in power. Shchedrovitsky worked for a long time with the first deputy head of the presidential administration, Sergei Kiriyenko, a famous follower of the ideas of Shchedrovitsky Sr.. At first, when he was still the Prime Minister in 1998, then in the Volga Envoy and in Rosatom.

However, the connections and influence of methodologists in the Russian leadership are much more extensive. The generous people, as methodologists are sometimes called, also work with the families of Kovalchuk and Fursenko, members of the Lake Dachu Cooperative and Putin's closest advisers. Shchedrovitsky Jr. and Yuri Kovalchuk are now sitting together in the board of the Center for Strategic Development (CSR) North-West. There are two other Putin's favorite council in the Board of Trustees of the Center - musicians Sergey Roldugin and Valery Gergiev. Shmeleva also left the CSR. From 2006 to 2007, she worked at the Center for Strategic Development, which, together with the Bank "Russia" established the SSR "North-West" and the rest of its career is also associated with the methodologists, Kovalchuk and the United Russia party. Back in St. Petersburg, Shmeleva worked as a technologist on the election campaigns of United Russia. Her friend and colleague then became Irina Potekhina, tells the acquaintance of Shmeleva, which is also confirmed by the fact that the daughter of Potekhina Alexander was a partner of Shmeleva for the company Marco Agency, the right hand of Governor Alexander Beglov and the creature of Yuri Kovalchuk.

With whom and how Elena Shmeleva is connected

Yuri Gromyko and the staff of his institute developed projects that headed Shmelev - “Elevator to the Future”, “Sirius” and gymnasium at Moscow State University, which works as part of the Innopractics Tikhonova. Ekaterina Tikhonova and Elena Shmeleva are well acquainted.

Громыко и Щедровицкий вместе работали в ЦСР «Северо-Запад», который возглавляет друг Путина Юрий Ковальчук, а также работали на Сергея Кириенко.

Елена Шмелева и Ирина Потехина, как сообщает источник «Агентства», являются приятельницами, Потехина пригласила Шмелеву работать в фонде «АФК „Система“. Дочь Ирины и Александра Потехиных была бизнес-партнером Елены Шмелевой в Санкт-Петербурге. Александр Потехин вел бизнес вместе с Юрием Ковальчуком, Ирина Потехина много лет работает на Александра Беглова, которого продвигали структуры Юрия Ковальчука.

Помощник президента Андрей Фурсенко возглавляет научно-технический совет университета «Сириус» и президиум попечительского совета фонда «Талант и успех». В 2000 году Фурсенко работал председателем научного совета ЦСР «Северо-Запад» у Юрия Ковальчука, вместе с Ковальчуком и Путиным учреждал дачный кооператив «Озеро».

Особое место на этой схеме занимает Юрий Громыко, он — ученик Щедровицкого-старшего, коллега его сына в полпредстве у Кириенко и в ЦСР. . В 2003 году Громыко работал экспертом комиссии «по пространственному развитию» при полномочном представительстве президента в Приволжском федеральном округе, советником полпреда Кириенко тогда был Петр Щедровицкий. В 2001 году Громыко был руководителем проектного бюро ЦСР «Северо-Запад», где в правлении заседают Юрий Ковальчук и Петр Щедровицкий. Именно Громыко в 2004 году создал и возглавил организацию с непонятным названием Институт опережающих исследований «Управление человеческими ресурсами» им. Е. Л. Шифферса. Человек, имя которого носит институт, — малоизвестный советский режиссер, в молодости участвовавший в подавлении венгерского восстания 1956 года, а в конце жизни писавший религиозную литературу. Имя Громыко также малоизвестно, что не мешает ему долгие годы консультировать российское руководство по теме образования будущих поколений. Institute named after Шифферса , как указано на его сайте и в других источниках, выполнял заказы администрации президента, придумывая образовательные проекты, которые потом публично поддерживал Путин, — «Кружковое движение» . В 2020 году Путин поручил проработать вопрос создания сети кружков в школах, форум «Проектория» . Каждый год Путин принимает участие в работе форума, проводя для школьников «открытый урок», «Лифт в будущее» . Проект одобрен наблюдательным советом АСИ, который возглавляет Путин, конкурс «Большая перемена» . В 2020 году Путин общался с финалистами конкурса удаленно и другие . Академия наставников «Сколково», форумы «Будущие интеллектуальные лидеры России» и «Сообщество», Иннопрактика и проекты в рамках ОНФ.

К тому моменту, когда Шмелева в 2014 году вместе с сотрудниками института им. Шифферса ездила в Сочи, она уже давно сотрудничала с Громыко и его единомышленниками. Буквально за месяц до того Шмелева вместе с Громыко летали в Пензу на форум ОНФ «Качественное образование во имя страны». Там же был и Путин.

Теперь институт им. Шифферса указывает Громыко одним из создателей «Сириуса», а дочь методолога — Антонина — занимается у Шмелевой космической программой . Для Шмелевой астрономия — вероятно, важное направление, так как она и сама в молодости занималась в клубе космонавтики. Громыко в разговоре с «Агентством» подтвердил, что он и его люди участвовали в придумывании «Сириуса», а со Шмелевой он не первый день знаком.

Щедровитяне во главе с Громыко еще в начале 90-х придумывали концепцию специальной школы, развивающей в детях природную одаренность . Проект методологов назывался «Материнская школа». Она, как утверждали создатели, направлена на «развитие у детей тех способностей, которые обычно относят к признакам общей одаренности», говорилось в описании проекта. До «Сириуса» их первым воплощенным проектом стала работа с «Иннопрактикой» — фондом, который курирует младшая дочь Путина Катерина Тихонова. Для «Иннопрактики» институт им. Шифферса придумывал проект гимназии, работающей сейчас при МГУ , указывает в своем портфолио институт. Тихонова и Шмелева хорошо знакомы, и эта дружба также сыграла свою роль в продвижении нынешнего руководителя «Сириуса» , говорят трое бывших госслужащих. «Сириус» и «Иннопрактика» связаны и другим: Наталья Попова, первый заместитель Тихоновой в «Иннопрактика», входит в совет при президиуме попечительского совета фонда «Талант и успех», а дочь Юрия Громыко Антонина работает не только в «Сириусе», но и возглавляет проектный офис школы при МГУ, которой управляет «Иннопрактика» Тихоновой-Путиной, а дети, которые отбираются для гимназии МГУ, проходят через смены в «Сириусе».

Чему методологи могут научить российских детей

— Есть простое объяснение, почему виновной назначили Россию. […] Мы в состоянии третьей мировой войны. […] Мы уже видели стервятников, которые хотят завладеть богатыми природными ресурсами России и ее активами, — яростно клеймил мировую закулису называющий себя политологом голландец Кейс ван дер Пейл 18 мая 2019 года.

В этот день в Москве была устроена презентация книги ван дер Пейла «Крушение самолета MH17. Украина и новая холодная война», где «доказывается» непричастность России к катастрофе самолета. Вокруг Пейла сидели сплошь интересные люди. Это давний коллега Путина по КГБ Виктор Иванов, глава совета директоров концерна «Алмаз-Антей», а чуть поодаль устроился Юрий Громыко, директор того самого института им. Шифферса, именно он и выступил организатором презентации.

Чтобы понять уровень экспертизы на той встрече, достаточно знать, что ван дер Пейл ранее также доказывал, что башни-близнецы в Нью-Йорке в 2001 году были взорваны израильтянами «с помощью сионистов в правительстве США».

Мировоззрение щедровитян конспирологично. В 2015 году связанное с Кремлем издание «Правда.Ру» утверждало, что в Италии с 2016 года начнется «поголовная чипизация», то есть вживление чипов живым людям, о чем якобы сообщил итальянский премьер Маттео Ренци. Экспертом издания выступил опять же Громыко: чипизация — это «формирование мировой политической деспотии и путь к оруэлловскому миру», говорил советник Шмелевой. Во многом остальном взгляды щедровитянина совпадают с содержанием российской пропаганды: скорый крах доллара , о чем Громыко упоминал в докладе в 2005 году и в статье от 2008 года, и «конфликт в Украине был задуман Обамой» , что Громыко заявлял Громыко изданию pravda.ru в 2015 году. В 2020 году Громыко делает акцент на том, что России нужно отказаться от «неолиберальных подходов», создать «евразийскую цифровую инвестиционную платформу», а государственной идеологией в России должна стать доктрина, «которая рассматривает Россию в качестве Ноева ковчега человечества» . Цитаты по книге «Россия — ноев ковчег человечества» под редакцией Юрия Громыко и Юрия Крупнова.

Школьники, прошедшие смену в «Сириусе» и опрошенные «Агентством», не помнят, чтобы политическая повестка занимала заметное место в программе. «Часть мероприятий были просто убийством времени, но вожатые запрещали уйти. Я бы лучше работал над проектом, чем скучать на встрече с олимпийскими чемпионами или спать на встрече с чиновниками с их пафосными речами, какие-то семинары личностного роста от Сбербанка и Ростелекома. Нам рассказывали о достижениях Советского Союза и России, об успехах наших ученых, спортсменов, деятелей искусства, и это была интересная и полезная информация, которая действительно может и должна пробуждать патриотические чувства, ” — вспомнил один из участников трех смен в „Сириусе“.

Но в коллективе, как рассказала бывшая сотрудница фонда «Талант и успех», «царит атмосфера путинизма» — даже на экранах компьютеров, на которых работают сотрудники, размещаются мотивирующие высказывания первых лиц государства — Путина, его пресс-секретаря Дмитрия Пескова, сенатора Елены Мизулиной . Супруг сенатора Михаил Мизулин был участником Московского методологического кружка.

Опрошенные «Агентством» школьники, посетившие смены в «Сириусе» по разному оценили пользу от своей поездки. Часть указывает на то, что полученный опыт помог им в школе и университете. Другие отмечают, что поездка в «Сириус» для них оказалось интересным развлечением, но не помогла в жизни.