Regional representatives of their interests

Good funding, offices in historical estates, confused biographies and no intelligible details, what these people do. “Chronicles. Media ”tell about Moscow representative offices of the regions of the North-West of Russia.

What is it and how much does it cost?

Russian President Boris Yeltsin in 1992 gave the regions the right to create representative offices in Moscow. Officially did this so that the federal center could better interact with the subjects of the federation. The regions should have kept such representative offices independently.

What these structures are doing on end are especially unclear. What they are doing exactly - organize the visits of the heads of regions to the capital. In some cases, work in a representative office is a great Sinecure for old friends and colleagues.

Some regions of the North-Western Federal District (National Security and Defense Council) issued representative offices as individual authorities or units of the apparatus of the governor or local government (Arkhangelskaya, Vologda, Leningrad, Novgorod, Pskov Region, Nenets Autonomous Okrug), some created state institutions (Kaliningrad, Murmansk regions), and some contain both this and more and more and more and more and more. (Karelia, Komi, Petersburg).

In some regions, financing funding is directly spelled out in the budget. You can roughly evaluate how many taxpayers money these institutions eat: from 19 million in the Vologda region to 100 million rubles in the Komi Republic. Typically, the Vologda region with its scarce budget, according to the Accounts Chamber , in January-September 2023 showed the worst result for the growth in income: it is the most to spend millions on representative expenses. Komi would also have to tighten the belts: the region’s income fell by 7% due to sanctions. The republic’s budget is scarce, and in 2024 it will completely come close to the maximum permissible level of deficiency (almost 14 %).

In the center of the North -West, in St. Petersburg, where a unit in the governor’s administration and a separate state institution have been created for the work of the representative office, only the cost of maintaining this institution is known - more than 41 million rubles in 2023. For a city with income, more than 1 trillion rubles is a small money, but they would also have a more successful application.

The mysterious representative of the Murmansk region

Almost nothing is known about people representing governments, which of the regions of the NWFO. In a number of subjects, representatives work by representatives, which is called "with ties." For some, this is an opportunity to participate in local politics, for some-a quiet pension or just a “bread place” for a “useful” person.

Let's start with the most interesting figure, The head of the representative office of the Murmansk region Ashota Bablumyan . His biography, as well as the role in the power of the 51st region, is very unusual. The official version states that the official was born in 1971. He graduated from the Yerevan State University with a degree in Oriental Languages ​​and Literature. He worked in the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation, the apparatus of the Government of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Regional Development of the Russian Federation, the chairman of the supervisory board of the State Autonomous Non -Profit Organization "Agency of Regional Development", as well as the senior managing director of the State LLC RUSNANO.

Bablumyan got to the post of head of the Murmansk Region, despite the multimillion -dollar loan debt to one of the banks where the State Deadian worked as an adviser to the president from 2011 to 2014.

The media noted that Bablumyan allegedly engaged in censorship, indicating the Murmansk media, what politicians to mention and which are not. If this is true, he is not the first time: in 1999, Bablumyan led the information policy of the ORT channel when the entrepreneur Boris Berezovsky owned them. And in the early 2000s, Bablumyan came to the leadership of the St. Petersburg Channel then. These were the times of Governor Vladimir Yakovlev. Apparently, the work of Bablumyan was so pleased with him that he made the media manager his adviser to the positions of the presidential envoy in the Southern Federal District, and then took with him to Moscow when he became the Minister of Regional Development.

In 2018, Bablumyan became the chairman of the board of directors of the Samara JSC AKB Gazbank, but literally a few months later a license has been withdrawn from him. Now the institution is still trying to force Bablumyan through the court to repay the loan.

Despite all this, Bablumyan not only heads the Moscow representative office of the Murmansk region, but also intervenes in regional policy. Journalists even called him a shadow vice-governor, and the Council of Deputies of Murmansk directly accused of coordinating “counterproductive activity”, within the framework of which Bablumyan is engaged in “issues of domestic and information policy in the government of the Murmansk region, and put pressure on deputies.”

“Chronicles” wrote that the regions were abused by the right to conclude state contracts without bidding. Among the leaders are the Murmansk region. After Russia's invasion of Ukraine, there were even more such abuse. Bablumyan sits on the presidium of the commission, which decides to whom to give this or that state contract without a competition.

Good KGBSHNIK

The St. Petersburg representative office in Moscow several years ago was quietly occupied by a certain Sergey Osipov . In the USSR, he worked in the state security organs. In Putin's Russia, this is appreciated. Since the 1990s, Osipov worked in the presidential administration. Under President Dmitry Medvedev, he became the head of the Department of Information and Documentation of the Administration.

But in 2019, Putin fired Osipov. Different telegram channels then wrote that Osipov supposedly shared some secrets with the chief editor of the Echo of Moscow radio station Alexei Venediktov. As a result, the official found work with the former colleague in the presidential administration, governor of St. Petersburg Alexander Beglov. Now Osipov is busy with important matters: he rolled veterans in Moscow, helps the Russian Orthodox Church organize holidays, honors perennial married couples.

As happens with Putin’s officials, the son of Osipov Maxim, judging by his account in the LinkedIn social network blocked in Russia, works in the META (Facebook) recognized in the Russian Federation. Moreover, in the Warsaw office of the company, in the so -called "unfriendly state".

The representative office of the Leningrad region de facto is headed by a certain Anna Martynova. Officially, she holds the post of deputy head of the representative office, but also in the Unified State Register of Journalists, and on the official website she is indicated as the only leader.

Unknown Martynov is married to a senator from the Republic of Mari El and the first deputy chairman of the Federation Council of the Federation Council on Defense and Security Sergey Martynov. He is a native of state security organs, since the beginning of the 2000s he worked with Valentina Matvienko: first in the embassy, ​​then in the government of St. Petersburg, and later in the Federation Council.

Varangian squad

In some subjects, Moscow representative offices were led by people who have long been working with the “Varangians” governors, that is, historically not related to the region, we can say imposed from Moscow.

Thus, the representative office of the Arkhangelsk region is headed by the daughter of the former deputy director of the Department of the Accounts Chamber of Russia Aslan Atabiev, 34-year-old Nazilya Naumova . Immediately after the university, she settled down in the Secretariat of the Deputy Minister of Economic Development Alexander Tsybulsky. When he was appointed head of the Nenets Autonomous Okrug, he took with him and Atabiev. When the official was given to the official, the Arkhangelsk region, who married and replaced Nazil's surname again followed him, heading the representative office of the Arkhangelsk region.

The head of Komi Vladimir Uyba, the long -standing ally, was attached to the bread place. Before coming to the Republic of Uyba, he headed the Federal Medical and Biological Agency. The current head of the Komi representative office in Moscow, Sergei Mamonov, at that time worked as the director of the Federal Center for Information Technologies of Extreme Problems, subordinate to the agency.

The governor of the Novgorod region Andrei Nikitin also brought his people. Before the appointment of the head of the region, he headed the government “Agency of Strategic Initiatives” (ASI). Its official address is just a house-book on New Arbat, where the representative office of the 53rd region is located.

Natives of ASI are the vice-governor of the Novgorod region, who oversees the Moscow representative office of the region, Alexei Prudnikov , as well as the 27-year-old Adam Gravel , head of the representative office. It is known about him that in 2017-2018 he was a member of one of the precinct election commissions of Moscow from the Party of Political Technologist Andrei Bogdanov “Civil position”. It is known only by the fact that when in 2018, the “Party of Progress” by Alexei Navalny was preparing for the Constituent Congress to register in the Ministry of Justice, the “civil position” was suddenly renamed the “Party of Progress”, depriving Navalny and his supporters of the right to use this name.

Representatives of other people's interests

Sometimes regions are appointed by their Moscow representatives of people associated with different groups of influence. For example, the representative office of the Vologda region is headed by Marina Sokolova . Once she worked as an assistant to the State Duma deputy Georgy Shevtsov, related to Severstal. Sokolova also worked at the Moscow representative office of this company.

Severstal belongs to billionaire Alexei Mordashov (93 out of 500 in Bloomberg Billionaires Index ). It is under the sanctions of the EU and the UK. The authorities of the latter call him directly - the oligarch. The European Union believes that the entrepreneur is enriched at the expense of relations with the Kremlin, and also owns part of the shares of the Bank “Russia”, which European officials call the country's leadership a personal wallet. The Vologda Oblast of the Vologda Oblast includes significant volumes of the finished rental of ferrous metals, steel, as well as the smelting of cast iron, in fact, all that Mordashov’s factories are engaged in, so many from the power of the region are somehow connected with him.

The representative office of the Kaliningrad region in Moscow recently headed the 35-year-old Artem Papet . He is closely connected with the famous political strategist Denis Ogay. The last few years ago he moved to the 39th region and became a deputy from United Russia in the city of Baltiysk. Both OGAY and Papa were born in the Tula region. Since 2013, they have been engaged in business together: at first they created OK-Promo in Tula, and then the same name in Moscow. Companies organized concerts throughout the country. Oh, is still doing this, simultaneously with his deputy work and work by a political strategist. Artem Papet even managed to participate in the political technological activity of OGAY. So, journalists wrote that in 2019, OGAY conducted a campaign of a pro -government candidate in the elections to the Moscow City Duma. In the same district, as a front (technical) candidate, Artem Papet was nominated, who took the last place , as befits such a candidate. And in the elections in Baltiysk, Ohi pointed out that he was working in the autonomous non -profit organization My District - in fact, the Moscow City Hall election headquarters .

The predecessor of the papet at the head of the Kaliningrad representative office in Moscow was Denis Saliy . He is a professional in this matter. Born in Krasnodar, worked for the last six years in the Kaliningrad authorities, heading the representatives of the region in St. Petersburg and Moscow. Journalists even called the official one of the highest paid government employees.

In 2013, Saliy suddenly changed the Kaliningrad region to Ryazan, also heading a representative office in Moscow. He then said to journalists that "there will be no comments on this matter and for any other." But two months later, Saliy again changed the region: now he leads the representative office of the Pskov region in the same Moscow, but already in the rank of the first deputy governor of the region. The very case when you want to stay in the civil service and work in an nonsense position in Moscow.

It is also necessary to mention the representative of the Republic of Karelia in Moscow by Vladimir Timofeev . For many years, he built a political career in his native Chuvashia, where he managed to work with both the republican deputy and the head of the administration of the head of the republic Nikolai Fedorov. With the latter, he then moved to Moscow and worked at the Ministry of Agriculture, which was headed by Fedorov. In 2017, Timofeev moved to Karelia, where the new multi -apartment governor Arthur Parfenchikov appointed him his deputy and head of the region’s representative office in the capital. After that, journalists called Timofeev the richest official of the 10th region. Timofeev is busy with important matters: praises Karelia in Beijing, establish relations with Portugal, opens fish festivals in Moscow. Timofeev owns not only a few apartments, but also a house in Cyprus. And the daughter of the Patriot graduated from the Swiss school and remained to live in this "unfriendly country."

The representative office of the Nenets Autonomous Okrug in Moscow, after the already mentioned Nazili, was headed by Muscovite Ilya Stakhov . He arrived in NAO several years ago, worked as an adviser to the previous Governor of Tsybulsky. Then he headed the public organization "The Boxing Federation of the NAO". “Chronicles” is known that 20 years ago, the full namesake of Stakhov fell into the field of view of the police in the case of the theft in the Moscow district of South Butovo. How the case ended is unknown. But it is known that ten years ago the Moscow court found the full namesake of Stakhov guilty of drunken driving a car.

Who is in the mansion, and who is the highway

Of course, somewhere all these people should sit. And here everyone has different things. For example, the authorities of St. Petersburg did not stir up and acquired a house on Spiridonovka Street for representation. The block did not live on this street for long, there were immediately apartments of Marshal Zhukov and the writer Gorky, there is also a neo -Gothic house of Med techniques painted by Vrubel. Now, the Governor of St. Petersburg Alexander Beglov comes to this street every now and then.

But the Vologda region. Its population is waning , the median average income of residents in 2021 amounted to a little more than 25.5 thousand rubles . But the representative office of the region in Moscow occupies Begichev’s house in Starokonyunny Lane. There were Griboedov, Denis Davydov, Kuchelbeker, Levitan, Bunin, Chekhov, and after a century after a century, a former locksmith, the governor of the 35th region Oleg Kuvshinnikov, calls here. True, in the fall of 2023, he resigned, and who will now visit Begichev’s house will officially become clear after the elections in the fall of 2024.

Or here is the Leningrad region. According to Rosstat, as of January 1, 2023, in the 47th region, it was necessary to change 39% of the street water network and 47% of the street sewer network. The population here is also steadily decreasing , the median average cash income - from the strength of 30 thousand rubles . But the representative office of the region was located on Goncharny Street, occupying part of the Klapovskaya estate.

Other regions have chosen the addresses easier. So, representative offices of a number of regions (Arkhangelsk and Novgorod regions, NAO) are located in the house-book on New Arbat. The representative office of the Pskov region is located in a complex of buildings of the Presidential Administration in Nikolsky Lane: not the “castle” of the vice-governor Alexander Seravin , but also nothing. Since 2003, the representative office of the Kaliningrad region has settled on Krasnaya Presnya Street. The authorities of the Murmansk region rent premises on Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street near OJSC Prodmontazh, entrepreneur Ali Dukhaev. Komi representative office is located not at all in the center of the capital, but on the Volokolamsk highway, while occupying huge areas.

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As you can see, people who consider themselves power in Russia have where to attach their own in order to implement personal interests. And the voter will somehow wait.

If you want to learn more about strange state institutions that overtake the North-Western Federal District, read the text “Chronicle” about the apparatus of the President’s plenipotentiary.