In October 2017, on Selezneva Street in Krasnodar, people were preparing to protest against the cutting down of trees. But the place of the picket was taken by supporters of improvement carried out by the mayor's office. Among them, activists identified officials dressed in colored robes. They named Maxim Onishchenko, then the head of the city department of improvement and sanitation, as one of the leaders of this counteraction. In five years he will become vice mayor for urban affairs.

Photo: Krasnodar TV channel In November 2019, Krasnodar Mayor Evgeny Pervyshov introduced the new head of the finance department, 32-year-old Alexander Chulkov, to deputies. In ten years, he went from leading specialist to deputy director. The mayor called his appointment an example of the work of the personnel elevator. Chulkov rose in the department, where the leading position had long been occupied by his mother Elena, who worked for many years as deputy director.

“The first deputy is my right hand , ” Krasnodar Mayor Evgeny Naumov explained to reporters in January 2024. Then the City Duma approved the appointment of Dmitry Vasiliev to this position. According to the mayor, his deputy knows “all the problems, all the working mechanisms of the big administration . ” And, apparently, Naumov did not lie.

Alexander Kosivchenko. Photo: administration of the Krasnodar region Since October 1, a new Ministry of Regional Security has been operating in the administration of the Krasnodar Territory, the administration’s press service reported . It was headed by 56-year-old Alexander Kosivchenko, who for the last seven years has headed the apparatus of the regional anti-terrorism commission (ATC). The ministry was announced only now, but Governor Veniamin Kondratyev signed the decision on July 31.

The Project publication published a database of flights of Russian officials and their relatives who flew on private planes. “Protocol” figured out what was in it about Kuban. Former governor Alexander Tkachev flew on business jets many times from 2014 to 2023. These trips cost about $2.3 million. His relatives, the current governor Veniamin Kondratyev, Kuban State Duma deputies and the “golden judge” Elena Khakhaleva also flew on such planes.

Deputy Alexey Tkachev State Duma deputies from Kuban Alexey Tkachev and Ivan Demchenko were among the most active passengers of business jets among Russian officials. This follows from the “Fellow Travelers” database , which was published by the Project. It collects data on border crossings on private jets in 2014-2023. In the same database, deputy Alexey Ezubov topped the rating of civil servants in terms of the number of flights on oligarchs’ planes.

Elena Khakhaleva / Screenshot: “Russia 24” In the “Fellow Travelers” database, which was published by “Project,” there were flights of two defendants in high-profile Kuban criminal cases: former judge of the Krasnodar Regional Court Elena Khakhaleva and Sochi businessman Ruben Tatulyan, nicknamed “Robson.” Both left Russia, their property in Russia was confiscated due to claims by the Prosecutor General's Office.

Billionaire Michel Litvak, whose port holding OTEKO is building terminals on the Taman Peninsula, provided his plane to the governor of the Krasnodar Territory, Veniamin Kondratyev. This follows from the “Fellow Travelers” database , which was published by the Project. Michelle Litvak In May 2018, Kondratiev flew on a Global 6000 associated with Litvak to Berlin and back. With the governor were State Duma deputy Ivan Demchenko and Vasily Shvets, who later became the mayor of Anapa.

Still from the operational shooting of the Federal Security Service of Russia in the Krasnodar Territory On September 29, the Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced 41-year-old Krasnodar resident Igor Karlov to 18 years in a maximum security colony and a fine of 470 thousand rubles, the court’s press service reported.

Maykop City Court of Adygea The Maikop City Court sent to pre-trial detention a “popular blogger of the republic” accused of participating in the “Anti-War Committee of Russia,” the court’s press service reported. Later that day, the message disappeared from the court's website, but a copy of it was preserved in the web archive. The court does not name the accused, only the first letter of his last name - X.

The Southern District Military Court found a 33-year-old native of the Kanevsky district guilty of public calls for terrorism on the Internet (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code), the prosecutor’s office of the Krasnodar Territory reported . The department does not name the convicted person.

Ivan Boyko. Photo: mirsud.krasnodar.ru Deputy Chairman of the Krasnodar Regional Court Ivan Boyko wrote a letter of resignation, KP-Kuban reports , citing sources. According to the publication, federal agencies conducted a non-public inspection, and the judge “accumulated questions about the period of his work in Gelendzhik and the origin of a number of expensive assets” registered in the name of people associated with him.

Evgeny Romenkov. Photo: krd.ru “If we included everything in the tariff, then only the cost of travel would cost 60 rubles , ” the head of the price and tariff department of the city administration, Evgeniy Romankov, reassured Krasnodar residents in May 2025, commenting on the next round of talk about the rise in price of public transport. Eight months later, the antimonopoly service came to a conclusion exactly the opposite of this explanation.

Anatoly Yansitov. Photo: United Press Service of the Courts of the Krasnodar Territory The Krasnodar Regional Court sentenced 36-year-old Anatoly Yansitov to 14 years in prison for sabotage, the court's press service reported . He will spend the first three years in prison, the rest in a maximum security colony. According to the court, in May 2024, Yansitov, at the direction of his interlocutor from the messenger, came to the railway tracks near the village of the Novoukrainsky Krymsky district.

Still from operational shooting of the FSB Directorate in the Krasnodar Territory The Southern District Military Court sentenced a Krymsk resident to 18 years in prison and a fine of 300 thousand rubles for preparing to explode the building of an electric grid company, the prosecutor's office of the Krasnodar region reported . He will spend the first four years in prison, the rest in a maximum security colony. The verdict has not yet entered into force.