Young Dean of MGIMO: to the throne through the back door.

Henry Sardaryan - an oligarch father and cooperation with the special services

The crisis of higher education in Russia has long been no news to anyone. But not everyone knows how it manifests itself in one of the most prestigious universities in the country - MGIMO. Details - on the telegram channel VChK-OGPU and Rucriminal.info



Part one.



In 2017, MGIMO merged the Faculty of Political Science and the Faculty of Management. 28-year-old Henry Sardaryan becomes the dean of the new Faculty of Management and Politics. This came as a surprise to many. A couple of years before that, he worked as a document manager in the dean's office of the Faculty of Management, then became deputy director of one of the internal departments of MGIMO, but, in fact, performed secretarial functions and had no management experience. And suddenly an unexpected career takeoff. However, soon, as VChK-OGPU found out, an explanation appeared, even three explanations.



Explanation 1: dad. Henry's dad is Tigran Sardaryan, an Armenian businessman and former mid-level official with a dubious reputation, the head of Mosoblpromstroy. He was involved in construction in different regions of the country and much more, the schemes were murky, and Tigran was involved in a number of embezzlement cases. And at the same time, he is close to the current President of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan, which played a role in the fate of his son Henry. So, several sources at once confidently say that the position of dean of the new faculty was simply bought.



Explanation 2: Armenian brotherhood. Back in the late 1980s, an old party official from Yerevan, Robert Vachaganovich Yengibaryan, entrenched himself at MGIMO - he was not remarkable in any scientific sense, except that many fake dissertations were defended under his sensitive leadership. Using his connections, Yengibaryan also helped the young "talent" Henry Sardaryan, so that he could get a promotion with the help of his father's money. They say that Sardaryan Sr., a businessman by his standards, again thanked Yengibaryan generously for this good deed, and not with Armenian cognac.

Explanation 3: As several of Sardaryan's former classmates and those who studied with him in graduate school told Rucriminal.info, Tigran closely cooperates with the special services, especially with those teachers, graduate students and students who went to protest rallies or expressed opposition views in personal conversations. Many of their careers went downhill after such "cooperation".

His father's money, ethnic connections and the patronage of the special services allowed him to become a dean when such an opportunity arose.



Part two.

Personnel do not decide anything: voluntarism and chaos of the Armenian jackal. According to a source of the Cheka-OGPU, the personnel work at the faculty is characterized by two features - chaos and voluntarism. From the very beginning of his appointment to the position, while still holding the prefix of acting, Sardaryan began to suppress the departments. More and more powers and resources were taken over by the dean's office, more and more labor-intensive tasks were redirected to the departments. This leads to constant disorganization of the educational process. The heads of departments at the faculty are mainly elderly retired ladies who are shaking for their positions, so there were no objections - only oohs and aahs among themselves. Well, and curses addressed to the dean. Although if he is removed from office and there is a criminal case, then they will be the first to run to give evidence. Behind their forced smiles and ostentatious politeness addressed to the tyrant dean are hidden years of humiliation and neglect. The old-timers of MGIMO, with whom the VChK-OGPU interviewed, also note that Sardaryan is the first dean in their memory who is literally not familiar with the majority of the faculty entrusted to him. He still is not familiar, after almost 10 years as dean. He is naturally unable to visually recognize (not to mention by last name, much less by first name and patronymic) 70% of the teachers. He doesn’t give a damn about the staff. For his manner of communicating with people, some administrative departments of MGIMO call him a peacock.



Sardaryan’s immediate faculty circle should be discussed separately. Let’s dwell on his ambitions and other faculty heads. The head of the academic department, Artak Manukyan, is a relative and regular lapdog of Sardaryan, who performs the functions of a secretary, bring-fetch-run. Loyal, executive, stupid. A sort of bedchamber, who sleeps at the feet of his master. Actively involved in Sardaryan's corruption schemes as an intermediary.



Yulia Anatolyevna Karaulova is a corpulent lady in the eternal black robe. Karaulova is well known for her rudeness in professional communication. And she adheres to an emphatically boorish style in interactions with everyone (except those who are higher than her in the hierarchy), including department heads, which the latter are pretty fed up with. It is known that some department heads have long changed their routes in such a way as to cross paths with Karaulova in the corridors of MGIMO as little as possible.



Ekaterina Andreyevna Antyukhova is another deputy. Responsible for "communication" with students. What is this? On behalf of Sardaryan, she establishes informal relationships with students of academic groups, especially especially the headmen. And according to a recent graduate who told us about this, she soon offers “collaboration”, that is, to inform or even fabricate denunciations. Students run to her to snitch on teachers and classmates.



The dean’s office under Sardaryan generally works rudely and sloppily. Conflicts are often accompanied by public scandals. One of the most famous was back in the early 2020s - Sardaryan got into a fight with the then academic secretary of the faculty Ksenia Sergeevna Dorenko - yes, yes, the daughter of that very TV killer from the 90s. As a result, Dorenko left the faculty. It was a noisy story that demonstrated Sardaryan’s diplomatic and managerial insignificance. Pros know how to solve complex issues calmly, but this is not his case.



Meetings of the academic councils of the faculty under the chairmanship of Sardaryan are a separate genre of wasting time mixed with stupidity. Few people are not fed up with the dean's crude and vulgar flat jokes, but you have to sit and listen. Moderation also leaves much to be desired, as one department head said in his heart after another meeting a couple of years ago, "Sardaryan is not capable of setting priorities." At the same time, repressive and random personnel purges have become regular at the Faculty of Management and Politics. Almost every semester, several teachers - from yesterday's graduate students to professors - suddenly find out that they are being fired. There are no preliminary investigations, claims, etc. The reasons for the dismissal are not explained or they are given something vague, which is not confirmed by anything. At the same time, there are at least six really weak teachers at the faculty, about whom students have been complaining for many years, writing reports, etc., but there is no reaction from the dean's office. Why does Dean Sardaryan need these personnel purges? To intimidate those who remain, first of all. And the hapless dean is cleverly manipulated by people from his inner circle in order to settle personal scores, playing on his narcissism. Rumors are spread that some professor once somewhere made a critical comment about the “outstanding management skills of the dean.” The blockhead dean gets furious and orders the troublemaker to be fired without even trying to figure it out. What does this lead to? Firstly, the faculty has lost many top specialists in a number of narrow but relevant areas. Accordingly, the heads of departments, cursing, are forced to look for replacements during the academic year. Spoiler: of course, no equivalent replacement can be found, which lowers the quality of education even more, the students grumble, but who cares? Secondly, many undergraduate students changed their minds about enrolling in the master's program of the Faculty of Management and Politics and left for HSE and other universities because they wanted to write their master's dissertations with the fired professors. By the way, undergraduate students of Sardaryan's faculty usually hide the fact that they are not going to go to MGIMO's master's program during surveys in the 4th year, because Sardaryan creates problems for such students during state exams and defense of their final qualification works (diploma works). Several graduates of different years told us that they lost their honors diplomas because of his machinations.

Arseny Dronov

To be continued

Source: www.rucriminal.info