Who else from the RANEPA is preparing for the "landing"

How the presidential university became the arena of the "war" between Kiriyenko and Mishustin

 


The appointment of Alexei Komissarov as the rector of the RANEPA will affect the reshuffle at the top. The second part of a large investigation by Rucriminal.info about the situation at the presidential university. (First part).

Komissarov has no time for RANEPA. Being simultaneously engaged in big business, being on the boards of a number of largest companies, being also the general director of the ANO "Russia - the Land of Opportunities", it is difficult for him to decide whether such a busy leader will have time for the largest university in Russia and Europe. Of course, the growing dissatisfaction with Komissarov, seeping into the public field through comments and posts on social networks, does not go unnoticed and plays into the hands of apparatchiks from the Government, falling into the right ears and reports.



In this respect, the commentary by Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov about Komissarov leaves out important legal nuances. Reporting that Putin did not object to the appointment of Komissarov as the interim head of the university, Peskov noted that “the prospects for Komissarov to combine the post of rector and head of the School of Governors presidential personnel reserve program on the basis of the RANEPA will depend on him. Here it is very important that both do not slow down the pace of development.” At the same time, the charter of the RANEPA does not allow combining the position of the rector of the academy with another paid managerial position (except for scientific and scientific-methodological guidance) in the academy or outside it. Also, the rector cannot perform his duties part-time, which is actually observed now. Perhaps this is exactly what Peskov meant when he said that the choice depends on Komissarov himself: he will have to choose one thing. But is he ready to concentrate entirely on the rector's work?



In student publics, they are already joking about the promises generously handed out by Komissarov to improve student life even in the first days of appointment. Assessing the work of the new head of the university, students are surprised, not understanding “why Batman saved the whole city, when for the status of a superhero, it turns out that it is enough to put a cooler in the hostel and trumpet it in all corners. The only thing left is to continue to promise and skillfully avoid the out-of-town residents of the RANEPA Campus City - to run from them at an even faster pace than on the runs that our hooded presidential rector streams so often and with such narcissism. However, “a fairly common formula for success in bureaucratic circles is “promise and do nothing”, brought to comical perfection,” students of the Higher School of Economics, RANEPA respond.



Interest in the personality of Komissarov as a mentor of young people (and a shrink for their “retarded” parents) increased sharply after the approving and praising demonstration by Komissarov himself on the social network of brand new tattoos from his daughters. To the chagrin of Komissarov and his team of image-makers, the worldview of the workforce coincided with the views of those who in recent years are less and less willing to pay for educational services promoted by the academy under quite solid signs and slogans. This, of course, is about the “backward” parents of students who are guided by other values.

As for the team. After almost a third of a year from the date of appointment, acting. the rector, seeing the boss at work less and less, some subordinates note in the life of the RANEPA the transition from carelessness and slovenliness to manic narcissism. Others ask a rhetorical question, what does Komissarov spend more time on - on daily self-adoration in social networks, driving, steering wheel and other performances, or on solving problems that have accumulated at the presidential university? Komissarov himself recently answered this question in his telegram channel, shamelessly noting that over the past 4 months he managed to get to only 2 branches out of fifty. However, all this is typical for the portrait of an accomplished billionaire in education and science, and it is still difficult to imagine that he will hang for a long time in the most prominent place in the Presidential Academy.

According to a Rucriminal.info source, participating in Kiriyenko’s project to remove Mishustin from the post of prime minister, the fugitive ex-rector remains in the game with big cards in his hands, and his only visual loss from the club of the most influential liberals does not in the least reduce his combat potential.

In fact, Mau has not let the academy out of his hands at all, and the new rector is in the service of the old one. From a remote backstage, which became a popular refuge back in Soviet times, he not only advises, but gives instructions to Komissarov on the most complex and sensitive issues for their Kremlin curator Kiriyenko, leaving Komissarov complete freedom of action on other matters at the university, which the new appointee clearly not in a hurry to do it.

On the one hand, the image of an advanced manager unites in relation to Kiriyenko the sympathies of an important part of the systemic and non-systemic opposition, not only the liberal ones. On the other hand, it does not irritate the widest oev siloviki, lower and middle, in whose minds Kiriyenko is a statesman, under whom and thanks to whose support Putin was promoted as head of the FSB, and who throughout the years of Putin's rule remains a systemic, "his boyfriend" in high positions in the team of the president - a native of KGB (photo Kiriyenko represents the new head of the FSB). But it is precisely this policy of Kiriyenko to be “both ours and yours” even in the current situation, as well as Serey Vladilenovich’s dislike for people in uniform ever since they pushed him behind Putin’s back during Operation Successor, that have long created tension in Kiriyenko’s relations. and his teams with aksakals and other old-timers from the power bloc. Frictions with the people of Chemezov and Co. during Kiriyenko's work at Rosatom also make themselves felt.

Also, the participation of a Kremlin official in organizing a painless ejection from Russia of figures that have become toxic to the Kremlin - Dvorkovich, Chubais and others like him, the same Mau, did not go unnoticed.

The source of Rucriminal.info claims that the Chekists are especially annoyed by Kiriyenko's desire to monopolize influence on public opinion in the information environment: this is drawing the main Kremlin media curator Alexei Gromov into his orbit, and establishing special personal relationships with Dmitry Peskov. An important confirmation of these suspicions was the approval of his son, Vladimir Kiriyenko, in 2021 as the CEO of the technology corporation VK (the former Mail.ru Group), all despite Lubyanka’s warning requests and its plans to put a person under its control (Chemezov’s candidacy) at the head of VK. Therefore, it is not surprising that Kiriyenko occupies the top positions in the positive socio-political representation, significantly bypassing Mishustin and any member of the government, who are less and less visible in the media space.

It would seem, what does the RANEPA have to do with it, and what significance can a university have in the struggle at such a level of political Olympus? We received the answer to this question from one of the most influential graduates of the academy in the past. According to the interlocutor, after the takeover by the Academy of National Economy, headed by Mau, of the Russian Academy of Civil Service, the largest and most influential scientific and educational corporation of the management elite arose, not only in public administration, but also in business circles. These are hundreds of thousands of students and graduates and the most powerful branch network, integrating all plenipotentiaries and heads of regions in the “no tie” format. In addition, RANEPA is the only blacksmith of personnel with the status "under the President of the Russian Federation."

What is especially important, thanks to the efforts of Kiriyenko, the secret curator of the academy, the presidential university has turned into a platform for training an army of personnel loyal to the target figures, as well as a place of attraction for sislibs. One has only to remember the regulars of the Gaidar Forum - Medvedev, Chubais, Kudrin, Kiriyenko himself, a RANEPA graduate, and so on. It was in the bowels of the Presidential Academy that Kiriyenko inspired projects for the large-scale preparation of a column of his “sleeping” followers and their placement in various posts in Moscow and the regions arose.

According to a Rucriminal.info source, Kirienko’s widely promoted personnel projects administered by Alexei Komissarov within the framework of the ANO “Russia is a Land of Opportunities” (Leaders of Russia, etc.) are just the tip of the iceberg. Now Kiriyenko's team is developing a new format for the annual event at the RANEPA with the participation of the syslibs remaining in the country and the (un)publicly sympathetic stratum of the elite. The scale of the event should surpass the notorious Gaidar Forum, which has sunk into oblivion with the departure of Mau, and greatly add points to Kiriyenko's image. In addition, the protest movement in Russia in 2011-2013 exposed the huge anti-systemic potential of the restless youth, with whom the Kremlin and law enforcement agencies began to work with tripled energy. In recent years, the Presidential Academy has been given a special role in this process. The arrival of Alexei Komissarov at RANEPA in 2017 is connected with the same direction.

According to insider information from the FIRO RANEPA, the appointment of Andrei Polosin, a former subordinate of Kiriyenko, as Alexei Komissarov's deputy for ideological work is designed to increase the impact on the youth mass - at the university itself and especially in Moscow and large cities where RANEPA has branches. It is noteworthy that Polosin, like Komissarov, with the transfer to a key position at the RANEPA, will continue to work on the previous projects inspired by Kiriyenko in a new place. In particular, the source of Rucriminal.info noted the “DNA of Russia” project, which promotes in the minds of the public, mainly students, the foundations of Russian statehood in such a perspective, in which the core of this “DNA” quite clearly resembles an ideological platform and a portrait of the same high-ranking Kremlin official .

There is very little time left before the active phase of the presidential elections, so the apparatus struggle between the two influential structures, the Presidential Administration and the Government, will make itself felt. Taking into account the emerging during the race studying the details, it is already possible to assess the chances of the two camps not in favor of Mishustin. Despite the increasingly complicated internal political situation, the consolidated group of sislibs outperforms Prime Minister Mishustin, who has shifted towards the security forces, both in terms of actual possibilities in placing “their” figures and in lobbying for the decisions they need.

The appointment of Alexei Komissarov as rector, which was hard pressed by the AP in the Government, as well as the story of Komissarov's dissertation defended in advance at Moscow State University. Lomonosov is a clear proof of this.

It is no coincidence that defendants in criminal cases at the presidential university, as a rule, get off with only a slight fright. They know that behind them is a reliable cover from the Kremlin administration, and they also know how to work off the support provided. As our source in the power unit ironically noted, in the end, the detainees on the plane's gangway have only one option left - and this is the plane's gangway again. The recent story of Vladimir Mau's escape to Israel is a perfect illustration of this. There is every reason to believe that the prisoner Murylev-Sinelnikov will perform exactly the same feint.

Whether their companion Komissarov will need air tickets in the future, time will tell. Perhaps they will not be needed: it was no coincidence that he informed Putin that he was studying to become an airplane pilot and learned to fly against the wind.

In a previous investigation, Rucriminal.info talked about who else would be detained at the RANEPA. In particular, it was reported about the verification of the multimillion-dollar income of RANEPA vice-rectors Dmitry Butashin, Dmitry Arefiev and Maxim Nazarov, accrued annually outside of pay according to the staffing table. It is expected that soon the checks may lead to new arrests and criminal cases at the RANEPA under the new leadership.



Timofey Grishin

To be continued

Source: www.rucriminal.info

Who else from the RANEPA is preparing for the "landing"

How the presidential university became the arena of the "war" between Kiriyenko and Mishustin

The appointment of Alexei Komissarov as the rector of the RANEPA will affect the reshuffle at the top. A big investigation of Rucriminal.info about the situation at the presidential university

In January 2023, the "eternal" rector of the RANEPA Vladimir Mau was dismissed. A wave of criminal scandals replaced one liberal billionaire with Alexei Komissarov, another billionaire in education, as the head of the presidential university. A Rucriminal.info source on the academy's board of trustees revealed that the appointment of Komissarov without the prefix "acting" prevented two circumstances, formal and political. Komissarov's lack of a degree is a working version for an inexperienced public, released from the sidelines to mask what is happening. The real reason plays a special role in the struggle of the deputy head of the Presidential Administration Kiriyenko and the syslibs of his team for the chair of the prime minister and portfolios in the government of the new composition in 2024. It is with this apparatus battle that the growing campaign against Mishustin is connected.

By approving Komissarov as acting rector, Mishustin's team bought themselves time with less blood to be able to force the Presidential Administration to agree on one of the two candidates previously proposed by the prime minister in opposition to the Kremlin-lobbied Komissarov.

A high-ranking interlocutor of Rucriminal.info explained why the official reason for the lack of scientific regalia does not hold water. Formally, a candidate for rectors must have an academic degree. However, the charter of the RANEPA does not establish such a requirement, therefore, it is lawful to appoint any employee without a degree and academic title, who has a higher education and university work experience, as a rector. In addition, the updated qualification requirements for heads of universities include Alexei Komissarov's experience as a vice-rector and head of a structural unit as a special advantage for holding the rector's position. Thus, Komissarov's full compliance with all existing requirements at the time of his appointment is an obvious fact.

Therefore, the appointment with a "probationary period" is not accidental. According to the same source Rucriminal.info, the turmoil with the defense of a dissertation at Moscow State University is nothing more than a veil behind which hides a sophisticated apparatus struggle between the Government and the Presidential Administration for the presidential academy as a valuable social and political resource on the eve of major reshuffles at the top.

According to a Rucriminal.info source in the RANEPA itself, the appointment of Komissarov is only acting. testifies to the absence of the necessary consensus on his candidacy from the federal government and the Presidential Administration, since the rector is appointed by the Government (the founder of the university) after the mandatory approval of his candidacy in the Government Office and the Kremlin administration.

A source close to the situation claims that the process of concluding an employment contract with Komissarov immediately stalled for 5 years at the initiative of the Government Office, possibly at the direction of Mishustin himself, while everything went surprisingly smoothly in the Presidential Administration. Even the high-profile story with the defense of Komissarov in 2011 at the RANEPA and under the patronage of Mau's fake dissertation did not interfere. This was the first attempt by a capital businessman from the Moscow Government to acquire a PhD diploma.

Especially at that time I was surprised by the public repentance of the exposed dissertation student, who came from the family of a scientist and professor at Moscow State University. The handwritten confession of scientific uncleanliness clearly ran counter to the tactics adopted in high circles in relation to Dissernet: to ignore the attacks. In addition, having “out of line” by publishing a statement to the Higher Attestation Commission on his Facebook page with a request to deprive him of his degree, Komissarov openly framed his boss Sergei Sobyanin, in whose monograph later Dissernet also found incorrect borrowings.

The Presidential Administration was not embarrassed by the long-standing business ties between Alexei Komissarov and the former rector of Mau. Just a small example: their common project of the InCube Business Incubator, administered by Komissarov as part of the use of funds allocated under the Priority 2030 strategic academic leadership program. The scope of the event was even highlighted by Forbes.

According to a Rucriminal.info source, the reaction of Mishustin's team, which made an attempt to block Komissarov's candidacy even at the stage of forming the list of candidates, turned out to be a surprise for the Presidential Administration, due to the fact that the Government Apparatus, probably, turned out to be much more informed about the true interests of the Kremlin administration in the RANEPA in in general, and in relation to Komissarov in particular. In addition, Mishustin had his own candidate. And not alone.

According to the interlocutor, the Academy under the President and its ex-rector have occupied a special place in the scientific (and not only) career of Mikhail Mishustin since 2003, when the Academy of National Economy, headed by Mau, successfully insured the defense of the then Deputy Minister for Taxes and Duties, acting as the host organization. times were others, and a dissertation scandal could cost a career.

This successful experience 7 years later, in 2010, brought the country's chief tax officer to the RANEPA, where the defense of a doctoral dissertation in economics was saluted and passed in the most favored nation. At that time, acting in the rank of an official opponent was supervised by none other than Professor Sinelnikov-Murylev - the only person in the education system who combines the positions of the rector of a university (VAVT) and vice-rector (RANEPA). The one who is now under house arrest in the status of a defendant under the article of the Criminal Code, popular with the top of the presidential academy, is fraud on an especially large scale. But then Sinelnikov and Mau rendered Mishustin a valuable service. It is known that scholarly regalia are the subject of his special pride and it is not by chance that they are placed almost in the preamble of the prime minister's biography on the website of the Government.

In 2020, after the unexpected appointment of Mishustin as head of government at the RANEPA, it is time to collect stones. The prime minister closed Mau's question and reappointed him as rector six months earlier than stipulated by the contract. Sinelnikov-Murylev's protege, Vice-Rector of the Academy Georgy Idrisov, rushed to the Government as a personal assistant to Mishustin. Quite quickly, "people from the RANEPA" significantly replenished the offices of the White House. Mishustin and his entourage fell under the immodest charm of the sislibs, and the presidential university became an important place of attraction for liberals of all stripes.

However, subsequent events with detentions and arrests at the RANEPA, which were on the federal agenda, sobered up Mishustin and forced him to hastily retreat. It became obvious that in the rapidly changing domestic political situation due to the pandemic and the plans being developed in foreign policy, interaction with Mau becomes a silk tie, tightening around his prime minister's neck.

The exit of the head of government from the Academic Council of the RANEPA in the summer of 2021, as reported the day before by the sources of Rucriminal.info, became a clear signal of the prime minister's reorientation towards the power bloc, with whom he also developed close ties during his work at the Federal Tax Service. Having received carte blanche, the security officers and their younger comrades intensified their work, the result of which was an operation to replace the head and clean up the Presidential Academy from an overly liberal public. At the same time, it was assumed that the university could be headed by a retiree from law enforcement agencies or a political heavyweight. The chair of the rector was also vainly predicted for the governor of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug, Natalia Komarova.

With the arrest of Mau in June 2022, the bride-to-be of the new rector began. According to a Rucriminal.info source in the Academic Council of the Academy, the Presidential Administration prepared a list of candidates, which included 6 people, half from the Presidential Administration and half from the Government. Curiously, two candidates were also acceptable to Mau himself (he asked for the bottom in the course of a deal with the security forces): the previously mentioned assistant to Mishustin, ex-vice rector Idrisov, and also vice rector Komissarov. Much to Mau's surprise, Sinelnikov-Murylev was also on the list, ready to mutually give way to the rector of the VAVT to Idrisov's wife, Vittoria Viktorovna Idrisova, who was attached to him as vice-rector, and focus on the country's largest university with gigantic funding from the federal budget. But suddenly it turned out that the "boy" had grown a lot in the prime minister's entourage and was not going to fall at the feet of his mentor, who went down as a pawn in the fight between Kiriyenko and Mishustin.

Confirmed rumors about Sinelnikov's double game hit Viktor Zorin, Mau's adviser on interaction with the power block, painfully. At this point, it is worth stopping separately.

Evil tongues at the university claim that the retired FSB Colonel General over the years of dust-free work at the RANEPA turned into a blind cat without claws and did not save the boss from Sinelnikov's intrigues, which were almost openly discussed at the university itself. There is also talk in the academy that Zorin has long kowtowed before his influential colleague Sinelnikov in order to maintain the status quo, and that the armchair general is now especially zealous in his relations with Komissarov.

There is another version, according to which an experienced intriguer in uniform did not at all lose his former grip, but “missed” a couple of signals and handed over the chief to save the sinecure already under the new boss - to remain Komissarov’s adviser and scientific director of a large RANEPA institute. But few rely on traitors. Leaving Zorin at the feeder for the time being, Komissarov preferred to take into circulation his younger brother, FSB Colonel Roman Alexandrovich Alentyev, who combines an adviser to the rector (on understandable issues) and a curator of the RANEPA from Lubyanka. As they joke at the university, unlike Zorin, Komissarov has common interests with Alentyev. For example, they go together to academy events where you can gawk at the students.

So, under the impressions of their joint viewing of the participants in the Miss RANEPA contest, Komissarov even exposed, due to inexperience, his deeply secret comrade on the university’s website and in his personal telegram channel. It is not surprising that many RANEPA employees are waiting for Komis Sarov will become the first Tiktoker rector in Russia, giving them the opportunity to observe the details of the life of the university and its leadership without retouching 24/7, unthinkable for the format of the website of the Presidential Academy.

This behavior of Komissarov in the first months of the “trial period” clearly confirms the forecast of the Rucriminal.info source in the Board of Trustees of the RANEPA about the chances of appointing Komissarov after defending his dissertation. Assessing his prospects, the interlocutor said that Komissarov has two significant competitors supported by the Government. The Rucriminal.info source preferred not to disclose the names of Komissarov's opponents, but hinted that the chances of each of them, taking into account what Komissarov demonstrates, are growing day by day. For example, it took Komissarov a few months in a new position for the academy to have contracts with dubious namesakes. We are talking about a fresh contract for the financial audit of the RANEPA, concluded with a certain PACHOLI LLC. It is not clear what to expect next - complain the staff of the university, tired of personnel reshuffling and searches, which in recent years has turned into a field of tough struggle between the security forces and the syslibs and the remnants of the ultra-liberal elite.

The situation is also tragicomic with Komissarov's repeated attempt to defend his dissertation. Even after the scandal with the burnt dissertation in 2013, Komissarov decided not to change the approach to writing the work, but only to change the tactics of its defense: this time, the dissertation candidate decided to do the case in the own council of Moscow State University, which was not controlled by the Higher Attestation Commission. In addition, this allows you to bypass the participation of Komissarov's rival for the position of rector of the RANEPA Georgy Idrisov, a member of the expert council of the Higher Attestation Commission in economic sciences, in an impartial study of his newly minted dissertation on the subject of solvency. The comrades of Sinelnikov-Murylev at the Higher Attestation Commission would not miss the opportunity to contribute to the revival of the new scientist from the ashes.

It turns out that Alexei Komissarov’s dissertation can really influence a major reshuffle at the top and decide the fate of Prime Minister Mishustin - this version is heard in the corridors of Moscow State University and in the Academic Council of the Faculty of Economics, where on June 19, the next working day after Komissarov’s party at SPIEF events with Putin’s participation, defense of the work on the topic: "Management of the system of competitive selection of leading personnel in the Russian Federation."

As the interlocutor of Rucriminal.info notes, the acceptance of a dissertation for defense against such a scandalous dissertation as Komissarov initially alarmed the members of the council, who care about their reputation and the authority of the country's leading university. If he once got burned on plagiarism and then withdrew his dissertation, where are the guarantees that history will not repeat itself?

After the publication in Vedomosti, close to the Academy of Sciences, apparently initiated by Komissarov himself to increase pressure on the council, the message that he would definitely defend himself and become the rector of the RANEPA, passions in the scientific community of the Economics Faculty of Moscow State University reached a climax. When the defense did not take place, and it was announced to the whole country that this was a pure formality - this is tantamount to wiping your feet on the members of the council - leading economists complain.



According to a Rucriminal.info source at Moscow State University, who is well acquainted with the circumstances of Komissarov's defense, it is no secret that even in top universities, when ordered from above, dissertations are baked like pies since Soviet times. In this situation, the members of the council are not satisfied, firstly, with the shift of the center of gravity in the struggle for the main university officials to the walls of Moscow State University. The university did not receive any buns for this.

Outraged at the university and perfidious methods of Komissarov. Pressure from officials, a demonstration of force to intimidate competitors using the example of a showdown within the RANEPA (talking about Sinelnikov and the cleansing of the administration of the RANEPA), as well as the aforementioned publication in Vedomosti, cannot arouse sympathy within the walls of the free Moscow University.

Secondly, as noted above, university students are extremely annoyed that the forthcoming defense of Komissarov's dissertation under the guidance of Dean Alexander Auzan is announced as a fact.

Finally, in contrast to the arrogant Komissarov, the employees of Moscow State University have an understanding that attention to this scientific work will only increase. And also to those who put their signature under it. Just imagine how humiliating it is for the venerable scientists-economists of Moscow State University, when in the main university of the country an ultimatum is being defended in the past by a petty scientific crook-plagiarist who did not even deny this fact. Isn't this insulting for MSU? I wonder how his father, an extremely respected biophysicist in the temple of science on Sparrow Hills, would have reacted to this? A rhetorical question.

However, the faculty administration has its own interests, and it is not up to scientific ethics. The participation of Mau Komissarov's successor in Kiriyenko's projects aimed at removing the prime minister in 2024 has been rumored in the high corridors of Moscow State University for more than a month. These discussions are also taking place in the administration of the Faculty of Economics. Komissarov's support (hence, Kiriyenko's team) resp. meets the great ambitions of the liberal dean of the Faculty of Economics of Moscow State University Alexander Auzan - a fellow student of the notorious Ulyukaev, Kostin and Kuzminov - taking into account the 84-year-old age of the rector of Moscow State University Viktor Sadovnichev, it is not without very specific prospects for strengthening the positions of the Kremlin protégé Komissarov.



A scientist-economist, candidate of science, a member of the Academic Council of the Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, who read the text of the dissertation at the request of Rucriminal.info, negatively assessed the text of Komissarov's work posted on the website of the country's main university. In particular, the scientist noted that the topic of the work, as well as its content, is not a scientific problem (at least, it is not so formulated) and correlates with a stretch with the passport of the specialty in which the dissertation was completed.

However, the content side is a subject for discussion, while in the work of Komissarov, obviously written in great haste, a number of the most important requirements for scientific work of this level are violated. For example, the structure of the study is incorrectly presented in the paper: on pages 130–131, section 3.7 “Practical recommendations for executive authorities and the academic community based on the results of the OMCC “Leaders of Russia”” is presented, which is missing in the dissertation table of contents. And after all, this is the title part of the work, which must be “read”. Having seen such a table of contents with a missing section, serious teachers will send even a term paper for revision, not to mention a dissertation research. Another example: the sources and literature used by the dissertation are not classified in any way, they are simply listed in the appropriate section. And there are many such gaps. Of course, for a provincial university, all this might be suitable, but this is definitely not the level of Moscow State University. Lomonosov. And certainly not in the case of the illuminated "luminary of science."

According to the scientist, the problem is that, according to the rules, it is impossible now to simply take and place the corrected work - it is subject to recall (withdrawal) from protection for revision. Only after that the dissertation can be re-accepted in accordance with the approved procedures. If these and other claims are raised by the scientific community (that if Komissarov has opponents in Mishustin's team), it will be interesting to see how the Moscow State University dissent. However, the high-ranking dissertator himself should be responsible for the poor quality, the members of the council should not themselves clean up the work of Komissarov, who, obviously, simply did not have time for this, summed up the interlocutor of Rucriminal.info in the Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

To be continued

Timofey Grishin

Source: www.rucriminal.info

The deal with the security forces failed

Who else will be detained from the leadership of the RANEPA



According to the telegram channel of the Cheka-OGPU, the Lefortovo Court of Moscow arrested the vice-rector of the RANEPA and at the same time the rector of the All-Russian Academy of Foreign Trade Sergey Sinelnikov-Murylev. He is charged with embezzlement by fraud. Sinelnikov-Murylev is a friend and "right hand" of the ex-rector of the RANEPA Vladimir Mau. Rucriminal.info back in 2020 spoke about the embezzlement schemes created by Sinelnikov-Murylev and about his real estate in France. The same information is listed on the website of the Moscow City Court. However, the press service of the court stated that on April 27, 2023, in relation to the rector of the All-Russian Academy of Foreign Trade, Sergey Germanovich Sinelnikov-Murylev, a suspect in the case of embezzlement (part 4 of article 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), a measure of restraint in the form of house arrest was chosen for 1 month 23 days, that is, until June 19, 2023.



Our sources told how the events that led to the arrest of Sinelnikov-Murylev developed

The sudden departure to Israel of RANEPA Rector Vladimir Mau, an ex-defendant in a criminal case on fraud on an especially large scale, was the result of a collapse of the deal with the security forces and the nullification of informal agreements with the founder of the university, a source familiar with the situation said. Therefore, a new wave of searches and arrests followed at the RANEPA, aimed at clearing the site for a new team. Sinelnikov-Murylev became a victim of this wave. To this end, a rigorous review of government contracts and other agreements was initiated, concluded with the participation of a number of vice-rectors, who for many years enriched themselves by combining positions and fictitious participation in scientific and educational projects in the structures of the Academy under their control.

According to insider information from the RANEPA, before spring, Rector Mau had to resolve a number of delicate personnel and financial issues, including with respect to large divisions of the Academy in Yekaterinburg, Khabarovsk and St. Petersburg. These tasks have been generally achieved. At the same time, Mau was expected to be transferred to the position of scientific director of the university, similar to the trajectory of the ex-rector of the Higher School of Economics Yaroslav Kuzminov, but with the condition of complete departure from the RANEPA by the fall of 2023. In return, the founder promised to participate in the public (and not only) rehabilitation of Mau. In addition, Mau asked not to touch people important to him, primarily Sinelnikov-Murylev, allowing them to leave their work at the RANEPA without consequences. Vice-rectors Fedotov, Ershova, Arakelyan, financial director Efremov and several other people were also mentioned.

However, according to a Rucriminal.info source, the situation soon took an unexpected development for the current rector. As a result, the deal with the security forces, in which Mau agreed to tacit cooperation with the investigation and provided the security forces with sensitive information on high-ranking officials of interest to the Service, failed. Rather, only her first condition was fulfilled - the termination of the criminal prosecution of Mau, the abolition of house arrest and a written undertaking not to leave. The second part of the agreement to stop all "excavations" at the Academy, obviously, initially did not fit into the real intentions of the security forces.

So, contrary to expectations, Mau faced an increase in investigative measures against the persons he lobbied. The rector also received confidential information about the upcoming audit of the multimillion-dollar incomes of RANEPA vice-rectors Dmitry Butashin, Dmitry Arefiev and Maxim Nazarov, accrued annually outside of pay according to the staffing table (part-time jobs, compensation and incentive payments, participation in research projects). According to the information published on the university’s website on the earnings of the RANEPA leadership for their position, in 2021 alone, these official payments amounted to their main income of 15, 14 and 12 million rubles, respectively. Law enforcement officers also have information about available "family contracts". In addition, along with the cancellation of the Gaidar Forum, Rector Mau received a signal about the upcoming inspections of the organization of the Forum and other major events that are non-transparently financed by the Presidential Academy on an especially large scale.

Informal agreements with the founder of the RANEPA also turned out to be a fiction. Firstly, Mau failed to approve his candidate for the post of rector of the Presidential Academy from among the current vice-rectors of the university. The candidate proposed by Mau was not even included in the preliminary list of 6 people. As for Mau, the refusal to approve his candidate was a confirmation of the loss of support from the founder and a de facto nullification of the September agreements. All this testified to one thing: despite the termination of the criminal prosecution on October 4 and the withdrawal of all charges, a fundamental decision was made at the top regarding the “illuminated” rector and the corresponding guidelines were put into effect.



To be continued

Denis Zhirnov

Source: www.rucriminal.info

Who said Mau?

The struggle for the post of rector began at RANEPA





A series of high-profile corruption scandals within and around the RANEPA (the Bartsits case, the epic of Rakova-Zuev, etc.) confirms that the “roof” of the main university of officials has leaked, and the basins have to be installed in the rector's office. Searches of persons closest to Mau on the UD about a large-scale cut of budget funds smell like an office method. In addition, the recent virtually flight of Prime Minister Mishustin from the new RANEPA Academic Council, away from the corruption tangle of liberals, seriously undermined the position of Vladimir Mau. The command to “delete from the lists” came from the Government office the day before the materials for the conference of workers were posted, and it is uncomfortable for the prime minister to contact directly the management of the RANEPA. In conversations with Rucriminal.info sources in law enforcement agencies and in the bowels of the RANEPA, we made sure that a tough fight for the post of rector began at the Presidential University, which allows distributing billions of rubles annually. Georgy Idrisov, Dmitry Fedorishchev and Evgeny Kitin are named as the main candidates.



Rector candidate Georgy Idrisov, former vice-rector of RANEPA and now assistant to Prime Minister Mishustin, is a creature of Sinelnikov-Murylev, who combines the posts of at least vice-rector of RANEPA and rector of VAVT. It is unique and rather dubious from the point of view. case law in university education. It is curious that Idrisov's wife (Victoria Viktorovna) works as vice-rector of the All-Russian Academy of Aviation Technologies for Sinelnikov with multimillion-dollar income. In the academy itself, officials say that this is a big question: is Sinelnikov the right hand of Mau or is Mau the left hand of Sinelnikov? With any answer, it is obvious that the threads of management of RANEPA and VAVT are closely intertwined in the hands of this most influential puppeteer. In addition, Sinelnikov supervised the defense of Prime Minister Mishustin's doctoral dissertation at the RANEPA in the status of an official opponent and therefore has direct access to him.



The Rucriminal.info source notes that “something was wrong” with regard to Idrisov was suspected last year, when he was appointed assistant to Prime Minister Mishustin in April, and a month later Mishustin reappointed Mau as rector ahead of schedule, which had never happened before. By this, Sinelnikov not only curried favor with the boss, but first of all pacified Mau's vigilance towards his own person. Less than six months later, the re-appointed rector of RANEPA received a second "gift" from Sinelnikov on his birthday - on December 29, 2020, the FSB announced a criminal case against Bartsits, although he was arrested a week earlier. Sinelnikov, - says a source in the law enforcement agency, - has long been dissatisfied with the rector's weakness and believes that such a fat point should be controlled differently, more quickly maneuvering between the liberal pack and polite people in uniform. The peculiarity of Idrisov as a candidate is that he can become a compromise figure for the sislibs and security officials. At the same time, real power and multi-billion dollar flows in the RANEPA will be concentrated (or remain) in the hands of Sinelnikov.

Dmitry Fedorishchev, as Mau's successor, has been spoken about on the sidelines of the academy for the second year, almost immediately after his appointment as director for regional development at RANEPA. Of course, Sinelnikov immediately saw in him an enemy to his interests. It is known that Dmitry's younger brother is the first deputy of the Tula governor Alexei Dyumin, a person from the list of potential successors to Michal Ivanovich, and that both Fedorishchevs have long been sitting on the knees of Rector Mau, since their studies at the academy. As the interlocutor of Rucriminal.info notes, taking into account the resources of his brother, Dmitry Fedorishchev was and remains a candidate with very good chances. The main thing, on which Fedorishchev himself got burned and this bothered the chief - he sharply destabilized the situation in the branches. The matter came practically lj revival from the ashes of the independent trade union organization RANEPA, intending to control Vladimir Mau's affairs in the academy, primarily financial, and even to achieve his resignation.



To keep the young favorite on the hook, - explains a source in the personnel service - Fedorishchev within the framework of one organization combined two positions until recently - the director of the Moscow regional branch of the RANEPA and the director for regional development of the RANEPA, in other words, he supervised and, naturally, rewarded himself, constantly absent from one of the jobs. This circumstance allows Mau at any time, through the right people, to initiate appropriate "legality checks" in relation to a richly paid young worker by the academy. In continuation of this tradition, Artashes Arsenyan, who replaced Fedorishchev as director of the Moscow Regional RANEPA, also sits on two chairs, combining directorial work with control of himself from the Department of Regional Policy, where he remained in the position of leader, while the personality of this Russian "Arsene Lupine" in the context of the struggle for power in the RANEPA is not at all accidental and is increasingly associated with the most unobvious (so far) third candidate for the post of rector, who has reached the highest light of the RANEPA from the fog of bandit Petersburg.

Evgeny Kitin, deputy director of the St. Petersburg RANEPA - SZIU, a dependent and weak character, says one of the members of the academic council of the branch, who has been observing his career for a long time. However, according to other information, everything is somewhat different.



The dean of one of the faculties of SZIU, a member of the academic council, continues in a conversation that Kitin, as a child of the North-West Academy of Civil Service, so shamelessly shoved into the new academy in 2010 with a wide network of branches, treats Moscow owners with caution and dislike. “Evgeny Aleksandrovich (everyone in the branch knows this) is a weak, cowardly, absolutely dependent, but controlled, which is most important for the director Vladimir Shamakhov, a customs general from the“ old St. Petersburg guard, ”who still remains the main security officer of the academy, although the whole country with failed elections, ”the source said. Opening the veil of secrecy, the dean explained that in the Presidential Administration, they see a positive example of the work of the St. Petersburg branch under Shamakhov: everything is under control, work with students is carried out in the right way, an excellent set of students, everything is also settled with law enforcement officers, and the branch itself is developing better than the Head Office. campus. For all Kitin's shortcomings, he would have been able to organize the educational process at the university an order of magnitude better than the late Vice-Rector of the RANEPA Nazarov, who understands little in this matter, and even this is a person who has lost his last respect at the academy due to the betrayal of his mentor - ex-director Volgograd RANEPA in Fedorishchev's hardware purges. But Kitin is an excellent organizer of the educational process, a hard worker, but he is too weak to reorganize the work of the branches in the right way, to correct the countless mistakes of Vice-Rector Nazarov. Kitina will also not be enough to cope with local resistance. The fact that he will be the rector ... is hardly so - sums up the interlocutor.


"The tragicomic story of Shamakhov with the elections to the local parliament, which initially failed, is the key moment of the entire race for the post of rector at RANEPA," explains to Rucriminal.info an associate professor of one of the departments of SZIU, close to the campaign headquarters of Shamakhov at the academy. Vladimir Aleksandrovich (Shamakhov) stubbornly hoped that the rector would make him some kind of exceptional offer to remain director of the Institute, despite his 70th birthday. The uncertainty of the future trajectory and the pathological need of Shamakhov to "keep his face" drove him into a corner like a mouse, forcing him to make such an arrogant and, frankly, stupid mistake, to go to the elections to the regional LA. The voters do not know him, because they are not the institute workers and its subordinates, who have to endure his words and tyranny. It is clear that a person is old ... but voters must be won, and this is a completely different matter. I think that a gamble with an attempt to drag his man, Yevgeny Alexandrovich Kitin, into the rector's chair of the entire academy is, on the one hand, Shamakhov's desire to secure his future work at the academy, and on the other, revenge, revenge on Rector Mau, because he considers him to be the culprit of his shame with elections.

For Shamakhov, there are 2 unpleasant aspects here: he revealed that he did not have serious support in the city and at the top (not only from Spravossa Mironov, but in general), and made public information about his income - these are tens of millions, a huge number of bank accounts, plots of land, apartments, mansions abroad ... But he quickly woke up and left the election race ... of course, a loser. With the spent money of the institute, worn out by workers and students. But you know, Kitin was delighted with the loss, believing that it brought him closer to the director's chair in the branch, which he had long dreamed of. Imagine how his plans got mixed up when the boss told him - you will go to Moscow! Rumor has it that Shamakhov made a "last request" to his old friend Sergei Naryshkin, the head of foreign intelligence, to help him settle scores with Mau and put his man in the place of the rector of the RANEPA, but after Shamakhov's komfuz in the elections, Naryshkin's participation in this intrigue could come to naught, although who knows! - summed up our interlocutor from St. Petersburg.

“In this light, the outlined connection between Kitin and Artashes Arsenyan testifies to the fact that the rector’s scales are tilting more and more from Fedorishchev to the new favorite. Kitin must correct Fedorishchev's mistakes, teamwork with Arsenyan is needed for this. Strengthening Kitin now allows him to finally satisfy his ambitions and gain independence from the former boss with a very absurd character, commented our other source at SZIU.

One of the leading political analysts of the SZIU, in a frank conversation, shared his thoughts on what was happening. “If you look more closely, we will see that the RANEPA site is now working out technologies, methods and techniques that will are used by security officials and liberal groups in the struggle for power under Putin and after Putin. The struggle at RANEPA is not a joke. " From his contacts at the RANEPA Head Campus, he learned that Vladimir Mau from the highest authority had been instructed in the near future, maybe before the Gaidar Forum (or within a month after), to designate a successor to the team. An unambiguous indicator in such a tight timeframe that the circumstances have released to the rector will be new personnel appointments at the academy, then the name of the successor will become clear. Otherwise, Vladimir Mau will not have to choose, the expert concluded.





To be continued

Denis Zhirnov

Source: www.rucriminal.info

FSB reached Sergo Ordzhonikidze

University leaders got hold of dead souls





The FSB has completed a criminal investigation into a particularly large-scale fraud at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA). His key defendant is the director of the Institute of Civil Service and Management of the RANEPA Igor Bartsits, as well as his alleged accomplices - the dean of the faculty of public administration of the economy Svetlana Larina and the wanted native of Abkhazia Aslan Feyzba. The investigation accuses them of "theft of funds by systematically receiving them from subordinates for unjustified accrual of additional wages." According to some information, the damage in the case amounts to several million rubles, which the accused Bartsits, fully admitting his guilt, extinguished.



Sources of the VChK-OGPU telegram channel and Rucriminal.info said that the theft of funds with the help of "dead souls" in Russian Universities occurs everywhere. We acquaint our readers with already existing similar criminal cases.

I. FSBEI HE "Russian State Geological Prospecting University named after Sergo Ordzhonikidze" (hereinafter - MGRI).



1. The criminal case was initiated on February 12, 2020 under Part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (fraud on an especially large scale with the use of official position) according to the report of the detective of the department of the South-Western Administrative District of the Federal Security Service of Russia for the city of Moscow and the Moscow region (seconded officer in MGRI).

The investigation of the criminal case was carried out by the Investigative Service of the FSB of Russia for the city of Moscow and the Moscow region, since the crime was revealed by the FSB officers.

2. Initially, the media suggested that the criminal case against the rector V.A. instituted for real estate fraud.





3. The real "basis" for initiating a criminal case was the fictitious employment of employees in various positions in the MGRI.

If initially a criminal case was initiated against 1 fictitiously employed employee, then by the end of the investigation, the investigation revealed 13 “dead souls”. The period of fictitious labor activity of "dead souls" is from 2016 to 2020.

An official of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation acted as a co-executor of the rector in two episodes of criminal activity (2 dead souls). Also, one of the employees of the MGRI is a co-executor of the crime in the case.

In addition, 2 persons who, according to the investigation, have found and brought to MGRI for fictitious employment of workers, are involved as accomplices in the commission of a crime.

Persons who were directly fictitiously employed are not brought to criminal responsibility as ignorant of criminal intentions.

The total amount of damage in the criminal case is 29,317,348.64 rubles.

4.On March 09, 2021, the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation as the founder of MGRI was recognized as a victim in the criminal case. The victim's representative gets acquainted with all the materials of the criminal case.

5. At present, the requirements of Art. 217-219 of the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation, that is, familiarization of the accused with the materials of the criminal case.

II. "Fresh" criminal cases at the Universities that have been identified or are being investigated by the FSB.

1.February 17, 2021: Moscow Polytechnic University

The Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation in Moscow opened a criminal case on large-scale fraud (part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) against employees of the Moscow Polytechnic University. They, according to the investigation, received 3.6 million rubles from the budget. for teaching people of pre-retirement age, but did not conduct classes.

The case was initiated on the basis of materials from an audit of one of the departments of the FSB administration in Moscow and the Moscow region.

2.16 February 2021: Institute of Civil Service and Management of the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation (RANEPA)

The Investigative Department of the FSB of Russia opened a criminal case for fraud against the Director of the said institute of RANEPA Igor Bartsits.

The scheme of embezzlement is the systematic receipt of money from subordinates for unjustified accrual of additional salaries to them. The investigation is over, the accused are starting to familiarize themselves.

To be continued

Denis Zhirnov

Source: www.rucriminal.info