Tyva is looking for a way out of Russia. Office of the Judicial Department in the Republic of Tyva

Review of printed and electronic media materialsRepublic of Tyva on the activities of courts and judges forJuly 2008

July 2) – information “In the Kyzyl City Court, the number of claims filed by banks against unscrupulous borrowers is growing,” prepared by the press secretary of the Kyzyl City Court, Aisu Sat.

The information states that in 2007 court decisions were rendered in favor of banks in 98 claims in the amount of 14 and a half million rubles.

As judicial practice shows, satisfied greatest number there were 37 claims filed by the Tuvan branch of Rosbank, followed by a branch of the Savings Bank - 30 claims, and 18 claims of the People's Bank were also satisfied. The borrowers' debt to Sberbank amounted to about 6 and a half million rubles, to Rosbank - about 4 million, and to Narodny Bank - more than 2 and a half million rubles. The amount of outstanding loans varies from 3 to 700 thousand rubles.

The information is preventive and explanatory in nature.

Newspaper "Plus-Inform"(No. 26, July 2) – publication by A. Cimito involving criminal liability distributor of the counterfeit weight loss drug “li-da”.

In publication we're talking about that the Kyzyl District Court sentenced a woman to one year of probation and a fine of five thousand rubles for distributing a drug dangerous to human health.

The material was prepared with the assistance of the press service of the Office of the Judicial Department in the Republic of Tatarstan and the assistant judge of the Kyzyl District Court E.I. Ryndina.

Newspaper "Risk-Inform"(No. 14, July 2) - publication “Strabismus and blindness have struck the “sovereign eye,” without signature.

The publication continues the series of incriminating and revealing materials, where everyone gets criticism: the prosecutor’s office, the police, and the courts. The case of the students and Judge Irgit are again mentioned as an example of the fact that the court “ turned from an independent branch of government into an obedient executor of the will of the prosecutor or some boss.

“ other examples of judicial unscrupulousness and resourcefulness.” The judge of the Piy-Khem district court, K. Kuzhuget, is mentioned, who considered a claim for the protection of the honor and dignity of a citizen against the head of the city of Turan, Iusov. The judge, after the decision was overturned by a higher court, a year and a half later on the same claim, made an opposite decision, relying on the same evidence base. The author concludes: “This is really the law, what a drawbar... There were werewolves in uniform, and now they have appeared in robes.” Although the evidence base is not provided. And informs readers that Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will begin a purge “the ranks of judges from those who for no reason change their views on the same events depending on the circumstances. There is no place for this kind of person in the government service.”

Information about the joint meeting of representatives of the Erzinsky District Court and Tuva Customs, where the results of interaction between the judicial authorities and customs in the consideration of cases of administrative offenses and criminal proceedings in the field of customs were summed up.

We are talking about well-functioning interaction between the court and customs; statistics are provided confirming the effectiveness of cooperation.

Newspaper "Risk Express"(No. 15, July 9) – publication “False elections, false trials, false freedom of the press”, under a pseudonym.

The publication continues a series of counter-propaganda materials directed against the policies of the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan. The main idea of ​​the publication is expressed in the title and in the cartoon drawing, which depicts Themis with the scales of justice in one hand and with a telephone receiver at her ear in the other. The court is accused of making decisions according to the orders of the authorities, and not according to the law.

The focus is on the decision of the Kyzyl District Court, which recognized the elections of heads of local settlements as not contrary to the law. The author claims that they were appointed illegally.

The publication is a classic example of political counter-propaganda, when facts are attracted to political moment, line up in the desired line.

Publication about the brutal murder committed by a 37-year-old resident of Bora-Taiga. After serving his sentence for the murder of his young wife, the man killed his mother. The court sentenced him to ten years in prison.

Radio stations “Avtoradio-Kyzyl”, “Europe-Plus”, website news agency"Tuva" ( July 10) – information “Environmental action of the Tandinsky District Court”, author: assistant judge of the Tandinsky District Court Olga Oorzhak.

Information about the campaign “For Clean Shores” by employees of the Tandinsky court: garbage collection on Lake Khadyn, where an area of ​​about one hectare was cleared on the Ust-Khadynskaya side. They also carried out an environmental landing on Lake Chagytai, where they cleaned up the area near children's camp"Eaglet", also one hectare in size. In the cleared area, court workers installed billboards with an appeal not to litter the lake. The court's call was supported by vacationers and area organizations.

The information is positive character, works for a positive image not only of the Tandinsky court, but also of other courts. An opinion is being formed that court employees are responsible, caring people, for whom patriotism and love for their native land are not just words, but concrete deeds.

Newspaper "Tuvinskaya Pravda" ( No. 81, July 10) – publication “Ecological landing: the team of the Tandinsky District Court - for clean shores”, authored by assistant judge of the Tandinsky District Court Olga Oorzhak.

The publication is well presented on the page. The court staff set an example for the entire Tandinsky district and showed an active public position.

Newspaper "Plus-inform"(No. 28, July 16) – publication “How much is justice in Russia. Tuvan prices."

The publication refers to the fact that the Supreme Court of the Republic of Tajikistan, at the request of the Department for Particularly Important Cases of the Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation for the Republic of Tyva, decided to initiate a criminal case against the Speaker of the Legislative Chamber of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Tajikistan V. Oyun. An audit of the activities of the Economic Department of the Zakchaty revealed facts of financial irregularities in the amount of 40 million rubles.

Since the fact of initiating a criminal case is perceived by some part of public opinion as a political order, there is a danger of forming the opinion that the judicial system is participating in political games.

Newspaper "Risk Express"(No. 17, July 23) – publication “Tuvan corruption - myths and reality”, signed with a pseudonym.

In the publication in the part entitled “Garage for a Judge?” It is reported that a certain Dondupai is applying to purchase a plot of land in the Magistralny-4 garage society for 6 garages. It is assumed that the initials of a certain Dondupai coincide with the initials of the judge of the Kyzyl city judge, who decided to arrest Mr. Konviz. The topic of garages, arrest, resentment is discussed, and as a finale - criticism of the Government of the Republic of Tatarstan and a promise to help D. Medvedev fight corruption in Tuva.

Material from the series “all in a heap, horses, people”: although we are talking about auctions and abuses of the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Tatarstan, and then the name of the offending judge is mentioned again, as long as there is any reason to name him.

Newspaper "Risk Express"(No. 17, July 23) - publication “Justice in Tuvan, legal nihilism in Russian”, author Vladimir Kara-Mongush.

The publication attempts to carry out historical parallels: the justice system in Russia of the 19th century is compared with justice today in order to conclude that little has changed in 190 years. This is done using the example of Tuva. Three facts that were repeatedly mentioned in other publications on the pages of this newspaper were selected for analysis.

Earlier "officials bought villages" Now - examples of judicial lawlessness are given: the alleged fact of an accident involving the judge of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Tatarstan A.A. Salchak (not confirmed by any document), the decision of Judge Dondupai to arrest Mr. Konviz, the verdict of Judge Irgit in the case of three students. It is reported that these facts " sent to the website of the Russian Bar Association, co-chaired by D. Medvedev. The answer from Russian lawyers is very interesting. They believe that the above facts need to be discussed at the Association Council, since in Tuva there are good reasons to doubt the impartiality, competence and independence of the local court. Perhaps due to the systematic, dubious from the point of view of the law, sentences and decisions made by judges, the Tuvan judicial system has turned into another link in the prosecution, i.e. The republican investigative bodies, the prosecutor’s office and the court are a unified system for prosecuting people.” It seems strange that this “answer from lawyers” comes without reference to any official document, but is presented as the conclusions of the author of the lines himself.

The same set of facts is given that have already bored the reader for six months.

TV channel State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company "Tyva"(July 28) – a story about the presentation of diplomas to the first Tuvan graduates of the West Siberian branch Russian Academy justice, author E. Tsyganenko.

The plot is positive, since we are talking about the training of professional lawyers on the basis of higher education, on improving the qualifications of court workers of the republic.

According to the director of the West Siberian branch of the Academy of Justice, Evgeniy Susenkov, students from Tuva produce good impression, are serious about acquiring knowledge, the teaching staff is interested in tracking the career of each graduate.

In a report on an extended meeting of the Presidium of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Tyva with the participation of the Office of the Judicial Department in the Republic of Tyva following the results of work for the first half of the year, it is reported that within the framework of reforming the judicial system, attention is today paid to the most pressing problems: the timing and quality of consideration of cases. Residents of the republic are informed that, according to the general performance indicators of the courts, there is a reduction in the time frame for consideration of criminal cases, an increase of 47.9% in considered civil cases, and there has been a significant improvement in compliance with the time limits for consideration of cases of administrative offenses. In the past six months, compared to the same period last year, the quality of consideration of civil cases by justices of the peace has improved. It is noted that the quality of administration of justice is one of the main indicators of the work of courts.

The message focuses on positive statistics, noting objective reasons postponing court hearings. Citizens need to know this information.

Newspaper "Tuvinskaya Pravda"(July 29) – publication under the title “Your Honor” , The author is the press secretary of the USDT in the Republic of Tatarstan T. Kuular.

An interview with retired judge N.V. Leshchinskaya will have a positive impact on the formation of public opinion regarding the image and personality of the judge. Talking about her judicial biography, Nadezhda Vasilievna sincerely and heartfeltly affirms her main principle in her favorite work: service to the law - respect for people. Devotion to the profession of a judge, high professionalism, humanity, love for her native republic - all these components of the image of N.V. Leshchinskaya evoke great respect in the reader for the personality of the JUDGE.

The review was prepared by the press secretary of the USD in the Republic of Tatarstan T.P. Kuular

Last week two events occurred that caused controversy. And both are associated with the Kyzyl city court. The first is that the Tuvan femida finally dared to officially recognize the Head of the Republic of Tuva Sholbana Kara-oola a notorious liar and an arrogant scoundrel. This conclusion can be drawn from the acquittal of a well-known journalist in Tuva Alla Dongur-ool, issued on November 23, 2018. A criminal case was opened against her by corrupt police officers at the request of Sholbana Kara-oola, in which he claimed that he did not maim, while drunk, the bowling club security guard Ivanov in 2006. And information about this is widespread A. Dongur-ool on the radio is libelous. The court found that the fact took place, and the journalist told the truth. From which it follows that Head of the Republic Sholban Kara-ool- after all, he is a notorious liar and an arrogant scoundrel. A investigator He from the city police department, who concocted this contract case, is a bastard and a vile creature. However, like and about. Deputy Head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kyzyl Sanchat And Deputy Prosecutor of the city of Yambil, without looking, approved the fake indictment.

But I'll tell you about this another time. And now I will dwell in detail on another, no less high-profile criminal case, in which the Kyzyl city court sent three employees of the State Tax Service, headed by its chief, to pre-trial detention center Veronica Suge-Maadyr and her husband - the representative of the Chairman of the Government of Tuva in the Kaa-Khemsky kozhuun - Anatoly Suge-Maadyr. All of them are accused of creating a criminal community and fraud. They worked according to a simple scheme - they returned value added tax (VAT) to “their” enterprises. Only the money was transferred not to them, but to the account DOBROSTROYREMONT LLC, owned by the husband of the head of the republican tax service A. Suge-Maadyr. And then the couple used the money at their own discretion.

Only at the expense LLC "Vostok" Suge-Maadyr was transferred more than 31 million rubles, with which an apartment in Moscow was purchased. They officially registered it in the name of their daughter, who is studying in Moscow at the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation. At the same time, Suga-Maadyr did not even have to cash out the money - he bought the apartment by transfer. In this regard, what is important is not even HOW MANY The Suge-Maadyr gang stole money, although the preliminary amount stolen is off the charts for 100 million rubles, And WHO, although it is already known that most of of these enterprises is directly related to the Head of the Republic Sh.Kara-oolu. What's more important is HOW they stole money - openly, brazenly, obviously, without even covering their tracks.

The investigation believes that fraudsters from the State Tax Service were operating around three years. They acted not only through the city tax service department, but also, at a minimum, through MRI No. 2 and No. 3, in which V. Suge-Maadyr worked before moving to the republican service. 31 million rubles, which they were documented stealing, were stolen with the participation of LLC "Vostok". At the same time, the owner and director of the enterprise S. Uyusov, at least, was aware of the fraud. The investigation established that the director of DOBROSTROYREMONT LLC notified Uyusov with a letter in which he said that the company had an overpayment of 31 million rubles in taxes, which he proposed for offset with Vostok LLC. Now S. Uyusov He is a witness in the case and refuses to write a statement recognizing him as a victim. So there is a high probability that his status may change very soon. For now, the only thing that saves him is that the application to the tax service for a VAT refund was falsified by employees of the Federal Tax Service.

But Uyusov is not alone in this situation. The swindlers acted on a grand scale. There are currently three known enterprises through which the gang stole: Vostok LLC, Tuva Mining Company LLC And Mezhegeyugol LLC. So the amount can from 100 million rubles to grow to 300 million rubles. However, so did the number of participants in the theft - from 5 to 30 people.

Although, to be honest, the main thing in this case is not the amount stolen or the number of officials involved in the fraud. The intrigue of initiating a criminal case and the actions of serious officials around the State Tax Service is very interesting.

Let's start with the fact that the head of the republican tax service V. Suge-Maadyr, as soon as I found out what documents had been confiscated by the Federal Tax Service, I rushed for protection not just anywhere, but straight to Head of Government Sh. Kara-oolu. And he immediately went to to the head of the FSB Vladimir Shchurovsky. Knowledgeable people believe that the purpose of the visit was to convince the head of the FSB to stop the activity of the operatives and stop the investigation. In this regard, the special services are checking the accuracy of the information about the offer to pay for services with an apartment in Moscow and 10 million rubles in cash. So far there are no reports confirming or denying this. In this regard, there is no point in commenting on the conversation between the big bosses. However, if in the next month or two Shchurovsky will not be sent to retire, it will be possible to assume that such a conversation did not take place. Sudden short-term challenge Kara-oola many associate Moscow with the situation in the negotiations with Shchurovsky. And the presence on the plane next to Kara-oolom his businessman friend R.Dorzhu with a plump suitcase, which he did not let go of his hands, may indicate a desire to solve the problem financially... But in any case knowledgeable people They believe that it was hardly possible to steal from the budget from 100 to 300 million rubles without participation in the Kara-ool case. It is no coincidence that there is a saying in the government that “God rewarded Kara-ool with the gift of not doing anything for nothing” .

However, Kara-ool’s quick return home and his not at all victorious appearance indicate that the negotiations turned out to be difficult and desired result not allowed. And the continuation of arrests of participants in the scam (on Friday the husband of the head of the tax office was arrested and went on the run out of fear) representative of Sh. Kara-ool in Kaa-Khem kozhuun Anatoly Suge-Maadyr) indirectly indicates that the matter that came to light will be hushed up new level, will no longer be possible.

The criminal case is just unwinding, and the investigative group of the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee for the Republic of Tatarstan with FSB operatives has a lot of work ahead. But the version of the ideologist of tax fraud, the brother of the Head of the Republic, is already being worked out Yury Kara-oola, Minister of Finance of the Republic of Tatarstan Dostaya featuring niece Sh.Kara-oola and daughter Y. Kara-oola Tatyana. Investigators will also have to find out the role of former accountant Kara-ool, former minister Finance of the Russian Federation and the already dismissed Minister of State Procurement of the Republic of Tatarstan Kilizhekova. According to one version, he, through an intermediary without Kara-ool’s knowledge, offered V. Suge-Maadyr for 6 million rubles services to resolve the situation. And she first agreed, and then doubted: why is it so cheap? 6 million somehow does not correspond with 10 million and an apartment in Moscow... And she decided to consult with Sholban Kara-ool. He, they say, was enraged by the impudence of his minister and dismissed him with a scandal, publicly branding him a “traitor.” Thus, the deal did not take place.

And now Veronica Sambuuevna Suge-Maadyr, like her subordinates and her husband, were assigned to a pre-trial detention center for two months, where, most likely, they will remain in solitary confinement until the trial. But V. Suge-Maadyr, it seems, does not yet realize the seriousness of the situation in which they find themselves. She has hired three defense attorneys and is not testifying yet. Apparently, he really hopes for help from influential friends - on Kara-oola And Shoigu, who at one time lobbied the Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation A. Kudrina her appointment to the post of chief publican of Tuva. But the head of the MRI Federal Tax Service of the Russian Federation Shoraana Kimovna Dongak, no longer counts on anyone and, crying, excitedly gives evidence.

And now I will allow myself to recall the history of the relationship between the Head of the Republic Sholban Kara-ool and the leaders of the State Tax Service in Tuva. When he took office, the chief tax officer was someone sent from Moscow D. Kastyrin. The first test task for him was an order to conduct tax audits against his brother Yura’s competitors selling vodka. However Kastyrin conducted an inspection of ALL vodka dealers in Tuva and found violations that caused Kara-ool to feel bad in the first place. This caused the genuine anger of his boss. From that time on, friction began between the government and the State Tax Service. Things got to the point where the Federal Tax Service counted meat processing plant "Uriankhai" more than 114 million income sheltered from taxation, in connection with which the first deputy head of government Sholban-oolom Irgit the prospect of criminal prosecution arose.

Kara-ool could not forgive Kastyrin for this, and he officially appealed to the head of the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee for the Republic of Tatarstan Chudaan-oolu(currently dismissed from service and working as Kara-ool’s deputy) with a letter in which he asked to bring Kastyrin and his employees to criminal liability. The case was indeed opened, and it has been under investigation for eight years. True, in a criminal case there is no place and time of the crime committed, as well as the method of theft. There is no stolen money, no apartments bought with it, as in the case of Suge-Maadyr. There is nothing that points to them as criminals. Its essence is that employees of the State Tax Service of Tuva allegedly wanted to steal 150 million rubles from VAT refunds. In fact, it turned out that the Russians D. Kastyrina, Y. Kavalerova, A. Kulish, A. Roslyakova And A. Ivanova are being tried for what the Tuvans did V. Suge-Maadyr and K.

The grimace of life is that as soon as the arrested tax officers were brought to the pre-trial detention center, their former colleagues were immediately released.

But let's return to the Federal Tax Service. Instead of Kastyrin, Kara-ool managed to put his own man at the head of the Federal Tax Service - Valentin Kandan. By her order, the first thing they did was recalculate the arrears "Uriankhaya" and reduced it by more than a thousand (!) times to a level that ensures Irgit’s safety from criminal proceedings. The newspaper "RISK" reported this. In connection with this publication, Kandan sued the newspaper for a long time and unsuccessfully at the expense of the Federal Tax Service, but lost the case. When the Russian Ministry of Finance found out about this, the contract with her was simply not renewed.

Then Kara-ool, with the help of Shoigu, installed his new candidate in the chair of the main republican publican - Veronica Suge-Maadyr. With such high patrons, she was no longer afraid of anything. That’s probably why the Federal Tax Service of the republic decided to put together a criminal community to steal VAT. But she did it brazenly and primitively.

VAT theft is only a small part criminal activity. It seems that it will not be difficult for investigators to figure out which of her subordinates Suge-Maadyr wrote out huge bonuses, hundreds of thousands, the lion's share of which they returned to her after receiving them at the cash desk. The investigation ordered a comprehensive audit of the payment of taxes by enterprises affiliated with Kara-ool - from LLC "Vostok" before IP R. Dorzhu, including "TGRK", "Mezhegeyugol" and others. It may well turn out that they were illegally exempted from paying part of the taxes in return for the unpaid VAT refunds. It is then that the question of bringing the managers of these enterprises to criminal liability will arise.

So what is it criminal case No. 11802930009007187 could become a detonator for a change of power in the republic. As you know, the presidential administration is already systematically changing the personnel of the heads of the republic’s security forces. In Tuva, the prosecutor, the minister of internal affairs, the chief investigator and the head of the penitentiary service were replaced. The head of the FSB has not been touched yet Shchurovsky, chief bailiff Dostaya and their inactive supervisor, the chief federal inspector Vavilikhina, with whose connivance the Federal Tax Service of the republic was turned into a body of administrative pressure on Russian entrepreneurs and their businesses disliked by the government with the aim of squeezing Russians out of the republic. It seems that this criminal case will speed up the process of rotation in the republic.

The influence of our wonderful fellow countryman Sergei Shoigu on the decisions taken on Tuva by the presidential administration has noticeably weakened and, most likely, will weaken further, as has already happened in neighboring Khakassia. Ability to organize vacations Putin, apparently ceases to be for Shoigu indulgence towards his proteges in the regions. Russia is in a difficult situation. The reason for this is not only international sanctions, but also the widespread theft of budget funds, a clear example of which was shown by the tax service in Tuva. And President V. Putin There is no other way out but to restore order in the regions in the conditions of the financial crisis. In such a situation, no Shoigu can save a regional crook from prison. And even more so - Kara-ool, for which the prison seems to have been crying for a long time.

I will return to this topic more than once.

Kondrat Pchelkin

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A new hotbed of separatism is flaring up on the outskirts of the country

Tyva is, in the full sense of the word, a bear's corner. To get here from Moscow, you need to travel: there are no direct flights, there has never been a railway. They promise to build it only now, when the country’s leading oligarchs have rushed to compete for the right to the “first Tuvan night.”

The political crisis has been blazing in Tyva for many years now; Until it subsides, the republic will languish in poverty.

But this is of almost no benefit to anyone. Nor to the oligarchs who want to get their hands on Tyva on the cheap. No opposition, striving for power by any means. Neither the drug mafia, which supplies a third of the Russian market with Tuvan marijuana. Neither to the West.

Each of these sides plays its own card. But all together they unanimously throw logs into the burning fire, which threatens to end sadly. Until the separation of Tuva from Russia and the launch of the “Orange Revolution”...

Time in Tyva is four hours ahead of Moscow: when it is midnight in the capital, it is already dawn in Kyzyl.

But this is just an appearance. In reality, everything happens exactly the opposite - Tuvan time lags behind the Russian average for a long time. Both in terms of its development and standard of living, the republic has frozen somewhere at the level of the 1990s.

One of the poorest autonomies has at the same time the richest reserves of minerals (a purely Russian paradox!): nickel, uranium, cobalt, copper. The volume of coking coal ranks third in the world and is comparable only to Kuzbass.

And at the same time, there is complete poverty all around, two steps from the central square of Kyzyl there are rickety wooden huts, and the most profitable occupation for the population remains the collection of hemp.

This is the price this little republic pays for the incessant fussing of its rulers.

After Moscow recognized the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia a group of American neoconservatives led by John McCain's adviser foreign policy Randy Scheunemann, called on Washington to respond. In particular, recognize the independence of Chechnya, Dagestan, Ingushetia and a number of others national republics, the leadership of which should be carried out by “governments in exile”.

Billionaire George Soros, who already has experience in sponsoring “orange revolutions,” promised to finance these governments.

Tyva is also on this list.

Of course, one can be skeptical about the neoconservatives' statements, chalking them up to wild American fantasy. But I personally would not rush to such conclusions.

Non-governmental foreign organizations have long shown a strange interest in Tuva. Western observers and political strategists come here for all local elections; American diplomats visit regularly. (For example, the second secretary of the political department of the US Embassy, ​​Susan Bodwin, came to Tyva twice, being keenly interested in the socio-political situation.)

Protestant missionaries are active in Tyva, whose activities are secretly patronized by the American authorities; the number of houses of worship has long exceeded the number of churches here and is approaching Buddhist pagodas, and propaganda literature in the Tuvan language sells in huge quantities.
The Turks do not forget about Tyva either (Tuvians are also a Turkic-speaking people). Until recently, a Tyva-Turkish lyceum operated in Kyzyl, educating the younger generation in the spirit of the glorious ideas of Pan-Turkism.

Plus - the Chinese, whose expansion is being felt more and more noticeably here. Beijing still considers Tyva part of its territory, illegally seized by the Russian occupiers; on Chinese political maps it is listed as Tanu-Uriankhai.

Probably, if we were talking about some other region, all this could be explained by some common sense things. But Tuva! A poor republic, thrown back many thousands of kilometers from Moscow; and for the mere fact that Mrs. Bodwin heroically managed to get here - on the crossroads, through Abakan - she is already worthy of a CIA bronze medal!

Events in Ossetia also agitated the Tuvan opposition. Rumors about the impending separation of Tyva from Russia are increasingly spreading throughout the republic. True, the opposition blames the local authorities for these plans not so much the West.

Kara-ool (head of the republic. - OH.) is a nationalist,” assures me the publisher of the main opposition Tuvan newspaper “Risk” and part-time assistant to the speaker of the Tuvan parliament, Sergei Konviz. - Squeezes the Russians out of here. As soon as the republic becomes rich, it will secede from Russia.

This thesis is different interpretations; to the point that the Tuvan leader tried to build a railway not to Russia, but to China and Mongolia - I heard from many of his other opponents. In fact, this is the main accusation that the opposition brings against Kara-ool.

The same newspaper “Risk” constantly does not tire of emphasizing how few Russian speakers there are in the Tuvan government. All steps of the current government on the pages of “Risk” are considered exclusively through the prism of separatism; They built a new airport, which means they are strengthening ties with China. Restore Buddhist temples- because to the detriment of the Orthodox churches.

“Risk” even writes about the problems of Ingushetia and Chechnya in almost every issue, not forgetting, of course, to draw quite transparent analogies.

And again, this could be perceived as a relapse of wild fantasy, if there were more than one “but”. The intensification of national passions really excites people. Frightened by the specter of separatism, Russians are increasingly beginning to leave the republic. If at the end of the 1980s the Russian-speaking population here made up 33%, now there is almost 2 times less: 18%. And this number only continues to decline...

Regularly on the fence of a building under construction Orthodox church signs appear: “Russians, get out!” During presidential elections Leaflets were distributed throughout the republic: “Russians are our enemies”; “By voting for Medvedev or Zyuganov, you are voting against Tyva!”

In the evenings, many began to be afraid to walk the streets. From time to time, unknown attackers carry out demonstrative acts of intimidation here. Shortly before my arrival, a group of Tuvan youth shouted “death to the Russians!” attacked a Russian couple leaving a bowling alley in Kyzyl; the husband was beaten to death, the wife escaped with broken bones. The criminals did not take any money or valuables.

Even one of the leaders of the republican FSB Directorate admitted to me that for this reason he does not dare to move his family to Kyzyl (“I don’t want to shudder every evening!”).

At the same time, there are practically no nationalist sentiments within the Tuvan environment; it has long been known: the poorer the territory, the more it gravitates towards federal center. Well, individual scumbags clearly cannot determine the weather here.

This means that for someone, such intensification of passions is extremely beneficial. This means that there is some unknown force that wants at any cost to create the appearance of a sharp surge in Tuvan chauvinism and, as a consequence, the inability of the republican authorities to control the situation.

What is this powerful mysterious force?

But all this has already happened in Tyva. Yurts on the central Lenin Square (now Arat). Noisy rallies under the slogan “Russia herek chok!” - “Russia is not needed!” The Homeless Committee, which settled Tuvans in apartments abandoned by the Russians.

When Yeltsin issued his famous appeal to the masses - take as much sovereignty as you want - in Tyva (then it was still called the Tuvan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic) they received it with particular enthusiasm.

National feelings in the youngest Russian autonomy were then on the rise; and they were also intensely heated from the outside. Technologists from the Baltic states - mainly Lithuania - where, in fact, the main center anti-union resistance, actively helped their younger “comrades in misfortune.”

By the way, the Baltic centers provided exactly the same support to many other “occupied” peoples; the same Chechnya, for example. To the point that all the first program documents of the Vainakh separatists were verbatim reprints of similar papers of the Baltic popular fronts, including spelling errors.

Like the Vainakhs, Tuvan nationalists firmly believed that as soon as the damned yoke of Moscow was thrown off, rivers of milk would immediately flow along the jelly banks.

They didn't pour. The story of the industrial giant Tuvacobalt is very indicative in this regard. When most of the Russian specialists who worked there fled, the enterprise, which just yesterday was making waves throughout the country, simply stopped. Gradually it was taken away brick by brick, and today the skeleton of the former flagship of non-ferrous metals turns black as a monument to the unfulfilled ideas of separatism.

The frenzy of nationalism cost Tyva dearly. In a matter of months, both industry and Agriculture ordered to live long. Old enterprises collapsed, and, of course, no one created new ones.

The entire Tuvan economy of the 1990s was based solely on three pillars: trade in the remnants of former luxury (equipment and scrap metal), subsidies from the center, and drugs. At the same time, the turnover of the drug trade several times overlapped - and, by the way, still overlaps - the republican budget, because hemp grows here at every step.

Sherig-ool Oorzhak, the long-term master of Tuva, who ruled the republic since Soviet times, very skillfully played on these feelings. No, he, of course, was not a separatist, but at every convenient occasion he was sure to remind in high offices that only through his efforts could the republic be kept from upheaval.

As a reward for this, the Kremlin was ready to turn a blind eye to the complete collapse of the Tuvan economy and to the absolutism of Oorzhak, who squeezed out of power, as befits any prince, all potential competitors. The external calm of Tuva was generously paid for by budget transfers and various concessions.

Oorzhak, for example, adopted a constitution according to which the Republic of Tyva is a state (!) within Russia, and its residents have two citizenships at once. According to the constitution, Tuva is governed by a president elected by the population for two terms. However, when Oorzhak himself decided to be crowned for the third time, he easily changed the constitution, replacing the word “president” with “prime minister”.

Amazingly, all these norms, including the election of the head of the region, are still in effect here.

The current Tuvan Prime Minister Sholban Kara-ool tried, however, to bring the constitution into conformity with Russian legislation, but all his efforts were dashed against the wall of parliamentary resistance.

A war is raging today between the two branches of government in the republic; approximately the same as between the Kremlin and Supreme Council back in 1993. Everything that Kara-ool offers is automatically met with hostility.

Last summer, deputies successfully defeated government amendments to the budget, without forgetting to increase their own allowance. The attempt of the head of the republic to read out a message to the Great Khural ended in vain - the meeting was simply not allowed to convene.

All the deputies' complaints against the leader of the republic are actually explained by only one thing - the struggle for power, which the speaker of the legislative chamber Vasily Oyun has been waging in Tyva for many years. In order to weaken the position of Kara-ool, Oyun and his team are ready for any tricks.

For us, the worse, the better,” one of the opposition activists, deputy Sergei Safrin, bluntly told me.
Most recently, a group of 11 deputies led by Speaker Oyun sent a letter to Medvedev, Putin and Gryzlov, in which they subjected Kara-ool to severe criticism.

“During the year of work as chairman of the government of Tuva, he showed himself to be a suspicious person, unable to organize the work of the government properly and control political processes in the republic." And further: “That is why the situation in the republic... began to deteriorate again.”

In fact, according to all economic indicators, the situation during the year of Kara-ool’s operation not only did not worsen, but, on the contrary, improved: budget revenues increased by one and a half times. Financing of agriculture has increased 7 times. 20 new facilities were commissioned, including an airport, a hospital and several schools.

But in the fever of political passions, few people are interested absolute indicators; he's a bastard - that's the whole conversation.

The crisis of power in Tyva did not begin today or even yesterday. Even when Oorzhak ruled the republic, deputies also sent angry letters to Moscow, demanding that he be removed as soon as possible, because “during the fifteen years of S.D. Oorzhak’s permanent tenure as the highest official of the Republic of Tyva, there was an almost complete destruction of a sufficiently developed industrial, transport , agricultural structure, construction complex of the republic, a sharp decline in the standard of living of the population.” It is not difficult to guess that the signatories of this petition were the same deputies, led by Speaker Oyun, who are now branding the new government with disgrace.

The story of Speaker Oyun is a typical variation of the fairy tale about the fox and the hare: the hare had a bast hut, and the fox had an ice hut...

The former livestock specialist Vasily Oyun owed his entire position to one person only - the first president of Tyva Oorzhak, to whom he is related through his wife.

In the early 1990s, Oorzhak made Oyun the head of one of the districts, then the first deputy prime minister. From the government - he delegated to parliament, literally forcibly seating Oyun in the speaker's chair (he was elected on the 13th attempt).

But it’s not without reason that they say: to get to know a person, you need to give him money and power. Vasily Oyun could not stand the test of copper pipes. Very soon he had a huge quarrel with his benefactor and decided to take his place, fortunately it was clear that no one would let Oorzhak serve a fourth term.

Oyun chose Sergei Mironov as his political “roof”; Tyva turned out to be one of the few regions where Mironov’s Party of Life, in principle, managed to enter the local parliament. Well, the number of votes received by the Russian Orthodox Church - 32% - became a record. The list of RPZh, as you might guess, was headed by Vasily Oyun.

Victory in the elections (this happened in 2006) brought Oyun the long-awaited opportunity to dictate his terms to the Kremlin. Taking into account single-mandate seats, he now controlled approximately half of the legislative chamber.

For six months, the parliament could not even meet for its first meeting: Oyun’s people simply did not go there, and in their absence there was no quorum.

Oyun blackmailed the center in the most banal way; in exchange for a quorum, he demanded the overthrow of Prime Minister Oorzhak and his own appointment in his place. However, Putin thought differently. A completely different candidate was nominated for the post of Tuvan head - the speaker of the parliament of the year before last, Sholban Kara-ool.

Only in April 2007 did the protracted crisis seem to be resolved. The parties reached a compromise: Oyun becomes speaker again, Kara-ool is confirmed as prime minister, and all committees in parliament are divided equally between United Russia (read: Kara-ool) and the Russian Orthodox Church (read: Oyun). These obligations were fully fulfilled, but even this seemed not enough to Oyun.

“He began to demand,” recalls Kara-ool, “that I give half of the posts in the government to his people. I actually nominated someone. (Several deputy prime ministers previously joined Oyun’s group. - OH.) But when Oyun wanted his wife to head the republican treasury, and a close relative to become the head of the tax inspectorate, it was already too much. In addition, Oyun tried to push his business issues through me - to give him certain enterprises, to provide his structures with construction contracts. I couldn't do this.

This is how another confrontation began in Tyva. (Oyun’s team was already running against United Russia in the elections to the city khural.) Oyun still had a blocking stake in parliament. This allowed him to block all the work of the new government; hiding behind, of course, lofty words about Kara-ool’s mistakes.

Although the reason, of course, is completely different: inspired by the victory over the previous regime, Oyun now hopes to destroy the new government.

Actually, opposition activists don’t really hide the fact that their main complaint against Kara-ool is that he did not give lucrative positions in the government to everyone. Oyun’s assistant, publisher of the newspaper “Risk” Sergei Konviz, told me, for example, how he was offered the position of Minister of Housing and Communal Services; but then, they say, they deceived me in a mean way. In revenge, he went to war against Kara-ool; For the sake of this, he even teamed up with Oyun, although just recently he showered him with all his might. The newspaper “Risk” did not call Oyun anything other than “Vasya - 10%”.

("Kara-ool is a worthless and weak ruler," says now the professional rebel Konviz; he once headed republican branch “Liberal Russia“, they say, he even went to London to see Berezovsky, and in the most prominent place in his office is a diploma signed by the leader of the United Front, Garry Kasparov: third place in the opposition press competition.

“And if you were nevertheless accepted into the government,” I ask in response, “would that make Kara-ool cease to be worthless?”

Conviz answers without hesitation:

The strength of a leader is not in knowing everything himself, but in choosing such convicts for himself...)
But all this is just the visible part of the iceberg. Even if Vasily Oyun is a genius in political battles, his efforts alone are still not enough for a successful struggle.

Moreover, the Tuvan government openly declares: deputies who support Oyun receive a good monthly salary increase - from 200 thousand to half a million rubles.

This, of course, is not said openly,” testifies the head of the economic department of the Great Khural, Alexey Mongush, “but everyone here knows about it. Deputies even discuss among themselves why some are given more than others.

Where did Vasily Oyun get his money? After all, the RPZ election campaign was sensationally expensive for Tyva. According to the current Deputy Prime Minister of the Tuvan government Vasily Urban (by the way, he was also previously part of the Oyunov team), it cost at least 150 million rubles.

Some light was shed on the origin of these funds in the summer, when the prosecutor’s office received a statement from a certain Israeli citizen, Alexander Bigotsky, claiming that he sponsored the elections of the Russian Orthodox Church. As proof, Bigotsky even presented the agreements he had concluded with Oyun and other candidates for deputies of the Khural. These documents are also at my disposal.

To be honest, I am not new to election campaigns, but I have never seen such papers before. In essence, this is a classic version of a business contract. One side undertakes to give money for the elections. The other is to work them out. The agreement even provides for penalties; if, after winning, the deputy “rejects the obligations he has assumed,” he will have to return all the money back - plus a 200% penalty.
(For those who don’t know, Russian legislation categorically prohibits foreigners from financing elections at any level.)

This is by no means the only complaint of law enforcement agencies against Oyun. In July, the Tyva Investigative Committee opened a criminal case against him for abuse of office; at the direction of Oyun, the parliamentary KHOZU was illegally engaged in entrepreneurial activity- rented out premises and cars, sold their property; Of course, no taxes were paid.

In general, the business interests of the main Tuvan opposition leader are wide and endless. These include gas stations, livestock, agriculture, and other, less respectable ways of earning money, for which the Risk newspaper once branded him with disgrace.

General Director construction company“Ostov and Company” Valery Akberov told me, for example, that during the period while Oyun worked as Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs, he personally handed over kickbacks to him from all contracts received; The known tax is 10%. (Since Akberov did not present any evidence, I will leave these statements on his conscience.)

However, all this money is just a drop in the bucket compared to the opportunities that are opening up in Tyva today. And the Israeli Bigotsky, against the background of today’s well-wishers, looks like just a beggar...

Recently, in the small 300 thousand population of Tyva, the interests of almost all the main oligarchs of the country have been present.

Oleg Deripaska intends to build the KaaKhemsky coal mine. Vladimir Potanin's structures acquired a license to develop copper-nickel deposits. A subsidiary of Evrazmetallgroup won the competition for the right to develop the Mezhegey coal deposit, paying an amount unprecedented even by Russian standards - 17 billion rubles.

But the Orthodox banker Sergei Pugachev took root most deeply in Tyva. Its structures are involved in the development of another coal deposit - Elegestskoye. They control the People's Bank of Tyva. Well, most importantly, Pugachev is a senator from the republic.

Pugachev himself flatly denies any talk about his connection with Oyun. Maybe that's true. But - an interesting detail.

In December last year, a certain Magnolia InterClub CJSC presented the Legislative Chamber with a brand new armored Mercedes 600 at a price of 22.8 million rubles. According to the terms of the agreement, this car should be used exclusively to service Oyun during his visits to Moscow.

Why does the Tuvan speaker need such luxury? And who drives around in an armored limousine with special license plate A 517 MP 97 and a flashing light in the absence of a speaker?

Eyewitnesses, including the head of Tuva Sholban Kara-ool, claim: Senator Pugachev.

This, of course, does not prove anything yet, but it still gives reason for certain thoughts...

Stability in Tyva big business need not. As long as the branches of power continue to slap each other in the face, the oligarchs have the opportunity to buy up the region for next to nothing; Fishing is best done in muddy water.

It is significant that the Elegest coal deposit was once acquired by Pugachev structures for only 100 thousand dollars; although in terms of volume it is larger than even Mezhegeisky. (For the last one, let me remind you, EAM has already shelled out 17 billion rubles.)

Considering that soon he will come to Tyva Railway, and coal, nickel and copper are only becoming more expensive on the world market, the attractiveness of the republic is growing before our eyes. This means you should hurry; What costs a ruble today will cost a hundred tomorrow.

In this sense, the interests of the oligarchy and the local opposition completely coincide. They also coincide with the interests of the drug mafia, for which firm power means the loss of excess income (it is not surprising that local organized crime groups actively assisted in carrying out last elections on the side of the opposition, and the Tuvan “infantry” even bought ballots from the population). And for our neighbors, such a development of events is exclusively in the hands of our neighbors, because our “partners” have not yet abandoned their plans to launch mini-orange revolutions; practically a mononational republic, 1300 kilometers of border with Mongolia - a better testing ground for testing “orange” technologies cannot be found.

(By the way, they are already being successfully tested today. For any reason, the opposition drives crowded rallies to the government house, provoking the authorities to use force; one of these pickets was, for example, due to the alleged ban on Kara-ool... to celebrate Maslenitsa.)

The game being played today in Tyva is a very dangerous activity; fanning the flames of separatism is like playing with matches at a gas station.

By the way, something similar happened quite recently in another Russian region - the Stavropol Territory. The coincidences are amazing - right down to the smallest details.

There, too, there was a war between the legislative and executive branch; on one side - the governor, on the other - the mayor and speaker of the regional Duma, who came to power under the “roof” of “A Just Russia”.

The mayor and the speaker also wanted to overthrow the governor, for which they blocked all his actions; as in Tyva, the Duma was unable to begin work for six months. And they also exploited the nationalist theme quite successfully - Stavropol almost became the second Kondopoga. In May 2007, after the murder of two Russian students, spontaneously organized anti-Caucasian riots began in the city, rallies and gatherings flared everywhere, which miraculously did not end in pogroms.

The only official who dared to go out to the aggressive crowd was Mayor Kuzmin; only later, during a search, investigators will find Nazi symbols in his home, as well as an amazingly powerful document - a plan to destabilize the situation in the region. Playing the national card was almost the main point in it.

But in the end everything ended according to a completely different scenario. The Kremlin could no longer tolerate these outrages. (The last straw was the secret meetings of the opposition with the 2nd Secretary of the American Embassy (aha!), who specially came to Stavropol for this.)

An operational group of the Ministry of Internal Affairs was sent to the region. The speaker was imprisoned. The mayor, without waiting for arrest, fled abroad (he is now detained by the Austrian authorities and is awaiting extradition to Russia).

I had the opportunity to meet with the chairman of the Stavropol Duma, Andrei Utkin, after his arrest; he tore out his last hair and bitterly regretted that he had played too much; If I had known how it would end, I would never have gone into politics.

I think it would be very useful for Vasily Oyun to talk with his former colleague; This, however, is not so easy to do. Having received a suspended sentence of 2 years, Utkin immediately left the country.

But if I want, I can find it.

Contact…

FROM THE MK DOSSIER

The Republic of Tyva is a subject of the Russian Federation located in the eastern part of Siberia along the border with Mongolia. The number of inhabitants is 308 thousand people. Population density - 1.8 people. per 1 square kilometer. The main religions are Buddhism, shamanism, Orthodoxy.

Until 1914, Tyva was part of China, then it came under Russian protectorate as the Uriankhai region. In the 1920s, it was transformed into an independent de jure Tuvan People's Republic, completely controlled by Moscow. In 1944, it officially became part of the USSR with autonomy rights. The capital of Tyva is Kyzyl.

Moscow-Abakan-Moscow.

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The mother of Radislav Mongush, a deputy of the Kyzyl City Council from United Russia, who was killed in September 2009, contacted the editors of Plus Inform. She became another “victim” of the publications of the Risk Transit newspaper. Or rather, at gunpoint scandalous newspaper her honor and dignity fell dead son. The opposition media, in its characteristic manner, without citing any supporting facts, called Mongush a “criminal authority.” The woman appealed to the Abakan City Court, and it ordered the defendants to pay Zoya Mongush a total of 120 thousand rubles in compensation for moral damage and compensation for the services of her representative. But she never received the money.
Try to find me
The court's decision came into force, but after that the bailiffs began to have real problems. After all, you still need to get money from the slanderer. The material in Risk was published without a signature. Therefore, the editors of this media outlet must be called to account. But in the register of legal entities of Abakan, according to court materials, there is no information about the registration of the Risk-Transit newspaper. Its founder is Parus LLC, which means that it is he who must pay for the “slander” of his brainchild. The company is registered in Abakan on Bogdan Khmelnitsky Street in an apartment.
As stated in the minutes of the court hearing, it was recorded in the name of one of the owners of this very housing, a certain Yuri Snetkov, who shares the rights to the apartment with a gentleman who is a witness at the trial. It was he who told at the hearing of the administrative case that the living space is now rented out to third parties.
“There are no signs indicating the location of the Risk-Transit newspaper, Parus LLC, or other advertisements on the specified house or near it,” the court record says. It turns out that neither the founder nor the editors themselves are there. Another fiction?
Dozens of slandered
Why should the true owners of an opposition newspaper care about the feelings of a grieving mother when the algorithm of their actions is to spit, turn away and hide. Zoya Mongush, as mentioned earlier, is not the only one who has suffered from the slanderers, which has been proven more than once in court.
Among them is the head of Tuva Sholban Kara-ool, as well as ex-Prime Minister Sholban-ool Irgit. In November 2010, the Abakan City Court satisfied their claims for the protection of honor, dignity and business reputation against the Risk-Transit newspaper and ordered its founder, Parus LLC, to pay 300 and 30 thousand rubles in compensation, respectively.
In the publications of this media, in particular, it is stated that law enforcement agencies have sufficient evidence to bring Kara-ool to criminal liability, but the editors of the print publication could not confirm the reliability of this information.
Therefore, it is logical that the head of Tuva won the court case. After that, he ordered the transfer of 300 thousand rubles due to him in court to the children's department of the Republican Infectious Diseases Hospital as sponsorship. But as you might guess, the bailiffs were unable to obtain this amount from the fictitious legal entity.
The Invisible Founder
The money for the case won by the prime minister of the republic was never received by the medical institution. Zoya Mongush also did not receive compensation for moral damage. And these are not all the people from whom, thanks to various machinations, “Risk” escaped. The fact is that the founder of the newspaper Parus LLC was simply liquidated on February 8, 2011 (it is not clear how a legal entity with so many debts managed to do this).
According to the data provided to us by the government, in the period from December 1 to February 9, 2011, this media outlet generally had two founders - the ill-fated and elusive, like the Flying Dutchman, Parus and Asia Center LLC.
Further - more, now they are no longer trading “Risk-transit”, but “Risk-inform”, which was founded by Pereval LLC, registered somewhere in Minusinsk (apparently, in Abakan all the moves for the legal placement of “left-wing” companies have already blocked).
"Risk" is a ignoble business
A newspaper that positions itself as the main fighter for justice in the republic can easily spit on the soul of a mother who lost her son, can deprive sick children of money won by the head of Tuva in court and allocated for them, can denigrate everyone and everything.
It is difficult to name politicians, journalists, representatives of the cultural elite and other prominent figures of the republic who have not been slandered by this media. Facts, objectivity and evidence - these main criteria of journalism are not a priority for “Risk”. What is important here is the “cunning word”, for which you can sell your soul to the devil.
According to materials at the disposal of the weekly, the Department Federal service for supervision in the field of communications, information technology and mass communications in the Krasnoyarsk Territory conducts an unscheduled inspection of the newspaper Risk Transit. As they say, nothing lasts forever.
The media, which in its publications “shouts” that it is protecting the rights of the residents of the republic, should not hide from responsibility for the materials of its journalists and editors. In the situation with “Risk,” it turns out that articles in the newspaper are often fiction, its founder is also fictitious, and the struggle for justice can easily be called an imitation. Simply put, a complete fiction?
D. Soin