TURCHAK Andrey Anatolyevich (b. 1975) and his political success are associated with his father, Anatoly Turchak, who used to go to the same judo club along with Vladimir Putin and the Rotenberg brothers. Apparently, such connections proved to be very useful for Turchak Sr., since having started his career as a simple mechanic at the Leninets factory, he soon became the general director of the enterprise, and then headed the Leninets Holding Company OJSC.
PONOMARENKO Alexander Anatolyevich (b. 1964 in Belogorsk, Ukraine) served in the Soviet army from 1983 to 1985. After his military service, he was a professional boxer and won the championship of Ukraine. In 1988, he graduated from the Physics Department of Simferopol State University.
ROTENBERG Igor Arkadyevich (b. 1973 in Leningrad) graduated from the Higher School of Privatization and Entrepreneurship in 2002. In 2002-2003, he served as deputy head of the Department of the Property of the Fuel and Energy Complex. In 2003-2004, he headed the Department of Transport and Communications Property of the Ministry of Property of Russia.
ROTENBERG, Boris Romanovich (b.1957) is a Russian oligarch and a close confidant of Vladimir Putin. Born in Leningrad, from 1968 he was involved in the judo section at a youth sports school alongside Putin. In 1978, he graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Physical Culture and Sports and became a professional judo trainer.
KHAN German Borisovich (b. 1961 in Kyiv) graduated from the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys (MISiS) in 1988. After graduation, Khan began working in cooperatives Poisk and Kosmos. Then, together with partner Alexander Furman, he created his cooperative Alexandrina, which was engaged in apparel sewing.
KOVALCHUK Boris Yuryevich (b. 1977) was born in Leningrad in the family of Yuri Kovalchuk, a close associate of Vladimir Putin. He graduated from the Law Faculty of St. Petersburg State University in 1999, where Dmitry Medvedev was one of his lectors.
IVANOV Sergey Sergeyevich (b. 1980 in Moscow) was born in the family of a KGB officer Sergey Borisovich Ivanov, a colleague and longtime friend of Vladimir Putin. In 2001, he graduated from MGIMO as an economist, and in 2002, as a financier. By that time, his father had already become Minister of Defense and the young man had no problems with employment.
In Irkutsk, 65-year-old Sergei Bugaev, who rented an office to Navalny’s headquarters in 2019*, is being forced to be hospitalized in a psychiatric clinic. About this himself Bugaev told Sibir.Realii publication**. The decision on his involuntary hospitalization was appointed during the renewal of a driver’s license. Bugaev himself attributes this to support for activists. According […]
A state-appointed defense attorney in a case involving terrorist financing uncovered falsified testimony by an investigator from the Sakhalin FSB. The Chekists attempted to coerce an Uzbek tractor driver, who does not speak Russian well, into writing a confession as a sponsor of religious extremists. The refusal to sign the questionable protocol and […]
According to journalists, about 2.5 billion euro and African franc banknotes are printed annually in this printing house. On Wednesday, February 9, the printing house of the Bank of France caught fire in the city of Chamalieres. 34 people were injured, 10 of them were hospitalized. This is reported France info. According to the newspaper, […]
