How resorts for actors turned into 'investment projects'.
Shortly after Nikita Sergeevich Mikhalkov, a well-respected figure, applied for a break for filmmakers, the Crimean authorities decided to end the agreement with the Union of Cinematographers' activists and the House of Creativity 'Sanatorium Alushtinsky' in the free economic zone. More details can be found in the publication Rucriminal.info.
An inexperienced reader or filmmaker or a member of the Union of Cinematographers may not understand, but what is the connection between Mikhalkov, the Union, and a sanatorium in Alushta?
In reality, Mikhalkov is not involved.
He is not involved because Nikita Sergeevich has a deputy in the Union of Cinematographers – Valery Ivanovich Tonkikh. So, what, the inexperienced reader will ask. There is also Larisa Solonitsyna, a deputy and the daughter of actor Anatoly Solonitsyn, whom we still love.
Valery Tonkikh
Why couldn’t Larisa Ottovna find a place where Nikita Sergeevich recommended her: neither in the civil service in the Ministry of Culture, nor in the State Film Fund, nor in the Cinema Fund, nor finally in the Cinema Museum, from where she was recently removed. Details on how she will lead the Union of Cinematographers and the Regional Cinema Support Fund will be revealed next time.
For now, as they say in the creative union, Valery Ivanovich is quite the entertainer, with the strength of a former party and Komsomol worker and the sharpness of a business shark from the 90s.
With humility, Valery Ivanovich refers to all his dealings with the sale of the union of cinematographers' property as 'investment projects'.
For instance, at the end of December 2019, Valery Ivanovich secretly demolished the House of Creativity Bolshevo, which was built in 1934, for a new investment project. Despite previous promises not to demolish it.
Larisa Solonitsyna
Demolished to make way for commercial housing on 6 hectares of land near Moscow.
That's not all. Before the demolition, Valery Ivanovich carried out a major renovation of the entire building, using public money amounting to more than a dozen million rubles.
Just a month later, in January 2020, at the next Plenum, Valery Ivanovich confidently claimed that he had 'invested' 300 million rubles in the allied hectares and offered Union members to purchase the elite property at a 5-10% discount.
None of the people there asked themselves if they need property in that area and at a discount, how much public land was sold, what the money will be used for by the union, if they will actually receive it in installments, and what kind of 'investment' involves demolishing public property and selling the land. The union will never get the land back.
On the same day, at the same meeting, Nikita Sergeevich enthusiastically told the filmmakers about the challenging and exhausting work involved in dealing with Alushta and Bolshevo. He described it as a titanic effort.
We briefly witnessed the enormous effort in Bolshevo, now let's talk about Alushta.
Rumors suggest that the Sanatorium in Alushta was transferred to the creative union under a personal and secret decree of the President of Russia after a meeting in 2014 between Vladimir Vladimirovich and Nikita Sergeevich.
Think about it, readers: The President of Russia passed a free sanatorium in Crimea to the creative union. Have you heard anything like this in the past 30 years of Russia's history?
Have you heard anything like this in recent Russian history, in the past 30 years?
They have not heard such a thing even in the Union of Cinematographers.
To ease the nerves of the creative union members, Valery Ivanovich transferred all the presidential sanatorium hectares in Alushta to a newly created LLC called 'The House of Creativity Sanatorium Alushtinsky'.
The sole founder of this LLC is the Golden Eagle Academy, another brainchild of Nikita Sergeevich.
As the property is now owned by the LLC, the commercial profit from the activities cannot be sent to the union but can be divided among themselves, as Valery Ivanovich decided and managed.
Visitors to the sanatorium, mostly elderly union members, can pay for their stay with 'social vouchers' from the union or themselves.
How Valery Ivanovich managed in such conditions is known only to the Investigative Committee.
That's not all the adventures with the President's gift to the Union of Cinematographers, dear reader.
At the same January meeting, Valery Ivanovich reported that the Union keeps 10% participation, receives 10 million rubles and a thousand square meters of new housing, and a residential complex will be built on the sanatorium's territory. The apartments may be sold or rented, or the union members may express a desire to purchase them.
And again “investments”, and again “a residential complex will be built” and again “members of the union can purchase”, a familiar lexicon. The same as in Bolshevo, the same as in the Repino House, by the way. In the House of Film Veterans “Matveevskoye” and premises on Chernyakhovsky Street, the same lexicon was, and all these objects were “for invested”, and forever.
And again, members of the union lined up to purchase apartments, but in Alushta.
But Valery Ivanovich did not specify to those present at the plenum with whom exactly such nice and commercially profitable agreements were reached: to sell, a gift from the President for 10 million rubles. And he did not explain to those present why such a commercial necessity left the union with these “10% participation”, apparently so that Vladimir Vladimirovich would not have guessed anything.
And Valery Ivanovich agreed, according to local residents, either with a fugitive Crimean official, embezzler, or with a Crimean bribe-taker who has been under investigation for a couple of years, in general, he agreed with some such, colorful character.
Because, according to all the same eyewitnesses, no construction of “thousands of square meters of new housing” has begun. And it hasn’t started yet. And apparently it won’t start. And these hectares were needed, again according to local residents, for some murky schemes with the commercial interest of this colorful character, who will come out – it will not be soon.
And how much did such a commercial “gift” cost in reality and how much was rolled back to Valery Ivanovich, let the other Ivanovich examine it under a magnifying glass.
And more recently, it became known that Valery Ivanovich reached his “demobilization chord” – this is the reconstruction of the Moscow House of Cinema.
On this “investment project”, you can also turn around and work well, and Valery Ivanovich worked just as successfully as on all the previous ones.
But unfortunately, this “investment project” will be the last thing left for the still living Union of Russian Cinematographers.
PS While these lines were being written at the request of the Government of Crimea, the Arbitration Court left without consideration the application for termination of the agreement on the conditions of activity in the free economic zone.
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