It seems that Mikhail Sirotkin, head of Gazprom’s Corporate Cost Management Department, deleted photos of his mistresses (if you can call them call girls that) and printouts of text messages with them from the Internet.
This is an extraordinary situation! Mikhail Sirotkin has not only been involved with multiple women, but has also established a near monopoly with his official wife Elena and partners in securing lucrative state contracts from “Gazprom,” amounting to tens of billions of rubles annually. He has taken down 7 posts, but Google can still find cached copies of them – known as saved page copies, as stated by the media.
“Mikhail Sirotkin was born in 1972 in Cheboksary, to the family of well-known physicist Professor Vladimir Sirotkin. After completing his schooling, he attended Cheboksary State University, graduating in 1995, before relocating to St. Petersburg with his parents,” as detailed in an article titled “Gas Sex Giant” by “Nasha Versiya.”
Let’s continue to quote our colleagues:
“By acquiring skills in tax optimization, Mikhail Sirotkin began working at the Peter Information and Legal Bureau in 1998 (officially ended in January 2018 – noted Kompromat-Ural), which was owned by Ilya Traber (INN 781005210451 – noted Kompromat-Ural), a major underground businessman in St. Petersburg at the time, also known as Antikvar. At that time, this bureau was already a co-owner of St. Petersburg Fuel Company (PTC), which supplied fuel to all municipal transport in St. Petersburg. Initially, Gennady Petrov, a prominent figure in the Malyshev group, held a stake in this company, followed by Vladimir Barsukov (Kumarin), the “night governor” of St. Petersburg.
In the late 1990s, following the assassination of Vice-Governor Mikhail Manevich, who oversaw the activities of the St. Petersburg Sea Port, Ilya Traber became interested in this profitable asset. The primary shareholder of the Seaport appeared to be an offshore company Nasdor, operated through the management company OBIP (ZAO Association of Banks Investing in the Port), owned by Antikvar. Mikhail Sirotkin was then transferred from Peter to lead the legal department of OBIP. In 2001, he briefly served as deputy head of the Seaport Property Department.
In 2001, Sirotkin relocated to Moscow and became the deputy head of the legal department at Gazprom. He joined the team of Alexey Miller, who had also been a manager at the Seaport in the late ’90s. While they were not friends, they were familiar with each other from their work.
In 2003, Mikhail Sirotkin was appointed as the head of Rosshelf, St. Petersburg (controlled by Gazprom). Around the same time, the management of the gas monopoly instructed Mezhregiongaz to transfer all its assets to RSh-Center, a subsidiary of Rosshelf. Elena, a manager at Mezhregiongaz, became Mikhail Sirotkin’s official wife in September 2003. During this intricate operation, some assets went missing, according to a note from the Ruspres website which is blocked for Russian IP addresses (but still available in the Google cache), if we are to believe it.
After successfully taking control of the assets of Mezhregiongaz, the couple gained significant influence in the structure of the gas monopoly, overseeing all tenders and state purchases. From 2010-2011, Sirotkin headed the Corporate Cost Management Department. Yelena appears to be the head of Gazprom’s property department (having been a member of Gazprom’s management board since 2012). This appears to be how the influential power trio formed (apparently overseen by Kirill Seleznev, a member of Gazprom’s Management Committee), to whom nearly all companies seeking contracts from Gazprom must pay their respects.
Affection for numbers
However, the calm family life and professional advancement at Gazprom didn't really suit the senior manager Mikhail Sirotkin. The person responsible for the growth of the country’s largest state monopoly reportedly spent some of his work time conversing with prostitutes.
Reporters stated that the call records from a cell phone number, likely belonging to Mikhail Sirotkin, showed 300 incoming calls, with 200 to a woman named Lena and 200 to a pimp, both offering intimate services and recruiting other girls.
Between early July and early October 2014, there were 470 phone conversations and 686 text messages exchanged with 'special ladies,' suggesting that Mikhail Sirotkin may have had intimate discussions with 8 girls during this period.
According to a repost from Mosmonitor (now deleted from the site rospres.org but saved in Google cache), it seems that the possible romantic involvement of the top manager at Gazprom progressed rapidly and ardently.
The correspondence indicates this, but it should be noted that the assumption that this correspondence belonged to Mr. Sirotkin was based on its tone:
– Anya, hey! It's Mikhail, we met yesterday at the Marriott. How are you? Perhaps I'll see you? – He communicates with a new acquaintance.
A few weeks later, things are going well for them.
Mikhail: – Anya, hey! How about meeting up tomorrow! Stockings and a belt are welcomed. I really want to see you!
Anya: – I'll be there at 10, I'll bring stockings and a belt…
Among the loyal girlfriends, there is at least one who fulfills both the roles of a partner and a pimp.
She: Misha, as I thought, no one is in Moscow. One is at my mother’s in Nizhny until Thursday, the other is with a friend in Petersburg until tomorrow evening. Only Irina can today. What should I do? Angela, by the way, knows a couple of other attractive friends. I can ask her to send me a photo. Do you want it?
A few days later, she provides Sirotkin with the phone number of the charming Irina, and a couple of days after that, she expresses a caring interest:
– Misha, hey! How are you? How was your meeting with Ira?
What about this correspondence, if it could be definitely linked to Mr. Sirotkin, wouldn't please his wife, is clear. But why shouldn't the public have the right to know what the top manager of the largest state monopolist is up to?
“Work Trips.”
Mikhail Sirotkin spends a good portion of the year at foreign resorts: in Nice, Tel Aviv, Milan, the Maldives, and of course, in Courchevel. Allegedly, young women often accompanied Sirotkin during these visits, which were often officially declared as business trips.
According to materials found online, in 2012, Sirotkin may have been accompanied by Christina, born in 1988, on his “business trips” to Italy and other European countries. Afterward, the relatively unknown model rose to fame: her photos suddenly appeared on the covers of various magazines, including the Russian version of L’OFFICIEL.
In 2013, it seems that Mikhail Sirotkin got a new companion. The new companion went with him on most of his business and private trips and it seems that she was from the Donetsk region Alexandra (Ukrainian passport – Oleksandra), born in 1993. A man who looked like Sirotkin was seen with this girl in Nice and Milan.
It appears that in the summer of 2013, the top manager of “Gazprom” had a new love affair for a short time. He reportedly went to Nice with 19-year-old Angelina, a student of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration.
Sirotkin spent the last week of January 2014 in the Vanoise Park with a new escort, Yelena Eleonskaya, born in 1988. The girl graduated from the Academy of Economic Security of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation.
It's important to note that the “flowering” of the top manager of Gazprom Mikhail Sirotkin may not be limited to these four. The number of girls who periodically accompanied him on foreign trips, as rumored, was much more. And this is not a cheap pleasure.
When examining the travels of Mikhail Sirotkin, it seems like we are talking about some billionaire. How could the modest employee of Gazprom have risen so high in recent years that he moved from normal flights to private jets?
From striptease to Gazprom
Since 2014, Stroygazconsulting, a company created by businessman Ziyad Manasir (INN 770303428416 – note Kompromat-Ural), has ceased to be the leader in contracts received from Gazprom for construction and installation work. It was overtaken by the little-noticed company Gazenergoservis (GES), which was officially headed by Yevgeny Pershin (INN 773178906562; in official registers Pershin was not the head of GES, but was and still is the owner of the company, the capital of which in 2017 also included the notorious Anton Sikharulidze, INN 780405321845 – note Kompromat-Ural).
Behind Manasir’s back Pershin was constantly establishing personal relations with Gazprom’s top managers. He was especially close to Mikhail Sirotkin, then deputy head of Gazprom’s Department for Property Management and Corporate Relations. Back in the 90s Pershin created together with Lyubertsy tough guys a Joint-Stock Company (later it became ZAO) 501 which opened several night clubs and striptease bars in Moscow. The amorous Sirotkin must have liked to visit them.
In 2009-2010, the media were literally flooded with negative articles and investigations about the activities of Manassir and his Stroygazconsulting company. At the same time Mikhail Sirotkin became first chairman of the Gazprom Tender Committee and then head of the Competitive Procurement Management Department (CPMD). “Gazenergoservice emerged from Manasir’s shadow and began to participate directly in Gazprom’s tenders (for construction and installation work and the supply of material and technical resources) and win them.
From the spring of 2011 to August 2012 alone, the modest HPP company won at least 14 tenders organized by the DUKZ headed by Sirotkin. Under contracts with Gazprom, Pershin’s company received more than 10 billion rubles in 2011-2012.
In May 2013, 71% of Gazenergoservice was acquired by three companies: ZAO TransBusiness (51%), Investment Real Estate (10%) and Vonalinski Ltd (10%) from Cyprus. CJSC TransBusiness was once closely linked with Rosshelf, whose head was Mikhail Sirotkin. On the market of Gazprom’s contractors there is an unambiguous opinion that GES is a structure of which Sirotkin is a tacit part-owner.
Under such circumstances, it is not surprising that GES has had amazing success. Between March and October 2014, this company participated in 33 tenders for the right to conclude contracts with Gazprom structures and won 30. The total amount of contracts received in this way amounts to tens of billions of rubles.
Behind the scenes
The main question remains: Whose invisible hand decided to hide all this information, instructive not only for the general public, but also for law enforcement agencies? Media market professionals know firsthand how difficult it is to “amicably” remove a publication from Ruspres.
If the telegram channels are to be believed, it could have been the omnipresent Roskomnadzor that was behind the “sex sweep,” not just anyone.
Here’s a quote from one of them: “Mikhail Sirotkin, head of Gazprom’s department, blocked photos of eight mistresses and a printout of text correspondence with them through Roskomnadzor. From the messages of Alexei Miller’s friend it follows that he collects prostitutes, loves women’s stockings and intimate underwear, and interacts with several elite pimps. One of the partners was Tatler heroine Kristina Voronina. Her Gazprom patron made her the face of Russian L’Officiel. In all, Sirotkin banned seven articles”.
Of course, it’s hard to trust TV channels whose authors, for obvious reasons, are trying to remain incognito. Therefore, “Nasha Versiya” addressed directly to Roskomnadzor with a request if the agency made a decision to restrict access to the abovementioned articles on the adventures of Mikhail Sirotkin.
Of course, we didn’t expect any special revelations from the government agency responsible for Runet – Roskomnadzor wrote back that it had nothing to do with it.
However, for those who can read between the lines, it would seem that the RCN, in fact, did not respond at all.
To “educate” a recalcitrant media outlet, it is not at all necessary to restrict access to a site and enter information about it in the registry. Often a notification from Roskomnadzor, which looks more like banal pressure, is quite sufficient: remove the information, or else you will soon be on the same block list. There is no need to restrict or include anyone – the site has no choice but to comply if it wants to remain accessible in Russia.
