Governor of the Yaroslavl region. Dmitry Mironov, and
The Yaroslavl region is one of the most politically active Russian regions, where gubernatorial elections will be held in the fall. In 2012, Yevgeny Urlashov, an open opponent of United Russia, was elected mayor here, and in 2013, Boris Nemtsov became a deputy of the regional Duma. Yaroslavl has a good reputation with election observers and consistently votes poorly for United Russia. With the new acting governor, security official Dmitry Mironov, frosts have begun in the region, but it has not yet been possible to completely cement the Yaroslavl political life.
Elusive interim
Dmitry Mironov. Photo: RIA Novosti — Elections? And when will they be? Mironov will probably be there? Kirill, a student of the Faculty of Physics at YarSU, is puzzled by my question. He likes Dmitry Mironov: - I see what he is doing for the region, according to the news. He came to my village, there was some kind of meeting. But in order to openly communicate with him - this was not the case - it is felt that Kirill would like direct communication with the governor.
Acting Governor Dmitry Mironov, a KGB and FSO officer, former Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs, has little contact even with those with whom he is forced to work: Yaroslavl deputies and officials complain that the governor almost never attends meetings of the Yaroslavl Regional Duma, he does not hold meetings with the heads of municipalities, and when they see him, he speaks exclusively on paper. Yaroslavl residents are not used to such closeness of the first person: the former governors Anatoly Lisitsyn, Sergey Vakhrukov and Sergey Yastrebov were from the Yaroslavl region, lived in the city, went to work on foot. Dmitry Mironov comes to work by car from a suburban base, where, they say, FSO officers always used to stay during high-ranking visits.
“When Lisitsyn was governor, he gathered the heads of districts every week, the heads of settlements - 80 of them - every month. Now there is no dialogue,” notes Oleg Vinogradov, the new head of the Yaroslavl branch of Yabloko. - Mironov does not meet with anyone, neither with the deputies, nor with the heads. I drove through 30 municipalities - there is devastation. There is no sewerage in the administrations of the settlements, there is a hole in the floor in the toilet - it's a shame in the 21st century. Fences are painted over in Yaroslavl, pedestrian crossings are painted yellow, and roads are potholes.”
“If the governor had not come to the Duma meeting on an important issue earlier, the deputies would have dispersed, saying: we will not consider the issue until the first person comes. Now third or fourth persons are coming, and everyone is silent,” says United Russia Pavel Isaev, vice speaker of the Yaroslavl Regional Duma. — We are seeking meetings with the governor, but it is very difficult. For a year there was only one meeting with a thought management. Previously, the governor handed out his cell phone to everyone, any deputy could dial him at least at night. Now there is no dialogue in principle - there are “happy” deputies who always agree with what the governor brings in.”
Dmitry Mironov was in the Yaroslavl Regional Duma three times: when he was just appointed, when he himself appointed the head of government, and when he reported on the work done for the year on June 6.
Alexander Vorobyov at the picket of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation against the replacement of cast-iron gratings “Even talking to people is hard for him. When the governor’s report was in the regional Duma, all the deputies sent their questions in advance, but we did not send them,” says the leader of the Yaroslavl communists, Alexander Vorobyov. - But my question was calculated there, and I have information that they wrote an answer to him ( Alexander Vorobyov asked the governor why he invited so many Muscovite officials and did not rely on local personnel. — Ed.). He could not find this answer in a pile of papers and said something indistinctly. Previously, we received all the answers that we sent to the governor signed by the governor, but now, at best, some deputy chairman of the government.”
The Novaya correspondent was also not lucky enough to talk to the acting governor during a business trip to Yaroslavl: when asked about the interview, the press service said that Mironov would not be in the city, and it was also not possible to organize a conversation with anyone from the government.
Great Varangian Revolution
Dmitry Mironov was appointed Acting Governor of the Yaroslavl Region a little less than a year ago. He brought with him a team of officials from the Moscow region and almost completely replaced the managerial class in the region with them. The personnel policy and current management of the region was taken over by the new Prime Minister Dmitry Stepanenko - like Dmitry Mironov, an officer of the FSO, a graduate of the Moscow Higher Combined Arms Command School.
Before becoming prime minister in the Yaroslavl region, Stepanenko served as minister of agriculture in the Moscow region. Dmitry Stepanenko brought his former advisers to the position of deputies - Maxim Avdeev, Roman Kolesov and Valery Kholodov, his former deputy Ekaterina Troitskaya, secretariat employee Yuri Valdaev.
Soon after the arrival of the new governor, the leadership of the main municipalities changed, and Muscovites appeared here too: the former head of Kraskov near Moscow, Vladimir Volkov, headed the city of Pereslavl-Zalessky, and Alexei Konstantinov, who also graduated from the Moscow Higher Combined Arms Command School, became the head of the Rostov region.
Vitaly Tkachenko, a former top manager of the Olympic construction and structures of Novatek, became another deputy prime minister. Oleg Zakharov, an employee of the Central Election Commission, who participated in organizing the Crimean referendum, was appointed head of the electoral committee. Rank-and-file officials came along with the new chiefs, and it is already difficult to calculate how many "Varangians" came to the region: someone calls the figure 180 people, someone - 250. The composition of entire departments of the government and the Yaroslavl mayor's office has changed, and the territorial election commissions have been updated.
Some officials did not take root in their new positions: the new mayor of Yaroslavl, Vladimir Sleptsov, who also owes his position to Mironov and Stepanenko, has already replaced the heads of departments who came with him several times in less than a year. Sleptsov, a former policeman and then city hall official, has been the head of the administration of Khimki for the past few years - from there he took several leaders with him when he returned to the mayor's office of Yaroslavl already as head.
“The first group [of officials] in the housing and communal services, already when they were fired, exhaled, they said: “In the Moscow region, everything has been rebuilt along the municipal line. You sit down in a position, and everyone immediately comes to you and carries, and you have to create everything from scratch, ”says a deputy of the regional Duma, who asked not to be named. - One person sat down as the director of municipal baths. The first tenant came to meet him. He tells him: “You make a million, then we will say hello and get to know each other.” But the bath attendants raised such a storm that they put him in jail. (Sergey Lapshinov became the head of MUP Volna in October 2016, but did not work for even three months, as he was convicted of bribes by Novaya.) There are always bribes in municipal enterprises, but there has never been such impudence.”
The heads of regulatory departments have also changed in the region. The regional prosecutor was dismissed by the president's decision along with a party of regional security officials who lost their posts in June.
The head of the Yaroslavl OFAS was fired in April - this was attributed to the fact that the anti-monopoly officials did not meet the new executive authorities: they canceled the results of several road tenders and were openly against the introduction of a new single settlement center for housing and communal services "YarOblLEIRTS", requiring a 3.9% commission for mediation , which many in Yaroslavl considered an undisguised tribute to the Moscow founders. In addition, confusion began with receipts: some received two payments at once, while others simply did not understand why the tariff had changed. Nevertheless, slowly but surely, the region is moving towards payments to the new structure.
Evgeny Golubev “Before, everyone was from Yaroslavl, everyone knew each other, somehow everyone found ways to interact and promote their own interests. Now it’s impossible to agree, because there is a feeling that a Moscow team has come, they don’t perceive the Yaroslavl team at all - this is a hostile environment for them, ”says Yevgeny Golubev, a Yaroslavl-based sociologist. - Everyone understands that the Moscow team came for at least one term, Mironov will win the election, this is beyond doubt, no one wants to quarrel openly. There is hidden dissatisfaction within many elite groups, but no one will go into open conflict: they do not want to get involved. After all, Mironov is an amazing person: he does not decide anything, the chairman of the government decides.
Yaroslavl State Duma deputy from A Just Russia, Anatoly Greshnevikov, on the contrary, is very pleased with the new governor and his team: “They came, engaged in personnel purge, removed a huge number of those officials from government bodies who over the past ten years have destroyed both politics and civil society , underestimated the turnout in the elections. I meet with them every week, we solve a huge number of issues, I am in good contact with the governor and with Prime Minister Stepanenko. We have wonderful dialogues for an hour, two. Stepanenko is young and enterprising. We talk to him - he immediately recruits the minister, immediately recruits the prosecutor's office. He solves each complaint right on the spot, without leaving. I like this style of work!”
“Everyone expected that a person like Mironov would come, but no one expected that with such assistants,” a former housing and communal services official, who was forced to resign with the advent of a new governor, shared with Novaya Gazeta. “And now people say: it seems that they didn’t live so badly!”
The collapse of the legendary Pashiks
The president's personal trust is perhaps the main trump card of the new interim governor. “Mironov has access to the body, he can take and call [the president],” says the leader of the Yaroslavl communists, Alexander Vorobyov. - As far as I know, our antimonopolists were removed on a personal call from Mironov - without any presidential administrations! But he won’t steer the region on a call!”
The governor has good relations with Attorney General Yury Chaika: in April he held an All-Russian conference in Yaroslavl on protecting the rights of entrepreneurs. And in the fall, the son of the Prosecutor General, businessman Igor Chaika, established the Charitable Foundation "Center for Social Initiatives of the Yaroslavl Region" in the region. What kind of initiatives the fund is engaged in is not yet clear. On Easter, he brought the Holy Fire from Jerusalem to Yaroslavl. There are rumors in the local United Russia party that the center is the campaign fund of Dmitry Mironov.
According to various interlocutors of Novaya Gazeta, initially the region was waiting for such an appointment. The former governor, Sergei Yastrebov, was considered by many to be a dependent politician who was influenced by more active and ambitious members of the elite. Mironov was expected to "put things in order" and to receive federal money.
Anton Golitsyn “Everyone was waiting for Yastrebov to be replaced, and many were waiting for him to be replaced with a Muscovite — such talk has been around for a long time,” says Anton Golitsyn, editor of the Yaroslavl editorial office of the Regnum agency and deputy of the municipality of Yaroslavl from the Communist Party. “But it was associated with putting things in order, with clear rules of the game. Under a weak governor, some people believed that politics in the region was led by people who should not be in charge.”
“People who should not lead,” part of the Yaroslavl elite considered the top of the local “United Russia”: deputies of the regional Duma Ilya Osipov (former secretary of the regional branch of the party, last year went to the State Duma for promotion), Ilya Kruglov and Pavel Isaev, deputy governor for internal politics Yuri Boyko, as well as the former head of the Yaroslavl municipality Pavel Zarubin. Ilya Kruglov is the head of the Avangard group of companies, which is engaged in almost everything in the region: construction, pharmaceuticals, cafes, pharmacies, shops, cinemas, food production. People from Avangard form the main group of influence in Yaroslavl politics - it produced, for example, the former acting. Mayor of Yaroslavl Alexei Malyutin.
Pavel Zarubin, Yuri Boyko and Pavel Isaev. Photo from Yury Boyko's Facebook page Pavel Zarubin and Pavel Isaev are a tandem of United Russia political technologists who, according to popular belief, until recently had a great influence on the outcome of any elections in the region. The deputies even received a common nickname - Pashiki - and became an almost legendary phenomenon of Yaroslavl politics. It was this tandem that coordinated all the main campaigns of the Yaroslavl United Russia members and held in their hands the electoral machines that ensured the victory of the “necessary” candidates from United Russia in elections at any level, from intra-party primaries to the regional parliament.
The fact is that the Yaroslavl election commissions are known for their cleanliness. “They looked more decent than other regions, the last chairman of the regional election commission was adequate, there were no high-profile scandals,” says Grigory Melkonyants, deputy executive director of the Golos association. “This is the result of the overall development of civil society in the region, there is a fairly competitive environment there.”
“In the last 5-6 years, the election results [in the Yaroslavl region] have never been drawn,” says Yaroslavl-based sociologist Yevgeny Golubev. Under these conditions, the desired result for the "United Russia" was provided by mobilization networks, in which the required number of voters should be agitated or bribed by specially hired brigadiers. The system works with low turnout and conscientious foremen. Since Zarubin and Isaev control these mobilization networks, many Yaroslavl deputies owe their victory to them, Yaroslavl observers told Novaya Gazeta and confirmed United Russia, which participated in the spring primaries before the municipal elections. Pavel Isaev, when asked by Novaya, whether this is true, replied: “I don’t understand what you are talking about.”
“They were the main political technologists, the main “distributors”: they interacted with all elite groups to one degree or another - such internal diplomats who, using different contradictions, different interests, found interaction between these groups - dexterous, effective political managers" , - says Evgeny Golubev. But the new government did not need such managers, and even with their own interests, and soon received "black marks".
Yuriy Boyko was dismissed - now the government, in principle, does not have a vice-governor responsible for domestic policy. Pavel Zarubin was deprived of his mandate after the prosecutor's office discovered a garage inherited from his father and not listed in the declaration. Pavel Isaev still retains both the mandate and the position of vice-speaker of the regional Duma, but the United Russia campaign is no longer in control.
Ilya Osipov lost his seat in the General Council of United Russia and control over the party in the Yaroslavl region: although the deputy still coordinates the work of United Russia in the Yaroslavl, Kostroma, Ivanovo and Tver regions, the election of Dmitry Mironov will be personally supervised by Sergei Neverov.
Boulevard of the Invictus
Yaroslavl political life was quite lively until recently. Anatoly Ivanovich Lisitsyn, governor of the region from 1991 to 2007, and now a senator, is considered the founder of local democratic traditions - in Yaroslavl he is called the respectful, well-known abbreviation AIL. The diplomatic Lisitsyn was replaced by Sergei Vakhrukov, a much tougher and more authoritarian leader. Yaroslavl residents did not appreciate the “strong hand”: in 2011, United Russia received one of the lowest results in the country here, not even gaining 30%, and Yabloko accelerated to 4.8%. In 2012, when opposition candidate Yevgeny Urlashov appeared in the mayoral elections in Yaroslavl, he defeated United Russia member Yakov Yakushev with a crushing score of 69.7% against 27.8%.
Urlashov, emboldened by the victory and support of Mikhail Prokhorov, gathered perhaps the most efficient branch of the Civic Platform in history and prepared to run for governor. Thousands of citizens came to the “Rally against crooks and thieves” on June 19, 2013 on the main square of Yaroslavl, Urlashov’s speech that United Russia is the most corrupt party, but the crooks in Yaroslavl will not succeed, was greeted with applause. And less than a month later, Urlashov was detained, accused of extorting bribes.
But the governor Vakhrukov did not sit in his place either. In the opinion of many, Urlashov could have won the gubernatorial election on the wave of protest, and the ominous image of the “people's mayor”, who turned all the protest against the party and the government, still frightens the local elite. Before the upcoming gubernatorial elections, maximum precautions were taken so that none of those who “could repeat” would reach registration.
In 2013, RPR-PARNAS went to the elections to the regional Duma with Boris Nemtsov at the head of the list. The party received one mandate, and Boris Nemtsov suddenly appeared on the Yaroslavl political arena. The politician exposed abuses in public procurement, demanded the resignation of the new governor Sergei Yastrebov. “When Nemtsov entered, he simply crushed people with his federal fame alone. It was very interesting to watch the deputy chairmen of the government, how they were sweating when he asked them questions,” says Sergey Balabaev, deputy of the regional Duma and gubernatorial candidate from PARNAS. February 27, 2015 and this short era in the history of Yaroslavl ended.
Sergey Balabaev carries the collected signatures. Socio-political life here is still not completely cemented by the new government. In the regional Duma, one PARNAS mandate remains (now it is with Boris Nemtsov's former assistant Vasily Tsependa), but the main parliamentary opposition is the Communist Party faction and its highly authoritative leader Alexander Vorobyov. There is also a certain amount of life and fresh air in the media sphere: there is a small branch of Ekho Moskvy, opposing elite groups squabble in the local anonymous telegram channels YarPolitika and Urlashov's Dreams - the first, according to rumors, is associated with Zarubin and Isaev , and the second - with the city hall of Yaroslavl hostile to them.
The headquarters of Alexei Navalny in Yaroslavl has opened and exists without much hindrance: the first meeting with volunteers took place in the large hall of the local fashion cinema club "Oil", about 300 people came. Now the headquarters is peacefully working in a small room in the center of Yaroslavl. Before the Saturday rally on July 8, as well as throughout Russia, circulations of propaganda products disappeared in Yaroslavl: activists simply could not get them at the Delovye Linii terminal, newspapers and leaflets had already been confiscated. But, unlike the Moscow and some other headquarters, there were no searches or arrests. According to the head of the headquarters, Elena Lekiashvili, in Yaroslavl, as elsewhere, the oppositionists are denied approval of places for cubes under the pretext that everything is occupied.
Yabloko picket on Red Square in Yaroslavl In four days in Yaroslavl, I see three political actions on the street, two of which are part of presidential campaigns: a collection of signatures in support of Yabloko’s campaign against the war in Syria “Time to return home” (the beginning of the presidential campaign of Grigory Yavlinsky), a cube in support of the nomination of Alexei Navalny for the presidency and the collection of signatures against the replacement of cast-iron fences on Pervomaisky Boulevard. Police are not visible at any of the pickets, no one is being detained.
Volunteers of Navalny collect coordinates of people ready to sign for his nomination The plan of the new mayor to change the cast-iron fences on Pervomaisky Boulevard and replace them with steel ones caused a real scandal in the city. Unlike Moscow, Yaroslavl is not yet accustomed to the wave of fresh improvement initiatives that the new authorities have brought from the capital region. Temporary trading chalets on the embankment, an attempt to make the biggest pancake (pancakes were collected from all schools, but then they had to be thrown away), the installation of flower installations in the shape of hearts on the central boulevard (Yaroslavl residents compare them with another part of the body) - all this with tired skepticism would have been accepted in Moscow, but for Yaroslavl this is still nonsense.
When city deputy Anton Golitsyn announced on his Facebook that the mayor's office was going to replace the cast-iron fences of Pervomaisky Boulevard, installed seven years ago, with metal ones, there was such a commotion that the mayor's office was forced to hold a round table with the public, and then partially cancel their plans: the fences will be replaced, but not everywhere, and the boulevard will be left alone.
“This is a small component of the general style of work of the new mayor’s office, when, without consultation with people, they first arrange the largest pancake in the country, then you need to make the longest scarf, and so on – this is a window dressing that has come to the city,” says Alexander Vorobyov, standing at the red tent of the Communist Party: the Communists collect signatures against the replacement of fences.
A grandmother in jeans and a sports vest comes up to Vorobyov and asks: how to do it so as not to choose Mironov? The communist in response is interested in: who do you want?
“Why do we need another Muscovite? Everything has already been given to Moscow. And where do we have benefits like in Moscow? Another pensioner joins in. - The zombie is taking over! I already tell people at work, I say: “You take money, but do not vote for United Russia! No one will come into the cabin for you!
And the 20-year-old accountant Yulia of the acting governor likes:
— He came to our area, he has answers to all questions.
In the first hour, the Communists easily collect several hundred signatures - the activists of Yabloko and Navalny can only envy such a pace. By and large, few people here are interested in elections yet, but pressing city problems mobilize society quickly. At the same time, city authorities have less and less authority to solve such problems: the new regional administration is actively taking resources from municipalities. Among the most painful losses are the abolition of direct elections of the mayor of Yaroslavl and the transfer of the Yaroslavl Vodokanal to the jurisdiction of the region.
Political institutions that had a real influence on the state of affairs in the region are rapidly losing it under the new governor. “Earlier, deputies of the regional duma had a certain influence on the budget. Now a deputy of the regional duma is nobody: they don’t give him anything, he can’t do anything,” says Anton Golitsyn. - [Requests] are refused: just no, that's all. Mechanisms stopped working.
Picket against Dmitry Mironov on April 25, 2017. Photo from the website of the Yaroslavl branch of the Communist Party Dissatisfaction with the new order is still deaf, but during Vladimir Putin's arrival in Yaroslavl, the communists went to Sovetskaya Square (near the regional administration) with a picket against Dmitry Mironov. "IN. Putin, you sent us the wrong one! We give it back,” one of the posters frankly said. There are rumors in the region that Mironov, accustomed to non-public work, is burdened by his post himself and expects further career growth after the presidential election. And Dmitry Stepanenko can take his place.
Elections with a filter, but without intrigue
In the Yaroslavl region, there could have been really competitive elections for the governor, but the possible intrigue was extinguished in advance: the State Duma deputy, Socialist-Revolutionary Anatoly Greshnevikov, changed his mind about nominating his candidacy. One of the most popular public politicians in the region, he could compete with Dmitry Mironov. Back in the spring there were talks about the nomination of Greshnevikov, but then it became known that it would not take place, and in general no one from A Just Russia would claim the place of the Yaroslavl governor.
According to Kommersant, Greshnevikov's non-nomination was part of a complex deal involving Karelian Socialist-Revolutionary leader Irina Petyalyeva—she, too, was not to run against recent presidential appointee Artur Parfenchikov and become a senator in return. The deal, however, did not take place. According to Greshnevikov, he was also offered a seat in the upper house, but he refused: "I was asked to go to the Federation Council, but I do not enter into such relations." And the Socialist-Revolutionary explains his refusal to be nominated by his unwillingness to compete with "Putin's friend."
“It would not be difficult for me to collect a sufficient number of signatures: we have a large representation in all municipal districts,” Greshnevikov told Novaya Gazeta. “We have calculated everything, prepared everything. But then Dmitry Yurievich Mironov was appointed from Moscow. There would be problems with the passage of the municipal filter, because this is a man of the Kremlin and a personal friend of Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. An indication would have been given: they signed it wrong, they did it wrong. And an important factor is that I have established good friendly relations with him. They came, they did so much work in half a year, fighting corruption, with that unprofessional personnel policy that hit all regional and city departments. Therefore, we weighed everything: we do not pass the municipal filter, we have established good relations.”
As a result, in addition to Dmitry Mironov, communist Mikhail Paramonov, the leader of the Yaroslavl "Yabloko" Oleg Vinogradov, Sergey Balabaev from PARNAS, Andrei Vatlin from the Liberal Democratic Party and Kirill Panko from the "Communists of Russia" nominated for the elections. Everyone passed the municipal filter, except for Vinogradov. According to several Yaroslavl deputies of different levels and parties, the headquarters of the interim was collecting signatures for all candidates who were eventually allowed to run in the elections - in the Yaroslavl region, the standard technology of total signature collection was already used, which does not allow objectionable candidates to pass the municipal filter.
According to Oleg Vinogradov, it happened that deputies who wished to sign for him were not accepted by a notary, while signatures for other candidates were collected in a directive manner. “Some district leaders told me: “Tomorrow they will fire us and put Muscovites in the district if we don’t collect signatures for Mironov.” I don’t want these people to be removed,” says Yabloko. - The task of United Russia's political technologists, as I understand it, is for Mironov to compete with his shadow. But it was important for me to try.”
Oleg Vinogradov Oleg Vinogradov is a veteran of Yaroslavl politics, he competed in the gubernatorial elections with Lisitsyn, and then worked with him as a vice-governor. After there were several deputy terms in the regional duma, the post of adviser to the mayor Urlashov. Vinogradov was not allowed to participate in the last elections to the regional Duma in 2013: the Civic Platform list, headed by Urlashov, who was already imprisoned, did not pass registration, because the financial commissioner disappeared at the last moment. Vinogradov recently headed the local branch of Yabloko: before that, it was headed by the city deputy Vladimir Zubkov, but in Moscow they began to notice that the branch was not working as we would like, the powers of the branch were suspended, the leadership was re-elected.
Communist Alexander Vorobyov complained that his fellow party members were also interfered with the municipal filter: the signatures of some deputies of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation were "intercepted" by United Russia. “In general, in these elections it was surprising to me why they put spokes in the wheels. After all, the authorities objectively benefit from our participation in the elections. I know that they have been given the task of ensuring a turnout of at least 35% in Yaroslavl, and for this the elections must be of some interest. They did these machinations not to hinder us, but to block the way for Vinogradov. Maybe it’s inconvenient for them because everyone who was expelled from United Russia is now running to Yabloko, ”says Vorobyov. According to him, Vorobyov did not put forward his candidacy in the elections instead of the not-so-famous member of the same party, Mikhail Paramonov, because he is "not a business executive."
PARNAS candidate Sergey Balabaev became a local sensation - this is the first nominee of Kasyanov's party who was able to pass the municipal filter. According to several local deputies from United Russia, who asked not to be identified, Balabaev was assisted in collecting signatures by district administrations. Balabaev himself denies the help of United Russia, noting that until late at night he traveled around the municipalities, collecting signatures.
Sergei Balabaev has a rich political biography: in the early 2000s, he created Youth Unity in the region, then he quarreled with United Russia. When Yevgeny Urlashov created a branch of the Civic Platform in the region, Balabaev was elected from it to the regional Duma. In the 2016 State Duma elections, he ran for A Just Russia. According to Balabaev, he left the Socialist-Revolutionaries because he was tired of “sitting on the bench”, and spending his whole life in the regional Duma is not his dream.
“They ask me: will you smash Mironov? Why smash him? I believe that we needed another person, not from the authorities of the Yaroslavl region. Certain elites were formed, which, due to their organizational capabilities, are not able to offer anything, who were eating away the region. We are similar to Mironov, right? the opposition asks me.
Other candidates — Rybinsk regional Duma deputy from the Communist Party Mikhail Paramonov, LDPR member Andrei Vatlin, and unemployed Kostroma resident Kirill Panko from the Communists of Russia — none of my interlocutors in Yaroslavl gives a great chance of success. “If Greshnevikov and Vorobyov had gone to the polls, there would have been a second round, and the result could have been unpredictable,” Anton Golitsyn believes. “But they wouldn’t pass the municipal filter.”
“If the gubernatorial elections were held today, Mironov would have more than 52%,” Yevgeny Golubev shares poll data from mid-June. - Greshnevikov could get 7-8%, Balabaev - 5%. A quarter of voters are undecided. But if something serious happens over the summer, swing the situation a little bit into the negative now, there will be a second round. To date, no one calculates what will happen in March. In our last elections, barely more than 50% voted for Putin. And if this time there are no more than 50, there will be organizational conclusions, and the elite will begin to shake again. By hook or by crook, they should gain more than 50%, but, in my opinion, they will not be able to do this by legal methods, and the president banned illegal ones in his elections. Now there is an overdose of information on Mironov - in all the media there is only Mironov, and it will just play to reduce turnout. There will be administrative mobilization, but they don’t turn out at one mobilization.”
“There is a very serious intrigue in the elections, not in who will become governor, but in whether they will be able to make the required percentage,” Anton Golitsyn believes. “The number of mistakes made by both regional and municipal authorities, the number of people already personally negatively affected by them (the same receipts for housing and communal services) is already very high, a large part of the business is also affected, ordinary employees of the administration are dissatisfied. And everyone understands that Moscow bosses are above us, and we somehow got used to our own - bad, drunk, thieving, but our own. If in the remaining time it dawns on people that this is not an election, but some kind of referendum of confidence in the new government, and the candidate against the government is any candidate except Dmitry Mironov, then the results may be unexpected.”
“The general came, to walk in full formation - what good? And nothing else is offered,” says Oleg Vinogradov. - Yaroslavl is a city of free people, and thank God. The authorities still need to bring serfs from the Moscow region, they still need to replace the people in order to calmly cut money, and the people would be silent. But we won't give them that kind of joy."
Uglich garbage tied the governor-silovik and the son of the Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika.
An unusual order from above came in the past academic year to all schools and kindergartens in Yaroslavl. They were required to place on the stands next to the portraits of the president and prime minister a photo of Dmitry Mironov, who was recently appointed acting governor.
The scandal with the "cult of personality" had to be urgently leveled. The initiative was attributed exclusively to employees of the Department of Education, and its head was roughly punished by deprivation of office. However, the question of what it was in the first place - toadying or an unsuccessful attempt to "document" to consolidate the regime of authoritarian power in the region - remained open.
"occupation government"
While walking around the center of Yaroslavl, for a while, you get the feeling that you are on the streets of Moscow. Painfully familiar blocked sidewalks, on which workers from Central Asia induce "urbanism".
A complete show. Houses in the city are falling apart, facades are collapsing. What are the officials doing? Tiles are shifted from place to place, laundering budget money, - the former deputy is indignant. mayor of Yaroslavl, and now the leader of the local "Yabloko" Oleg Vinogradov.
He attributes the borrowing of capital improvement methods to the fact that about 200 officials from the Moscow region moved to the region to work in a year:
Mironov appointed Dmitry Stepanenko, his hunting and fishing friend, head of government. He filled the region with "Varangians". This is an occupying government.
Stepanenko, like Mironov himself, used to work in the FSO, but before being appointed to Yaroslavl, he managed to briefly be the Minister of Agriculture of the Moscow Region. Hence the appearance of non-local personnel in the region, including the former adviser to the governor - the son of Yuri Chaika. Dmitry Mironov himself was born in 1968 in Khabarovsk. He graduated from a military school, served in various positions in the bodies of state security and protection of the Russian Federation. Then he moved to the service in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, was an assistant to the head of the department. Almost nothing is known about the governor's personal life. Prior to his appointment as acting head of the region, he had no experience of participating in politics and working in the civil service.
All key positions in power were occupied by non-Yaroslavl people. And this choice is not clearly commented. In fact, some elites were simply replaced by others, - the local journalist Alexei Yakovlev also confirmed.
A well-known politician in the region, the former head of the municipality of Yaroslavl Pavel Zarubin, in an interview with Sobesednik, claims that the war between “local” and “non-local” has continued all year since the appointment of Mironov as acting governor:
In any case, this negatively affects the efficiency of work. There is a total replacement of all power - from top leaders to village chiefs even. Yaroslavl has always been famous for its democratic pluralism. It seems that the new head decided that it is easier to change people than mentality.
They remove everyone who is accustomed to the policy of agreements and compromises, and not to the execution of the command "fell - push up." In their place put those who are ready for clear submission.
With closed visor
Mironov is reproached for avoiding publicity. Having worked in law enforcement agencies almost all his life, he got used to a different political style. And even the proximity of a single voting day - September 10 - did not move him to openness.
There is almost no sharp and competitive election campaign in Yaroslavl. During the two days spent in the city, I noticed only one election billboard with a photo of Mironov. And this is a region that has always been famous for political battles! Suffice it to recall that Boris Nemtsov was a deputy of the regional Duma here, and Yevgeny Urlashov, who was later convicted, was elected mayor of Yaroslavl, who refused to join United Russia. On the other hand, as for the Yaroslavl Yabloko, it once included Elena Mizulina and Sergey Vakhrukov.
In fact, now is not an election, but a referendum. High or low voter turnout will show the degree of trust in Mironov, says Pavel Zarubin.
Journalist Yakovlev notes that fewer and fewer people dare to openly object to the governor:
Any public discussion has ceased. She went to the kitchen. The media is also being cleaned up.
Aleksey himself also suffered for criticizing the head of the region. After a series of materials, he was dismissed from the post of editor-in-chief of the Yaroslavl branch of the Regnum news agency.
Garbage Seagulls and corruption
In winter, for almost a month in the ancient Yaroslavl city of Uglich, no one took out the garbage, the number of spontaneous dumps increased. The “garbage” topic is actively discussed by Yaroslavl politicians: they say that Igor, the youngest son of Russian Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika, is showing interest in the business of removing household waste in the region. LLC "Charter" associated with it has already concluded the first cleaning contract with officials - naturally, the company had no competitors. Other agreements are not far off - it is not for nothing that Igor Chaika appears next to Dmitry Mironov during church services. By the way, the Instagram of the current Yaroslavl prime minister, a year ago, also posted photographs of the then Minister of Agriculture of the Moscow Region Dmitry Stepanenko with Igor Chaika at a conference in China, where Stepanenko represented the Prosecutor General as a “Russian investor”, with whom he was “exploring new markets” for Russian food producers.
Dmitry Mironov and Igor Chaika demonstratively appear in public places together
Mironov was expected to fight corruption in the region, but not a single high-profile criminal case was opened during the year, and all dark schemes continue to exist. Those officials who are not ready to work with them are subject to dismissal, - Alexey Yakovlev claims.
He calls the creation of a single information and settlement center the main scam of the year. This private structure was given the authority to collect fees for housing and communal services from the entire region. The regional department of the Federal Antimonopoly Service opposed the creation of such, in the words of journalists, “feeding trough for their own”, but immediately after that, its head had to resign.
"Discontent will grow"
If pensioners in Yaroslavl are teetering on the brink of poverty, then officials are far from it. The region turned out to be one of the leaders in terms of salaries of employees of the executive authorities of the Central Federal District after Moscow and the Moscow region. The average salary is 49 thousand 527 rubles per month.
The budget also bears the cost of servicing "alien" officials - they are paid 35 thousand rubles a month to pay for rented housing. It is interesting that Dmitry Mironov himself lives in Yaroslavl at the expense of the people's treasury, although, according to the declaration, he has a spacious apartment in Moscow. However, every day, of course, you don’t run into work on the Mercedes-Benz GL 350 owned by the governor from the capital.
Many hoped that due to proximity to President Mironov, it would be possible to obtain additional funding for the region from Moscow. But the raised amounts cannot be called exorbitant. Agitation posters report on the attraction of "more than 8 billion rubles for the development of our region" from the federal budget. In the capital, more is spent on one light bulb on trees for the holidays.
For a year, Mironov failed to break the chronic underfunding of many important areas, Pavel Zarubin points out. Oleg Vinogradov warns that because of unfulfilled hopes for a new Kremlin appointee, the situation in the future threatens a social explosion.
It was expected that a person would put things in order, but this did not happen. Just plunder the region. Yaroslavl residents are disappointed, and discontent will grow, Alexey Yakovlev predicts.
Among the merits of Mironov are the repair of the Kotorosl bridge and the closure of the garbage dump near Pereslavl. Not too long list for 12 months of work. True, there are still 5 years ahead, because the candidate has little chance of losing the elections turned into a formality.
November 3 marks one hundred days since the new head of one of the most interesting - not only for tourists - regions of Russia took office [photo, audio, video]
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"Hello! We are from Tereshkova"
I called Tereshkova already from the Yaroslavl station.
- Valentina Vladimirovna- I say - I'm going to Mironov's. Yes, they say he is taciturn.
What do you need - talk or business?
- Well, of course - I want the interview to be business-like.
I really like Dmitry Mironov. With his serious approach. There are many problems, however. He inherited a rather complex legacy. Here people come, and it is clear that ... well, no way! And this one is serious. You see, he has experience of working precisely in putting things in order, I think so. Don't worry like that! You will have an interview. And then call me - I'll add you more ...
When they arrived in Yaroslavl and said acting. Governor Dmitry Mironov that we are “from Tereshkova” and it was she who “approved” this business trip for us, he smiled ...
With Valentina Vladimirovna we spent more than one hour in conversations. She told a lot - how she grew up here (who does not remember, the world's first female cosmonaut comes from the Yaroslavl region. - A.G.), about her mother, how she opened the way to space. She talked about cities and history. A lot is about people.
- Are you talking to her?
Yes, and she often calls me, asks how you are, how is your health? Sometimes passes apples from his garden, honey.
Governor - Dmitry Mironov Governor of the Yaroslavl Region
- And how much has she already given you?
Honey - already two three-liter cans. Apples - 15 kilograms, exactly. Of course, this all goes to our common table ...
- Is this a form of work of State Duma deputy Tereshkova with the head of the region, or what?
Well no. (smiles) Valentina Vladimirovna is just a humane person, that's all. She is a mother not only for her children and grandchildren, she is a mother for all residents of the region.
“Without flashing lights and escort vehicles”
In fact, we arrived in the Yaroslavl region and asked for a meeting with Dmitry Mironov in order to “sort out” his first “hundred days” ...
At first, Dmitry Yuryevich surprised us by the fact that, unlike the heads of other regions, he drives around Yaroslavl ... without a flasher.
- Are you always like this, right?- I ask him. - Without special signals and escort vehicles?
Well, of course... There is no such need. I feel more comfortable driving this way.
And then I realized - what's the matter.
- You are for Vladimir Putin(Mironov served as an officer of his security. - A.G.), when he was both president and prime minister, a lot was observed. Probably, a lot was adopted from his experience ... Right?
Certainly. I often have trips to regions, cities, visit enterprises, meet in teams ... I often try to deviate from the route in order to see something other than what they show, where everything is fine, smooth and combed. And see real life. In general, I went and will go.
- And how do you designate a new route for your driver, right?
Here we are going ... "Nikolai," I say, "come on, let's drive a little deeper, along another street." Nikolai is a local, Yaroslavl. He knows all the roads, streets and nooks and crannies.
How can people get through to you?
They can write to a page on the site.
- Do you watch every day?
Trying. Something I watch, something - an assistant. At the end of the working day, I always have a real picture. (thinks for a few seconds)
I also have an online reception. Distances in our area are very large. And it’s more convenient this way - people come, for example, to the district administration, there is special equipment there - they can contact me in the mode videoconferencing.
- Interesting...
And then, after such receptions, I give instructions and control how they are carried out. Personally.
- Isn't it that the officials are deceiving you? Can they cheat?
They can, of course. But we... Check them. We send commissions, working groups, which very quickly reveal fraud or forgery.
- What happened next?
We make staffing decisions.
- And how many have you fired during this time?
I won't tell you the number. But regular optimization has been massive.
- Who can not cope - those ...
Well, how ... Almost everyone coped. But you can deal with it in different ways. with varying efficiencies. This is very important - you understand? .. Work for the result. We don't have time to splurge. Need to work…
- But what is this new formidable inspection you have?
Yes, it was I who suggested creating such a universal supervisory body in the new structure of the regional government - an inspection of administrative and technical supervision. So far, she is only taking the first steps, but, look, she will definitely take up the prevention of violations that may arise in the work of officials.
- And who will punish?
If necessary, this inspection will also apply sanctions to unscrupulous civil servants. The work of the new inspection - as well as the bodies of housing and construction supervision - I will supervise myself. All this - in order to more clearly control the situation in the city, in the region, to quickly respond to violations - both in construction and in various areas of housing and communal services.
- Ok, I see...
“We will bring the deceiver of equity holders like Polonsky”
We drove a little more. And then Mironov suddenly offers:
- And let's go to the defrauded real estate investors ... Nikolai, you know where?
Nikolai silently slows down and turns the car around.
“They won’t beat us, equity holders,” I ask, “nothing?”
They are not aggressive. We saw that the work is going according to plan. Now it has been strengthened even more.
Nikolai slows down. We get out of the car. Mironov meets (as it turned out, they know each other) Andrey Smekalov, the leader of the initiative group of equity holders.
Well, how are you here? - asks Mironov.
There is progress, Dmitry Yuryevich, - but Smekalov still looks wary how many times they deceived him and those whom he raised "to defend their rights." - Here we hope to receive the keys to the apartments this year. People are tired of waiting...
Mironov nods.
- How do you think- I ask Smekalov, - this time the regional authorities will not deceive you?
I would like to believe, - says Andrey.
- It's important for us too., - adds Mironov, - that there is such an initiative group with a firm civic position.
Mironov is approached by officials who are just dealing with both the deceived and the deceivers.
The developer disappeared, - they report, - he stopped providing documents.
We will look for escaped developers, - puts an end to Mironov. - And, of course, investors. We had negotiations with the bankers, they undertook to complete the construction of 121 apartments. And in 3-4 months, I think they will fulfill their promise.
There are 19 facilities in the region, the terms of commissioning of which have long expired. - And this is already from the speech. Governor at a meeting with representatives of law enforcement agencies. - The problem had to be brought to the attention of federal structures ... To the Main Directorate for Economic Security and Anti-Corruption of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. First of all, we are talking about Marian-Stroy LLC. There are now 1,700 citizens in the region whose rights have been violated. Understand the situation immediately. Deadline is a week! No family should be left on the street.
- Yes, you have a cool conversation here!- I say to Mironov when the meeting is over. - And what do you do with those who mock people?
The head of "Marian-Story" is now, as they say, actively hiding. Declared on the federal wanted list. The other day we, let's say, took steps to put him on the international wanted list. (There is information that the deceiver of equity holders is hiding in Spain. - A.G.) I think we will bring him here in the near future.
- Why? To look into the eyes of those he deceived?
Yes... And let them look at him. And so that law enforcement agencies do what they are supposed to do.
- I would like to, of course. Usually such people - how? Planted and planted. And if they bring him ... Yes - in the eyes!
There were examples. Vaughn Polonsky was returned from the islands. Forced to answer...
“Where is your police uniform?”
- Do you still have the form?(Prior to his appointment as acting governor, Mironov was the deputy head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, and even earlier - the head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Combating Corruption and Economic Security, the very structure that has just taken over equity holders.) Your form is here, in Yaroslavl, or in Moscow?
I don't think I need it here. Form - in Moscow.
Mironovn does not answer such questions very willingly, but I still do not lag behind ...
Why did I ask? Unfortunately, the Yaroslavl region, it ...- I almost said: "She was famous for corruption." Over the past few years, the region has been shaken by corruption scandals - many high-ranking officials were imprisoned for bribes. Then - you occupied such a position in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Maybe it was not the last thing that you were sent here. This is my version. How are you with this problem? Does the headache go away?
Well, you can't call it a headache. Yes, there are certain problems... But we are quite capable of solving them. The law must be the same for all. If a person transgresses it, then he will get what he deserves. My principle is this: a thief should be in prison.
Mironov thinks again for a few seconds. Looks at the clock, at the road. Then he continues...
Frankly, there is a certain message from the population of the region. There are many addresses here, and they are very specific - this is the housing and communal services system, and road construction ... People have the right to demand real (he says with pressure on this word) measures against those who do not fulfill their obligations.
If something was stolen, someone was underpaid, something was put into one's personal pocket, taken abroad, and so on - in these cases we will not, as we did before, let the situation take its course.
And we will get rid of dishonest officials immediately, without any regret and regardless of merit. We will pay special attention, let's say, to civil servants in the field, who (I'm talking about officials) sometimes think that the leadership of the region "will not reach their level" to their level. They will reach!
I have already met people - both in Yaroslavl and in other cities and districts of the region. Of course, mostly in the structures of local authorities, in our organizations, for the most part - honest, conscientious people, real professionals. Both for me and for the members of my team, this causes sympathy, inspires optimism. And, of course, the confidence that our plans will not remain on paper.
- Dmitry Yurievich,- I'm interested in Mironov, you understand - without an answer to this question, our conversation on this difficult topic cannot be considered complete. - And what else will differ, and already differs, your style of work from the style of the previous leadership of the region?
Forming the new composition of the government, I invited professionals first of all. - shares acting. governor. - My team consists of young, ambitious professionals focused on results. We are now paying special attention to the system of training young personnel, who must be ready to solve the very difficult tasks facing our government. Take, for example, the annual forum "Future Intellectual Leaders of Russia", which brings together the most talented schoolchildren, we have a mechanism of Governor's scholarships. We will continue to develop this direction.
Well, okay ... I'm talking about the uniform ... My heroes - Alexei Dyumin, Yunus-Bek Yevkurov sometimes still put on a general's uniform ... Maybe you need it too? (By the way, Mironov is a lieutenant general)
Well, maybe. Ahead of the same holidays, state, will have to wear, of course. I appreciate the form.
It's getting cold in the car...
Mironov - to the driver:
Kolya, add firewood!
Nicholas turns on the stove. Well, it looks like it's getting warmer...
“How, kefir is over? It's a pity!"
I'll tell you one more secret - when I was just "picking up" to Mironov, the congress of "Business Russia" was just meeting in Moscow. Among the delegates was Dmitry Yuryevich ...
This is the signal,” I stunned the acting governor, “many agricultural producers complain that they can’t go to chain stores, to the market with their products ... They say that small farms can’t get there at all. And after all in area the cry is thrown - "Buy Yaroslavl". And all this eventually resulted in the fact that once a month local producers are forced to come to the fair at the central square in the regional center.
You have not quite accurate information, - retorted acting. governor. - Come to us in Yaroslavl, let's go shopping ...
- A good option.
This fall, we took an active part in the Golden Autumn agricultural exhibition in Moscow at VDNKh. And for the first time since 2007, the Yaroslavl region was represented by a single stand.
Once in Yaroslavl, we reminded Mironov of this conversation. He invited us to go to the market.
And now the head of the region walks between the malls and stalls, and we write after him...
Hello, can I buy something from Yaroslavl?
Here are dairy products from the city of Rostov, Yaroslavl region...
Did you participate in the exhibition that we held in Moscow?
Is there a curd?
5%, 9% fat free. What do you want?
Mironov pays, goes to the next counter...
Is there kefir?
No, it's over.
It's a pity.
Understand quickly.
Well, that's understandable... Whose cheese?
Ours, Yaroslavl - from Uglich. Will you have milk?
Having paid for the groceries and spent a total of 468 rubles, Mironov had a short conversation with the buyers...
And we recognized you, - they say to Mironov, - we often see you on TV.
How do you like our Yaroslavl products?
Delicious. But too expensive.
We continued the gastronomic theme with Dmitry Yuryevich in the dining room of the regional administration: they served vermicelli soup, baked pork and tea with lemon.
- And what percentage of local and imported products do you have for sale?
Well, we get about 60% of ours. We hope there will be more to come.
And what can be done to make Yaroslavl products more affordable and affordable? Any compensation needed?
Certainly. Producers who work in our agro-industrial complex should be provided with certain subsidies.
- Not yet?
Well, why not? Our specialists, when they go to the field and are convinced that such help is needed, they will definitely provide it ... And we also have a number of suggestions - so that products in the markets and in chain stores would not be so expensive.
- Especially the locals.
Yes, especially local. It is within our power.
After dinner, I ask Mironov a couple more questions - “for a snack” ...
- Yaroslavl people asked me to find out: they say, how long are you with them?
How much I have to work, so much I will. And - let it sound, maybe, loudly - I will make every effort to be useful both for the region and for the people.
- They say you still live in a rented apartment. This is also a "local" issue.
Yes, while I'm renting an apartment, temporarily, and I'm looking for permanent housing. Hope I get it soon...
Yaroslavl - Moscow.
VERBATIM
“I’m sure he will pull. Ready to jump in with him."
Returning from Yaroslavl, I immediately called Tereshkova - I reported on the business trip.
Sasha, how do you like our new governor? - asked Valentina Vladimirovna.
- I am familiar with many heads of regions, I have a feeling that Dmitry Mironov has such a grip - a master's.
Professional! And then, you see, he visited the cities of the region, he visited many enterprises. And it doesn’t just come out of curiosity, but says what problems, how they see their solution. He is a young man, he still has everything ahead of him. I believe that Dmitry Mironov really came to make our region what it should be...
I think he will pull. Ready to jump in with him.
BY THE WAY
About roads and road builders
Roads in Russia are a well-known problem. We, Dmitry Yuryevich, traveled quite a bit along the Yaroslavl roads, do they suit you? ...
No, they do not suit us. Take the highway between Yaroslavl and Rybinsk. It is simply impossible to drive through some sections without holding back, let's say, negative emotions. Or here is the Yaroslavl ring road within the city. There are no markings, lighting - in sections, the ongoing repair of bridges. The result is huge traffic jams during peak hours and a high accident rate. What can we say about local roads. In the Yaroslavl region, people have been patching up holes in the roads for many years. This approach needs to be radically changed. We have all control mechanisms, new technologies for asphalt laying have been developed, equipment has been purchased. And the result is still the same! This means that people need to change their attitude towards their work. We will part with those who do not want to work or cannot. I am sure that in our country there will definitely be someone who is able to build good roads for Yaroslavl residents. We will work with them.
About working with youth
Our large enterprises - NPO Saturn, Tekhuglerod, Yaroslavl plants - diesel and oil refineries ... (here you can list them for an hour) - create all the conditions for young people to gain a foothold in the field. This is vocational training already from school, secondary technical education. And also - competitions of professional skills - precisely for working professions. I myself saw how young people with burning eyes fight for prizes. Yes, in the district centers, rural settlements, of course, the outflow of young people is very significant. In order for the youth to be fixed, the first thing is what is needed? Decent pay, of course. In the future, housing. Plus an attractive social package, leisure activities ...
About business support
We have about 50,000 small and medium-sized businesses in the Yaroslavl region, they account for almost a quarter of all goods and services produced. For those who register their businesses for the first time, a zero tax rate has been introduced. For other small businesses, the rate has been reduced from 6% to 4%. Well, of course, entrepreneurs are happy to meet such decisions. In addition, we help them get microloans at low interest rates - from 5% per annum.
On the development of tourism
Today, the share of tourism in the region's gross regional product is 2.41%. And this despite the fact that over 2.6 million people visited the Yaroslavl region last year. What does it say? People come but don't stay with us for long. But there are more than 5 thousand monuments of history and culture, 250 museums. Many of them are located along the banks of the Volga. But often, to go ashore, there is not even a pier. And in the end, together with tourists, the income of the region floats away into the distance. Next year we are celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Golden Ring, and it is very important now to develop a network of hotels, restaurants, cafes, so that tourists are as comfortable as possible with us.
- The Department of Tourism in Yaroslavl was renamed into a department.
Let's just say - reformed the composition. And strengthened it, strengthened it. We have established work with large tour operators. We are also closely cooperating with Rostourism, with the Ministry of Culture. We will work more comprehensively and systematically. To develop not only historical and cultural, but also children's, youth, business, gastronomic tourism.
AND AT THIS TIME
About finances, jobs and allowances...
Dmitry Yuryevich, I know that the leaders of the regions usually try to go through the ministries and departments in Moscow ... Where have you already been?
In the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Agriculture, of course. Yes, and in many other ministries and departments.
- How much money is given for the development of the region additionally?
We are currently conducting preliminary work to resolve the issue of additional funding.
I just would like that both in our region and in Russia as a whole we would not get the impression of being dependents ... I personally see that this is not the case when I visit the Motor and Tire Plants, in NPO " Saturn" or at Radiozavod. These enterprises have been and remain the pride of not only our region, but the whole country. Of course, our industry is experiencing real difficulties. Over the past three years, the factories have seen a slight decrease in employment. But in general, industrial enterprises today work with a positive financial result.
- And what do you consider the most important thing for you?
The main thing - both for me and for my team - is the fulfillment of the tasks set by the President of Russia in the famous "May Decrees". Just a few numbers...
In 2012, 18.6 thousand high-performance jobs were introduced in the region, in 2013 - 7.3 thousand, in 2014 - 3 thousand. And in 2015 - the reduction of 20.8 thousand places. (The target in the May Decree is "plus" 25 million high-performance jobs across the country by 2020.). As you can see, we still have to walk and walk ...
- And now tell about allowances - to teachers, doctors, unprotected layers of the population.
Of course, this is all thought out and provided for. Low-income families are provided with benefits in full. We have an interesting program to support rural teachers. We give land to the poor at the expense of the regional budget ...
...AND ABOUT SPORT
“And we will definitely revive the glory of Lokomotiv”
Mironov and I also talked about very, very sad things ...
Dmitry Yuryevich, I remember that terrible day when in Yaroslavl they said goodbye to the dead Lokomotiv hockey players ...
Five years have passed since the tragedy that occurred in September 2011. 37 players died, the whole team. It was a terrible event for the whole country.
There were coffins with the bodies of hockey players on the ice field. And President Putin went around inconsolable relatives... (You were doing your job then, I was preparing a report...) That shock, did it pass?
Hockey for Yaroslavl is not just a sport or a spectacle, it is life itself. Some residents of the region and the city still cannot go to Lokomotiv's home matches - that's how severe the injury was, and it still does not heal and bleeds.
- Yaroslavl, I remember, then gave the word to revive the team.
Yes, and the leadership of the country, the hockey club have done and are doing a lot to return the Yaroslavl Lokomotiv to the top of the hockey Olympus, so that the new team becomes as productive as that legendary squad.
We are building a unique for Russia base "Lokomotiv" on Frunze Avenue. Here we are just going through...
- Right on the course is she?
The driver slows down at our request.
There is a residential building and a training base.
- How long did it take to build?
About two years... I think that the object will be commissioned in about a month.
- It's in the shape of a hockey stick, right, this base? If you look at it from above.
Well, yes. An Olympic reserve school is being built behind the training arena. Also at the direction of the president. This is for young people, for very young guys who are just starting to play hockey.
You probably know - in Yaroslavl, in Rybinsk - one of the best hockey schools. A new generation of athletes is growing up who have already felt the taste of victories. Hockey players of the youth team "Loko" this year won the championship of the MHL (Youth Hockey League), the Kharlamov Cup, the World Cup, and became the first ever owners of the MHL Super Cup.
By the way, our "Arena-2000" is one of the best in the country.
- Did you personally check it?
But what about - I play hockey at an amateur level - so the president of Lokomotiv, Yuri Nikolayevich Yakovlev, invited me. Training - twice a week, I try not to miss.
MORE ABOUT HOCKEY
“The President does not like it when they delay with a pass”
- Do you and Vladimir Putin play hockey on the same team?
In different. Somehow they went on the ice, I was appointed captain of the blue team, and the president was the captain of the white team.
- Ah? Did he appoint you as an "enemy"?
Well, he defined it that way. The president - No. 11 - is a center forward in his team, I - No. 27 - right.
- For some reason, the white team wins...
Well, you know, it's a skill.
- Did Vladimir Vladimirovich use forceful methods against you?
No. We play this kind of amateur hockey. Although ... I'll tell you a secret, some get it.
- Are there any replicas during the game?
Well, as a rule, if someone slows down with a pass or makes a wrong pass...
- Would you still like to play in the president's team?
And I'm already on his team.
- No, but in hockey?
It happened that I also played hockey for the president.
- And how many goals did you score against Dyumin?
When Alexei Gennadievich is at the gate, I play on his side.
ABOUT PERSONAL
« I am a third generation military man»
- And what did you take with you from Moscow to Yaroslavl?
Family photos. There are pictures where I take the oath, and there is also a graduation from our military school on Red Square. Mom, dad, brother are there. My grandfather, Timofei Fedorovich, is in uniform. He was a retired colonel, Hero of the former Soviet Union. In the Great Patriotic War he commanded a battery. And he received the title of Hero in March 1943 - for the courage shown in the battles for Grayvoron (a city in the Belgorod region).
- And the father?
Dad - also a colonel, his name is Yuri Alexandrovich - served all his life in the Central Sports Club of the Army. Father is a master of sports, engaged in technical sports - motocross. Then he switched to coaching, served in the divisions of the central office ... Now he is retired. Mom, Tatyana Timofeevna, started working in medical institutions, and then she was a kindergarten teacher. There is also a brother.
- Isn't he a soldier? What does he do?
Eugene is minding his own business. My parents have only one military man. Since childhood, he dreamed of military service, graduated from a military school, served ...
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Questions to my hero helped me to prepare female colleagues from the regional office " KP On November 3, it was one hundred days since the new head of one of the most interesting - not only for tourists - regions of Russia took office. Viktor GUSEINOV
The governor of the Yaroslavl region, Dmitry Mironov, is one of the most closed modern politicians, who prefers not to make public some periods of his official biography and facts of his personal life. Prior to his appointment to the post of head of the region, he worked in state security, was directly related to the protection and fought corruption in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. In the region, a new man from Moscow was not immediately accepted, but in a year as an interim he managed to earn the trust of voters.
Childhood and youth
Dmitry Yurievich Mironov was born on October 13, 1968 in Khabarovsk. He comes from a family of hereditary military men. The grandfather of the future governor on the maternal side is the hero of the Great Patriotic War Timofey Karmatsky, who was awarded orders of the Patriotic War I and II degrees, the Red Banner. In 1943, Mironov's ancestor received the title of Hero of the Soviet Union for the release of Grayvoron.
Dmitry Yuryevich's father is a master of sports and a well-known coach who devoted his life to the famous CSKA club. He held senior positions in the Sports Committee of the USSR Ministry of Defense, and now works as an adviser to the head of the FAU RF MO RF CSKA. The governor's mother is a kindergarten teacher. Dmitry has a brother Evgeny, presumably a businessman (the exact information is unknown).
Dmitry Yuryevich from childhood dreamed of continuing the military dynasty and after school he became a cadet of the Moscow Combined Arms Command School. The rank of lieutenant was awarded to him on Red Square.
Career and politics
About what Mironov was doing from 1990 to 2003, official sources report extremely sparingly. It is known that he served in the State Security Committee, after the collapse of the Soviet Union he moved to the FSB, and from there to the Federal Security Service. Details about positions and responsibilities in the media are not disclosed.
He himself, in an interview for Komsomolskaya Pravda, confirmed that it was at that time that he met Vladimir Putin. The main event of the hidden period of Mironov's biography was the receipt of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree with swords (the addition of swords means that the recipient distinguished himself during the hostilities).
In 2013, Dmitry Yuryevich began a new career stage - service in the Ministry of Internal Affairs - from the post of assistant to the minister. A year later, he received the rank of major general of the police and headed the GUEBiPK, an organization dedicated to combating corruption and economic security issues.
Just at that time, the department was shaken by a large-scale scandal related to the suspicion of 11 employees of falsifying evidence and bribery, and Mironov had to do a large-scale and difficult job to restore order in the institution and restore its reputation.
In 2015, Dmitry Yuryevich became Deputy Minister of the Interior and took up transport security issues. This area was new for him, but he quickly got used to it and became an initiative leader: proposals to expand the functions of traffic cameras, raise the price of OSAGO for persistent traffic offenders, and allow the use of photos from smartphones as a basis for fines belong to him.
Colleagues speak of Mironov as a neat, cautious and modest person. He easily adapted to all new positions, and his name never appeared in scandalous stories and departmental intrigues. At the beginning of his career, Dmitry Yuryevich experienced uncertainty in communicating with large audiences and journalists, but gradually the politician got used to this side of the work.
The decision to appoint Mironov to the post of interim governor of the Yaroslavl region in 2016 came as a surprise to many. At first, Yaroslavl deputies and officials complained that the new head "does not make contact" - he rarely appears at meetings of the regional duma, communicates little with the heads of municipalities.
The media dubbed him the "summoned Varangian" and expressed fear that "heads would roll" in the region soon. This was confirmed: Dmitry Yuryevich replaced almost the entire old governor's team and "walked" through the rest of the departments, even reassigning the head physicians in district hospitals.
Then his appointment seemed temporary, but gradually the Yaroslavl people saw energy and “Moscow” assertiveness in the new governor and fully appreciated his ability to extract new resources for the region.
In the first half of 2017, the economy of the Yaroslavl region grew by a record 22%, some of the problems with long-term construction were resolved, a plant for the production of road equipment was saved from closure, the historical center of Yaroslavl, included in the UNESCO World Heritage List, was restored.
In the elections in 2017, Mironov, as a United Russia candidate, won 79.51% of the vote, leaving rivals from the local political elite far behind. On the whole, the electoral process then passed calmly and without intrigues: besides him, there were no noticeable contenders for the governor's seat.
Personal life
Nothing is known about this side of Mironov's life. To questions about whether he has a wife and children, the governor answers evasively. In an interview, he said that while his heart belongs to the work and the Yaroslavl region. Most likely, the politician is not married - the journalists made such a conclusion from the fact that there is no information about the spouse in the official declaration of income.
According to information from open sources, Mironov owns an apartment, a Mercedes car, a third of another smaller apartment, and 4 parking spaces. The declared income of Dmitry Yuryevich for 2017 amounted to 2.43 million rubles, which is 444 thousand less than in 2016.
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