Resignations of governors will be followed by personnel changes in the government. Several ministers may leave their posts until March 2018, a source told FederalPress. Who exactly is threatened with resignation and what political bonuses will the reshuffle in the cabinet bring to the president before the elections? For details, see the article by FederalPress.

A ministerial fall is expected in Russia. There is no talk of the resignation of the prime minister yet, but the sword of Damocles hangs over the heads of a number of ministers. This information was shared with FederalPress by a source in the State Duma. The interlocutor believes that this is a continuation of the course on personnel changes, taken this fall, when the governors of a number of regions began to resign.

“This course will certainly be continued and with a high degree of probability we will see new faces in the government,” the source said.

Departure candidates

According to our interlocutor, the heads of the Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Construction and other departments are threatened with resignation. Some members of the government have become irritants for the population. First of all, this concerns the Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky and the Minister of Finance Anton Siluanov. Political scientist Dmitry Zhuravlev notes that personnel changes are of serious importance from a political point of view, but are unlikely to be reflected in the work of the government.

“There is certainly a lot of political sense in resignations. A change in the direction of the government's work, although the Ministry of Finance is the key department, should not be expected. At the same time, the Minister of Finance is also being removed, who is the idol of our economic liberalism and the head of the Ministry of Culture is the idol of Russian conservatism. People are being removed from two edges, "Zhuravlev said in an interview with a FederalPress correspondent.

According to Zhuravlev, the most significant figure on this list is Anton Siluanov... It is with his name that various segments of the population associate the economic problems in the country. But for his resignation, a willful decision of the president is necessary, since the influence of the current finance minister is enormous. Removing Siluanov from his post is not easy.

“From an electoral point of view, this (resignation) can have an effect. Our liberals are extremely tired of our Minister of Culture. Give our conservatives and our leftists only into the hands of the Minister of Finance. People think that there is a bad Ministry of Finance, which collects taxes from everyone. And small businesses are dissatisfied, and pensioners complain. But Siluanov's influence is enormous and cannot be removed so easily. This should be the final decision of the president, ”summed up Zhuravlev.

As for the head of the Ministry of Culture Vladimir Medinsky, rumors around his resignation have been circulating for a long time. According to many political analysts, a campaign has been launched against Medinsky by a number of Kremlin players. Last week historian Pavel Apothecary citing his sources, he wrote in Vedomosti that Medinsky has “many opponents in the Kremlin” and is threatened with resignation. The scandal around the dissertation of the head of the Ministry of Culture seriously hit his reputation. The Expert Council of the All-Russian Attestation Commission recommended to deprive him of the title of Doctor of Historical Sciences.

“Even if it’s crooked, the reputation in Russia still works - not like in Europe, where its institution forces ministers and even presidents to resign after being accused of plagiarism, but at least as an instrument of an apparatus struggle,” said Pavel Aptekar.

Sources call the Minister of Construction and Housing and Utilities another candidate for departure Michael Men... It is reported that Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev is dissatisfied with his work.

In April of this year, the Ministry of Construction announced the failure of the overhaul program for 2016. It was completed by less than 50%. The Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation also has a grudge against the department. According to auditors' checks, violations of the ministry are estimated at 3 billion rubles, of which 2 are inappropriate spending of budget funds.

It should be noted, however, that I have many supporters in the highest echelons of power and authority that will not allow him to sink into political oblivion. In August of this year, FederalPress, citing a source close to the Presidential Administration, said that Mikhail Men is considered as one of the main candidates to replace the Governor of the Moscow Region, Andrei Vorobyov.

Resignations are necessary

The Kremlin needs the resignation of members of the government ahead of the presidential elections. In the previous two presidential terms, Vladimir Putin dismissed prime ministers, but this time tradition will be broken, FederalPress sources and many political scientists are convinced. Dmitry Medvedev remains one of Vladimir Putin's closest associates and enjoys his high level of trust. His position as prime minister is very strong. But the change of persons in the Cabinet is necessary for a more dynamic presidential campaign. Therefore, the ministers will go under the knife.

Russian experts are unanimous in the opinion that the resignation of top officials will be perceived positively by the population and will certainly add electoral points to Putin. Moreover, the demand for changes in society is growing, say the country's leading sociological agencies. The political scientist thinks so Abbas Gallyamov.

“The voters will accept practically any personnel decisions now with satisfaction. The demand for renewal is growing in society and the appearance of new faces in the government corresponds to this demand, "Gallyamov told FederalPress.

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"History is not in favor of the minister"

Will Medinsky be fired because of the dissertation scandal?

Daria Shelekhova

On Monday, the expert council of the Higher Attestation Commission (VAK) on history recommended depriving the Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky of the degree of Doctor of Science. The Expert Council recognized Medinsky's thesis “Problems of Objectivity of Lighting russian history second half of the 15-17 centuries. " unscientific. Experts say that the scandal is becoming "the icing on the cake" and could cost the career of a minister who fell out with both liberals and conservatives.

Among the claims in the decision of the Higher Attestation Commission against the author are the lack of work in the archives (since the author's employment in the reading room of the RGADA is not recorded) and the lack of clear evidence when Medinsky reproaches the sources for being "unreliable" or "biased".

"With" unreliable "and" tendentious "sources, the candidate does not stand on ceremony. He can simply state that "it really was not so," without burdening himself with the search for evidence. In other cases, he resorts to a different method: he uses assessments from the writings of some foreigners as a criticism of the opinions of others, without taking into account that both of them can be equally biased in their judgments. So, for example, highly assessing the reliability of S. Herberstein's information about the Russian army, the author for some reason recognizes as "unreliable" the similar description of the field camps of the Russian army given by R. Chancellor. A. Contarini and G. Perkamot spoke positively about Ivan the Third, but Herberstein did not, which means that "it is quite obvious that the Austrian diplomat deliberately denigrated Ivan III." IN individual cases such a juxtaposition of information from different authors looks frankly curious. The author writes: “Chensler's information about poor people is contradictory. Claiming that "there is no people in the world who would live as beggarly as the poor live here, and that the rich do not care about them," he at the same time reported on the charitable activities of the monks. In general, Chancellor's data on the existence of beggars and poor people in the Russian state contradict the news of Barbaro and Contarini about a large number of products on the Russian markets, which cost mere pennies. How the reports of the authors of the end of the 15th century about cheap products can refute the existence more than half a century later, in the 1550s, in the country of the poor, remains a mystery - the author does not reveal his logic, ”reads an excerpt from the conclusion of the Expert Council, published by historian Ivan Babitsky, one from the experts of the Dissernet project.

TASS quotes Medinsky's reaction to the decision of the Expert Council of the Higher Attestation Commission: "I was not there, I can not comment." Earlier, the minister explained the claims in the scientific community to his dissertation for political reasons.

Medinsky's colleagues believe that the struggle for a dissertation is not over. The interlocutor of the site, surrounded by the minister, believes that the presidium of the Higher Attestation Commission may not support the conclusion of the Expert Council; surrounded by the minister as his scientific work do not doubt. “This is part of the attack on the government as a whole,” one of his confidants interprets the events around Medinsky's dissertation.

Meanwhile, Andrey Zayakin, one of the founders of the Dissernet project, writes in a post on Facebook about a possible development of events:

“Everything is possible in our country. It is possible that tomorrow a brick will fall on the head of every dissertation worker. It is possible that Medinsky will mine the VAK building. Perhaps Madame V (Asilieva) will expel all other reasonable people from the presidium after Gelfan. In the event of such force majeure, Medinsky will not only not be deprived of his degree, but will also be elected an academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In all other cases - without the decimation of the presidium and the burning of the VAK, without another brutal force majeure - I do not see the slightest opportunity for him to be acquitted. "

Claims against Medinsky's dissertation arose back in April 2016, when an application was submitted to the Ministry of Education demanding to deprive Medinsky of his degree for gross errors, incorrect work with sources and the propaganda nature of the work. The issue was to be resolved in the Dissertation Council of UrFU, however, Medinsky asked to postpone the meeting, and then the dissertation was withdrawn from the Academic Council of UrFU due to the formal expiration of the terms of consideration. In October 2016, 24 academicians of the Russian Academy of Sciences published a statement in the Kommersant newspaper in support of the demand to deprive Medinsky of his academic degree. In February 2017, the Academic Council of Moscow State University did not consider Medinsky's dissertation on the merits, since the preliminary commission did not find signs of plagiarism in it. The consideration was transferred to the Dissertation Council of the Belgorod State National research institute, who in July 2017 recommended not to deprive Medinsky of his degree.

This scandal in Medinsky's career is not the first and probably not the last. As the minister said to himself a week ago at a debate with writer Dmitry Bykov on the Dozhd TV channel, his activities are regularly criticized by both liberal and (in recent times) ultrapatriotic views. The Change.Org website recently posted a petition demanding the dismissal of Medinsky for issuing a distribution certificate for the film Matilda.

Medinsky took over as Minister of Culture in the government of Dmitry Medvedev in May 2012. The minister devoted a significant part of his life to exposing the "myths about Russia", having written a number of books on this topic, in addition to the scandalous dissertation. Medinsky is also the chairman of the Russian Military Historical Society (RVIO), which periodically implements scandalous initiatives. For example, in 2016, a memorial plaque was erected in St. Petersburg to Karl Gustav Mannerheim, an officer of the White Army who later became a Finnish marshal and Hitler's ally during the Great Patriotic War... Recently, a monument to designer Mikhail Kalashnikov was erected in Moscow, who, because of his appearance in social networks called "a monument to Solntsevsky brother." Moreover, it turned out that a scheme of German weapons was placed on the monument by mistake. Recently, a monument to Joseph Stalin was erected in Moscow within the framework of the Alley of Rulers project on the initiative of the RVIO.

In 2016, the Federal Security Service opened a case against a number of employees of the Ministry of Culture, including Medinsky's deputy, Georgy Perumov. Together with a number of contractors, they were accused of embezzling state money during the restoration of the Izborsk fortress, the Hermitage, the Novodevichy and John the Baptist monasteries.

In the summer of 2015, Medinsky had a conflict with the director of the State Archives, Sergei Mironenko, as Mironenko publicly called the story of the feat of 28 Panfilovites a myth. Medinsky recommended that Mironenko concentrate on the main profession, and in March 2016 the archivist was dismissed. In October 2016, after the release of the film "Panfilov's 28", Medinsky called the skeptics who question the "holy legend" "dead scum."

Medinsky also had conflicts with the creative community. So, in November 2014, the Ministry of Culture refused to finance the Artdokfest festival in connection with the political position of the festival's president, Vitaly Mansky. In 2014, Medinsky, at a meeting with visitors to the Bukvoed store in St. Petersburg, said that he saw no point in the Ministry of Culture's support for films “shot on the principle of Rashka the Shitty,” which drew sharp criticism from State Duma deputies Joseph Kobzon and Maria Maksakova.

Experts believe that the current scandal, regardless of whether it ends with the deprivation of Medina's degree or not, lowers his chances of retaining the new government after the presidential elections in March 2018.

Mikhail Vinogradov, head of the Petersburg Politics Foundation, believes that it will not be surprising if the final decision on the dissertation is postponed.

“There are no arguments to leave him with a degree, but it makes sense to deprive him when the situation calms down or the situation changes. From the point of view of survival in the future government, the story is not in favor of Medinsky, ”notes Vinogradov.

Former deputy presidential envoy to the Urals Federal District, head of regional programs at the Expert Institute for Social Research, Andrei Kolyadin, recalls that since the time of Ekaterina Furtseva, the Minister of Culture has been considered a relatively weak figure in our country. “Whether Medina remains a minister or not depends on the prime minister and the president,” says Kolyadin. - As with the change of governors, there are no clear patterns here, there are prerequisites, but the final decision is made by the country's first person. So far, Medinsky has managed to maintain his position, despite the scandals, but it must be borne in mind that publicity is not the most favorable trait for a Russian official, "Kolyadin notes.

Alexei Makarkin, vice-president of the Center for Political Technologies, says that Medinsky is in a difficult situation. “From the outset, his relations with the liberal part of society were spoiled, although at present this is more of an apparatus plus than a minus. But that's what he was appointed for. The government in the zero years favored the liberals from culture, but in 2011 they took to the square. Therefore, a person was appointed who pursues a different policy. Then Medinsky had problems with the security forces in connection with the "restorers' case." Finally, he now has a difficult relationship with Orthodox conservatives. On the one hand, Medinsky recently signed a document on cooperation between the Ministry of Culture and the Russian orthodox Church (The document was signed by the Russian Orthodox Church by Father Tikhon Shevkunov). On the other hand, in the opinion of the ultra-conservative part of society, he, having issued a distribution certificate for the film Matilda, took an unacceptable position, although it is clear that he defends corporate interests, says Makarkin. - Then the story of the cancellation of the ballet "Nureyev" at the Bolshoi Theater fell, and now the story with the dissertation is the cherry on top of a dubious cake. The scientific community considered the dissertation unscientific, this accusation is even worse than plagiarism, because it cannot be said that "I worked hard and forgot to put the quotes." In any case, although no one wants such a precedent and the issue is still to be considered by the Presidium of the Higher Attestation Commission and the Ministry of Education, the effect of this story will be very negative. When a new government is formed, these circumstances will be credited to Medinsky as a "minus". So far, Medinsky reacts to all problems on a situational basis, and as a result irritates both liberals and moderate apparatchiks of the Ministry of Culture, and conservatives, ”says Makarkin.

Deputy Pavel Stepanov, who headed Central Parnership, will become Minister of Culture. Stepanov can replace Medinsky at his post?

Pavel Stepanov, the ex-head of the film distributor "Central Partnership" (TsPSh) will take the post of Deputy Minister of Culture. Stepanov will be responsible for the departments of cinematography and state support for art and folk art, which include theaters, circuses and philharmonic societies. Recently, the work of departments has been accompanied by scandals. Pavel Stepanov, according to information received by The Moscow Post from sources of the Presidential Administration, will become the successor of Vladimir Medinsky.

Despite the fact that recently Pavel Stepanov headed the TsPSh, which is part of Gazprom-Media, the track record of the future deputy. Minister of Culture is impressive. He worked as the head of the legal department of the Ministry of the Press when it was headed by Mikhail Lesin. After his appointment as adviser to the president in 2004, he became an assistant in the state and legal department of the presidential administration. In 2014, at the invitation of Lesin, he headed the Central School of Music, in 2016 he headed the Media Communication Union, which promotes the idea of \u200b\u200bregulating the media television industry.

Instead of a writer and a PR man, a professional lawyer and manager may soon become the Minister of Culture, who may be able to bring the Ministry of Culture to a completely different level. In 1994 -1999. Stepanov worked in Russian and foreign consulting companies. He is not a balabol, but a professional top manager. Which, probably, is needed today by the Ministry of Culture, mired in scandals with theft of funds.

Pavel Stepanov will replace Stepan Obyrvalin, who will move to the post of deputy. Minister in charge of the restoration of cultural objects. It remained without a curator after the arrest of ex-minister Grigory Pirumov, who was suspected of embezzling funds for the construction of buildings for the Hermitage.

It is high time for the Ministry of Culture to restore order. Totally agree last year the department was shaken by several scandals related to cinema and theaters, which will be supervised by Pavel Stepanov. Non-return of funds allocated for the creation of films from the Cinema Fund, the "case of director Serebryannikov" accused of embezzlement of funds, abuse of theater directors who pay their own fees, the issuance of distribution certificates and the situation with the film "Matilda", in which almost the entire the country.

All this testifies to the fact that the Ministry of Culture is probably a complete mess. Isn't it time for Vladimir Medinsky to do something else? For example, writing another book or making a new movie. According to the minister, millions of people read and watch them. What other recognition does Medinsky need? Or, in addition to confirming his creative solvency, he is also interested in financial condition. Which, perhaps, his position provides?

"Uncultured" deputies of Medinsky?

With the deputies, Vladimir Medinsky is just a disaster. It is possible that he selects them in the image and likeness of his beloved. The most famous of them is Grigory Pirumov, who was involved in the "case of restorers". A group of persons led by Pirumov was involved in the theft of funds in the amount of 100 million rubles. during the restoration of cultural heritage objects.

Instead of the 5 years requested by the prosecution, Pirumov received only 1.5 years, which he had already served at the time of the trial. Was released, but not for long. Soon he was arrested for another case - embezzlement of funds in the amount of 850 million rubles. during the construction of the buildings of the Hermitage. And in this case, Pirumov may not get off so easily. Although, there is an option - to make a deal with the investigation and tell the investigators something interesting about Vladimir Medinsky.

For the same case, Boris Mazo, the former head of the property management department of the Ministry of Culture, who is on the run, was arrested in absentia. The situation with him is more complicated. In order for him to tell something, you first need to catch him. Recently, the court has seized a residential house, apartment and land plot belonging to Boris Mazo. The theft case is still under investigation. And, perhaps, for Medinsky, just in case, they prepared a replacement in the person of Stepanov. What if the Minister of Culture himself somehow appears in the case?

Sergei Obryvalin, who supervised the department before Pavel Stepanov, had nothing to do with culture at all until his appointment to the post of deputy. did not have a minister. Obryvalin is known for his work at Aeroflot, where he was in charge of sales. Obryvalin had to leave after a change in the company of the team. After that, he ended up in the Department of International Cooperation of the Ministry of Culture, and in 2015 became Medinsky's deputy. Probably, Obryvalin could have been an avid movie fan. Otherwise, it is difficult to explain his appointment to the post. Where are the sales and where are the movies?

Sergey Obryvalin - not a rival to Pavel Stepanov?

He was "famous" for the fact that he put his signature on the scandalous recall of the rental certificate of the film "Death of Stalin". Maybe he didn't like him personally? Tastes, as they say, do not argue. But the rank of deputy minister, apparently, gives the right to control the tastes of the audience.

The cliff is probably very close to Medinsky, since he defended his Ph.D. thesis on the topic "Assessment of the quality of functioning of radio navigation and radar facilities in the airport zone in conditions of unintentional electromagnetic interference." Dissernet found large-scale borrowings in it on 58 out of 122 analyzed pages. Similar claims were made to the Minister of Culture himself, but in the end he managed to prove that he was not a plagiarist. And how did he do it?

Another ex-Deputy Minister of Culture Pavel Pozhigailo is a rocket scientist by education. In 2003 he became a deputy of the State Duma, and after the end of the powers of the Duma of the IV convocation, he immediately fell into the chair of deputy minister. Probably, during his work as a parliamentarian, he acquired the necessary cultural skills.

Pozhigailo also advocated the ban on the film "The Death of Stalin", and also proposed to exclude Mikhail Bulgakov's work "The Master and Margarita" from the school curriculum. After leaving the Ministry of Culture, for some time he was the chairman of the Public Council under the Ministry. He left his post with a scandal after the Ministry of Culture issued a distribution certificate for the film "Matilda". Pozhigailo considered himself deceived. Apparently, he could have promised Natalia Poklonskaya that this would not happen?

In May, Dmitry Medvedev removed from his post the first deputy head of the Ministry of Culture Vladimir Aristarkhov, who since 2013 has been in charge of the Department of Museums and the Department of Science and Education. In 2017, Aristarkhov became the highest paid employee of the Ministry of Culture with an income of 142 million rubles.

Aristarkhov had a brother who owned the Restoration Workshops company. From 2014 to 2016, she signed contracts with the Ministry of Culture in the amount of 1.2 billion rubles. Should we be surprised at the wealth of Vladimir Aristarkhov? But according to his position, he was supposed to oversee the construction of the buildings of the Hermitage. Was that why I had to leave my post?

"Profitable" initiatives of Vladimir Medinsky?

It became known last week that the head of the Ministry of Culture wrote off 22 million rubles allocated for the Chechen blockbuster "Tosca". The film was never shot, and the money went to members of the board of trustees of the bankrupt "Chechenfilm" - Ramzan Kadyrov, State Duma deputy Joseph Kobzon and artist Zurab Tsereteli. Could something fall to Vladimir Medinsky?

After a check by the Prosecutor General's Office of the studios that had been allocated money for making films, it turned out that there are 21 film studios on the list of debtors of the Cinema Fund, and only 5 on the list of the Ministry of Culture. How can this be? Pavel Stepanov will have to deal with this.

Sergei Obryvalin may have to implement Medinsky's plans to reconstruct the museum of the Chersonesos-Tavrichesky reserve. Aristarkhov left, Pirumov was arrested, but life goes on.

It's even interesting how Pavel Stepanov will fit into Medinsky's entourage. Will it really take a "worthy" place among his deputies? Or will he try to change something? If Stepnova is planning the presidential administration for the post of Minister of Culture, then Vladimir Medinsky is better off packing his bags now. Then it may be too late.