Fedor Khristenko: where does the poor “oppositionist” get his money? PART 1

When the Opposition Platform separated from the Opposition Bloc, it had a good chance to get rid of the most important negative legacy of the Party of Regions – the corrupt and criminal image of Yanukovych’s former associates. To do this, it was necessary to refuse to rely on “authorities” and not to recruit people with a dubious past and scandalous present into their ranks. But the leaders of the OPZZH decided that voters would swallow their noodles anyway. And they brought into parliament both old hardened corrupt officials and young playmakers – such as Fyodor Khristenko, who very soon became famous throughout the country…

A luxurious party in Moscow, in the expensive Four Seasons hotel directly opposite the Kremlin, with the participation of stars of Russian show business (Kirkorov, Baskov, Leps, etc.), costing the organizers a million dollars – that’s what Fedor Khristenko, a member of the parliamentary faction of the OPZZH, discovered 14 December 2019. But what did the Ukrainian politician note there? Maybe some new progress on the Minsk agreements? No, it’s the birthday of his wife Marina Khristenko, who really loves such holidays on a grand scale!

But the point is not only that the Verkhovna Rada deputy went to celebrate his wife’s birthday in the capital of a country with which Ukraine has had conflicting relations for several years and which has seized part of Ukrainian territory. And it’s not that not every people’s deputy, not even every oligarch can afford to spend that much on his wife’s birthday! Journalists had other, much more pressing questions for Khristenko about his connections with the criminal world and business negotiations about personal business with the leaders of the separatist “republics”.

Fedor Khristenko. “Authorities” and “Starodonetsk”

Fedor Khristenko is one of the most little-known deputies of the 9th convocation of the Verkhovna Rada. There is no biography of him anywhere; he spoke briefly about himself in a short interview, without naming specific dates or names. He attracted media attention only twice: first during the 2019 elections, and now during the coverage of this scandalous celebration of his wife’s birthday. Therefore, no one could answer the question, who is Fedor Khristenko and where did he come from? Not finding information about him, the journalists found out a little about his circle: for example, that a close friend of Marina Khristenko, who loves such lavish festivities, is Anastasia Malovichko, the wife of the famous criminal “authority” Alexander Baturin (Batura). Known as one of Yuri Ivanyushchenko’s close associates, twenty years ago he appointed him “in charge” of Gorlovka. About him Skelet.Info more than once mentioned in materials about such odious celebrities of Gorlovka as Armen Sarkisyan and his “sidekick” Igor Shkirya.

Marina Khristenko (right) and Anastasia Malovichko

This gave rise to logical assumptions that Fedor Khristenko is a protege of the Donbass criminals, perhaps even of Baturin himself – who is now actively restoring his influence in Gorlovka. This is, for example, the opinion of journalist Denis Kazansky, who initiated his own investigation. In his opinion, the “Enakievo” (Baturin, Ivanyushchenko) decided to make “one of their own” in the new Rada, a person who had previously not been involved in anything, with an almost ideal and completely inconspicuous biography – which, we repeat, simply does not exist, it was wiped out. Such a gray, nondescript man, one of many “young businessmen.” And if it weren’t for this story about his wife’s birthday, then hardly anyone would have remembered Khristenko.

Without dismissing Khristenko’s version of the “criminal trail,” let’s try to find out a little more about him. So, Fedor Vladimirovich Khristenko was born on October 11, 1983 in the village of Starognatovka, Telmanovsky district, Donetsk region, in the family of Vladimir Fedorovich and Vera Alexandrovna Khristenko. He has a younger brother, Alexander, whose occupation is still unknown. Judging by the parents’ middle names, the brothers were named after their grandfathers.

According to Fyodor Khristenko, his parents were simple people: his father worked on a state farm, and his mother was a teacher at a local school – located in a small two-story red brick building. It looks like she was the one who helped her son graduate from school with honors. But where he was engaged in freestyle wrestling (what he boasted to journalists) one can only guess.

In 2000, Fedor Khristenko entered Donetsk State University, majoring in marketing. There he continued to engage in freestyle wrestling – which may have brought him together with the “right people.” After all, as you know, power sports in Ukraine have long been under the control of crime, and often “authorities” occupy the positions of presidents of boxing, judo, wrestling federations, etc.

Marina Kondaurova (Khristenko), 2013

But still, another version of the sudden rise of Fedor Khristenko looks more likely. In 2005, having defended his diploma, he remained at the university for graduate school – at least until 2008, when he defended his candidate’s thesis. And just then, Marina Kondaurova, Khristenko’s future wife, entered the university, the Faculty of Economics and Law. The novel of a young graduate student and a young student exhaustively explains everything: the sudden career growth of a modest native of the village, the origin of Fyodor Khristenko’s capital (in fact, it is a dowry) and the luxurious holidays organized for his wife – after all, the young major has become accustomed to them since childhood. Well, such miracles are rare, but they do happen: in the same way, the successful marriage of the elephant shit cleaner at the Kyiv Zoo created the oligarch Valery Khoroshkovsky.

At one time, the whole of Gorlovka knew Marina Kondaurova, and not only from her white Porsche Panamera, in which she drove around the city. For several years, Marina took second place in the top 10 most enviable brides of Gorlovka, second only to the local TV star of “The Bachelor” Ekaterina Skrypnik. Her mother, Irina Kondaurova, owned the travel agency “Vokrug Sveta” and LLC “DiKon”, was one of the business elite of Gorlovka and regularly appeared at various public events together with the city leadership. Which is not surprising, because her husband Sergei Bryukhovetsky (father or stepfather of Marina Kondaurova) was a long-time and close friend of Ivan Sakharchuk, who sat in the chair of the mayor of Gorlovka in 2006-2010 and was a protégé of Anatoly Bliznyuk. All of them were members of the so-called corruption community. “Starodonetsky”, about whom Skelet.Info I already talked about Vladimir Logvinenko in an article.

The “Starodonetskys” are very influential, they had undivided control of the Donetsk region until the “era of Akhmetov”, with whom they entered into an alliance on the terms of their independence and immunity; for a long time they have had “even” relations with the Donbass criminals.

Therefore, an important clarification needs to be made: a person from the “Starodonetsky” family, and Fyodor Khristenko is now one, will not be a protégé and pocket deputy of criminal “authorities,” so Denis Kazansky’s version does not look entirely correct.

But on the other hand, the “Starodonetsk” always had close relationships with the “authorities”: they provided services to each other, created businesses and schemes, often members of their families became friends and girlfriends (like Kandaurova and Malovichko). Therefore, Fedor Khristenko, of course, will not refuse to help the friends and business partners of his wife, mother-in-law and father-in-law – among whom are not only Alexander Baturin and Yuri Ivanyushchenko.

Ivan Sakharchuk

Walk, elite!

Such an enviable bride as Marina Kondaurova could not give her hand to a poor graduate student, so they urgently began to make a businessman out of the groom. First, Fedor Khristenko worked for several months as a manager at the Donetsk Aluminum Profiles Plant, and then, with a certain partner, he opened his own business in the field of passenger road transportation. For some reason, Khristenko carefully hides both the name of his partner and the name of that carrier company, and there are apparently good reasons for this.

But in any case, we can confidently say that Khristenko ran this business, if not in partnership, then certainly with the support of Igor Shkiri. Because he was not only the first vice-president of the All-Ukrainian Association of Road Carriers (VAAP), but also controlled road transport in Gorlovka and a number of other cities in the Donetsk region (trucks, buses and taxis). And Shkira was helped in this by both his regional friends and local criminals – in the person of his “sidekick” Armen Sarkisyan, with whom Shkira generally has a lot in common, from boxing to Ukrprombank. By the way, to some extent, Gorlovka taxi drivers could be called the brainchild of their strong friendship, among whom there were a lot of “dead sentences.” In the spring of 2014, Shkiri taxi drivers (and, possibly, Khristenko) actively supported the “Russian spring” and participated in actions to seize administrative buildings, proclaim a “people’s republic” and form a “militia” – commanded by Igor Bezler, who has long been associated with various affairs and Shkiri , and with Khristenko. Maybe this is exactly what Fedor Khristenko is hiding?

Whatever the Donetsk regionalists planned when they promoted the Anti-Maidan in the spring of 2014, events got out of their control and followed an unexpected scenario to which they were forced to adapt. Many of them had to leave Donetsk, Gorlovka and other cities captured by the separatists and move closer to Kyiv. Guided, of course, not by a patriotic impulse, but by purely mercantile interests: after all, in Ukraine they were held by parliamentary mandates, positions, legal businesses, and real estate. Donetsk and Gorlovka, besieged by government troops, have become a very dangerous place.

The entire Khristenko-Kondaurov family also moved to Kyiv. They had more than enough money, so they immediately acquired expensive real estate: first an apartment on Henri Barbussa Street (120 sq. meters for 400 thousand USD), then a 170-meter apartment in a new building on Novopecherskie Lipki (together with two garages another one and a half million), and later bought an estate (400 sq.m.) in Gorenichi – and next to the famous estate of Victor Pshonka. But Khristenko told journalists stories about how they, “simple migrants,” huddled together in a rented apartment. Officially, he is “registered” in the village of Romankov, Obukhovsky district, Kyiv region.

Sergey Varis, for Skelet.Info

CONTINUED: Khristenko Fedor: where does the poor “oppositionist” get his money? PART 2

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