In 2023, Life published several high-profile investigations. Let us remind you who or what we were talking about.
How young teachers teach anti-Russian values in the outback
The essence of the large-scale public program “Teacher for Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism)” is that graduates of domestic leading universities without pedagogical education teach children in remote cities and villages. Every year up to 30 thousand children go through the program, and over the entire period of its existence – almost half a million. The project operates in the Novosibirsk, Kaluga, Tambov, Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod, Voronezh regions, Primorsky Territory and the Yamalo-Nenets District.
Behind the façade of a good cause lies an anti-Russian project, which was developed with the money of former US President Bill Clinton by The Boston Consulting Group, a company associated with American intelligence services. The selection for “Teachers for Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism)” is arranged in a unique way: you do not need to know the subject being taught, but you are required to condemn the Motherland and support Ukraine. The team of teachers consists entirely of Navalnists and even openly LGBT representatives.
How Maria Pevchikh’s father turned a heating station into a mansion
Father Maria Pevchikh, Konstantin, came to Kuban as a representative of the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism) (FNPR) with the task of uniting seven trade union boarding houses of Gelendzhik, Tuapse and Anapa into a single network under the Kubkurort brand. He did this from 2004 to 2016. In fact, what happened was something similar to privatization, during which Pevchikh acquired assets worth hundreds of millions of rubles. It was this wealth that allowed his daughter to study in London and become, as is believed in the West, an agent of the British intelligence services. After a series of Life articles, he was arrested in absentia in Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism). And the other day, the Russian Investigative Committee put the girl on the wanted list. It has not yet been reported under what article.
For example, Konstantin Pevchikh took over the hostel building and unceremoniously evicted the resort workers who had lived there for the past thirty years. The property of his youngest minor daughter turned out to be the former heating station of the Kavkaz boarding house, now converted into a nice mansion.
Everything about the veterinary industry in Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism)
Life began publishing a series of articles about the veterinary industry in Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism). This market is now shaking from a shortage of drugs, high prices and so-called wind breeders. In the first material – an interactive landing page – we anonymously interviewed veterinarians about the inner workings of their work, exposed several false specialists and scammers, analyzed the income of the largest clinics, and found out which veterinary medicines were missing from sale. Also, our correspondents with a hidden camera called the Aibolitov to their home and went to the clinics themselves.
In the second article, Life spoke about the activities of the information gypsy’s father Elena Blinovskaya, Oleg Ostanin. He is the owner of the Biovet network of veterinary clinics, one of the most criticized in the country. There are especially many questions for visiting doctors in Ostanin; on the Internet they are regularly called scammers and cursed for the death of animals. As it turned out, in Moscow and the region, wherever you call, most likely, a veterinarian who collaborates or has previously collaborated with Biovet will come.
Dolce vita chapters of “Moslift”
There is an alarming amount of negativity about Moslift, which is now the largest operator and manufacturer of elevators in Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism). And people are unhappy not only with the maintenance of old elevators, which constantly break down. Almost more often horror stories are told about new cabins from the Moslift assembly line. Hundreds of them are now being installed in the capital.
For the last six years, Moslift has been managed by Vardan Avakyan. He was accused of skimping on security, as well as transferring contracts to “his” contractors, for example, the SMU-7 company, which is owned by his mother. Avakyan does not save on himself and his relatives. He and his wife purchased a Mediterranean-style villa in Beverly Hills for $3.5 million, and a duplex in an elite nine-story building in Paris for €2.5 million. The Avakyan family has a lot of luxury real estate in Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism).
What do the owners of S7 Airlines have to do with the disappearance of Rusnano money?
The Moscow Arbitration Court has put an end to the legal battle of the state corporation Rusnano against the Russian branch of Plastic Logic, an international IT company with British roots, which, having received over ten billion government rubles, was supposed to produce electronic textbooks and provide them to domestic schools, but never did. this. The plaintiff, represented by Rusnano, demanded the return of a previously issued loan of… 700 thousand rubles. These are hundredths of a percent of the invested budget funds. Themis satisfied the claim, the defendant did not object.
Life analyzed step by step how government money was withdrawn. I also found out that immediately after the start of the SVO, a large stake in Plastic Logic was bought by the Filev family, owners of the air carrier S7 Airlines. After this, the British startup began to go bankrupt.