List of “United Russia”: men per billion
After the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and the Liberal Democratic Party made public the property and income of their candidates before the elections of the Legislative Assembly of the Irkutsk region and took the first fire on themselves, representatives of United Russia took the stage.
The list of the best United Russia members of the Baikal region, as can be assumed from the fact of being included there, consists of 107 people.
Recall that, according to the law in force since 2023, deputies of regional parliaments and municipal dumas who do not receive salaries there will confess to the public about their property and income only before the elections (and even then without relatives). And after the elections – only in the case of a particularly large deal.
That is, having taken away from journalists the annual occasion for irony and sarcasm on the topic of incomes of deputies, they were still left with one fun in the form of the opportunity to dissect the incomes of people’s deputies who are pecking. At least once per convocation. And that is democracy.
So, in 2022, all United Russia members from the electoral list of 107 people, these worthy people, if you add up all their incomes, earned 1 billion 57 million 797 thousand 478 rubles. That is (on average) one candidate accounts for 9.9 million rubles. That is 825 thousand per month.
Almost a fifth of the said amount, 193 million 506 thousand 865 rubles, is the share of a newcomer to the politics of the Baikal region, 39-year-old native of Nizhneudinsk Maxim Yanov. He is the creator of the REMBAT machine-building enterprise operating since 2022 for the repair of military equipment. But in public life, Maxim Pavlovich is still not quite a neophyte, since since 2020 he has been a member of the Opora Rossii organization. Now he heads the mechanical engineering committee there.
Maxim Yanov and head of the regional executive committee of United Russia Dmitry Myasnikov
As for the top three on the list, their incomes are not uniform.
So, the governor of the Irkutsk region, Igor Kobzev, who is number one, earned 6 million 933 thousand 032 rubles in 2022. The second number, the chairman of the government of the Baikal region, Konstantin Zaitsev, greatly outperformed him in terms of income, replenishing his budget by 9 million 107 thousand 567 rubles.
But Igor Ivanovich and Konstantin Borisovich, of course, are financially far behind the third number on the list, the general director of the Irkutsk aircraft plant, Alexander Vepreva. His income in 2022 amounted to 67 million 187 thousand 433 rubles.
Veprev Jr. is also on the list of United Russia. Alexey Alexandrovich 2022 brought 12 million 879 thousand 763 rubles.
If we expand the topic of newcomers to the elections of the regional parliament, then many of them have a solid income. Thus, Denis Prishchenko, 46, First Deputy General Director of Bratskzhelezobeton Plant LLC, reported on the amount of 111 million 777 thousand 171 rubles.
Denis Prishchenko
The representative of the construction business, the 34-year-old chairman of the Council of United Russia Supporters Yevgeny Tsapaev scored 79 million 864 thousand 159 rubles. That’s what we think, the guy hangs banners with the style of a pop star.
Evgeny Sergeevich, despite his youth, was far ahead of his Irkutsk business colleagues Maxim Devochkin (12,413,728 rubles) and Alexander Druzenko (14,890,498 rubles) in terms of income.
Left Alexander Druzenko
But the rural entrepreneurial community did not strike in the eye either.
So, the Tulun farmer and deputy Anatoly Gamayunov earned 21 million 867 thousand 896 rubles in 2022.
Anatoly Gamayunov
Khomutovsky businessman and deputy of the Duma of the Irkutsk region Vyacheslav Novokreshchenov, terribly similar to the mayor of the Kachugsky region Yevgeny Lipatov, is on the list with the amount of 10 million 218 thousand 781 rubles.
Novokreshchenov on the right. Or on the left?
But the head of the regional executive committee of the party, Dmitry Myasnikov, showed an income in the amount of more than two million rubles. But everything is ahead of him, even despite the demarches of Oleg Borovsky …