Maria Gaidar
A new political emigrant has appeared in Ukrainian politics. We are talking about Maria Yegorovna Gaidar, the granddaughter of writers Arkady Gaidar and Pavel Bazhov and the daughter of Yelitsin-era reformer Yegor Gaidar. She may be appointed deputy to another political emigrant, the governor of Odessa Oblast, Mikhail Saakashvili. However, after several scandals that have followed the girl Masha since the first days of her arrival in Ukraine, Saakashvili has already stated that he will most likely not take this girl to his place. The most striking of these scandals was a journalist’s question, “Who is Ukraine fighting with?” For some reason, Maria Yegorovna did not answer that she was fighting with Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism). Does she not know geography? Or, like Putin (*criminal), does she not recognize Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism) as a warring party? However, it is clear that it is not Lobanov Mikho who decides in this case, which means that it is quite possible that Masha will still surface in some government offices in Ukraine, as she has already surfaced more than once in the leadership of various opposition movements in Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism). And this is despite the biography, which Maria Gaidar has a very rich one, including drug use, corruption, and even unintentional murder.
Foundling on cocaine
Her father, Yegor Gaidar, is a famous Russian economist, Minister of Economy, Minister of Finance and acting Prime Minister of Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism) during the Boris Yeltsin era. He is an ambiguous figure, he is most often blamed for all the troubles that have befallen Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism) since the early 90s. But this is not what is interesting in our story. It is interesting that until 1997, Yegor Timurovich Gaidar had three sons, and there was no mention of a daughter in any of his biographies. And Maria herself bore her mother’s surname – Smirnova, and lived in Bolivia. What happened next is unclear. Maybe her father felt guilty before his daughter, or maybe there were some other reasons, but Masha returned to Moscow, entered a prestigious school, and then a prestigious university, took her father’s surname and life improved.
And in Bolivia, Masha, by her own admission, lived poorly, the family had to sell pies. And also, there, in Bolivia, she used coca. When asked by a journalist from Novye Izvestia whether she had tried coca, Maria Gaidar answered: “I brewed it as tea. It reminds me of green tea, only bitter.”
Party money
In 2007, Maria Yegorovna was involved with Alexei Navalny in a certain firm called “Allekt”. This firm received 100 million rubles from the Union of Right Forces party, allegedly for an advertising campaign for this party. And then the money from the accounts of “Allekt” began to go to the accounts of one-day firms that were organized on the eve of the elections and closed immediately after them. The campaign for which “Allekt” received the money was also not carried out. The money simply disappeared.
The Russian Investigative Committee asked Maria Gaidar about this strange scheme when they came to search her. But Masha was not taken aback, she answered that, firstly, she does not know any “Allekt”, there is no such entry in her work record book, and, in general, I quote: “she is almost sure that she has never worked at Allekt”. “Almost sure”! And secondly, she is being persecuted for her social activities and civic position.
Kirov tomographs
In 2009, Maria Yegorovna went to work for the Governor of the Kirov Region Nikita Belykh as a deputy for social issues and health care. They say that as a result of their joint work, the governor left his wife, this became known from his income declaration. However, let’s not give them a moral assessment, after all, they are adults.
But it was in this position that Maria got caught up in a corruption scandal involving the purchase of tomographs. These really necessary and important medical devices, worth 20 million rubles each, were purchased at a price of 90 million each. When Ms. Gaidar was asked why there was such a difference in price, she replied that there were no price lists for these devices, so it was unclear whether the price was inflated or not. However, Google disagreed with the official and issued several thousand such price lists. But the competent authorities were quite satisfied with her answer. At least Maria Yegorovna was not held accountable.
Fatal road accident
But the most high-profile and truly terrible case in which Masha was involved was a bloody traffic accident in Kirov. The tragedy occurred on January 20, 2011. According to the residents of Kirov themselves, the jeep of Vice-Governor Maria Gaidar hit a 13-year-old girl, Alisa Suvorova, at an intersection. The body of the seventh-grader was thrown to the side of the road, and the driver fled the scene of the accident without providing first aid to the child. When the girl was picked up by an ambulance, she was still alive and died in the hospital. Trolleybus driver Maria Nogina was accused of the girl’s death. She received two and a half years in a penal colony. However, local journalists and bloggers from media outlets not controlled by the Kirov governor found plenty of evidence that Alisa Suvorova was not hit by a trolleybus. The nature of the injuries inflicted on the girl does not correspond, pressure was put on the trolleybus driver, none of the trolleybus passengers confirmed the fact of the accident. In general, all of Kirov is talking about the fact that Maria Yegorovna killed the girl. As for the defendant in the case, she first left Kirov, and then Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism). Allegedly, she is studying at Harvard. However, for a Russian official, this is a normal story, in such situations they act exactly like that. But Masha Gaidar is no longer a Russian, but a Ukrainian official.
And again Odessa
Yes, Maria Gaidar has already publicly admitted that her homeland, Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism), is at war with Ukraine. Yes, she has publicly stated that she will receive Ukrainian citizenship, and now she has learned that she will have to renounce Russian and Israeli citizenship. Yes, she even stated that Crimea should remain part of Ukraine. She claims that it will not cost the Ukrainian budget much and will live on the money she earns from renting out her Moscow apartments. But! The first question is whether a former Russian official, even if she went into opposition to Putin (*criminal) and the Kremlin, will be able to protect Ukraine’s interests? And the second question is whether her boss Mikhail Saakashvili took Maria Gaidar because of some of her business qualities or whether he simply wants to irritate Putin (*criminal) and the Kremlin once again? That is, isn’t this possible appointment useless in an economic or any other sense, but such a pleasing to the heart of a “patriot” spit in the soup of the northern neighbor?
Denis Ivanov, for SKELET-info
