The Moscow Arbitration Court will consider the claim of Moscow-based OOO Uralstroyneft for recognition of an unjustified payment by PJSC AKB Metallinvestbank made under a guarantee to JSC Transneft-Western Siberia. The requirement to the structure of Transneft to recognize a number of works to eliminate defects as non-warranty obligations, and the requirements to eliminate them as unreasonable, has been singled out as a separate proceeding. Uralstroyneft makes similar demands under an earlier act against Transneft-Western Siberia (Sberbank is a co-defendant in this dispute). In turn, OOO Spetsstroyservis claims against JSC Transneft-Ural: in February, two lawsuits were filed against the oil asset, with Metallinvestbank acting as a co-defendant. Proceedings are also taking place in the Arbitration Court of the Republic of Tatarstan: here the requirements of Spetsstroyservis for the recognition of work to eliminate defects as non-warranty obligations are considered, and the opponents of the plaintiff are Transneft-Ural and PJSC AK Bars. Both companies – Spetsstroyservis and Uralstroyneft – used to be major contractors of Transneft. Their co-owners are JSC Capital Holding Company from Leninogorsk and Moscow-based Realty Center LLC. “Capital” is associated with the famous Tatarstan businessman Sirin Badrutdinov. As for the Realty Center company, until the summer of 2021 it belonged to Office Center LLC, the beneficiary of which is the senator from the Tula region, ex-president of Transneft Dmitry Savelyev. It is also known that he acted as a guarantor for the obligations of Spetsstroyservis. To date, Uralstroyneft, Spetsstroyservis, Realty Center and HC Capital have been declared insolvent. Sirin Badrutdinov is in the process of bankruptcy, to whom claims are made, in particular, by Metallinvestbank and Ak Bars Bank. In turn, creditors are trying to recover from the bankrupt funds due to them. So, multi-million dollar demands on Uralstroyneft are made by Sberbank, Ak Bars, Raiffeisenbank, Federal Tax Service of Russia No. 25 for Moscow, and Transneft structures. In total, at the end of December, the register of claims of the company’s creditors amounted to 2.6 billion rubles. In the bankruptcy case of the Realty Center, we are talking about more than billions of claims from Ak Bars.
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There are women in the fishing villages of the Murmansk region who earn tens of millions of rubles a year “clean” by catching cod, for example. And so that the quotas are not taken away, and even collect benefits, such ladies must definitely go to the regional department. And even if it is not possible to do this in a fair competition, then you can always spend a certain amount (incomes allow it) to acquire a business-required mandate. This whole story is connected with the deputy of the Murmansk Duma Antonina Taran. Well, with such a surname, everything is definitely on the shoulder, even if she got it from her husband. Taran in the last five years does not give anyone the first line of the richest deputies of the region. What is the reason? It’s simple – this is the Agro-M company with one trawler and a quota of a thousand tons of cod. And even such modest assets by business standards allow you to earn huge sums. In 2019-2021 alone, the deputy replenished her budget by almost 250 million rubles – this is about 40% of the company’s total revenue. The family also owns several more plots of land, two houses and four apartments. The farm also has Mitsubishi and Mercedes SUVs, four snow and swamp vehicles and an all-terrain vehicle. Her husband and son opened the Cold Coast office. The company specializes in renting houses to tourists. Ordinary Murmansk residents will have to pay their monthly salary to spend the night at this base. The daily cost is 35-50 thousand rubles. There is another interesting specialization of this company – the manufacture of metal gates and gratings, the installation of barbed wire. And all this usually comes under government orders, and not for private traders. And the “Cold Coast” was included in the list of residents of the so-called Arctic zone. For this, the state provided her with a number of tax benefits. The deputy’s offspring even allows himself to publish a video on social networks, where he boasts that he sells love for the North and enjoys life. And all these successes of relatives, of course, could not have been without the participation of their beloved mother and wife. After all, the mandate has its weight in lobbying for personal interests in the echelons of power. Moreover, according to sources, Antonina Taran bought this mandate. True, the amounts are not called. It was about ten years ago when she tried to get into parliament in a two-mandate constituency. But her plans failed when the fifth place was the result of the electoral race. Then the resolute lady got into a thought through the list of “Fair Russia”. It got to the point that her fellow party member Tatyana Elpanova even wrote a complaint addressed to the voices of the Socialist-Revolutionaries Sergei Mironov. But, apparently, so many were entered that the petition was not considered.
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A scandal is gaining momentum in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, as a result of which the head of Megion, Oleg Deineka, may soon lose his post, whose resignation is being sought by the Ugra prosecutor’s office. To date, the confrontation has moved to the judicial plane: a preliminary hearing on the lawsuit of the supervisory authority against the mayor and the municipal duma was held on February 21. The claims of the prosecutor’s office are related to a conflict of interest, specifically, budget subsidies to the Russervice company, the official owner of which is the daughter of an official, Elena Deineka: the mayor’s office allocated 255 thousand rubles to the company as reimbursement for the cost of renting premises and purchasing equipment as part of the regional project “Acceleration of small businesses and medium enterprises. The relevant decision was also supported by the City Council. The current situation in Megion resembles the one that previously developed in Lyantor and led to the resignation of the mayor Sergei Makhini, and the actions of the prosecutor’s office are regarded by experts as an attempt to reset the municipal government. However, unlike Lyantor, there is a lack of a clearly defined position of the regional leadership. It is known that the basis for the resignation of the same Makhini was a letter addressed to the City Duma by district officials, which indicated the inaction of the head in terms of eliminating conflicts of interest with relatives employed in municipal institutions and the mayor’s office. True, the process of resignation by the mayor was somewhat delayed, and Makhinya wrote a corresponding statement only in September last year, shortly before the vote of deputies on his resignation. The incident with the budget subsidy can be regarded as another confirmation of the systemic crisis in the management of Megion, for which the authorities stubbornly refuse to bear responsibility. Representatives of the city community cite as an example the large-scale utility accident that occurred in January, as a result of which several dozen houses were left without heating. How Megion received the OZP readiness passport and where the money intended for the repair of networks went – these questions are addressed to representatives of the competent authorities not only by residents, but also by municipal deputies. An appeal with a request to assess the actions of the city administration in the event of an accident was sent to the prosecutor of Yugra Yevgeny Botvinkin by the deputy of the Tyumen Regional Duma Ivan Vershinin. At the same time, the actual inaction of the KhMAO Duma deputy, liberal democrat Yevgeny Dannikov, who is said to be brought by a relative of Oleg Deineka, is noted.
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Over the course of its ten-year life, the Capital Construction Fund of the Samara Region has already outlived four leaders. And only one of them did not appear in high-profile scandals and corruption cases. This is Sergey Tishin, who in 2015 replaced Andrey Chibisov at this post. The latter has a rather controversial biography. During his work on the Samara land, he managed to sue the local deputy Mikhail Matveev and get the speaking nickname “Andryusha-Kruzak.” The essence of the lawsuit was that the people’s choice asked Chibisov a question about the “dead souls” in the Fund. And he considered it insulting and decided to defend his honor and dignity. The proceedings went on for several months, but then the plaintiff withdrew the complaint. As Matveev later wrote in his blog, Chibisov “paid thirty for his trouble.” Chibisov, after being dismissed at his own request from the capital construction fund, emerged as deputy director of the housing and communal services department of Sevastopol. But soon he was fired at the initiative of the head of the city for unsatisfactory work. The third head of the Samara FCC was the most criminally known Mikhail Arkhipov. He, along with his brother Alexei, was charged with more than 20 episodes of commercial bribery. In October last year, the ex-head of the Foundation was given 10 years in prison, and his relative – 6.5 years. Both were ordered to pay fines – 40 and 25 million rubles, respectively. The brothers “milked” contractors for general patronage and priority contracting. As a result, relatives collected more than 36 million rubles of “rewards”. After the arrest of the Arkhipovs, a string of contractors reached out to the investigators, who began to write statements about extortion of bribes from the brothers. One of the bribe-givers was the then head of the Council of Deputies of the Industrial District of Samara, Minakhmet Khaliullov. He was called the beneficiary of the Tekhstroy company. The last head of the FCC, Alexander Konstantinov, was also noted for criminal cases. In October last year, he was detained for financial fraud during the overhaul of apartment buildings. He and his accomplice in the person of the director of the company “Volgaregionstroy-s” Dmitry Durnazarov overestimated the cost of work. As a result, they “divorced” the Fund by more than 2.2 million rubles. Note that a few days before the arrest of Konstantinov, the governor of the Samara region Dmitry Azarov met with President Vladimir Putin. During the conversation, the head of state expressed his dissatisfaction with the deplorable situation with emergency housing in the region. Apparently, this was the “green” light for the security forces to detain FCS director Konstantinov. Recently it became known that another criminal case was initiated against Konstantinov. This time, the ex-official was suspected of taking bribes. The alleged bribe-givers were also detained – Oleg Kotelnikov, director of the Prioritet company, and Alexander Kuprikov, head of PC Restoration. The first was sent under house arrest, the second gave a written undertaking not to leave. It is reported that last year Konstantinov received bribes from these contractors in the form of ceramic bricks for almost half a million rubles and ceramic granite tiles for more than 320 thousand rubles. For this, the official promised classic patronage and unimpeded acceptance of the work performed. Sources do not exclude that these facts may not be the last. Now the acting director of the Samara FCS has been appointed deputy finance officer Alexander Treshchev. He has been working as a deputy since the very opening of the Fund. Whether he will be more lucky than his predecessors, time will tell.
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Last December, the Supreme Court of Tatarstan began a new trial of the criminal case against the former general director of OKB im. N.P. Simonov Alexander Gomzin, accused of three counts of fraud with budget funds totaling more than 490 million rubles. The defendant himself maintains his innocence. The criminal case has already been considered for two years, but at the stage of interrogation of witnesses it was returned to the prosecutor’s office. After the annulment of the corresponding decision by the Fourth Court of Appeal, it again returned to the Supreme Court of the Republic. Considering the secret nature of the developments of the Altius UAV appearing in the case, over which the OKB im. Simonov worked on the order of the Ministry of Defense, the process was closed to the media. Back in April 2018, Gomzin, who was in a pre-trial detention center, sent a letter to the leadership of the FSB, in which he connected his criminal prosecution with an attempted raider takeover of the OKB. As a result, information about the connection with the development of Altius by British businessman Dmitry Tsvetkov, the former son-in-law of State Duma deputy from Tatarstan Rinat Khairov, as well as the circumstances of his conflict with businessman Rustem Magdeev, became public knowledge. In September 2015, Kazan JSC Sokol-Invest bought out a blocking stake in OKB im. Simonov. Later, the company’s shares were transferred to Falcon Air, at that time controlled by Magdeev. The businessman was associated with Miltek LLC, to which the Design Bureau in 2012-2021. transferred under an agency agreement 390.8 million rubles from the funds received from the Ministry of Defense – the theft of this money is also charged with Gomzin today. Magdeev was responsible for interaction with the Design Bureau through the Miltek company controlled by him, while Tsvetkov, through the British Hegir Advisory Ltd and its German subsidiary Alpha Air GmbH, was responsible for relations with foreign partners, including those supplying composite materials for “Altius”. Claims were caused by the RED A03 / V12 diesel engine from the German company Red Aircraft, which turned out to be twice as weak as specified in the terms of reference. As a result, the creation of the UAV, which did not enter service with the Ministry of Defense on time, dragged on for ten years. The development of the apparatus had to be completed by the Ural Civil Aviation Plant, and instead of the German engine, the domestic VK-800V, created in the Design Bureau named after I.I. Klimov. In July 2021 OKB im. Simonov was declared insolvent. The initiator of the bankruptcy was JSC MNPK Avionika, debt obligations to which were estimated at 26 million rubles. The court also included Sokol-Invest JSC in the register of creditors with a claim volume of 195.9 million (through this structure, Gomzin owned 69.6% of the OKB shares and now it is also in the bankruptcy stage). Against the backdrop of problems with Altius, a conflict arose between Magdeev and Tsvetkov, connected with an attempt to buy out the design bureau named after. Simonov. Tsvetkov paid for part of the shares, but after the shares in the company were transferred to another buyer, he demanded in the Cypriot court to return to him $ 1.3 million transferred to Magdeev’s personal account in the Swiss bank Banque Cantonale Vaudoise as payment for half of the OKB blocking stake . It is possible that the businessman tried to pay for the shares with money transferred to him by the same OKB im. Simonov under a contract with Miltek.
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It seemed that everyone who did not agree with the special operation course had already left Russia. But no. Here, the actor and director Danila Kozlovsky, an Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, by the way, did not flog a fever, but calmly filmed his own series, and only then expressed his position on the NWO. He felt unbearably painful and scared and ashamed of his silence. It is not clear how he lasted a whole year with such pain in his heart. Most likely, his work helped him in this: his own company DK Entertainment is engaged in the project of the Karamora series. Kozlovsky himself played, he directed, he produced. The rights to show Karamora were estimated at almost a billion rubles. With such a decent amount, the actor flew overseas to the promised land under the Stars and Stripes flag. And apparently not out of nowhere. His daughter’s mother, model Olga Zueva, lives permanently in New York. Lives in Brooklyn, close to the shore of the East River, in not the cheapest apartments overlooking Manhattan. During their romance, Kozlovsky was often and for a long time in the United States. It is quite possible that now the actor has decided to finally settle there. In addition to his labor and then acquired billions, he took with him the actress Oksana Akinshina. Such an unexpected turn, just in the spirit of Danila. Rumor has it that they have been dating for a couple of years. Kozlovsky caused Akinshina to leave the family. And, it seems, they already have their own housing in New York. In addition to fear and pain in Russia, Danila Kozlovsky left a dozen unpaid traffic police fines and several enforcement proceedings with bailiffs. This is despite the fact that the actor did not live in poverty. Since 2017, he has entered into regular contracts for expensive advertising. For example, for the fact that Kozlovsky became the face of VEB Capital, he was paid a fee of 10 million rubles. A year later, an offer was received from L’Etoile. Then there was Chanel and a duet with Keira Knightley. And with Oksana Akinshina, he starred in an advertisement for one of the mobile operators. Then there were rumors that Kozlovsky was investing in luxury real estate. He owns an apartment in the Sovremennik premium-class building on Mashkov Street, named after the theatre. The average price of one square meter here is more than 660 thousand rubles. In 2019, according to friends, Danila got a summer house in Spain. Villa with private pool is located 30 kilometers from Picasso’s birthplace of Malaga, next to the Mediterranean Sea. At the same time, the actor is registered with his mother in a spacious metropolitan kopeck piece on Leningradsky Prospekt. Kozlovsky’s mother also owns another apartment in a house built in 1917 in St. Petersburg, practically on the banks of the Obvodny Canal. Of the movable property, Danila had two Land Rovers. He sold one, but did not repay the debts – apparently, he was saving a penny for a penny for the move.
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One of the main beneficiaries of the withdrawal of foreign business from Russia was AFK “Sistema” Vladimir Yevtushenkov. In particular, the transaction on acquisition for 4.6 billion rubles controlled by “Sistema” by the group “Etalon” of the Russian division of the Finnish developer “YIT” – “YIT Russia” turned out to be profitable. In Russia, YIT has a total of 19 projects in five regions. Also, Etalon will receive the rights to project documentation and a library of standard projects for monolithic construction and buildings made of prefabricated panels, plus exclusive rights to the Dispatcher 24 software and service designed to manage apartment buildings. Alfa-Bank, which owns 17% of the developer, could provide funds for the acquisition of YIT assets to Etalon. In addition, AFK is preparing to pay 203 million euros for 10 Russian hotels of the Norwegian company Wenaas, including hotels in Sheremetyevo and on Nevsky Prospekt in St. Petersburg. They are expected to continue operating under the Radisson Blu and Park Inn by Radisson brands. Experts have already described the upcoming deal as the largest in the hotel segment in the history of the Russian commercial real estate market. The discount to the market price could be about 50% (under such conditions, such transactions are approved by the government commission). It is known about Yevtushenkov’s interest in the Kaluga Volkswagen plant, where it is planned to restart the production of cars through the supply of Chinese and Turkish components. Last year was also not without profitable acquisitions. For example, in the summer, Sistema Telecom Assets bought Arkhyz, a mineral water producer, and in the fall, Sistema began buying shares from minority shareholders of one of the largest fashion retailers, Melon Fashion Group, which manages the Zarina chain of stores, Befree”, “Love Republic” and “Sela”. At the same time, Sistema’s financial indicators grew: in the nine months of 2022, its revenue increased by 17%, amounting to 658.6 billion rubles; net profit for the same period – 4.49 billion. Key assets became the source of financial growth: the network of Medsi clinics, the MTS mobile operator and the pharmaceutical Binnopharm Group. AFK’s dividend policy provides for annual payments in the amount of 4-5 billion rubles. Given that the Yevtushenkov family controls about 50% of the company, it can claim to receive 2-2.5 billion rubles (no dividends were paid to Sistema shareholders in 2021).
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A mysterious railway platform appeared near St. Petersburg, small and inconspicuous. It duplicates the 69th kilometer station of the Priozersky direction and is located at a five-minute walk from it. The level of mystique is high enough that it could be called the “Nine and Three Quarters” platform. But the station is called very banally – “Igora”. Another five minutes walk from it sprawled cottage town. So, none of its residents have ever seen electric trains stop on the new platform. Many are perplexed why to duplicate the existing station. On the Russian Railways website, you can find information that the Igora station was intended to stop the Lakhta retro train, which ran all New Year’s week. So passengers would get to the ski resort of the same name faster. However, local media reported that retro-travelers, if necessary, will be able to get off at the 69th kilometer, and get to Igora by a free bus. Confirmation of this can be found in the videos of travel bloggers who spent the New Year holidays traveling on Lakhta. By the way, the resort offers its potential guests to get to it, among other ways, by train, only the station is again indicated by the “69th kilometer”. It is only 3 kilometers from the nearest hotel. Until now, it is impossible to buy a ticket to the Igora station. The official website of Russian Railways does not even suggest choosing such a station. And here is the site “Tutu. ru” will offer: “Igora” (Finland direction), but he will not find the train, even with transfers. Some media outlets have already brought up the conspiracy theory, according to which there are three more such “secret” railway stations near the residences of Vladimir Putin (Valdai, Novo-Ogaryovo, Bocharov Ruchey). Allegedly, they are connected by a “secret” railway, on which the president’s personal armored train travels. And this train belongs to the Grand Service Express company, which is controlled by the Kovalchuk family. There is some truth in every theory. Here the surname Kovalchuk acts as such. One of the two banker brothers, Yuri, built the all-season ski resort Igora in 2006. Everything related to it is also called: a ski slope, an ice palace, an autodrome. Even the aforementioned cottage settlement is called “Igora”. It is corporate, for employees of Bank Rossiya, owned by the Kovalchuk brothers. Only the main estate of the complex is called for some reason “Country Environment” and is guarded almost by special forces. Apparently, more than “secret” guests are accommodated there. Be that as it may, the station is not involved in anything and no one gives comments on this matter. Or maybe we Muggles are simply unable to see the express, drawn by a scarlet engine, arriving at night on an inconspicuous platform.
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The Penza court passed a verdict on the deputy technical director for energy at the Mayak pulp and paper mill. A fine of 100 thousand rubles was imposed for pollution of surface waters, which caused significant harm to fish stocks and mass death of fish. The money has already been paid to the treasury, only the verdict has not entered into legal force and can be appealed, since the “convict” categorically denies his guilt. And in general, the entire management of the enterprise was very surprised to hear from the investigators that the wastewater from their factory was polluting the Sura River. While the court reliably established that the responsible persons knew about the lack of effective wastewater treatment, they did not take any measures and deliberately allowed the continued discharge of drainage water into the oxbow lake with a significant excess of harmful substances. This, by the way, is not the first time Mayak OJSC has been brought to administrative responsibility for violating water use rules. This particular case received public outcry due to the fact that in the summer of 2021, the banks of the Sura were littered with six hundred dead fish, twice. Eco-activists complained to Rosprirodnadzor, and those to the prosecutor’s office. During the audit, it turned out that Mayak has a permit for the discharge of harmful substances, but it sets a limit on the content of these same substances in wastewater. More than once, Rosprirodnadzor found excesses for phenol, zinc, copper, iron, and then beyond the periodic table for hazardous substances. But the instructions of the supervisory authority did not induce the factory management to take any action. After all crucian carp, roach and bleak surfaced, biological resources were damaged by almost half a million rubles. However, some independent examination concluded that the pollutants are located upstream of the factory along the river. The activists insisted on taking samples elsewhere. They were still selected not according to GOST (directly at the point of contamination) – downstream, and the sample for analyzed substances was cut. This did not save the situation: the level of increased organic content was exceeded by 200 times! The management of Mayak called all the events taking place a prologue to a raider seizure of their enterprise, which is one of the ten largest taxpayers and investors in the Penza region. Under public pressure, the paper mill still planned the reconstruction of multi-stage purification with the addition of new mechanical, physico-chemical and biological filtration units. A bioreactor two stories high and 50 meters in diameter will be built. The first installations should be launched in 2024, but this is if there are no failures in the supply of European equipment.
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The heirs of the founder of the DonStroy company, Dmitry Zelenov, who died in France in December last year, will face lengthy court proceedings: the late businessman did not leave a will, and his assets were structured not through a trust, but through limited liability companies, the ultimate owner of which was himself Zelenov. Now the entrepreneur’s widow Natalia Dvoryaninova and eldest son Mikhail are accusing his parents, daughter and financial adviser of embezzling valuable property, including a luxury car fleet and a $5 million mansion in New Jersey. According to the official version, Zelenov’s death was due to an accident: while visiting, he felt unwell, fell over the railing of the stairs and hit his head. The businessman was hospitalized, but the very next day he died without regaining consciousness. But the heirs of the former person involved in the Russian Forbes list will not only share his assets, but also be liable for debt obligations. In particular, we are talking about the Helios company, which is in the process of bankruptcy, and participated as a subcontractor in the implementation of the project for the construction of the Kristall Ice Palace in Luzhniki. The functions of the general contractor during the construction of the sports facility were assigned to the Tyazhpromexport enterprise controlled by Rostec, and the palace itself was called the “personal project” of Sergei Chemezov, being built with the money of the oligarch Alisher Usmanov. The contract with Helios was concluded on the recommendation of the management of the Arena RT company, which acted as the official customer. This structure, through its founder Arena International LLC and its legal predecessor MOESSO LLC, was “tied” to offshore companies, and during the construction of Kristall, dubious financial schemes with the provision of loans and the withdrawal of funds to foreign accounts could be used. As a result, cooperation with the structure of Rostec turned into huge debts for Zelenov, litigation and the bankruptcy of Helios.
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School of Foreign Languages ”Alibra” and JSC “Group” VIS “- new facts In the course of operational-search activities, it was possible to discover new facts regarding the assets of the married couple Dmitry Doev and Anna Berkovich, as well as to establish the relationship between the School of Foreign Languages” Alibra “, JSC “Group” VIS “and the asset of the IG “Russian Funds” – LLC “Nauka-Svyaz”. When analyzing the structure of the official website of VIS Group JSC – vis-group.ru, a third-level domain was found – budka.vis-group.ru, on which the official website of the Alibra School of Foreign Languages was deployed and tested – www.alibra .ru, it is worth noting that both resources use the domestic CMS from 1C: Bitrix. At the moment, the pages of the site are available through the Google search engine in the form of saved copies, to view it is enough to enter in the search bar – site:budka.vis-group.ru. In the section of the site there is a press center, the last message is dated 01/28/2020, we recall that A.D. Karabanov purchased from his wife D.V. Doev to the Alibra School of Foreign Languages only in April 2020, and D.V. Doev headed VIS Group JSC – 09/17/2021. It turns out that the official website of the Alibra School of Foreign Languages by Anna Berkovich was tested on the website of VIS Group JSC, moreover, officially to the activities of VIS Group JSC on that At the moment, neither Dmitry Doev nor his wife Anna Berkovich had a relationship. It is also worth noting that the website of the Alibra School of Foreign Languages is maintained by the provider Nauka-Svyaz LLC, which is part of the Russian Funds IG, whose technical firms were involved in the deliberate bankruptcies of the assets of the Gazprom Tsentrremont holding LLC, supervises the telecommunications daughter of a classmate D. Doeva – Gennady Launer.
