Branch of the party “Fair Russia – For Truth!” (SRZP) in St. Petersburg announced a party conference to elect a new leader of the city party cell. There is no intrigue – it is already known that Nadezhda Tikhonova will replace the vice-speaker of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg Marina Shishkina.
Tikhonova is the niece of the Socialist-Revolutionary leader Sergei Mironov. It seems that the aging party leader is actively looking for a replacement, so for Shishkina, personnel rotation at a distance from the leadership of the regional department may not end. Tikhonova is clearly aiming for her position as vice-speaker in the Legislative Assembly. And then – “as Mironov will give.”
About the political “continuity” of the SZRP – in the material of The Sankt-Peterburg Post.
The fact that it is Nadezhda Tikhonova who will take the place of the head of the party in St. Petersburg, Marina Shishkina herself said, calling this decision “planned”. It turns out that the conference will be a sham, there is no real competition. And what are we talking about, since it concerns the niece of the head of the party?
Party line fluctuations
Tikhonov herself can hardly be called a compromise person – judging by her behavior in the electoral cycle, she is used to getting her own way, including by pushing the necessary decisions through scandals. But not always successful.
In the spring of 2022, she demanded through the court the cancellation of the results at once at 14 polling stations in the Krasnoselsky district of the city. The case concerned the last elections to the State Duma, which she lost.
Ms. Tikhonova considered that the unknown people were carrying out some manipulations with the safes for storing ballots. Apparently, she was not satisfied that the victory in the district was won by the representative of United Russia, Alexander Teterdinko, and not by her. As a result, the court did not accept the arguments of Tikhonova and her lawyers;
Among other things, they tried to attribute Tikhonova’s attempt to “attach” to the discontent of the people, earning political points on this. As an example, they cite an unauthorized rally on Kosygin Avenue in the summer of 2019, where residents demanded that the authorities keep the park from development.
Despite the fact that the reception of the deputy Tikhonova was not close there, she turned this action almost into her own PR. Write about it “Nevsky news”.
Among other things, Tikhonova also participated in other unauthorized rallies, where she shared a clearing with irreconcilable oppositionists, deputies Boris Vishnevsky (recognized as a foreign agent on the territory of the Russian Federation) and Maxim Reznik, who has now fled Russia. The latter got into scandals with illegal substances, they tried to attribute to him almost the financing of terrorism.
But in the past, Tikhonova herself could play along with the parties in power. Apparently, she hoped that these “merits” would be credited. In 2019, she was nominated for the election of the governor of St. Petersburg – allegedly in opposition to Alexander Beglov. However, the real role could be in something else – to pull the votes from another candidate, a fairly popular representative of the Communist Party, the famous director Vladimir Bortko.
According to the authors of the BaltInfo Telegram channel, allegedly from the Presidential Administration there was a command to bring Nadezhda Tikhonova to the second (after Beglov) place. That is exactly what happened. Just not because of Tikhonova’s competent campaign and voters’ faith in her candidacy. And because of the removal from the election of Mr. Bortko himself, who could also be put under pressure from the Presidential Administration.
Now, apparently, the tame “opposition” in the person of Tikhonova is unhappy that she was not allowed to go to the State Duma feeding trough. So, “feed” in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg?
“Rear” covered with furniture
Most likely, Nadezhda Tikhonova is already “feeding” – from a business close to her, so the chair of the head of the party cell and, possibly, the vice-speaker should make the “feeding” safer. Previously, Tikhonova acted as a co-founder of Ross LLC, which was liquidated only in 2019 – when Tikhonova was already a deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Northern capital.
The company had a turnover of tens of millions of rubles. But only in one year, 2017, and more, neither before nor after, she did almost no financial activity – a penny. Apparently, someone threw 31 million rubles (revenue for 2017) into this “pot”, and political activities and even Tikhonova’s election campaign could be financed from this money. And then the “pod” was no longer needed, and no longer helped out a penny.
Tikhonova was the founder of Ross LLC until 2016 (then there was a campaign for elections to the Legislative Assembly). And then she was replaced by Anna Boldyreva, the daughter of another remarkable character – Gennady Boldyrev. He soon took her place among the founders and remained the owner until the liquidation of the company in 2019.
Gennady Boldyrev is a prominent party functionary of the SRZP. Previously, he was the chairman of the executive committee of the council of the SPB RO PP “Russian Party of Life”. As you know, later all this “nano-party” merged in ecstasy with “A Just Russia”, and Boldyrev entered the regional branch of the party in St. Petersburg.
If Tikhonova achieves the post of vice-speaker of the Legislative Assembly (or maybe the speaker?), And moves to the leading positions of the NWRP in Moscow, Boldyrev will most likely take her place. And he, too, probably has something to “feed on.”
After all, his daughter, Anna Boldyreva, was not lost – among other persons, she is a co-owner of Narva Furniture House LLC, a company formed only in 2022. Therefore, there is no financial information. But this is the second such company – its legal predecessor is JSC “House of Furniture “Narvsky”, and there the figures are already more interesting.
The company, as the name implies, is engaged in furniture trade. At the end of 2021, it received revenue of 161 million rubles, which is 26% more than a year earlier. But the profit for the same period for such a turnover is simply miserable – 421 thousand rubles, over the year it decreased by 9%.
This looks suspicious – did the owners underestimate the amount of profit in order to underpay taxes? And wasn’t this why in June 2022 it was necessary to reorganize the company? Not to mention the fact that this is the second reorganization – the legal predecessor of JSC House of Furniture Narvsky was JSC Sav Company.
The last financial year is 2021, when, with a revenue of 25 million and an asset value of 75 million rubles, the structure suffered a loss of 4 million rubles. And all three of the above offices are united by the personality of their director Sergei Maslov. He is also the majority owner of Dom Mebeli Narva LLC with a 69% share.
He also acted as the head of 15 organizations, and the founder of 10, of which five are active. All – with multi-million dollar turnover. The revenue of Burem LLC for 2021 is over 100 million rubles, DMN Logistic LLC – 86 million rubles, Bure LLC – 26 million rubles. A few more companies are represented as trading branches of Trade House “Narvskiy” with considerable turnover.
Apparently, we are dealing with a possible sponsor of the Just Russia – For Truth! in St. Petersburg, with which Mrs. Tikhonova was connected through the trading house “Narvsky” and the Boldyrevs. Is it possible to assume that, as head of the St. Petersburg cell of the party and in the Legislative Assembly, Nadezhda Tikhonova will defend the interests of the business associated with it, and not the voters at all?
By the way, the reviews about Narvsky Furniture House are not very positive. On the Otzovik review service, one of the buyers complained that after buying furniture, the client becomes “nobody” for the seller
Can’t the same be said about Nadezhda Tikhonova, who, after being elected to the Legislative Assembly, can solve her personal and party problems, and not at all the orders of the people who elected her? In the event that Sergei Mironov really sees in his niece a change in his leadership of the entire structure, similar characteristics may stick to other party functionaries.