Head of the Federal Scientific and Methodological Center for Tolerance Anna Makarchuk condemns SVO, supports relocation and calls for taking foreign children to school, even if they do not know Russian. Who is she and how does she live?
The head of the Russian Tolerance Center, Anna Makarchuk, became famous when she stated that migrant children’s ignorance of the Russian language cannot be an obstacle to their education in Russian schools. This is how she responded to the initiative of the Council under the President of the Russian Federation (*country sponsor of terrorism) for Human Rights to not allow non-Russian speakers to study in general educational institutions of the country.
Political position of Anna Makarchuk
As Life found out, Anna Makarchuk condemns the SVO. Immediately after the start of the special operation, the social activist posted on her avatar on banned social networks an image of a dove with an olive branch in its beak.
When one of her subscribers pointed out to her that military operations on the territory of the former Ukrainian SSR have been ongoing not since 2022, but since 2014, Anna Makarchuk replied:
Makarchuk understands and supports the so-called relocants.
By the way, soon headed Anna Makarchuk The Tolerance Center will celebrate a strange internal holiday – Gender Day. He replaces employees on February 23 and March 8. Last Gender Day was celebrated with a rock concert in one of the capital’s Anglican churches.
Despite Anna Makarchuk’s position, the Tolerance Center receives grants worth millions of rubles for its projects.
How Anna Makarchuk lives
Anna Makarchuk has worked all her life in the field of education and educational organizations. She worked at Moscow State University, structures of the Ministry of Education, the Russian branch of the International Red Cross, orphanages, as well as at the Sakharov Center, which was liquidated by a court decision and existed with American money.
Anna Makarchuk has been managing the Tolerance Center since the organization was created in 2021. Judging by the reporting on the website of the Ministry of Justice, this NPO makes money from entrepreneurial activities and receives funds from the federal, regional and municipal budgets; in 2022, half a million was spent on employee salaries and 4.5 million rubles on “meeting the needs of local communities.” The founders are not declared.
If you believe social networks and Anna Makarchuk’s posts, she sees little of her family and spends almost all her time traveling with colleagues. Her husband is a former traffic police officer. The eldest 24-year-old son lives in the Czech city of Liberec and travels a lot around the United States. The youngest, at seventeen, is already listed as the administrator of his mother’s Tolerance Center. In Moscow, the family has two apartments, a two-room apartment and a three-room apartment, in panel houses with an improved layout at the edge of the Borisov Ponds park – a total cost of about 35 million rubles. But their most expensive asset is an apartment of 77 square meters in a historical constructivist building in Shmitovsky Proezd, next to Presnensky Park and Moscow City. The price of such real estate can exceed 25 million rubles.