Where is Viktor Tolokonsky now? Kicking a dead lion: why Tolokonsky left

Viktor Tolokonsky’s connections with the Trunov-Solodkin organized crime group, corruption, ecology. What else could be the reason for the resignation of the Krasnoyarsk governor?

Despite the “hit list” of eight governors, which was published by dozens of media and news agencies at the end of last week, the “retirees” are trying to put a good face on a bad game even now. The governor's chairs do not wobble - they fall like dominoes: but not in a random order, but in the one determined by the Kremlin. There are no surprises here. However, the governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, like Queen Marie Antoinette, point-blank refused to notice the obvious.

Carriage for me, carriage!

Although where is Viktor Tolokonsky compared to the late empress - he is closer in character to Chatsky, who in the heat of conversation exclaimed: “A carriage for me, a carriage! I don’t go here anymore...” The ex-governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory spoke in the same style after an unscheduled meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on September 22: “I’m leaving. And I’m even leaving. I apologize if I offended anyone. I can be quick-tempered, but I have always worked with love. And if there wasn’t enough warmth for everyone, I’m sorry.”

When the elite is so strong, everything is allowed to them.

And there are plenty of those who lacked the warmth of Governor Viktor Tolokonsky. Well, besides the family: the ex-governor’s son Alexey is the Deputy Minister of Health of the Novosibirsk Region, daughter Elena is the head of the department of the Regional Clinical Hospital, son-in-law Yuri Iosifovich Bravve is the chief physician of the State Budgetary Healthcare Institution NSO “City Clinical Hospital No. 1”, his wife is a Doctor of Medical Sciences - she works presenter on television. No engineers, no ordinary doctors in the countryside, no salesmen and loaders. Elite. Moreover, the elite are attached to grain-producing, and in the conditions of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, “golden” places. But that’s okay: who else will take care of relatives if not the head of the family? Russia is a country of patriarchal foundations; we first accommodate our own people, otherwise it somehow doesn’t work out like a human being. But here’s what’s interesting: Viktor Tolokonsky, in addition to strengthening family foundations and the health care of the region in parallel, was seen in much more interesting places, affairs and companies.

Environmental disaster and mortality from cancer

When the elite is so strong, everything is allowed to them. For example, it has been documented that air pollution has been increasing in Krasnoyarsk since 2000. The sky over the Krasnoyarsk Territory is already black, people can’t breathe – the level of pollution is twice the national level. Half of the region’s inhabitants exist in conditions close to a post-apocalyptic world, in which formaldehyde, benzopyrene, phenol and ammonia are like the scent of chamomile in the village. The amount of waste is estimated at 350 million tons per year. Complaints from residents and requests for help not only did not call the governor to action, but also led to unexpected consequences: medical presenter, first lady of the Krasnoyarsk Territory Natalya Tolokonskaya gave a sharp rebuke to people on Instagram. “When there are more pure thoughts in your head, dirty air will cease to be dangerous. I can teach like a doctor!”

For reference: despite her degree, she is a so-so doctor, because even a medical student knows about experiments with formaldehyde, which gave approximately 50 lethal (deadly) mutations per 800 individuals in the Drosophila fly population. That's a lot. For humans, formaldehyde chemical mutagenesis results in infant deaths, and mutations can be delayed into the second and third generations. This means that Viktor Tolokonsky himself will already be forgotten, but his environmental crisis will affect the residents of the Krasnoyarsk Territory for about another hundred years. And people understand this: in 2016, they sent a letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin asking for the resignation of Viktor Tolokonsky. But the decision dragged on for more than a year.

Not all is well with oncology. More precisely, everything is very bad: the average annual increase in cancer diseases in 2017 in the Krasnoyarsk region was 4.9%, and the increase in diseases of the endocrine system was approximately the same. Indicators for diseases of the nervous system, circulatory system, and respiratory organs have worsened. 16 cities of the Krasnoyarsk Territory are recognized as potentially life-threatening: in official language, “there is an increased degree of health risk.” Today in the Krasnoyarsk Territory the mortality rate from cancer is 219.8 people per 100 thousand inhabitants. Among these cases, the first place is occupied by oncological diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, the second place is lung cancer.

Need I say that the overwhelming majority of the chemicals listed above are carcinogenic and formaldehyde occupies a leading place among them?

Fourth place in the country for corruption

According to the legal statistics website of the Russian Prosecutor General's Office, the Krasnoyarsk Territory ranked fourth in the country in receiving bribes in 2015. And no matter how much one would like to find an excuse for Viktor Tolokonsky, that, supposedly, he did not understand, did not realize, he was busy reforming the top management of the healthcare sector, but the facts say the opposite. The ex-governor came to power in 2014, and already in 2015, the “imprisonment” of people from his team began, which was extremely painful for Tolokonsky. Thus, one of the deputy ministers, Yuri Panchuk, caused damage to the budget of the Krasnoyarsk Territory by transferring 17 million rubles to the company Special Energy Construction LLC, which was supposed to work it out under a government contract, but somehow forgot. In October 2015, he was arrested.

Corruption always goes hand in hand with crime.

Six months later, in April 2016, the Minister of Architecture and Construction Nikolai Glushkov and his deputy Sergei Kozupitsa were searched in connection with a bribe case of 1.1 million rubles. Later, Elena Vavilova, another deputy minister, was also brought into the case. Vladimir Sedov, a deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the region, is suspected of receiving a bribe. In his case, the scheme was simple: according to investigators, Sedov promised to protect the developer, the Zlata company, from inspections.

Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the region Nadezhda Marshalkina was arrested. For what? She is suspected of having contributed to a government contract worth 170 million rubles. went to one of her friends. But these are still flowers. Corruption always goes hand in hand with crime. And in the Krasnoyarsk Territory it could not have happened without this.

Where did Viktor Tolokonsky come from?

And Viktor Tolokonsky came from the governors of the Novosibirsk region. And there he had such a beautiful story that only a miracle can explain how he managed to get out of it and move to Krasnoyarsk. In 2006, former Press Minister Boris Mironov wrote an article in which he exposed a criminal community that had successfully merged a branch of power in the person of father and son Solodkin and the gang of Alexander Trunov. The piquancy of the situation was that Alexander Solodkin Sr. (“Nyuma”) was an adviser to the governor. The same Viktor Tolokonsky, who for some reason did not see how an organized crime group grew up next to him. And Alexander Solodkin Jr. (“Baloven”) was the vice-mayor, which did not stop him from getting the drug dealer wife of one of the “Trunovskys” off the police and receiving income from the car market built with the money of the organized crime group.

By the way, the Trunovsky gang became famous not for the sale of spare parts: it is responsible for a wide network of drug sales, a series of contract killings of Novosibirsk businessmen, and raider takeovers. And somewhere in the background of all this looms the large figure of Viktor Tolokonsky: a governor who could equally control Trunov’s organized crime group, patronize it, or know nothing at all. The Investigative Committee knows which of these theories is closer to the truth. Or he will find out. Sooner or later.

And by the way: where would there be vacancies for vice-mayors in Novosibirsk? The position is no small one, it doesn’t just appear. Here's the thing. We quote from Rossiyskaya Gazeta seven years ago: “The judge, reading out her decision to extend the arrest for Solodkin Jr., stated that the cases against him and his father were combined into one proceeding with the cases of the murders of the vice-mayors of Novosibirsk I. Belyakov and V. Maryasova." There are different ways to be removed from a position.

The crown of the matter

After the high-profile case of the Trunovsky gang, Viktor Tolokonsky resigned and became the Presidential Plenipotentiary Representative in the Siberian Federal District. And then the governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory. And we are happy for him: he has cleared up his reputation, and the salary for such positions is quite large. Now he has resigned. I even managed to say goodbye to the team. Unlike many other governors, they moved from bright offices in one day to narrow cells of pre-trial detention centers. So if Viktor Tolokonsky seriously intends to look for “where there is a corner for an offended feeling,” then he will definitely find it. Fortunately, there is something to do - unlike most Krasnoyarsk residents. Another thing is that his friends and comrades - both Krasnoyarsk and Novosibirsk - most likely will not want him to be bored without them. And perhaps they will find Viktor Tolokonsky even in the Maldives, Alaska or in an underground bunker. Probably, in order to simply talk to him “for life” “like a boy.”

Forecasts about the resignation of the governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory Viktor Tolokonsky came true. Speaking to deputies of the regional parliament, the head of the region said:

I'm leaving. And I’m even leaving.

The speech of the now former governor was posted on his Facebook page by the Deputy Chairman of the Legislative Assembly of the Krasnoyarsk Territory Alexey Kleshko.

“He says, worried. This is very noticeable.

“I never abandoned the things I started. Now I regret that not all projects have been completed. But I have always been for renewal.”

In the hall are members of the government, deputies, heads of state authorities in the region.

"We've done a lot together and I'm grateful to you all for that." He recalled the main milestones - budget growth by 40% over 3 years, preparations for the Universiade, development of a development strategy for the region, updating social legislation...

“This is not the first time I’m saying goodbye to my colleagues; usually my thoughts were always on a new job. Today this is not the case.”

“I apologize if I offended anyone. I can be quick-tempered, but I always worked with love. And if I didn’t have enough warmth for everyone, I’m sorry.”

A worthy performance by a strong politician.”

More likely, Victor Tolokonsky will go back to Novosibirsk, where he once was the mayor, then the governor of the Novosibirsk region, and then was the presidential envoy to the Siberian Federal District (the residence is located in our city - author's note). He became the governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory in 2014.

If he is offered significant work here, then this will be a good thing for Novosibirsk,” says Irina Levit, Tolokonsky’s former press secretary. - He is a man of outstanding intelligence, that’s the first thing. Second: this is a person who is sincerely devoted to the Novosibirsk region and this is true. Third: he’s a workaholic, he’s a hard worker, you can’t look for any of them. He is also an excellent diplomat, he always knew how to negotiate with a variety of people, under Tolokonsky we had no scandals, nothing. Moreover, the largest projects that were carried out in the Novosibirsk region by his successors were pushed through and thought out by Tolokonsky. For example: Technopark, PLP, Expocentre, fourth bridge, large-scale reconstruction of the Opera House, completion of the Northern Bypass. When Tolokonsky became governor in January 2000, the region was in dire trouble, 85-87 percent of farms were unprofitable. When he left, 80% of farms were profitable.

Irina Semyonovna also recalled that in mid-September Victor Tolokonsky came to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Novosibirsk region. Many then saw him singing in Pervomaisky Square.

He visited Novosibirsk very often, he has a significant part of his family here, his home is here. We saw him at a reception in honor of the 80th anniversary of the region and at the opera house. His mood was normal, he did not talk about resignation. But I repeat, it is good for Novosibirsk if he returns.

Komsomolskaya Pravda is following developments.

COMMENTARY BY A POLITICAL SCIENTIST

“He couldn’t come to an agreement with the elites”

Dmitry Bereznyakov, Candidate of Political Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Political Sciences, SIU RANEPA:

Governor resignations will continue. Tolokonsky was among the governors who were left for a number of reasons, but the main one: he was unable to come to an agreement with the elites of the Krasnoyarsk Territory. The point is not in the economic performance indicators of the region, but in how non-conflict the regional political class is formed. And there were big problems with this. The Krasnoyarsk Territory is a rather complex subject of the federation; it is more complex than the Novosibirsk Region in a number of ways: it is not only larger, but also the structure is different, the problems there are completely different, for example, ecology. I think this is not the saddest option for this governor; he now has prospects for some other actions. He is, first of all, a Novosibirsk resident, not a Krasnoyarsk resident, and now we’ll see what his plans are in Novosibirsk. And we will certainly wait for the next resignations, and they will come.

Vladimir Gorodetsky was also included in the blacklist of governors published by the federal media. Can he resign too?

Maybe, any governor can. Now there is a rotation of elites and rejuvenation. And the focus of the presidential administration is now on people who are about 45-50 years old. And accordingly, an analysis of the appointments shows that these are technocratically oriented governors who are neutral in relation to ideology and focused on an economic-centric vision of gubernatorial management in the region.

QUESTION - RIB

Is there a chance for Viktor Tolokonsky to return to power in Novosibirsk?

We asked this question to the Doctor of Historical Sciences Victor Kozodoy.

Tolokonsky, of course, can try to return to Novosibirsk politics. But don't forget about age. It’s one thing when you are 30-40 years old and have a great desire, it’s another thing when you are 64 years old. Second: we often confuse a politician and an administrative worker. But Viktor Alexandrovich was never a pure politician. This is more of an administrative official. What is their charm and difference: this is the possession of resources. That is, any mayor and governor is a real manager of funds and opportunities. Return to Novosibirsk, not possessing these resources, and exert the influence that was before? This will be very problematic. Also, do not forget, Viktor Alexandrovich left the post of governor of the Novosibirsk region seven years ago. During this time, those people who worked with him left the political horizon. New faces appeared, new connections, interests, groups formed, but Viktor Aleksandrovich did not participate in these processes.

FROM THE KP DOSSIER

Singer, basketball player and hockey fan

In March 1996, he was elected mayor of Novosibirsk.

In January 2000, in the second round of elections, he was elected governor of the Novosibirsk region.

On September 9, 2010, by decree of President Dmitry Medvedev, he was appointed to the position of Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Siberian Federal District.

On May 12, 2014, by decree of President Vladimir Putin, he was appointed acting. O. Governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory.

HOBBY:

Hockey. An active fan of HC Siberia, he was even the head of the team’s board of trustees.

Singing. Probably every Novosibirsk resident has heard Viktor Tolokonsky sing. Just recently - on September 16 - Viktor Alexandrovich sang “Waltz-Boston” at the celebration of the 80th anniversary of the Novosibirsk region in Pervomaisky Square. But his favorite song is “Our Youth Team.”

Basketball. Periodically plays in the amateur team "Eagles of Siberia" wearing jersey number 4.

Tennis. Viktor Aleksandrovich is generally a sporty person: he goes in for sports twice a week, and in addition to basketball, he also plays tennis.

Family status: married. I met my wife while still a schoolboy. Two children. This summer, his son Alexey headed the sports department of the Novosibirsk mayor's office.

SPECIFICALLY

How will Novosibirsk residents remember the Tolokonsky era?

Residents of the Novosibirsk region have a lot to remember with a kind word about Viktor Tolokonsky, who headed our region for 10 years.

One of the main achievements is the construction of the Northern Bypass. In addition, long-term long-term construction projects were put into operation: the Hippodrome highway, a new highway in Tolmachevo. The reconstruction of Sovetskoe Highway began, and the construction of new metro stations continued.

12:46 — REGNUM

What the governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory did Victor Tolokonsky, political scientists have already called it a demarche. On September 27, at a closed meeting, he announced that he was “leaving and even leaving.” And he really left. And he even left.

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On September 28, messages began to appear on social networks that Tolokonsky was already in his native Novosibirsk. But at the same time, neither on September 27 nor on September 28, the decree of the President of the Russian Federation on the resignation of the Krasnoyarsk governor was published. He did not appear at the time of preparation of this material, in the morning of September 29. Thus, the governor must continue to show up for work, lead the region... However, he is no longer in the region.

Krasnoyarsk region is waiting

The press service of the regional government correspondent IA REGNUM gave the following answer to the question of where the governor is now and whether he shows up for work:

“Viktor Tolokonsky wrote a letter of resignation and sent it to the President of the Russian Federation. And we are all waiting for some solution. According to colleagues, Viktor Alexandrovich is now in Novosibirsk.”

So, the governor has left, but the acting governor is not yet there. He will be appointed by the president. The current situation can be considered strange, to say the least. In order to get even a little closer to understanding what is happening, it is necessary to recall how Tolokonsky’s political career began, how he eventually ended up in the chair of the Krasnoyarsk governor.

Viktor Tolokonsky was born on May 27, 1953 in Novosibirsk. He graduated from the general economics department of the Novosibirsk Institute of National Economy and graduate school at Novosibirsk State University. In 1981-1991 he worked in senior positions in the Novosibirsk Regional Executive Committee. From 1991 to 1993 he was deputy chairman of the Novosibirsk City Executive Committee.

In 1993, Tolokonsky became the mayor of Novosibirsk. He led the city until 1999. In January 2000, he headed the Novosibirsk region. He led the region until 2010, then became the plenipotentiary representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Siberian Federal District.

On May 12, 2014, the President, by decree, appointed Tolokonsky as acting governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory. In September 2014, gubernatorial elections were held in the Krasnoyarsk Territory. 425,017 voters (63.3%) cast their votes for Viktor Tolokonsky. September 26, 2017 marks exactly three years since Viktor Tolokonsky has been governor of the region.

When characterizing Tolokonsky, political scientists often called him an experienced politician and a skilled apparatchik. And now, it turns out, he has violated these very hardware traditions.

Broke the rules of the game

“Of course, Viktor Tolokonsky violated hardware traditions, so to speak, the rules of the game. Actually, he is a very experienced apparatchik and knows that this is not necessary.” , - commented in a conversation with a correspondent IA REGNUM Krasnoyarsk political scientist Sergey Komaritsyn.

According to him, there are several versions of what caused this.

“One of the versions is Tolokonsky’s resentment. When he gave his farewell speech on September 27, he said that this was not the first time he was saying goodbye to his colleagues, and each time he was already thinking about a new job, but now that’s not what’s happening. He said he was going nowhere. It is clear that he was not offered anything, no sinecure post like a special representative in the Congress of some nations, as happened with. And, it seems, he will not be awarded the order, as he was awarded. But Shantsev is already over 70, and Tolokonsky turned 64 this year. And he, in general, is still quite capable, maybe he was offended by this attitude , says the expert. — In general, to be honest, all these governors were put in a humiliating situation. They are sitting and waiting for their resignation, some for some reason denied this. And Tolkonsky, perhaps, finally decided to slam the door in this way. But by doing so, of course, he predetermined his future fate; it is unlikely that they will offer him anything now.”

Komaritsyn recalled: in his farewell speech, Tolokonsky said that he was not just leaving, but leaving:

“I think no one will especially cry about this in Krasnoyarsk, since he didn’t become one of his own here. As for whether Tolokonsky has a chance to stay in politics... Hardly. I repeat, with his biography, he could count on some kind of sinecure post. But, apparently, nothing of the kind was offered to him, and he found himself in an unpleasant situation. After all, over all these years he has become accustomed to a certain way of life. He needs status, an office, a secretary, a car with a driver. It is clear that he will not be in poverty, but he has lost these formal, status things.”

Answering the question of what kind of leader the Krasnoyarsk Territory needs, the political scientist emphasized that for 20 years the region, in fact, has been ruled by “strangers, Varangians,” and Tolokonsky also never became one here.

“The Krasnoyarsk Territory needs a person who would shake it up, because the region is in obvious political stagnation. We have very serious problems with management, we need a competent and strong-willed person.” “, the expert concluded.

It is worth noting here that the ongoing personnel changes in the media and social networks are aptly nicknamed the autumn governor's fall. Within a few days, several regional heads left their posts. This is Nikolay Merkushkin (Samara region), Valery Shantsev (Nizhny Novgorod region), Igor Koshin(Nenets Autonomous Okrug). Victor Tolokonsky and Ramazan Abdulatipov(Dagestan) independently announced their intention to resign.

Moreover, according to political scientists, the heads of several more regions may soon resign. The supposed elimination list includes the heads of Kalmykia, North Ossetia, Altai, Novosibirsk, Murmansk, Omsk, Vladimir and Ivanovo regions, the heads of Altai and Primorsky territories, as well as the governor of St. Petersburg.

The article will talk about the political and statesman of the Russian Federation. Since September 16, 2014, he has been previously the mayor of Novosibirsk, the governor of this region, as well as the plenipotentiary representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Siberian Federal District.

Family

Tolokonsky Viktor Aleksandrovich was born on May twenty-seventh, 1953 in Novosibirsk. His father, A. Ya. Tolokonsky, was born in Barnaul, went through the Great Patriotic War, and held leadership positions in the city executive committee and the regional consumer union for twenty-three years.

Mother - N.V. Pisareva, originally from Novosibirsk. Her father taught military skills. Among his famous students were such personalities as Marshals of the Soviet Union R. Malinovsky and K. Rokossovsky. Tolokonsky’s mother V.A. received a medical education and devoted her life to working as a laboratory assistant at the regional sanitary and epidemiological station.

Education

Viktor Tolokonsky graduated from school No. 22 in his hometown. Then he entered the Novosibirsk Institute of National Economy. Graduated from the institute in 1974. In 1975-78. studied in graduate school at NSU. Before defending his dissertation, he suddenly abandoned this procedure and did not receive a candidate’s degree.

In 1978, Viktor Tolokonsky joined the party and remained in it until the collapse of the Soviet Union. Until 1981, he lectured at NSU and NINKh.

Political career

In 1981, Viktor Alexandrovich worked as a member of the commission under the executive committee of Novosibirsk. He held the post of head of the department for consumer goods and industry. Since 1983 he headed the planning department.

In April 1991, he took the post of deputy chairman of the city executive committee of his city. And in January 1992, he sat in the chair of the first deputy head of the Novosibirsk administration, I. Indinok, who was involved in issues of economic reform.

In the ninety-first year, he became a member of the Novosibirsk Political Council - the “Movement of Democratic Reforms”. Since 1993 he became acting. O. mayor of the city. In December of this year he was appointed mayor of Novosibirsk. In his new post, he pursued a policy that was aimed at improving the economic situation of the city, and was able to achieve the elimination of the budget deficit.

Career continuation

In 1994, Viktor Tolokonsky joined the board of directors of the Novosibirsk municipal bank and received a deputy mandate from the City Council. In 1995, he lost in the elections for regional governor to Vitaly Mukha. After that, he submitted his resignation, but the city council rejected it.

In the summer of 1995, Boris Yeltsin included it in the federal body for local self-government. The following year, together with Governor Mukha Tolokonsky, participated in negotiations on the release of police officers from the hands of militants S. Raduev (village of Pervomaiskoe).

In the spring of 1996, after the elections, he became the official city mayor, receiving eighty percent of the votes of Novosibirsk residents. In 1999-2000 was elected head of the regional administration.

In the winter of 2000, Viktor Tolokonsky became a plenipotentiary member of the Russian Federation Council. Until 2001, he was a member of the committee dealing with economic policy issues of the parliament.

In 2003, he was re-elected as governor of the Novosibirsk region. And in 2005 he joined United Russia. According to him, at the beginning of his work as governor, he set three goals for himself:

• creation of a new airport on the basis of the old one;
• creation of a northern bypass road;
• reconstruction of the local academic opera and ballet theater.

After reconstruction, the theater opened in the winter of 2005. The airport underwent reconstruction, and in the summer of 2010 a second runway was built. But the construction of the bypass road was frozen in the mid-2000s. due to lack of funding. In 2005, construction was resumed, and by 2010 the main part was completed. The full discovery occurred in 2011. Tolokonsky believed that all his goals had been achieved in full.

In 2007, the regional Council extended the powers of Viktor Alexandrovich for a five-year term, which was facilitated by the initiative of Vladimir Putin. In 2010, Dmitry Medvedev made Tolokonsky his plenipotentiary representative in the Siberian Federal District. He left the post of governor. V. Yurchenko became his successor, and later the post went to V. Gorodetsky.

In May 2014, Viktor Alexandrovich was appointed acting. O. Governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory. And four months later, Viktor Tolokonsky is officially the governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory.

Governor's income

According to published data, in 2009 Tolokonsky’s annual income was about two million rubles. His wife earned about 1 million rubles. In 2010, their income increased to almost three million and one, respectively.

Tolokonsky, according to published information, earned about seven million rubles in 2014. His wife replenished the budget by 715 thousand. The family does not own a single car. But they have personal apartments and a private house. Viktor Alexandrovich owns a half share in the apartment, the area of ​​which is 304.5 square meters. His wife also owns half of the apartment with an area of ​​69.9 square meters. They also use a house with an area of ​​493.6 square meters.

Scandals and rumors

In February 2010, there was a major scandal in Novosibirsk. Prominent figures from the city and regional administration, close to the governor, were arrested. This is the chief sports expert of the Novosibirsk region A. Solodkin and his son Alexander, the deputy mayor of the city. They were accused of participating in a criminal community.

Viktor Tolokonsky stated that he was convinced of their innocence, but at the same time noted that he would not interfere in the investigation. His role in the trial was minor, but he was a witness for the defense. The investigation found his testimony unreliable.

Experts from the St. Petersburg Politics Foundation believe that it was this “unreliable” information, together with the conflict around Tannhäuser, that lowered the region’s rating in the spring of 2015.

It was classified as a region with weak political stability - 4.9 points. The national average is 6.35 points. According to some rumors, the so-called mafia in white coats still exists in Novosibirsk. Friends and relatives of Tolokonsky control the medical sphere of Novosibirsk. Viktor Alexandrovich himself denies such rumors.

Personal life

Viktor Tolokonsky (governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory) is married and has two children. His wife, N.P. Tolokonskaya, has known her husband since school. They met in their youth and subsequently decided to tie the knot. The family turned out to be strong and happy. Natalya has a Doctor of Medicine degree and has been heading the Novosibirsk Territorial Center for Infectious Pathology since 2008.

Their daughter, Elena Tolokonskaya, born in 1973, also studied medicine and now works in a regional hospital. She is married to a well-known doctor in Novosibirsk, Yu. I. Bravve.

Tolokonsky's son Alexey, born in 1978, studied at the Novosibirsk Medical Institute with a degree in Management in Medicine. Since 2008, he has held the position of deputy head of the regional health department.

And the grandson of the regional governor Viktor Tolokonsky, Alexander, studied to be a lawyer in

Viktor Alexandrovich does not like to see his photographs on the walls of officials. Once, at a meeting with the head of the Berezovsky district (V. Shvetsov), he asked that his portrait be removed from the wall. There he hung next to a portrait of Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin.

Awards

In 2001 he was awarded the Order of Friendship. In 2008, Viktor Aleksandrovich Tolokonsky (governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory) was awarded the Order of Merit for the Fatherland (fourth degree). In 2001, the Public Recognition Foundation awarded him a gold badge for his contribution to the economic development of the region. In June 2002, Patriarch Alexy II awarded Viktor Alexandrovich the Order of St. Sergius of Radonezh (first degree).

Since May 5, 2011, he has been a full-fledged first-class state councilor of the Russian Federation. He is also a laureate of the “Best Governors of the Russian Federation” award.

Now former presidential plenipotentiaries are being made clear that by changing jobs, they are ceasing to be players in the territories previously entrusted to them. In this situation, Tolokonsky is still swimming against the tide, trying to retain his role as a Siberian gray eminence. This is happening against the backdrop of the fact that in the Krasnoyarsk Territory itself, where his patrimony is now located, problems are accumulating in relations with municipalities, territorial governance and intra-elite disputes.

Governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory Viktor Tolokonsky, who previously held the post of mayor of Novosibirsk and head of the Novosibirsk region, was unable to help in court Alexander Solodkin Sr. and his son Alexander, who had previously been recognized as participants in a large Trunovskaya criminal group. The court considered his testimony “whitewashing,” but the words of other witnesses were taken into account that Tolokonsky could receive money from “life mates.”

Yesterday, when the verdict was read out in the Novosibirsk Regional Court in the high-profile “Solodkin case,” it turned out that there was obviously a “black trace” in Tolokonsky’s biography. Judge Larisa Chub said that she took into account the statements of witnesses who entered into a pre-trial agreement that the ex-mayor of Novosibirsk, governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory Viktor Tolokonsky, allegedly received funds in thousands of US dollars from members of the Trunov OPS to resolve, in particular, the issue about the refusal to renew the land lease agreement between the mayor's office and the Tensor market, which was owned by Frunzik Khachatryan, Ksonline.ru reports.

At the same time, the court did not take into account the testimony that Tolokonsky gave in the trial, as a witness for the prosecution, stating that “Viktor Tolokonsky was recognized as an interested person.” Thus, the judge actually took into account the state prosecution’s request to exclude Tolokonsky’s testimony from the case, since it “whitewashed the defendants.”

“The fact that witness Tolokonsky denies the fact that Alexander Naumovich Solodkin contacted him to resolve issues related to the activities of Trunov’s criminal community does not indicate that there were no such requests,” the judge said, as quoted by TASS.

She also noted that, according to Solodkin and Tolokonsky themselves, close friendly relations had developed between them. “Witness Tolokonsky did not hide his interest in the results of the consideration of this criminal case. The court believes that witness Tolokonsky is an interested party in the case, therefore his testimony in the case is not taken into account when deciding the verdict,” the judge said and rejected the political and ordered nature of this criminal case.

Tolokonsky appeared as a witness in the Novosibirsk court on November 17, 2014. He then stated that he had known Solodkin Sr. since the 1970s and had never used his relationship with him for personal gain. “He is my friend, a comrade in life,” Tolokonsky said then and emphasized that the defendant justified his trust when he worked in the field of sports in the region and worked effectively in his post, while his appointment was not based on considerations of friendship , but organizational skills.

One way or another, the court has already established the guilt of all the defendants in participation in the criminal gang of Alexander Trunov, fraud using their official position, Alexander Solokin Sr. in the attempt on the life of local businessman Frunzik Khachatryan, as well as in the theft of budget funds. Alexander Solodkin Jr. was found guilty of inciting the arson of Khachatryan’s cars.

It is worth noting that Tolokonsky’s activities as governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory have recently been accompanied by major corruption scandals. In the Krasnoyarsk Territory, criminal cases are regularly initiated against high-ranking officials from his circle. The day before it became known that the Investigative Committee suspected Deputy Minister for Economic Development of the region Nadezhda Marshalkina of receiving a bribe of 17 million rubles. Almost simultaneously with this scandal, the court removed Elena Vavilova from the post of regional minister of natural resources and ecology in an equally resonant “forestry” criminal case.

The scandalous “Solodkin case” will greatly damage the positions of the current Krasnoyarsk governor Viktor Tolokonsky, whose political career developed, including thanks to connections with disgraced Novosibirsk officials who have already been recognized by the court as participants in a large criminal group. This opinion was expressed in an interview with RIA “New Day” by the famous political scientist, head of the Political Expert Group Konstantin Kalachev.

According to him, the problems for the head of the Krasnoyarsk Territory will certainly increase: if the scandalous information about the sponsorship of the Communist Party elections by the Tolokonsky-controlled KrasEco company is confirmed, his gubernatorial prospects could be buried.

A high-ranking friend of the Trunovskaya organized crime group

In Novosibirsk, the announcement of the verdict in the high-profile case of once major officials - ex-adviser to the governor of the Novosibirsk region Alexander Solodkin Sr., former vice-mayor of Novosibirsk Alexander Solodkin Jr. and former deputy head of the Federal Drug Control Service for the Novosibirsk Region Andrey Andreev - is coming to an end. They have already been found guilty of participating in the “Trunov” organized criminal group of Alexander Trunov, who was previously sentenced to 22 years in prison and found guilty of murder, extortion and a number of other particularly serious crimes. The judge agreed with the prosecution that the Solodkins had been part of the “economic” bloc of the Trunovsky gang since 1995 and were responsible for cooperation with government officials. The scandalous nature of the accusations and the case itself is emphasized by the fact that during the judicial investigation the names of major officials were repeatedly heard, among whom the figure of the current Krasnoyarsk governor Viktor Tolokonsky, who previously served as head of the Novosibirsk region and presidential envoy to the Siberian Federal District, deserves special attention. It is very significant that Tolokonsky appeared in the case as a friend of Solodkin Sr., and did not deny this. Testifying in court, he characterized the ex-officials positively.

“I have known Alexander Naumovich Solodkin since 1970, and he is my friend and lifelong companion, and since that time we have always maintained close friendly relations. I know Alexander Alexandrovich Solodkin, as I know the whole family of Alexander Naumovich. We know the boy from an early age, from kindergarten, as the son of our friends. There were no conflicts [with the Solodkins],” Tolokonsky stated in court during the hearing of the “Solodkins case.”

“That’s what thorns are for, To torment you”

Commenting on this situation, Konstantin Kalachev noted that the Solodkins issue will repeatedly hit the current Krasnoyarsk governor. “This story of the Solodkin family, of course, creates serious reputational problems for Tolokonsky and can be turned against him,” the political scientist said.

Kalachev noticed that the relationship between Tolokonsky and the Slodkins was so close and intimate that Solodkin Sr.’s brother Yuri even dedicated poetry to him. “Dragging a cart is a horse’s lot / God give you strength, Tolokonsky” - these are lines in honor of Tolokonsky when he was the mayor of Novosibirsk. When he became governor, Solodkin dedicated another poem to Tolokonsky: “To the stars - through thorns - Remember the words. You are the head of everything in the province today. And throughout the entire province you should now dare, But that’s what thorns are for, To torment you”...

“It seems that we have reached thorns that will torment Tolokonsky,” Kalachev said.

The political scientist noted that there are many interesting facts hidden in the relationship between Tolokonsky and the Solodkins. “They have known each other since the 70s. This is a close and strong friendship - Tolokonsky (during his governorship in the Novosibirsk region) dragged Solodkin along with him in every possible way when he became the head of sports in the Novosibirsk region. The connections are completely obvious and so strong that there is even evidence that in 1999, when Tolokonsky ran for governor of the Novosibirsk region, a local organized crime group was involved in protecting his headquarters - not without the participation and mediation of Mr. Solodkin,” Kalachev noted. This information was confirmed during the judicial investigation, including in the episode with wiretapping of the campaign headquarters of Tolokonsky’s opponents during the gubernatorial elections. There was also information that criminal circles were not only sponsors of the basketball club headed by Solodkin, but also organized security for the premises where Tolokonsky’s election headquarters was located.

“This also says a lot - these are real partnerships,” Kalachev stated.

In his assessment, such relations cannot go unnoticed and, naturally, will be turned against Tolokonsky, since the careers of Solodkin Sr. and especially Solodkin Jr. are directly related to Tolokonsky’s patronage.

As the expert noted, Tolokonsky can say that he knew nothing about the criminal activities of the Solodkins, but this is very doubtful given their close ties and the nature of the relationship. It is obvious that the activities of Solodkin Sr. took place in front of the current Krasnoyarsk governor, and some of the accusations are related to the period when he worked directly for Tolokonsky.

"KrasEco"

Kalachev noticed that Tolokonsky, even without the “Slodkin case,” had noticeably lost his position. “I think Tolokonsky has big problems. He has not completely become one of the Krasnoyarsk elites - he is in many ways a man from the past, a man who has achieved a lot, an influential man, he was the presidential envoy, the governor of the Novosibirsk region. But now, as the Krasnoyarsk governor, he occupies far from the highest positions in the ForGGO ranking. I think in this case the rating quite adequately reflects the situation,” the political scientist noted.

According to him, the problem for Tolokonsky will be that, while remaining the governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, he continues to consider himself the master of Siberia and tries to interfere in certain processes in Siberia. “Tolokonsky continues to consider himself a big boss and continues to play in all fields at once,” the expert said.

Kalachev drew attention to the fact that Tolokonsky has very good relations with the leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Gennady Zyuganov, but now this can greatly harm him, since the Communist Party was used to achieve the political goals necessary for Tolokonsky, as was the case with Novosibirsk, where a system of containment of counterbalances and confrontation was artificially created mayor and governor. “I think all this creates serious problems for Tolokonsky in the future. I would think that he is unlikely to get another term as governor,” Kalachev said.

At the same time, a major scandal with the Krasnoyarsk regional energy company - KrasEko - could play against Tolokonsky if its financing of the Irkutsk gubernatorial elections is confirmed. “The question is what the relevant checks will show. If KrasEko participated in financing the campaign of Sergei Levchenko, if this was done on Tolokonsky’s instructions, then this, of course, is a big scandal. This policy has a business connotation - the new Irkutsk governor will probably be obliged to do something and will have to provide some services. The story is serious, it may even lead to the initiation of a case,” Kalachev suggested.

According to him, corruption scandals around KREK (now renamed Kraseko), as some believe, cost Lev Kuznetsov his chair. And now the activities of this company, along with other compelling reasons, may cause the resignation of his successor.

The political scientist noted that now former presidential plenipotentiaries are being made clear that by changing jobs, they cease to be players in the territories previously entrusted to them. In this situation, Tolokonsky is still swimming against the tide, trying to retain his role as a Siberian gray eminence. This is happening against the backdrop of the fact that in the Krasnoyarsk Territory itself, where his patrimony is now located, problems are accumulating in relations with municipalities, territorial governance and intra-elite disputes. “Tolokonsky has not yet been able to finally gain a foothold and establish himself as an unconditional authority in the Krasnoyarsk Territory - and it turns out that he is trying to play some kind of games in other territories. Remembering the rating of FoRGO - the fact that he is in the tail of the governors with the political weight that he previously had, this says a lot. This reflects the current agenda and expert attitude towards it,” Kalachev stated.

“In any case, it is absolutely clear that this figure is leaving, this is a figure from the past. He was formed as a politician even before Vladimir Putin became president. Now we are on a course to update the political elite - reputational impeccability is one of the requirements. It is obvious that Tolokonsky’s problems will grow,” concluded Kalachev.

Economic development for an elite car and 14 million rubles

The Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Krasnoyarsk Territory reported that a criminal case had been opened against the Deputy Minister of Economic Development, Investment Policy and External Relations of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, Nadezhda Marshalkina. She is suspected of committing a crime under Part 6 of Article 290 (taking a bribe on an especially large scale) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

According to a preliminary version, in 2013, the suspect, holding the position of director of the KSKU “Directorate for the Integrated Development of the Lower Angara Region,” received from one of the founders of the legal entity, who was on friendly terms with her, a bribe in an especially large amount for organizing the conclusion and signing of government contracts between the directorate and a legal entity.

“In the process of discussing the subject of the bribe, an agreement was reached that the suspect would be given a Mercedes-Benz ML 350 (2013 model), as well as 14 million rubles, which would be transferred to the bank account of the organization where she and her husband were founders. All terms of the deal were fulfilled,” the investigative agency said in a statement.

Currently, the Mercedes-Benz ML 350 car has been seized, and investigators are establishing all the circumstances of the crime. The department clarified that the investigation will petition the court to arrest the suspect.

As the Krasnoyarsk press notes, the “Directorate for the Integrated Development of the Lower Angara Region” was previously involved in a corruption scandal. Then Marshalkina’s predecessor was accused of exceeding official authority and illegally concluding an agreement in the amount of 49 million rubles. After his dismissal, Marshalkina took the position of manager, TVK reports.

It was after this that the income declaration of the new deputy minister attracted media attention. With a relatively small income - 445 thousand rubles a year - she is the owner of several cars. At the same time, Marshalkina’s husband, who officially earns even less, owns an apartment, two residential buildings and two foreign cars.

Regional Minister of Natural Resources removed from office

The recent criminal case against the Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, Elena Vavilova, was also continued. The day before it became known that the Central District Court of Krasnoyarsk suspended her powers as minister. The official, who became a defendant in the criminal case, is suspected by investigators of exceeding her official powers in the distribution of forest plots. Security officials believe that by continuing to work, Vavilova will be able to influence her subordinates and thereby hinder the investigation of the case, writes Kommersant.

A criminal case against Vavilova was initiated in early September. According to the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS), which became one of the initiators of the investigation, the minister, in violation of competitive procedures, alienated forest plots in favor of the Krasnoyarskles State Industrial Complex in the amount of 1.8 million cubic meters. This amounts to more than 17% of the annual timber harvest of all enterprises of the region. In September, the FAS recognized a number of agreements concluded in 2013-2015 between the Ministry of Natural Resources and Krasnoyarskles as violating the Law on Protection of Competition. The case is being investigated by the Krasnoyarsk department of the FSB; representatives of the department do not give any comments about its progress.

It is worth noting that Tolokonsky’s loss of position in the Krasnoyarsk Territory was previously noted by his political opponents. In an interview with RIA Novy Den, the head of the Patriots of Russia faction in the Krasnoyarsk City Council, Ivan Serebryakov, noted that criminal cases have been opened against 8 out of 10 ministers of the regional government, which he inherited from the time of the leadership of the region by Alexander Khloponin and Lev Kuznetsov.