National Guard exercises to disperse "striking workers" provoke social tensions. A video of secret exercises of the Russian National Guard has appeared. Exercises of the National Guard

During a crisis, many events are perceived acutely by society. People are trying to see signs of change in what is happening, to understand what will happen next. That is why the exercises of the newly created National Guard that took place in the city of Zlatoust, Chelyabinsk Region, alarmed many. This is due to the “legend” under which the training was conducted. It was about crossing a protest of factory workers who had not been paid wages for several months. Despite the sincere bewilderment of the security forces - they say, we are obliged to do this by law - the public’s concern is understandable. In conditions of falling living standards, especially in small industrial cities, such irresponsible “theoretical justification” only provokes social tension.

The story about the National Guard exercises was released on May 23, but the corresponding video posted on YouTube was noticed and widely distributed on the Internet only a week later. The training was carried out in real conditions - on the territory of the operating Bulat plant. It was once a large enterprise. Now only a small arms production remains here. According to legend, the workers went on strike demanding payment of wages, which escalated into mass riots “causing property damage to the enterprise.” During the special operation, “the police... assisted the management of the enterprise in evacuating ordinary citizens”, tried to negotiate, and after the workers erected barricades, set fire to tires and took a police officer hostage, they began storming the building, which ended successfully.

The security forces assessed the results of the exercise as satisfactory. As the Ministry of Internal Affairs stated, they were needed “to unite all the security forces of the city.” Indeed, both “ordinary” police officers and riot police, which are now part of a separate structure - the National Guard of Russia, were trained to suppress workers’ protests. Units of the Ministry of Emergency Situations also acted on their side. Unity is obviously necessary due to the high protest potential of the city. Two years ago, the local metallurgical plant became famous throughout the country due to the collapse of production and chronic non-payment of wages. During the protests, there were even calls to block the Trans-Siberian Railway. Then the current governor of the region, Boris Dubrovsky, was entrusted with rescuing the plant. Perhaps the memories of those difficult days force him to mobilize security forces in this way.

An integrated approach is justified in the case of solving complex problems that are truly related to the safety of citizens. However, viewers of the story about the exercises in Zlatoust perceived the incident as a rehearsal for a punitive operation. The comments under the video are replete with reproaches and ironic remarks: “This is not an exercise, but a planned intimidation of our own citizens through the media,” “There is no money, but we have the National Guard! You hang in here, all the best to you...”, “Trainings on protecting people from wages”, etc. There are practically no approving comments among them. And this despite the fact that over three hundred users expressed their attitude to what they saw. Not a poll, of course, but the result is indicative.

According to police major Olga Aristova, the local Ministry of Internal Affairs did not expect such a negative assessment of the exercise. " In some media, the information was presented as if the police were ready to disperse workers demanding wages. This is not true; according to legend, the strikers took a policeman hostage. We wanted to cover this event positively, but it turned out that, on the contrary, it played to our disadvantage,”-Aristova made excuses. Such training takes place quarterly and is not something special, she added. For example, during a previous special operation, a hostage-taking situation was simulated in the Zlatoust tram depot, and this did not cause a sharp reaction from the public, a police representative was surprised.

Meanwhile, it is easy to guess that the terrorists who have proliferated in our time are seen by people as absolute evil. No one associates themselves with them and therefore does not react so painfully. While the difficult situation in factories, non-payment of wages are completely real, ordinary things and, like Chrysostom, concern many. The mass television viewer, watching how riot police trample workers who just demanded to pay them what they earned, tries the situation on themselves. He reasonably assumes that the security forces are training in order to one day repress him, an honest worker, and the “hostage-taking” invented for the strike scenario is just an excuse.

Social justice for all

By the way, it is for this same reason that previous large-scale law enforcement exercises in the Smolensk region caused a similar reaction. Let us recall that in April of this year, riot police and SOBR units trained to suppress mass unrest among citizens dissatisfied with the sharp increase in housing and communal services tariffs. This happened in a region considered the worst (!) in the country in terms of accident rates and heat supply to the population. That is, the “legends” - what is now in Zlatoust, what was then in Smolensk - were developed taking into account the real social situation. This means that the security forces were trained not only from a technical point of view. The ability to cut through a crowd and storm buildings can be trained without any “legend”. Apparently, one of the tasks is to psychologically train law enforcement officers to act harshly in the event of social protests. Even if justified. The problem thus becomes political.

All this looks especially ambiguous against the backdrop of the separation of security forces - riot police, SOBR and others - from the structures of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the formation of the National Guard. It has just become known: the new security structure will have its own banner and emblem with a double-headed eagle, and the commander-in-chief will have a personal standard. Imperial signs can only be welcomed, but the goals for which it was created are also important. Initially, many people thought that. The main scenario for counteraction was seen as a conditional Maidan. However, it is now becoming clear that security forces can also be used against the people in the broadest sense.

All this is painfully reminiscent of the gendarmerie. Historical tragedies with her participation have once already brought the country to the brink of disaster. “Bloody Sunday”, the Lena shooting, and the shooting of workers in Novocherkassk during the Soviet period - all this is a consequence of the thoughtless use of force.

A particularly acute situation may develop in numerous Russian single-industry towns - relatively small settlements, life in which depends entirely on the successful operation of a single large enterprise around which the city was once built. The names of many of them are familiar: Pikalevo, Kondopoga, Baikalsk, etc. There are 342 of them in the country. 75 of them have a “difficult socio-economic situation”, and another 149 are classified as risky. Thus, there are serious problems in 224 points on the map of Russia. If salaries are not paid there tomorrow, National Guard units will have to be brought in. So, what is next? Common sense dictates that this is not a solution to the problem.

What is the solution then? The answer, oddly enough, can be found in the example of the Chelyabinsk region. Let us remember that a resident of this particular region complained about non-payment of wages during the last direct line with the President of the Russian Federation. As a result, Dmitry Dudkin, a worker at the Chelyabinsk Machine-Building Plant of Trailers, received his earnings within a few hours, and local authorities promised to take control of the situation with delays. So maybe this is the direction the authorities should act? Not to drive people to extremes, and then suppress legitimate discontent with the National Guard detachments, but to create conditions in the country where a working person receives what he earns on time and in full? This is called social justice.

An Open Russia correspondent accidentally witnessed training battles near Lyubertsy. Hundreds of riot police, internal troops and police officers imitated the dispersal of the “Moscow Maidan”. How will the newly created National Guard deal with mass protests?

What can you expect when you write a post about how there is no explanation as to where he got the money?

In the situation of a healthy person, you expect General Zolotov to explain everything, find reasons, and point out mistakes in your investigation. It will say that the registries made a mistake. That we calculated the cost incorrectly.

But in Russia we have a smoker’s situation, so National Guardsman Zolotov is silent, but: Navalny and FBK were wrong. They did not find several more properties belonging to the Zolotov family, worth 227 million rubles.

Not found:

His son’s plot in Barvikha near Moscow is 88 acres, 3 plots (1.2 hectares) of Zolotov’s son-in-law Yuri Chechikhin are there, another plot (29 acres) of his son-in-law in Kalchuga, his son-in-law has two apartments in Moscow on Veresaeva Street (total area 400 .9 m2). Another apartment (189 m2) of Viktor Zolotov himself is located in Gelendzhik.

According to the Unified State Register, in the Odintsovo district of the Moscow region, where the 1.2 hectares of land declared by Viktor Zolotov are located, his full namesake owns another small plot of 277 square meters. m adjacent to a larger site. He is not listed in the declaration of the Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs. The guard booth with an area of ​​1.5 square meters is also not indicated there. m, which, according to the Unified State Register, is also located in the Odintsovo district of the Moscow region. Ownership of a plot of 277 sq. m. Viktor Zolotov received m in August 2008, but the guardhouse appeared on the list of his property back in June 2002 - earlier than all the lands belonging to Zolotov near Moscow.

In addition, the Commander-in-Chief of the National Guard incorrectly indicated in the declaration the area of ​​the apartment that he owns together with his wife. According to the state register, the area of ​​the apartment is 171.6 sq.m., while the declaration indicates 178.5 sq.m. m of living space.

Thus, the minimum value of real estate for the family of an army general and head of the Russian National Guard is 940 million rubles. But in fact it’s even higher, because she assessed her part of the real estate at cadastral value, not market value.

So here's a fact: Putin's bodyguard is a billionaire.

Another explanation why the authorities hate our fight against illegal enrichment so much. In the beautiful Russia of the future, an official with a billion worth of real estate will not be appointed to the National Guard, but will be sent to the dock.

Over the past two days, I have been asked a hundred thousand times: do we know anything special about Viktor Zolotov, Putin’s former personal security guard, who headed the created.

Okay, here are a few touches that characterize this person well. (If you need a biography/profile, then the best one is)

1. Everyone who knows him personally told me first of all “ this is someone who will shoot without any problems at all and even wants to shoot" This is probably one of the important explanations for the appointment: both the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Defense will start shooting (they also shot for Yeltsin), but everywhere orders will be needed, a certain chain of responsibility.

And here the distance from the thought “they went out into the street and will take away my billions” to the pressed trigger is greatly reduced and there are no weak links.

2. Zolotov is rich. Very rich. He will shoot to save his own. No ordinary general possesses such property.

List of known assets, evaluating them cadastral(not market) value of 120 million rubles:

• Apartment 171 sq.m. in Spasonivkovsky Lane, which Zolotov privatized in 2003
• Son's apartment 160 sq.m on Zvenigorodskaya street
• Son's cottage 188 sq.m in the village of Estosadok in Sochi
• Son's house 676 sq.m. in Barvikha
• Son's house 958.2 sq.m in Gelendzhik

But this amount is small (ha ha) compared to what FBK found. This is the first time we are publishing information about the apartment owned by Zolotov’s daughter Zhanna. The apartment was bought in 2011, it is located in an elite building on Lomonosovsky Prospekt and has an area of ​​almost 500 square meters.

A square meter in this house costs more, so the entire apartment today can be valued at $5 million or 343 million rubles.

Feel it, families around Putin are buying apartments of 500 square meters. Their apartments are the same size as our summer cottages.

We add here another asset - a land plot with an area of ​​11,868 m2, which will be described below. Its approximate cost is 200 million rubles.

Thus, only the known property of the Zolotov family is worth more than 663,000,000 rubles.

The soldier “earned” quite a bit of money.

3. Zolotov is vain. For his home, he grabbed nothing more than a dacha. The same one that built the entire Soviet industry. He started under Lenin, served and survived under Stalin, outlived Khrushchev and ended under Brezhnev, for which he earned the people's honor: from Ilyich to Ilyich, without heart attack and paralysis.

So, at the former Soviet state dacha Zubalovo-2, where at different times Mikoyan (mainly), Voroshilov, Shaposhnikov lived, and our cardinal’s guard lives. Next to the old Mikoyan house, he built a new one 1000 meters away. Mikoyan is a sucker, he was embarrassed to do this and lived at 260 meters.

Archival photo of Mikoyan's dacha

However, it is clear why Mikoyan was embarrassed to build - next door, in Zubalovo-4, Stalin’s dacha was located.

…. the tenant talks about the sauna and the underground passage into it from the house. Naturally, he believes that this was done under the old regime. It is not true. No one would even dare to express the idea of ​​spending government money for such purposes to Mikoyan. I remember how for 3 years they tried to persuade him to liquidate the boiler room in the basement and run a hot water pipe underground from another house. Coal dust made it difficult to pass through in winter. The father asked about the estimate, and when he heard the answer, he decisively said “no.” The next year the estimate was cut by one third, but he again refused. It was only in the third year, after the estimate had been cut by more than half, that he relented. Since the time of Zubalov, the kitchen has been in a separate brick building about 35 meters from the house. There was an ice cellar, which we brought on horseback from the Moscow River in April, it melted just in time for the beginning of winter - after all, there were no refrigerators yet! On the way to the house, the prepared food cooled down somewhat. Therefore, the zealous security, who had to spend the annual budget for “repairs,” many times offered to make a glazed, covered passage. The father never gave his consent to this.

This ice cellar still exists. Zolotov even proudly declares it:

Now, probably, Viktor Zolotov stores his hats there - out of the cold, on the street, they spontaneously combust.

The Zubalovo estate (it includes both the Stalinist Zubalova-4 and the Mikoyan Zubalovo-2) was handed over to the Ministry of Defense, having previously chopped off a hectare of land for Zolotov.

All for the property mentioned in the post.

Now the land there is sold at . In this case, the cost of the site is at least 200 million rubles. This is even without taking into account the historical value. for 2014 - 6.5 million rubles.

4. Zolotov personally resolves organizational issues of Putin’s corruption. He interacts closely with the people involved in it.

You remember, of course. It was mentioned many times that, constantly coming to the place.

I would like to remind you of our investigation "". It mentions Lanfranco Cirillo, the Italian architect who built Putin’s Gelendzhik palace.

Lanfranco Cirillo

It was to him that Zolotov’s son Roman either sold or donated his house in Gelendzhik (first line, excellent location).

My guess is that the house was simply registered in the name of a roguish Italian, so as not to tease people with such real estate belonging to the family of a “civil servant.”

A sudden check of combat readiness has been carried out in the National Guard troops since March 13, 2017, according to the official statement of the department. It is being held for the first time since the creation of the National Guard.

As specified in the press release, the decision to conduct the inspection was made by the Director of the Federal Service of National Guard Troops - Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Guard, Army General Viktor Y.

Created last spring, the Russian Guard concentrated in its hands full control over the sphere of security services, including state protection of especially important facilities, communications and facilities in the fuel and energy industry, as well as over the circulation of civilian weapons.

Now the Russian Guard includes troops (former units and formations of internal troops), as well as regional detachments of SOBR and OMON. In addition, the FSUE Okhrana and private security of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Special Purpose Center for Rapid Reaction Forces and Aviation of the Ministry of Internal Affairs were transferred to the department.

The surprise inspection began in the Central Federal District and will continue in other federal districts, according to a statement published on Monday. Control bodies, formations, military units and subunits of the Russian Guard are put on combat readiness.

“Issues of testing readiness to fight sabotage and reconnaissance groups, terrorist and extremist groups are being worked out,” the message says.

In addition, during the inspection, the Russian Guard intends to work out mechanisms to strengthen the protection of particularly important state energy, industrial and transport facilities. In accordance with the plans, to strengthen their security, reserves have been created from special forces units, ready for immediate action.

“A set of measures was carried out to counter terrorist threats near objects guarded by troops of the Russian National Guard; tactical and special exercises were planned with military units with access to training grounds and training centers,” the Russian Guard added.

During the exercises, “operational, special forces and intelligence units of the Russian Guard, using special and armored equipment, practice practical actions to neutralize mock terrorists.”

A special control system has been deployed to manage the forces and means of the Russian Guard. At the central command post of the National Guard troops, “gathering, summarizing, analyzing the current situation and monitoring the actions of formations and military units are carried out around the clock.”

In connection with the ongoing surprise inspection, the leadership of the Russian Guard also appealed to vehicle owners to be careful when driving on the routes of military columns marching to training centers and training grounds.

In February it became known that the Russian National Guard was preparing a bill to tighten liability for non-compliance with the rules of anti-terrorist protection of objects of national importance. The head of the contractual and legal department of the Russian Guard, Alexander Shkolnikov, told reporters about this.

“We are working to tighten responsibility. There is a list of objects that are subject to anti-terrorism protection, taking into account their characteristics. We are developing requirements,” Shkolnikov said.

The service, headed by Vladimir Putin's former bodyguard Viktor Zolotov, reports personally. The leadership of the National Guard will discuss the procedure for interaction with colleagues from the Ministry of Internal Affairs with them independently.

At a meeting of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in March, Putin said that the Ministry of Internal Affairs’ capabilities should increase through deepening coordination with the Russian National Guard, and not through “the growth of [its own] security component.”

“In no case do we need the creation of a second internal troops, the creation of a second National Guard. There needs to be good interaction, which has always been there. I don't see any reason for there to be any glitches. As far as I understand, there are none, and I hope that this will continue,” Putin said.

According to the president, the ministry retains its own security forces, but the task is to maintain and improve their interaction with the Russian Guard.

A video of secret exercises of the Russian National Guard has appeared online, which simulate the dispersal of the “Moscow Maidan”. The recording was published by Mikhail Khodorkovsky's public movement "Open Russia".

According to the exercise scenario, a peaceful rally turned into riots. Clashes with the police began.

“An Open Russia correspondent accidentally witnessed training battles near Lyubertsy. Hundreds of riot police, internal troops and police officers simulated the dispersal of the Moscow Maidan. How will the newly created National Guard deal with mass protests?” - the message says.

Police equipped with shields and batons took part in dispersing the protesters. The exercises involved water cannons, crowd-clearing vehicles, a firefighting helicopter and other equipment.

Earlier, the American intelligence and analytical company Stratfor wrote that in order to protect itself from possible disloyalty of other security agencies in the event of a coup.