OPG Golyanovskaya. Students compared Bleer to Bender Criminal activities of the community
Students of the Russian University of Physical Culture approached the president with a proposal to name the university after Ilf and Petrov, since their Pound, the former rector O.V. Matytsin, worked here for a long time, who successfully built up the university’s lands together with his current successor A.N. Blair
Teachers and students of the Russian University of Physical Culture (RGUPK) appealed to the president and prime minister with a proposal to name the university after famous writers I. Ilf and E. Petrov. The appeal, also posted for signing on social networks, provides a detailed rationale for this cultural initiative:
“Dear Vladimir Vladimirovich and Dmitry Anatolyevich!
Unfortunately, in our country it is not yet customary to perpetuate the memory of literary heroes, otherwise we would propose to name the university after Ostap Ibragimych. But if this still cannot be done, then our university should rightfully bear the names of the authors of “The Twelve Chairs” and “The Golden Calf.” Not only in Russia, but also in the world, there are few educational institutions that so strictly and consistently implement into life and into the education system one hundred and one methods of legally taking money, if not from the population, then from the state. Judge for yourself using specific examples.
The great schemer bequeathed to honor the criminal code, creatively developing approaches to the budget and state property as a “silver platter.” Why does any respected laundering and purchasing office absolutely need its own Pound? During the period of active development by the then Vice-Rector A.N. Bleer of the federal lands assigned to the Russian State University of Physical Culture, within the framework of the world-famous market attraction “Cherkizon”, the former rector O.V. Matytsin, who was brought to criminal responsibility as a result of debriefings, became such a chairman for other people's sins.
A.N.Bleer
The disastrous results of Vancouver largely reflect the results of the work of the largest scientific and educational center, which in theory should have been the Russian State University of Physical Culture. However, the rapid activity in the combinatorial-financial field of budget development is much more interesting than some Olympic layouts. “Row more, hide further, share higher” - this is the anti-Olympic slogan of the group of schemers who saddled the university!
It’s not that these gentlemen were not at all afraid of inspections. No! They are afraid and how. Every time after another scandal and the threat of inspections, rector A.N. Bleer falls “for safekeeping” into the Israeli blade. This is understandable; if something happens, there is no issue from there. However, apparently he doesn’t feel completely safe there either. Otherwise, it is difficult to explain why it is in the building of the RSUFK that the most anti-Israeli legal information resource is based - the official nationalist magazine of the Moscow Arab community, also financed by the left-wing contracts of the RSUFK with former “residents of Cherkizon” from among Arab businessmen. It looks rather like a tribute to the Arabs for personal safety in the “promised land.” In this matter, A.N. Bleer is trying to be as safe as possible, keeping in mind O.I. Bender’s unsuccessful attempt to cross the Romanian border.
From the point of view of the attitude of the administration towards employees and students, RSUPC is not much different from the charitable institution glorified by Ilf and Petrov. Although the “blue thief” Alchen, of course, never dreamed of the scale of feeding Alexander Nikolaevich’s relatives, acquaintances, accomplices and former brothers-in-arms in the organized crime group. The only thing that was not clear in this whole story was how the rector expected to be re-elected by a team unanimously opposed. How did he manage to gain a majority in such circumstances? This secret is great, but that’s why the law on education provides for secret voting. Therefore, after the re-elections in the summer of 2011, the teaching staff is still in shock. How so? Nobody voted for Blair, except those close to him, but he won?
Unfortunately, it was not possible to keep this brilliant combination a complete secret. I really wanted to show off to the direct participants in the scam, so a leak occurred. Although, they say, the experience of holding “elections” at RSUFK is going to be adopted by other universities and regions, it is too innovative. And most importantly, no international observers, video cameras or round-the-clock recording prevent the organizers from getting the desired result.
All you need to do is order ballot boxes, not just anywhere, but from the same craftsmen who make circus equipment for magicians. Ballot boxes with double bottoms are an ingenious solution to the problems of democracy in a single university! Ostap Ibrahimovic would be pleased with his students and followers. Ballots with “no” marks are thrown on top, and at the end the same ballots are poured out of the ballot box, but with “for” marks pre-marked.
Dear Vladimir Vladimirovich and Dmitry Anatolyevich!
If, after all, it is impossible to assign the name of Ostap Ibragimovich to RSUFK, and his fathers Ilf and Petrov also do not fit into any column, then allow me to at least write the official abbreviation of the name of the university with one more letter - not RGUFKSMIT, but RoSU... and so on. It’s painfully similar, not in letter, but in deeds, to Ostapobender’s office “Horns and Hooves”!
The trial of seven members of the Golyanov group is underway in the military court of the Moscow garrison. They are accused of banditry, murder, kidnapping and extortion. The case, for which orders and titles have already been received, is falling apart: the victims do not appear, and the witnesses claim that they testified under the dictation of MUR operatives. The same was stated by one of the leaders of the Russian State Academy of Physical Education, on whom the prosecution had high hopes. MAXIM Kommersant-STEPENIN reports.
Money bag
As Kommersant has already told, six of the seven accused are in the dock. One of them is former FSB colonel Igor Kushnikov, because of whom the case is being considered by a military court. The seventh is in a psychiatric hospital because he became insane during the investigation. This is 35-year-old Maxim Shenkov, also known as Max Golyanovsky, a former paratrooper, European silver medalist in karate, international master of sports in judo, member of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs. The investigation considers him the leader of the Golyanov group, although he considered himself a businessman. True, even lawyers cannot explain what kind of business this was. They only say that these were “some connections with Abkhazia.”
However, Maxim Shenkov had closer interests. In particular, in the capital's universal sports and entertainment complex (USZK) "Izmailovo", where from the beginning of the 90s he, together with his brother Ilya (also a master of sports in judo), was the actual owner of a car showroom, restaurant, disco club, hall slot machines, a furniture store, etc. The struggle for USZK, which peaked in 1996-1997, played a fatal role in the fate of the brothers.
The management of the complex itself and the Russian State Academy of Physical Education (RGAFK) fought with each other. The conflict was worth it: not only that, according to eyewitnesses, “they literally carried bags of money into Izmailovo” (there is a known case when, during a police visit there, someone threw a bag with $1 million out of the window, which was picked up by a janitor who happened to be passing by ), so many retail outlets have proliferated around, also bringing in considerable income.
The stumbling block was the legally unresolved issue of USZK ownership. The Academy considered him one of its own, and the general director of Izmailovo argued that USZK was a completely independent structure. At the same time, the management of the sports complex relied on the support of its position not from ordinary employees of the Moscow Main Internal Affairs Directorate and the FSB. She was also supported by Maxim Shenkov - also not the least important person in Izmailovo. For some time their arguments prevailed.
For the glory of Russian sports
Everything changed when a strong leader appeared in the RGAFK - a recent graduate of the academy, freestyle wrestler Alexander Bleer. Now he is the director of the Institute for Advanced Studies and Retraining of Personnel at the Russian State Academy of Physical Culture, a professor at the Department of Theory and Methodology of Wrestling and Oriental Martial Arts, and in 1993-1997 he worked as an assistant to the rector. He took upon himself the resolution of controversial issues with the USZK and with the businessmen who rented its land from the academy (USZK, the famous vernissage and the Izmailovsky markets are located on it).
Alexander Bleer was helped to resolve controversial issues by his fellow athletes and academy students, whom he himself trained. We started with the traders. Some were kicked out, others stopped placing their points anywhere and began to pay money more or less accurately. As a result, RGAFK, deprived of state funding, began to receive quite decent funds.
True, Alexander Bleer himself had problems: an operational case was opened in the Moscow RUBOP, where he was listed as the leader of an organized criminal group suspected of several murders. However, Mr. Bleer told a Kommersant correspondent that he had nothing to do with organized or unorganized crime, much less any kind of murder, that he always acted within the framework of the law and only in the interests of Russian sports in general and the academy in particular. As for the operational matter, according to him, it appeared after the refusal to pay tribute to the Rubopovites: “They directly warned me then - expect trouble.” But everything worked out, and the operational case was eventually closed.
But there were more serious problems. USZK did not give up, and the company “Ekure-service”, owned by a certain citizen of Jordan, which rented a plot of land on the land of RGAFK for its market, began to lay claim to part of the adjacent territory where the retail space of the sportsmen’s company “Rikom” was located. According to investigators, the interests of USZK and Ekure-Service in this conflict were represented by Maxim Shenkov’s “team”.
In the summer of 1997, it came to a showdown. First, one of Alexander Bleer’s men was shot, then the athletes demolished several Ekure-Service outlets, and after that, in broad daylight at the Ricom market, two dozen thugs cut with knives and beat two Ricom managers, graduate students, with rebar rods RGAFK, students of Mr. Bleer. Doctors later pulled both of them out of the other world.
It was after this that Maxim Shenkov’s “brigade” became interested in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, where by this time Alexander Bleer was already their man. The fact is that in the summer of 1997 he created something like a fund with a very complex and long name, which, for simplicity, is briefly called “Sportakademgroup”. Mr. Blair headed it. The official goal is to protect the interests of organizations operating on the territory of RGAFK. In addition to the academy, the founders included the Foundation for Support of Veterans of Law Enforcement Agencies operating under the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the association of employees of the same bodies “Shield and Sword”. Mr. Bleer again works in both structures on a voluntary basis. And these connections turned out to be stronger than the connections of the USZK in the capital’s headquarters.
Suspects
In December 1997, then-Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Vladimir Kolesnikov gave instructions to liquidate the Golyanovsk organized crime group. The need for this was motivated by the fact that in October 1996 and December 1997, the vice-rector of the Russian State Academy of Physical Culture for Construction, Mikhail Bodin, and the head of the territorial association for land use regulation of the Eastern District, Antonina Lukina, were killed. Both murders, as stated in the order, could have been the work of the Golyanovskys.
True, who killed both of them has not been clarified, but, as a police colonel who had previously worked in the Moscow RUBOP later testified in court, the first to check for involvement in the murder of Antonina Lukina were not the Golyanovskys, but Alexander Bleer and his athletes. According to the colonel, there was no evidence against them, and then they took on the “Shenkovskys.” However, their involvement was not confirmed, and the murder cases were frozen.
Nevertheless, arrests began in April 1998. The first to go to jail were Maxim Shenkov and Alexander Sonis, who, according to investigators, was perhaps the most active member of the organized crime group. Following them, Ilya Shenkov was detained, but on the way to the police station he invited the operatives to look with him at the Bulgakov nightclub, where he left through the emergency exit.
In total, seven people were behind bars (five more, including Ilya Shenkov, are wanted). All have been charged with banditry, four murders (including the murder of the leader of a drug trafficking group, thief in law Boris Zilber, nicknamed the Rat), attempted murders, kidnappings, extortion and a number of smaller crimes. The investigation into this case was conducted for two years, first by the prosecutor's office of the Eastern District, then by the Moscow City Prosecutor's Office.
In the meantime, the legal status of the USZK was determined: soon after the defeat of the Golyanovskys, it was officially transferred to the balance of the Academy of Physical Education.
The security officer was promiscuous
With the exception of Max Golyanovsky, of all the accused, only one is of the greatest interest - FSB Colonel Igor Kushnikov. The prosecution considers him one of the leaders of the gang. A security officer with 22 years of experience worked in the information and analytical department of the FSB, where he was considered a specialist in macroeconomics. He was repeatedly awarded for impeccable service and official distinctions, but was burned for a relatively minor offense, in the opinion of his wife and lawyer. The colonel was let down by his connections with the family of the aforementioned Alexander Sonis.
The latter’s father served as a criminologist in the Ministry of Internal Affairs and, according to Mr. Kushnikov, provided him with significant assistance more than once. The grateful security officer, in turn, helped the criminologist: in November 1993, he pulled his son out of the police, who was drunk and driving a car down the street with a pistol under his arm. During the arrest, Sonis Jr. stuck the authentic identification of an employee of the Main Directorate of Security of the Ministry of Security (as the FSB was called at that time) in the nose of the police.
Interest in this story in law enforcement agencies awoke only four and a half years later, when they took the Golyanovskys seriously. The FSB Investigation Department opened a criminal case against the colonel, and in April 1998 he was offered to resign. The security officer did so, and two weeks later he was arrested on charges of abuse of power. Igor Kushnikov was sent to the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center under the supervision of his close friend and business partner (they traded carpets), who at that time was the deputy head of the pre-trial detention center.
However, the FSB officers did not find anything interesting for themselves in this case and transferred the materials to the Moscow Military Prosecutor's Office. In the fall of 1998, the case was dropped due to an amnesty, and Igor Kushnikov was released. But not for long. The prosecutor's office of the Eastern District of Moscow combined the already closed case with the case of the Golyanov "brigade", and in February 1999, the amnestied colonel was again arrested. He has been sitting there ever since. Now he has been accused of much more serious crimes.
According to investigators, Igor Kushnikov was one of the leaders of the “Shenkov gang”, provided it with cover, and also supplied it with valuable information and special coupons prohibiting the inspection of cars. In addition, the prosecution charged him with illegal transactions with weapons. The last of these accusations was again related to Alexander Sonis.
The fact is that in December 1994 in Moscow, in the Khomutovsky dead end, in the apartment rented by Sonis, an arsenal was found neatly stored in safes: Agran submachine guns, two dozen TTs, sniper rifles, machine guns, etc. Who owned all this? household, they did not find out then, since Sonis rented out the apartment to his friend, a paratrooper, who was later killed. At the same time, the seizure protocol and part of the weapon itself disappeared somewhere. Nevertheless, in 1998, the investigation decided that all this property belonged to the Golyanov group. And Sonis himself testified during interrogations that he personally transported the arsenal. And Igor Kushnikov allegedly helped him. However, Sonis generally told a lot about the activities of the “brigade”, but even during the investigation he refused everything, and in court he stated that he was heavily fed with psychotropic drugs.
Broken trump card
One way or another, the case was transferred to the military court of the Moscow garrison. Last Friday marked exactly two years since the start of the process. The results for the investigation are disappointing.
During the trial, the state prosecutor clutched his head with a hopeless look when, during the hearings, inconsistencies in the case materials and outright falsifications surfaced. It turned out, for example, that the witness signed a different interrogation protocol than was read out in court. And this is not his signature at all. In addition, it turned out that the witness who spoke about the activities of the “Shenkov gang” could not know anything about it, since at that time he had already been in prison for a long time and firmly for theft. But since he knew one of the accused from the pre-trial detention center, the Murovsky operatives, together with the investigator, were not too lazy to go to the camp and break his ribs during interrogations (there is a corresponding medical certificate). This is how another witness for the prosecution turned out.
Other witnesses also complained that operatives either locked them in a bullpen or threatened to plant weapons and drugs. The leitmotif was: “I signed what I was told.”
There is no need to talk about the accused: they told the court in unison about the “pressure of the investigation” and renounced all their previous testimony, taken as the basis for the accusation.
However, the prosecution had at least two trump cards: Alexander Bleer and businessman Vadim Kanengiser. The latter was once engaged in trading gold and jewelry in Russia and the CIS, but in October last year he ended up in a pre-trial detention center on charges of drug possession.
Mr. Kanengiser told the investigation that the Golyanovskys, who at one time were his “protection”, gave him his “freedom”, but demanded $6 million for it. To be convincing, they kidnapped and cut his brother, after which the businessman paid the extortionists about $2 million in parts.
However, recently in court Vadim Kanengiser unexpectedly retracted his words. In the presence of his lawyer, he stated that completely different people “attacked” him, and he slandered these “under the pressure of the investigation.”
This is how hope dies
But there remained one more important witness - Professor Alexander Bleer, on whom the prosecution had high hopes. After all, during the preliminary investigation, he said that Maxim Shenkov personally shot one of his men, that the security officer Igor Kushnikov helped solve the problems of the Golyanovskys, and that another defendant, Sergei Buriy, took an active part in the attempts of the Shenkovites to seize the territory of the RGAFK.
In addition, the protocol of his interrogation contains a sensational statement about which of the high-ranking police officers provided valuable services to the leadership of the USZK and the Golyanov “brigade” for money. This, as it is written there, was police general Vasily Kuptsov, who headed the MUR until the fall of 1996, and then, as deputy head of the Moscow Main Internal Affairs Directorate, headed the criminal police service of the central administration (currently Mr. Kuptsov does not work in the police).
The appearance of such a valuable witness could make significant changes in the course of the trial. True, the court managed to get it only last week. Before this, they couldn’t figure out how to deliver a summons to the tricky address indicated in the case: Orekhovo-Zuevsky district, house 44. In the end, they decided to send it directly to RGAFK.
But the witness did not live up to the hopes of the investigation, but greatly pleased the lawyers. The professor stated that he did not know any of the defendants, and everything that he had previously told about their activities, he himself learned from MUR operatives. They, according to him, told him about General Kuptsov.
“And in the protocol you tell everything in the first person, quite categorically and without any references,” the judge noted.
“But I didn’t compose it,” Mr. Bleer retorted.
- However, you signed it...
There was no clear explanation for this remark. But it turned out that the case was missing at least one more protocol of Mr. Bleer’s interrogation.
“And this is a question for the investigator,” said a valuable witness.
This ended the interrogation. In parting, the judge only asked the professor to tell one of the RGAFK employees, the former head of Ricom, that he had also been expected in court for a long time. As, indeed, the two victims - those same brutally beaten employees of the same Ricom, whom the court cannot find in any way, but with whom Mr. Bleer often communicates.
“Well, now,” said the judge, “let’s look at the protocol of Sonis’ interrogation.” After thinking for a second, he added: “In any case, that’s what it says here.”
Kommersant will continue to monitor this case.
In 1990, he graduated from the coaching department of the State Central Order of Lenin Institute of Physical Culture with a degree in “Teacher-coach in classical wrestling.”
In 1998, he defended his Ph.D. thesis and was awarded the academic degree of Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences by decision of the dissertation council of the Russian State Academy of Physical Culture.
In 1999 he graduated from the Faculty of Law of the Institute of International Law and Economics. Griboyedov, majoring in Jurisprudence, qualified as a Lawyer.
In 2004, he graduated from the Faculty of Management Psychology of the Russian Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation.
Currently he is the rector of the Russian State University of Physical Culture, Sports and Tourism (RGUFKSiT) and the head of the department of theory and methodology of applied sports and extreme activities of RGUFKSiT.
He was awarded medals of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II and I degrees, and departmental awards.
A.N. Bleer has published about 70 scientific papers, published 18 teaching aids and programs, under his leadership 3 candidate's dissertations were completed and successfully defended, and he is currently the supervisor of 6 applicants and graduate students.
In the period from 2002 to 2004, Bleer A.N. repeatedly traveled as part of a humanitarian mission of the Main Personnel Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia to the Temporary Operational Group of bodies and units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs conducting a counter-terrorist operation in the North Caucasus region, made a significant contribution to maintaining the morale of soldiers and commanders, as well as providing them with professional and social help.
For the successes achieved, great personal contribution and active participation in the organization and conduct of competitions in service-applied sports and charitable activities in providing humanitarian assistance to law enforcement officers located in the North Caucasus region, for assistance to internal affairs bodies and internal troops in resolving social issues -legal protection of veterans, disabled people and families of victims, Bleer A.N. awarded the badges of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation: “For nobility of thoughts and deeds”, “For fidelity to duty”, “Participant in combat operations”, “For assistance to the Ministry of Internal Affairs”, “For distinction in service” (the last four were awarded at the Group headquarters in the village of Khankala), as well as: “Gratitude from the Minister of Internal Affairs of Russia”, “Gratitude from the Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Russia”, “Gratitude from the Head of the Moscow City Internal Affairs Directorate”.
Alexander Nikolaevich Bleer is the founder of the department of theory and methodology of applied sports and extreme activities at the Russian State University of Physical Culture, Sports and Tourism. Under his leadership, the department opened a new direction in the field of physical culture and sports related to human activity in extreme conditions on land, water and in the air. Three of the five specializations of the department, namely: mountain sports, underwater sports and aviation sports, received the status of higher education for the first time in the Russian Federation. Thanks to the work of Bleer A.N. The department has developed and successfully applied new methods and technologies to improve the effectiveness of the educational process, some of which are unique and have no analogues in the world.
As part of the scientific work, Bleer A.N. actively develops cooperation between the Department of Applied Sports and Extreme Activities of the Russian State University of Physical Culture and Sports and Special Purpose Units (TsSN, FSB of the Russian Federation, Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation). 20 training programs for special employees have been developed and tested. services and law enforcement agencies in various specializations of the department and some of them are introduced into the practice of training employees of special units for special purposes (TsSN, FSB of the Russian Federation, Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation).
Being a graduate of the university, and continuing to work within its walls for many years, A.N. Bleer makes a significant contribution to the preservation and improvement of the material, educational and scientific base. In the position of rector of the Russian State University of Physical Culture and Technology, Bleer A.N. conducted and conducts events that help strengthen the position of the university in the university space. A huge role in this was played by the university’s victory in the competition of universities introducing innovative educational programs within the framework of the Priority National Project “Education”. As a result of the program, laboratory equipment was purchased and deployed for the stands of the research complex, new educational programs were developed, the material and technical base was modernized, multimedia classes, computer classes, problem-solving mini-laboratories and much more were created. All this ensures consistent, comprehensive and high-quality education for graduates of RGUFKSiT. In addition, the Russian State University of Physical Culture, Sports and Tourism was the first among sports universities to switch from a faculty to an institute system. Now the structure of RGUFKSiT includes the Institute of Physical Culture, Sports and Fitness, the Humanitarian Institute, the Institute of Tourism, Recreation and Rehabilitation, and the Institute of Correspondence and Distance Learning. Also, new specialties were opened at the university: “Organization of work with youth”, “Psychology”, “Economics”.
Alexander Nikolaevich Bleer is distinguished by the highest efficiency, self-discipline and dedication, which allows him to organically and effectively combine extensive coaching, teaching, and scientific activities.
A criminal community called “Golyanovskaya” operated on the territory of the Russian Federation from 1992 to 1998 of the last century.
Gang "Golyanovskaya": history
The Golyanovskaya criminal group was organized in the late eighties by school friends Igor Vugin and Max Shenkov. The gang members were former classmates, however, later different people were recruited into the group. Vugin was in charge of the material maintenance of the criminal community.
Community criminal activity
At the very beginning of its activity, the Golyanovskaya organized crime group “traveled” in small matters, such as guarding the leader Vugin, transporting precious metals, and showdowns with competitors. Later, members of the group took control of several market stalls, and over time, the rest of the small entrepreneurs.
Soon the “Golyanovskie” became one of the most powerful and powerful gangs in the district, they became part of the even more serious organized crime group “Izmailovskaya” and closely maintained relationships with the thieves in law of the organized crime groups “Savoskaya”, “Shishkan” and “Sylvester”. By the beginning of 1992, the gang took control of clothing markets in the eastern part of the city, cafes, restaurants, shops, and commercial organizations.
In 1992, the leaders gang "Golyanovskaya" We contacted FSB Colonel Igor Kushnikov, who proposed creating a security agency. Thus, crime bosses were able to freely carry weapons, practice shooting, and physically and legally control businessmen. It should be noted that the FSB officer was directly involved in the activities of the private security company, more than once ordered crimes, including murders, issued patrol service inspector certificates to the bandits, supplied them with weapons and special equipment, provided the group with “protection” and provided valuable secret information.
By the end of 1996, the group had grown significantly and numbered more than one hundred and fifty participants. The organized crime group has taken over furniture stores, auto repair shops, a network of car dealerships, restaurants and casinos.
Criminal group was particularly cruel and insolent. Those who refused to pay them eventually lost their lives. For example, one of the entrepreneurs refused to pay them rent, the bandits severely beat him and then shot him. Fortunately, he managed to survive. Another businessman who reported the organized crime group to the police, thieves in law cut with knives.
At the beginning of 1997, a conflict arose between the Golyanovskie organized crime group and a gang led by athlete Alexander Bleer regarding the clothing market on the territory of the physics academy. As a result of the conflict, the Golyanovskys dealt with Bleer’s close associate, Mikhail Bodin. In response to this, the athletes bombed several retail outlets belonging to the Golyanovskys. After this, the bandits attacked members of the Bleer organized crime group.
In the winter of 1997, Golyanovsky mercenaries shot and killed the head of the Moskomzem association, Antonina Lukina, on whom, like Bleer, the activities of the clothing market controlled by the group depended. During the same period, thieves in law tried to take over the city’s jewelry business, in particular, they extorted compensation in the amount of six million dollars from the owner of the jewelry company. In order to save business and life, the owner was forced to pay the required amount.
In the summer of the same year, members of an organized crime group, consisting of fifteen people, burst into the territory of the market and began beating the administrators for preventing them from “bringing down” money from businessmen. Fortunately, security officers were able to save their lives.
"Roof" of the Golyanovskaya organized crime group
According to many investigators, the Golyanovskaya group had a serious “roof” over it. The police were unable to complete a single case, since it suddenly disappeared, fell apart, physical evidence disappeared, etc., and the bandits who were caught in the act were soon released.
For example, in the spring of 1993, one of the gang members was stopped by traffic police officers for driving through a red traffic light. The thief in law, nicknamed “Baby,” was detained and sent to the police station. He was found in possession of a fake FSB officer ID, a Makarov pistol and three thousand American dollars. A criminal case was opened against him, however, the crime boss was soon released.
In the winter of 1998, police detained a car in which there were several members of an organized crime group. Despite the fact that a weapon was found in the car, and one of the bandits was wanted, all members of the group were released.
According to unofficial data, the patron of the Golyanovskys was the head of the Moscow criminal investigation department, General Vasily Kuptsov.
The end of the activities of the Golyanovskiye organized crime group
At the end of 1997, acting Interior Minister Maslov created a special headquarters, which included employees of the FSB, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Central Internal Affairs Directorate, to investigate the crimes of the organized crime group and destroy it. The need to create this headquarters was associated with the involvement of bandits in the assassination attempt on Moscow Deputy Prime Minister Shantsev. In the spring of 1998, a wave of arrests of criminal gang members began. Max Shenkov and Alexander Sonis were the first to be detained. In the spring of the following year, 1999, the police detained Kushnikov, and with him almost all the other Golyanovskys. This is how the Golyanovskaya organized crime group ceased to exist.
The gang members were charged with extortion, robbery, murder, organizing murders, carrying and storing weapons, and kidnapping. Kushnikov was given a suspended sentence for exceeding his powers, but was acquitted on other charges. Sonis received two years in prison for hooliganism, Ivanovsky and Migin were sentenced to four years. Buriy received the same sentence.
The “authoritative” rector of the Russian State University of Physical Culture and Sports, Alexander Bleer, destroyed the country’s leading sports university
Anatoly KaletinSomething strange has been going on in Russian sports lately. After a series of “conquering” venues for world championships - the 2014 Sochi Olympics, the 2016 Hockey World Championship and the 2018 Football World Championship - we are failing world tournaments one after another.
Even to a non-specialist it is clear that the issue here is not in individual failures of athletes or even in the absence of the notorious “team spirit”, but in a system that is clearly failing. And this failure must be eliminated. It's not too late yet. Until Sochi hit.
The Russian authorities allegedly got it wrong with the meeting of the Presidium of the Council under the President of the Russian Federation for the Development of Physical Culture and Sports. It took place in Krasnodar on May 16, and revealed very serious problems associated, first of all, with a weakened personnel base. The Chairman of the Council, Vladimir Putin, did not hide this obvious gap, which led to what we have today. According to the head of the Russian government, it is vital to attract renowned Soviet specialists to the work. We need to create comfortable conditions for them to work. And use their enormous experience in the system of training new generations of sports instructors, teachers, and coaches.
Putin assigned the main role in creating these very conditions, in particular financial stability, to the Ministry of Sports, Tourism and Youth Policy. Its head, Vitaly Mutko, said essentially the right things to Putin, but it all looked very much like a report on successes and tasks. Speaking about the importance of caring for experienced specialists, for some reason Mutko did not mention specific examples of such care.
The minister did not say a word about the situation around the Russian State University of Physical Culture, Sports and Tourism - the oldest glorious “forge of athletes”, which has nurtured more than one outstanding champion. A situation that many knowledgeable people call nothing but outrageous.
Honored professors and associate professors of the university, its students, who had already written several official letters to the highest sports department of the country and personally to President Medvedev, did not receive at least any intelligible comment.
We are talking about numerous complaints against the rector of the Russian State University of Physical Culture and Technology, Alexander Bleer, who, according to those who signed the messages, is systematically destroying the university’s educational system, which has been well-established over the years, in favor of commercial projects that are beneficial for a narrow circle of people “especially close” to him.
“In practice, everything happens as if on purpose, so that the university does not undergo accreditation and does not receive a license, and frees up expensive territory for commercial projects,” we will quote only some excerpts from the teachers’ letter addressed to President Medvedev. - Instead of an increase in the salaries of researchers, professors and teachers, there is an increase in support administrative staff, which, moreover, does not help, but rather complicates the work of departments, institutes, educational institutions and libraries. Teachers are psychologically depressed by the situation when the salaries of employees of auxiliary structures significantly exceed the amounts received by teachers for their main activities at the university. Today, the salary of senior teachers is significantly lower than the salary of ordinary employees of departments and departments and is close to the salary of cleaners.”
Recently, the prosecutor's office revealed violations in the registration of “dead souls” in the service departments of the university, of which there are much more than the teaching staff, for whom the heads of the personnel department and other departments received salaries for a long time. But in recent months they have stopped paying social scholarships to students.
The staff of service personnel, which mainly includes employees dealing with issues from other companies of the rector, has swelled to 1000 people with only four hundred faculty members. The Academic Council includes 14 people from service departments who have nothing to do with the educational or scientific activities of the university, which is unacceptable even by the name of the governing body. Over the 5 years during which Alexander Bleer has been at the helm of the university, not a single sports facility has been built or renovated where classes are held (tennis courts are rented out as warehouses, small football fields are rented out).
The entire teaching staff is intimidated by either salary cuts or dismissal from their positions due to their disbandment, as happened with many departments at the university. As a result, teachers can only write nameless letters addressed to the President and the Minister of Sports. It is unlikely that anyone would argue that if these messages are at least a quarter of the truth, the minister is simply obliged to respond. At least somehow. But for some reason Mutko prefers to maintain partisan silence.
At the same time, more egregious facts of Mr. Bleer’s rector’s activities remained outside the scope of these open letters. And these facts, like nothing else, explain the deep essence of the problems that have arisen in the once famous forge of sports personnel.
For example, when RGUFKSiT won the competition of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation for innovative educational programs, for which over 300 million rubles were allocated. As a result, unlicensed equipment was purchased with allocated budget money, at prices several times higher than the market price, and on which official research cannot be conducted. The walls were painted and the windows were replaced, after which the rector decided that the university was now innovative. More than 120 million rubles worth of equipment was purchased for the medical unit, which was closed immediately after that, and most of the equipment was never seen at the institute.
Immediately after winning the competition, Bleer appointed one of the commission members, Marina Maksovna Knyazeva, as vice-rector, who made the decision on the winner of the competition for innovative educational programs. As a result, this lady worked at the institute for a little over a year, in fact, supervising the “development” and division of budget funds, after which Bleer fired her as unnecessary.
In the dormitory building, both residential and non-residential premises are rented for cash, bypassing the university, and this despite the fact that there are not enough places for students, and the money goes into the pockets of managers. Tenders for the purchase of goods and work are announced with VAT included, but contracts are concluded without VAT: as a result, the million-dollar difference goes into the same pocket - the head of the university. All the main sports facilities of the university, including the athletics arena, swimming pool, and ice palace, require major repairs, and this despite the fact that budget funds have already been allocated for their repairs more than once.
If we talk in more detail about sports facilities, then in recent years only 4 small sports facilities (inflatable type) have been built at RGUFKSiT, which, due to their size and sanitary and hygienic requirements, are not intended for conducting educational and training sessions, but are very well rented out, money from which bypasses the university budget. But on the territory of the university, a restaurant was very successfully organized, which is the permanent residence of Rector Bleer, and in which “gladiator fights” are regularly held in the ring to entertain the “relatives” of the rector.
The fact that the rector Alexander Bleer in the past is an authoritative businessman with great connections with the “Izmailovo” and “Golyanovsk” groups is known to every university student. Witnesses say that even at the recent celebration of the 93rd anniversary of the founding of the university, the rector came on stage with a weapon. Armored cars, weapons and a bunch of guards are the constant accompaniment of Mr. Bleer as he moves around the city.
In June 2009, the capital Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation opened a criminal case against the rector Alexander Bleer under Part 3 of Article 285 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (abuse of official powers), suspected of illegally leasing land to organizations operating at the Cherkizovsky market. The details of the case were then reported by the head of the Moscow Office of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, Anatoly Bagmet:
“The suspect, using his powers in the implementation of the granted rights of permanent use of a federally owned land plot with an area of 664.781 thousand square meters, located at the address: Sirenevy Boulevard, possession 4, entered into lease agreements with commercial organizations, however, rental payments were transferred to the settlement accounts of RGUFK , bypassing the federal budget. The damage to the state amounted to 77.6 million rubles,” noted the head of the Department.
However, Blair managed to hush up this problem. Within a few days, the investigation switched to Oleg Matytsin, the former rector of the Russian State University of Physical Culture and Technology. The results of the case have not yet been made public.
The main assistants to the rector are generally a separate topic for the work of the prosecutor's office: vice-rector for sports and educational work Stradze A.E. was appointed to the position using false documents (PhD diploma), and Vice-Rector for Innovative Development Tarasenko M.V. in the dashing 90s he was part of the same criminal group with Blair. Now yesterday’s bandit is responsible for the finances and innovative development of a higher education institution.
The university recently won a competition to analyze the Cherkizovsky market. How can a higher education institution carry out such activities without the appropriate licenses and work experience (Vice-Rector for Innovation Tarasenko is responsible for this)? Not only that: after this work has been completed, the university requires the allocation of additional multimillion-dollar budget funds for the construction of a fence and other work that was completed before the start of the market analysis. At the same time, when the market is dismantled, containers and scrap metal are sold, but it is unknown where the funds received go.
Currently, a criminal case has been opened against Alexander Bleer for non-payment of taxes to the federal budget in the amount of 120 million rubles. It is interesting that in recent years the RGUFKSiT has inspected a large number of organizations that have identified a large number of violations, but for a number of well-known reasons these commissions are silent. But how long will Rector Bleer have enough money to ensure that all these violations go unnoticed?
