Who is Luzhkov. Yuri Luzhkov revealed the secret of his resignation: "This is revenge"

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President Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree "On the early termination of the powers of the mayor of Moscow," Interfax reports. "To dismiss Luzhkov Yuri Mikhailovich from the post of mayor of Moscow in connection with the loss of confidence of the President of the Russian Federation," the decree says
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President Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree "On the early termination of the powers of the mayor of Moscow," Interfax reports. "To dismiss Luzhkov Yuri Mikhailovich from the post of mayor of Moscow in connection with the loss of confidence in the president of the Russian Federation," the decree says. Thus, he was dismissed, which the media has been talking about for the third week as an inevitable fact.

According to the Kremlin press service, the president appointed the head of the city construction complex, Vladimir Resin, as the interim mayor of Moscow. Resin, 74, is the oldest deputy mayor in Moscow. During the absence of the mayor, it was Resin who, as a rule, was entrusted with the powers of the person performing his duties.

Note that only on the eve of Luzhkov, returning from a week's vacation, said that he was not going to resign. The mayor noted that after the vacation he would take up the duties of the mayor "in a great mood." The city administration told reporters that Luzhkov was going to go on three planned foreign business trips in October - to Germany, Vietnam and Kazakhstan. On Tuesday, Zagolovki.ru writes about articles on Luzhkov's resignation and the events that preceded it.

Recall that President Medvedev is currently on an official visit to China. Earlier it was assumed that the decision to resign would be made after Medvedev's return to Moscow. President's press secretary Natalya Timakova told reporters on Tuesday that Medvedev does not plan to meet with former Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov after his return.

The press secretary of the head of state recalled that Luzhkov took a week off, which was agreed with the presidential administration. According to Timakova, Luzhkov had to "consider how he would proceed further." As Timakova made it clear, Luzhkov was offered a softer option for early termination of powers. "Today, there are two options for the head of the region to leave the post ahead of schedule - either at his own request, which is expressed in a letter of resignation, or when the president makes such a decision, but with a harsh wording - loss of confidence," Timakova recalled. “Draw your own conclusions,” added the president’s press secretary.

"Yuri Luzhkov is now an ordinary citizen," Timakova emphasized. When asked by Life News whether the ex-mayor would be nominated for a state award, the press secretary replied that "there is no question about it." Note that according to a similar scenario in July 2010, the president dismissed another political "heavyweight" - the head of Bashkiria, Murtaza Rakhimov. Then Rakhimov announced his voluntary early retirement, and Medvedev awarded him the Order of Merit to the Fatherland, 1st degree.

Thus, the statements made by Luzhkov on the eve that he would not leave, and the comments of the presidential press service mean that negotiations with the Kremlin on the terms of the mayor's resignation were conducted and were terminated, since the parties did not reach a compromise. A source close to the leadership of United Russia told the Vedomosti newspaper that among the posts that were offered to Luzhkov in exchange for voluntary resignation were the chairman of the Federation Council and the head of the Olympstroy state corporation. As analysts suggest, perhaps the parties did not agree, discussing the conditions or the term of the mayor's departure.

Recall that Yuri Luzhkov served as mayor of Moscow for 18 years - from 1992 to 2010. Before him, the chairman of the Moscow City Council of People's Deputies from April 1990 to June 1991 was Gavriil Popov. From June 1991 to June 1992, Popov held the officially established post of mayor. In January 1992, in agreement with Popov, Luzhkov reformed the structure of the Moscow government and formed a "government of economic reforms." On June 6, 1992, after Popov's resignation, Luzhkov was appointed head of the executive branch - the mayor of Moscow, who was left as head of the city government.

Among the previous mayors of the capital, Luzhkov's record for tenure was broken by Vladimir Promyslov. He served as chairman of the executive committee of the Moscow City Council of People's Deputies for 22 years - from March 1963 to December 1985. Then, from January 1986 to April 1990, Moscow was headed by Valery Saykin.

Luzhkov learned about his resignation at the workplace

According to Interfax, on Tuesday Luzhkov arrived at work at the Moscow mayor's office at about 7:50 am. At his workplace, Luzhkov learned the news that by presidential decree he was removed from his duties as mayor of the city. According to the agency, the officials of the mayor's office who arrived at work on Tuesday morning are "in slight shock and prostration." A decree of the President of Russia published by news agencies is walking about.

Earlier it was reported that according to the working schedule of the mayor of Moscow, the next meeting of the Moscow government, scheduled for 10:00, should take place. Prior to this, the subordinates of the capital's mayor, his friends, the Moscow City Duma deputies intended to congratulate the mayor on his last birthday, which Luzhkov celebrated in Austria on September 21.

As it became known, the meeting of the Moscow government will be held as planned, its agenda will not change. On Tuesday, the Moscow government plans to consider the draft law "On subsoil use in the city of Moscow" and a program to promote employment in the capital for 2011. The event will be hosted by the acting mayor of Moscow, Vladimir Resin. As suggested by a source in the mayor's office, it is possible that before the start of the meeting of the government of the capital, Yuri Mikhailovich will want to say goodbye to those with whom he worked in the same team for 18 years.

Chronicle of the information war against Luzhkov

The information war against Luzhkov began in the media in early September. Then on the air of the NTV channel was shown the film "The Case in the Cap", in which one of the main critics of Luzhkov was the editor-in-chief of the radio station "Russian News Service" Sergei Dorenko. Back in 1999, Dorenko published a series of revelations of the leaders of the Fatherland - All Russia electoral bloc, among whom was Luzhkov.

The film "Business in the Cap" told about the connection between the business of Luzhkov's wife Elena Baturina and the Moscow government, about Luzhkov's material interest in the construction of a high-speed highway through the Khimki forest, the authors did not ignore Luzhkov's passion for beekeeping. The film described how the mayor saved his bees during the smog this summer. Later it turned out that the clumsily made film was edited just a day after the TV channel received an urgent order for it.

On September 11, NTV continued its attack, showing a story about Luzhkov on the Maximum program. The program talked about Elena Baturina's company and the reconstruction of the legendary sculpture "Worker and Collective Farm Woman".

On September 12, NTV showed two more programs criticizing Luzhkov and the mayor's office headed by him. In "State of emergency. Review for a week" there was a story "Down the drain", which told how the capital's officials steal money allocated for stray dogs. In the "Final Program" politicians dissatisfied with Luzhkov told how Baturina, thanks to her husband, earned her multi-billion dollar fortune.

On the same day, an anti-Luzhkov story was shown by the 24-hour news channel Russia 24, which is part of the state-owned VGTRK holding. The reportage dealt with the demolition of architectural monuments in Moscow under the pretext of reconstruction. A critical story was also released as part of the Vremya program on the First Channel.

Before Luzhkov went on vacation, the audience was shown the film "Dear Elena Nikolavna" on NTV. Oddly enough, but the creators have never unequivocally linked the huge personal fortune of the richest woman in Russia with the influence of Luzhkov.

Luzhkov himself called these television stories "dirt" and announced his intention to sue their creators. The mayor assured that he would not leave his post, but the Kremlin immediately reminded him that this issue is in the competence of the President of Russia. A public opinion poll showed that Luzhkov's rating began to fall rapidly. As it turned out, 19.5% of the Levada Center survey participants trust Luzhkov to some extent, while almost 54% do not trust him.

Only the capital's TVC channel stood up for the disgraced mayor of Moscow - the program "Postscript" showed a plot dedicated to the achievements of the Moscow mayor.

Family

Father, Mikhail Andreevich, was born in the village of Young Tud (now the Oleninsky district of the Tver region); in 1928 he moved to Moscow and got a job at an oil depot. Mother: Anna Petrovna- a native of the village (currently - the village) Kalegino.

He divorced his first wife Alevtina during his student days, the marriage was childless.

Second wife Marina Luzhkova(nee Bashilova, daughter of a prominent party and economic leader Mikhail Bashilov) died in 1989 of cancer. They had two sons - Alexander and Mikhail.

Third wife, Elena Nikolaevna Baturina- co-owner (together with his brother Victor) and CEO CJSC "Inteko"... Baturina also owns a number of companies, in particular, construction companies that work on municipal contracts. A significant part of the Moscow economy is under the control of Inteko.

They got married with Baturina in 1991. In his second marriage, Luzhkov has two daughters - Elena and Olga.

Biography

Yuri Mikhailovich spent his childhood and youth in the city Konotop(Ukrainian SSR) with my grandmother, having finished the seven-year period, he returned to Moscow.

For the last three years (grades 8-10), Yuri Luzhkov studied at school number 1259 (then - number 529).

In 1953 Luzhkov graduated from high school.

In 1954 he worked in the first student detachment that mastered virgin lands in Kazakhstan (together with A.P. Vladislavlev).

Graduated Institute of Petrochemical and Gas Industry named after Gubkina... While studying at the institute, Luzhkov was actively involved in Komsomol work, organized social events.

A girl from a wealthy family, Marina Bashilova, studied in the same group with Luzhkov. Her father was a boss in the oil industry. In the fifth year, they played a wedding and settled with her, in a separate apartment with high ceilings.

1958 - 1964 Luzhkov was a researcher, group leader, deputy head of the laboratory Research Institute of Plastics... At that time, this industry was newfangled, purely applied and universal in relation to many sectors of the Soviet economy. Its undoubted plus is the opportunity to get the broadest connections among the capital " elite of the second echelon"- in fact, the personnel who technically support the developments of the scientific elite proper.

1964 - 1974 - was the head of the department.

1968 - Luzhkov joined The Communist Party, of which he was a member until 1991, until it became already indecent.

In 1973, Luzhkov quit drinking after a serious heart attack.

1974 - 1980 - was the director of the experimental design bureau of automation Ministry of the chemical industry of the USSR.

In 1975 he was elected a people's deputy Babushkinsky District Council of Moscow.

From 1977 to 1991 - deputy Mossovet.

1980 - 1986 Luzhkov was CEO NPO "Neftekhim-avtomatika"... In "Khimavtomatik" Luzhkov was called "Duce" behind his back. Not only because of some external resemblance to Mussolini, but also for a certain style of leadership.

1986 - 1987 Luzhkov was the head of the Department for Science and Technology, a member of the board of the USSR Ministry of Chemical Industry.

1987 - 1990 - Luzhkov was the first deputy chairman of the executive committee of the Moscow City Council and at the same time chairman of the Moscow city agro-industrial committee.

In 1987, at the initiative of the new first secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the CPSU Boris Yeltsin, who was picking up fresh personnel for himself, was appointed first deputy chairman Moscow City Executive Committee... At the same time, Luzhkov became chairman of the Moscow City Agroindustrial Committee and headed the city commission on cooperative and individual labor activities. The secretary of this commission was Elena Baturina.

As a boss Mosagroprom came into conflict with "Literaturnaya gazeta" because of the publication of an article about the unsuitable quality of sausages produced at the Moscow meat-packing plant. He filed a lawsuit against "Litgazeta", banned the admission of journalists and the trade inspection to all enterprises producing food products, but after the publication of his statement of claim and letters from readers in the newspaper in support of the author of the article withdrew the claim.

In April 1990, before the first session of the newly elected democratic Moscow Council, he became acting chairman of the Moscow City Executive Committee as a result of the resignation of the last communist chairman of the executive committee. Valeria Saykina... New chairman of the Moscow City Council Gavriil Popov on the recommendation of Yeltsin, he nominated Luzhkov for the post of chairman of the Moscow City Executive Committee.

In 1991, Luzhkov marries Baturina. Because of this, he had a conflict with his eldest son Mikhail (he graduated from the Saratov military school), the details of which are unknown.

Honorary Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow State University, the Academy of Labor and Social Relations, a number of domestic and foreign universities, an academician of a number of Russian academies.

Yuri Luzhkov has written over 200 published works, including books on the problems of the ways of social and economic development of Russia. Has patents for over 50 different inventions. He was awarded the Orders of Lenin, Honor, "For Military Merit", the Red Banner of Labor, "For Merit to the Fatherland" I, II, III degrees. He is a laureate of the State Prizes of the USSR and the Russian Federation.

Politics

In the summer and autumn of 1990, Luzhkov tried to actively implement the resolution of the Moscow City Council, signed by Popov, on the introduction of trade in goods using passports with a Moscow residence permit and "buyer's business cards", which prompted retaliatory measures from Moscow's neighboring regions, which stopped supplying food to Moscow.

In June 1991, at the first election of the mayor of Moscow, Luzhkov was elected vice-mayor of Moscow, and Gavriil Popov was elected mayor of Moscow.

In July 1991, Luzhkov became prime minister of the Moscow government, created to replace the Moscow City Executive Committee.

1991 - 1992 - was the vice-mayor and prime minister of the Moscow government.

During the events of August 1991, Luzhkov took an active part in defense measures White House, together with his pregnant wife. It was Luzhkov who became the center of practical actions for the defense of the White House, gathering into a single fist the resources of Moscow transport organizations, banking and "informal" structures. At the same time, according to the assurances of some opposition publications, Luzhkov compared his affection for Yeltsin with his love for his own wife and Moscow.

Meanwhile, during the attempted coup GKChP on the morning of August 19, 1991, First Secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the CPSU Yuri Prokofiev on the phone he offered to cooperate with Luzhkov, which he refused in harsh terms. The events of August 1991 were later described in the book "72 hours of agony".

On August 24, 1991, without leaving the post of prime minister of the Moscow government, he was appointed one of the deputy chairmen of the Committee for Operational Management of the National Economy of the USSR, created instead of the Union Council of Ministers (chairman - Ivan Silaev). He was responsible for questions related to the agro-industrial complex, trade, foreign economic relations and the social sphere. The committee was disbanded in December 1991 during the liquidation of the USSR.

In September 1991, a conflict arose between the mayor's office and the Moscow City Council in connection with the appointment of a new head of the City Department of Internal Affairs (GUVD) of Moscow. Mossovet appointed to this post Vyacheslav Komissarov, against whose candidacy Popov and Luzhkov spoke. Popov ignored the decision of the Moscow City Council and appointed the head of the Moscow Main Internal Affairs Directorate Arkady Murasheva.

In December 1991, the Moscow government, at the insistence of Luzhkov, declared that Arkady Murashev was inadequate for his position due to his unwillingness to use the police to disperse street vendors and unauthorized rallies. The use of the police in solving urban problems for Luzhkov will then become quite commonplace. For example, he often issued decrees prohibiting street trade with herbs, vegetables and fruits from hands, after which police raids were organized on beggar grandmothers with dill.

Murashev himself hinted that the real reason for the government's discontent was the investigation into the bribery by two officers. Mosprivatization and the possible involvement of higher officials in this. Thanks to Popov's support, Murashev remained at the post of head of the Main Internal Affairs Directorate until the end of 1992.

In February 1992, Luzhkov, along with Popov and Murashev, was accused by the deputies of the Moscow City Council of "actions from personal motives" in the line of duty, expressed in the prohibition of the pro-communist demonstration on February 23, 1992 and the use of police in its dispersal.

In 1991-1993, Luzhkov had a very close relationship with "Bridge", his master Gusinsky... It was then almost an analogue of "Sistema". But as the media holding developed, Most became less and less manageable. They were tied with Luzhkov by common enemies ( Korzhakov, who carried out a raid on "Most", aimed at the same time and even more at Luzhkov), but the interests of yesterday's friends diverged. "Most" did not just strive to play an independent role, but even ideologically disagreed with the mayor's office, although it remained in the same building with it.

And although the divorce from Gusinsky passed without a formal scandal (equally unnecessary to both parties), Luzhkov concluded from the story of "Most's betrayal": relations with the media should be clearly built, the media should not be "friendly", but "ours."

In early 1992, a conflict arose between Luzhkov and the Deputy Director of the Moscow Mayor's Department, Doctor of Economics. Larisa Piyasheva, which proposed an alternative version of the privatization program and accused the Moscow government of trying to retain the power of officials.

Piyasheva's program provided for the complete privatization of consumer services and trade enterprises with the transfer of premises into the ownership of workers, while Luzhkov insisted on the privatization of enterprises by collectives on terms of leasing premises that remain in municipal ownership - thereby retaining the ability to control the activities of privatized objects. Thanks to Popov's intervention, part of Piyasheva's program was included in the official program of the Moscow government, but in practice privatization was carried out according to Luzhkov.

In early 1992, Luzhkov changed the structure of the Moscow government and formed its new composition, naming it, after the model of the federal government Yeltsin-Burbulis-Gaidar"by the government of economic reforms."

On March 10, 1992, he addressed with a statement to the Supreme Soviet of Russia, in which he called for a ban on holding the so-called "Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR" organized by deputies who did not recognize the collapse of the USSR "Labor Russia".

In April 1992, together with Popov, he signed a resignation letter from the Moscow government, in solidarity with the Russian government, headed by the Deputy Prime Minister Egor Gaidar, who resigned in protest against the resolution of the VI Congress of People's Deputies of Russia on the course of economic reform, and characterized the deputies' demarche as an offensive by conservative forces on reforms. As a result of the events that unfolded later at the Congress, the resignation of both governments did not take place.

On June 6, 1992, the mayor of Moscow, Gavriil Popov, resigned due to interruptions in the supply of foodstuffs to the population, some of which had to be distributed by coupons, in limited quantities. By the decree of the President of Russia Boris Yeltsin, Luzhkov was appointed mayor of Moscow (retaining the post of prime minister of the Moscow government) and was subsequently re-elected to this post three times (in 1996 he gained 87.5%, in 1999 - 69.89%, in 2003 - 74.81% of the vote; vice-mayor, together with Luzhkov, was elected the first two times, then the post ceased to be elective). In the course of a phased constitutional reform of the legislative branch, Luzhkov managed to form an obedient city Duma instead of the Moscow City Council, which was not under his control and became the sovereign master of his region.

The Moscow City Council tried to challenge the legality of Yeltsin's decree on the appointment of Luzhkov as mayor of Moscow and twice appointed the election of a new head of the capital's administration, but nothing came of it. The first decree of the Moscow City Council, which scheduled elections for December 5, 1992, was overturned by the Moscow City Court. The legality of the cancellation was later confirmed by the Supreme Court of Russia.

The second decision of the Moscow City Council, which set the elections for February 28, also failed to be implemented. In none of these cases did Luzhkov try to run for the post of head of the administration, betting from the very beginning on the recognition of the elections as illegal. After his appointment as mayor, he announced the continuity of the policy, but soon Piyasheva was dismissed from the General Department of the Mayor "for staff reductions", and was removed from the Moscow Government. Yuri Andreev in charge of privatization. Also, measures were outlined to tighten control over the activities of privatized enterprises.

Since that time, the rules of small and medium street trading in Moscow began to change constantly and unpredictably - usually towards greater regulation and restrictions. However, in practice, businessmen found ways to circumvent these restrictions: firstly, by bribing the police and minor officials, and secondly, since the restrictions and prohibitions, as a rule, have the character of another campaign, which after some time comes to naught.

In October 1992, Luzhkov issued a decree banning the sale of domestic alcoholic beverages in commercial stalls and private stores, while giving the police broad powers to combat illegal trade. After a brief disappearance, vodka and other spirits reappeared in commercial stalls, although the decree was not canceled.

Since 1992, Luzhkov has regularly issued orders prohibiting street trade in greens, vegetables and fruits from hands, after which police raids are usually organized on old women selling greens. After outraged articles in the press, the raids cease, only to resume after a few months, equally to no avail.

With some reservations, Luzhkov in 1992, on the whole, positively assessed the results of Yegor Gaidar's activities, believing that he had managed to "make the ruble work." During Yeltsin's confrontation with the Congress of People's Deputies of Russia over Gaidar in December 1992, he actively supported the president. Organized a rally of heavy truck drivers in support of Yeltsin (trucks demonstratively drove around the Kremlin shortly after the president's speech at the Congress).

After being appointed prime minister in December 1992 Viktor Chernomyrdin expressed satisfaction with the fact that the government was headed by a "business executive".

On May 1, 1993, Luzhkov authorized the dispersal of a communist demonstration that deviated from the permitted route, which resulted in mass clashes between demonstrators and the police, as a result of which there were severe injuries on both sides, one policeman was killed.

In August - September 1993, together with the Deputy Prime Minister Oleg Lobov opposed the chairman of the State Property Committee Anatoly Chubais("what is happening in the field of privatization is a crime"). He believed that privatization should bring significant income to the budget (in particular, in the city), and not be an end in itself. He opposed the sale of shares in large Moscow enterprises for vouchers or at auctions, insisting that they be distributed primarily among members of labor collectives, as well as among entrepreneurs who have already proven their usefulness for the city.

In response, Chubais accused the mayor of Moscow of the fact that the privatization in the capital is taking place in violation of Russian law, and the then head of the Analytical Center for Socio-Economic Policy under the President Peter Filippov said that " with the connivance of the Moscow administration, the number of points for accepting applications for auctions is artificially limited .., "unwanted buyers".

Ultimately (in 1994), the conflict between Luzhkov and Chubais was resolved in favor of Luzhkov: "special order of privatization", which Luzhkov sought: 20% of the shares of privatized Moscow enterprises were reserved for the state (in fact, for the mayor's office), the choice of privatization options is determined by the mayor's office, the mayor's office has the right to withdraw from the privatized property the areas that it considers "unused."

In August 1993, he opposed the Law of the Russian Federation adopted by the Supreme Soviet "On the right of citizens to freedom of movement, choice of place of stay and residence within the Russian Federation," calling it "the law torpedoing Moscow." The Moscow government refused to comply with this law and did not abolish compulsory registration ("registration") even after the freedom to choose a place of residence was confirmed by the new Constitution, adopted in a referendum on December 12, 1993. For nonresidents, Luzhkov considered it necessary to introduce a visa regime in Moscow. Only with the help of a residence permit (mandatory registration) and a visa regime, according to the mayor, it was possible to protect the capital from outside criminal elements. He always advocated that citizens of the CIS countries should receive a residence permit to live in Moscow.

In September-October 1993, during the constitutional crisis, he sided with Yeltsin. By his order, the building of the Supreme Council, together with nearby residential buildings, was disconnected from all communications. He ordered the use of force to disperse rallies and demonstrations of opposition supporters. Demanded the arrest of the deputy chairman of the Moscow City Council Yuri Sedykh-Bondarenko, whom he considered "one of the main organizers of the riots in Moscow."

September 24, 1993 and. O. the president Alexander Rutskoy issued a decree that had no legal consequences on the release of Luzhkov from the post of mayor of Moscow. Later, Luzhkov continued to perform his duties until the 1996 mayoral elections, in which he won.

After the seizure of the city hall by the supporters of the parliament and the attempted siege of the TV company "Ostankino" appeared on the night of October 3-4, 1993 on television and - unlike Gaidar, who called the supporters of democracy to the barricades to the Moscow City Council, - called on everyone to refrain from going out.

In November 1993, Luzhkov introduced in Moscow "a special procedure for the stay of citizens permanently residing outside Russia", which provides for their mandatory registration and collection of fees from them. Although as a result of these measures, neither the so-called "Caucasian crime" nor the "Caucasian dominance" in petty trade were overcome (both criminals and traders successfully pay off the police with bribes), Luzhkov's popularity in Moscow has increased dramatically. At the same time, in the republics of the North Caucasus and Azerbaijan, repression in Moscow against "persons of Caucasian nationality" caused outrage up to threats to apply similar measures against local Russians (in the capital of Chechnya, Grozny, these threats were implemented by the regime Dzhokhara Dudaeva).

In December 1993 he tried to evict the writer from Moscow Valentina Rasputin, who at one time received housing and a temporary residence permit in Moscow as a member of the Presidential Council under Gorbachev(as reported by Literaturnaya Gazeta, on Luzhkov's order to Rasputin, in order to expedite his eviction, the telephone and electricity were cut off). Alexander Solzhenitsyn Luzhkov, on the contrary, assisted in the return of the apartment taken from him during the expulsion and in the acquisition of a new house.

In November 1994, he awarded a large group of servicemen, police officers and employees of the Federal Counterintelligence Service (FSK) with watches and laptop computers for participating in the harvest campaign in the Moscow region - on the same day he himself received the title of lieutenant colonel(before that he was a senior lieutenant in the reserve).

With the beginning in late November - December 1994, military operations of Russian troops in Chechnya and bombing Grozny The ministers of the Moscow government, on their own behalf, as well as on behalf of the Moscow government, expressed on television their full support for the actions of President Yeltsin.

In 1995-1996, Luzhkov repeatedly expressed his support for the policies of the president and the government in Chechnya... In December 1994, he sent to the State Duma for consideration a bill providing for living in Moscow without a residence permit for imprisonment for up to two years.

In December 1994, Luzhkov established the first commercial television company in Russia - "Teleexpo".

In April 1995, at the request of Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, he took part in the creation of the movement "Our home is Russia"(NDR), delegating the Deputy Prime Minister of Moscow to the organizing committee of the NDR and supported him in the Duma elections at the end of the same year, but he himself avoided joining the NDR.

During the 1995 parliamentary elections, he supported the list of the PDR - while in the Moscow single-mandate constituencies, the PDR, at his request, did not nominate its official nominees, and the mayor's office supported certain candidates of its choice. After the defeat of the NDR in the elections (third place after i), he expressed confidence that Chubais's politician was to blame for this (later this thesis was repeated by President Yeltsin).

January 1996 to 2000 - member Federation Council by position. He became a member of the Federation Council Committee on Constitutional Legislation and Judicial-Legal Issues.

In 1996, Luzhkov took an active part in the campaign to re-elect Yeltsin as president for a second term, joining with it his (notoriously win-win) mayoral campaign.

On June 17, 1996, he was elected mayor of Moscow, receiving 88.49% of the vote (communist Valery Shantsev, who suspended his membership in the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, was a candidate for vice-mayor, paired with Luzhkov).

In July 1996, Luzhkov formed a new city government, in which he retained the post of chairman. The powers of a member of the Federation Council were confirmed on July 17, 1996.

After terrorist explosions in Moscow trolleybuses on July 11 and 12, 1996, Luzhkov spoke on television about the need to "remove from Moscow ... the entire Chechen diaspora." In this regard, the public fund "Publicity" sent to the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Yuri Skuratov requesting the initiation of a criminal case against Luzhkov under Article 74-2 (violation of the equality of citizens on the basis of race, nationality or religion, committed by an official). A similar request to the Moscow Prosecutor's Office was sent jointly by the Human Rights Center "Memorial" and Moscow Helsinki Group(MHG). In connection with the beatings of Caucasians in Moscow during the police operation "Search", the Azerbaijani Organization of Turkic Nationalist Youth (OTNM) in August 1996 threatened to take retaliatory measures (" Russians live in Azerbaijan, whose fate directly depends on the events taking place in Russia").

Shortly after being imprisoned in August 1996 Alexander Lebed Khasavyurt agreements called their signing " a step inappropriate to Russia's interests" and " surrender"in front of the militants. Assessing the situation in Belarus on the eve of the referendum, to which the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko and the Supreme Soviet of the Republic of Bashkortostan made two different versions of amendments to the Constitution of the Republic of Belarus, Luzhkov said that as a result of the referendum Belarus found itself at a crossroads, and that the only correct choice for Belarus is a presidential republic (" If we talk about my sympathies, they are undoubtedly on the side of the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko").

On December 5, 1996, the Federation Council, on the initiative of Luzhkov, recognized Sevastopol part of the territory of the Russian Federation and qualified the actions of the Ukrainian leadership to "reject" this part as contrary to international law. In December 1996, Luzhkov took part in a meeting of governors of donor regions (St. Petersburg, Samara region and others), at which it was proposed to change the procedure for taxing regions.

In January 1997, after the State Duma adopted amendments to the law "About road funds", which provides for the refusal to allocate funds for the construction of roads in the city and the reduction of subventions from the federal budget, accused the State Duma of "economic discrimination against Moscow" and announced its intention to challenge the decision of the State Duma in the Constitutional Court.

In February 1997 at the congress "Russia-Belarus: past, present, future" stated that the best form of unification of the two republics is a confederation. Speaking about the structure of Russia, Luzhkov said that now there are too many subjects of the federation in Russia - it would be optimal to create 10-12 large territorial formations.

In March 1997, he said that there is a "fifth column" in Belarus, which seeks to tear the republic away from Russia, "and that" there are no restrictions on freedom of speech or the media in Belarus".

At a meeting of the Russian-Belarusian unification forum "Soyuz" in May 1997, he called Gaidar, Chubais and Boris Berezovsky who, in his opinion, " susceptible to alien influences".

In April 1997, he was delegated by the Federation Council to a joint commission to summarize the results of the nationwide discussion and to finalize the draft Charter of the Union of Belarus and Russia.

On March 10, 1997, by presidential decree, he was included in the State Commission for the Year of Consent and Reconciliation (as agreed). On May Day 1997, speaking in Moscow to veterans of the Great Patriotic War and at a rally of trade unions, he said, referring to the housing and communal reform in Russia, that prices for housing and utilities in Moscow would not rise. He also said that the results of privatization in Russia should be reviewed.

After the signing of documents on Crimea and Sevastopol in Kiev in May 1997 in Kiev by the presidents of Russia and Ukraine, he called this step "wrong" and said that " Sevastopol is a Russian city, and it will be Russian no matter what decisions are made".

November 18, 1997 at the medal ceremony dedicated to 850th anniversary of Moscow, to the heads of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the cities of the "Golden Ring" of the Russian Federation, spoke in favor of " revisit bad privatization and restore government regulation of industry"and condemned" redistribution of property, which is intensified by the criminal activities of some members of the government, namely Chubais".

In December 1997, he held regular elections to the Moscow City Duma, ensuring a complete victory for the unofficial "list of the mayor's office" (28 out of 35). Luzhkov's supporter again became the chairman of the Moscow City Duma Vladimir Platonov.

In January 1998, he supported the statement of the Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation Anatoly Kulikova about the possibility of preemptive strikes against terrorist bases on the territory of Chechnya ("I have a positive attitude to Kulikov's statement. Bandit attacks like the recent attack on a military unit in Buinaksk cannot remain unanswered. Do not get into our territory. Strike - get retribution." ).

On May 20, 1998, Luzhkov was approved as the representative of the Russian Federation in the House of Representatives of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of Europe.

In early September 1998, after the failure of Chernomyrdin's candidacy in the State Duma during the voting on his approval as prime minister, he was included by the State Duma deputies in the list of candidates for the post of chairman of the RF Government. Luzhkov said that he did not make his appointment as prime minister the preservation of the post of mayor of Moscow, which was regarded by the media as his consent, but almost simultaneously said that "there was no possibility of his appointment as prime minister and is not expected."

On September 30, 1998, speaking at a press conference in London, he said that if he did not see a worthy candidate in the 2000 elections, he would fight for the presidency of Russia himself.

December 19, 1998 at the founding congress of the All-Russian Political Public Organization (OPOO) "Fatherland" Luzhkov was unanimously elected as the leader of the organization.

In February 1999, Luzhkov, along with RNU and "anti-Semitic communists", was included in the published report of the US State Department on human rights violations in Russia for registration and connivance with the actions of the police against Caucasians. On March 31, 1999, he moved from the Federation Council Committee on Constitutional Legislation and Judicial-Legal Issues to the Federation Council Committee on Budget, Tax Policy, Financial, Currency and Customs Regulation, and Banking. In May 1999, Luzhkov announced his intention to hold early elections for the mayor of Moscow, combining them with the elections to the State Duma in December 1999.

May 1999 disapproved of the government's resignation Evgenia Primakova.

On July 3, 1999, speaking in Munich, he announced that "under certain conditions" he would not participate in the presidential elections.

In August 1999, he repeatedly confirmed that he would not run for president if Primakov agreed to run for this post.

In 1999, Luzhkov was deprived of the protection of the Federal Guard Service (FSO).

In August 1999, together with Primakov and the Governor of St. Petersburg Vladimir Yakovlev headed the electoral bloc "Fatherland - All Russia"(OVR).

On September 17, 1999, he officially announced his decision to run for mayor of Moscow in early elections on December 19, 1999, again named Shantsev as his candidate for vice-mayor. At the same time, he was included under No. 2 in the central part of the list of candidates for the State Duma from the OVR bloc.

December 19, 1999 won the mayoral elections in Moscow, gaining 69.89% of the votes ( Sergey Kirienko second place - 11.25%). He was also elected a deputy of the State Duma on the list of the OVR, which received 13.33% (2nd place), but refused the mandate. The powers of a member of the Federation Council were confirmed on January 5, 2000.

His criticism of the incumbent President and calls for an early resignation was unexpected. The mayor's career was not affected in the least. On the contrary, having become a member of the Federation Council, as the head of a constituent entity of the federation, Luzhkov occupied significant positions - he was a member of the committee on budget, currency regulation, tax policy, banking. In 2000 he became a member of the State Council of the Russian Federation.

In early February 2000, Luzhkov refused to run for president of Russia, which in a letter dated January 31, he was asked by the initiative group of voters of the Samara region, headed by Nikolay Zubkov.

In the presidential elections on March 26, 2000, Luzhkov's Fatherland officially supported the candidacy Vladimir Putin... In June-July 2000, during the discussion in the Federation Council of the presidential package of bills on reforming the upper house of parliament, he took a cautious position, but the mayor's protege, the chairman of the Moscow City Duma, Platonov, actually headed (together with the president of Chuvashia Nikolay Fedorov) resistance to the reform on the part of the senators.

In July 2000, Luzhkov was provided with the protection of the Federal Security Service (FSB) - instead of the FSO, the services of which Yeltsin deprived him in 1999.

On July 28, 2000, the Ostankino Intermunicipal Court ruled that the facts given in the TV report are not true. Dorenko in November 1999, stating that the hospital in Budennovsk The restoration was carried out not by the Moscow mayor, but by the head of the Mobitex company, Bedzhet Pakcoli. According to the court decision, 25 thousand rubles must be paid to the plaintiff by Dorenko, and 50 thousand rubles - by ORT.

In August 2000, having received from the hands of President Putin Order of Honor, made a speech of gratitude, in which the insult to the insignificance of the award sounded. (" This is a serious, strong indicator of your attitude towards Moscow, your attitude towards Muscovites. Mr President, we wish you success in this work. I would like to say, of course, we wish you good luck, but let this good luck be the result of work, the result of your efforts, and not the result of some random moments. Although random luck is also a pleasant thing").

April 12, 2001 Luzhkov and at a joint press conference announced the intention of the Fatherland movement and the party "Unity" to create "a single political structure and a single political party." However, on May 28, Shoigu said that there would be no unification of the Unity party and the Fatherland movement into a single party - there would be a coalition.

On June 5, 2001, at a conference of the Moscow regional organization Fatherland, Luzhkov announced that the movement would be transformed into a party no later than October 2001.

In June 2001, by order of Luzhkov, a 37-member council of elders was created at the mayor's office. The most experienced and authoritative former leaders of the executive committee of the Moscow City Council and the city government, who have worked in the executive authorities for at least 20 years, as well as deputies of the Moscow City Council, who were elected to it at least four times, became members of the council. In May 2001, Yuri Luzhkov, after adopting a plan to reorganize the electric power industry, announced that he considered the privatization of Russian energy systems a "big mistake". " The new owner will simply not give a damn about the consumer's problems: if you don't pay, we'll turn it off. This path is a dead end for us, especially since in many developed capitalist countries, for example, in France, the energy sector is under state control and works great". (IA" Rosbalt "05/23/2001)

On July 12, 2001, at the founding congress, together with Shoigu, he became co-chairman of the All-Russian Union of the Unity Party and the Fatherland Movement.

In August 2001, he banned the holding of a bullfight in Moscow, despite the fact that the organizers of the show wanted to present a bloodless "Portuguese" version of a duel with a bull.

On September 29, 2001, he announced that the Moscow government had filed a lawsuit against the unlawful dismissal of the general director of Mosenergo. Alexandra Remezova... According to Luzhkov, "the expulsion of the general director of the energy company and the appointment of the acting head of Mosenergo Arkady Evstafieva, is dangerous, since he is not an expert in the field of energy, is not familiar with the structure of Mosenergo and is hardly aware of what Ohm's law is. "

On October 13, 2001, at a congress of the Fatherland movement, Luzhkov called on the delegates to create a united party with Unity. He stressed that this party will become " a massive, powerful, influential political force capable of being responsible for the fate of the country".

On December 1, 2001, at the founding congress of the All-Russian party "Unity and Fatherland", he was elected co-chairman of the Supreme Council of the party (together with Sergei Shoigu and Mintimer Shaimiev).

On February 15, 2002, Luzhkov sharply criticized the work of the Kremlin administration. Speaking at an all-Russian seminar of party activists, he said that the presidential administration is working "without a clear understanding of the functions, goals and responsibilities." He also proposed to clarify the functions of the presidential administration in a special law in order to exclude a situation when this body " often acts as a kind of second government in relation to the main cabinet of ministers and other power structures".

September 13, 2002 spoke in favor of the restoration of Lubyanskaya Square in Moscow monument to Felix Dzerzhinsky, stressing that this does not mean "return to the past".

In December 2002, in a letter addressed to the President of the Russian Federation, Luzhkov proposed to revive the idea of ​​"turning the Siberian rivers", rejected by the Central Committee of the CPSU in 1986, at the very beginning of "perestroika". According to Luzhkov, the project is relevant because “our century will be characterized by the sale of fresh water on the world market in volumes comparable to the volume of oil sales. infrastructure for trade in water will be more efficient than infrastructure for trade, for example, oil, since water is a renewable resource, but oil is not. "

On January 16, 2003, the Moscow City Court satisfied the claim of the Prosecutor General's Office and declared that the norm of the capital's charter, which allows electing a vice-mayor, was contrary to federal legislation and not applicable. Luzhkov filed a cassation appeal with the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation. He asked the Supreme Court to make a new decision on the case and to refuse the request of the Prosecutor General's Office.

On February 11, 2003, Luzhkov criticized the leadership of the complex of property and land relations in the capital for a sharp increase in rents in the city.

On March 28, 2003, the Supreme Court of Russia confirmed the correctness of the decision of the Moscow City Court, which prohibited Muscovites from electing a vice-mayor of Moscow. Thus, the court rejected Luzhkov's cassation appeal.

On May 1, 2003, at a trade union meeting, he sharply criticized the federal government, which, in his words, " serves not the real sector of the economy, but the oligarchs, serving only them ... It's a shame". At the same meeting, he spoke out against Russia's entry into WTO since from this " resource-extracting industries will win, that is, oligarchs again, and Russian production will turn out to be uncompetitive".

On June 15, 2003, Luzhkov announced that he had appealed to the President of Russia and the Security Council in connection with unsatisfactory work. Mosenergo... It was about frequent power outages, system breakdowns.

On June 17, 2003, right at a meeting of the city administration, Luzhkov fired the head of the capital's land inspection Igor Chekulaev per " not tough enough "attitude to cases of misuse and land grabbing".

On September 3, 2003, at the XVI Book Fair-Exhibition, the presentation of Luzhkov's book "The Mayor and About the Mayor" took place.

On September 17, 2003, the Moscow city regional branch of the United Russia party proposed to Yuri Luzhkov to head the regional list of the party in the elections to the State Duma.

On September 20, 2003, he was included in the federal list of the United Russia party under No. 3 in the central part of the list for participation in the elections to the State Duma of the fourth convocation.

In October 2003, at a meeting between Putin and the Prime Minister of Japan Junichiro Koizumi it was decided to create "Council of the Wise Men", which would be engaged in the development of strategic cooperation between Russia and Japan on economic, political, cultural, educational and scientific issues.

On October 20, 2003, after the meeting, Putin announced that he considered Luzhkov a suitable candidate for the post of co-chairman of the Council of Wise Men. Luzhkov agreed to head the Council on behalf of the Russian side.

On October 22, 2003, at a meeting of the Moscow government, after hearing reports from officials on the state of the water metering system in the capital, Luzhkov announced that he would change the team of officials of the housing and communal services department because of their dishonest work.

December 7, 2003 won the mayoral elections in Moscow, gaining 74.82% of the vote. Luzhkov's closest rival, Alexander Lebedev, received 12%. He refused the mandate of the State Duma deputy.

On March 16, 2004, during a serious crisis in Georgian-Adjarian relations that threatened to go to war, Luzhkov unexpectedly arrived in Batumi... Moreover, for this he had to fly on his own plane to Turkish Trabzon (the airspace of Adjara was closed), and then go by car across the border. After meeting with the Adjarian leader Aslan Abashidze said that the "escalation of the situation" does not come from Adjara and from Tbilisi. He also said that he came to Batumi "not to interfere in the internal affairs of Georgia, but as a person close to Abashidze."

On March 17, 2004, the Russian Foreign Minister announced that the Russian leadership supported Luzhkov's initiative to resolve the conflict between the Georgian and Ajarian authorities. According to Lavrov, on the eve of the former foreign minister Igor Ivanov asked the President of Georgia to receive Luzhkov and received consent to this.

On May 6, 2004, the head of Adjara Abashidze, after negotiations with the Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Igor Ivanov, resigned and flew to Moscow. On the night of May 6, 2004, Luzhkov met Abashidze and his son Georgy, the mayor of Batumi, at the Vnukovo-2 airport.

In May 2004, Forbes magazine assessed the state of Luzhkov's wife Elena Baturina in $ 1.1 billion, putting her in 35th place in the list of the richest Russians.

On June 2, 2004, Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili announced that "all economic interests of Yuri Luzhkov in Adjara will be confiscated." Luzhkov's press secretary Sergey Tsoi, commenting on the statement, said: " The mayor of the capital has no personal economic interests in Adjara, but only the interests of Moscow and Muscovites". He also noted that Saakashvili's phrase about" buying stolen goods in Abkhazia "is" at least unfriendly towards the mayor and government of Moscow. "

On July 23, 2004, Luzhkov went to court with a claim for the protection of honor and dignity against the director of the State Institute of Art History Alexey Komech and the TV channel "Russia". The reason was Komech's statements in an interview with the TV channel that the project for the reconstruction of the Central Exhibition Hall "Manezh", damaged in a fire in May 2004, did not pass the necessary approvals from the federal authorities.

On August 5, 2004, Luzhkov visited Abkhazia. According to the press service of the Moscow government, during this unofficial trip with the leadership of Abkhazia, the issues of providing humanitarian assistance to its population, including the Russian citizens living there, were to be discussed. Meanwhile, Georgia's State Minister for Conflict Resolution Georgy Khaindrava expressed dissatisfaction with the visit of the mayor of Moscow to Sukhumi, not coordinated with Tbilisi. Calling this visit "completely incomprehensible to them," he stated that " the meeting was supposed to be about the restoration of the Sochi-Sukhumi railway".

In December 2004, in an interview with Izvestia, he said that under social programs: support for veterans, pensioners, young families, and so on, the Moscow government is doing " more than even in such a socially oriented country as Sweden".

In the same interview, Luzhkov once again had to answer questions about his wife's business: " I am reporting to you absolutely officially - in the 15 years that my wife has been the head of Inteko (by the way, Elena started doing business even before I became mayor), she has not won a single municipal construction tender, except for the last one - according to development of Molzhaninovo. And then the newspapers wrote that she did it absolutely unsuccessfully from the point of view of business - the development of the site, engineering, social infrastructure would cost dearly. I don’t care whether it’s successful or not, it’s her business, her decision. I do not consider my wife's business to be something that would discredit our family and our last name.".

In 2004, in the very center of Moscow, it was demolished hotel "Moscow"... It was planned to build a new one in its place. However, soon Luzhkov said that he liked the view that opened on the city after the demolition and that it would be nice to create a new square here - the largest in Europe. A discussion broke out on this issue, with many supporting the mayor.

In February 2005, however, Luzhkov said that the hotel "will be completely restored to the same dimensions and architecture as it was before the demolition."

On February 16, 2005, he announced that he intends to appeal against a number of provisions of the law on the monetization of benefits in the Constitutional Court of Russia and that he considers this law "wrong."

In April 2005, he said that officials are trying to deceive him when he travels around Moscow. Therefore, he only says where he will go in the morning.

In June 2005, he sharply opposed the spread of gambling establishments in Moscow: " I will support any radical solution to this issue. What is happening now in the city is complete debauchery and moral deformity ... The decision that local authorities cannot interfere with the activities of gambling establishments was made without our consent. This is political sadism!". On June 23, 2005, he signed a decree" On measures of personnel renewal and formation of a reserve ", according to which, by the end of 2005, many key positions were to be occupied by young people under 35, and activists of youth associations were to become consultants to officials.

On July 6, 2005, deputies of the Moscow City Duma adopted in the first reading the law "On public positions in the city of Moscow", developed by Luzhkov's staff. This document guaranteed the mayor, after his resignation, state dacha, special communications, a state car, bodyguards and a monthly payment of about 115 thousand rubles until he gets a new job. July 30, 2005 announced his intention to sue. He accused him of stealing 49% of the company's shares Sibneft-Yugra, created by the Moscow government, Sibneft and SibirEnergy. It was about the theft of funds from the city, " which would be enough to provide Moscow with oil for 40 years", - said Luzhkov.

At the end of July 2005, he signed a decree on the creation of a youth movement in Moscow "Civil shift" and allocated for its financing 3 million rubles from the city budget.

In September 2005, the Moscow organization of the United Russia party entrusted Luzhkov to head the party list in the elections to the Moscow City Duma. The first three of the list also included the chairman of the Moscow State Duma Vladimir Platonov and his deputy Andrey Metelsky.

Since October 2005 - Member of the Council under the President of the Russian Federation for the Implementation of Priority National Projects.

In October 2005, he decided to abolish the post of vice mayor, which remained vacant after Shantsev's departure. Distributed the subdivisions of the complex, which was previously headed by Shantsev, among his first deputies.

On November 15, 2005, in a live broadcast of the TVTs company, he called the party "the Black Hundred plan" and said that the capital's authorities "have the strength to prevent their speech in the bud."

On November 30, 2005, the Moscow branch of United Russia announced that if it wins the elections to the Moscow City Duma on December 4, 2005, it will propose Luzhkov's candidacy for the post of mayor in 2007 (provided that an appropriate federal law is adopted, allowing parties to nominate candidates for the post of head of the region).

On December 1, 2005, he filed a complaint against Chubais directly with the President of the Russian Federation. The reason for the complaint was a proposal made by Chubais the day before to turn off the power supply to large enterprises in Moscow if frosts stay below 25 degrees in the city for more than three days.

On December 4, 2005, he was elected a deputy of the Moscow City Duma on the list of United Russia, but refused the deputy mandate.

On December 20, 2005, he signed a decree according to which letters notifying the holding of any rallies, demonstrations, processions and pickets on the territory of the Central Administrative District of the capital should henceforth be sent personally to the mayor of Moscow. Earlier, the Moscow government made decisions on notifications about mass rallies with more than 5 thousand participants, and prefects made decisions on notifications about marches with less than 5 thousand participants.

On December 29, 2005, Izvestia published a long interview with Luzhkov. In it, he characterized Yeltsin (about whom he once said: "One love is Moscow, one love is a wife, one love is a president") as a person, " which brought a lot of troubles and harm to our state".

January 21, 2006 spoke about the case Slobodan Milosevic: "This is a shame of the European Court, which unreasonably brought Milosevic to justice and held him in prison for several years, but now does not know what to do with him, since all their charges have collapsed.".

On February 15, 2006, he spoke out against Russia's accession to The World Trade Organization(WTO).

In March 2006, Georgian Minister for Refugee Affairs and Accommodation Giorgi Kheviashvili announced that the country's government intends to confiscate the real estate of the mayor of Moscow in Abkhazia.

On July 11, 2006, Luzhkov won a lawsuit against Alexander Lebedev... The lawsuit was related to material in the Voikovsky District newspaper "Our District", where Lebedev made a number of accusations against Luzhkov, which the court found defaming the honor, dignity and business reputation of the capital's mayor.

On July 20, 2006, Luzhkov said at a meeting in Sukhumi with the President of Abkhazia Sergey Bagapsh that Moscow will build its relations with the republic as with an independent state, regardless of Tbilisi's position.

On August 16, 2006 Luzhkov became a cavalier Order named after Akhmad Kadyrov- the highest award of Chechnya.

On December 20, 2006, Deputy Chairman of the Moscow City Duma, head of the United Russia faction, Andrei Metelsky, announced that the faction would nominate Luzhkov for the post of Moscow Mayor for a new term in December 2007.

In February 2007, speaking at the Christmas Readings, Luzhkov spoke about the "unprecedented pressure" that was exerted on him by various international circles in connection with the ban gay pride... He called such events "satanic action" and said that he would not allow them to take place in the future.

On February 21, 2007, speaking at the opening ceremony of the House of Moscow in Sevastopol, he mentioned "the problems that tore Sevastopol away from Russia, tore off Crimea from Russia."

On February 26, 2007, the organizers of the May 2006 gay pride parade filed a lawsuit against Luzhkov. The reason for the proceedings was Luzhkov's statement, who called the gay parade "a satanic act."

On June 22, 2007, Putin submitted Luzhkov's candidacy to the Moscow City Duma for approval as mayor of Moscow.

On June 27, 2007, the Duma approved Luzhkov. Only 3 out of 4 members of the Communist Party faction voted against.

On October 2, 2007, it became known that Luzhkov would head the Moscow list of United Russia as a "locomotive" in the December 2, 2007 elections to the State Duma.

On November 8, 2007, speaking at the conference "Russia and Abkhazia: Towards a Common Economic Space" he said: "We are convinced of the right of Abkhazia to build a sovereign state, since Abkhazia is a sovereign state. And we (Russia) must take a bold step and make a decision on the recognition of the sovereignty of Abkhazia ".

On December 2, 2007, Luzhkov was elected to the State Duma of the 5th convocation on the list of United Russia and resigned his mandate.

On October 30, 2008, a presentation of Luzhkov's new book took place "Water and Peace", in which he proves the need to return to the project of diverting part of the flow of northern rivers to Central Asia.

In the mid-1980s, according to Luzhkov, the river crossing project was ruined by the liberal intelligentsia, which hated this undertaking "as one of the megaprojects of the Soviet state, and such projects for a seasoned liberal with a Western accent in a troubled head are like a sharp knife ... The blow to the water transfer project had a hidden (another question, that someone clearly perceived, and someone did not understand) the goal of destroying the unity of destinies, the common history of Russia and Central Asia, dismantling the USSR. " (Kommersant, October 31, 2008).

In late 2008, ForeignPolicy magazine published a ranking of the most dangerous cities in the world with a record high homicide rate per capita. The top five, along with Caracas, Cape Town, New Orleans and Port Moresby (Papua New Guinea), includes the capital of Russia, Moscow. These megacities have bypassed other 130 cities in the world. With a population of over 10 million and a murder rate of 9.6 per 100,000 inhabitants per year, Moscow has earned the fifth place in the ranking of the world's most life-threatening cities.

In 2008, the Public Opinion Foundation conducted a survey of 34 thousand people in 34 constituent entities of the Federation and found that 42% of Muscovites admitted that they had given bribes to an official. Moscow has been ranked as the most corrupt city in the country. In December 2008, an anti-corruption council was established in Moscow, headed by Luzhkov.

Under Luzhkov, Moscow has consistently ranked among the most expensive cities in the world. So, according to the annual rating of the consulting company Mercer in 2006, 2007, 2008, the capital of Russia topped the rating of the most expensive megacities in the world (taking into account the cost of 200 goods and services in 143 cities of the world). In 2009, it gave way to the Japanese cities of Tokyo and Osaka: the crisis and the depreciation of the ruble against the dollar changed the situation.

Being one of the most expensive cities in the world, Moscow lags far behind London or Paris in terms of the average salary of residents - the gap is 3.5-4 times. As of mid-2009, the average salary of a Muscovite is 31,156 rubles. At the same time, prices for key food products in the Russian capital are catching up with European ones, and in terms of the growth rate of food prices, Russia is significantly ahead of Europe.

The gap between the richest 10% and the poorest 10% was at a critical level - in 42 times, which is not found in any other region of Russia.

From 1991 to 2000, there was a sharp increase in the number of private road transport in Moscow. During this period, the number of cars on the city's roads increased almost six times, increasing by an average of 150-200 thousand cars per year. Moscow is facing serious road congestion with private vehicles. At the same time, many major highways and transport interchanges were built. In the 1990s it was reconstructed MKAD, appeared Third Transport Ring, the purpose of which is to relieve the capital's roads and reduce the number of traffic jams.

Public transport also developed under Luzhkov. So, at this time, for the first time in Russia, monorail transport was put into operation, the Moscow metro was expanded. Construction of the first section has begun Fourth Ring Road, which according to current plans will become part of Northeast Expressway... At the same time, under Luzhkov, the Moscow tram suffered losses. The length of tram lines in 1989-2004 was reduced from 460 to 420 km, in particular, due to the expansion of highways, the lines on Prospekt Mira, Nizhnyaya Maslovka and Begovaya Street were closed. Tram passenger traffic in 1995-2010 fell from 1.4 million people a year to 214 thousand.

At the same time, the cost of building roads in Moscow turned out to be the highest in the world - 1 km of the Moscow Ring Road - $ 100 million; 1 km of the Third Transport Ring - $ 117 million. However, the record belongs to the four-kilometer section of the Fourth Transport Ring. A kilometer there will cost the Moscow budget $ 537 million. This is more expensive than building a kilometer of a tunnel under the English Channel and a kilometer of the Large Hadron Collider. According to experts, with the high cost of road construction that developed under Luzhkov, the problem of traffic jams will never be solved.

In Moscow in the 2000s, prices for services Housing and communal services grew faster than the Russian average. Since 2001, they have grown more than 6 times (in Russia - five times). Higher than the average Russian and Moscow inflation. Over the first six months, prices in Moscow, according to official data, increased by 12.5%, while in Russia by 7.4%. In Moscow, the industrial decline is significantly higher - more than 25-28% in 2009 of the volume of 2008, while in Russia - 14.8%.

In 2009, Luzhkov was criticized for introducing a program of airborne silver iodide and dry ice over the Moscow region to redistribute precipitation in the region in order to reduce the cost of cleaning Moscow streets. Environmentalists and the leadership of the Moscow region expressed concern that such an experiment could only harm the environment of the capital and the region.

September 2010 Russian central TV channels launched a number of documentaries, where they criticized the mayor's activities in a harsh manner. Business, money, connections of Luzhkov himself and all members of his family were publicly discussed. "Lawlessness. Moscow, which we have lost", "It's about the cap"- with a ruthless roller they crushed trust and undermined the authority of Yuri Mikhailovich.

In response to a letter to the President of the Russian Federation dated September 27, 2010, in which the mayor expressed indignation at the criticism made against him on television.

September 28, 2010, in response to Luzhkov's letter, the President Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree on the early termination of the powers of the mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov ("To dismiss Luzhkov Yuri Mikhailovich from the post of mayor of Moscow due to the loss of confidence of the President of the Russian Federation." ... " empowered by the mayor of Moscow ").

Experts dubbed Luzhkov a victim of behind-the-scenes intrigue Vladimir Putin... Declaring threats against his family, he moved to live in London; Luzhkov's daughters were expelled from Moscow State University of their own free will. After his resignation, Luzhkov has repeatedly stated that some political forces want to take business away from his family.

Most of Luzhkov's associates were removed from office by the new mayor, criticism of his decisions and actions as mayor for a long time did not leave the pages of the press, the Internet, and the news feeds of all TV channels. In 2010, he was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Major Cities Management International University in Moscow.

Member of the Board of Directors since 2012 United Oil Company OJSC(executive body of Ufaorgsintez) controlled by the group AFK System and structures Yakov Goldovsky.

Currently he is engaged in his own farm in Kaliningrad region... In October 2015, he boasted on the air of Komsomolskaya Pravda radio: " Here in my Kaliningrad region - 5.5 thousand hectares of land. From each hectare today I have received a harvest of grain, including wheat, 53.6 centners per hectare. Moreover, food grade wheat. And we do not consider this a record. We will add more".

Income

According to the Central Election Commission, Luzhkov's income in 2002 was 9 million 148 thousand 150 rubles... He owned a land plot with an area of ​​25 acres in the Kaluga region and a residential building with an area of ​​62 sq. meters in the same place, a GAZ-69 car and a car trailer.

The annual income for 2004, declared by Luzhkov as a candidate for the Moscow City Duma in the 2005 elections, amounted to 2,438 rubles.

At the end of October 2007, data on Luzhkov's property and income were released. He owned four land plots in the Kaluga region, one of which is 798,528 square meters. He also had a 62 sq. M. Residential building in the Kaluga region. meters and an apartment in Moscow with an area of ​​150.3 sq. meters. Luzhkov's total income in 2006 was 31 million 906 thousand 922 rubles. A 1964 GAZ-69E passenger car and a 2000 trailer were registered for it. He also owned 1.11 million bonds in OJSC KB MIA.

In February 2009, the Finance magazine published a new rating of Russian billionaires, according to which the Luzhkov-Baturin family has become very poor. The wife of Yuri Mikhailovich took 45th place in it: the magazine estimated her fortune at $ 1 billion, that is, according to the calculations of Finance, she lost about 6 billion.

According to Forbes, in 2009, the wife of Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov "froze" some of the development projects in Moscow and Ukraine... However, many residential complexes continue to be built: it is cheaper to complete than to abandon.

In July 2009, Elena Baturina published her statement of income and property for 2008. According to the official newspaper of the Moscow government, Tverskaya 13, the total income of the wife of the mayor of Moscow amounted to more than 7 billion rubles, which is about 1,183 times more than the income of the mayor himself, the newspaper Kommersant calculated.

According to data published on July 4, 2009, Baturina received more than 15 million rubles as a salary at her official place of work - CJSC Inteko. This year, Baturina also managed to earn on development projects (about 440 million rubles) and receive interest on deposits (slightly less than 1.5 million rubles). The main source of income for it was the results of operations on the sale of securities (over 6.5 billion rubles).

In addition to money, the wife of the mayor of Moscow owned shares in two Moscow apartments with an area of ​​150 and 159 sq. m (1/4 and 1/3 shares, respectively), and also has a land plot of agricultural use with an area of ​​2.85 hectares in the Kursk region. Baturina owns six cars: a 2005 PorscheTurbo S, a 2007 Mercedes-Benz S600 and a 2007 Mercedes-Benz ML63AMG, a 1995 Audi 80, a 1957 Mercedes-Benz S220 and a rare 1934 Talbot-95.

Information about Elena Baturina's income was made public in accordance with the anti-corruption decree of the President of the Russian Federation of May 18, 2009, according to which officials and members of their families are required to annually provide data on their income for publication in the media. Yuri Luzhkov himself published data on his income and property also in the newspaper Tverskaya, 13 - the day after the presidential decree appeared. At the same time, the newspaper noted that the mayor's wife, Elena Baturina, filed a declaration of income at the place of residence. The publication also reported that the mayor's daughters Elena (student) and Olga (student) own only 1/4 of the share of a Moscow apartment with a total area of ​​150 sq. m.

The mayor himself, according to published data, is the owner of 6 million rubles, 1/4 of the share in a Moscow apartment with an area of ​​150 sq. m and four land plots in the Kaluga region for beekeeping with a total area of ​​just over 1.1 million square meters. m, a GAZ-69-E car and a trailer for transporting hives.

Luzhkov last released data on his income in 2007 on the eve of the last Duma elections, in which he topped the list of United Russia in Moscow. Then the capital's mayor had a much larger amount in his accounts - 31 million rubles. In addition, in 2006 Luzhkov owned shares of Norilsk Nickel, LUKOIL, MTS, RAO UES of Russia, Gazprom, Tatneft, Sberbank and others. It is not known whether the mayor still owns the shares of leading Russian companies, but he now owns a dacha in the Moscow region with a total area of ​​2,531.2 square meters. m. Even if we proceed from a modest estimate of elite housing in Moscow, $ 6,000 / sq. m. m, approximately, the market value of Luzhkov's dacha is about $ 15 million.

Rumors (scandals)

Since 1993, the Moscow government has been repeatedly accused of corruption. Thus, rumors circulated about unjustified support by the Moscow authorities of some commercial structures (JSC "Group" Most "," Organizing Committee "," Mosinvest "," Mosprivatization "," Moscow Guild ").

The press compared the estimated cost of Luzhkov's cottage in a dacha cooperative "Pines" with the size of the mayor's salary and came to disappointing conclusions - does not agree, does not correspond, etc. He was asked to publish his income tax return free of charge. All this Yuri Luzhkov happily ignored. However, the most unpleasant story was hyped because of the Moscow journalist Anatoly Baranova, "who dared to approach the coverage of the mayor without due respect"According to some Moscow publications, he was fired from his job, sued for $ 100 million, with telephone threats and constant surveillance," forced a well-known reporter and law-abiding citizen to turn into a homeless person, start a life of an illegal in his hometown. "

In 1994, Luzhkov became the object of intrigue by the head of the presidential Security Service. Alexandra Korzhakova and vice prime minister Oleg Soskovets which culminated in the article in Rossiyskaya Gazeta "Snow is Falling" (November 19) and the military operation "Snout in the Snow" on December 2, 1994, apparently directed against the Most Group of Vladimir Gusinsky, but with the main goal of Luzhkov as the then patron "Mosta".

According to British press reports, the Luzhkov-Baturin family through offshore owns a house in London, it is the second largest after Buckingham Palace(residence of the British Queen). Mansion Purchase Data Whitanhurst(Witanhurst) appeared in July 2008. At the same time, the DailyMail newspaper named the price - $ 100 million. The newspaper reports that "Whitanhurst" is a 90-room mansion in the Highgate area. One of the largest spaces is the 70 sq. M ballroom. feet.

On September 22, 1999, Luzhkov announced that he would sue the German newspaper Bild, claiming that he had bought horses in Germany in the amount of 150,000 DM (as reported by TV presenter Sergei Dorenko in his news and analysis program on ORT ).

In October 1999, he filed a lawsuit for the protection of honor, dignity and business reputation against the Cult of Personalities magazine, ORT and Dorenko, who announced on television, in particular, that Luzhkov's personal fortune, according to the Cult of Individuals magazine, is $ 200-400 million dollars.

On December 3, 1999, the Ostankino inter-municipal court ruled to declare that the statements disseminated in Dorenko's author's program on September 5, September 26 and October 3 are not true; "false, discrediting honor and dignity" were recognized information about the personal condition of Luzhkov, about the acquisition by him of a land plot in Spain and others. The court ordered ORT to compensate the moral damage inflicted on Luzhkov in the amount of 50 thousand rubles, and Dorenko - 100 thousand rubles; ORT and Dorenko are also obliged to refute the information they have disseminated "within a period of no more than a week."

On February 4, 2002, at a meeting of the Moscow government dedicated to the progress of construction in the city, there was a major scandal. After Vladimir Resin's speech, who read out a report on the activities of Moscow builders in 2002, Luzhkov took the floor for a special statement. He submitted several collective letters from residents of new buildings with complaints about the poor quality of housing. Luzhkov said that for now "glorious SU-155" reports on successes, residents of the capital suffer from poor quality of work of builders. He also showed photographs of houses and apartments, from which, in his opinion, this conclusion directly follows. The mayor complained that for the poor work of the builders, Muscovites blame him, the mayor, for all the sins. In response, Resin accused Vice Mayor Valery Shantsev of falsifying photographs. As a result, Yuri Luzhkov decided to create a commission that will deal with the accusations against the builders within five days. According to the results of her work, Luzhkov said, it is possible to appeal to the prosecutor's office. " Your philosophy is making money, we are not on the way with you", - said Luzhkov to Resin.

On August 6, 2002, the management of the largest Latvian newspaper Diena published an appeal to the authorities to deny an entry visa to Luzhkov, whose visit to Riga was slated for September 27-28, 2002. Diena accused him of " Great Russian chauvinism"and argued that he always" contributed to the aggravation of relations between Latvia and Russia ", comparing Latvia with" Cambodia of the times of Pol Pot. " turned out to be enemy number two after the United States. "

On April 9, 2003, the international human rights organization Privacy International, awarded Luzhkov the "Dumb Security" prize of the second degree in the nomination "Blatant stupidity" for his persistent desire to preserve the institution of registration. According to the organization, the residence permit, which is designed to reduce the degree of terrorist threat and crime, does not fulfill its function at all, since the police officers who check it can be bought off, according to the Moscow correspondents of Privacy International, for $ 5- $ 10. (Luzhkov lost first place to the Australian government for an active campaign to restrict freedoms in order to counter terrorism in a country where there has never been a single terrorist attack.)

In the spring of 2004, more and more reports began to appear in the press with reference to "knowledgeable sources" that the Kremlin was advising Luzhkov to voluntarily leave his post and that Putin did not like that " companies controlled by Luzhkov's wife Elena Baturina are making too much profit from the Moscow construction business".

On April 15, 2004, a round table meeting on the problems of preserving the architectural heritage of the 20th century was held at the Moscow Museum of Architecture. Those gathered at it made an open letter to the President of the country and the Mayor of the capital, in which they expressed their protest against the policy of extermination of Moscow architectural monuments. It, in particular, said: "The building policy practiced in Moscow today is inherently criminal, antisocial and anti-state, depriving future generations of Russian citizens of historical memory. The destruction of the architectural past in Moscow has a detrimental effect on Russian cities, which also began to rapidly lose a historically formed image. A total destruction of material evidence of Russia's greatness began. A cultural catastrophe is imminent, with which neither the state nor society should put up with it. "

On November 14, 2007, the Babushkinsky Court of Moscow fully satisfied the claim of Luzhkov, Ph. According to the court ruling, Limonov and Radio Liberty were to pay Luzhkov 500 thousand rubles each as compensation for moral damage. The reason for the lawsuit was the broadcast on Radio Liberty on April 4, 2007, during which Limonov said that "the Moscow courts are controlled by Luzhkov." The court ignored the opinion of an expert from the Institute of the Russian Language Irina Levontina, who said that Limonov's phrase that offended Luzhkov did not mean that the mayor had committed "illegal and immoral actions", but only characterizes the state of the judicial system in the capital.

Limonov appealed against the decision of the Babushkinsky court in the Moscow City Court, but posted a statement on the NBP website: " Since the Moscow courts are by no means under the control of the mayor of Moscow, I expect that the Moscow City Court in the coming month will uphold the decision of the Babushkinsky Court, obliging me to pay the mayor 500 thousand rubles for his honor and dignity. As a poor person, I am already starting to collect small change and ask citizens to support me, help me pay Luzhkov the amount he has awarded. Bring your unnecessary coins, preferably copper".

On May 11, 2008, speaking in Sevastopol at the celebration of the 225th anniversary of the Black Sea Fleet, he once again stated that Sevastopol had never been transferred to Ukraine and that the issue of it remained unresolved (" We will decide it in favor of those state positions and the state law that Russia has in relation to its naval base - Sevastopol)... He also announced his intention to propose to the Russian authorities not to renew in 2008 the agreement on friendship between the Russian Federation and Ukraine signed in 1997.

In response to these statements, on May 12, 2008, the Security Service of Ukraine declared Luzhkov persona non grata and imposed an indefinite ban on his entry into the country.

On June 3, 2008, Luzhkov signed a decree of the Moscow government on renaming the Bitsevsky Park metro station into "Novoyasenevskaya", and "Business Center" - in "Exhibition"... The decision caused bewilderment among many Muscovites, because the city and metro authorities stubbornly refused to rename the station named after the Bolshevik killer. Voikovskaya, referring to the high cost of the event, and then suddenly found money for two stations with neutral names, leaving Voikov's memory alone. Also in Moscow there were streets of Menzhinsky, Kibalchich, Andropov, Leninsky Prospekt and so on.

On July 1, 2008, speaking at a meeting of the Moscow government, where the target program for the implementation of state policy towards compatriots abroad for 2009-2011 was discussed, he called not to extend the agreement on friendship and cooperation between Russia and Ukraine (signed in 1998 for 10 years ). " I experience an intellectual blow when I see what is happening in Ukraine in relation to Russia and the Russian language"- he explained. According to Luzhkov, in Crimea, Russian language teachers receive less salary than other teachers, and in Ukraine, TV shows in Russian without subtitles are prohibited:" This is the policy of the Ukrainian authorities to squeeze out the Russian language, when the entire left bank and Crimea thinks and speaks Russian".

In July 2008, Luzhkov held a Public Town Planning Council, at which the fate of Provision warehouses at the corner of Ostozhenka and the Garden Ring. They had to be "restored" so that, in the opinion of many, the architectural monument would actually perish. Luzhkov referred to the examples of Gostiny Dvor and Tsaritsyn, asking if their reconstruction had been badly done. "Bad", - there were single voices from the audience. Luzhkov replied that the people like it and that "the voice of the people is the voice of God." "We will not adjust the architecture of the city for you alone," he said, addressing the objector.

On October 9, 2008, Vedomosti wrote that during the post-Soviet years in Moscow, about 400 historic buildings, of which 80 are architectural monuments.

On October 22, 2008, the Basmanny Court partially satisfied Luzhkov's claim against Alexander Lebedev and GQ magazine for the protection of honor and dignity and business reputation. Lebedev and the magazine had to pay Luzhkov 50 thousand rubles each. The reason for the proceedings was Lebedev's interview published in the magazine, taken and Ksenia Sokolova... When asked who could spread rumors about Putin's personal life in the Moscow Correspondent newspaper (allegedly Putin abandons his wife and goes to a gymnast and a deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Alina Kabaeva), Lebedev suggested that it could be "Yu. M. Luzhkov". During the trial, Lebedev argued that he had in mind not a specific mayor of the capital, Yuri Mikhailovich Luzhkov, but simply "a certain Yu. M. Luzhkov, of whom there are quite a few in the country," but the court sided with the mayor. This was the fourth lawsuit since 2003 for the protection of honor and dignity, which Lebedev lost to Luzhkov.

In November 2009, Luzhkov won an honor and dignity case against the politician and the Kommersant publishing house. It was reported that a million rubles would be recovered from the defendants by a court decision. In addition, the publication and Nemtsov will be obliged to refute the information published in the politician's interview with the newspaper and his report. "Luzhkov. Results".

Biography

Yuri Mikhailovich Luzhkov was born on September 21, 1936 in Moscow in the family of a carpenter. In 1958, Luzhkov graduated from the Moscow Institute of Oil and Gas and Chemical Industry named after Gubkin. During his studies, he worked as a janitor, and as part of a student detachment he traveled to virgin lands. In the fifth year, Luzhkov married for the first time - to his classmate Marina Bashilova.

From 1958 to 1963, Luzhkov worked in distribution at the Scientific Research Institute of Plastics, in 1964 he went to work at the Ministry of the Chemical Industry of the USSR, where until 1974 he was the head of the department. In 1968, Luzhkov joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, remained its member until 1991.

From 1974 to 1980, Luzhkov was director of the experimental design bureau for automation at the Ministry of Chemical Industry. In 1980 he was appointed general director of the research and production association "Neftekhimavtomatika", after which he returned to the ministry. From 1986 to 1987, Luzhkov was the head of the department for science and technology and a member of the ministerial collegium.

In 1975, Luzhkov was elected People's Deputy of the Babushkinsky District Council of Moscow, and from 1977 to 1990 he was a Deputy of the Moscow City Council. Luzhkov was also elected a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR of the 11th convocation (from 1987 to 1990). In 1987, he moved from the ministry to the city executive authorities, became the first deputy chairman of the Moscow City Executive Committee and the chairman of the Moscow City Agro-Industrial Committee. Since 1987, Luzhkov headed the city commission for cooperative and self-employment.

From 1990 to 1991, Luzhkov was the chairman of the Moscow City Executive Committee. In June 1991, Gavriil Popov and Luzhkov ran for mayor and vice-mayor. Luzhkov held the post of vice mayor from 1991 to 1992. In July 1991, he became prime minister of the Moscow city government formed on the basis of the Moscow City Executive Committee.

In August 1991, Luzhkov was one of the organizers of the defense of the White House. On August 24, 1991, he was appointed one of the deputy chairmen of the Committee for Operational Management of the National Economy of the USSR, created to replace the Union Council of Ministers and subsequently disbanded during the liquidation of the USSR in December.

In June 1992, after Popov's resignation, by decree of President Boris Yeltsin, Luzhkov was appointed mayor of Moscow. Subsequently, he was elected to this post in 1996, 1999 and 2003.

Since 1993, Luzhkov has actively advocated the establishment of compulsory registration of visitors in Moscow. He launched large-scale construction in the city, including the demolition of dilapidated housing ("Khrushchev" five-story buildings) and the construction of a new one, the construction of the Third Transport Ring, the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, a shopping complex on Manezhnaya Square and other facilities, the demolition of a number of hotels in the center of the capital, the construction of a business center Moscow City.

In 1998, Luzhkov created the Otechestvo social and political organization and announced his intention to run for president. In 1999, Fatherland merged with the All Russia bloc. The new OVR bloc, headed by Yevgeny Primakov, took third place in the 1999 parliamentary elections. Subsequently, the OVR merged with the pro-Putin Unity bloc into a new organization, United Russia.

In February 1999, by decree of Luzhkov, the Moscow Oil Company (MNK) was established on the basis of the Central Fuel Company (TsTK), which was controlled by the Moscow government and was designed to provide the capital with oil products. In 2003, it was transformed into OJSC Moscow Oil and Gas Company (MNGK), in which the mayor took over as chairman of the board of directors.

Luzhkov's independence in decision-making caused dissatisfaction in the Kremlin, and in 2005 observers began to talk about the beginning of the expulsion of the mayor's team from Moscow. Nevertheless, in June 2007, Putin submitted Luzhkov's candidacy to the Moscow City Duma for approval for a fifth term, and on June 27, deputies confirmed Luzhkov's powers as mayor of the capital. On July 6, 2007, Luzhkov officially took office for the fifth time.

In October 2007, Luzhkov headed the regional list of candidates for deputies from United Russia in Moscow in the elections to the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the fifth convocation. After the victory of the party, he, as expected, gave up his deputy mandate.

Awards

Russian awards:

• Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 1st degree (September 21, 2006) - for an outstanding contribution to the strengthening of Russian statehood and the socio-economic development of the city
• Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II degree (November 14, 1995) - for services to the state, great personal contribution to the implementation of reforms aimed at restructuring the city's economy, successful work on the reconstruction of the historical center of the capital, the revival of churches, the construction of the Victory memorial complex on Poklonnaya Hill
• Order of Merit for the Fatherland, III degree
• Order "For Military Merit" (October 1, 2003) - for a great personal contribution to increasing the combat readiness of troops and ensuring the defense capability of the Russian Federation
• Order of Honor (August 19, 2000) - for a great contribution to the preservation and restoration of cultural and architectural monuments of the city of Moscow
• Medal "Defender of Free Russia" (November 9, 1993) - for the fulfillment of civic duty in the defense of democracy and the constitutional order on August 19-21, 1991
• Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow"
• Medal "In Commemoration of the 300th Anniversary of St. Petersburg"

Soviet awards:

• The order of Lenin
• Order of the Red Banner of Labor
• Medal "For Strengthening the Combat Commonwealth"

Russian regions awards:

• Order named after Akhmat Kadyrov (2006, Chechen Republic)
• Medal "For Services to the Chechen Republic" (2005)
• Order of the Republic (2001, Tuva) - for many years of fruitful cooperation and great personal contribution to the socio-economic development of the republic
• Medal "60 years of the formation of the Kaliningrad region" (2006)

Foreign awards:

• Order of Saint Mesrop Mashtots (Armenia)
• Order of Friendship of Peoples (Belarus, February 16, 2005) - for a great personal contribution to strengthening economic, scientific, technical and cultural ties between the Republic of Belarus and the city of Moscow of the Russian Federation
• Order of Francis Skaryna (Belarus)
• Francisk Skaryna Medal (Belarus, September 19, 1996) - for a significant contribution to strengthening friendly relations between the Republic of Belarus and the Russian Federation
• Jubilee medal "Tynga 50 zhyl" ("50 years of virgin lands") (Kazakhstan)
• Medal "Astana" (Kazakhstan)
• Order "Danaker" (Kyrgyzstan, February 27, 2006) - for a significant contribution to the strengthening of friendship and cooperation, the development of trade and economic relations between the Kyrgyz Republic and the Russian Federation
• Order of Yaroslav the Wise, V degree (Ukraine, January 23, 2004) - for a significant personal contribution to the development of cooperation between Ukraine and the Russian Federation
• Order of the North Star (Mongolia)
• Order of the Lebanese Cedar
• Bavarian Order of Merit (FRG)

Religious Organizations Awards:

• Order of the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Grand Duke Vladimir I degree (November 1993) - for participation in the restoration of the Cathedral of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God on Red Square
• Order of St. Sergius of Radonezh I degree (ROC)
• Order of the Holy Blessed Prince Daniel of Moscow, I degree (ROC)
• Order of the Holy Blessed Grand Duke Demetrius of the Donskoy I degree (ROC)
• Order of St. Innocent Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna I degree (ROC, 2009)
• Order of the Reverend Andrei Rublev, I degree (ROC, 2009)
• Order of St. Macarius, Metropolitan of Moscow II degree (ROC)
• Order of St. Sava I degree (Serbian Orthodox Church)
• Order "Al-Fakhr" (Order of Honor) (Council of Muftis of Russia)

Departmental awards:

• Medal of Anatoly Koni (Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation)
• Gold medal of the Ministry of Agriculture of Russia "For contribution to the development of the agro-industrial complex of Russia"
• Medal "To the Participant of Emergency Humanitarian Operations" (EMERCOM of Russia)
• Olympic Order (IOC, 1998)
• Medal "100 years of trade unions" (FNPR)

Public awards:

• International Leonardo Prize 1996
• Badge of honor (order) "Sports Glory of Russia" I degree (editorial office of the newspaper "Komsomolskaya Pravda" and the board of the Russian Olympic Committee, November 2002) - for organizing the mass construction of sports facilities in Moscow

Awards and honorary titles

• Three thanks of the President of Russia
• USSR State Prize Laureate
• Laureate of the State Prize of Russia
• Laureate of the State Peace and Progress Prize of the First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan
• Laureate of the Prize of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia
• "Honored Chemist of the Russian Federation"
• "Honored Builder of the Russian Federation"
• "Honored Worker of Railway Transport"
• Honorary Citizen of Yerevan (2002)
• Honorary Citizen of Tiraspol
• Honorary Citizen of Chisinau

• Yuri Mikhailovich Luzhkov owns the rights to use many inventions. He has over a hundred patents.

1. A device for extracting gel-like concentrate in the processing of hydrocarbon oils
2. Plant for desalination of salt water and the method of desalination of salt water using the plant
3. Installation for ozonization of water and the method of ozonization of water
4. Means and method of protecting non-metallic materials from biodegradation
5. Method of photo disinfection of water
6. Method for producing aluminum chloride
7. Method of obtaining filtering material and filtering fibrous material
8. The method of obtaining hydrochloride 5-aminolevulinic (5-amino-4-oxopentanoic) acid
9. Method of analysis of multicomponent gas mixtures
10. Sorption gamma-resonance detector
11. Multifunctional polynomial gas filter
12. Quaternized phthalocyanines and method of photodecontamination of water
13. Catalyst for air purification from carbon monoxide
14. Installation of cultivation of baker's yeast
15. Method of production of sbitn
16. Method for the production of a drink from curd whey "Alena"
17. Method for the production of fruit drinks
18. Method for the production of honey drink
19. Method for the production of kvass or fermented drinks from grain raw materials
20. Method of obtaining food biologically active product of yeast processing
21. Consortium of microorganisms propionibacterium shermanii, streptococcus thermophilus, acetobacter aceti, used for the preparation of fermented milk products, and a method for the production of fermented milk product

• An auction was held at the Rossiyskaya Gazeta New Year's party on December 24, 2007, during which Yuri Luzhkov's silver cap was sold for one million dollars. The cap was acquired by Andrey Pankovsky, First Deputy General Director of DSK-1.
• On May 12, 2008, Yuriy Luzhkov was declared "persona non grata" on the territory of Ukraine for his anti-Ukrainian statements.
• In June 2008, the issue of declaring him "persona non grata" on the territory of Georgia for anti-Georgian statements was considered.
• In May 2009, the Ukrainian Security Service declared Luzhkov "persona non grata" because of his statements at the 225th anniversary of the Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol, which were regarded by the Ukrainian authorities as provocative.
• Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov lives in the Moscow region (in the Molodyonovo residence on the Rublevo-Uspenskoe highway, 20 km from the Moscow Ring Road).
• In 2006, Luzhkov demanded that the artists provide information on the performance of songs to the soundtrack.
• Since 2003, Luzhkov, together with his wife Elena Baturina, regularly visit the UPDK golf club of the Russian Foreign Ministry in Nakhabino near Moscow

Family friend, billionaire Yuri Gekht tells

- says family friend, billionaire Yuri Gekht

Why are they not bringing criminal cases against Luzhkov? - Vladimir PUTIN was asked at one of the recent press conferences.

It's too early. And why do you think that there is nothing according to Luzhkov? - the president answered slyly ...

The trial of the ex-mayor of Moscow and his sly @ ooi Millions of people are looking forward to being a spouse. And among them, of course, Yuri GEKHT - a friend of youth and a former accomplice of Yuri Mikhailovich, and now - his implacable enemy. Once Hecht was a member of the Supreme Economic Council under the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation and a big bourgeoisie. And now he is a simple Israeli pensioner and, in fact, is a criminal wanted by Interpol.

On the eve of Elena Nikolaevna's jubilee (on March 8 she will hit "fifty dollars") Yuri Gekht visited the special correspondent "Express Gazette" on the Promised Land.

I have always defended Luzhkova, - says Yuri Georgievich... - Even in 1993, when angry deputies wanted to remove him from the post of mayor. The capital was then writhing in mud and poverty! At a meeting of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, I managed to beat off Luzhkov. In fact, he is a strong business executive. In everything that happened to him later, the mother boor is to blame Elena Baturina... Previous wife - Marina Bashilova, the daughter of the first deputy minister of the chemical industry of the USSR, - created Luzhkova. And this matron made Yura the founder of corruption in Russia! For example, I was personally present when Luzhkov bought land in Sochi for a pittance ...

Baturina's parents worked as machine operators at the Frezer plant, and her father was a real alcoholic. Elena, too, after school did not go to the university, but to the machine. Then, only with a sin in half I graduated from the evening department. I studied and got into the Moscow City Executive Committee for the "bread place" - the commission for cooperative activities. As Luzhkov said, he drove there on some business. We met. Elena was even less attractive than she is now, although she was a quarter of a century younger. But she clung to Yura with an iron grip!

According to Hechta having come to power, Luzhkov made him his confidant. Out of gratitude to an old friend, he had to grit his teeth and endure communication with his eccentric wife.

Betrayal

I not only entered the house, but also personally arranged for Baturina in the best Moscow maternity hospital named after Grauerman! - recalls Hecht... - By virtue of her already non-young age, she was terribly afraid of the first birth. A week later, I gave Elena a watch for $ 300 - then it was a decent amount - as a presentation for a newborn. Baturina never tried on such elegant little things: she wore a watch like a child. In those years, there were no imported goods in stores, and I often traveled abroad. Baturina dressed girls and shoes. I kept in touch with Luzhkov's children from a previous marriage. And Elena did not let them on the threshold. The younger Alexander could still come to work for his dad, and the elder Mikhail was afraid. Elena suited her husband like that! Misha was very upset by his father's betrayal. I started drinking. Of course, Luzhkov did not like this. (The son, by the way, worked in the gas industry, and as soon as Luzhkov was removed, he was also asked.)

It was Hecht, according to him, who persuaded Luzhkov to start competitive investment in the capital's real estate.

Luzhkov, having become mayor, did not know what to do, - assures Gecht. - There is no money, devastation, but the city needs to be rebuilt. In June 1992, in the midst of the all-consuming Gaidar reform, I proposed to him the idea of ​​private investment in construction. Yura doubted: “Who will go? Such a risk! " I say: "Me!" And he was the first to take part in the competition for investment in the construction of two prestigious buildings in the capital.

Yuri Gekht proudly calls himself a "hereditary wallet" - since 1740 his ancestors were engaged in the production of paper. In the restructuring he was lucky:

The Ministry of Forestry, Pulp and Paper Industry decided to unite the most backward enterprises in the industry, which did not feed themselves. And I was appointed CEO of Sokolniki Production Association. It also included the Serpukhov paper mill. In 1987 I rented it, and in 1989 the association was privatized. The ministry allowed me, as a director, to receive 49 percent of the shares, the rest remained with the collective. But then the privatization of Chubais began, and all and sundry right on the streets began to buy up shares from the workers. By decision of the general meeting, people did not sell to outsiders, but entrusted me to buy out the remaining shares. Since then, I have often heard a whisper behind my back: "The first Soviet billionaire is coming." But I could not even touch this money, I never used the dividends - I directed everything to the development of production. Now the enterprise has been destroyed, more than a thousand people have been dismissed. Only one paper mill in Vladimir is operating, and the Serpukhov plant was captured by raiders ...

Sperm

Luzhkov was afraid of his wife like fire, - says Yuri Georgievich... - He pulled me home every Saturday. Somehow we are sitting with them with Tsereteli... It's about midnight, and he won't let us go. We understand that another scandal is brewing. Elena comes out in a hastily wrapped dressing gown and says: "It's time to sleep!" Yuri doesn't react. Then she comes up, takes off her slippers and will give him ka-a-ak on his bald head!

And what did you do at the Queen's reception in 2004 in London? Just came to power Tony Blair... All gathered, we are sitting - we are waiting for Baturina. Yuri runs, gets nervous. Finally Elena walks into the hotel with a racket. Luzhkov: "Lena, the queen is waiting for us!" - "Nothing, wait." Seven minutes later, Yuri, in red spots, jumps out into the hall: "Let's go without her!"

In the USA, in a shopping center, Elena suddenly shouted at Luzhkov so loudly that the entire delegation burned out with shame. And in Munich she went to a horse farm. There she was presented with the sperm of one of the best stallions. In the hotel, she immediately hid the priceless flask, and when she began to collect things for departure, she could not find it. City Hall employee Vladimir Lebedev offered to check her suitcase, but she got mad and gave the young man a few slaps in the face. In Moscow, after checking customs, we decided to see if all the things were in place, and found a flask with sperm in her suitcase!

Hamka

A serious conflict with Baturina near Hecht occurred in 2004 in the office of the first deputy mayor Vladimir Resin who oversaw the construction.

There I learned: Lena wanted three old residential buildings near the Arbatskaya metro station, which belonged to me. (Now owns them Telman Ismailov.) I wanted to build a hotel on this land. I evicted 240 families, personally talked to each tenant - not a single complaint was received against me. Invested $ 23 million in the facility. But after the default he could not start construction in any way. Understood: there is a formal reason to find fault, Lena will not back down. I agreed to sign an agreement on the transfer of objects, but only on condition of payment of compensation: "Lena, return what you spent!" But she told Resin: "Let his friend Luzhkov compensate him." I broke down and hit the table with my fist: "You're just a village boor!" Luzhkov first tried to help me out. But Baturina stood her ground. As a result, she brought contracts for the purchase of all objects, and the amount of compensation was 50 thousand rubles! Realizing that I would not sign, he and Resin offered me three dilapidated buildings on the Arbat: garbage dumps, bought up by Caucasians, which need to be resettled. Even $ 150 million would not have been enough for me! I came to Resin and said: "Am I going to resettle all of Moscow at my own expense?" He said that I would not sign the contract until it stated that the eviction was carried out at the expense of Moscow. But Luzhkov betrayed me and did not sign.

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In 2004, Hecht had severe kidney problems, and he decided to receive medical treatment in Israel.

And shortly before leaving, three people close to Luzhkov warned that an attempt was being prepared on my life - says Yuri Georgievich... - The vice-mayor was the first to summon Joseph Ordzhonikidze- he oversaw the hotel and gambling business. I started talking about some nonsense. I told him: "Did you call me for this?" Suddenly he gets up from his chair and whispers: "Yura, leave immediately, I beg you!"

Events were not long in coming. First, Hecht had an accident: a truck blocked the road to his car. Hecht and the driver miraculously survived:

Soon I was accused of kidnapping a man, a certain Vladimir Baryshnikov-Kuparenko, who was supposed to deliver German equipment to my factory, but deceived: the equipment did not arrive on time. I kicked this Baryshnikov in the face and threatened to terminate the contract and recover the amount paid to him and damages. This scoundrel saw on my desk the Kompromat.RU magazine, in the creation of which I participated. The latest issue described in detail how Baturina received land plots for construction without a tender and how budget funds were transferred through Mosbusinessbank and the Bank of Moscow to finance her ventures. Baryshnikov decided to use my conflict with Baturina and went to see her with this magazine. Elena immediately bought the entire circulation, and they developed a scheme to remove me from the market.

According to Gecht, the operation was supervised by the former head of the Moscow police, Colonel-General Vladimir Pronin.

Baryshnikov staged his abduction, - explains Yuri Georgievich, - allegedly carried out on my order. He imitated an escape from my office, where the abductors allegedly locked him up on Saturday and Sunday, and he went into the toilet, climbed out the window and took a taxi to the Moscow mayor's office, and then turned to the law enforcement agencies with a statement. On the basis of this nonsense, athletes were arrested, with whom they saw me in a restaurant in the evening after the competition - I was in charge of sports in Serpukhov. They were made perpetrators of this pseudo-abduction. They were given for eight years. I did my best to get them out. For a huge bribe, they were released two years later.

After a successful kidney transplant operation, Yuri Georgievich found hope to return to Russia.

I'm not hiding, says the exile. - I correspond with Interpol, and everyone is “looking for” me. I was denied a Russian pension, a Russian international passport, despite a court confirmation that I am a citizen of Russia. Through Telman Ismailov, Baturina took all my property. Since then, I have not communicated with Luzhkov - it is useless: he, in fact, became her hostage. But I must return to Russia to prove my innocence. The only thing I ask of the president Putin and the premiere Medvedev- to give me the opportunity to personally participate in the investigation of the criminal case.

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Kremlin explained Putin's decree on Luzhkov by restoring trust ... that giving credit is due to the contribution that has been made Yuri Mikhailovich in the development of the main region of our country - Moscow ", - said Peskov ... of the event. In addition, in Moscow, on the house in which he lived Luzhkov, can install a memorial plaque, and the city authorities will decide whether the University of the Moscow government will be named after him. Luzhkov took the post of mayor of Moscow in 1992. In September 2010 ...

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Yuri Mikhailovich has come a long way, full of multifaceted work, ”the message says. According to Matvienko, Luzhkov managed to "do a lot ... Medvedev and Yuri Luzhkov was not the easiest relationship, "- said Osipov. At the same time, according to him, Medvedev understood that Luzhkov headed Moscow during the most difficult period for the city. “I value the opportunity to put on a cap and dash out”: what was Yuri Luzhkov Yuri Luzhkov was the mayor ... Former press secretary of Yeltsin called Luzhkov an original person ... the Moscow government in 1998-2000, named the ex-mayor of the capital Yuri Luzhkov was a "distinctive and colorful person" with whom it was interesting to communicate ... life and left a bright mark after himself, "concluded Yastrzhembsky. Died Yuri Luzhkov The death of Luzhkov became known earlier, on December 10. Former mayor ... “I was big, difficult and internally free”: as Luzhkov is recalled ... the former mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov... As his colleagues and friends recall, in the RBC review, Russian President Vladimir Putin “ Yuri Mikhailovich Luzhkov was a person truly ... thoughts - with family and friends Yuri Mikhailovich ". “I value the opportunity to put on a cap and dash out”: what was Yuri Luzhkov Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov "He's like ... Maksimovskaya" Yuri Luzhkov, of course, did not fit into any framework, such a wide person. To your Lena (Elena Baturina - RBC) Yuri Luzhkov looked in love ... "I value the opportunity to put on a cap and slip through": what was Yuri Luzhkov The former mayor of Moscow died on December 10, 2019 Yuri Luzhkov... He was 83 years old. He served as mayor for 18 years, and after retirement preferred to call himself a farmer. What was Luzhkov- in the review of RBC Anastasia Antipova Evgenia Kuznetsova Putin called Luzhkov the real mayor ... sent to the family of the former mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov's telegram of condolences, according to the Kremlin's website. 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Yavlinsky expressed condolences in connection with the death of Luzhkov ... in connection with the death of the ex-mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov. Yavlinsky's statement is at the disposal of RBC. " Yuri Luzhkov was a bright and interesting person of the departed ... himself, ”reflected all the peculiarities and contradictions of the time. Yavlinsky noted that Luzhkov"He was always a real public politician" who had sincere supporters of ... reformers ", Medvedev," writes Yavlinsky. “I convey my deepest condolences to family and friends Yuri Mikhailovich, ”concluded Yavlinsky. The death of Luzhkov became known earlier 10 ...

Yuri Luzhkov will be buried at the Novodevichy cemetery ... At the request of the relatives of the former mayor of Moscow, they will be buried at the Novodevichy cemetery Yuri Luzhkov will be buried at the Novodevichy cemetery, reports the Interfax agency with reference ... the post-Soviet period, did a lot for the city and Muscovites, "the mayor wrote. Luzhkov died at the age of 84 in Munich, where he ... documents, as well as in solving the issue of delivering the deceased to his homeland. Luzhkov Yuri Luzhkov led Moscow from June 1992 to September 2010 ... Yevtushenkov spoke about friendship with Luzhkov ... Yevtushenkov, in a conversation with RBC, said that the ex-mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov, who died at the age of 83, was a very ... class for him, which we now call Russian businessmen, "Yevtushenkov noted. Died Yuri Luzhkov He met Luzhkov in the 1980s. Yevtushenkov before ... headed the Moscow City Executive Committee. In 2012, after resigning from the post of mayor Luzhkov joined the board of directors of the United Petrochemical Company, a joint venture of AFK ... Honey, buckwheat, eggs: what production facilities Luzhkov launched in Kaliningrad .... Sheep In 2012, 5 thousand heads of sheep were purchased. Yuri Luzhkov told that he decided to breed them in the region, and noted that ..., rapeseed and, of course, meadow honey, "- said then Luzhkov... Rutin Vitamins from Farmed Buckwheat Luzhkov decided to receive it in 2017. For the production of raw materials ... the production of mushroom powder, which was supposed to be used as a seasoning. "Honey meadows ... ex-mayor of Moscow died at the age of 84 Yuri Luzhkov... This is reported by "Interfax", citing a source in his .... I sincerely share the grief that befell the family, ”said the regional governor Anton Alikhanov. Luzhkov served as mayor of Moscow since 1992 and led the city ... I now breed this amazing breed there, "- said then Luzhkov journalists. Yuri Luzhkov was born in Moscow on September 21, 1936. In 1958 ... Sobyanin replaced the head of the Department of Labor and Social Protection of the Moscow Mayor's Office ... of Moscow, which was previously occupied by one of the last ministers of the Moscow government Yuri Luzhkov, Deputy Chief of Staff of Mayor Sergei Sobyanin Yevgeny Struzhak was appointed ... and social protection of the population was occupied by Vladimir Petrosyan, who headed it under the mayor Yuri Luzhkov since 2007. That he will go to ...