For eight years he headed the state Rosselkhozbank (RSHB), that is, he led strategic investments in national projects of the agro-industrial complex. Outwardly, his transition to the civil service may seem logical and even correct. Who else, if not a person lending to agricultural production, knows about the real problems of the industry and the mechanisms for their elimination? In this case, the lack of experience in public administration seems to be a drawback that time will correct.
However, Patrushev Jr., for sure, does not leave the bank with his head held high. Everyone in the financial market knows that the size of the loan portfolio of Rosselkhozbank over the past two years has already significantly exceeded the amount of its capital. The debate is only about the scale of this gap - in the range from 700 billion to 1 trillion rubles.
However, in the foreseeable future, we should not know the true state of affairs in the bank with Patrushev's departure - information about problem loans was classified this spring through the 2nd Department of the "K" SEB FSB Department, which carries out counterintelligence support of the country's credit and financial system and Central Bank. The seconded operatives of the Main Directorate for Security and Information Protection of the Bank of Russia are responsible for maintaining complete confidentiality.
Loyal supervision of Rosselkhozbank by the Central Bank, zealously cleaning up the financial sector, has long outraged many bankers. They say that while they are deprived of their licenses for violations of 115-FZ and forced to form huge reserves for loans, where the slightest delay is allowed, the RSHB avoids, in principle, any prescriptions.
["Novaya Gazeta", 05/18/2018, "Patrushev was sent for potatoes": To call Dmitry Patrushev an effective bank top manager would be an exaggeration. Even despite the fact that the bank came under sectoral sanctions due to Ukraine and Crimea in 2014, it went into the red much faster than all other financial structures.
It is known that in 2016 the bank's loss (according to official reports) amounted to almost 59 billion rubles, and a year earlier - almost 70 billion rubles. This, however, did not prevent Dmitry Patrushev from becoming a laureate of the "Banker of the Year" award according to the Association of Russian Banks (ARB).
ARB explained that “despite the difficult macroeconomic conditions and the sanctions imposed on the bank by the United States, Europe and other states, in 2015 the bank significantly expanded financial support for agriculture, demonstrating an increase in the loan portfolio and the volume of new loans at a level that exceeded the market average. indicators". Probably, ARB did not take into account the fact that the bank issued loans to companies of Maxim Khromtsov when determining the winner. Khromtsov is the owner of Misam Investments: it appears in Panama dossier, and in 2012 Nikolai Patrushev, the father of the new minister, sold his share in it to Khromtsov. - Box K.ru]
The State Bank is not only protected from tough regulation, but also filled with money: in the winter, the government once again capitalized Rosselkhozbank. True, the 30 billion rubles allocated from the budget to subsidize interest rates on preferential loans, given the scale of the problems in the bank, are more reminiscent of a blood transfusion procedure for a patient with leukemia.
And even the workers of the Central Bank admit that the patient is seriously ill.
And Patrushev's successor, whoever this person may be, will have an extremely difficult task in the next year and a half: to cover the back of the son of the Security Council secretary, preparing the RSHB for the inevitable "recovery".
It is with this gloomy prospect that the presidential administration and government primarily associate Patrushev's new appointment, jokingly calling him "evacuation."
At first, they actively tried to match Patrushev to the post of chairman of the board of "Gazprom" (which caused concern among a significant part of the elites), then they looked for a place in the renewed Promsvyazbank, which as a result went to another "son" - Petr Fradkov(his father headed the SVR, and earlier the government). Only at the beginning of this spring was Patrushev approved for the position of agricultural minister.
However, even this version of the rotation at first aroused concern in Staraya Square: Patrushev's expressive approach to the implementation of state tasks required insurance. And only at the beginning of May, an elegant solution was found - to appoint to the post of Deputy Prime Minister in charge of the agricultural block, Alexey Gordeev... This experienced official who headed the Ministry of Agriculture back in the days Mikhail Kasyanov, was the author of the current program for the development of the agro-industrial complex. Thanks to the patronage of the former prime minister Viktor Zubkov, who has chaired the board of directors of Gazprom in recent years, Gordeev, together with his colleague Sergey Dankvert(the head of Rosselkhoznadzor) laid the foundation for the industry for many years to come.
In fact, former ministers Skrynnik, Fedorov and Tkachev only followed the vectors drawn by their predecessor.
Dmitry Patrushev will also try not to spoil the furrows, however, under the supervision of Gordeev.
The current minister seems to keep under his direct control subsidizing the interest rate on commercial loans and insurance of the agricultural sector. It is these types of state support that have come to the fore in recent years thanks to the position of Finance Minister Anton Siluanov, who went up in the updated government and became first deputy prime minister.
Experts agree that state support for agriculture will dramatically increase by 2020, since the industry is today considered to be the main driver of the Russian economy.
This is evidenced by the official data of Rosstat: in 2017, the volume of agricultural exports amounted to slightly less than $ 18 billion, which has already significantly exceeded the volume of military-industrial exports ($ 13.4 billion). The seizure of a share in the country's GDP by agriculture is due to the current situation: unlike Rosoboronexport, which is losing profitable contracts due to sanctions pressure, the agro-industrial complex is deepening its penetration into foreign markets every quarter.
And this process seems to be irreversible: the world demand for food, according to forecasts of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (Food and Agriculture Organization), in the next twenty years will increase by 50% with a population growth of 30%. Consequently, the volume of agricultural production will also increase by one and a half times.
Russia in this market, judging by the instructions of the president, should take a special place - by 2025, agricultural exports are planned to be increased to $ 35-40 billion.
So the irony about the future of Patrushev Jr. in the government looks at least inappropriate. It seems that he will have to try on the laurels of the leader of the Russian economy.
Of course, with the right support of Alexei Gordeev, Sergei Dankvert, and most importantly, the father and secretary of the Security Council Nikolai Patrushev, who, contrary to rumors, retained a significant influence on current political processes.
Original of this material© "Interlocutor", 13.02.2018, Photo: RIA "Novosti"
Young, yes, a thug, or "New nobleman" Dmitry Patrushev
Sergey Ezhov
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The head of Rosselkhozbank Dmitry Patrushev may join the board of directors of Russian Railways. The government recommended the candidacy of a hereditary "non-nobleman".
If this appointment happens, then it will become the fourth high appointment in the working biography of the son of Nikolai Patrushev.
The ex-head of the FSB has repeatedly mentioned that he considers himself and his colleagues "new nobles." And these are not only bare words: he also has a piece of paper in confirmation. In 2007, the head of the Russian Imperial House of Romanov, Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna, granted him the title of nobility.
The privileged status extends to Dmitry Patrushev. The Interlocutor figured out what helps him more in moving up the career ladder - outstanding talents or an honorable pedigree.
Invisible prodigy
In 1994, Nikolai Patrushev was transferred from Karelia to Moscow to the post of the head of the FSB's own security. In the same year, his eldest son Dmitry graduated from high school. Five years later, he seems to have received a degree in management from the State University of Management.
I don't remember anyone with that name. He certainly wasn't in our group, - said the club art director Konstantin Mironov, who graduated from the State and Municipal Administration Faculty of the State University of Management in the same year, to the Interlocutor.
The scant biography of Patrushev Jr. does not indicate which faculty he studied at. I contacted dozens of 1999 alumni from all departments. Both with full-time students and with correspondence students.
Unfortunately, I can't help you with anything. I did not study with him and I don’t know anything about him, ”said Natalia Kruzhkova, a graduate of the Faculty of Financial Management.
In total, I received 36 such responses through the social network. There was no person who at least just remembered him. Although he was supposed to be famous at the university: by the time he received his diploma, his father was already the first deputy director of the FSB.
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If we talk about the quality of scientific works, then the Dissernet project has complaints about them. Experts have identified multiple borrowings. But the plagiarism did not prevent Patrushev from defending himself, and his scientific adviser Vladimir Korelin was immediately appointed head of the Federal Property Management Agency for the Leningrad Region. Not so long ago, there was a corruption scandal in his department, but Korelin simply changed his place of work - now he heads the Rosreestr department in St. Petersburg.
Banker with a hole
The young scientist Dmitry Patrushev himself, before joining the Rosselkhozbank, which he has been heading for 8 years, managed to work in the Ministry of Transport and the state bank VTB. The state is also the sole shareholder of Rosselkhozbank.
Run by the economic prodigy, the bank, however, turned out to be extremely ineffective. According to the statements, in 2016 its loss amounted to 58.9 billion rubles. The holes in the RSHB's capital are being patched at the expense of the budget: in the summer of 2017, it was capitalized by 25 billion rubles. This amount was simply contributed to the authorized capital.
Family clan
Andrey Patrushev, the youngest son in the family, worked as an advisor to the head of Rosneft, and was recently appointed chairman of the board of directors of TsentrKaspneftegaz, a joint venture between Gazprom and LUKOIL.
The name of Alexei Patrushev, the son of Nikolai Patrushev's brother, appeared in the Panama Papers. He was a shareholder in the offshore company Misam Investments Ltd.
Former head of an agricultural enterprise, and now a member of the State Duma Committee on Economic Policy, Sergei Kazankov believes that the state is wasting finances:
It would be understandable if we gave this money to those villagers who found themselves in a difficult life situation. Or to farmers who can't pay off loan rates.
According to the audit of the Accounts Chamber, the bank created to support the agro-industrial complex, to the detriment of agricultural work, issued loans for the purchase of elite housing and cars, incl. own employees.
There are also frequent criminal cases against the heads of the bank in the regions. Thus, 13.5 billion rubles were stolen from the RSHB in the Krasnodar Territory. In the Rostov region last year, a theft scheme was revealed, which consisted in the issuance of deliberately bad loans to firms controlled by the bankers themselves.
Well, and quite a fresh case: last week in Lipetsk, a fraud case at a branch of the Rosselkhozbank was brought to court. A group of people, which included bankers, received mortgage loans using forged documents.
But the bank's top managers get off with a slight fright. For example, the ex-head of the Yaroslavl branch, who caused damage worth 350 million rubles, received only 3 years probation. The former director of the Vladimir branch was also given a suspended sentence.
Despite the dismal financial performance and massive corruption, in 2016 Dmitry Patrushev even received the industry award "Banker of the Year". Economist Tatyana Kulikova does not believe in Patrushev's managerial talents.
Whether it's about inefficiency or corruption, the money that the state allocates to support agriculture is lost. They do not reach many farmers. And the selection of recipients is carried out on unobvious grounds, - said Kulikova.
But the money goes to the management of the Rosselkhozbank. According to the last annual report studied by "Interlocutor", 197 key managers of the bank on average, taking into account salaries and bonuses, receive 572 thousand rubles each. per month.
Ripe everywhere
The income of the members of the bank's board, of course, is even higher. For 11 people - 256 million per year. Or 2 million a month for one. As chairman, Patrushev is likely to receive more.
Another line of his income is remuneration from Gazprom. He was also appointed to the board of directors of the monopolist by the state and last year received 25.5 million rubles for this. In total, according to our calculations, Dmitry Patrushev in the service of the state can earn about 30 thousand rubles. in hour. Even more than federal ministers. And unlike civil servants, he is in a more advantageous position, since many restrictions and obligations are not imposed on the head of the state bank.
Dmitry Patrushev also does not publish the declaration in the public domain. Otherwise, it could have an apartment registered in the US state of Illinois in the name of Dmitry Patrushev, which is consonant with the name of our hero.
The "interlocutor" sent a written request to the Rosselkhozbank with a request to confirm or deny whether the head of the state bank really has property in the United States. We have not yet received a refutation from the bank. Interestingly, the young Patrushev, unlike many other heads of state-owned companies and state-owned banks, for some reason was not included in the blacklist recently published by the US Treasury.Rosselkhozbank CEO Dmitry Patrushev will head the Ministry of Agriculture in the new government of Russia. He was nominated by to President Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. Later on the same day, the president signed a decree appointing him head of the Ministry of Agriculture. Previously held this position Alexander Tkachev.
Dossier
Dmitry Nikolaevich Patrushev was born on October 13, 1977 in St. Petersburg. Father - Nikolay Patrushev, former head of the Federal Security Service, now secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation. His mother is a doctor by education. Younger brother Andrey holds the post of Deputy General Director for Development of Offshore Projects - Member of the Management Board of Gazprom Neft PJSC.
Dmitry Patrushev. Photo: RIA Novosti / Alexander Astafiev
Education
In 1999 he graduated from the State University of Management with a degree in management.
In 2002-2004, he studied at the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs with a degree in World Economy.
Doctor of Science, defended his thesis at the St. Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance.
Professional activity
Until 2002, he worked at the Ministry of Transport.
Since 2004, he worked at the Bank for Foreign Trade (since March 1, 2007 - JSC VTB Bank) and in 2007 became its senior vice president.
Since May 2010, he served as Chairman of the Board of Rosselkhozbank, member of the Supervisory Board of JSC Rosselkhozbank.
site- As the son of the Secretary of the Security Council, Dmitry Patrushev conquers strategic state assets in the February 2018 issue of the Sobesebnik magazine.
The head of Rosselkhozbank Dmitry Patrushev may join the board of directors of Russian Railways. The government recommended the candidacy of a hereditary "non-nobleman".
If this appointment happens, then it will become the fourth high appointment in the working biography of the son of Nikolai Patrushev.
The ex-head of the FSB has repeatedly mentioned that he considers himself and his colleagues "new nobles." And these are not only bare words: he also has a piece of paper in confirmation. In 2007, the head of the Russian Imperial House of Romanov, Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna, granted him the title of nobility.
The privileged status also extends to Dmitry Patrushev. The Interlocutor figured out what helps him more in moving up the career ladder - outstanding talents or an honorable pedigree.
Invisible prodigy
In 1994, Nikolai Patrushev was transferred from Karelia to Moscow to the post of the head of the FSB's own security. In the same year, his eldest son Dmitry graduated from high school. Five years later, he seems to have received a degree in management from the State University of Management.
“I don’t remember anyone with that name. He was definitely not in our group, - said the club art director Konstantin Mironov, who graduated from the faculty of state and municipal administration of the State University of Management in the same year, to the Interlocutor.
The scant biography of Patrushev Jr. does not indicate which faculty he studied at. I contacted dozens of 1999 alumni from all departments. Both with full-time students and with correspondence students.
- Unfortunately, I can't help you with anything. I did not study with him and I don’t know anything about him, ”said Natalia Kruzhkova, a graduate of the Faculty of Financial Management.
In total, I received 36 such responses through the social network. There was no person who at least just remembered him. Although he was supposed to be famous at the university: by the time he received his diploma, his father was already the first deputy director of the FSB.
In addition, Dmitry had to be talented as a student. Indeed, in 2003, when his father was already the head of the FSB, he became a candidate of economic sciences. According to statistics, the distance between candidate and doctoral defenses is 13 years on average. Patrushev Jr. finished only five. He became a Doctor of Economics at the age of 31, although the average age of applicants for this degree in Russia is 49 years.
If we talk about the quality of scientific works, then the Dissernet project has complaints about them. Experts have identified multiple borrowings. But the plagiarism did not prevent Patrushev from defending himself, and his scientific adviser Vladimir Korelin was immediately appointed head of the Federal Property Management Agency for the Leningrad Region. Not so long ago, there was a corruption scandal in his department, but Korelin simply changed his place of work - now he heads the Rosreestr department in St. Petersburg.
Banker with a hole
The young scientist Dmitry Patrushev himself, before joining the Rosselkhozbank, which he has been heading for 8 years, managed to work in the Ministry of Transport and the state bank VTB. The state is also the sole shareholder of Rosselkhozbank.
Run by the economic prodigy, the bank, however, turned out to be extremely ineffective. According to the statements, in 2016 its loss amounted to 58.9 billion rubles. The holes in the RSHB's capital are being patched at the expense of the budget: in the summer of 2017, it was capitalized by 25 billion rubles. This amount was simply contributed to the authorized capital.
Family clan
Andrey Patrushev, the youngest son in the family, worked as an advisor to the head of Rosneft, and was recently appointed chairman of the board of directors of TsentrKaspneftegaz, a joint venture between Gazprom and LUKOIL.
The name of Alexei Patrushev, the son of Nikolai Patrushev's brother, appeared in the Panama Papers. He was a shareholder in the offshore company Misam Investments Ltd.
Former head of an agricultural enterprise, and now a member of the State Duma Committee on Economic Policy Sergey Kazankov believes that the state is wasting finances:
- It would be understandable if we gave this money to those villagers who found themselves in a difficult life situation. Or to farmers who can't pay off loan rates.
According to the audit of the Accounts Chamber, the bank created to support the agro-industrial complex, to the detriment of agricultural work, issued loans for the purchase of elite housing and cars, incl. own employees.
There are also frequent criminal cases against the heads of the bank in the regions. Thus, 13.5 billion rubles were stolen from the RSHB in the Krasnodar Territory. In the Rostov region last year, a theft scheme was revealed, which consisted in the issuance of deliberately bad loans to firms controlled by the bankers themselves.
Well, and quite a fresh case: last week in Lipetsk, a fraud case at a branch of the Rosselkhozbank was brought to court. A group of people, which included bankers, received mortgage loans using forged documents.
But the bank's top managers get off with a slight fright. For example, the ex-head of the Yaroslavl branch, who caused damage worth 350 million rubles, received only 3 years probation. The former director of the Vladimir branch was also given a suspended sentence.
Despite the dismal financial performance and massive corruption, in 2016 Dmitry Patrushev even received the industry award "Banker of the Year". Economist Tatyana Kulikova does not believe in Patrushev's managerial talents.
- Whether it is about inefficiency or about corruption, but the money that the state allocates to support agriculture is lost. They do not reach many farmers. And the selection of recipients is carried out on unobvious grounds, - said Kulikova.
But the money goes to the management of the Rosselkhozbank. According to the last annual report studied by "Interlocutor", 197 key managers of the bank on average, taking into account salaries and bonuses, receive 572 thousand rubles each. per month.
Ripe everywhere
The income of the members of the bank's board is naturally even higher. For 11 people - 256 million per year. Or 2 million a month for one. As chairman, Patrushev is likely to receive more.
Another line of his income is remuneration from Gazprom. He was also appointed to the board of directors of the monopolist by the state and last year received 25.5 million rubles for this. In total, according to our calculations, Dmitry Patrushev in the service of the state can earn about 30 thousand rubles. in hour. Even more than federal ministers. And unlike civil servants, he is in a more advantageous position, since many restrictions and obligations are not imposed on the head of the state bank.
Dmitry Patrushev also does not publish the declaration in the public domain. Otherwise, it could have an apartment registered in the US state of Illinois in the name of Dmitry Patrushev, which is consonant with the name of our hero.
The "interlocutor" sent a written request to the Rosselkhozbank with a request to confirm or deny whether the head of the state bank really has property in the United States. We have not yet received a refutation from the bank. Interestingly, the young Patrushev, unlike many other heads of state-owned companies and state-owned banks, for some reason was not included in the blacklist recently published by the US Treasury.
State children
Youngest son of the former head of the presidential administration Sergei Ivanov Sergey- President of ALROSA.
The eldest son of the former prime minister Mikhail Fradkov Petr- General Director of JSC Russian Export Center. Younger son Paul- Deputy Head of the President's Administrative Department.
Son of the ex-director of the Federal Security Service Evgeniya Murova Andrey- Chairman of the Board of JSC FGC UES.
Son of the head of the FSB Alexandra Bortnikova Denis- Senior Vice President of VTB.
The son of the first deputy. Head of Presidential Administration Sergei Kirienko Vladimir- Senior Vice President at Rostelecom.
Minister of Agriculture of Russia since 2018.
The Patrushev family
Dmitry's great-grandfather, Ignatius Patrushev, was from the Arkhangelsk region, from the village of Podomo. Initially, his son also followed the peasant path, but in 1938 he went to serve in the navy and remained there. He took part in the Great Patriotic War, went on the destroyer "Grozyuschiy", then was party organizer and deputy crew commander "Deyatelny". Platon Patrushev entered the reserve with the rank of captain of the 1st rank.
Dmitry's grandmother, Antonina Nikolaevna, studied to be a chemist, but during the wars she served as a nurse, survived the blockade, and after the war she went to work in a construction organization.
Their son Nikolai at first also wanted to connect his life with the navy: he graduated from the shipbuilding faculty of the Leningrad Shipbuilding Institute and for some time worked as an engineer in the design bureau of the university, but this did not last long. After graduating from the institute, Nikolai Patrushev went to the higher courses of the KGB under the Council of Ministers of the USSR and then went to work in the authorities.
The son of a state security officer
By the time Dmitry was born, his father was already working in the counterintelligence unit of the KGB of the USSR in the Leningrad region. Mother, Elena Nikolaevna Ignaschenkova, worked as a doctor, and after perestroika she retrained as businessmen. Her husband remained in the civil service, and she, together with Nikolai Platonovich's classmate, Boris Gryzlov, created LLP "Borg", the company was engaged in the export of scrap metal. Elena Nikolaevna also worked at Vneshtorgbank.
As you can understand, the family was successful, Dmitry and his younger brother Andrei hardly knew what material difficulties were.
Manager and Doctor of Science
After school, the senior entered not just anywhere, but at the State University of Management, which he successfully graduated in 1999 with a diploma in the specialty "manager". In 2004 he graduated from the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs with a degree in World Economy.
In 2003, during his studies - a rare case - Dmitry Nikolaevich defended his Ph.D. thesis at the St. Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance. The work was devoted to the organizational and economic foundations of the development of the process approach in quality management of research organizations.
In 2008, the turn of the doctorate came. At the same university, Dmitry Patrushev defended his dissertation entitled "State and Market Regulators in the Formation and Implementation of Industrial Policy: Based on the Materials of Natural Monopolies of the Fuel and Energy Complex". He received the scientific title of Doctor of Economics at the age of 31.
According to some reports, Dmitry Patrushev also graduated from the FSB Academy in 2006.
Working with study breaks
In the year when Dmitry Patrushev graduated from the State University of Management, his father replaced Vladimir Putin as director of the FSB (since 2008 Nikolai Patrushev is the secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation). Nobody really hides that the high official position of his father could play a positive role in Dmitry's career.
His first place of work was the Ministry of Transport. There, a young managerial specialist worked for three years. And after receiving the second higher, he went to work at Vneshtorgbank, this happened in 2004 (perhaps, the choice of a university and a specialty was precisely connected with plans for a career). In 2006 the financial and credit organization received a new name - "VTB Bank".
Three years later, Dmitry took over as senior vice president of the bank. He was responsible for lending to oil companies /
At Rosselkhozbank
The appointment of Dmitry Patrushev as chairman of the board of Rosselkhozbank in May 2010 came as a complete surprise to analysts. His predecessor, Yuri Trushin, according to experts, actually created a whole system of agricultural lending. They called him a legend and believed that the reasons for his resignation were not directly related to the business.
The decision to appoint Dmitry Patrushev was made by the Supervisory Board of Rosselkhozbank. As stated in the message, Yuri Trushin's powers were terminated ahead of schedule at his request.
Under Dmitry Patrushev, Rosselkhozbank was assisted several times by the state (the bank itself is a state organization, all one hundred percent of its shares belong to Rosimushchestvo). It is believed that Patrushev inherited the bank's problems from his predecessor, and he failed to solve all of them. Nevertheless, the share of problem loans decreased, expensive foreign funding, partly due to sanctions, was replaced by customer deposits. Rosselkhozbank has become more universal, the share of lending to the agro-industrial complex has decreased from 90 to 48 percent. But it has not yet been possible to bring the bank to a stable profit.
Shareholder of Gazprom
In 2016 Dmitry Patrushev joined the Board of Directors of PJSC Gazprom. Since then, he has bought shares in the company several times. He now owns 0.001012524 percent of the company's shares.
Replaced Tkachev
Following the inauguration of Vladimir Putin, who was re-elected as president, the government resigned. Some ministers have retained their posts. However, the leadership of the Ministry of Agriculture has changed.
The appointment of Dmitry Patrushev to the post of head of the department was called one of the most resonant changes. The son of the Secretary of the Security Council was nominated for this post by Dmitry Medvedev, the President approved this appointment on May 18, 2018.
Patrushev replaced Alexander Tkachev, a big supporter of Russian counter-sanctions in the form of a food embargo as a stimulus for the development of the domestic agro-industrial complex and the owner of the agricultural holding “Agrocomplex im. NI Tkachev ”, which during his leadership of the Ministry of Agriculture became one of the five largest owners of agricultural land - this asset has tripled in three years. It was rumored that Tkachev was using his official position to develop the family business. A government commission investigated the conflict of interest and reported in April 2016 that no such conflicts had been found.
Dmitry Patrushev has already outlined the tasks to be solved by his department. This is ensuring food security, increasing exports of agricultural products, increasing economic efficiency and the development of agricultural science.
Personal life
Very little is known about Dmitry Patrushev's personal life. He is married and has a son and daughter. However, in the only declaration available on the network for 2013, the spouse does not appear.
In 2013, the chairman of Rosselkhozbank earned 72,807,780 million rubles. At that time, Patrushev owned two land plots with an area of 1000 and 5745 sq. meters, two large residential buildings, an apartment of 220 square meters, a garage and three objects of "other real estate".
Children of old friends and familiar security officials as a new personnel reserve in Russia
In appointing new ministers, it is possible for a long time (and quite successfully) to look for signs of strengthening or weakening of various groups around Vladimir Putin, their possible losses and gains, but two bright spots are immediately noticeable. The Ministry of Agriculture was headed by Dmitry Patrushev, and the Ministry of Emergency Situations was headed by Yevgeny Zinichev. These two personnel decisions have a lot to say about the policy of appointment of Vladimir Putin, which the president seems to have almost formed.
Dmitry Patrushev is the son of the head of the Security Council Nikolai Patrushev, who for a long time led the FSB and is considered one of the people close to Vladimir Putin. The appointment of Dmitry Patrushev to the Ministry of Agriculture is clear evidence that the president is no longer shy about appointing to top posts on the basis of hereditary principles. Let's make a reservation that we are not talking about professionalism now. Patrushev worked for several years as the head of Rosselkhozbank. It is in the Rosselkhozbank that decisions are made on the issuance of large loans to key players, in theory, the profitability of a project is calculated. If we take the name Patrushev out of brackets, the personnel decision looks more than logical and modern. "The Ministry of Agriculture is headed by the head of the largest agrarian bank" - everything is harmonious, you can't find fault with anything. Such a personnel decision can happen in any country. But in a European country, the director of the largest agrarian bank with state participation is unlikely to be the son of an influential security official, who, moreover, is friendly with the president.
They tried to offer the Russian society and external observers an impersonal formula: a professional from a specialized commercial structure comes to lead the ministry, but as soon as specifics appear in the scheme, it loses its technocratic and harmonious nature.
Dmitry Patrushev Photo: Ekaterina Shtukina / Press Service of the Government of the Russian Federation / TASSThe appointment of Dmitry Patrushev is the culmination and the first public manifestation of the long preparation and promotion of the sons of the Russian aces (among whom there are certainly good fellows) to high and public posts. Prior to that, the offspring of the members of Vladimir Putin's inner circle were vegetating in posts that were not only not important, but non-public and inconspicuous. Rosselkhozbank is a large structure and, perhaps, many high officials would not mind being headed by it, but who, apart from specialists, knows the name of its head? The son of presidential aide Sergei Ivanov (also one of Putin's closest associates) is the president of the ALROSA diamond company. But again, who among the general public is interested in the news of the diamond industry and the names of its top managers? Mikhail Fradkov's son Peter runs Promsvyazbank. The children of other influential security officials in positions in monetary, but not rattling names throughout the country, structures can be listed for quite a long time.
Until today, it was not entirely clear what was hidden behind the assignments on the basis of heredity. Either they prefer to hide the influential sons of even more influential fathers, without sticking out them in public places open to all the winds of criticism, or they are gradually trained and prepared for a smooth exit on the main stage. Judging by the appointment of Dmitry Patrushev to the Ministry of Agriculture, the second option turned out to be closer to reality. The sons begin to go out from behind the curtains to the public, and the Kremlin watches how they receive them. It will work out with Patrushev - we will see the younger Ivanov or Fradkov in the government.
There is one more important detail: fathers can leave (formally Sergei Ivanov Sr. is not the most important post of the president's special envoy for ecology, Mikhail Fradkov is the head of RISS at all - try to remember without Wikipedia that this is the Institute for Strategic Studies), and children continue to move up. The talent pool of the president is first of all like this, and not some finalists of the Leaders of Russia competition.
Evgeny Zinichev Photo: Vitaly Nevar / TASS
The appointments also have one more source - fairly young security officials, whom Vladimir Putin remembered for his work in the FSO. These are the new Minister of Emergency Situations Evgeny Zinichev, the governors of the Tula and Yaroslavl regions Alexey Dyumin and Dmitry Mironov. The future of such security officials at first did not look very certain. On the one hand, it was assumed that the president's guards would run the regions and gain the necessary experience for further promotion: for example, Dyumin has long been tipped as defense minister, and Mironov as interior minister. On the other hand, the FSOs received the management of not the richest and most breakthrough subjects, so their appointment looked like the disbandment of the team of the ex-head of the FSO Viktor Zolotov.
Evgeny Zinichev was also acting governor in Kaliningrad, but he did not work for long - a little more than two months. The security official did not like the public position, he asked the president to leave - and Vladimir Putin listened to the request. As a rule, members of the vertical unquestioningly obey the will of the head of state, who himself determines the area of work for them. Zinichev showed that there are exceptions to this scheme: he soon became deputy head of the FSB, and now he has gone even higher. You cannot call him a professional in emergency situations, but, apparently, for those who are especially close to the body, this is not the most important factor (the same fellow sons at least formally look like professionals). The appointment, taking into account Zinichev's dislike of public activity, looks rather controversial: the Ministry of Emergency Situations under Sergei Shoigu also developed as a PR structure, the head of which loved and knew how to communicate and appear on cameras. The Minister of Emergency Situations needs to communicate with citizens and the press and ex officio, and it is understood that this communication takes place in a crisis environment. But since the position of Yevgeny Zinichev suited him, it means that he imagines how to eliminate the disadvantages from this work, and Vladimir Putin will support this position. "Ask, and it will be done for you." Today we are convinced that Vladimir Putin has a special attitude towards his former guards, who can achieve a lot from the president. These are his "sons" who have proven personal loyalty.
Of course, the appointments of Patrushev and Zinichev can only be further Kremlin personnel searches. It will work out - they can take the experience into service (or, conversely, leave the experiment in a single status), it will not work - it will not work out that way. But at the same time, it is obvious that in his search, Vladimir Putin is ready to go further than before - for the president, the negative that may arise in society after the appointment of sons or security guards to public posts is no longer so important. The Kremlin's experiments themselves are becoming more important than public opinion.