The wife and son of ex-mayor of Nizhny Novgorod Oleg Sorokin, whose arrest was extended by a Nizhny Novgorod court for another two months, hastily emigrated from Russia
The family of ex-mayor of Nizhny Novgorod Oleg Sorokin, whose arrest was extended by a Nizhny Novgorod court until May 18, emigrated from Russia. According to Pravda PFO, his wife Elada Nagornaya is now in Europe, where she is allegedly undergoing treatment. Their common son Nikita, a deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Nizhny Novgorod Region from the LDPR, also flew out of the country. In 2017, he never attended committees or plenary meetings, and his reception office stopped registering voters. The speaker of the regional parliament, Evgeny Lebedev, throws up his hands: it is impossible to deprive a truant deputy of his mandate, especially since he sent an official letter saying that he is absent due to health problems. Shareholders who bought apartments in future microdistricts are increasingly expressing fear that their housing will become a long-term construction project. Representatives of the developer, meanwhile, assure that they will fulfill their obligations efficiently and on time.
Nikita Sorokin is the most unusual deputy of the Legislative Assembly. In his early twenties, he joined the LDPR and immediately entered the regional parliament on the party list, ahead of his older party comrades who had been working as political missionaries for more than five years. On the other hand, with a dad like Oleg Sorokin, you can safely run for either the State Duma or PACE.
Nikita Sorokin knows a lot about elections. Photo by Georgy Gross, Pravda Volga Federal District
After his father’s arrest, the young deputy abruptly goes into the shadows, and since January he completely stops attending the OZS. The reception of citizens is also frozen: a sign hangs on the door, but there is no person and, it seems, is not expected in the near future.
“There are no appointments available for either February or March. Why, I don’t know anything, not to me,” the head of his reception desk answers sharply on the phone. Irina Chernigina and, judging by the roar, he throws the phone down with force.
Deputies also do not know whether their colleague will return. Although - not for the microphone - they express understanding and do not condemn absenteeism: disgrace can happen to anyone, especially if you are rich, influential and have several procedural episodes.
“Both under federal laws and under the laws of our region, a deputy is accountable only to his voters. As for attendance at committees and meetings of the Legislative Assembly, a deputy is supposed to do this, although it is not obligatory. Therefore, we cannot make any claims against him, much less deprive him of his mandate,” said the speaker of the OZS of the Nizhny Novgorod region today Evgeny Lebedev. “In this situation, we are just waiting for developments and hope that he will attend the meetings.”
Evgeny Lebedev hopes that Nikita Sorokin will recover and return. Photo by Georgy Gross, Pravda Volga Federal District
The Chairman of Parliament confirmed that on the eve of the February plenum he received from Nikita Sorokin a letter in which he reports that he cannot take part in the work of the community health organization due to illness. This form of notification is a generally accepted practice and fits the definition of “good cause.” Even if the reason given is not true.
“Even if he is abroad today, I can only reproach him for the fact that he wrote about illness, and not about absence from the country, but the presence of a deputy abroad is also not a crime, it is his decision. What can I show him? Say: “You are misleading me. Come and be present with us"? And he will tell me: “I can’t.” In general, this is a sensitive issue, and I would like deputies to be required to attend meetings,” noted Evgeny Lebedev.
According to Pravda Volga Federal District, Nikita Sorokin’s mother also went to Europe. Elada Nagornaya- with his second son. The businesswoman’s mother is also abroad Elena Nagornaya, who at the last court hearing, where the issue of extending the arrest period for her son-in-law was considered, petitioned in absentia for a bail of 50 million rubles to mitigate the preventive measure. The court did not cooperate and extended Oleg Sorokin’s stay in the pre-trial detention center until May 18.
The once prosperous business empire was virtually abandoned by its owners, not counting, of course, the other shareholders of this company. The shareholders who made an advance payment and took out a mortgage, of course, became nervous. After all, we are talking about the construction of two gigantic residential areas, and if construction is stopped, the problem could affect, according to various estimates, about 3 thousand families. However, Stolitsa Nizhny, which actually includes subsidiaries of the development companies, reassures that the situation is under control and Nizhny Novgorod residents have no reason to worry.
“We would like to remind you that Start-Stroy LLC is one of the few Nizhny Novgorod companies that did not suspend their activities and continued construction even during the serious financial crisis of 2008,” representatives of the developer recalled. – One of the founders of Start-Stroy LLC is indeed Elada Nagornaya, but she is not the only founder. In addition, she is not the head of the company, therefore, by law, she is not authorized to make decisions on the operational management of the company. The absence of one of the founders of the company or his family members in the city cannot in any way affect the progress of construction of the residential complex, since the financing of the construction does not depend on the founder. They cannot “quit construction”, since construction is not the responsibility of individuals, but legal entities, whose activities are controlled by supervisory authorities.”
This week an honorary consulate of Hungary opened in Nizhny Novgorod. Elada Nagornaya, a top manager of the Stolitsa Nizhny group of companies, and also the wife of the city mayor Oleg Sorokin, became the honorary consul.
The opening ceremony was attended by the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Hungary to the Russian Federation Jstvan Idyarto, Governor Valery Shantsev, the mayor of the city Oleg Sorokin and the representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Sergei Malov.
Upon arrival at the event, Valery Pavlinovich immediately presented Elada Lvovna with a luxurious bouquet of flowers and wished her success.
We will promote this direction because we want Nizhny Novgorod and the Nizhny Novgorod region to be known throughout the world. This will contribute to the development of business ties, as well as ties in the humanitarian sectors,” noted the governor, who was in excellent spirits.
By the way, a Swedish consulate will soon be opened in Nizhny Novgorod; this will be the ninth such institution in the city. According to the head of the region, a consular patent on the appointment has already been signed general director GAZ Group Bo Inge Andersson for the post of Honorary Consul of Sweden in Nizhny Novgorod.
Fashion houses
and visa-free regime
Ambassador of Hungary Jstvan Idyarto expressed his joy at the opening of the consulate.
My colleagues and I are very glad that Elada Nagornaya is helping us restore very important connections that have been missing for too long. Now it is very important to establish bilateral cultural relations, we very much support this process. It is very important to establish tourist connections.
The representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry in the Nizhny Novgorod region, Sergei Malov, drew the public’s attention to the fact that Elada Lvovna is generally the only woman in such a responsible position.
Elada! “You will definitely become a consul of goodness and beauty,” said Sergei Geraldovich, addressing the hero of the occasion. After which he was happy for the Nizhny Novgorod fashionistas and fashionistas:
Now fashion houses with new European trends will appear in our city. Good luck with that.
At the end of his emotional speech, Mr. Malov confirmed that a direct flight Nizhny Novgorod - Budapest will soon appear.
In connection with the opening of the consulate, it will be easier to obtain a visa to this country, and in the future everything will come down to a visa-free regime.
Elada Lvovna Nagornaya greeted the guests
at the Honorary Consulate of Hungary at all times
popular among men as a Barbie doll
The rhinestones on the first lady's heels spoke
almost more about his mistress,
how official speeches guests
“All so airy...”
Elada Lvovna herself, as befits a socialite, was mostly silent, smiling charmingly at her guests. The guests certainly noticed how carefully the toilet of the first lady of Nizhny was thought out.
The pink dress I’m wearing right now is from the Valentino collection,” Elada Lvovna told reporters from “Cities and Citizens.” - Shoes with rhinestones on heels - from the Prada collection.
The look was complemented by beautiful accessories in the form of small diamond earrings and a watch that matched the color of her dress.
When the men's conversations became completely boring, Oleg Sorokin's wife barely
with noticeable sadness she looked at the expensive, but probably disgusting, gold jewelry
Bonuses and preferences
Recently, the institution of an honorary consulate has become more and more in demand. At the same time, how does the Russian Federation appoint its honorary consuls in foreign countries, and accepts them at his place. According to Chapter III According to the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations of 1963, an honorary consul has a number of bonuses and preferences. Here are just a few of them:
Russia, as the receiving state, is obliged to provide the honorary consul with such protection as may be required in connection with his official position.
The Honorary Consul enjoys immunity from criminal, civil and administrative jurisdiction Russian Federation in relation to his official activities.
The honorary consul cannot be detained or arrested except in the case of prosecution for committing a serious crime or the execution of a court verdict that has entered into legal force.
The Honorary Consul is exempt from all taxes, fees and duties on remuneration and wages which he receives from the sending state for the performance of consular functions.
Since the vehicle of the honorary consul, in accordance with international practice, is considered to be the territory of the consular post, the flag of the sending state can be installed on it, and the use of special registration numbers is also provided (red color, 900 series, special letter series).
Olga BECHTOLD,
Ilya MOROZOV
In 2014 wife of the mayor of Nizhny Novgorod Elada Nagornaya presented the city with a five-meter sculpture of a steel deer. Citizens were skeptical about the donated animal, accusing the lady of pettiness, since it was officially known that in 2013 alone Nagornaya earned 1.7 billion rubles, winning the title of “the richest wife of a Russian official.”
Of course, compared to some of the wives of other mayors of the past, Elada Lvovna nervously smokes on the sidelines. She herself understands this, which is why she shows incredible modesty: the townspeople learned about the wealth of their mayor’s family from the blog of State Duma deputy Dmitry Gudkov, who published the “certificate of income” submitted by the couple to the local parliament.
The townspeople did not like this restraint. At the beginning of this year they began collecting signatures for resignation Mayor Oleg Sorokin. Now the petition addressed to Vladimir Putin has more than 2.7 thousand signatures. City residents suspect the mayor of allegedly being affiliated with him construction companies destroying the city center with almost 800 years of history. And somehow it turns out that not only monuments are destroyed, but also the fates of those who try to resist them.
The figure of Sorokin appeared on the political field in the early 2000s, when Nizhny became the center of the Volga Federal District. “To transfer the city to the metropolitan level, the authorities were interested in very serious participation, as they said in the embassy, of “businesses,” recalls political scientist Viktor Lysov. “On this wave, Stolitsa Nizhny has become one of the partners in various capital projects, and developer Oleg Sorokin has become a potentially significant player in the political and economic market of the city.”
New times of “old Nizhny”
“Old Nizhny” - the historical center with streets lined with merchant estates running away from the Kremlin - has become the front line in the war between citizens and developers. And the majority construction companies, which act on the townspeople like a red rag on a bull, is controlled by the mayor, or rather by his wife: Nagornaya received all her husband’s assets into trust management five years ago.
There is debate about their number. For a year now, a list of “Oleg Sorokin’s 110 companies,” posted by anonymous users, has been wandering around the Internet, which, naturally, should be treated with skepticism, but it doesn’t hurt to check. Nagornaya, according to this unconfirmed information, owns a third, the rest are supposedly the assets of business partners of the mayor and his wife. At least 300 names are mentioned: relatives, local parliamentarians and officials, but bosom partners - businessmen Maxim and Pavel Akatov - are immediately visible. Each is listed as a “co-founder” of these assets at least a dozen times. Another partner, Oleg Golovko (became the general director of Stolitsa Nizhny LLC after Sorokin) is a co-owner of at least a dozen companies.
An idea of what “benefits” a possible business buddy has is given by the income statement of the Sorokin family, which Dmitry Gudkov published online at the end of last year.
Secret Declaration
At the end of 2013, Oleg Sorokin’s income amounted to “only” 168 million rubles. But Elada Nagornaya brought 1 billion 734 million 441 thousand rubles to the family. 1.5 billion of this impressive amount are income from entrepreneurial activity. Judging by the declaration, Nagornaya is a co-founder of 21 companies. These data confirm the SPARK data.
Nagornaya owns a residential building, three apartments, seven garages, 15 land plots, 43 non-residential premises (shops, shopping complexes). In the “transport” section there are 5 “passenger cars” ( on the roads of Nizhny the mayor's wife probably travels in Porsche CayenneS and BMW 750Li, and in its vicinity - on a snowmobile and swamp vehicle). But the most worthy vehicles are the 2012 Bentley Continental GT and Smart Fortwo. registered not in the traffic police of the Nizhny Novgorod region, but in the city of Cannes, in France. Two of Sorokin’s seven “cars” have the same “home port” - the 2006 PorscheCayenne and Mercedes-Benz E 250 CGI.
The Sorokins have two villas in Nice - 262 and 400 square meters each. meters, about which it is modestly said that they are only for use by the mayor. Just like his wife. One could agree with this one hundred percent if, according to extracts from the French real estate register (available to the editors), the owner of the villas was not the 23-year-old son of the Sorokins, Nikita.
There is confirmation of our guesses in open sources. Here, for example, is information about the “manager” of VILLA LA CROIX DES GARDES (Сannes, Boulevard Des Pins, 1) and HEUREUX EPIDAURE (Сannes, Boulevard Bel Horizon, 266).
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Translation: The company was founded on January 20, 2012, is listed in the real estate register under the number SIREN 539 357 871. The company specializes in leasing land plots and other real estate. The General Director of HEUREUX EPIDAURE is Elada Nagornaya, born in 1973.
Registering real estate in the name of a son is a completely logical scheme, given that the law does not oblige officials to declare the income and property of adult children. However, the Sorokin family is not hidden in France. The name of the Nizhny Novgorod mayor appears on the gate of VillalaCroixdesGardes.
House of the Sorokins. Photos provided by employees of the Anti-Corruption Foundation
"We, ordinary residents Nizhny Novgorod“We can probably be proud that we have the richest wife of an official, such a “golden woman,” notes Aleksey Yakimov, a member of the NRO council of the A Just Russia party. - But it doesn’t work. The declarations confirm: the welfare of the Sorokin family is growing at the same time as the budget is becoming poor.”
Declaration of non-accountability
Since 2010, the mayor of Nizhny Novgorod has been elected from among the City Duma deputies - he becomes “candidate No. 1” from United Russia. According to federal law, parliamentarians are not required to report their income at all, but Sorokin’s regional norm still obliges them to do so. As for the spouse of the first person, her declaration can be presented to the public only with her consent. Elada Nagornaya did not give such consent.
Last year, Nizhny Novgorod prosecutor Vladimir Nikonov spoke out against such “freedom”; through his efforts, a bill on the publication of declarations was submitted to the City Duma. The confrontation ended with the legal department of the Duma concluding that Nikonov’s initiative did not comply with federal legislation. The prosecutor's office lost the trials, and soon the fighter for “openness” lost his post.
Unlimited checks
Attempts to get an answer regarding material well-being from Oleg Sorokin himself three times ended in nothing. In 2004, his work as financial director of the Nizhny Novgorod Road Fund was checked by the Ministry of Finance. This story might have been worth forgetting if it had not surfaced in 2015 (but more on that later). In 2013, transactions with the city of companies that were suspected of being affiliated with the mayor’s family were checked by the prosecutor’s office of the Nizhny Novgorod region.
On November 14, a representative announced the next inspection Investigative Committee Russian Federation Vladimir Markin. In the department of the Investigative Committee for the Nizhny Novgorod region, Colonel of Justice Yulia Sklyarova confirmed this information to Novaya, noting that “the timing of the inspection has not been established.” The reason was two land deals “concluded in 2011-2012 by the city administration with the companies Regioninvest52 and "Ingradstroy", affiliated with close relatives of Sorokin,” said General Markin. For several months now, investigators have been studying “the circumstances of the actual participation of the city mayor in the management of commercial organizations.” The prosecutor of the Nizhny Novgorod region asked to check the circumstances under which these companies received the plots back in August 2012.
In March 2013, they even opened a case under Article 165 Part 2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Causing damage by deception or breach of trust.” At the same time, searches were carried out in the companies “Stolitsa Nizhny” and “Start-Stroy”, owned by members of the mayor’s family. It all ended in a bad way: first, prosecutor Kozhevnikov was relieved of his post and transferred to Lipetsk, and in February 2014 the case was closed for lack of corpus delicti.
People in Nizhny are accustomed to checks against the mayor. “Yes, at first people were excited - especially when Markin made a statement. But I have a feeling that the investigative authorities have records of everyone and everything in this country,” suggests political scientist Valentina Buzmakova. “They take them out from time to time, and when the situation changes, they put them back.”
No competitors
In addition to prosecutors, businessmen also got burned by the Sorokin family. Several sad stories taught them not to get into trouble.
In 2010, Zhilstroy-NN won the competition for the development of the site, promising the city 14% of the completed apartments. Nagornaya's company "Start-Stroy" contacts the local OFAS. Antimonopoly officers find violations during the competition - Zhilstroy-NN flies out of the project. The site goes to Start-Stroy, which is building four multi-storey buildings. For some reason, the city did not receive apartments: at least in the public space, nothing to the contrary is known.
Two years later, Ingradstroy (the RF Investigative Committee calls this company close to the mayor’s family - Ed.) receives 453 hectares for development in the Sovetsky district of the city on a lease basis. The results of the competition were disputed by the OFAS by two Moscow companies - ZhBK-Stroy LLC and Vektron CJSC. Entrepreneur Mansur Sadekov comes to the last company with an offer of a 30 million bribe for withdrawing the appeal. They catch him red-handed - Sadekov publicly declares: for a crime under Art. 204 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (commercial bribery) followed Sorokin’s orders. As a result, the mayor was interrogated as a witness, and Sadekov was sent to "Sailor's Silence", releasing only in October 2014 - after paying a fine of 307.2 million rubles. The ill-fated site remained with the Ingradstroy company, whose owners reached the Higher arbitration court, which overturned the decision of the Federal Antimonopoly Service.
The last example is the story of the general director of MFK-Invest LLC, Alexander Bekusov, who entered the construction market with the intention of investing more than 2.5 billion in the economy of the Nizhny Novgorod region, but ended up losing 700 million and serving in a pre-trial detention center for six months.
According to Bekusov, the problems began when MFK-Invest began building housing “at a price half as much as that of its competitors.” In 2011, the entrepreneur was saddled with debts from a company for which he had not worked for two years at that time. Under this pretext, searches were carried out at MFK-Invest LLC: all accounts were arrested and cash was seized. Construction has stopped.
Over the course of six months, the pre-trial detention center opened 125 cases against Bekusov based on statements from shareholders and contractors, who, according to the entrepreneur, “were called to the police to file statements.” The economic amnesty announced in July 2013 saved the day. Her condition is compensation for losses to the victims: Bekusov paid 140 million. The criminal cases were dropped, and upon release, the entrepreneur paid off his debts.
“In Nizhny there is a monopoly of large developers, so the emergence of new companies is not preferable,” concludes Bekusov.
Without “old Nizhny”
Unlike business, city defenders don’t give up so easily. But they have to resist both the authorities and developers. “Since 2010, the destruction of the historical center has proceeded exponentially,” notes Aleksey Yakimov, a member of the NRO council of the A Just Russia party. “In 2013, city defenders fell under a bulldozer almost every day - first on one street, then on another.” A striking example of such resistance is the struggle for the block bounded by Gorky, Novaya and Ilyinskaya streets.
The city’s investment council decided in 2006 to build residential buildings on the territory of a triangle built up with ancient merchant estates. The location is unique - in house number 74 on the street. Gorky, for example, in 1879 there lived Alexey Peshkov. Initially, the entire block came under protection, but gradually the protection zone “shrank” to one house.
The project was implemented within the framework of the national program “Affordable and comfortable housing for Russian citizens”. The scheme turned out to be anecdotal: first, the government of the Nizhny Novgorod region spent 370 million budgetary funds on resettling residential buildings and demolishing dilapidated housing, and then officials auctioned off the cleared site to Regioninvest52 LLC for only 84.3 million rubles.
In 2012, the “national program” aroused the sincere interest of the prosecutor’s office: “supervisors” not only pointed out that such a “price” “does not correlate” with 370 million budget expenditures, but also directly stated: the cost of a site located in the most historical center, they calculated “based on the average market value of new economy-class buildings at the zero stage of construction.” True, this check also bypassed the participants in the scheme - no cases were opened against the officials.
Currently, the “triangle” is being cleared of historical buildings. In January, a bulldozer destroyed the L.A. House. Davydova-Pecherkina.
Belvedere vs bulldozer
A small house with a carved belvedere on Novaya Street, 46a - desperately does not resemble a symbol of struggle. The estate of the Burmistrovy merchants, built in 1890, is notable for its hexagonal turret behind the carved pediment and its extraordinary fate. He owes it to his last owner, pensioner Lidia Aleksandrovna Davydova-Pecherkina, who in the 1970s exchanged a comfortable one-room apartment for two rooms in the same estate with an attic.
Having become the owner of the entire house in the 1990s, Lidia Alexandrovna turned the dilapidated housing into a city landmark. In 2000, the house was given the status of a newly identified cultural heritage site, which, however, was taken away four years later. The house outlived its protector by a year and a half: Lydia Alexandrovna passed away on August 11, 2013, the estate with the carved belvedere died on January 12, 2015. After the death of the pensioner, her distant relatives sold the building to Regioninvest52 LLC, and the developer demolished it.
Moreover, on the very day when activists of the Green World organization handed over to officials from the state security department an application to add the house to the “security register.” Officials did exactly the same thing with the house at 126 Ilyinskaya Street. On March 21, the results of the examination were sent to the department, and the next day it was demolished by the same Regioninvest52.
One address, one name, one offshore
The Investigative Committee names Regioninvest52 LLC as a company affiliated with the mayor. The first person of the city denies these connections, although there are good reasons for such a conclusion.
The legal address of "Regioninvest52" is st. Maxim Gorky, 117. According to SPARK data, at least three companies of Elada Nagornaya are registered at this address: Indor-NN LLC (60% share), Stroyindustriya LLC (60% share), Stroyinvest-52 LLC (share 60%).
There are also connections at the personal level. According to SPARK, the post of director of Regioninvest52 LLC is occupied by Ilya Aleksandrovich Balmusov. And here’s an interesting coincidence: in 2008, it was he who was the director of Horeca-NN LLC, at a time when its co-owners included Oleg Sorokin, Elada Nagornaya, Oleg Golovko and Pavel Akatov (remember these names?). By the way, Balmusov’s predecessor in the post of manager of Horeca-NN LLC was Nagornaya herself - she was the director of the office in 2006.
It is also interesting that Horeca-NN LLC, which connects the director of Regioninvest52 LLC, the mayor, his wife and their main business partners, is registered at the address typical for companies from the “110 list”: st. Belinskogo, 61. Together with Horeka-NN, six active Nagornaya companies are “registered” here: Plaza-Holding LLC (100%), STN-REKLAMA LLC, Bereg LLC (50%), “ Investproject (60%), Sorenta LLC (75%) and Sistema LLC (75%).
Another fairly noticeable connection can be found in the resolution to initiate a criminal case, dated March 26, 2013 (available to the editors). The document states: “Regioninvest52 LLC received the funds deposited as a deposit on December 7, 2011 from Start-Stroy LLC, with which a loan agreement for 84.5 million rubles was concluded under the personal guarantee of one of the founders of Start-Stroy Build" - Golovko O.V."
The cycle of connections ends if you find out who owns Regioninvest52 LLC. According to SPARK, the owner of the company is the Cypriot offshore company WAMILINVESTMENTSLIMITED. Traces from WAMIL lead back to those distant times when the future mayor of Nizhny was responsible for the finances of the regional Dorfond. Through those who now manage WAMIL (and, accordingly, Regioninvest52 LLC), budget millions went abroad.
The control and audit department of the Ministry of Finance came to this conclusion in 2004 - based on the results of an inspection of the Far Eastern Federal District, a criminal case was opened against the future mayor “for the theft of budget funds in the amount of over 500 million rubles and subsequent legalization.” The Far Eastern Federal District made purchases of fuel and materials through dozens of “fly-by-night companies”; as a result, the “total turnover of dubious financial transactions” exceeded 5 billion rubles. Money was “laundered” through Cypriot offshore companies that were directly related to the Cypriot owners of Regioninvest52 LLC.
The Cyprus real estate register states: the director of the company WAMILINVESTMENTSLIMITED is a certain NFNB MRLBYVBU, translated from Greek into Russian - Dina Blaivas. A similar name appears in a letter that Nizhny Novgorod prosecutor Kozhevnikov addressed to Deputy Plenipotentiary Representative of the Volga Federal District Alexey Sukhov in August 2012 (available to the editors):
“The documents for registration were submitted to the Federal Tax Service of Russia by the director of WAMILINVESTMENTSLIMITEDBlavais D.A. (it can be assumed that the last name is obviously indicated incorrectly. - Ed . ), the location of which was not established during the consideration of the appeal.”
The whereabouts of “Novaya,” a native of Nizhny Novgorod born in 1959, was helped to determine the WAMIL director’s Facebook account. This is Cyprus, its capital is Nicosia. According to official biography, Doctor of Medicine, Director of the Speleotherapy Center in Nicosia, graduated from the Gorky Medical Institute and worked in Nizhny Novgorod as a cardiologist. In 1992 she moved to Cyprus.
Photos of the Blaivas spouses from open sources
Dina and her husband Mikhail Blaivas are managers of a number of offshore companies that appear in the criminal case regarding theft from the Road Fund.
In 2013, the Nizhny Novgorod publication Pravda PFO indicated, citing a source in law enforcement agencies: in 2003, during searches, documents were discovered proving that Dina Blaivas “registered a number of companies for Sorokin and Golovko through her office in Nicosia.”
WAMILINVESTMENTSLIMITED shares its legal address with several other companies. Neighbors - SOMONAENTERPRISESLIMITED and CRISANTOHOLDINGLIMITED. The secretary of all three companies is listed as ΜΑΡΙΝΑ ΦΩΤΙΟΥ. And among the “friends” in Facebook networks Dina Blaivas is found to have a certain Marina Fotiou. The Muscovite lives in Cyprus and has been working as an administrator in the law office of Elena Constantinou & Co since April 2010. The office of the company, which has been engaged in “registration and servicing of international companies” since 1994, is located at the same address as WAMIL, SOMONA and CRISANTO.
In a criminal case from 2002, there were a dozen offshore companies through which funds from the Far Eastern Federal District were flowing. Among them are Cypriot residents CHIBO WORLDWIDE LIMITED, RISKRUT ENTERPRISES LIMITED and LECON NOMINEES LIMITED. The director of the first is Nina Blaivas, the secretary is Elena Konstantinova. In the second and third, Konstantinova is again listed as secretary. The ALOA offshore company closes the circle - VERA LIMITED, whose directors are Nina and Mikhail Blaivas.
Strategic loans, general managers, one address and offshore acquaintances - there is reason to think, you will agree. However, the Sorokin family still claims: there is no connection here.
But “Greece has everything.” Or - in Cannes.
P. S. Elada Nagornaya did not respond to the request “ Novaya Gazeta“, and the press service of the mayor of Nizhny Novgorod Oleg Sorokin reported: “The head of the city has repeatedly stated that he does not comment on the activities of law enforcement agencies, because everyone must do their job.” However, we didn’t ask him about this, but about the “family” business.
The wife and son of ex-mayor of Nizhny Novgorod Oleg Sorokin, whose arrest was extended by a Nizhny Novgorod court for another two months, hastily emigrated from Russia
The family of ex-mayor of Nizhny Novgorod Oleg Sorokin, whose arrest was extended by a Nizhny Novgorod court until May 18, emigrated from Russia. According to Pravda PFO, his wife Elada Nagornaya is now in Europe, where she is allegedly undergoing treatment. Their common son Nikita, a deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Nizhny Novgorod Region from the LDPR, also flew out of the country. In 2017, he never attended committees or plenary meetings, and his reception office stopped registering voters. The speaker of the regional parliament, Evgeny Lebedev, throws up his hands: it is impossible to deprive a truant deputy of his mandate, especially since he sent an official letter saying that he is absent due to health problems. Shareholders who bought apartments in future microdistricts are increasingly expressing fear that their housing will become a long-term construction project. Representatives of the developer, meanwhile, assure that they will fulfill their obligations efficiently and on time.
Nikita Sorokin is the most unusual deputy of the Legislative Assembly. In his early twenties, he joined the LDPR and immediately entered the regional parliament on the party list, ahead of his older party comrades who had been working as political missionaries for more than five years. On the other hand, with a dad like Oleg Sorokin, you can safely run for either the State Duma or PACE.
Nikita Sorokin knows a lot about elections
Photo by Georgy Gross, Pravda Volga Federal District
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4. Different and mutually exclusive points of view are allowed. You can create different articles about the same phenomenon. For example, the state of affairs on paper, in reality, in the popular narrative, from the point of view of a certain group of people.
5. Reasoned popular speech always takes precedence over administrative-clerical style.
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The Nizhny Novgorod Encyclopedia is a completely independent project. ENN is funded and supported exclusively by private individuals and developed by activists on a non-profit basis.
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