Metelsky deputy of the Moscow City Duma. SocGrad - Territory of life

“Don’t make a cult out of food,” said Ostap Bender, and he was absolutely right. Today in the world there are millions of diets, techniques and technologies for losing weight. People, in all seriousness, scrupulously, down to the last calorie, calculate their portions. Their heads are literally filled with rubbish about when, what and how to eat.

Andrey Metelsky - pediatrician, adolescent psychotherapist, sexologist, gestalt trainer, certified trainer of the INTC center. General psychotherapeutic practice - 20 years.

The fight against excess weight is going on on all fronts, and humanity is losing in this unequal battle. Because he is fighting the wrong thing. And if you figure it out, there’s no need to fight at all. Why? Let's figure it out.

Why are diets popular? Because people themselves don’t want to do anything. They are too lazy to think and realize the problem they are facing. It’s easier to turn to an authority who will take you by the hand and lead you to a “happy future.” There are now millions of applicants for the role of authorities - choose whoever you want, the main thing is to pay.

Our body is designed in such a way that it constantly requires a certain set of proteins, fats, carbohydrates, minerals, and vitamins. When going on a diet, a person, for example, limits himself in fat consumption. He drinks skim milk and kefir, eats only certain foods, etc. The body, which needs fats for life (sorry, this is how nature intended it, and it won’t be possible to deceive it), will panic. As a result, he will try to get fats from anything and put them aside in reserve. This is, of course, a very generalized, but quite working scheme.

It’s the same with all the other elements: as soon as they are missing, the body, against our will, tries to accumulate them in excess, what if there are “hungry” times ahead? The result of any diet will ultimately come down to the fact that sooner or later we will give it up and soon we will get a completely opposite result.

They will object to me, they say, there are vivid examples that, having gone on a diet, people became slim and attractive and subsequently felt great without food restrictions. Such cases do exist, but you may not understand the underlying reason for success. These people became healthier not because they went on a diet, but because they finally paid attention to themselves. Started to love yourself.

The main reason for weight gain is in your head. By solving a hidden psychological problem, we allow the subconscious to give a signal to the body - the difficult situation has been resolved, we can no longer “seize” it, and we lose weight without any effort.

The range of such problems is wide, and often they are completely unobvious. This may be a fear of close contact, in which the organism metaphorically “expands” its presence in the world, protecting the small “I” within. Some people gain weight due to insecurity, trying to become bigger and more impressive. There are many reasons, the main thing is to understand them.

But most often the roots of problems are found in early childhood. My younger son I recently went to school, and I was horrified to discover how many fat children there are in the first grade. How parents should try to make their child look like a barrel by the age of 7!

A child naturally knows how much to eat and when. If he is psychologically healthy and eats as his subconscious tells him, then he will never get fat. In Minsk in the 90s, pediatricians conducted an experiment. We took two groups of two-year-old children, one of them was fed classically (at a certain time and with adjusted dishes), and the second was served a buffet (take what you want, when you want). It turned out that children who ate freely received all the ingredients necessary for full life in their food with amazingly precise accuracy.

Every day, when picking up their children from kindergarten, mothers ask: “What did they feed you?” Like it really matters. At first, for a person, food is just food. Fuel necessary for the life support process. But every day we point out to the child its importance, and, of course, sooner or later he begins to believe in it.

We still live with post-war complexes: bread cannot be thrown away, soup must be eaten to the last drop. And our child crams into himself calories that are completely unnecessary for the body through force.

We feed the children, compensating for their mistakes in parenting, paying off for bedtime stories not read, attention not paid, etc. Coca-Cola, chocolates, chips and hamburgers become an alternative currency for expressing parental love. Only this currency is counterfeit. For his part, the child, noticing that his parents approve when he eats as ordered, begins to subconsciously absorb more and more, hoping for approval.

With the tenacity of maniacs, we try to feed our children according to the schedule. And eventually they get used to it and are less and less able to hear the signals of their body. By the way, it has long been proven that proteins eaten without appetite are not digested into amino acids; the body perceives them as something foreign and eliminates them naturally.

I repeat: you need to eat when you want and as much as you want. The only nuance that does not allow us to live comfortably in this paradigm lies in the word “want”. We must clearly understand what we really want to eat, and not, for example, to get approval, love, solve problems at work, etc.

The global trend of fighting excess weight with the help of diets and weight loss products says only one thing: humanity is increasingly falling into childhood and does not want to be responsible for its actions, its body and its life in general.

I am convinced that the problem of excess weight, like many other “problems” of modern humanity, was created artificially. Over the past ten years, I have watched with interest a funny process in a very popular glamor magazine. First, a series of articles appeared about women’s autumn depression, saying that it was caused by bad weather, the decline of nature, and all that. Soon, patients began to come to me and began to mope.

A couple of years later, articles were published about winter depression associated with a lack of light - there were twice as many “moping” patients. It is quite logical that soon publications appeared about spring depression, which was associated with a lack of vitamins, and summer depression (I don’t even remember why). Clients who were ready to be depressed could now happily remain depressed for a whole year. The same thing happens with articles about obesity and the fight against it. The scheme is very clear: a problem is created, and then ways to solve it are proposed.

When we eat something, the body rewards us with pleasure hormones - endorphins, after all, you did the right thing, supported the vital activity of the body. There is a term “unconscious need”; when it is not satisfied, anxiety arises. Instead of dealing with this anxiety and understanding its causes, we suppress it with light endorphins obtained during the process of eating. At the same time, the need does not disappear anywhere - we eat again and again.

Let me summarize: In order to get rid of excess weight, we do not need diets, but a clear awareness of our needs. This applies to both adults and children. Of course, here it is worth understanding that we are not talking about diets prescribed for medical reasons. There are completely different causes and consequences here.

Nowadays, more and more people are trying to engage in a healthy way life, go to Gym(and that’s great!), they go on diets, but don’t lose weight. Until we satisfy our unconscious needs, until we decide internal tasks, shelved, it will not be possible to fully lose weight and start eating right and healthy.

You can burn off fat mechanically by exerting incredible effort in the gym. But this will be an endless war that will not lead to anything good - the body will sooner or later take revenge for violence against itself. published

When I was asked to write memoirs for the 20th anniversary of the capital’s parliament, I was somehow at a loss: work is like work, what should I remember? And then I thought that becoming a deputy in Moscow is akin to joining the cosmonaut corps: for the entire metropolis, 12 million people, there are only 35 of us. Each deputy was entrusted with 150-250 thousand Muscovites and delegated the right to represent their interests in one of the branches of the capital’s government. So, remembering how you worked becomes no longer a personal desire or reluctance, but a kind of obligation. People need to know what and how you did on their behalf all these years.

It is not easy to remember everything that has been done in 13 years. So I decided to focus on a few questions. First: what struck me most about the capital’s parliament when I started working there? When I came to the Moscow City Duma in 2001, “ recent history parliamentarism" lasted eight years. Much has already been done, a certain way of life and activity of the Duma has emerged. What struck me most, as a military man, was that the Duma has its own Rules of Procedure. It's like the army regulations. It spells out everything: how much time for the report-questions-answers-debate, how to address each other, what statements are possible and which are absolutely not; document flow, time frames for consideration of draft laws, regulations, statements, what is the penalty for violating the rules, etc., etc. And the most important thing is that everyone is strictly guided by the letter of the regulations. This does not mean that no one should have an opinion and cannot express it. No. This means that there are “rules of the game”, an ethic of labor relations, which is voluntarily accepted by everyone and used in practice. I should note that, despite the pluralism of opinions and political disagreements, labor productivity, largely thanks to regulations, has always been and remains high. Over 20 years, the Duma held more than 1,400 meetings, at which more than eight thousand issues were considered and more than seven thousand documents were adopted.

Second question: what do you remember most? If we talk about working on individual legislative acts, then in the Duma it is customary to consider all laws to be equally important and significant. We do not single out “some special” or “most important” documents. And yet I want to talk about the work on the bill banning gambling in the capital. It is very revealing in many ways. Firstly, many laws at the federal level appeared after similar ones in Moscow. AND this document not an exception. We also became pioneers in the field of regulation of the gambling business. Secondly, when working on the law, the Moscow City Duma encountered actively expressed misunderstanding on the part of business. Nevertheless, in 2005, we adopted the Law “On the placement of gambling business facilities on the territory of the city of Moscow”. And lastly, this law does not seem to have a pronounced social orientation, but only regulates business... But we feel the effect of its adoption is colossal. Just think about how many people, thanks to the law, were freed from gambling addiction and did not fall under the influence of this destructive passion... And how many families were saved! How many debts have not been incurred! And even how many lives are saved! So, the fate and lives of people, ordinary Muscovites, depend on every document adopted by the Moscow City Duma.

I cannot help but touch upon one more aspect of the deputy’s work. These are meetings with residents, reception of the population. You understand that people do not come to us because they have a good life. And sometimes in a state of extreme despair. It is difficult to understand and accept that your desire, your need cannot be realized not only due to circumstances, but also due to the fact that it is contrary to the law. Moreover, if earlier people came for clarification of the law, today they are well-versed in law and often turn to the deputy with the secret thought of using his resource to resolve their not entirely legal issue. For example, the area of ​​an apartment is only 40–50 centimeters more than the minimum required for each family member, but you are no longer put on the waiting list for housing. Where's the justice? Today we have to not only explain and act as a psychotherapist, but also, by collecting statistics on gaps in the law, discuss with colleagues the need to amend the legislation of the city and country. To “polish” laws and monitor their enforcement.

And, of course, if I can, I help, turn on the deputy resource, write letters, explain, tell people what they need to do in a given situation.

And one last thing. Journalists often ask the question: “What did working in the Duma give you personally?” At first, the way the question was posed surprised me: I came to the Moscow City Duma not to get something, but to help, create, do, give... Not paying attention to the clumsy wording, I still thought about the essence of the issue. Probably, each of us is given our own path. Walking along it, we learn, we know the world and ourselves, we create and accept something, and refuse and reject something...

It is necessary to stop the chaotic, illegal development of Moscow districts.
In the vast majority of European capitals, nothing has been built for a long time. There people simply live and enjoy all the benefits of a developed, modern city. Green spaces, parks and public gardens, all of this is carefully preserved and maintained.
In the Russian capital, the opposite is true. There is no area where there is not a huge compaction or infill development. Architectural monuments are being demolished, parks and courtyard green spaces are being cut down. Muscovites are already tired of never-ending construction projects, tired of fighting with officials who are selling right and left. land for construction, as if the goal of their life is to build as much as possible and as high as possible. Violations sanitary standards and the rules for developing areas have not been observed for a long time. Anything that interferes with the disbursement of the budget and the receipt of commercial profits is ignored by officials. Officials are accustomed to overstepping the interests of residents with impunity, and this has already led to numerous protests and rallies. Deputies of the Communist Party faction of the Moscow and State Duma barely have time to process voter complaints about illegal construction and logging green spaces. Developers are targeting not only open urban spaces, they are trying to build up courtyard areas, trying to grab any piece of free land under the windows

• 07 July 2019, 23:17

Residents canceled fake public hearings
and held real public hearings at a meeting with a Moscow City Duma deputy!
What to do if officials invite outsiders to public hearings so as not to take into account the opinions of local residents? What to do when officials bring in paid extras and state employees through the back door to approve construction projects in favor of developers? Such public hearings are falsified and it is very rarely possible to cancel them and hold repeated public hearings in compliance with all legal norms. On July 6, in the Otradnoe district, at the address: Dekabristov Street, building 43, Moscow City Duma deputy Nikolai Zubrilin of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation faction listened to residents’ complaints at a meeting with the population. People said that no one invited them to public hearings on the construction of the Shopping Center at 45 Dekabristov Street, none of the local residents present took part in the public hearings. And thus the residents understand that no one is going to take their opinion into account, because... outsiders who do not live in the houses next to which this construction is planned took part in the public hearings. Moscow City Duma deputy Nikolai Zubrilin suggested that residents cancel the results of the fake hearings and hold public hearings, the real ones now, when residents themselves can decide on the feasibility of construction

• 07 July 2019, 23:10

• 01 July 2019, 00:04

• 08 May 2019, 00:03

Transferring children's education to digital form, as provided for by the Moscow Electronic School (MES) project, will be a serious mistake that will lead to very negative consequences. Deputy of the Moscow City Duma Nikolai Zubrilin (Communist Party of the Russian Federation) reported this to a REGNUM correspondent.

“Our students today practically cannot write. I saw how they write: in clumsy handwriting, like a chicken paw. This happens because they write very little; their main material is printed material,” Zubrilin noted.

Instead of switching to Western technologies and standards, Russia should return to traditional domestic system education, the interlocutor is sure.

“Translating school education into electronic form is a serious mistake. This will move the entire educational process away from reality. We already have 80% of the educational process of children and adolescents taking place on the Internet. This alienates them from nature and communication. Apart from being in class until the end of lessons, they have no communication whatsoever. On the street we no longer see “flocks” of children playing there. After school they come home and sit at the computer until late in the evening. Having done their homework, they go to websites, look for some games and entertainment. This has a detrimental effect on children,” said the Moscow City Duma deputy.

According to the deputy, electronic school leads to the fact that a person “will have

Metelsky A.N. – Deputy Chairman of the Moscow City Duma, Head of the United Russia party. Northern Izmailovo, district No. 15 of Moscow. He has many honorary titles and awards, he is an educated, erudite, talented person. All his life, he works hard and helps people. Playing sports. Married, has 2 children. A role model for ordinary people. He earned his entire fortune with his brilliant mind and honest work. Life taught him not to envy and not to count other people's wealth. He is one of several brilliant people of the United Russia party who came up with the idea of ​​​​introducing payments for major repairs. You can’t really live on a small deputy’s salary. And then he had to cooperate with construction companies “Stroykom”, “Intervest”, etc. And build, build. Houses, hotels, complexes. Everything for the people. Why collaborate? Yes, because it is unbecoming for deputies to have so much property. Law is law. And it was necessary to acquire all sorts of useful connections with influential people, and negotiate and convince. Who has it easy now? With such a difficult and difficult life, seeing how tired her beloved son was. His caring mother gave the child the “Oriental Baths” complex. Perhaps for her boy to let off steam there. And there are difficulties in the family. Andrei is very worried that his son never got into the army. But the army turns young men into real men. I wonder if scum are born or made? And is this inherited? Like any person, Andrey also has his own cherished dream. AUSTRIA!!! Excellent choice. Well, this year it probably won’t work out. Because accommodation quotas are allocated only on January 2nd. But buying land and building hotels and complexes there is not a guarantee of obtaining citizenship. He can handle a living wage of 4 thousand euros per person. But the state has not yet earned a profit of 10 million euros per year. And the EU requirements for “newcomers” have become more stringent. Particular attention is paid to people who are mentioned in scandalous articles on the Internet and are suspected of money laundering. So it’s all difficult, bureaucracy, all sorts of problems. But it’s not in vain that he accumulated connections, maybe he’ll come to an agreement. A dream is a dream, but he doesn’t forget his homeland. Well done. In Kaliningrad everyone knows, loves and remembers him. And the mayor, and the prosecutor, and the judges and everything, everything, everything. And there are good friends, in spirit and spirituality. For example, Ruslan Khatsiev. Same good man. Representative of the Chechen Diaspora, activist of the unification of Muslims in Kaliningrad and Kaliningrad region. Very kind, hospitable and caring. He helps his charges in any way he can and works for their benefit. I even applied to the European Court. I wanted to build a mosque in Kaliningrad. Well, in addition to duty to the faithful, we also need to think about our daily bread. The man also works, he tries. Build something, buy something, resell something. He works, he convinces. I don't like collecting gossip. It's all from means mass media. Yes, and there are significant facts. I have one question for this good people. Are you guys Real Men? Will explain. Let's start with the Motherland. Well, you have a lot of things. You can do anything. But life doesn’t always work out the way you want. Well, we have already bought the Marton Palace Hotel. Well, to be honest. Well, leave them alone. A deal is a deal. What are you like girls, excuse me. Immediately run to the elders, stomp your feet and cry and complain. Or like small children. Either turn off the light, or steal some small change. Kindergarten Just. And it’s not manly to write gossip in seedy newspapers that you were offended. You have a good analogue in the village of Lesnoye, Kaliningrad region. Also a Hotel. Nature, air, birds. And your Moscow friends will like it there more. They are tired of big cities and bustle. And there it is quiet and calm. Rest, get some sleep. And promote the World Cup. You will have everything. Although, if you remember the Order of the Red Banner or poor Artur Atakulov, then the questions somehow disappear. You would all go to Austria together and be useful there. Have the courage to be Men, Gentlemen!

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Vlad Smolentsev
HEROES AND MARAUDERS

Deputy of the Moscow City Duma,
Head of the United Russia faction
Deputy A.N.Metelsky
About providing information
Dear Andrey Nikolaevich!
You are a candidate for deputy of the Moscow City Duma and are part of the electoral trio of the United Russia party in these elections. The presence in the top three of the party in power in the elections to the legislative assembly of the capital of Russia is an honorable and responsible mission, the face of the party. That is why, I am sure, you will quickly and convincingly answer a number of questions that have arisen among your voters in connection with some facts of your biography.
A group of Muscovites - veterans of Afghanistan and other military conflicts - approached me. These are honored and respected people who have significant real experience in participating in hostilities for the benefit of Russia and have a large number of state awards. As part of the implementation of the instructions of the President of the Russian Federation, Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Armed Forces V. Putin, over the past few years they have been implementing a set of measures to systematize the provision of state military orders and medals.
From the information provided to me, it follows that the Order of the Red Banner of Battle, one of the highest military awards, was issued in your name. Congratulations, it's a great honor. However, for some reason you pretend that you don’t understand what we’re talking about. Moreover, the other day you stated in the media that “documents are being planted on journalists, from which it follows that I forged award documents for the Order of the Red Banner.” As far as I know, no one has yet accused you personally of falsifying documents. But you must agree - Muscovites have the right to know who they elect as a deputy to the Moscow City Duma. This is also what those who gave many years of their lives to defend the Fatherland want. And in this regard, let me ask you as an officer of an officer:
Have you been awarded the Order of the Red Banner? And if so - for what specific services to the Motherland and the decision of which particular government body?
If you were not awarded this order, on what basis was this order issued in your name, and why is your signature on your award card for receiving this order?
I am sure that during the election campaign you yourself are interested in ensuring that information that casts a shadow on your name is quickly and thoroughly refuted. I would be grateful for a quick response.
I have the honor
Major General of the Reserve, coordinator of the activities of the Moscow City Duma on military issues Yuri POPOV
THE STEAL OF OTHERS' MERIT AND DEVOTIONS - the plot, of course, is not new. There have always been people who like to steal someone else's glory and take credit for their feat. Ancient myths are replete with descriptions of such “false heroes” and their punishment. Even in Russian fairy tales and epics, this plot is far from the most obscure. Well, in our troubled times, the number of “false heroes” and costumed order bearers has generally gone beyond the boundaries of morality and honor.
The latest such scandal erupted last week.
In the leading three candidates for deputies from " United Russia"In Moscow, the deputy chairman of the Moscow City Duma, the leader of the United Russia faction in the Moscow City Duma, Andrei Metelsky, stands out. One of the youngest and most promising leaders of United Russia has an almost impeccable biography.
Born on June 5, 1968 in the city of Kaliningrad. In 1985 he graduated from Leningradskoe Suvorov School, in 1992 - Military Red Banner Institute of the USSR Ministry of Defense. Translator-referent of French and Persian (Dari) languages. In 2002 he became a candidate of philosophical sciences at the Academy of the Border Guard Service of the Russian Federation. Graduated in 2003 Russian Academy civil service under the President Russian Federation majoring in political science. Married, has two children.
Served in the Republic of Afghanistan. In 1987 he was wounded. In 1992 he retired from the Armed Forces. Major of the reserve. For fulfilling his international duty he was awarded orders and medals:
- Order of the Red Star;
- Order of the Republic of Afghanistan "Hero of Afghanistan";
- medal "Internationalist Warrior" from the grateful Afghan people;
- medal "70 years of the USSR Armed Forces";
- Zhukov medal;
- medal "300 years of the Russian Navy";
- medal "850 years of Moscow".
And the word “almost” refers only to one strange detail of his military past. More precisely, to the entry in his personal account card, where just below the line that in 1989 Lieutenant Metelsky was awarded the Order of the Red Star No. 3824183, there is another line from which it follows that the same Lieutenant Metelsky was also awarded the Order of the Red Banner No. 511553 decree of December 19. 1991.
This fact came to light when the award cards of all the recipients were checked, lists were compiled, and their home addresses were clarified. It was then that they noticed that the card of one of the awarded officers contained an order, the number of which clearly did not coincide with the period of awarding. The fact is that orders with such numbers were awarded in the early or mid-50s. The statute did not match either. The Red Banner was awarded only to officers who performed feats that led to serious successes in military operations. The junior officers among those awarded this order in Afghanistan could be counted on one hand.
Upon further inspection, it turned out that the Order of the Red Banner No. 511553 belonged to a completely different person. It was awarded on November 5, 1954 to Ivan Ivanovich Golovko, a front-line officer who went through the war from the first to the last day.
They began to find out who this Metelsky was. It turned out that a respected person in the capital's establishment, who often appears on television screens, is a deputy of the Moscow City Duma, the leader of the Moscow organization of the United Russia party.
He is engaged in a seemingly noble cause - transporting soldiers' obelisks from Afghanistan to Russia. True, so far only one is known for sure, which was once installed on the Afghan-Uzbek border and was handed over with great fanfare to the mother of medical instructor Vitaly Mavrin, who died there in 1982.
Metelsky Afghanistan itself served as a translator. According to him, he was even wounded there in 1987.
So how did someone else’s order appear on the award card of a prominent United Russia party?
Just the other day, he himself commented on this situation in a letter addressed to Major General “Afghan” and paratrooper Yuri Popov, who asked him the same question:
“As for your question about the Order of the Red Banner of Battle allegedly issued in my name, I can answer you with confidence: I did not receive such an award and, moreover, I did not sign the award card for receiving it. Thus, the information you received is unknown People have already tried to spread it to me through the media, I consider it a purposeful action that has only one goal - to discredit my name on the eve of the elections, to discredit the honor of an officer who at one time, just like you, went through the war.”
It would seem that the answer is exhaustive.
But questions remain.
Andrei Nikolaevich writes that his signature is not on the award card, but the photocopy shows that Metelsky’s signature is still there. Is this a real signature or a fake?
In addition, on the line about the award of the order there is a stamp “verified”. That is, it turns out that some military officials had already seen this recording before, and it did not appear yesterday.
There are still unclear moments. So, for some reason, in Metelsky’s personal file there is not a single note about the injury that he writes about in his biography. And even in the award sheet signed by the chief military adviser, the wound is not mentioned, although usually in such cases the fact of injury was always emphasized. I would still like to see documents confirming this fact.
In personal conversations, Andrei Nikolaevich likes to remember his “special forces” past; many of the people close to him are even sure that he himself served in Afghanistan as the commander of a special forces group. But, again, no documents confirming his “special forces” past were found. He went to Afghanistan as a military translator and, judging by combat documents, was in the office of the military adviser, Colonel-General Mikhail Sotskov, who, by the way, signed award documents for Metelsky.
The award sheet was signed in the summer of 1988. It, as expected, describes the exploits and merits of Andrei Metelsky. At the same time, some of the exploits of the translator Metelsky are listed for some reason without indicating dates: “participated in 5 military operations in the provinces of Farah, Kandahar, Herat.” Others raise questions for anyone who served in Afghanistan: “08/29/1987, accompanied by an armored personnel carrier with documents, the armored personnel carrier was damaged in the Massau area, during repairs it was attacked by a group of rebels, organized the defense of the armored personnel carrier from the rebels by the crew.” Why was the armored personnel carrier with documents sent alone and unaccompanied? Why was it left on the road? And how can the crew of one broken down armored personnel carrier repel an attack by a “group of rebels”? Questions. Questions…
But again, there is not a word about “special forces” exploits. I repeat that the submission itself was signed by the chief military adviser, although if Metelsky served in the “special forces”, then such submissions were usually signed by the commanders of these units.
In no way do I want to cast a shadow on Metelsky’s Afghan past. After all, not everyone can be a GRU special forces soldier or a paratrooper. Someone should be a translator in the adviser’s office. Everyone took risks in Afghanistan.
And the fact that after the service there are several times more stories about service in Afghanistan than there were in reality is normal. Military folklore, so to speak.
Bondarchuk Jr. didn’t smell war at all, but he filmed such a “9th company” about Afghanistan that you don’t need to smoke “grass” - it will demolish the tower. And immediately he was enrolled in the “Young Guard” of “United Russia” for a leadership post. Ascended and accepted PERSONALLY by V.V.P.
Is the main thing, apparently, for nomination in this party to be able to imagine more convincingly?
BUT THE STORY WITH ANOTHER ORDER OF ANDREY METELSKY is far from unique in the United Russia party.
Other officials of this party generally have some kind of scandalous craving for other people's orders and merits. Quite recently, an almost identical scandal broke out with a member of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation from the Chelyabinsk region, Vladislav Zhiganov, a major functionary of United Russia. When checking the documents by the military registration and enlistment office, it unexpectedly turned out that Zhiganov, who was called the most influential "United Russia" in the Ural federal district, on December 9, 1999 he was awarded the Order of the Red Star No. 1625960.
At the same time, it almost immediately caught the eye that after the liquidation of the USSR in December 1991, the awarding of orders and medals of the Soviet Union simply could not be carried out.
And very soon it became clear that the Order of the Red Star No. 1625960 was awarded on August 19, 1945 to Pavel Egorovich Lebedev, a hospital orderly of the hospital platoon of the 397th separate medical battalion of the 238th rifle division. At the end of the war, Lebedev was shell-shocked and lived in the village of Vorobyovo, Kalinin region.
How Vladislav Zhiganov was awarded the Order of the Great Veteran Patriotic War, it was not possible to find out. Zhiganov himself said something incomprehensible. By the way, he, like Metelsky, is a former “Afghan” soldier, who, according to his colleagues, fought honestly. But the devil got me wrong...
Even earlier, exactly the same scandal occurred in Yekaterinburg. A whole group of representatives of the “party in power” (head of the Leninsky district of Yekaterinburg Konstantin Arkhipov, general director of the non-ferrous metals processing plant (OTsM) Nikolai Timofeev and general director of the financial and industrial group “Jewelry of the Urals” Alexey Fisenko) were awarded military awards - orders of “Courage”, without not a day in a war zone.
The public rose up against the blatant arbitrariness and arrogance of officials. But through the efforts of the administration, the scandal was hushed up. The awards were quietly withdrawn, the orders were returned to Moscow. And the fake “cavaliers” themselves quietly returned to their dusty positions.
That same spring, a number of representatives of the same “party in power” were accused of wearing other people’s orders and medals.
Alexander Nikitin, who, like Vladislav Zhiganov, is deputy secretary regional office"United Russia" and ran for the Chelyabinsk City Duma, in his campaign products he appeared before voters with the Order of the Red Star.
He even brought a copy of a document indicating that he had this order to the district election commission.
But, as follows from the letter signed by the head of the awards department of the RF Ministry of Defense Burmistrov, Lieutenant Nikitin Alexander Nikolaevich, born in 1963, was awarded only the Order “For Service to the Motherland in the USSR Armed Forces.” According to the awards department of the Ministry of Defense, he does not have any other awards.
The same story is with the entrepreneur and also a United Russia member Yuri Zhitnikov from Zlatoust. Like Vladislav Zhiganov, Ministry of Defense officials did not find Mr. Zhitnikov on the list of those awarded state awards. How they didn’t find the Chairman of the Chelyabinsk City Election Commission Pavel Shishmakov to have the Order of the Red Star, which for some reason he has been wearing since 1999. The threat of a major scandal loomed again.
And here Anatoly Sesenko, former manager of the Russian Union of War Veterans in Afghanistan (RUVA), urgently arrived in the region, who “explained” that in the early 90s, the RUVA in the awards department of the Main Personnel Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation seemed to have established about eight and a half thousand people presented to the state awards to soldiers and officers, but who did not receive them. And that it was precisely from this card index that awards were found and given to almost two thousand veterans of the war in Afghanistan, including the mentioned United Russia members.
At the same time, for some reason, in violation of all awards laws, allegedly someone nameless in the Russian Ministry of Defense provided the RSVA with the opportunity to independently, bypassing the official system of passing military awards, receive awards in the awards department of the Russian Ministry of Defense and present them to veterans of the war in Afghanistan. Like, this is what caused the confusion.
The explanation is, frankly, stilted. Why on earth did the RSVA replace the awards department of the RF Ministry of Defense and the President of the Russian Federation? It’s completely incomprehensible? Moreover, Sesenko was unable to clearly explain how the Order of the Great Patriotic War participant was awarded to United Russia. And to what extent should awards depreciate today if they can be awarded in such a strange “pocket” way?
Maybe the prosecutor’s office should investigate how many of these “mixed up” orders were awarded by “activists” of the Revolutionary Military Union, and whether all of those awarded served in the army at all?
However, why be surprised? In today's Russia, through the efforts of the “party in power,” everything has a price and is expressed in monetary terms. Today, fame and a heroic past can be bought as ordinary goods. There would be money. Demand creates supply.
A whole service has appeared: erasing a biography when a rich Russian nouveau riche dark spots years of accumulation of primary capital, which, as we know, very rarely does not have a criminal origin in Russia, are replaced by heroic service to Russia in various “hot spots”, and even with the legalization of stolen orders and their subsequent presentation in a “ceremonial atmosphere”. This is a kind of VIP service.
Well, the “United Russia” from the same Chelyabinsk, member of the Election Commission of the Chelyabinsk Region Alexander Dyadin, needed to add points to himself in the eyes of the voter, so he indicated in the questionnaire that he had a higher military education. Then he added two more to “higher military”: “higher political” and “higher legal”. And he even presented his diploma. Upon verification, it turned out that the diploma with the number IVS 0377244, issued on June 23, 2003 in the specialty “lawyer” - namely, it was provided by Alexander Dyadin - was in the Yuzhnouralsk database state university not listed. And a student named Dyadin never studied at the Faculty of Law of SUSU. The diploma series IVS 0377244 never came to the university and, accordingly, was not issued. Finally, according to the diploma registration book, no Alexander Dyadin was listed among the 2003 graduates.
And what? Never mind! The prosecutor's office refused to initiate a criminal case on the basis of forgery due to the fact that Dyadin committed the crime more than two years ago and it was of minor gravity. In addition, as everything is said in the same document, Dyadin’s provision of an uncertified copy of the diploma cannot be recognized as the use of a deliberate forgery, and this would exclude the crime itself. It is also interesting that the resolution does not even contain a recommendation to confiscate the original falsification, from which, apparently, it follows that Mr. Dyadin can henceforth use his “diploma”. Whose prosecutor's office do we have? Yes, all the same “party in power”...
Now let’s think for a moment about HOW will the aforementioned United Russia gentlemen from the regional Election Commission count the votes? How can THESE gentlemen be honest?
Where do the “party in power” and “United Russia” get such a passion for other people’s glory, for other people’s exploits?
LITERALLY A COUPLE OF MONTHS AGO, another representative of the “party in power” was on trial for embezzling someone else’s award. The mayor of the city of Mikhailovsk, Stavropol Territory, Alexander Lunin, was convicted of appropriating the Order of the Red Star from a deceased participant in the Finnish War, V. Olkhovatsky. During the investigation, it turned out that the certificates about Mayor Lunin’s participation in hostilities in Afghanistan were also false, for which, in fact, he was allegedly awarded.
The most interesting thing is that the local court... acquitted the official and even returned the order to him - the court, you see, considered the evidence of guilt insufficient, and attributed the confusion to the Ministry of Defense and the confusion in its archives. Such a blind “United Russia” Themis is ours!
However, why be surprised? Small servants follow their “bosses”. If you can reward yourself and give your friends the highest awards in Russia, then why are they worse?
I remember that during the award ceremony for the fighters of the Alpha group who distinguished themselves during the assault on Nord-Ost, of the five awarded, two were special forces from Alpha and Vympel, the third awarded was a chemist officer who worked with gas, but the other two were awarded the title of Hero of Russia, received the first deputy director of the FSB, General V. Pronichev - the head of the headquarters for the release of hostages - and the head of the Central Security Service, General A. Tikhonov. That is, precisely those who, on duty, should not have allowed terrorists to enter Moscow. In addition to them, by closed decrees the title of Hero of Russia was awarded to FSB director Patrushev, under whom Russia was shaken by such terrible terrorist attacks, that not only would it be a shame for such an FSB director to sit in his chair, even to look people in the eyes. The hero was the Secretary of the Security Council Rushailo, whose close acquaintance with the oligarchs and the “family” at one time became simply the talk of the town. They also gave the Hero Star to Prosecutor General Ustinov, whose prosecutor’s office has long become a punishing sword in the hands of the current government.
It turns out that they can be “secret heroes”, but others cannot? Not fair.
But let's return to Andrei Metelsky.
I would like to believe that the respected “United Russia” will still be able to find answers to the questions posed, and we will be able to find out where someone else’s order came from on his award card.
And at the same time, find out why another prominent United Russia member, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Veterans Affairs, member of the State Duma Commission on Mandate Issues and Issues of Deputy Ethics, Yuri Rodionov, received a similar Order of the Red Banner No. 561221.
The decree awarding him this military order was dated December 24, 1991. Wherein Soviet Union, whose order Rodionov was awarded, was liquidated by the Belovezh Accords on December 8, 1991, and neither the USSR nor the new Russia at that time carried out any military operations, feats, during which they could correspond to the high status of the order. It is also strange that the reward waited for the hero for 44 years. The order, which belongs to Yu. Rodionov, was made at the Mint back in 1957...
However, this is not the first time for Y. Rodionov to answer uncomfortable questions. Having transformed in two years from an unknown Defense Ministry colonel (in 1991) to an all-powerful Colonel General (in 1993), Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the United Armed Forces of the CIS for personnel, Deputy Chief Military Inspector of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Yu. Rodionov will probably be able to provide the editors with copies of the award presentation, and we will be able to find out for what military exploits this official received the order?
P.S. As it turned out, Yu. Rodionov was “awarded” the Order of the Red Banner for defending the White House in August 1991. This is our “hero”...