Luzhkov, the former mayor, what is he doing now. Yuri Luzhkov: biography, family and interesting facts. Personal life of Yuri Luzhkov

Head of CJSC "Inteko"

Wife of Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov. A major entrepreneur, the owner of the investment and construction corporation "Inteko", which occupies a leading position in the market for the production of polymers and plastic products, monolithic housing construction, and commercial real estate. In February 2007, she transferred 99 percent of the shares of Inteko to the closed-end investment fund Continental. Deputy head of the working group of the national project "Affordable Housing", member of the board of directors of the Russian Land Bank. Until 2005, she was the chairman of the Equestrian Federation of the Russian Federation. According to Forbes magazine for 2008, the richest woman in Russia, owning a personal fortune of $ 4.2 billion.

Elena Nikolaevna Baturina was born on March 8, 1963. According to other sources, in 1991 she was 25 years old, that is, she was born in 1966. After school (since 1980), Baturina worked for a year and a half at the Moscow Fraser plant, where her parents worked - she was a design engineer.

In 1982, Baturina graduated from the Moscow Institute of Management named after Sergo Ordzhonikidze (now a university). According to some reports, Baturina studied at the evening department of the institute.

In 1982-1989 she was a researcher at the Institute of Economic Problems of the Integrated Development of the National Economy of the City of Moscow, chief specialist of the commission of the Moscow City Executive Committee on cooperatives and individual labor activity. There is evidence that Baturina started her business with a cooperative that developed software.

In 1991, the company (cooperative) "Inteko" was registered, which began to manufacture polymer products. Baturina headed it together with her brother Viktor, and later in the press she was mentioned in the media as the president of Inteko, and her brother as CEO, as vice president, and first vice president of the company. According to other data published in 2007, Baturina became the president and main owner of Inteko in 1989.

In 1991, Baturina married the future mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov (this was his second marriage), who in the past was one of the leaders of the Research Institute of Plastics and the head of the science and technology department of the Ministry chemical industry THE USSR.

In 1992, Luzhkov became the mayor of the capital. Subsequently, Baturina denied the connection between her marriage to Luzhkov and the beginning of her own career, although they almost coincided in time. A number of media wrote that Luzhkov never specified how Inteko received profitable municipal orders. So, it is known that in the early 1990s, the Inteko cooperative won a tender and received an order for the production of almost one hundred thousand plastic chairs for the capital's stadiums. Baturina herself, in an interview with reporters, mentioned that 80,000 plastic seats for the Luzhniki stadium were made by her company. In 1999, Baturina, in an interview with Moskovsky Komsomolets, indicated that the stadium was reconstructed at the expense of the funds that the joint-stock company received from leasing space, and at the expense of loans. “I don’t see anything reprehensible in the fact that the Luzhniki management decided to buy plastic seats from me, and not pay one and a half times more expensive to the Germans,” she said.

A few years later, Inteko's business for the manufacture of plastic products was supplemented by its own raw material production based on the Moscow Oil Refinery (MNPZ), which was under the control of the Moscow government. A plant for the production of polypropylene was built on the territory of the Moscow Oil Refinery, and almost all of the polymer produced by the Moscow Oil Refinery belonged to Baturina's company. Demand for polypropylene products has always been high, and in the absence of competition from other manufacturers, Inteko, according to data published by the Kompaniya magazine, managed to occupy almost a third of the Russian market for plastic products.

On February 3, 1997, Novaya Gazeta reported that part of the funds allocated by the Moscow government for the construction of the Knyaz Rurik brewery were being transferred to AOZT Inteko. The company filed a lawsuit, believing that the article defames its business reputation. On April 4, 1997, the court ordered the newspaper to publish a retraction.

In the late 1990s, the President of Kalmykia, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, put forward the idea of ​​building the City of Chess (City Chess) to host international chess tournaments. One of the main general contractors for the construction of the city was Inteko. As a result, the company turned out to be one of the defendants in the investigation concerning the misuse of budget funds during the construction of the City of Chess. The republic, according to media reports, owed a significant amount of money to Moscow entrepreneurs. At the end of 1998, the co-owner of Inteko, Baturin, at the suggestion of Ilyumzhinov, headed the government of Kalmykia. A few months later, under an agreement between the Ministry of State Property of Kalmykia and CJSC Inteko-Chess (a subsidiary of Inteko), the Moscow company became the owner of a 38 percent stake in Kalmneft belonging to the republic (according to some reports, this happened without the knowledge of the rest of the shareholders of the oil company) . According to one version, in this way Baturin provided guarantees for the return of funds invested in the construction of City Chess. Soon dissatisfied minority shareholders of Kalmneft applied to the arbitration court with a claim against CJSC Inteko-Chess and the Ministry of State Property of Kalmykia to declare the transaction invalid. The transfer of shares was canceled, and already in February 1999, Baturin left the post of Prime Minister of the Republic of Kalmykia. In 2004, Baturina, in an interview with Izvestia, stated that many subjects of the federation owe her "unlimited amounts of money", including Kalmykia.

In the fall of 1999, Baturina ran for deputies of the State Duma in the 14th Kalmyk single-mandate constituency. Baturina's opponent in the elections was one of the leaders of the Agrarian Party of Russia and the movement "Fatherland - All Russia" (OVR) Gennady Kulik. With a request to go to the polls from Kalmykia, the Kalmyk branch of the OVR turned to Baturina, which, according to the magazine Profile, was a complete surprise for Ilyumzhinov. The publication indicated that, according to unofficial information, after some time in Moscow, a meeting took place between Ilyumzhinov, Kulik and the head of the Russian government, Yevgeny Primakov, who was asked to convince Luzhkov to dissuade his wife from running in Kalmykia. But Primakov's intervention did not help - Luzhkov refused. Returning to Elista, Ilyumzhinov made a telephone statement for Profile: "I respect and appreciate Elena Baturina and wish her good luck in the elections. If she wins, then the economy of the republic will win first of all." At a rally in Elista, organized by activists of the OVR movement, Baturina made a speech, promising that in the event of her victory, Kalmykia would live no worse than Moscow.

Earlier, in July 1999, Luzhkov's wife was at the center of a scandal involving the illegal export of capital abroad. According to employees of the Federal Security Service of the Vladimir Region, her firms Inteko and Bistroplast (whose head, according to Kommersant, was Baturin) cooperated with structures that were engaged in money laundering. According to media reports, these structures transferred $230 million abroad. Luzhkov immediately declared that Boris Berezovsky was behind this case, as well as "the administration of the President of the Russian Federation and general system, which is united by a political goal - to retain power as long as possible. "Baturina herself sent an official protest to the FSB and the Prosecutor General's Office. In the fall of 1999, she met with the director of the FSB, Nikolai Patrushev, who promised to apologize to her if the illegality of the seizure of documents by the employees of the Vladimir UFSB in firm "Inteko". In addition, an audit conducted by the reputable firm "Ernst & Young" confirmed: "Inteko" did not transfer funds to Vladimir banks, suspected by the Chekists of financial fraud. Baturina herself said on this occasion: "The case is developing in this way that it is the FSB that needs to think about their own security and how to get out of the current situation. And I have nothing to be afraid of.” The wife of the capital's mayor denied that one of the motives for her participation in the parliamentary elections could be a desire to protect herself from persecution by the FSB.

However, Baturina lost the election. A week before voting day, on December 12, 1999, ORT TV presenter Sergei Dorenko told viewers that Baturina owned an apartment in New York. In response, she sued the journalist, demanding a refutation and the recovery of $400,000 from Dorenko and $100,000 from the ORT TV channel. The trial, which lasted nine months, was adversarial, and in October 2000 the Ostankino District Court granted Baturina's claim. He ordered ORT to refute, and certainly on Sunday in the Vremya program, the report that she has an apartment in New York. The court estimated the moral damage and moral suffering of the plaintiff at 10,000 rubles.

According to Oleg Soloshchansky, vice-president of Inteko, the company entered the construction business back in the mid-1990s, creating the Intekostroy firm and taking part in a development project in Kalmykia. However, the actual transformation of Inteko into a large investment and construction corporation began only in 2001, when the company bought a controlling stake in the leading house-building enterprise in Moscow, OAO Domostroitelny Kombinat No. 3 (the main manufacturer of panel houses of the P-3M series). Thus, Inteko managed to take control of about a quarter of the capital's panel housing market. A year later, a division of monolithic construction appeared as part of Inteko. At the same time, the company began the implementation of large-scale projects: residential complexes "Grand Park", "Shuvalovsky", "Kutuzovsky" and "Krasnogorie". In mid-2002, the company acquired the cement plants of OAO Podgorensky Cementnik and OAO Oskolcement, and later, ZAO Belgorodsky Cement, Kramatorsk Cement Plant, Ulyanovskcement, and the leader of the North-West region, Pikalevsky Cement. Thanks to this, Inteko has become the largest cement supplier in the country.

In 2003, it became known about the project of a bonded loan of Inteko CJSC. At the same time, for the first time, it became clear that Baturina owns 99 percent of the company's shares, and 1 percent of the shares belong to her brother (earlier, in 1999, Baturina reported that her older brother owns half of the company's shares). Inteko estimated its share in the capital's panel housing market at 20 percent, while, according to media reports, the company built up to a third of standard houses under municipal housing construction programs for city orders. Some time later, "Inteko" announced the creation of its own real estate structure "Magistrat" ​​and launched its first advertising campaign. In February 2004, Baturina's company placed its debut bond issue for 1.2 billion rubles. The media indicated that investors were skeptical about Inteko's desire to borrow funds at a rate of no more than 13% per annum, so less than a quarter of the issue was sold at the auction. The rest, according to the experts of NIKoil, which carried out the placement, was sold by the underwriter in the negotiation deals mode. In turn, independent analysts suggested that the rest of the Inteko loan (more than 900 million rubles at face value) was bought up by NIKoil itself.

On July 8, 2003, the Vedomosti newspaper published an article "The Elena Baturina Complex", which, in particular, stated that the Moscow bureaucracy "makes a pleasant exception" for the mayor's wife's business. Baturina, believing that she was accused of using marital status in order to obtain advantages in business activities, she filed a lawsuit, and on January 21, 2004, the Golovinsky District Court ordered the publication to publish a refutation.

In 2003, Inteko-agro, a subsidiary of Inteko, bought more than a dozen farms in the Belgorod region that were on the verge of bankruptcy. In an interview with Izvestia, Baturina said about her Belgorod business as follows: “In Belgorod we are building a large plastics processing plant - and the local governor ordered us to take on the livestock complex and bring it out of unprofitability. We have to buy bull-calves and grow them for sale. " The governor of the Belgorod region, Yevgeny Savchenko, initially supported Baturina. However, in 2005, the regional authorities accused the agricultural holding of buying up land under "gray" schemes and underpriced prices with the aim of their further speculative resale. Later it turned out that the activities of Inteko-Agro interfered with the development of the Yakovlevsky mine, which belonged to Metal Group LLC, a company controlled by the Russian Ambassador to Ukraine Viktor Chernomyrdin and his son Vitaly (Baturina refused to transfer land to the regional authorities for the construction of a railway to the mine). On October 9, in Belgorod, the executive director of Inteko-Agro LLC Alexander Annenkov was attacked, and the next day Inteko lawyer Dmitry Shteinberg was killed in Moscow. Baturina appealed to President Vladimir Putin with a request to dismiss the governor of the Belgorod region. After that, Savchenko, speaking on regional television, said that some "uninvited guests would like to change the government in the region," and "their black PR specialists stop at nothing, even blood." Deputy of the State Duma Alexander Khinshtein and deputy of Rosprirodnadzor Oleg Mitvol spoke openly in defense of the interests of Inteko-agro. However, at the federal level, no one began to publicly intercede for the Baturins. In the same month, elections to the regional duma were held in Belgorod: United Russia, headed by governor Savchenko, won the vote on party lists. The Liberal Democratic Party, supported by Inteko, did not get even seven percent of the vote.

In 2004, the press named Inteko's participation in the construction of residential microdistricts on the Khodynka field, in the area of ​​Moscow State University and Tekstilshchiki among the largest projects of Inteko. The total cost of construction projects was estimated at $550 million. At the same time, the media noted that the cost of housing in the capital since the purchase of Baturina construction company"DSK-3" increased by 2.4 times. In the same year, the Internet publication Izvestia.ru published information that Baturina allegedly acquired 110 hectares of land along Novorizhskoye Highway outside the Moscow Ring Road for the construction of an elite microdistrict, for the sake of rising prices for apartments in which the Moscow authorities forced the construction of Krasnopresnensky Prospekt - he must was to connect the highway with the city center, which would make it possible to overcome the path from Krasnogorsk to the Kremlin in half an hour - without traffic jams and traffic lights.

On February 15, 2004, as a result of a partial collapse of the roof of the building of the Transvaal Park water park in the Moscow district of Yasenevo, 28 visitors to the entertainment complex were killed and more than 100 were injured. park" was financed by relatives of the Moscow mayor" said that by the time of the disaster, the water park business was completely controlled by Terra-Oil, and the deal to purchase shares from the previous owners of Transvaal-Park, the European Technologies and Service company, was financed by two presidents of CJSC "Inteko" - Baturina and her brother. The publication concluded that de jure Inteko was not among the founders of the companies managing Transvaal Park, but its shareholders in February 2004 were the largest creditors of Terra-Oil. In March 2005, the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow partially satisfied Baturina's claim for the protection of honor and dignity against the Kommersant publishing house and its journalists Rinat Gizatulin and Andrey Mukhin. The court recognized the information published in the newspaper as untrue and discrediting the honor and dignity of Baturina. At the same time, the court exacted 10,000 rubles from each defendant in favor of Baturina as compensation for non-pecuniary damage. In addition, the Tverskoy Court of Moscow satisfied another lawsuit filed by Baturina against the Kommersant newspaper in connection with the publication of the article "The Mayor with Complexes" (January 29, 2004). This article reported that Baturina decided "the fate of Moscow Vice Mayor Valery Shantsev" (after the election of the capital's mayor, Luzhkov reorganized the mayor's office, pushing Shantsev, who previously oversaw the capital's economy, to a less significant post). This information was also recognized by the court as untrue and subject to refutation.

On January 29, 2005, journalist Yulia Latynina on the air of Echo of Moscow radio stated that Baturina is a co-owner of the Transvaal Park that collapsed on February 14, 2004, and the Inteko company received $ 200 million for the construction of the Moscow State University library, declared as a gift. On February 28, 2005, Baturina sent a request to the editor-in-chief of the radio station Alexei Venediktov to refute this information, which was subsequently done.

In 2005, Inteko sold all its cement plants to Filaret Galchev's Eurocement for $800 million, and some time later Baturina sold DSK-3 to the PIK Group. After the sale of the plant, Inteko left the panel housing market. According to a number of media reports, Inteko claimed that the sale of DSK-3 and cement plants was part of a strategy for consolidating resources for the development of monolithic housing construction and the creation of a pool of commercial real estate. Within 5–6 years, the company promised to build more than 1 million square meters office space and create a large national hotel chain covering the territory from Central Europe to the Asia-Pacific region. However, market participants expressed doubts about Inteko's intentions to become one of the largest players in the commercial real estate market in Moscow and the regions.

In the spring of 2006, Inteko returned to the cement market by purchasing the Verkhnebakansky cement plant in Krasnodar Territory. In December 2006, Inteko vice-president Vladimir Guz told Vedomosti that Inteko had acquired another cement plant in the Krasnodar Territory, Atakaycement, located near Novorossiysk. The purchase of a small enterprise with a capacity of 600,000 tons per year was estimated by experts at $40-90 million. Guz did not name the sellers of the enterprise and the amount of the transaction, but the publication, referring to market participants and a source in the administration Krasnodar Territory, main former owner"Atakaycement" called the president of the Samara "Wings of the Soviets" Alexander Baranovsky. "Inteko plans to create on the basis of two plants the largest cement production association in Russia with a total capacity of over 5 million tons of cement per year," Guz said. In addition, Inteko, he said, plans to build several more factories in Russia. Vedomosti drew readers' attention to the fact that Baturina is the deputy head of the working group of the national project "Affordable Housing". She, according to the newspaper, has repeatedly noted that the shortage and high prices for cement hold back the implementation of the project. UBS analyst Alexei Morozov remarked: "It's a good time to invest in cement... Those who start construction first will gain market share and shorten the payback period of their investments."

In July 2006, Baturina was elected to the Board of Directors of JSCB Russian Land Bank.

On December 1, 2006, information was published that the Axel Springer Russia Publishing House refused to print an article about Baturina and her business, destroying the entire circulation of the December issue of the Russian Forbes magazine. The leadership of the publishing house explained this step by the fact that the publication "did not follow the principles of journalistic ethics." One of the employees of the publishing house told Vedomosti that on the eve of the magazine's release, Ilya Parnyshkov, Inteko's vice president for foreign economic relations, came to the editorial office of Forbes with a copy of the statement of claim. The newspaper pointed out that representatives of Inteko threatened the publisher with claims for the protection of business reputation. In turn, the American Forbes demanded that Axel Springer release the current issue in the form in which it was printed. As a result, the December issue of the Russian Forbes came out in its original form, and cost 20 percent more than before the scandal.

In early February 2007, Vedomosti, referring to the lawyer of the editor-in-chief Maxim Kashulinsky and the editorial staff of the Russian Forbes, Alexander Dobrovinsky, reported on the lawsuits of the Inteko company against the magazine and its editor-in-chief. Lawsuits were filed in different courts: against Kashulinsky "On the dissemination of untrue information discrediting business reputation" - in the Chertanovsky court of Moscow, and "On the refutation of false information discrediting business reputation and the recovery of non-material losses caused as a result of the dissemination of data information" to the editors of the Russian version of Forbes magazine - to the Moscow Arbitration. Gennady Terebkov, press secretary of Inteko, told Vedomosti that the amount of each of the claims was 106,500 rubles (1 ruble for each copy of the December issue of Forbes magazine).

On March 21, 2007, the Chertanovsky Court of Moscow satisfied the claim of Inteko against Kashulinsky, recovering 109 thousand 165 rubles from the editor-in-chief of the Russian version of Forbes magazine, and not 106 thousand 500 rubles, since the legal costs of Baturina's company were estimated at 2 thousand 665 rubles. Kashulinsky's lawyer said he intends to appeal this decision in court. On May 15, 2007, the Moscow City Court refused to consider Kashulinsky's request to declare the decision of the Chertanovsky court illegal.

The lawsuit with the publishing house turned out to be protracted. On May 21, 2007, at the request of the defendant to conduct a linguistic examination of the published materials, the Moscow Arbitration Court suspended the proceedings on the suit of CJSC Inteko. In September 2007, he nevertheless recognized the fairness of the company's claims against the publishing house, but already in November 2007, the Ninth Arbitration Court of Appeal overturned this decision.

Then, in December 2007, representatives of Inteko decided to change the subject of the claim, claiming damage to Inteko's business reputation. The company demanded that not only Axel Springer Russia, but also the authors of the material, Mikhail Kozyrev and Maria Abakumova, be held jointly and severally liable, and that the same 106,500 rubles be collected from journalists and the publishing house. In January 2008, the claim under the rules of first instance was considered by the same Ninth Court of Appeal. He decided to satisfy Baturina's claim, obliging the magazine to publish a refutation of the article that caused the trial, and to recover 106,500 rubles from the defendants (35,500 thousand rubles each) for damage to Inteko's business reputation. Commenting on the decision of the court, lawyer Dobrovinsky announced his intention to appeal this decision to the court of cassation,. However, already in April 2008, the publishing house submitted a written petition to the Federal Arbitration Court of the Moscow District to withdraw the cassation appeal against the decision of the appellate arbitration court on the suit of CJSC Inteko.

In 2006, Viktor Baturin sold his share in the company to his sister and finally left the business, receiving a "compensation" in the form of 50 percent of the shares of Inteko-agro, as well as the entire Sochi business of the company. According to other sources, in early January 2006, Baturin retained his 1 percent stake in Inteko. In January 2006, Inteko's press service, citing Baturina, announced that her brother "is no longer the vice president of the company and is not authorized to make any statements." According to a number of media outlets, his dismissal was a consequence of the events in the Belgorod region. According to experts, the owners of Inteko did not agree on further development business. Baturin himself claimed in January that he left Inteko voluntarily. In March 2006, Inteko Corporation officially announced that back in February, Baturina's brother had left the company. On March 17, the shareholders of Inteko (that is, Baturina herself) at an extraordinary meeting decided to buy back from Viktor Baturin his block of shares.

However, on January 18, 2007, there were reports in the media that back in December 2006, Baturina's brother Viktor filed a lawsuit against Inteko CJSC in the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow. According to him, he was fired from the company illegally. Baturin demanded to reinstate him at work and pay him 6 billion rubles as compensation for unused vacation for 15 years of work for the company. The observers speculated that we are talking about a "fictitious lawsuit", but in fact Viktor Baturin claims a quarter of the shares of Inteko, which, according to him, he was illegally deprived of. According to some reports, the value of this package at that time could be up to one billion dollars. On February 12, 2007, the Tverskoy Court of Moscow rejected Baturin's claim to reinstate him at Inteko. He also refused to pay the compensation demanded by Baturin.

On February 14, 2007, Elena Baturina, in turn, filed four lawsuits against her brother and his companies. The first lawsuit challenged Viktor Baturin's right to own management company"Ivan Kalita", in whose jurisdiction he once promised to transfer all his assets. The head of Inteko demanded that the company be returned to itself. Three more lawsuits motivated by "failure to fulfill obligations under contracts" contained property claims against Baturin's companies - Inteko-Agro-Service (for 48 million rubles) and Inteko-Agro (for 265 million rubles). Baturin did not comment on the first lawsuit, and called the amounts of claims against his companies "insignificant" and said that these lawsuits were "filed as a distraction." Baturin also said that he began preparing new lawsuits against his sister, including a lawsuit over 25 percent of Inteko shares, which, in his opinion, continue to belong to him. However, already on February 18, 2007, Inteko's spokesman Terebkov stated that "the parties renounce mutual property and other claims."

On February 19, 2007, it became known that Baturina transferred 99 percent of the shares of Inteko to the closed-end mutual investment fund (ZPIF) Continental, which is managed by the company of the same name. The media reported that the fund in terms of net assets (82.8 billion rubles) became a leader in the Russian market. Aleksey Chalenko, adviser to the president of Inteko, noted that "this was done as part of the company's strategy," Continental Management Company, according to RBC, declined to comment. Analysts did not come to a consensus about why Baturina took such a step. The following assumptions were made: the transfer of Inteko's assets to a closed-end mutual fund may insure the company against possible hostile takeovers, may also provide it with additional tax benefits, and may give Baturina the opportunity to quietly change the structure of property ownership. In 2007, in an interview with Vedomosti, Baturina confirmed that the Continental mutual fund belongs to her 100 percent. She called the structuring of Inteko through mutual funds "just a method of packing assets" ("How the money is in a bag, and not in a wallet - that's the whole difference").

On January 15, 2008, the Russian Land Bank named Baturina, who owned more than 20 percent of its shares, the main buyer of an additional issue of bank shares in the amount of 1 billion rubles. It was reported that after the buyback of shares, Baturina's share in the bank would exceed 90 percent. There was also an assumption by analysts that it would buy out the remaining shares of other shareholders of the bank.

In July 2008, Kommersant wrote about Inteko's participation in several development projects in Morocco through an affiliated company, Kudla Group. With reference to the words of Mustafa Agundjabe, a representative of the tourism department of the Tetouan region of the Kingdom of Morocco, the publication reported that the company is investing more than 325 million euros in the construction of resort real estate in the country.

In December of the same year, CJSC "Inteko" Baturina won a lawsuit against the publication "Gazeta" for the protection of business reputation. The Federal Arbitration Court of the Moscow District ordered Gazeta to refute reports of a conspiracy between the Moscow authorities and three leading property developers - Mirax Service (a subsidiary of Mirax Group), Inteko and the PIK group of companies - to divide the capital's housing and communal services market. The court did not see the guilt of State Duma deputy Galina Khovanskaya, on the basis of whose words the journalists made such a conclusion (Khovanskaya herself insisted that her words were quoted inaccurately in the article).

Baturina is the richest woman in Russia. According to Forbes magazine published in 2004, her personal fortune was $1.1 billion. Forbes experts estimated the turnover of the Inteko group at $525 million. At the same time, they admitted that it was not possible to accurately assess Baturina's assets, since, firstly, Inteko is a very closed company; secondly, she participated in almost all major metropolitan projects as a co-investor, contractor or subcontractor. According to the same Forbes, published in 2006, Baturina's fortune was already estimated at $2.3 billion. In August 2005, Inteko announced the purchase of shares in Gazprom and Sberbank. The company did not disclose which stakes Inteko owns (according to data for the first quarter of 2008, the share of Baturina - her mutual fund Kontinetal - in Sberbank was 0.38 percent). In 2006, information was published that Baturina and entrepreneur Suleiman Kerimov own more than 4.6 percent of Gazprom's shares for two (according to Vedomosti, they transferred the right to vote with their stakes to Alexei Miller, Chairman of the Board of Gazprom OJSC) . In February 2007, there were reports in the media that at the end of 2006, Baturina acquired shares in Rosneft, although this fact was not reflected in Inteko's financial statements for the last quarter of the year.

On April 19, 2007, the rating of the richest citizens of Russia was published in the Russian version of Forbes magazine. As in 2006, Baturina was the only woman on the list: her fortune was estimated at 3.1 billion dollars (in 2006 it was 2.4 billion). In the spring of 2008, she entered the list at number 253 richest residents planets: the state of Baturina, as reported by the American Forbes, at the time of the rating, was estimated at 4.2 billion dollars.

Baturina plays tennis, skiing well. He drives a car, has the third category in shooting from a small-caliber rifle. Baturina is also seriously engaged in horseback riding. The media wrote that the well-known ophthalmologist surgeon and businessman Svyatoslav Fedorov once addicted her to this occupation. In an interview, Baturina recalled: “It so happened that I somehow immediately got into the saddle and rode. Then they began to give horses to the mayor, and the animals had to be taken care of somehow. Since 1999, Baturina has been mentioned in the media as the chairman of the Equestrian Federation sports of Russia.During her 1999 election campaign for elections to the State Duma from Kalmykia, Baturina, at almost every meeting with the inhabitants of the republic, reminded that "a horse for a Kalmyk is more important than chess."In January 2005, Baturina was removed from the post of president of the Equestrian Federation The deputy of the State Duma Gennady Seleznev, who took her place, argued that the interests of Russian athletes were poorly taken into account by the previous leadership of the federation, although there were many competitions, including high-level ones, for example, the Moscow Mayor's Cup, which was one of the stages of the World Cup with large prizes money, but, according to Seleznev, the organizers themselves chose those who were to take part in them. is top athletes, their arrival and residence in Russia were paid by the organizing committee. The Russians invited by the Organizing Committee, whose number was limited, could not compete with the first numbers of the Old World. As a result, all the prize money was taken away by foreign guests. The Building Business publication noted that when Baturina was not re-elected to the post of head of the federation, she was "purely humanly offended", but noticed that she would not leave her horses anyway and would now take care of the affairs of the Moscow federation.

According to a number of media reports, even Baturina's enemies noted that she had invested a lot of money in equestrian sports. The media indicated that she had sincere feelings for horses. "Ordinary horsemen", according to them, said that Baturina keeps disabled horses in his personal stable and provides them with a decent existence. However, according to Building Business, horses for Baturina are not only a hobby, but also a business. A few years ago, Inteko bought out dilapidated buildings of cowsheds in Kaliningrad region in order to revive the Weedern stud farm, founded in the 18th century, where the Imperial Union of Private Horse Breeders was based until the 1920s - a partner of the largest Trakehner stud farm in East Prussia. In the autumn of 2005, the reconstruction of the factory buildings was completed ("with the preservation of historical facades") and the first stage of the "Weedern" was put into operation, work began on the reproduction of the Trakehner and Hanoverian breeds of horses. It is expected that this enterprise will become a source of considerable income: the second stage of the project includes the construction of hotels, a restaurant, the creation bypass road and beautification of nearby areas. All this should attract tourists.

From her marriage to Luzhkov, Baturina has two daughters: Alena was born in 1992, Olga - in March 1994. The media also mentioned Baturina's sister - Natalya Nikolaevna Evtushenkova, head of the IBRD Office and wife of the chairman of the board of directors and the main shareholder of AFK Sistema Vladimir Evtushenkov

The story of the removal of the permanent mayor of the capital Yuri Luzhkov in September 2010 has a lot of versions. The most important question, which is still of interest to the media - why was it removed after all? "Jourdom" conducted its own investigation and came to the conclusion that the main reason for the resignation of Yuri Luzhkov was the conflict between two influential wives - his wife Elena Baturina and Svetlana Medvedeva, the first lady of the country of those times. We decided to publicize this material now that the resignation of the Medvedev government is a foregone conclusion, searches are being carried out at Skolkovo and the oligarch Vekselberg, who is closest to Medvedev, is being interrogated. Luzhkov, who played first violin in retirement.

How it was

On August 26, 2010, President Dmitry Medvedev instructed the government to suspend the construction of the Moscow-Petersburg highway through the Khimki forest due to public protests. On September 1, in the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper, a certain political scientist under the pseudonym of Yuri Kovelitsyn published an article entitled “Competition Around Moscow”. The publication asserted that certain forces "are diligently courting Medvedev, inciting him both to his political father and to all his main pillars, including Luzhkov." A system of counterbalances has allegedly been created around the president, which inexorably leads him into a clash with both Vladimir Putin and Yuri Luzhkov.

Yuri Luzhkov himself was easily read as a clear interest in the publication in the publication controlled by the mayor. Moreover, after simple research by the Kremlin and White House PR specialists, it was established for certain that the press secretary of Yuri Luzhkov, Sergei Tsoi, personally placed the material of the “political scientist” in the newspaper. After this publication, the degree of tension between the Kremlin and the Moscow mayor's office became prohibitively high. “Competition around Moscow” was blamed on Luzhkov in behind-the-scenes conversations: it was the first public attempt to drive a wedge between the president and the prime minister.

On September 6, 2010, at one in the morning, the Internet version of Rossiyskaya Gazeta published the article “The Khimki Test” signed by Yuri Luzhkov himself. The deforestation of the Khimki forest was presented as a necessary evil, and Medvedev's decision to suspend construction as a clear mistake of a weak ruler. The stages of destruction of forests on 80 hectares, together with the accompanying flora and fauna, were consistently described. The transfer of the highway, which was insisted on by environmentalists and the left wing of the opposition, was not supported. In a fairly direct form, the author spoke about the savings from the expansion of an existing route.

Already on September 7, the media reported: “The investigating authorities are looking for, but so far they cannot find one of the deputy mayors of Moscow, Alexander Ryabinin, against whom a criminal case has been initiated under the article “bribery”.

On September 10, a few hours before the start of his troubles, Luzhkov, in an interview with the Interfax agency, rejected claims against him about an attempt to split the president and the prime minister and suggested that "this is all because of the publication on the Khimki forest." However, this did not help. At that time, both the mayor and his press secretary Tsoi already realized that they were openly set up and betrayed. After all, the request to publish the material "Khimki test" was broadcast to Tsoi from the chief PR manager of the presidential administration, Natalya Timakova, causing the uncontrollable fury of technical president Medvedev. And the text in the format that caused the greatest anger was prepared by Luzhkov's longtime adviser and speechwriter Valery Koretsky, who, in fact, betrayed the mayor and took part in an intrigue against the mayor. On the same day, with the approval of President Medvedev, his press secretary Timakova launched a media attack on the Moscow mayor.

On September 10, 11 and 12, the federal TV channels NTV, Rossiya 24 and Rossiya 1 aired pieces criticizing Elena Baturina and Yuri Luzhkov. The first in the revealing campaign was the NTV film "The Case in the Cap" (in the "Emergency" program). The cross-cutting theme of all the revealing programs was the entrepreneurial activity of Elena Baturina and the Inteko group headed by her in the city, which was headed by her husband. TV journalists also talked about traffic jams in Moscow and the demolition of historic buildings. NTV drew attention to criminal cases of corruption initiated against employees of the Moscow government, as well as to the scandal with the eviction of old residents of the Yuzhnoye Butovo district, as well as to Luzhkov's vacation during the August smog in Moscow.

On September 13, Luzhkov and Baturina, as president of CJSC Inteko, announced their intention to file lawsuits for the protection of honor, dignity and business reputation in connection with the dissemination of false information in critical television reports. On September 14, at the political council of the Moscow branch of the United Russia party, Luzhkov said that initially he "did not want to write this article, but he was asked for this service by the presidential administration." He called what is happening "harassment", and the position voiced in the article - only his opinion. The mayor flatly refused to leave and promised to fight slander. At the same political council, the Moscow branch of ER agreed with his position.

On September 15, an "unnamed source" in the presidential administration commented on Luzhkov's words in the sense that only the president is free to decide whether he remains in office or not. And on September 17, according to Luzhkov, he learned from the head of the presidential administration, Sergei Naryshkin, about the decision to remove him from office. The mayor was given options for voluntary or forced resignation. The reason was not explained, a week was allotted for reflection.

After that, all the demarches of Yuri Luzhkov no longer mattered. His merits and real (or imaginary) merits were no longer mentioned, but the press diligently exaggerated the shortcomings in Luzhkov's work. His departure was a foregone conclusion. On the morning of September 28, going to work, the mayor of Moscow learned that he had been removed from office by the president with the harsh wording "due to loss of confidence."

Quarreled ... because of school

Political scientist Boris Kagarlitsky believes that “what happened in Moscow is the result of larger and deeper processes. In particular, the struggle of power groups for access to Moscow resources.”

According to political scientist Stanislav Belkovsky, the structures of Elena Baturina, relying on her pervasive influence in the capital, entered into irreconcilable antagonism with wide circles of oligarchs circling around Moscow in anticipation of a miss from Luzhkov - "from Abramovich to Rotenberg." And there was something to fight for. Belkovsky voiced only one figure: the shadow business in Moscow had a turnover of about $4 billion a year. This sharply distinguished the capital from all other regions and lured predators.

In fact, the immediate cause that led to the resignation of the mayor was not the struggle of the oligarchs for the Moscow shadow business. The removal of Luzhkov was due to a quarrel between his wives and President Medvedev.

In May 2010, Svetlana Medvedeva turned to Elena Baturina with a request to sell elite school on Nikolina Gora - the most popular private school on the Rublevo-Uspenskoe highway in Moscow. Another name for this educational institution is the First Moscow Non-State Gymnasium. The gymnasium was founded in 2002 and is the brainchild of Elena Baturina. The children of the Luzhkov couple (from Luzhkov's second marriage to Baturina) studied here: Elena (b. 1992) and Olga (b. 1994). The territory of the Gymnasium on Rublyovka is about 7 hectares, it is equipped with canteens, cafes, swimming pools, gyms. Tuition in 2004 was €2,100 per month. Entry fee - €30.000. This is a record amount among all private schools in the country. The institution is famous not only for prices, but also for its closeness. The administration does not give any comments by phone. Parents are offered to go through an interview, since the institution has a very strict face control. In the second half of the 2000s, the Gymnasium even introduced an access control system based on biometrics (fingerprint and retina pass).

The elite school was originally created for the needs of the couple Luzhkov and Baturina: at the time of the foundation of the Gymnasium eldest daughter Luzhkov Elena just turned 7 years old. It is not surprising that the official founder of the gymnasium is the group of Elena Baturina "Inteko".

The wife of Dmitry Anatolyevich asked Elena Baturina to sell her this best gymnasium in Russia. However, Baturina replied: she is ready to simply give Medvedeva this educational institution with a grand gesture. Svetlana Vladimirovna nevertheless demanded to name the price, and Baturina asked for more than $ 50 million for the First Gymnasium. Svetlana Medvedeva was offended by this overpriced offer, and the ladies parted as mortal enemies. Offended in the best feelings, Medvedev turned to her husband and his press secretary Natalya Timakova for help. From that moment on, the countdown began for Moscow Mayor Luzhkov.

Ilya Barabanov, former deputy editor-in-chief of the New Times magazine, commented on this version with some bewilderment. In his opinion, in addition to the Honey Meadows gymnasium, Elena Baturina also had other, more expensive projects. They could also become a bone of contention with people, in any case, not inferior to the wife of Dmitry Anatolyevich in influence.

Boris Nemtsov was more specific in his comment: Yury Luzhkov was fired, not least for "disrespect for the then Zits-president Dmitry Medvedev."

Yuri Luzhkov and his former press secretary Sergei Tsoi, through their secretaries, refused to comment to Zhurdom on the version of a quarrel with Medvedeva over the First Gymnasium on Nikolina Gora. The administration of the gymnasium itself also decided not to violate traditions and did not begin to explain anything to our editors.

fatal article

Despite Yury Luzhkov's attempts to find backdating justifying the article dated 09/06/2010 in Rossiyskaya Gazeta signed by him, the mayor himself no longer denies that the Khimki test was not written by him at all. As Ilya Barabanov noted, the mayor himself pointed to the fact that he wrote the article on the advice of the Presidential Administration. Moreover, the advice did not come from Medvedev's people, but either from Vladislav Surkov, or from Igor Sechin. At the same time, one should not forget that in tandem, the conditional “Putin's” side was playing a game not at all against Luzhkov.

However, the principled position taken by Yuri Mikhailovich turned out to be perverted and used against him. And this despite the fact that, as Stanislav Belkovsky notes, "Luzhkov was sure to the very end that Medvedev would not have the strength to remove him from office." Mainly because of the good relations between the Moscow mayor and Vladimir Putin.

As we already mentioned, the real author of that article was a long-time adviser to the Moscow mayor - Valery Koretsky, who always remained in the shadows. He also had a hand in writing an article for Moskovsky Komsomolets. Although in the publication of September 1, under Yuri Kovelitsyn, the Moscow mayor himself is easily guessed, his authorship here is just as nominal as in the case of the Khimki test.

Koretsky was born in 1959. Graduated with honors from the Faculty of History of Donetsk State University, then - postgraduate studies at Moscow State University. In the early 1990s, he worked as the head of the Public Scientific Center for Humanitarian Problems at Moscow State University. Collaborated with the Security Council, analytical units of the presidential administration, with the old Supreme Council. In 1993-99 Valery Koretsky was the director of the Independent Institute of Social and Historical Problems, which he created on the basis of the history department of Moscow State University. In this position, he regularly monitored the socio-political situation in Russia. His reports were used in the work of Boris Yeltsin's administration.

In 1999, Koretsky became director of the Research Institute of Social Systems at Moscow State University. This position he still holds, not forgetting about teaching activities. Moreover, according to some students, he is a "shame on the faculty" and one of the most corrupt teachers. It is symbolic that it was Koretsky who became one of the coordinators of the working group of the State Council of the Russian Federation on administrative reform, created in September 2000. As you know, reforms in this direction were carried out under the direct supervision of Dmitry Medvedev, and this makes the version of the Zhurdom portal about Luzhkov's betrayal by Koretsky in 2010 even more plausible.

In November 2002, in an interview with Vek, Koretsky openly admitted that the developments of his group were applicable to the reform activities of Dmitry Medvedev. At the same time, the coordinator argued that the resistance to the working group of the State Council came from the Ministry of Property. He implicitly hinted at Medvedev's defense, appealing to her.

Koretsky, as director of OAO Moscow Information Technology”, served the needs of Mayor Luzhkov, often providing him with analytics. It is known what importance Yuri Luzhkov attached to the trust of Muscovites. He referred to him during attempts to remove him from power in 1996. In September 2010, he attached decisive importance to the trust of Muscovites. And since Valery Koretsky was Luzhkov's eyes and ears on the issue of public opinion, it was he who was entrusted with writing an explanatory article about the Khimki Forest. The request from the Presidential Administration mentioned by the former mayor was most likely also broadcast by Koretsky.

When by September 6 the article signed by the mayor was ready, Yuri Luzhkov, out of old habit, trusted his adviser and speechwriter, signing its final version literally without looking. Taking into account the peculiarities of the presentation and the position defended in the Khimki Test, a negative resonance from Medvedev was ensured. Koretsky also coordinated the placement of the article with the Administration - and since Luzhkov's visa was already on the text - press secretary Sergei Tsoi, as an oriental and executive person, did not bother the boss once again with his doubts about the appropriateness of this publication. And he just posted an article in Rossiyskaya Gazeta. And this public opposition to Medvedev was the last straw that led to the resignation of the mayor.

Ilya Barabanov recalls how many rumors there were around this publication. It was even rumored that the notorious Anatoly Wasserman had a hand in the creation of the Khimki test. Stanislav Belkovsky expressed himself bluntly about the role of the article in the overthrow of Luzhkov: "It played a major role in the fact that Medvedev went berserk."

Direct performers

The publication of the article was prepared not only by Valery Koretsky, and not only at the suggestion of Dmitry Medvedev. The president only gave the command to prepare Luzhkov's departure. And his allies from the administration were directly involved in the project itself.

At the same time, as political scientist Sergei Ryzhenkov noted, Medvedev himself, most likely, implicitly counted on the approval of Vladimir Putin. “After all, it is not necessary for people to openly say to each other: “Listen, I will do this and that. What is your opinion on this?" The actor of political action always expects a reaction. So Medvedev, sending Luzhkov to resign, most likely was firmly convinced that Putin would treat this with understanding.

The team for "mopping up Moscow from Luzhkov" included the press secretary of the president, Natalia Timakova; her husband, board member of the Institute of Contemporary Development, Alexander Budberg; oligarchs Viktor Vekselberg and Alexander Mamut; former member of the Yeltsin "Family" and head of the administration of Boris Yeltsin, Valentin Yumashev; oligarch Roman Abramovich and, finally, the former head of the presidential administration Alexander Voloshin.

Former journalist Natalya Timakova started at Moskovsky Komsomolets, where she got on the recommendation of Alexander Budberg, who later married her. At that time, Budberg was successfully working for Chubais. Later, the couple just as successfully worked for Voloshin. In gratitude for the services rendered, Voloshin recommended Timakov to Medvedev. Now Timakova plays an important role in the apparatus of Prime Minister Medvedev, accompanying him on career ladder. Dmitry Anatolyevich's trust in his press secretary is boundless. Timakova answers him with exceptional devotion. And, as you can see, he often uses old connections. For example, in Moskovsky Komsomolets - to open fire on Medvedev's political opponents.

Medvedev's team trained Alexander Voloshin as Yury Luzhkov's successor. Indeed, he is mentioned in the list of candidates for mayoral appointment.

Voloshin, as former leader administration of Presidents Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin, developed good relations with Dmitry Medvedev. At one time, Medvedev even worked as Voloshin's deputy. Voloshin himself relied on previously earned capital of influence: he was an adviser to Vladimir Putin during his election campaign and pushed his candidacy at the behest of the “power triangle” of Dyachenko, Yumashev and himself.

The story with Yukos led in 2003 to a crisis of power. On October 29, 2003, by decree of Russian President Putin, Voloshin was dismissed from the post of head of the presidential administration, and Dmitry Medvedev was appointed in his place. Until some time, Voloshin had every reason to dislike Medvedev. However, there is no evidence of a possible conflict between them at that time.

With the advent of Dmitry Medvedev to power, the period of temporary oblivion of Alexander Voloshin came to an end. In July 2010, Medvedev signed a decree on the working group to create the International Financial Center (IFC), appointing Voloshin as its head. In August 2010, Voloshin became a member of the board of directors of Yandex, and in September of the same year he was elected chairman of the board of directors of OJSC Uralkali.

As soon as the issue of Luzhkov's resignation was resolved, the first person remembered by Medvedev's team was Voloshin. However, the appointment of Alexander Stalievich to the post of mayor of Moscow was blocked by Vladimir Putin.

The ease with which the fate of the permanent Moscow mayor was decided because of a female offense can cast doubt on professional quality Dmitry Medvedev. It is natural that today he himself and his government are on the verge of resignation, with the subsequent accusation in the media of the economic recession that has begun and other troubles of the country.

Anton Volnov

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Elena Nikolaevna Baturina. She was born on March 8, 1963 in Moscow. Russian entrepreneur, philanthropist, philanthropist. President of Inteco Management. One of the richest women in Russia. Yuri Luzhkov's wife.

Father - Nikolai Baturin, was a foreman at the Fraser factory.

Mother worked at the machine, also at the Fraser plant.

The elder brother is Viktor Baturin, a businessman. In 2007, he sued his sister's company for $120 million for wrongful termination, but lost the case, and they signed a settlement. Since then, Baturina has not maintained contact with her brother. In July 2013, Viktor Baturin was convicted of promissory note fraud committed as part of his attempts to obtain additional money from his sister, in addition to those provided for in the settlement agreement, and non-residential premises. The court sentenced him to 7 years in prison.

In 1980, Elena graduated from high school, then for a year and a half she worked at the Fraser plant as a design engineer in the technology department.

In 1986 she graduated from the Moscow Institute of Management named after Sergo Ordzhonikidze.

She worked at the Institute for Economic Problems of Integrated Development of Moscow.

With the beginning of perestroika and the cooperative movement, she became the head of the secretariat of the All-Russian Union of United Cooperatives. From this organization she was delegated to the commission of the Moscow City Executive Committee on cooperative activities, where she held the position of chief specialist.

Since 1989, she began to engage in entrepreneurial activities, creating a cooperative together with her brother Viktor Baturin.

In 1991, Elena made a cameo in the crime film "Genius" with the title role.

Elena Baturina in the film "Genius"

On June 5, 1991, the Krasnopresnensky District Executive Committee of Moscow registered the Charter of the property owned by Baturina Inteko LLP specializing in the manufacture of various kinds of plastic products. Subsequently, for their individual types, the share of the products of this company accounted for up to a quarter of the Russian market. In the 1990s, Inteko, expanding its capacity, entered the construction business in the capital and other regions of the country. During the crisis of 2008-2009, Inteko was included in the list of 300 backbone enterprises of the Russian Federation that can count on state support.

Since 1994, Inteko has been engaged in petrochemistry - plastics processing and production of plastic products. In 1998, the company won open competition a major tender for the supply of 80,000 plastic seats for the Luzhniki stadium. Until 2000, the main business was the production of plastics and products from them.

In the mid-1990s, Inteko entered the construction business, developing the following areas: the development of modern finishing materials and technologies for facade work, cement production, panel and monolithic housing construction, architectural design and real estate business.

In 2001, CJSC Inteko acquired from a private person a controlling stake in one of the leading house-building plants in Moscow, JSC House-Building Plant No. 3. In June 2005 JSC Domostroitelny Kombinat No. 3 was sold.

In the early 2000s, Baturina acquired highly profitable "blue chips" of the largest Russian corporations Gazprom and Sberbank. This far-sighted step allowed the entrepreneur in the crisis year of 2009 to sell these shares with a significant profit and, due to this, to return the loans taken earlier to the banks for business development ahead of schedule and keep her business afloat.

At the end of 2008, along with Gazprom, Russian Railways and other big companies Inteko was included in the list of 295 backbone enterprises.

In 2009, Inteko CJSC acquired a 60% stake in Moscow Engineering Company CJSC, which specializes in engineering construction. In the same 2009, the company begins cooperation with the outstanding Spanish architect Ricardo Beaufil as part of a program to create fundamentally new prefabricated housing construction systems in Russia with the aim of comprehensive development of territories for mass housing construction.

In 2010, CJSC Inteko began construction of the second academic building of the Moscow State University named after M. V. Lomonosov.

In 2010, Elena Baturina turned out to be one of the largest taxpayers in Russia, paying taxes to the state budget for 2009 in the amount of 4 billion rubles.

At the end of 2010, Baturina sold her Russian Land Bank (RZB) to foreign investors.

The most significant completed projects of Inteko in Moscow during the period of ownership of the company by Elena Baturina are: the Shuvalovsky residential quarter (270 thousand square meters), the Grand Park residential quarter (400 thousand square meters), the Volzhsky residential microdistrict (400 thousand square meters), multifunctional complex "Fusion Park" with a museum unique cars from private collections "Autoville" (100 thousand m²), the Fundamental Library (60 thousand m²), as well as the educational building of the humanities faculties (100 thousand m²) of Lomonosov Moscow State University, invested and built by "Inteko" .

Inteko acted as a sponsor of the Russian Open Golf Championship golf tournament, one of the stages of the PGA European Tour, and also provided support to representatives of the Russian youth team during their participation in foreign competitions. In addition, Elena Baturina supported charity golf tournaments for the Cup of the President of the Russian Federation in Russia, as well as the Rottary Golf World Championship in Kitzbühel (Austria).

In early September 2011, the sale of Inteko's investment business was announced. Since 2011, Inteko has been part of the SAFMAR Group, owned by the Gutseriev-Shishkhanov family.

Selling Inteko, in 2011 Elena Baturina moved her business abroad. The head of the company Inteco Management.

After the resignation of Yuri Luzhkov from the post of mayor of Moscow, Elena Baturina settled outside the Russian Federation and began to actively invest in the hotel business. The first object of the future hotel chain was the five-star Grand Tirolia Hotel in Austrian Kitzbühel, the construction of which was completed in 2009. Investments in construction amounted, according to various estimates, to € 35-40 million. The hotel is located in the center of the Eichenheim golf club, together they make up the Grand Tirolia Golf & Ski Resort. Since 2009, the hotel complex has received the honorary status of the first "Laureus House" in Austria, and has now become the site of the annual ceremony of presenting the prestigious international Laureus World Sports Awards, referred to by experts as "Oscars" in sports journalism.

In 2010, the hotel complex New Peterhof was opened in St. Petersburg. The hotel received a number of architectural awards: the Grand Prix of the Architecton-2010 architectural review competition in the Buildings nomination, the Golden Diploma of the Green Awards in the Hotel Real Estate nomination, and the Golden Diploma of the International Architectural Festival Architecton-2010. 2010" in the nomination "Buildings".

One of Elena Baturina's business areas in the USA is investing in investment development funds involved in the construction of residential and commercial real estate in the UK and the USA. Baturina's representative office in the United States opened at the end of 2015. It provides support and control over investments made in the country.

In November 2016, the acquisition by Baturina's structures was completed land plot in Limassol, Cyprus. The site is located directly on the coast and is intended for the construction of a complex of elite residential real estate.

In 2015, Elena Baturina acquired a majority stake in the German company Hightex GmbH, which specializes in membrane construction. In April 2017, Hightex announced the launch of two international projects in Qatar and the USA. In Qatar, Hightex will construct the membrane roof and facades for the Al Bayt stadium. The stadium, with a capacity of 60,000 spectators, will be one of the venues for the FIFA World Cup in 2022. In the USA, Hightex is implementing a project to install membrane elements at the construction of the Canopy of Peace facility, 50 meters high.

Elena Baturina's condition

In 2010, Forbes magazine recognized Baturina as the third richest woman in the world with a fortune of $ 2.9 billion. In 2011, she moved to 77th place in the list of the richest businessmen in Russia with a fortune of $ 1.2 billion, while remaining the country's richest entrepreneur. In 2012 - 86th place in the list of the richest businessmen in Russia with a fortune of $ 1.1 billion.

In 2013, she took 98th place with a fortune of $ 1.1 billion. In 2013, the Sunday Times newspaper included Elena Baturina in the Sunday Times Rich List - list the richest people UK. Russian businesswoman got 122nd place in general list and 12th place in the list of the wealthiest women. Since then, Elena Baturina has appeared on the list every year and is a leader among women in the country who have earned their fortune on their own.

At the end of 2015, the fortune of Elena Baturina was $1 billion.

In 2017, her fortune amounted to $ 1 billion - 1940 place in the world ranking, 90 - in Russia.

Baturina's fortune was estimated at $1.2 billion.

Social activities of Elena Baturina

Since 2006, she has served as deputy head of the interdepartmental group on the national project "Affordable and comfortable housing for Russian citizens." Elena Baturina was the only representative of the construction business in this group. In connection with work on national project in Inteko was created special unit, whose employees traveled to the regions of Russia, surveying the state of the construction industry enterprises on the spot, determining the need for building materials, collecting demographic and sociological data. As a result, the concept of the Federal Target Program "Development of the Construction Industry and Building Materials Industry" was developed, on the basis of which the Government of the Russian Federation developed "Strategy for the development of the building materials industry for the period up to 2020".

In 2010, the company's president, Elena Baturina, became one of the first representatives of large businesses to independently provide assistance to victims of fires - in particular, Inteko built a children's preschool institution free of charge in the Tula region.

In 2015, Baturina became one of the international ambassadors public program WE-Women for EXPO organized jointly with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Intalia. We-Women for EXPO is an international public project within the framework of the World Expo, created to find solutions to the most pressing issues raised at EXPO 2015. The project brings together outstanding women from all over the world: Nobel Prize winners, politicians, cultural, scientific and sports figures, philanthropists and entrepreneurs. The status of an international ambassador was awarded to Elena Baturina for her contribution to the promotion of an innovative approach to solving social issues.

In 1999-2005, Elena Baturina served as President of the Russian Equestrian Federation. During this time, the organization of international dressage and triathlon competitions for youths and juniors was initiated, teams of riders of the corresponding age categories qualified for participation in the European Championships were formed. Many competitions were held in Moscow, including the Moscow Mayor's Cup, which was one of the stages of the Cup. After a ten-year break, the Championship of Russia, the Cup of Russia and the Championship of Russia among youths and juniors in triathlon were held.

Supports culture and the arts. First "Russian Seasons" Elena Baturina organized in Kitzbühel, Austria in 2008 a Russian Christmas celebration with the participation of Russian classical music performers and Russian folk song and dance groups. The following stages of the Russian Seasons were held for several years not only in Austria, but also in a number of other European countries.

Sponsored the International Music Festival Jazz Nova in Kitzbühel. Over the years, the world music legends Stevie Wonder and Carlos Santana have become its headliners, the participants were Liquid Soul and Brazzaville, the Turetsky Choir, Sergey Zhilin. Attendance at the festival was free, invitations were distributed through public funds.

Elena Baturina is the founder of the charitable Education Support Foundation (FES) "NOOSPHERE", whose activities are aimed at developing religious tolerance and tolerance in society and provides for the creation of a system of educational courses, information and leisure centers, grant and scholarship programs. The NOOSPHERE Foundation is the initiator and one of the organizers of the educational festival Team Tolerance. Currently, the Noosphere Foundation is implementing an educational astronomy project in London with the support of the London Mayor's Foundation.

Elena Baturina initiated a charity project "Revival of the Russian tradition of collective assistance in building a house" ("House by the whole world"). This project was called upon to join forces commercial organizations, individuals and authorities in various regions of Russia to solve the housing problems of people in dire need of improvement living conditions. As part of the "Home for the Whole World" project, Inteko donated apartments to families in Moscow, Rostov-on-Don and St. Petersburg.

Established humanitarian fund BE OPEN- creative think tank / "think tank", whose mission is to promote ideas and personalities. This is a cultural and humanitarian initiative that aims to gather the energy of the global creative elite - the best minds from the fields of art, education, design, business - and direct it towards a positive transformation of society. The development and realization of the creative potential of young people is carried out with the help of an extended system of interrelated events: conferences, competitions, exhibitions, master classes, events in the field of culture and art.

Height of Elena Baturina: 172 centimeters.

Personal life of Elena Baturina:

Married. Spouse - (born September 21, 1936), Soviet and Russian statesman and politician, for 18 years in 1992-2010 served as mayor of Moscow.

Luzhkov and Baturina met when both worked in the Moscow City Executive Committee, Elena - in the commission for cooperative activities. We got married in 1991. Then Elena Baturina was 28 years old, and Luzhkov was 55. Baturina said: “When we worked together, we didn’t even think about it, everything happened a little later. Luzhkov is a real man in the best sense of the word. And we are very lucky - we love each other. We are a completely traditional family."

In marriage, they had two daughters - Elena (born 1992) and Olga (born 1994).

Before the resignation of Yuri Luzhkov, the daughters studied at Moscow State University. Later they moved to London, where they studied politics and economics at University College London.

Baturina explained her move to London by her desire to be close to her daughters: “Life so happened that I now have to live in England, my children study there and I, of course, will always be attached to the place where they are. They will want tomorrow live in Japan, I will go to Japan with them because they are my children and they are more important to me than any business."

Daughter Elena is engaged in business in Slovakia, founded the company Alener in Bratislava, the main field of activity of which is the development cosmetics and perfumery.

Daughter Olga in 2010 entered the Faculty of Economics Moscow State University, then studied for two years at University College London. She then graduated with a bachelor's degree from New York University, followed by a master's degree in hospitality and food sciences. At the end of 2015, Olga opened the Herbarium bar next to the Grand Tirolia Hotel in Kitzbühel, owned by Elena Baturina.

In January 2016, Baturina and Luzhkov got married after 25 years of marriage. The wedding took place in the house church of the Nativity of the Virgin, located on the site of Yuri Luzhkov's country house, it was held by the rector of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, Archbishop Feognost - former mayor Moscow maintains friendly relations with him. The ceremony was attended by children and relatives of the couple, as well as close friends.

Elena Baturina is fond of horses. Baturina became interested in equestrian sports after Svyatoslav Fedorov gave her a horse for her birthday. In his personal stable, Baturina keeps disabled horses and provides them with a decent existence.

According to Baturina, how a person mounts a horse, how he negotiates with it - this is how he builds relationships with people: “It is imperative to put a person on a horse to see how he will behave in a team: will he become a leader or not, will he be a dictator or he will compromise. In general, horses are easier for men. They have a strong hand, and it is not difficult to stop an animal. Luzhkov can handle any horse."

He also loves skiing. He prefers skiing in Tyrol, Austria. It was this passion that caused the first object of the Baturina hotel chain, the Grand Tirolia Hotel, to be built in Tyrol.

In addition, Elena Baturina is fond of golf, which she plays with her husband and collects photographs from the countries she visits.

Collects Russian porcelain. Elena Baturina owns one of the largest private collections of Russian imperial porcelain. She gives preference to porcelain from the time of Nicholas I.

In April 2011, Elena Baturina donated about 40 works of art to the Tsaritsyno Museum-Reserve in Moscow - part of her collection of rare porcelain. The exposition was dedicated to the 200th anniversary Patriotic War 1812.

Filmography of Elena Baturina:

Where Luzhkov lives now can be said with 100% certainty. After his resignation, the disgraced mayor lived for some time in Austria, then in England, but it is obvious that he was irresistibly drawn to his homeland. At first he lived in the Kaluga region and kept an apiary, but obviously his soul demanded more. The former mayor could not just breed bees and pump honey, and soon he moved to the Kaliningrad region, where there was more space for his nature.

Where does Yury Mikhailovich Luzhkov live now?

After his resignation, having traveled abroad for three years, Yuri Mikhailovich returned to Russia, and found a dilapidated stud farm in the Kaliningrad region. This old German facility was destroyed in the early 90s, but obviously Elena Baturina (wife of the former mayor), who at one time headed the Russian Equestrian Federation, saw potential in this plant. The Luzhkov family bought out 87% of the shares of the Weedern stud farm and began to restore it.

Five thousand hectares of land are occupied by a stud farm, a sheepfold, cowsheds and fields where Yuri Mikhailovich breeds pedigree sports horses, and the famous "Romanovsky" sheep.

I must say that Weedern is not just a stud farm. This is a whole estate of an old Prussian family and the last mistress Anna von Zitzevitz left it only in 1946. About ten years ago she came to her family nest, and despite her sadness, she was sincerely glad that the estate was living and working. The former mayor did not rebuild everything, but took up the reconstruction and restoration of the former appearance of the estate. He has already managed to get the status of a breeding reproducer of Hanoverian horses, and this is quite a prestigious title.

Agrocomplex "Weedern" is growing, and every year Yuri Mikhailovich masters new directions. Now rapeseed, buckwheat and wheat are grown on the fields of the Agrocomplex. Often the owner himself gets behind the wheel of the combine and works on a par with other combine operators.

“Dry law” reigns within the Agrocomplex, but this is not what irritates the workers. Luzhkov, as his employees say, has "an awl in one place." He does not sit still for a second and constantly does something, constantly controls everything and drives everyone. Although, he drives on business, and he pays a good salary, which reconciles the workers with his boss.

A couple of years ago, the ex-mayor decided to start producing cheese. Breeding dairy cows were purchased in Germany, equipment in Slovenia, and the trademark "Honey Meadows" was registered. For the sample, a batch of “Adyghe” cheese was released, in terms of brie, camembert and so on, up to parmesan.

Residents of the region reacted with approval to this initiative of Yuri Mikhailovich, since his products are sold in stores at social prices, and have high quality. Volumes do not yet allow to go beyond the area, but for now this is enough.

The success of the Luzhkov economy is explained not only by diligence, but also by a scientific approach to business. Yuri Mikhailovich carefully studies the experience of foreign colleagues and understands that if the Germans receive 10 tons of hay per hectare, and in Russia the average is 3 tons, then something is wrong here.

DIY former official repairs and even makes changes to the equipment, making it more productive, which greatly surprises the workers.

The disgraced mayor ceased to be disgraced when, on September 21, 2016, President of the Russian Federation V. Putin awarded him the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree, “for active social work.” This award gave a new impetus to the former politician and opened up new prospects for development. Yuri Mikhailovich believes that he has learned a lot and can give practical advice to agro-industrialists based on personal experience.

Left without a position and becoming a farmer, Luzhkov began to better understand the problems of ordinary citizens, small entrepreneurs and farmers. Having built a road to his stud farm at his own expense, he butted heads with local officials for a long time, who did not give permission for commissioning, finding fault with trifles. This amuses and saddens Luzhkov. After all, he built hundreds of kilometers of roads, and now he cannot legalize 300 meters.

Luzhkov's wife Elena Baturina does not share her husband's craving for farming and considers it a "hobby". She constantly lives in London, from time to time visits her husband and gives money for his new projects. Yuri Mikhailovich fundamentally does not take bank loans, considering them extortionate.

Now Yury Luzhkov is satisfied with his life, although sometimes he feels annoyed in connection with his past. Resentment at injustice towards him is forgotten only when he gets behind the wheel of a tractor, or bypasses his possessions.

Here he sees the results of his work and rejoices that all this appeared thanks to his work. This year, Yuri Mikhailovich will be 82 years old, but he is not going to retire and climb on the stove. He has too much to do, too much to do.

History of success

A classic example of a modern business woman, not a housewife, but a worthy couple to her high-ranking husband Yuri Luzhkov. However, who is a couple to whom is another question, in a recent interview, Elena Nikolaevna said bluntly: "It's all about genes - a person is either a leader by nature or not. I have always been a leader."
Elena Nikolaevna's career business woman started in October 1991. It was then that A. Smolensky, a well-known entrepreneur, president of the Capital Savings Bank (now his brainchild is called O.V.K.1), provided her with a loan of 6 million rubles to create a cooperative. True, the first experience was unsuccessful - Yuri Mikhailovich advised Baturina to close the cooperative. The loan, however, had to be repaid - and loving husband came to the rescue, giving Smolensky the opportunity to serve the profitable part of the budget of the Moscow Government.
Surely Yuri Mikhailovich and Elena Nikolaevna now recall that distant time with a smile - now, according to the magazine "Cult of Personalities", the mayor and his wife are among the richest people in Russia - their "modest wealth" is estimated by experts at $ 300-400 million.
Luzhkov has no time to earn money: Moscow, Fatherland, constant worries, so Baturina works for two. It will soon be ten years since she heads the Inteko company (assets - about 10 million dollars), the leader in the plastics market, several dozen more companies, some of which are part of the famous AFK (associated financial company) Sistema, owns shares in plastics factories. It’s hard, of course, for a fragile woman, but the city helps a little - the Luzhkovs live in the mayor’s residence, and for public Utilities Moscow pays instead.
The wife helps her husband not only with money, but also with the municipal economy: Inteko JSC, where Elena Baturina, in addition to the chair of the head of the company, has 50% of the shares, recently won a tender for refurbishment football stadium in Luzhniki and for the installation of plastic chairs there. By the way, the media claim that Inteko is almost Baturina's personal shop. Of course, these publications have nothing to do with reality: in fact, the second co-founder and co-chairman of the company is Elena's brother Viktor Nikolayevich Baturin.
The high-ranking couple also thinks about ordinary Muscovites - it was not without the participation of Inteko JSC that the funds allocated, including by the Moscow government, were spent for the construction of the Prince Rurik brewery. The media talked a lot about this, the Luzhkov family even sued Novaya Gazeta. True, not because of the stated facts (they just didn’t object to them, probably there was nothing to object to), but because of the dissonant headline: “Tens of millions of dollars are laundered at a secret brewery.” The court decided that "the presentation in the article itself of specific information about the investigation into the activities of JSC "Prince Rurik" and its head for its illegality is the dissemination of information that discredits the honor, dignity and business reputation of Baturina Elena Nikolaevna and the business reputation of CJSC Inteko." Probably, according to the plan of Elena Nikolaevna, any investigation into the activities of companies associated with Inteko should immediately receive the stamp "Secret".
No, the successes of the mayor's family haunt the opponents! Recently, the Federal Security Service of Russia in the Vladimir Region revealed the facts of illegal transfer abroad through Alexkombank of the town of Alexandrov of 230 million dollars to the little-known state of Nauru, famous only for being an offshore zone. About 100 banks and about 600 firms participated in the transfer of money, this multi-way combination, among which, by chance, were CJSC Inteko and Bistro-Plast, owned by Elena Nikolaevna's brother, Viktor Nikolaevich. Among a good hundred banks, the not-too-famous Russian Land Bank, through which Baturin's brother and sister had the misfortune to make their payments, also came under scrutiny. The management interfered in every possible way with the check, hinting to the investigator that his actions were illegal and that the command would soon come to stop the seizure of documents - this went on for two days. On the third day, the investigator came to make a seizure, holding in his hands a copy of Komsomolskaya Pravda, where it is written in black and white that, it turns out, he had already made a seizure, and thus he had violated the law. It is clear that the investigator can assert whatever he pleases, but since it is written in the newspaper, it means that it is definitely true. And the day before, when negotiations were still underway with the bank's management, State Duma deputy A. Aleksandrov from the Russian Regions faction sent a deputy inquiry about the violation of the law by the investigator.
Undoubtedly, the case was fabricated with gross violations code of criminal procedure - and how can a modest family business producing plastic chairs, basins and buckets be involved in an international scandal?
Of course, the head of the family, Yuri Mikhailovich Luzhkov, could not offend his spouse and, with all the might of his considerable capabilities and official position, attacked the prosecutor's office and the state with merciless criticism: even the revolutionary call "Power needs to be changed" was sounded. (Recall that Luzhkov himself is far from being the last person in power). In an interview with Yevgeny Kiselev on NTV, the mayor categorically stated that his wife did not and does not have any business in the Vladimir region, including banking. Apparently, Yuri Mikhailovich did not have time to consult with Elena Nikolaevna before the broadcast - she herself said several times that Inteko made small routine payments for plastic products through Alekskombank, for which predators from the Prosecutor General's Office clung to.
Yes, and Elena Mikhailovna herself did not hide behind her husband's back and lamented in numerous interviews: if the mayor's wife cannot calmly engage in medium-sized business, then what can we say about mere mortals? How to be it? Who will protect them from the arbitrariness of the authorities?

"Whose fields are these?"

According to the media, Elena Baturina claims that she has never used her husband's official position and many of her firms participate on equal terms in contracts organized by the Moscow government. They say that everything is fair, and budget orders go to those who offer better services. For example, an order for the equipment of the interior of the Luzhniki stadium. And the fact that the football field had to be laid on it twice does not bother anyone (the first time the field turned out to be so bald that some teams even refused to play on it). Money something budgetary. Who and when in Moscow counted them.

Girlfriend

To date, a whole group of firms (more than two dozen!), The owner and co-owner of which is Ms. Baturina, has developed around Inteko. According to expert estimates, the turnover of these firms is about $ 30 million a year. Yury Mikhailovich says about Ms. Baturina's business: " If the wife is not allowed to do business, the sons are not allowed either. Who will prepare the shift for us? Another thing is that I cannot lobby for the interests of my wife. But to forbid the relatives of politicians to do what they know, can do and want is absurd."
It would seem that everything is logical. Luzhkov does not personally lobby. For this, there were other people. For example, the co-owners of CJSC Miussy-2, one of the companies of the Inteko group, are Elena Baturina and Natalya Nikolskaya, the daughter of the First Deputy Prime Minister of Moscow. And it would be strange if Sistema did not provide assistance to Ms. Baturina's business. There is such help. Let's say CJSC "Reka-Solntse" was organized by the joint efforts of "Inteko" and "Systems". JSC "Almeko" belongs to "Inteko" on shares with four firms included in "Sistema".
"Evening Volgograd", 16.04.99

henpecked

"Arguments and Facts" put forward an interesting hypothesis.
The political role of "image adviser" Tatyana Dyachenko is widely known. But few people know that Elena Baturina's underlined housekeeping and apathy hide no less ambitions. In one interview, she bluntly stated: "It's all about the genes - a person is either a leader by nature or not. I have always been a leader."
And today Baturina's leadership is undeniable. People close to the mayor's family and the capital's corridors of power know that she manages much better with the mayor Luzhkov and his entourage than Raisa Maksimovna and Mikhail Gorbachev at one time (the fact that Yuri Luzhkov is "henpecked" is widely known). Therefore, if new presidential elections are nevertheless held in Russia, then in the second round the Kremlin princess and the Moscow princess may meet in absentia.

Election gifts

Elena Baturina, who announced her intention to run for the State Duma in a single-mandate district in Kalmykia, decided ahead of time to lay a straw for herself: according to the Arkhangelsk newspaper Pravda Severa, on April 4, 1999, the wife of the Moscow mayor presented the Kargopol chapel of Kalmykia.
Local experts claim that it was presented to Kalmykia last year for the World Chess Olympiad by the wife of Moscow Mayor Elena Baturina. The religious building was allegedly presented to his wife by Yuri Luzhkov. It is interesting that the master carpenters from Kargopol completed an unusual order for the mayor of the capital. By the way, a similar chapel was erected two years earlier by northerners in Moscow, and they cut it down in their homeland.
The question is: with what funds did the mayor of Moscow "present" Baturina's chapel?