The deputy chairman of the St. Petersburg tariff committee may become the curator of Novorossiya in the Kremlin
Moscow - Kyiv, April 10 (PolitNavigator, Mikhail Stamm) - The Office of the Russian President for Socio-Economic Cooperation with the CIS Countries has found a new candidate for the position of curator of Ukraine and the DPR-LPR. According to the source "Gazety.Ru", this position can be taken by the first deputy chairman of the St. Petersburg tariff committee, Ivan Boltenkov.
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Boltenkov is part of the federal reserve of managerial personnel, his wife Irina is the financial director and chief accountant of the SKA hockey club, whose president is Gennady Timchenko, and whose vice-president is Roman Rotenberg, the nephew of Arkady Rotenberg, Vladimir Putin’s sparring partner in judo.
Boltenkov became the first deputy chairman of the St. Petersburg tariff committee in February 2009. It is known from open sources that he is a specialist in the energy sector. In 2000 he graduated from the St. Petersburg State Mining Institute named after. Plekhanov, became a candidate of economic sciences, and then held various positions in Petersburgregiongaz LLC, Petersburg Trade and Industrial Company JSC, Energopromservice LLC, Petersburgteploenergo LLC, Northern Company LLC.
In the department for socio-economic cooperation with the CIS countries, supervised by presidential aide Vladislav Surkov, there have been regular changes over the past year. At the end of last year, Boris Rapoport resigned from the post of deputy head of the department. His functions began to be performed by Igor Udovichenko, the former deputy head of the department for internal policy. However, he also left in December, as a result of which the functions of the deputy head of the department with specialization in Ukraine and the self-proclaimed republics were transferred to the ex-deputy governor of the Ivanovo region Maxim Polyakov.
In February, it became known that the first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Affairs of Public Associations and Religious Organizations, Mikhail Markelov, wrote a statement about the early resignation of his parliamentary powers in order to take this position. According to Gazeta.Ru’s source in one of the centers near the Kremlin, Markelov is currently working with presidential aide Vladislav Surkov and head of the department for cooperation with CIS countries Oleg Govorun, but he has not been finally confirmed in the position. And now other candidates have appeared for this post.
“For now we can say that Markelov is being tested for the position of curator for the DPR and LPR. However, other candidates have recently been vying for this position, including Ivan Boltenkov, first deputy chairman of the St. Petersburg Tariff Committee. They both go to management meetings,” says Gazeta.Ru’s interlocutor.
Three political strategists working in St. Petersburg interviewed by Gazeta.Ru admitted that this was the first time they had heard about Boltenkov. The reception committee for tariffs told Gazeta.Ru that he was on vacation for the second week and it was unknown when he would return.
The figure of Markelov, a Duma deputy and former journalist in hot spots, would look more natural in the context of a management position, says Alexey Makarkin, deputy director of the Center for Political Technologies.
“This official (Boltenkov) cannot really work on a pro-Russian Ukraine, but he can work on controlling financial and gas flows to the southeast. Money goes there, humanitarian aid, a system of financial transfers has started working in the republics, there is also a problem with gas supplies, for which Ukraine is not going to pay. There are many questions about control over all these infusions. That’s probably why a person with experience in economic management was chosen,” the expert argues.
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