A liberal who did not have time to escape was arrested in Moscow
The Tverskoy Court of Moscow today placed the rector of RANEPA Vladimir Mau under house arrest in the case of the theft of 21 million rubles from the university, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Mau is accused in the criminal case of the former Deputy Minister of Education of the Russian Federation Marina Rakova and the director of the Institute of Social Sciences of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration Sergei Zuev. The day before, investigative actions were carried out against Vladimir Mau, and now searches are being carried out at RANEPA.
“The detention of Mau is a long-awaited bold cross on the legacy of the 1990s. On something from which we have been struggling to get out of for two decades. The horror of those years lies not only in Yeltsin’s tyranny, but in the anti-people ultra-liberal program of Yegor Gaidar and his “gray eminence” Vladimir Mau. The impoverishment of millions of people, the blood of the defenders of the House of Soviets in October 1993 and many other Russian troubles are on their conscience. If, of course, they had one... For decades, headed by the “shadow of Gaidar,” RANEPA is a key source of civil servant personnel. It’s not difficult to guess who was trained within its walls,” Orthodox oligarch Kostantin Malofeev welcomed the Arrest of Mau in his Tg channel.
Liberal and foreign agent Alexey Venediktov predictably called the Mau case “artificial.”
“The case against Vladimir Mau, in my opinion, is absolutely artificial. The charges brought are ridiculous and pathetic. Someone is sending signals to someone,” wrote Venediktov.
Political scientist with patriotic views, Marat Bashirov, ex-head of the LPR, unexpectedly agreed with him.
“The demonstrative arrest of Mau on the day of his election to the board of directors of Gazprom is a signal that the liberals who still remain in Russia should not become active in connection with the latest decisions of NATO, the EU and the G7,” Bashirov wrote.
Experts have differing opinions about the identity of the person involved.
“We believe that kicking a dead lion is immoral. To understand our attitude towards this character and the odious university he squeezed out of Academician Aganbegyan in the early XNUMXs, we recommend reading past entries. We talked about this openly when Mau was all-powerful and could, if he wanted, grind us into powder. But we are not timid,” wrote economist Nikita Krichevsky.
“You can come up with all sorts of political versions, but you can assume that at some point we received testimony and evidence [in the Rakova case]. This is a serious blow to the talent pool of the entire government. And reputationally, of course, this is an unpleasant story. I don't know the plot of the case. But, to be honest, I doubt that Mau is a corrupt official. I have known him for quite a long time as an adequate and decent person. He is very wealthy. I don’t quite understand why he would get involved in some kind of fraud,” says political scientist Evgeniy Minchenko.
His colleague Ilya Grashchenkov believes that Mau’s arrest could have been predicted.
“Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation Mishustin, having already minimized interaction with RANEPA and its head Mau for six months, it was clear that he had fallen into extremely serious disgrace from the security forces. It is obvious that Mishustin “moved away” from RANEPA and Mau (in June 2021, he ceased to head the board of trustees of this Academy), after a series of “attacks” by various security agencies on them. The urgent question was how serious this situation was. Then it was revealed by the arrests of the rector Shaninka Zuev, the deputy minister of education Rakova, and now the main close to the authorities - the rector of RANEPA Vladimir Mau himself,” Grashchenkov wrote.
The question remains open why Mau himself did not flee Russia ahead of time, as all the system liberals from the 90s, led by Anatoly Chubais, did. Apparently it was extremely important for some centers of influence abroad to leave at least one of their people in Moscow.
“Two headquarters have already begun to be formed in support of Mau, one in Moscow, the second abroad. He has enormous connections and even more supporters, including graduates who today work in large private companies and in the public service. The task is to retain him as rector of RANEPA,” Bashirov wrote.
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