In Novaya Gazeta, there is a major investigation by Roman Shleynov into why the security services are so fond of charitable foundations. It also mentions my legal battle with Transneft: A* minority shareholder in Gazprom, Rosneft, and Transneft, Alexei Navalny insists that these state-controlled giants disclose detailed information about their charitable spending. He is concerned not only with what exactly these sums were spent on, but also with the perennial question: could charitable donations be used to support the siloviki (security and law-enforcement structures) in exchange for their turning a blind eye to what happens to company money? * Navalny points out that just one Transneft subsidiary, Sibnefteprovod, spent more than 1.5 billion rubles on charity in 2007 (for comparison, Rosneft’s entire charitable spending in 2008 amounted to 618 million rubles). Money from this Transneft subsidiary went to two foundations, one of which was created to assist the Federal Protective Service, which guards the country’s top state officials. * — What do these foundations actually do, and are these really the organizations that need charitable donations more than anyone else? Navalny asks in disbelief. — I thought help was needed first and foremost by children and the sick, not by structures close to the security services. A*nd Novaya also dug up a remarkable fact: the “charitable” foundation Kremlin-9 was a founding member of an organization called the Kremlin Club of Proper Hunting.