yashin is conducting a truly remarkable investigation. As is well known, the newspaper Vedomosti established the following fact:
Vasily Yakemenko, head of Rosmolodezh (Russia’s Federal Agency for Youth Affairs) (pictured on the left), was a co-founder of companies whose other co-founders were members of the organized gang of bandits and murderers known as the “29th Complex”.
Yakemenko responded by saying that he did not know, and had never even seen, any of the members of the “29th Complex.” According to him, his passport was simply stolen, and then his name was entered among the founders. Theoretically, that is possible. yashin did something simple but absolutely right: he wrote to the prosecutor’s office asking for an inquiry. As a result, he received a very interesting reply from the Naberezhnye Chelny prosecutor’s office:
here, for example, is who Salyakhov is:
So what do we have? The country is in the midst of a full-scale anti-corruption campaign. The country is also in the midst of a full-scale effort to “keep criminals out of government.” Rosmolodezh chief Yakemenko set up companies and worked together with members of the “29th Complex.” Former head of Russia’s Interpol bureau, Major General Ovchinsky, states outright: "I am deeply struck by the presence in the Russian government, with ministerial rank, of a man named Yakemenko. More than twenty years ago, I knew him as one of the active members of the Lyubertsy gang (a notorious criminal group from the Moscow region)." Some say it behind the scenes, while others, such as Marat Gelman, say openly that the man behind the attempted murder of Oleg Kashin kashin is this same Rosmolodezh official, Yakemenko. Rosmolodezh chief Yakemenko continues to lead his youth movement, ride around in a car with a flashing beacon, and “keep criminals out of government.” I am not calling for Yakemenko to be immediately fired and jailed. But there are already more than enough grounds to politely suggest that he take a leave of absence until all of this is clarified. Ovchinsky should explain exactly what he meant. It is necessary to determine whether there were ties to this “29th Complex” or not. And so on. In Germany, the defense minister recently resigned over plagiarism allegations related to his doctoral dissertation.
Here, an official is being accused, on highly credible grounds, of ties to a group that committed more than 20 proven murders—and nothing happens. Even though, if I recall correctly, we once had a guy in this country who declared that he was now the boss and the guarantor of the Constitution.