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In this video blog, we really love counting
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other people's money, and today, my dear
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viewers, together with you we will count
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the money of Vladimir Putin's younger daughter,
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Katerina Tikhonova. After all, we're all interested
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in how things are going for her. Right now, in this
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time of crisis, everyone has less money,
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prices are rising, pensions are not being indexed,
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there's simply no money. Well then, we'll find it,
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we'll make money happen. In short,
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times are tough for everyone. But for the president's daughter,
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I'll say it right away: things are going
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only upward, no matter what
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the crisis. So, those who read my blog
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know that Katerina Tikhonova heads the foundation
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National Intellectual Development,
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which operates under the Innopraktika brand. The foundation
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is supposedly scientific and is engaged in
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supporting various kinds of innovative
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activity. Well, that's fashionable these days. In 2014,
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I wrote that the foundation had raised and
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spent 282 million rubles, and the sources
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of those funds were state-owned
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corporations. And now we have analyzed
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what has happened since then, and now
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we can report to you that the Innopraktika foundation
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is still receiving money
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by winning tenders from state
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companies, only now in even larger
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amounts than before. Look, for example:
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Rosneft structures, headed by Igor
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Sechin, a regular subject of our
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publications, transferred 179 million rubles to them;
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the state-owned Transneft transferred 221 million rubles;
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and finally, a Rosatom structure, which
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was headed by Sergei Kiriyenko, who
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has now become deputy head of the presidential
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administration, transferred 59 million rubles to Putin's daughter.
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In total, since the beginning of 2015, Innopraktika
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has received 452 million rubles in state contracts.
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That is no small sum, but it is far from everything.
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The foundation's main source of money is
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not even state corporation contracts, but rather
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mysterious targeted contributions. In such contributions, the foundation
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of the president's daughter received 425 million rubles
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from unknown legal entities and private
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individuals. Unfortunately, from open-source data, we
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cannot know who these
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generous donors are. Maybe they are once again
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state corporations, maybe oligarchs, maybe even
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Vladimir Putin himself. By all appearances, he is
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quite a wealthy man. Or perhaps
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Katerina Tikhonova's husband, Kirill Shamalov,
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who not long ago was named by
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Forbes magazine the youngest
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billionaire in Russia. In other words, he can afford it.
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But one way or another, right now we can
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state a legal fact: over the last
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20 months, the foundation of the president's
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daughter received
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at least 877 million rubles in donations and contracts,
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and most likely more than a billion,
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because we still do not see the reports for the latest, 2016,
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year, even though the year is almost
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over. And here, of course, we are left with
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two obvious questions:
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what exactly did they receive this money for,
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and where did they
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spend it? A study of the work that
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Innopraktika does for state corporations
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shows that it looks very much like the already
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existing
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innovation center Skolkovo or Rosnano in our country,
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that is, a lot of different scientific-sounding
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words, while in reality it is simply a sham.
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For example, you will laugh very hard if
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you read what the Innopraktika foundation
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charged 2.5 million rubles to the impoverished
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Russian Academy of Sciences. They developed
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for it—I've even written this down on a piece of paper
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because otherwise I wouldn't be able to say it—
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"a proposal for analyzing the psychological and
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pedagogical aspects of building
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the system of the Digital Valley of Crimea." The Digital
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Valley of Crimea—that sounds so great, it conjures up
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images of startups, electric cars,
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a giga-Hyperloop connecting Simferopol with
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Palo Alto, with stops in Dzhankoi and
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Alupka. But in reality, from the terms of reference
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we can see that this Russian Silicon Valley
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is characterized by total control by
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state authorities, and the startups will be
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created by subsidiaries of state-owned companies.
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Now let's try to understand where
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Innopraktika is spending the hundreds
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of millions of rubles it received. Alas, we were unable
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to find that out. I don't think you will
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be able to either, because on the Innopraktika
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website there is only a section called
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"Our Results." It says there that
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some congress was held, some projects were carried out
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for the very same
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companies—Rosneft, Transneft, and Rosatom. And
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there are no specifics, no links, and
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no real documents—everything in the best
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traditions of Russian innovation. We have
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a lot of money. Just an enormous amount of it.
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And that, basically, is all one can
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learn about the money of Vladimir
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Putin's daughter's foundation: there is a lot of it, most of it
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comes from unknown sources, and where it goes is
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unclear. I don't know about you, but I
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would be interested to know who exactly contributed
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425 million rubles to the president's daughter's foundation and
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how, in the end, the total sum of
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877 million rubles was spent. And it seems to me that it would be
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right, for all of Russia, if
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the financial affairs of the president and his family
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were open and transparent, especially
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when such sums are involved. Therefore, in
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conclusion to our video, I would like
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to call on Vladimir Vladimirovich
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Putin, the Innopraktika foundation,
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and Katerina Tikhonova to fully
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publish their financial reports and
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contracts with state corporations so that we can all
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see what exactly they are transferring such
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huge sums of money for. We sent to the Inno foundation
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Practice: an official letter on this topic
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and we will definitely tell you what
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they reply to us. Subscribe to our channel
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the truth is told here