The ex-senator from the Vladimir region was fired for his incomprehensible “successes in science. Public flogging and dismissal: why Putin was angered by academicians in uniform

Alexander Savenkov was dismissed from the post of Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Russian Federation- Head of the Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The order for his dismissal was published on the website of the President of Russia today at 10.30.

Before serving in the main police department, from March 25, 2009 to March 1, 2013, he represented the Vladimir region in the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation.

As the Kremlin press service reported, Alexander Savenkov was relieved of his post in the Ministry of Internal Affairs “due to at will" At the same time, presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov explained to RIA Novosti that all the dismissed officials (and besides Savenkov, the list includes the deputy manager of the presidential affairs, the head of the Main Medical Directorate of Presidential Administration Konstantin Kotenko and the head of the Main Military Medical Directorate of the Ministry of Defense Alexander Fisun) were dismissed due to their election to the RAS.

Elections to the Russian Academy of Sciences took place on October 24 and 25 - then general meetings of the RAS were held, during which corresponding members, academicians and foreign members of the RAS were elected. Exactly a month ago, on October 28, on general meeting the election results were confirmed. Alexander Savenkov was elected from the Branch social sciences RAS ( full list favorites -).

Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed dissatisfaction with the results of the elections to the Russian Academy of Sciences. On November 23, during a meeting of the Russian Presidential Council for Education and Science, Putin threatened with dismissal from the civil service those officials who, contrary to the recommendations of the head of state, became members of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He also demanded an answer from the Russian Academy of Sciences as to why this happened.

“At the end of last year, I made a request to my colleagues and to the president of the Academy of Sciences,” said Vladimir Putin. – The request was that in the past we had many representatives of various levels of government take part in elections to the Academy of Sciences. Including senior officials. I asked my colleagues to refrain from participating in the elections of new members of the State Academy of Sciences due to the fact that people who hold positions in government bodies, especially at the upper levels, are engaged in service or should at least be engaged in serious service way. Otherwise, they are unable to perform their official duties and engage in scientific research They can only do it in their free time. Which, in fact, is not available for people who work conscientiously in administrative positions.”

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Savenkov Alexander Nikolaevich

In 1985 he graduated from the Red Banner Military Institute of the Ministry of Defense.

From 1985 to 1994 he served as an assistant military prosecutor, military prosecutor in the garrisons of the Trans-Baikal Military District.

From 1994 to 1997 he served in the Main Military Prosecutor's Office.

In 1997, he was appointed to the post of first deputy military prosecutor of the Volga Military District. Subsequently, he served as a military prosecutor of the Siberian and then the Moscow military district.

From 2002 to 2006 – Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation – Chief Military Prosecutor.

In December 2006, by Decree of the President of the Russian Federation, he was appointed First Deputy Minister of Justice of the Russian Federation.

Since March 2009, he has represented the interests of the Legislative Assembly of the Vladimir Region in the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation. He was deputy chairman of the Committee on Constitutional Legislation, Legal and Judicial Issues, Development of Civil Society, and headed the subcommittee on legislative support for the fight against corruption.

On May 12, 2014, by Decree of the President of Russia, he was appointed Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation - Head of the Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia.

Awarded the Order of Honor, the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree, the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, III degree. Has more than 50 medals and departmental awards of the Russian Federation and foreign countries. Recognized with certificates of honor from the Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation, Chairman of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation.

Colonel General of Justice, Actual State Councilor of the Russian Federation, 1st class, Doctor of Law, Professor. Honored Lawyer of the Russian Federation, Honorary Worker of the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation.

Married, two sons.

Five high-ranking officials were fired by the Russian President and Prime Minister for their election to the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAN). Officials received the title of academician in October, and last week Vladimir Putin criticized the choice of the academy. According to the president, conscientious officials should not have any free time for scientific activities. Rain studied the scientific achievements of civil servants, whom Putin, in his own words, now “gave the opportunity to do science.”

Alexander Savenkov

Doctor of Historical Sciences and former deputy head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Savenkov was appointed to this position in 2014. He was even called the main contender for the post of Prosecutor General instead of Yuri Chaika. According to RBC, while lobbying for his appointment to this position, Savenkov personally met with key figures in the law enforcement agencies and in the president’s entourage. But in the end, Chaika remained the prosecutor general.

As for Savenkov’s scientific achievements, the certificate on the RAS website states that he is a specialist in the field of criminal law and criminology. Savenkov is the author of more than 50 scientific works: three monographs, 15 textbooks and teaching aids, of which 11 are co-authored.

Despite the fact that Savenkov is listed as a professor at Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov, his career took place in the prosecutor's office, the Federation Council and various ministries. The Dissernet society, which analyzes scientific works, did not pay attention to Savenkov’s works, but those interviewed “ Novaya Gazeta“Legal experts did not note Savenkov’s scientific achievements in any way.

Alexander Fisun

The head of the main military medical department of the Ministry of Defense, Alexander Fisun, is a specialist in the field of organizing medical support for troops, according to a certificate from the Russian Academy of Sciences. Despite the 400 scientific papers listed there, Fisun is not in the Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI).

In his interview " Rossiyskaya newspaper“Fisun explained the advantages of dry rations, the consequences of the introduction of a new uniform and the requirements for conscripts.

Fisun is listed as the scientific supervisor of “a completely written-off dissertation, the defense of which was reduced to replacing title page», writes on his Facebook, one of the founders of Dissernet, Andrey Rostovtsev. Another example is a dissertation written off, according to the society, for the degree of candidate of medical sciences, the scientific supervisor of which was also Fisun. Dissernet points to more than a hundred borrowings from Vladimir Igonin’s dissertation, written a year earlier.

Vasily Khristoforov

photo: RIA Novosti

Former head of the FSB registration and archival collections department Vasily Khristoforov is listed at the institute Russian history RAS since 2006. Khristoforov was also involved in declassifying archival documents on the history of political repressions in the USSR. On the RAS website, Khristoforov is called a leading specialist in the field of political, social and military history Russia and Afghanistan of the 20th century. In his scientific works, he mainly refers to documents stored in the archives of the FSB

Khristoforov was the scientific supervisor of two scientific works defended by the dissertation council of Moscow State Pedagogical University, which was headed by historian Alexander Danilov,

A scientific career has led to the dismissal of several high-ranking Russian security officials, who will now be able to engage in science without being distracted by official duties. At the center of the scandal were fourteen officials and intelligence officers who, despite Putin’s ban on combining civil service with a scientific career at the Academy of Sciences, passed all six qualifying stages and became corresponding members Russian Academy Sci.

It all started a few days ago, when Putin publicly expressed his displeasure with the decision to fill his ranks with civil servants to the President of the Academy of Sciences Vladimir Fortov.

“Why did you do this? They are such great scientists that the Academy of Sciences cannot do without them? And the second question: what should I do about this,” Putin was indignant. He had to repeat the second question twice.

On Monday, November 28, it became known about the resignations of the newly minted academicians. The head of the Department of Registration and Archival Funds of the FSB of Russia lost their posts Vasily Khristoforov, Head of the Main Military Medical Directorate of the Russian Ministry of Defense Alexander Fisun, Deputy Head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, Head of the Investigation Department of the Ministry Alexander Savenkov and others.

Some experts believe that all member-correspondents should public service got it because of the Deputy Head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia Alexander Savenkov, he became a catalyst for presidential discontent

At the same time, the officers resigned themselves, but the Deputy Minister of Education of Russia Alexey Lopatin Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev fired after shouting from the Kremlin. Some experts believe that all corresponding members in the civil service suffered because of one new corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Deputy Head of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs Alexander Savenkov, he became a catalyst for presidential discontent. A political scientist explained Putin’s anger to Present Time Stanislav Belkovsky:

“Indeed, [Savenkov] is an extraordinary scientist, this is true, because he owns a catchphrase that will soon be cast in granite, in the words of Dmitry Medvedev, either in the Prosecutor General’s Office or in Investigative Committee, at least in the Ministry of Justice. Alexander Savenkov said that “any nonsense that a doctor of law says has scientific significance,” referring to himself.

I think that here Vladimir Putin experiences a sense of resentment - there is such a clever word - in relation to the scientific community in general and the Academy of Sciences as a system-forming institution of this community in particular.

This is also connected with the position of his close friends, for example, the director of the Institute of Crystallography Mikhail Kovalchuk, who was never able to become an academician and was largely the initiator of the de facto defeat of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2013. Then it was deprived of property and turned from an organization managing this property into a club of scientists.

There is also resentment towards the scientific community in general. Because indeed the scientific community has been seriously devalued in recent years, degraded, and people who have nothing to do with science have become big scientific bosses.

There is a personal resentment of Vladimir Putin related to the fact that he is also a scientist. He is a candidate of economic sciences

But there is also Vladimir Putin’s personal resentment related to the fact that he is also a scientist. He is a candidate of economic sciences. He defended this dissertation back in the 90s. I read this dissertation, I don’t know how many other people in Russia have read it. There is nothing particularly interesting there, although there is nothing harmful either. The fact is that in 2007 it became clear that this dissertation contained significant elements of plagiarism, and this was also a painful discovery for Vladimir Vladimirovich, who at that time was already a great leader and teacher of the Russian people.

De facto, he punished the Academy of Sciences. He showed that the title of academician is no longer worth anything, because any fool can become an academician. Thus, he paraphrased Savenkov, using the same logic as in the phrase “any nonsense that a doctor of legal sciences utters becomes a scientific truth.”

Here is what RBC writes about this:

“Alexander Savenkov is one of the most influential security officials fired by the president on November 28. Savenkov served in the prosecutor's office since 1985, from 2002 to 2006 he served as chief military prosecutor, deputy prosecutor general Vladimir Ustinov. After Ustinov’s resignation, Savenkov was appointed First Deputy Minister of Justice, and then, says RBC’s interlocutor close to the FSB, he was actually “exiled to an honorable pension” to the Federation Council, where he represented the Vladimir region from 2009 to 2014.

“All this time he behaved very adequately, did not engage in unnecessary PR, but at the same time was quite contactable, and also did not spoil relations with anyone, which is why he returned from the Federation Council to the Ministry of Internal Affairs,” a source previously explained to RBC.

After Savenkov was appointed to the investigation department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, he began to establish army order there, three department employees told RBC. All investigators were then forced to come to work in uniform, Saturday became a working day, and they had to forget about vacations abroad, they complained.

In the spring of 2016, Savenkov applied for the post of Prosecutor General, said two RBC interlocutors close to the FSB, but in June the Federation Council, on the recommendation of the president, extended the powers of Yuri Chaika. ​

According to one of the sources, Savenkov was also considered a supporter of the idea of ​​uniting the entire investigation under the roof of one department, that is, a competitor of the chairman of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin.

The Savenkov family earned the most in the Ministry of Internal Affairs in 2015, as follows from the declaration published on the department’s website. The wife of the deputy minister declared income in the amount of 72.2 million rubles. She owns an apartment with an area of ​​123.1 square meters. m and half of the apartment with an area of ​​170.8 sq. m. Savenkov himself earned 5.3 million rubles. He also indicated in the declaration two plots with a total area of ​​3.5 thousand square meters. m and a residential building (628.1 sq. m)."

The website 33polit.info provides the following information about Savenkov’s biography:

Alexander Savenkov took an active part in the political life of the Vladimir region and evenwas a member of the governing bodies regional branch of United Russia.

In the first year of work, Alexander Savenkov’s declaration caused a wide public response. Senator's wife and minor sonearned a lot more head of the family - 12 million 176 thousand rubles. and 8 million 125 thousand rubles. accordingly, with the declared income of Mr. Savenkov in the amount of 3 million 101 thousand rubles. In subsequent years, no such disproportion in the earnings of family members was noticed.

The senator regularly reported to the deputies of the Legislative Assembly on his activities. He wanted to continue his senatorial activities and even once took part in debates in the United Russia primaries before the next election of deputies to the regional parliament. But with the arrival of Svetlana Orlova in Region 33, the opinion about his candidacy changed. He did not participate in those elections and quietly left the region, which he had previously represented in the Federation Council for 4 years.

His place was taken by Sergey Rybakov, and in May 2014 by Alexander Savenkovgot a high position . Russian President Vladimir Putin appointed him Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation - head of the Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation.

For two and a half years in this position, Alexander Savenkov grew into a great scientist, becoming a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Now about important personnel decisions of the President of Russia. By his decrees, he dismissed high-ranking officials who did not heed the recommendations of the head of state not to combine service with scientific activity. Vladimir Putin considered such behavior unacceptable. Now newly elected academicians and corresponding members have the opportunity to devote all their time to experiments, research, and publication of monographs.

The resignations did not have to wait long. The officials, who, contrary to the insistence of the president, were elected members of the Academy of Sciences in October, left their posts on the morning of November 28.

So, by decree of Vladimir Putin, the following were dismissed: Deputy Presidential Administration Manager Konstantin Kotenko, Head of the Main Military Medical Directorate of the Ministry of Defense Alexander Fisun and Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs, Head of the Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Alexander Savenkov. All of them managed to submit their resignations of their own free will. In addition, the head of the FSB Registration and Archival Funds Directorate, Lieutenant General Vasily Khristoforov, lost his position; he was also dismissed from military service upon reaching the age limit.

Deputy Minister of Education Alexey Lopatin also left his job at his own request. The order for his resignation was signed by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.

Vladimir Putin said last Wednesday, November 23, at a meeting of the Presidential Council on Science and Education that it is inadmissible to combine research with work in the civil service.

“I asked my colleagues to refrain from participating in the elections of new members of the state academies of sciences due to the fact that the people who hold positions in government bodies, especially at the top levels, are engaged in their careers. Nevertheless, some of our colleagues took part in the election and were elected. Vladimir Evgenievich, I have a question for you and other representatives of the Academy of Sciences: why did you do this? Are they such great scientists that the Academy of Sciences cannot do without them? First question. And the second question: what should I do with this now? - asked the head of state.

“They all said that they received permission from their leaders,” explained RAS President Vladimir Fortov.

“No, that was not the question. Are they such great scientists that they should be corresponding members and academicians?” - the president asked for clarification.

“Vladimir Vladimirovich, they passed the entire competition without any withdrawal or exclusion,” answered Vladimir Fortov.

“You don’t directly answer my question, Vladimir Evgenievich, nevertheless, I will finish the sentence for you: it means that they are great scientists. Yes?" - Vladimir Putin continued.

“They deserve to be elected,” said the head of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

“So they are major scientists,” the president clarified once again.

“It turns out that this is so,” confirmed Vladimir Fortov.

“Well, then I won’t torment you with the second question. I think that I will have to give them the opportunity to engage in science, because, apparently, their scientific activity is much more important than performing some routine administrative duties in government and government bodies. Thank you very much,” said the head of state.

Putin did not name names then, but today it has become clear who will have the opportunity to focus on scientific work. The question of how valuable the dismissed officials will be for the Academy remains open.

For example, former deputy head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Alexander Savenkov has more than three dozen scientific publications, mainly on the fight against corruption. 90 articles by the former head of the FSB Department Vasily Khristoforov. We are talking about the publication of declassified archives of the Service. And for the former head of the Main Military Medical Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, Alexander Fisun, Channel One found only six scientific papers in the international medical database Pubmed. For a corresponding member of the RAS, not so much. You can also find on the Internet an almost completely copied dissertation, in which Alexander Fisun is listed as the scientific advisor. Anna Tyukina's work on medicine differs from Vladimir Igonin's previously defended dissertation only in its title.

The next elections to the Russian Academy of Sciences will be held in four years. So academics have time to think about whether it is worth accepting current government officials into their ranks.