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The Mayor Of Moscow Is Fired ...!
On September 28, 2010, the Russians rub their eyes and ears in amazement when they received the news, because on this day the Russian (placeholder) President Dmitrij Anatoljewitsch Medwedew dismissed the Moscow mayor Yuri Mikhailovich Ljushkow, so far an undisputed member of the " new Russia "ruling class and insider of power!
Ljushkow was elected deputy mayor under Boris Yeltsin in the first (really!) free mayoral elections in June 1991.
When his boss, Mayor Gavril Popov, was forced to resign as a scapegoat in July of the same year because of the poor food supply for Muscovites, Ljushkow succeeded him on the mayor's chair by a presidential decree.
Ljushkow runs three "elections" and achieves results that can only be explained by massive election manipulation:
1996: 87.5%,
1999: 69.89%,
2003: 74.81% of the vote.
During his tenure in office, Ljushkow rules like an autonomous prince, and the corruption of the city apparatus he heads was downright legendary.
At the same time he maintains the attitude of "I am one of you" ...
..and also makes a name for himself as a party animal - here with his billionaire wife, the entrepreneur Jelena Baturina, who was the richest woman of Russia in 2007 ...:
He presents himself as a doer - and his flat cap becomes his trademark ...:
Ljushkow's own fortune is also growing magnificently, far more than would have been possible with his actual salary alone.
In the end, Ljushkow owned an 80 hectare estate with manor houses, paddocks, tennis courts and fish ponds ...:
As long as all of this stayed under the covers, the authorities didn’t bother him - he shared “corpses in the basement” with many powerful people.
Only when the situation became more and more acute and the media, which were still relatively free at the time, began to be interested in the goings-on in Ljushkow, did the matter move!
Ljushkow is massively attacked in an extremely critical television report by the private television station "NTV", which of course no longer exists today.
Ljushkow then wrote an outraged letter to the head of the presidential administration, Sergei Narychkin, demanding that the president defend him against these "vicious" attacks.
Medvedev reacts cool:
On September 28, 2010, he signed a decree on the "On the premature termination of the powers of the mayors of Moscow" - and thus fired the Almighty.
In order to be able to issue this decree, special administrative regulations and laws had been changed in a fast-track process - up to now only the Moscow city parliament or the voters could actually remove a mayor.
Shortly after his dismissal in 2011, Ljushkow moved to London, where he also lived with his family.
He did not live badly there, because a large part of his fortune was already waiting for him in western countries.
Since 2012 he was a member of the "Board of Directors" of a British-Russian oil company that belongs to the corporate network of the oligarch Yakov I. Goldowskiij, who lives (also by good reasons!) also abroad (Vienna) ...:
Note:
Absolutely no Russian oligarch - not even Mikhail Borisovich Khodorkovsky, who is venerated in the West as a "dissident" - got rich in the post-Soviet era without committing crimes!
The law on the dismissal of elected top officials, created especially for Ljushkow, has since been used extensively by President Putin to dismiss unpopular governors ...
But times are changing! - the landlord (who came back to office after the Medvedev intermezzo) was indulgent and gracious towards the fallen:
Ljushkow was not only allowed to return to Moscow and was exempted from prosecution - on the occasion of his 80th birthday, Vova Kagebejewitsch Putin even awarded him the medal "For Services to the Fatherland" - albeit only with the lowest - fourth - grade ...:
On the evening of December 9, 2019, Ljushkow flew with his wife Elena Baturina from Moscow to Munich for a heart operation at the Grosshadern University Hospital, where he had been a patient for a long time because he suffered from a heart disease. Ljushkow died in the clinic on December 10, 2019 of a heart attack as a result of an operation at the age of 84.
Two days later, after a pompous ceremony in Moscow's Nativity of Christ Cathedral ...
... which resembled a state funeral and to which the landlord appeared in person ...
...Ljushkow was buried in the Moscow Heroes' Cemetery Nowodewitshij ...
Note: crime is worth it!
What I personally resent Ljushkow most is the grotesquely gruesome monument to Tsar Petr I in Moscow, which he enforced ...:
On September 28, 2010, the Russians rub their eyes and ears in amazement when they received the news, because on this day the Russian (placeholder) President Dmitrij Anatoljewitsch Medwedew dismissed the Moscow mayor Yuri Mikhailovich Ljushkow, so far an undisputed member of the " new Russia "ruling class and insider of power!
Ljushkow was elected deputy mayor under Boris Yeltsin in the first (really!) free mayoral elections in June 1991.
When his boss, Mayor Gavril Popov, was forced to resign as a scapegoat in July of the same year because of the poor food supply for Muscovites, Ljushkow succeeded him on the mayor's chair by a presidential decree.
Ljushkow runs three "elections" and achieves results that can only be explained by massive election manipulation:
1996: 87.5%,
1999: 69.89%,
2003: 74.81% of the vote.
During his tenure in office, Ljushkow rules like an autonomous prince, and the corruption of the city apparatus he heads was downright legendary.
At the same time he maintains the attitude of "I am one of you" ...
..and also makes a name for himself as a party animal - here with his billionaire wife, the entrepreneur Jelena Baturina, who was the richest woman of Russia in 2007 ...:
He presents himself as a doer - and his flat cap becomes his trademark ...:
Ljushkow's own fortune is also growing magnificently, far more than would have been possible with his actual salary alone.
In the end, Ljushkow owned an 80 hectare estate with manor houses, paddocks, tennis courts and fish ponds ...:
As long as all of this stayed under the covers, the authorities didn’t bother him - he shared “corpses in the basement” with many powerful people.
Only when the situation became more and more acute and the media, which were still relatively free at the time, began to be interested in the goings-on in Ljushkow, did the matter move!
Ljushkow is massively attacked in an extremely critical television report by the private television station "NTV", which of course no longer exists today.
Ljushkow then wrote an outraged letter to the head of the presidential administration, Sergei Narychkin, demanding that the president defend him against these "vicious" attacks.
Medvedev reacts cool:
On September 28, 2010, he signed a decree on the "On the premature termination of the powers of the mayors of Moscow" - and thus fired the Almighty.
In order to be able to issue this decree, special administrative regulations and laws had been changed in a fast-track process - up to now only the Moscow city parliament or the voters could actually remove a mayor.
Shortly after his dismissal in 2011, Ljushkow moved to London, where he also lived with his family.
He did not live badly there, because a large part of his fortune was already waiting for him in western countries.
Since 2012 he was a member of the "Board of Directors" of a British-Russian oil company that belongs to the corporate network of the oligarch Yakov I. Goldowskiij, who lives (also by good reasons!) also abroad (Vienna) ...:
Note:
Absolutely no Russian oligarch - not even Mikhail Borisovich Khodorkovsky, who is venerated in the West as a "dissident" - got rich in the post-Soviet era without committing crimes!
The law on the dismissal of elected top officials, created especially for Ljushkow, has since been used extensively by President Putin to dismiss unpopular governors ...
But times are changing! - the landlord (who came back to office after the Medvedev intermezzo) was indulgent and gracious towards the fallen:
Ljushkow was not only allowed to return to Moscow and was exempted from prosecution - on the occasion of his 80th birthday, Vova Kagebejewitsch Putin even awarded him the medal "For Services to the Fatherland" - albeit only with the lowest - fourth - grade ...:
On the evening of December 9, 2019, Ljushkow flew with his wife Elena Baturina from Moscow to Munich for a heart operation at the Grosshadern University Hospital, where he had been a patient for a long time because he suffered from a heart disease. Ljushkow died in the clinic on December 10, 2019 of a heart attack as a result of an operation at the age of 84.
Two days later, after a pompous ceremony in Moscow's Nativity of Christ Cathedral ...
... which resembled a state funeral and to which the landlord appeared in person ...
...Ljushkow was buried in the Moscow Heroes' Cemetery Nowodewitshij ...
Note: crime is worth it!
What I personally resent Ljushkow most is the grotesquely gruesome monument to Tsar Petr I in Moscow, which he enforced ...:
. It always makes me smile that we in the UK look down sneeringly on many of the African and Middle Eastern states and begrudge them aid, when by and large it was us that taught them the trade. Their chicanery is more obvious, ours is covert but no less extensive.
