Gennady Gudkov: biography, entrepreneurial and political activities

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Retired Colonel of State Security Gudkov Gennady Vladimirovich quite often appeared in various talk shows on the television screen. His point of view is always distinguished by originality, he confidently defends it for many years. Many rumors exist about his entrepreneurial activities.

Gennady Gudkov - State Duma deputy: biography, wife

Gudkov's birthplace was Kolomna near Moscow, where he was born on 1956-15-08. His parents were employees. Mother is a school teacher in Russian language and literature. My father worked as an engineer at the Kolomna plant, where heavy machine tools were produced. Grandfather, Pyotr Yakovlevich Gudkov, happened to be an assistant to the famous Bukharin. When the latter was arrested, my grandfather had to leave his job at the Izvestia printing house and hide from repression in the countryside.

After graduating from high school in 1973, Gudkov entered the State Pedagogical Institute in Kolomna at the Faculty of Foreign Languages. During the training, he managed to work both in the factory shop and as a school teacher of a foreign language. There is information that infor seventeen years, Gennady, in a letter addressed to Yu. V. Andropov, tried to find out how to go to serve in the state security agencies.

After studying at the university, from 1978 to 1980, he was drafted into the army, where he became a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. After demobilization, he went to the post of instructor of the Kolomna city committee of the Komsomol, and a little later he conducted sports and defense mass work there as the head of the department. Since 1981, he became an employee of the state security agencies. Studied at the Red Banner Institute of the State Security Committee, renamed the Academy of Foreign Intelligence in 1994.

In the period from 1982 to 1987 he was an employee of the Kolomna city department of the KGB, then he was transferred to foreign intelligence. Since 1989, he served in the units of the Moscow State Security Department. In 1992, he wrote a report asking to be dismissed from the authorities, by that time he was a major. Subsequently, Gennady Gudkov, in connection with his work in the State Duma, received the rank of lieutenant colonel, and in 2003 - colonel in the reserve.

His wife, Gudkova Maria Petrovna, is known for the fact that after her husband became a civil servant, she began to hold the post of president of the Oskord private security company.

Business activity

Having retired from service, Gennady Vladimirovich Gudkov became the head of the Oskord security company, which he himself organized. By the beginning of 1996, he had about three thousand employees under his command, most of whom had previously worked in special services and law enforcement.structures.

The biography of Gennady Gudkov developed in such a way that in 1997 he again came into contact with the activities of the special services, as he entered the advisory council organized under the director of the Federal Security Service. In this body, which included the heads of large private security companies, he was until 2001, until he left the post of president of the Oskord company.

At the same time, he continued to own this security company, which, according to the media, was one of the leaders in the security business. In 1999, the photo of Gennady Gudkov again flashed in the media in connection with his election to the post of vice-president of the Moscow Foundation for the Assistance to UNESCO. This foundation promotes cultural, educational and sports programs in our country.

Beginning of political activity

For the first time in the election campaign as a candidate for the deputy corps of the State Duma, Gennady Gudkov participated in late 1999, when he decided to try his hand at the Kolomna single-mandate constituency.

At that moment, he won only 16.55% of the electoral votes, and the well-known cosmonaut German Titov won in the district, who received 20.32%.

Unfortunately, in September 2000, G. Titov died, in connection with which by-elections were held in the Kolomna district for the following year in March. They were confidently won by Gennady Gudkov, State Duma deputy.

Biography of the politician

BecomingAs a member of parliament, Gudkov joined the "People's Deputy" group. He was elected to the post of deputy head of the NDRF (People's Party of the Russian Federation), which at that time was headed by Gennady Raikov. In the same period, he became chairman of the subcommittee overseeing legislation in the field of security and detective work.

The 2003 elections again turned out to be successful for Gudkov, and he entered the State Duma in the Kolomna district, receiving 46.97%. The People's Party of the Russian Federation, which won just over one percent, failed to get into the Duma in these elections. Gudkov and most other party members who ended up in parliament had to join the United Russia faction.

Party work

In early April 2004, Gennady Gudkov headed the NPRF. Former party leader G. Raikov, as noted by observers, did not appear at all at the congress, where a decision was made on his re-election. The media have repeatedly expressed the idea that a split occurred in the People's Party of the Russian Federation, which led to the resignation of the chairman.

Gudkov supported the line of "United Russia", they were asked to subsequently merge with the ruling party. Raikov was categorically against this. The departure of the latter and lengthy negotiations still failed to lead to the accession of the NDRF to the ruling party.

At the end of September 2006, Gennady Gudkov, whose biography has always been distinguished by the adoption of flexible decisions, spoke in some periodicals about the needassociation of the party headed by him with some others. According to him, it would be possible to call the new party formed after the unification "the most correct leftists".

Work to unite the left parties

November 6, 2006 Gudkov, Gennady Semigin - the leader of the "Patriots of Russia", Gennady Seleznev from the "Party of the Revival of Russia" and Alexei Podberezkin from the "Party of Social Justice" signed a document that provided for the creation of a joint coordinating council.

A week later, the leader of the Social Democrats V. Kishenin joined them. The council set itself the goal of joining forces ahead of the March 2007 regional elections and creating a centre-left party capable of competing with the popular left-wing party, A Just Russia. The latter also arose due to the combined efforts of such political structures as the Party of Life, the Party of Pensioners and Motherland.

Political views

Gennady Gudkov is a member of parliament who was distinguished at that time by moderate social democratic views. He repeatedly expressed the idea to media correspondents that he is a supporter of a parliamentary republic, at the head of which he sees the prime minister, and not the president. The modern Russian authorities were often criticized by him. For example, he stated that even Empress Catherine II did not have such powers as Russian President Vladimir Putin.

According to him, availablethe current order of government has all the features that the absolute monarchy that existed in the 18th century possessed. The planned merger of the centre-left parties in the second half of 2006 never happened.

Merge with A Just Russia

At the beginning of next year, the "People's Party of the Russian Federation" had the intention of joining the Righteous Russians. Oleg Morozov, the First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma and a member of the supreme council of United Russia, commented on this news in the following way: "Such a possibility of a merger of two left-wing party structures is quite natural." They recognized that by deciding to join a larger party, a small party gets the opportunity for its leader to be on party lists in the event of parliamentary elections.

On April 13, 2007, the media reported that Gudkov had sent a letter to the head of the United Russia faction, Boris Gryzlov, with a statement of his intention to leave the ranks of the faction. This is explained by the fact that the NDRF, headed by him, is merging into A Just Russia. Shortly thereafter, Gudkov was elected to the Politburo of the Righteous Russians.

On December 2, 2007, elections to the State Duma of Russia were held, in which Gudkov, as a candidate, was a member of the regional group of the party (Moscow Region). "Fair Russia". Then the party managed to gain more than 7 percent of the electoral votes. Gudkov took the post of one of the deputy heads of the party faction in the Duma.

PoliticalGudkov's activity in A Just Russia

After the December 4, 2011 elections, Gennady Gudkov, deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the VI convocation, holds the post of deputy head of the party faction of Sergei Mironov. Immediately after the end of the election campaign, he issued a statement that there were violations in the elections, and called on the Communists and the Liberal Democrats to surrender the mandates of deputies, as well as to hold re-elections. However, his call was not supported.

In 2008, it was proposed to return the possibility of placing beer advertising to the Russian media, so that they could cope with the financial crisis. The initiator of this bill was Gennady Gudkov. The State Duma, however, did not approve the initiative.

On September 28, 2011, at one of the press conferences organized by Komsomolskaya Pravda, Gudkov made public the fact that about six billion rubles are spent on the purchase of vehicles for the bureaucracy during the year. In this regard, he submitted to Parliament a draft law providing for the restriction of purchasing requests of civil servants. The document was prepared in collaboration with Alexei Navalny.

Protests

On June 18, 2013, Gudkov took part in a protest action, where people dissatisfied with the guilty verdict against Alexei Navalny gathered. At this event, which was not previously agreed with the authorities, Gudkov was interviewed by correspondents of some media.

During the famous rally on Bolotnaya 24On December 2011, Gudkov announced that he was ready to surrender his deputy mandate if the mandates were taken away from the deputies who were members of the ruling party. He was part of a team that organized protest rallies as part of the "For Fair Elections" campaign. It also included B. Nemtsov, A. Navalny and other democratic leaders. In total, several thousand protesters participated in these rallies.

Expulsion from the deputy corps

At a meeting of the State Duma on September 14, 2012, Gudkov's deputy mandate was annulled by an open vote. The reason was the accusation brought against him by the Investigative Committee of Russia and the Prosecutor General's Office. Gudkov at this meeting urged not to support the deprivation of his deputy powers, otherwise he promised to talk about compromising materials on United Russia.

The factions of United Russia and the Liberal Democrats mostly (291 votes) supported the proposal to deprive Gudkov of his deputy mandate, 150 members of the Righteous Russia and Communist factions voted "against". Three deputies abstained from voting.

Charges made

The investigators believed that Gudkov violated the law on deputy status by his actions. In particular, Bulgarian citizen I. Zartov testified that he was aware of Gudkov's illegal business and money laundering abroad.

The materials of the investigation also contained materials stating that on July 5, 2012, Gudkov, together with his wife, signed documents onon the basis of which the powers of the general director of the Kolomna Builder market in Kolomna were extended, which proves his involvement in commerce, despite the exercise of parliamentary powers.

As confirmation of the deputy's involvement in illegal commercial activities, the fact of his request to the employees of the Moscow prosecutor's office after it began checking Pantana, a private security company, was given.

Results of investigative checks

Gudkov himself denied all the facts presented, he referred to the fact that there was no direct evidence. At the end of 2012, members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe spoke out in favor of condemning the deprivation of a deputy of his powers pending trial. The Investigative Committee of Russia did not receive sufficient grounds to initiate a case against Gudkov. He was granted immunity by the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation.