Fedotov, Valery Anatolevich

In 1987 he graduated from high school number 474 of Leningrad . In 1991, he graduated from the Leningrad Higher Military Topographical Command School named after General Antonov (LVVTKU them. Antonov). In 2009 he graduated from the North-West Academy of Public Administration (SZAGS).

Businessman with an MBA . In the 1990s and 2000s, he created a number of companies that produce consumer goods, supply engineering and plumbing systems.

Since 2009 - head of the executive committee of the Vasileostrovsky district branch of the party "United Russia". September 26, 2012 was removed from office and censured by party colleagues for free-thinking ^[5] . At the same time, he announced his intention to form the non-governmental organization Democratic Platform from progressive-minded members of United Russia ^[6] .

On July 30, 2012, he made an open letter ^[7] to the participants of the Pussy Riot group demanding the release of the girls from arrest and release them home to the children. In his address, Fedotov stressed that he condemns the action in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior , but considers the punishment for it in the form of imprisonment to be too harsh ^[8] . “The trial of the girls from the punk band Pussy Riot makes our country a mockery in front of the whole world and turns into an international symbol of lawlessness prevailing in Russia,” the letter said ^[9] .

The party "United Russia" disown Fedotov's statement, in the leadership of the EP he was called "untimely and inadequate" ^[10] .

On August 17, 2012, he took part in the “White Forum” of the opposition, held in Repino near St. Petersburg ^[11] . In his speech, he said that Russia is in a state of “cold civil war”, noting that if the authorities and the opposition do not immediately find a compromise, this could lead to a new year 1917 ^[12] .

A speech at the forum containing harsh criticism of both the authorities and the opposition at the same time was rated by observers as a furore ^[13] and caused a new round of censure on the part of conservative-minded party members. The latter accused Fedotov of public relations and the fact that he addressed criticism of the EP to political rivals without first discussing his views with his own colleagues ^[14] .

In July 2012, he came up with a party reform program called “10 measures to save United Russia” ^[15] . July 13 announced the nomination with this program for the post of head of the CEC of the party in an open competition, announced on the initiative of Dmitry Medvedev. The statement about the nomination was provocatively entitled “I will destroy the EP” (it dealt with a complete reload of the party) ^[16] .

In August 2012, he addressed with an open letter to Dmitry Medvedev, in which he called the election of the head of the Central Election Commission of the United States " farce " and asked the chairman of the party to annul the results of the contest ^[17] . Fedotov was outraged by the rules of the competition, according to which the head of the CEC was “not offered“ by “bottom,” by all members of the party, but by a narrow circle of existing bureaucrats ” ^[18] .

Author of the book “The Confession of the United Russia” (the working title is “The Revelation of the United Russia”) ^[2] . The book describes the experience of the participation of the author in the elections of deputies of the Assembly of St. Petersburg 2011 . The newspaper "Arguments and Facts" included "Confession of the United Russia" in the TOP-10 of the most interesting books about politics ^[19] .

January 19, 2013 in the St. Petersburg store "Bukvoed" was the presentation of the "Confessions of United Russia". In its course, a provocation was organized by an activist of the United Russia Young Guard, Vladislav Lovitsky: he went to the stage and, declaring Fedotov "a traitor to the party and Putin," offered him a drink of "national traitors' drink - tea with polonium." Lovitsky was led out by a guard, the cup of tea was broken ^[20] .

On June 13, 2013, Valery Fedotov presented his book to Mikhail Khodorkovsky, handing it through his lawyer Vadim Klyuvgant ^[21] . The inscription on the cover read “I wish you and Russia freedom!” ^[22] .

In the summer of 2011, Valery Fedotov won the internal primaries of United Russia with a score of 70% ^[23] and was nominated by the party as a candidate for deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg in the fifth convocation in the first electoral district. During the election campaign, an initiative group of residents led by Fedotov obtained compensation for the residents of the thirteenth rent ^[24] . Fedotov’s headquarters also held a campaign “The Wall of Love for Mom” ^[25] , reminded drivers of parking rules ^[26] , fought for the preservation of Kindergarten No. 25 ^[27] . According to the results of the elections, Fedotov won 10,004 or 26.26% of the vote ^[28] and took second place.

In October 2012, Valery Fedotov published in his blog a video ^[29] from the concert of the singer Bianchi, organized by United Russia and the United People’s Front in Lipetsk in 2011. The fragment of the song performed on the video contains the words: “In Amsterdam, slowly the ears of anasha, in Amsterdam, well, in Amsterdam, a coffee shop.” Fedotov blamed the United Russia party and the United People’s Front for drug propaganda ^[30] .

State Duma Deputy Oleg Nilov addressed a request for drug propaganda at the EP event at the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The answer received by the Deputy Minister of the Interior V. Kiryanov at the end of November stated that the terms of bringing the organizers of the concert and the singer to administrative responsibility had expired, but the author of publishing the video on the Internet should be brought to justice ^[30] . On April 4, 2013, Fedotov was summoned to the Vasileostrovskoye UMVD of St. Petersburg for a survey on the case filed against him ^[31] .

In June - July 2013, he completed a course of study at the Moscow School of Political Studies (MSPS). Following the first semester, he offered the school to pay for the publication of one of the books published as part of its publishing program ^[32] .

On July 11, 2013, Valery Fedotov announced his withdrawal from the EP, defiantly cutting the party card with garden scissors. The statement was made at a joint press conference with Yury Rydnik and Maxim Reznik at the St. Petersburg “Civic Platform” office. ^[33] . The reason was the disagreement with the party leadership for several reasons. In particular, under repressive laws, the prosecution of the opposition, the case of Pussy Riot.

“My departure now means that there is no place in the party even for one honest person who speaks the truth,” explained Fedotov to the newspaper. Ru “. - The party has dropped, ceased to look after itself, it is less and less like a public political force. The party has no future, the party has become a mechanism of political repression. ”

- http://www.gazeta.ru/politics/2013/07/11_a_5424617.shtml

A few days after this statement, for the first time in his life, Fedotov entered an unauthorized protest rally in support of Alexei Navalny, who was arrested on July 18 in Kirov. His photo with the newspaper “For Navalny” raised up was widely spread in social networks and mass media ^[34] .

In September 2013, he took the first place in the rating of political bloggers in St. Petersburg, published by the online publication “Reedus” ^[35] . In the all-Russian rating, Fedotov's blog ranked 45th.

In May 2014, he was nominated as a candidate in the elections to the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation in the nomination “Development of Mass Media and Mass Communications” ^[36] . His candidacy was supported by the Civic Platform Party ^[37] , Dmitry Gudkov ^[38] , Elena Lukyanova ^[39] and other politicians and public figures.

Valery Fedotov during the campaign accused his competitors of a massive vote-buying, and also stated that the election results were falsified ^[40] . He called for the cancellation of the election results, or their boycott by opposition candidates. In response, the head of the ROI , on whose platform the voting took place, Ilya Massuh accused of the machinations of Fedotov himself, as well as Elena Alshanskaya and Boris Altshuler ^[41] . According to the results of the elections, he scored 1016 votes and took the sixth place in the nomination (3 out of 13 applicants passed in the OP)

Divorced. Two sons - Roman (born 1992) and Maxim (born 1996) ^[42] .

With the quote from Fedotov's article “He won Lemonov at Bolotnaya” ^[43] the novel “Grandfather” by Edward Limonov , published in 2014, ends. The characters in the work are the leaders of the Russian opposition: Alexei Navalny, Boris Nemtsov , Ilya Yashin and others. In the last lines of the novel, his main character - the author's alter-ego, after reading an article about himself, addresses Fedotov with the words “That's right, Valera!” And the reasoning about the importance of chance, good luck in human life.

• Technologies that are used in Russia for construction in developed countries have already been forgotten , an interview with Valery Fedotov, General Director of GSK LLC, RBC Daily, 25.08.2008.
• Interview with Valery Fedotov