Gennady Gudkov: biography, entrepreneurial and political activities

Retired Colonel of State Security Gudkov Gennady V. often enough appeared in various talk shows on the television screen. His point of view is always original, he confidently defends it for many years. There are many rumors about his entrepreneurial activities.

Gennady Gudkov - State Duma deputy: biography, wife

The birthplace of Gudkov was near Moscow Kolomna, where he was born on August 15, 1956. His parents were employees. Mother - a school teacher in Russian language and literature. My father worked as an engineer at the Kolomensky plant, where heavy machines were manufactured. Grandfather, Gudkov Peter Yakovlevich, happened to be an assistant to the famous Bukharin. When the latter was arrested, his grandfather had to leave his job in the Izvestia printing house and hide from reprisals in the country wilderness.

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

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. Having demobilized, he took up the post of instructor at the Kolomna City Committee of the Komsomol, and a little later he conducted sports and defense work there as a head of department. Since 1981, he became an employee of the state security bodies. He studied at the Red Banner Institute of the State Security Committee, renamed in 1994 the Academy of Foreign Intelligence.

From 1982 to 1987, he was an employee of the Kolomna City Department of the KGB, then was transferred to external intelligence. Since 1989, he served in the Moscow Department of State Security. In 1992 he wrote a report with a request to dismiss him from the authorities, by that time he was a major. Later, Gennady Gudkov, in connection with his work in the State Duma, was promoted to lieutenant-colonel, and in 2003 - colonel of the reserve.

His wife, Gudkova Maria Petrovna, is known for having become the president of the private security company Oskord after her husband became a civil servant.

Entrepreneurial activity

After retiring from service, Gudkov Gennady Vladimirovich took over the security company "Oskord", which he organized. By the beginning of 1996, there were approximately 3,000 employees in his subordination, most of whom had previously worked in special services and law enforcement structures.

Gennady Gudkov's biography 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 has heads of large private security cooperatives, it consisted until 2001, until he left the post of president of the firm "Oskord".

At the same time, he continued to own this security company, which, in the opinion of the media, was one of the leaders in the security market. 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 Fund for UNESCO. This fund promotes the cultural, educational and sports programs in our country.

The beginning of political activity

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

At that moment he scored only 16.55% of the vote, and won by the district famous cosmonaut German Titov, who received 20.32%.

Unfortunately, in September 2000, G. Titov died, and in connection with this, in the Kolomna District the next year, in March, additional elections were held. They were confidently defeated by Gennady Gudkov, a State Duma deputy.

Biography policy

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

Elections in 2003 were again successful for Gudkov, and he went to the State Duma for the Kolomna District, receiving 46.97%. The People's Party of the Russian Federation, which collected just over one percent, failed to pass in these elections to the Duma. Gudkov and most of the other party members who ended up in parliament had to join the United Russia faction.

Party work

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

Gudkov maintained the line of "United Russia", they were then asked to merge with the party of power. Raikov, however, was categorically against this. The withdrawal of the latter and lengthy negotiations did not lead to the joining of the NDRF to the ruling party.

In late September 2006, Gennady Gudkov, whose biography was always distinguished by the adoption of flexible decisions, spoke in some periodicals about the need to unite the party he leads with some others. According to his statement, the new party resulting from the merger could be called "the most right-wing left".

Work on the unification of the Left parties

November 6, 2006 Gudkov, Gennady Semigin - leader of the "Patriots of Russia", Gennady Seleznev from the "Party of the Renaissance 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 out to unite efforts in the run-up to the March 2007 regional elections and create a center-left party capable of competing with the popular leftist party, A Just Russia. The latter also arose due to the combined efforts of such political structures as "Party of Life", "Party of Pensioners" and "Motherland".

Political Views

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

In his view, the present current governance of the country has all the attributes that the absolute monarchy that existed in the 18th century possessed. The plan for the second half of 2006 to merge parties of the center-left wing did not happen.

Merger with "Fair Russia"

At the beginning of the next year, the "People's Party of Russia" had an intention to join the fair. The first deputy chairman of the State Duma and member of the United Russia's Supreme Council Oleg Morozov, this news was commented thus: "This possibility of merging the two leftist party structures is quite natural." They were recognized that, having decided to enter a larger party, a small party gets the opportunity for its leader to appear on party lists in case of holding parliamentary elections.

On April 13, 2007, the mass media reported that Gudkov sent a letter to the head of the United Russia faction Boris Gryzlov with a statement about his intention to withdraw from the ranks of the faction. This is explained by the fact that the NDRF led by him poured into the "Just Russia". Shortly thereafter, Gudkov was elected to the Politburo of Just Russia.

December 2, 2007 elections were held in the State Duma of Russia, where Gudkov was a candidate for 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 deputies of the head of the party faction in the Duma.

Political activity of Gudkov in "Fair Russia"

After the elections on December 4, 2011, Gennady Gudkov, a deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the sixth convocation, holds the post of deputy head of the party faction Sergei Mironov. Immediately after the end of the election campaign, he issued a statement that there were violations at the elections, and called on the Communists and the Liberal Democrats to hand over the mandates of the deputies, as well as to conduct re-elections. However, his call did not find support.

In 2008, it was proposed to return to the Russian media the possibility of placing beer advertisements 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 announced the fact that about six billion rubles were spent on the purchase of vehicles for the bureaucracy during the year. In this regard, he was introduced to the parliament draft law, which limits the purchase of public servants. The document was prepared in co-authorship with Alexey Navalny.

Protest action

On June 18, 2013, Gudkov took part in a protest rally, where dissatisfied with the guilty verdict against Aleksey Navalny gathered. At this event, which was not previously agreed with the authorities, Gudkov was given an interview to correspondents of some media.

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

Withdrawal from the deputy corps

At the meeting of the State Duma on September 14, 2012 Gudkov's deputy mandate was canceled by open voting. The reason was the charge 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 tell about the compromising materials on United Russia.

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

Accused accusations

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

The materials of the investigation also contained materials that on July 5, 2012 Gudkov together with his wife signed documents on the basis of which the powers of the general director of Kolomna builder, the market in Kolomna, were prolonged, which proves his involvement in commerce, despite the exercise of deputy authority .

As confirmation of the deputy's occupation of illegal commercial activities, the fact of his request to the employees of the Moscow prosecutor's office after the beginning of the inspection of her "Pantan" - a private security company - is given.

Results of the investigation

Gudkov himself denied all the facts, he cited the fact that there is no direct evidence. At the end of 2012, the members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe spoke in favor of condemning the fact that the deputy was deprived of his powers before the trial. The Investigative Committee of Russia did not receive sufficient grounds to initiate a case against Gudkov. The Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation retained his inviolability.