Former Governor of the Perm Territory (2005-2012). From April 2004, he served as Acting Governor of the Perm Region until its merger with the Komi-Permyak Autonomous Okrug. In 2001-2004, he was a representative of the Perm Region administration in the Federation Council, and from 1997 to 2001 - a deputy of the Perm Region Legislative Assembly. Prior to his political career, he was General Director of the EKS Group of Enterprises (1996-2004), served in the KGB of the USSR and the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (1985-1993).
Oleg Anatolyevich Chirkunov was born on November 15, 1958 in the city of Kirovsk, Murmansk region of the RSFSR. In 1981 he received his first higher education at the Faculty of Aviation Engines of the Perm Polytechnic Institute. Little is known about Chirkunov's further activities in the 1980s: from 1983 to 1985, he was the second secretary of the Leninsky district committee of the Komsomol of the city of Perm, probably at the same time he met Yuri Trutnev. In 1985, Chirkunov graduated from the Red Banner High school The KGB of the USSR named after Dzerzhinsky in Moscow and began working in the First Main Directorate of the KGB of the USSR, which was engaged in foreign intelligence. In parallel, in 1988, he graduated extramural Faculty of Law, Perm state university... In 1990, Chirkunov defended his dissertation for the degree of candidate of economic sciences at Ivanovo State University.
After the collapse of the USSR in 1991, Chirkunov moved to Switzerland, where he became an expert in the trade mission. Russian Federation, until 1993, remaining an employee of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service. Until 1994, he worked as an expert at the Tekhnointorg foreign economic association in the trade representative office. At the same time, Chirkunov began to cooperate with Trutnev in his company "EKS", which was engaged in the sale of food products, heading its Swiss representative company EKS Nandels AG. In 1994, after returning to Perm, Chirkunov became Deputy General Director of the company "EKS Limited" Trutnev. In 1996, Chirkunov became the general director of EKS Opt LLC. After Trutnev was elected mayor of Perm in the same year, he sold his business to Chirkunov, who headed the EKS Group of Enterprises holding and created EKS International.
In 1997, Chirkunov was elected to the Legislative Assembly of the Perm Region. In January 2001, he was appointed representative of the Perm Region administration in the Federation Council, was deputy head of the budget committee of the upper chamber of the Russian parliament, and from 2002 to 2004 was also a member of the Federation Council's commission on natural monopolies.
In December 2001, Chirkunov headed Trutnev's campaign headquarters when he managed to win the election of the governor of the Perm region. In March 2004, Trutnev was appointed Minister of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation, and Chirkunov was appointed by Russian President Vladimir Putin as Acting Governor of the Perm Region. On December 1, 2005, Chirkunov, after being nominated by Russian President Vladimir Putin and approved by the legislative assemblies of the Perm Region and the Komi-Permyak Autonomous Okrug, took over as governor of the Perm Territory. The press noted that then Chirkunov was one of the few Russian governors who were not members of United Russia, whose election this party supported.
In 2008, the magazine "Finance" placed Chirkunov in fourth place in the list of governors of the most financially attractive regions. Chirkunov enjoys a reputation as a liberal governor and is also known as a blogger.
In October 2010, the name of Chirkunov was included in the list of candidates for the post of head of the Perm Territory from the United Russia party presented to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. The head of state introduced Chirkunov's candidacy for approval by the deputies of the regional parliament, who supported her. In the same month, Chirkunov was again given the powers of the governor.
On April 28, 2012, President Medvedev granted Chirkunov's request for an early resignation of powers of the governor, and Viktor Basargin, the former head of the Ministry of Regional Development of Russia, became his successor in this post.
Experts estimated Chirkunov's fortune at between $ 250 million and $ 3 billion; he himself did not deny that he was a rich man. He has apartments in Perm, Moscow and Switzerland. Chirkunov is married and has two children. He is interested in writing, equestrian sports and basketball.
Former governor of the Perm Territory Oleg Chirkunov leaves Russia for France. Chirkunov admitted that he began looking for a place to move about a year ago, realizing that he did not want to live in Russia for the next five to ten years.
“For almost two years I traveled without a permanent place of residence, lived in many countries, in hotels, in apartments. A year ago I decided to look for something for a more or less permanent residence, well, at least for six months a year. You need to have a place to store your books, ”- wrote Chirkunov on his Facebook page. “The choice was partly predetermined. In the next five to ten years, not Russia. Why? I'm not ready to explain today, ”he added.
Chirkunov served as governor of the Perm Territory from 2005 to 2012, and was early dismissed by the decree of Dmitry Medvedev.
Chirkunov was considered one of the most liberal governors; before heading the SPS party, Nikita Belykh worked as his deputy. Since Chirkunov left the post of governor, he teaches at the Higher School of Economics, is engaged in business (in Perm he owns the Semya hypermarket chain) and travels.
At the same time, speaking about the move, Chirkunov admitted that he treats France as a temporary refuge and considers himself a “guest” of this country.
“There is no less socialism in her (in France - note by Medialeaks) than in my homeland, but now I have already understood: I should not worry about this. It's not my problem. After all, I am only a guest here, and everything that happens here does not concern me, I am not responsible for this and I have no right to change anything, advise something or even express my own opinion. Guest status differs from host status, ”he wrote.
The estate, which the governor bought, is located in Provence, in the Languedoc region. According to Chirkunov himself, the territory of the estate is "huge": gardens, rivers, waterfalls, forest, but now almost everything is neglected.
“I wanted to work with my head and hands and put everything in order, restore, and I also wanted to bring Russian art here, to French territory. Perhaps this is a utopia, ”concluded Chirkunov.
Chirkunov's departure from the post of governor was accompanied by several scandals. In July 2011, a television campaign began against him, and federal television channels released a series of incriminating reports on corruption in the Perm Territory. NTV aired several stories about the fire in the Lame Horse nightclub, where the governor was accused of weak social policy.
Since 2006, Chirkunov has been targeted by the pro-Kremlin youth movements Nashi and Molodaya Gvardiya. Their participants staged protests in Perm against Chirkunov, in particular, accusing him of conniving at neo-Nazism due to the fact that at a youth forum he gave the floor to a member of the National People's Party (PNP).
It is known that the Chirkunov family has been living in Switzerland for many years.
From 1983 to 1985, Chirkunov worked as the second secretary of the Lenin district committee of the Komsomol of Perm. He was a member of the CPSU.
In 1985 he graduated from the Higher School of the KGB of the USSR, with the completion of which he entered the service in the KGB of the USSR.
From 1991 to 1994, Chirkunov was an expert of the trade mission of the Russian Federation in Switzerland.
Since 1994 - Deputy General Director of EKS Limited, since the beginning of 1996 - Director of Ex Opt LLC. Since December 1996 - Director of EKS Group of Enterprises.
Since December 1997 - Member of the Legislative Assembly of the Perm Region.
January 18, 2001 - Representative in the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation from the Perm Region Administration, Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Budget, Tax Policy, Financial, Currency and Customs Regulation, Banking (in 2002 it was transformed into the Committee on Budget).
On March 25, 2004, by the Decree of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin, he was appointed Acting Governor of the Perm Region.
On October 4, 2005, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted to the Legislative Assemblies of the Perm Region and the Komi-Permyak Autonomous Okrug the candidacy of Oleg Chirkunov to give him the powers of the Governor of the Perm Territory. On October 10, the Legislative Assemblies of the Perm Region and the Komi-Permyak Autonomous Okrug at extraordinary meetings endowed Chirkunov with the powers of the governor of the Perm Territory (the Territory was created on the basis of the union of two regions: the Perm Region and the Komi-Permyak Autonomous Okrug).
He took office on December 1, 2005.
In October 2010, the name of Chirkunov was included in the list of candidates for the post of head of the Perm Territory from the United Russia party presented to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. The head of state introduced Chirkunov's candidacy for approval by the deputies of the regional parliament, who supported her. In the same month, Chirkunov was again given the powers of the governor.
On April 9, 2012, the Governor of the Perm Territory Oleg Chirkunov met with the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev and. On April 28, 2012, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev accepted the resignation of the Governor of the Perm Territory, Oleg Chirkunov, and appointed the head of the Ministry of Regional Development Viktor Basargin as interim governor.
Oleg Chirkunov is married, he has two children - Anton and Andrey. He is interested in writing, equestrian sports and basketball. Author of the book of stories "Strokes" (2003).
In 2007, Chirkunov received the National Award "Musical Heart of the Theater" for supporting musical theater.
The material was prepared on the basis of information from RIA Novosti and open sources
At one time in LiveJournal there was a very famous blogger like Oleg Chirkunov. Some of his posts went to the Top, he even responded to comments, he commented on others, was noted for his good nature and spontaneity. Why am I writing about this as something extraordinary? The fact is that this blogger was not simple, but golden - the governor of the Perm Territory. Then he abandoned LJ, preferring Facebook. It's the master's business. Chirkunov left the governors in 2012. After his retirement, he devoted time to traveling and teaching at the HSE.
And so an entry appeared on Facebook, which was reprinted by the media, saying that he was going to move to France for permanent residence. On the same occasion, Chirkunov gave an interview:
“There are few places in the world to which my soul has grown. Perhaps the main one is my dacha in Gorskaya, on the spit of two rivers, Sylva and Chusovaya. But not destiny. Realizing that life had to be changed and he had to leave Perm, he sold his apartment in Perm right away (according to rumors, in a skyscraper on Sibirskaya, near Zhemchuzhina - Ed.), When he finished working there, but he didn’t dare to lose his dacha yet. feeling that this is an important connection for me. This place, mom and business is what connects me with Perm today ...
Like any Russian, I love the sun. Southern peoples, the Spaniards, for example, do not like the sun so much, they hide their houses from its burning rays. And we have a lifetime deficit of sunlight, there are always few of them. They do not burn us, but caress us. That is why I decided to settle down somewhere in the south.
After the voyage Dordogne - Bordeaux - Toulouse - Pyrenees, I ended up in Languedoc. A real French province, and even one of the main wine regions of the country. There are no Russians here, this is the "Dutch-English zone" of France. A huge territory: gardens, rivers, waterfalls, forest, and now almost everything is neglected. I wanted to work with my head and hands and put everything in order, restore, and I also wanted to bring Russian art here, to French territory. Perhaps this is a utopia. "
Everything is great in this interview. I am glad that I want to live in the sun and where there are no Russians! And how much enthusiasm to put in order a huge neglected territory: all these neglected gardens, rivers, waterfalls, forests. I wonder how much land he bought in France, that he now has rivers, waterfalls and forests? Or does he expect to be elected governor there too? But the best part is that Chirkunov is going to bring Russian culture to the future ennobled territories. This is generally very characteristic: real Russian people love the sun, foreign nature and Russian culture, but they do not like other Russians.
At the same time, there were reports in the media that Chirkunov's son Anton was transferring his business to the United States. Anton Chirkunov is 23 years old, but he is, of course, a talented businessman. Have you ever heard that the governors did not have close relatives capable of business? Anton and his brother Andrei studied in Switzerland, of which for some reason they are citizens from birth. Their mother is a Swiss citizen, Tatiana Chirkunova.
Anton Chirkunov Faculty of Economics, St. Gallen University. The young man decided to immediately apply his knowledge in practice - he organized the Wheely ecotaxi service, first in London, and then in Moscow. For the startup, Anton received grants from the Moscow government, Pavel Durov and Yuri Milner. Until recently, they gave an interview: “Now I am 23 years old. And like any young man, I have thousands of ideas for what I could do. But Wheely was the first adult idea to come true. " Chirkunov intended to expand his service and conquer new cities: “The plans are to increase the Moscow fleet from 40 to 150 vehicles in the next six months. Wheely's fleet in London has about a thousand vehicles.
By the way, the former governor is getting divorced from his wife. They wrote that in case of a divorce, she could get 1.5 billion rubles.
These are shares of OJSC Permsky Oblunivermag with a par value of 1.5 million rubles, whose assets exceeded (as of the end of 2011) 3 billion rubles. In addition, according to Russian law, Tatyana Chirkunova can claim half of what she acquired in marriage - an apartment, a car. According to official data provided by O. Chirkunov, Chirkunov owns an apartment in Perm, a land plot and a bathhouse on the Sylva River (Perm Territory), an apartment in Moscow in Maly Kozikhinsky Lane, and a Mercedes car. According to Novaya Gazeta, he has an apartment in Switzerland.
Also, the wife can apply for shares in various companies, including the shares of Norpexal Holding SA, the Swiss company of the ex-governor.
The main business of Oleg Chirkunov in the Perm Territory is a chain of department stores and shopping centers under the Semya brand. Formally, these are dozens of small firms of various shapes property, but their real owner is precisely the Swiss Norpexal Holding SA, 99% of the shares of which (according to the tax declaration of the ex-governor) belong to Oleg Chirkunov.
Norpexal Holding SA manages its retail business through five Russian companies. Chief among them - LLC "E.K.S. international ”, with the help of which all companies of Oleg Chirkunov in Russia are managed. The Swiss share in this company is 76.4%, the ex-governor himself owns 14.4%, his assistant Svetlana Kuzmich - 9.2%. OJSC + Permsky Oblunivermag "also belongs to Norpexal Holding SA (24.33% of shares), as well as LLC" E.K.S. international "(55.13% of shares) and Oleg Chirkunov himself (18.12% of shares). It is the shares recorded for Chirkunov, apparently, that the court will have to divide.
Three more companies - ZAO Universam Semya, OOO Permskaya Torgovaya Seti and OOO Perm Trading Company, are in one way or another also associated with Norpexal Holding SA, the Swiss company owns large shares in them. Moreover, "Perm Trading Company" is a company, from the activities of which, according to the declaration for 2010, Oleg Chirkunov received the lion's share of his income - 81 million out of 83 million rubles.
When at the end of 2010 the Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation studied the activities of EK.S. international ”, it turned out that 72 legal entities and 44 individuals were involved in the“ bush ”controlled by Oleg Chirkunov. But the real levers of control of all these companies are concentrated in the Swiss holding.
Norpexal Holding SA was registered on July 6, 1992 in the city of Friborg in the French-speaking canton of the same name in western Switzerland. At that time, Oleg Chirkunov worked in this country as an expert of the trade mission of Russia. Returning to his homeland in 1994, he entered the business of his friend Yuri Trutnev, who was then elected a local deputy. His main company was called EKS Limited. Until this year, many companies associated with them appeared and disappeared with the abbreviations EKS and KS in their names, until they evolved to “E.K.S. international ".
The European part of Oleg Chirkunov's business, Norpexal Holding SA, was managed by his wife, a Swiss citizen, Tatiana Chirkunova, and his sons, Anton and Andrei.
Oleg Chirkunov was born in 1958 in Kirovsk, Murmansk region. In 1967 the family moved to Perm.
Graduated from the faculty of aircraft engines of the Perm Polytechnic Institute with a degree in economics and organization of mechanical engineering (1981), the Higher School of the KGB of the USSR (1985), the law faculty of the Perm State University (in absentia, 1988).
PhD in Economics (1990).
1983 - 1985 - Second Secretary of the Lenin District Committee of the Komsomol of Perm.
Since 1985 - in the service of the KGB of the USSR.
1991 - 1994 - expert of the trade mission of the Russian Federation in Switzerland.
1994 - 1996 - Deputy General Director of the EKS Group of Companies.
1996 - 2001 - Director of Ex Opt LLC.
Since 2001 - a representative in the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation from the administration of the Perm region.
Since 2004 - acting Governor of the Perm Region.
2005 - 2012 - Governor of the Perm Territory.
If you look at his biography, it is difficult to understand why the KGB officer was sent to Switzerland as a trade expert in 1991, and he would have developed his own business there. It is even more incomprehensible why this businessman was made governor of the Perm Territory for 8 years. In this position, he replaced his business partner Yuri Trutnev, who in 1996 was the mayor of Perm, and from 2000 to 2004 - the governor of the Perm region. The formation of the Perm Territory is his idea. But he himself did not have time to lead them - he left for another job. Trutnev was Minister of Natural Resources from 2004 to 2012, and now he is Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation - Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Far Eastern Federal District.
What made Chirkunov famous in the Perm Territory? Everyone heard how he wanted to make Perm the cultural capital. He invited contemporary artists to Perm, headed by Marat Gelman,
who put a big letter "P" in the city, and put red men on the roofs of houses, whom the poor Perm for some reason hated. 
Chirkunov allowed himself to be a fronder. Even when he was in the Federation Council, he was the only one who did not vote for the return of the anthem to the music of Aleksandrov. Indeed, it is not for the KGB people to love the USSR? They suffered so much from totalitarianism! More recently, Chirkunov supported the White Ribbon opposition. About his position, he said that it was not at all difficult to govern the region.
And what good did he manage to do in 8 years of governorship?
Oleg Chirkunov was a supporter of the construction of a nuclear power plant in the Perm Territory. 35 million budget rubles were spent on a non-existent station. That is how much a Moscow firm was paid for her project. Later it turned out that the regional authorities had no right to make a decision on the construction of a nuclear power plant, but the money had already been spent.
Chirkunov was the initiator of the development of the master plan and General plan of Perm. The ex-governor's big dream is a city built according to European standards. For this, the development of the General Plan was entrusted to the Dutch, they were even paid 160 million rubles. After that, Perm people were shown beautiful pictures: green squares, cozy streets, a wide embankment ... But all this remained on paper.
Chirkunov also forced officials to sit in offices without doors. Later, however, the idea stalled. It turned out that not all doors can be demolished recklessly (the security service suggested), and the people reacted to the innovations in different ways.
Oleg Chirkunov started several major reconstructions at once: an opera and ballet theater, a river station, an airport, a railway station, a zoo, a city embankment and the construction of an art gallery. They were looking for a well-known foreign architect for almost every project, they negotiated with him for a long time ... But not a single grandiose construction has yet begun.
In general, he really wanted to ennoble the Perm Territory, but failed. However, after his resignation, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree "On awarding the Order of Honor to Oleg Anatolyevich Chirkunov."
The Perm Territory has a territory of 160,236 km², 2,635,862 people live in it, GDP - $ 17.8 billion, and per capita - $ 6384.5 per year. The winter is long and snowy. The average January temperature in the north-east of the region is -18.5 ° C, in the south-west of -15 ° C .; July - +18.7 ° C.
The minimum temperature (in the north of the region) was -56 ° C], in summer up to +42 ° C.
France is different! There, GDP per capita is $ 43,000.
Summers are quite hot and dry - the average temperature in July reaches + 23-25 degrees, while the winter months are characterized by rains at an air temperature of + 7-8 ° C - feel the difference!
Why do such Chirkunovs rule our country? Who do not like their home country and see it only as a source of enrichment? Here they receive huge incomes, they are blessed, they play oddities, and the children are arranged abroad, and they themselves go there to retire, when someone closer to the authorities is put in their warm place.
And everything is fine, no one is surprised.
Surname: Chirkunov
Name: Oleg
Middle name: Anatolevich
Position: Governor of the Perm Territory
Biography:
Oleg Chirkunov was born on November 15, 1958 in the city of Kirovsk, Murmansk region of the RSFSR. In 1967, Chirkunov moved to Perm, where he finished the math class of school # 9. In 1981 he received his first higher education at the Faculty of Aviation Engines of the Perm Polytechnic Institute with a degree in Economics and Organization of Mechanical Engineering.
In 1983-1985 he worked as the second secretary of the Lenin district committee of the Komsomol of the city of Perm.
In 1985 he graduated from the Higher School of the KGB of the USSR.
Since 1985 - in the service of the KGB of the USSR.
In 1988 he graduated from the law faculty of the Perm State University by correspondence.
In 1991-1994 he worked as an expert at the trade mission of the Russian Federation in Switzerland.
1994 - Deputy General Director of the EKS Group of Companies
Since 1996 - Director of LLC "Ex Opt"
Since December 1997 - Director of LLC Group of Enterprises "EKS".
Since December 1997 - Deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Perm Region on a non-exempt basis.
From January 18, 2001 - representative in the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation from the administration of the Perm region, deputy chairman of the Federation Council Committee on the budget.
March 14, 2001 was the only senator who spoke out and voted against amendments to the law on the National Anthem of Russia
Since September 2002 - Member of the Federation Council Commission on Natural Monopolies.
Since March 2004 - Acting Governor of the Perm Region.
Co-owner of the SemYa supermarket retail chain in Perm. According to official data, Chirkunov owns an apartment in Perm, a land plot and a bathhouse on the Sylva River (Perm Territory), an apartment in Moscow in Maly Kozikhinsky Lane, a Mercedes car. According to the media, he has an apartment in Switzerland, although he himself states that he does not own real estate in Switzerland, and “all that is is rent”. His wife, Tatiana Chirkunova, and two sons, Anton and Andrei, live in Switzerland and have dual citizenship: Russia and Switzerland. As of May 2007, Tatyana Chirkunova works as a surgeon in one of the clinics. Chirkunov's son Anton graduated from the Swiss University of St. Gallen in 2009 with a bachelor's degree in economics. In 2009, the media claimed that Anton Chirkunov is a freelance adviser to the Deputy Prime Minister of the Perm Territory Yuri Utkin on business and industry development. In 2010, Oleg Chirkunov said that his son did not work in state bodies and does not work.
Source: Wikipedia
Dossier:
Little is known about Chirkunov's activities in the 1980s: from 1983 to 1985 he was the second secretary of the Leninsky district committee of the Komsomol of the city of Perm, probably at the same time he met Yuri Trutnev and went abroad for the first time on a Komsomol ticket.
Source: Profile, 21.06.1999
After the collapse of the USSR in 1991, Chirkunov moved to Switzerland, where he became an expert of the trade mission of the Russian Federation, until 1993, remaining an employee of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service. He worked as an expert of the foreign economic association "Technointorg" in the trade representation until 1994. At the same time, Chirkunov began to cooperate with Yuri Trutnev in his company EKS, which was engaged in the sale of food products, heading its Swiss representative company EKS Nandels AG. In this position, Chirkunov reached an agreement with Ferrero and convinced the EKS managers to start supplying Kinder Surpise chocolate eggs to Russia.
In 1994, after returning to Perm, Chirkunov became Deputy General Director of EKS Limited Trutnev. In 1996, Chirkunov became the general director of EKS Opt LLC. After Trutnev was elected mayor of Perm in the same year, he sold his business to Chirkunov, who headed the holding of the EKS Group of Enterprises and created EKS International with the participation of his own investment Swiss company Norpexal SA.
Source: Novaya Gazeta, 11 May 2007
In 1996, Chirkunov headed Trutnev's campaign headquarters in the elections for the mayor of Perm. It is noteworthy that in those elections Chirkunov found himself in the center of a scandal when a criminal case was initiated against him for "arbitrariness": the destruction of the circulation of leaflets and the abduction of employees of the election headquarters of Trutnev's competitors. However, then Chirkunov was not arrested, and after Trutnev's victory, the case was apparently closed.
Source: Komsomolskaya Pravda, 04.12.1996
In December 2001, Chirkunov headed Trutnev's campaign headquarters when he managed to win the election of the governor of the Perm region. In March 2004, Trutnev was appointed Minister of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation, and Chirkunov was appointed by Vladimir Putin as Acting Governor of the Perm Region. On March 24, 2007, Chirkunov in the Federation Council voted for the adoption of a law on the unification of the Komi-Permyak Autonomous Okrug and the Perm Region, and at the same meeting, the upper house of parliament voted for the early termination of his powers in connection with the appointment of the acting governor. Chirkunov handed over the leadership to EKS to Svetlana Kuzmich. After his appointment, Chirkunov fired Trutnev's former team, leaving only Nikita Belykh, who served as vice-governor of the region.
Source: Vesti.Ru, 15 January 2009
According to some reports, Chirkunov was involved in laundering budget funds through the Ural Great basketball club in 2004, but Chirkunov himself stated that he was "not poor enough to steal sponsorship money." Subsequently, Chirkunov tried to sell Ural Great to a private investor, but this failed, and in 2009 it was decided to liquidate the club.
Source: Kommersant, 13 August 2009
In 2006, Chirkunov was at the center of a scandal when he was at the round table "Youth and Ideology". He gave a speech to the representative of skinheads - a member of the National People's Party Yevdokim Knyazev, who, to the outrage of many in the audience, said that his party "came to the conclusion that killing is ineffective" and that Germany was lucky with Adolf Hitler. " The pro-Kremlin movement Nashi issued an ultimatum to Chirkunov to apologize to veterans and other citizens of Russia. However, in response, Chirkunov called on the youth organizations of the region "in an open free discussion" to prove that the ideas of nationalism "contradict the basic laws of life of people on earth."
