The retired colonel of state security Gudkov Gennady Vladimirovich quite often appeared in various talk shows on a television screen. His point of view is always distinguished by originality, he confidently defends it for many years. Many rumors exist about his entrepreneurial activity.
Gennady Gudkov - State Duma deputy: biography, wife
Gudkov’s birthplace was Kolomna, near Moscow, where he was born on 08/15/1956. His parents were employees. Mother is a school teacher in Russian language and literature. My father worked as an engineer at the Kolomensky plant, where heavy machines were produced. 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 at the Izvestia printing house and hide from repression in the wilderness.
After graduating from high school in 1973, Gudkov entered the State Pedagogical Institute at the Faculty of Foreign Language in Kolomna. During the training he managed to work both in the factory floor 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 to go to serve in the state security organs.
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. Demobilized, 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 a department head. Since 1981, he became an employee of state security agencies. He studied at the Red Banner Institute of the State Security Committee, renamed in 1994 the Academy of Foreign Intelligence.
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 units of the Moscow Department of State Security. In 1992, he wrote a report asking him to be fired from the organs, by then 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 of the reserve.
His wife, Maria Petrovna Gudkova, is known for the fact that after her husband became a civil servant, she became president of the Oskord private security company.
Business activities
Having quit the service, Gudkov Gennady Vladimirovich stood at the head of the Oskord security company, which he himself organized. By the beginning of 1996, there were approximately three thousand employees under his command, most of whom had previously worked in special services and law enforcement agencies.
The biography of Gennady Gudkov was such that in 1997 he again came into contact with the activities of the special services, as he entered the advisory board, organized by the director of the Federal Security Service. He was a member of this body, which included the heads of large private security companies until 2001, until he resigned as president of the Oscord 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 market. In 1999, the photo of Gennady Gudkov again flashed in the media in connection with his election as vice president of the Moscow Foundation for UNESCO Assistance. This fund promotes 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 State Duma’s corps, Gennady Gudkov participated in late 1999, when he decided to try his hand at the Kolomna single-member constituency.
At that moment, he gained only 16.55% of the vote, and the famous astronaut German Titov won the district , who received 20.32%.
Unfortunately, in September 2000 G. Titov died, and therefore, by-elections were held in the Kolomna District the next year in March. Gennady Gudkov, the State Duma deputy, confidently defeated them.
Biography Politician
Having become 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 was then headed by Gennady Raikov. In the same period, he became chairman of a subcommittee in charge of legislation in the field of protection and detective work.
The 2003 elections were again successful for Gudkov, and he went to the State Duma in the Kolomna District, receiving 46.97%. The People’s Party of the Russian Federation, which scored a little more than one percent, failed to get into the Duma in these elections. 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 headed the NPRF. Former party leader G. Raikov, as noted by observers, did not appear at the congress at all, where a decision was made on his re-election. The media 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 invited to subsequently merge with the party in power. Raikov strongly opposed this. The departure of the latter and lengthy negotiations still could not lead to the accession of the NDRF to the ruling party.
At the end of September 2006, Gennady Gudkov, whose biography was always distinguished by the adoption of flexible decisions, spoke out in some periodicals about the need to unite the party he led with some others. According to him, the new party resulting from the unification could be called "the most right-winged".
Work to unite left parties
On 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 coordination council.
A week later they were joined by the leader of the Social Democrats V. Kishenin. The Council aimed to unite efforts before the March 2007 regional elections and create a center-left party capable of competing with the popular left-wing party, Just Russia. The latter also arose due to the unification of the efforts of such political structures as the Party of Life, the Party of Pensioners, and Rodina.
Political Views
Gennady Gudkov - a member of parliament, who at that time was distinguished by moderate social-democratic views. He repeatedly expressed to media correspondents the idea that he is a supporter of a parliamentary republic, at the head of which he sees the prime minister, and not the president. Modern Russian authorities were often criticized by him. For example, he stated that even Empress Catherine II did not possess the powers that Russian President Vladimir V. Putin has.
In his opinion, the existing current order of government inherent in all the signs that the absolute monarchy that existed in the 18th century possessed. The merger of left-centrist parties planned in the second half of 2006 never happened.
Merger with Just Russia
At the beginning of next year, the People’s Party of the Russian Federation had the intention of joining the fair-Russia. Oleg Morozov, the first deputy chairman of the State Duma and member of the United Russia’s highest council, commented on this news in this way: “This possibility of merging the two left-wing party structures is quite natural.” He recognized that, having decided to join a larger party, a small party gets the opportunity for its leader to be on the party lists in the event of parliamentary elections.
On April 13, 2007, the media reported that Gudkov sent a letter to the head of United Russia faction Boris Gryzlov stating his intention to resign from the faction. This is explained by the fact that the NDRF led by him merges into Just Russia. Soon after, Gudkov was elected to the Politburo of the Just Russians.
December 2, 2007 held elections to the State Duma of Russia, at 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 vote. Gudkov took over in the Duma as one of the deputies of the head of the party faction.
Gudkov’s political activity in Just Russia
After the elections of December 4, 2011, Gennady Gudkov, a deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the VI convocation, takes the post of deputy head of the party faction Sergei Mironov. Immediately after the end of the election campaign, he made a statement that there were irregularities in the elections and called on the Communists and Liberal Democrats to surrender the mandates of deputies, as well as hold re-elections. However, his appeal did not find support.
In 2008, it was proposed to return to the Russian media the opportunity to place beer ads 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 a press conference organized by Komsomolka’s, 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 submitted to the parliament a draft law providing for the restriction of consumer requests of public servants. The document was prepared in collaboration with Alexei Navalny.
Protests
On June 18, 2013, Gudkov took part in a protest rally, which gathered those dissatisfied with the guilty verdict against Alexei Navalny. At this event, which was not previously agreed with the authorities, Gudkov was given an interview with some media correspondents.
During a famous rally on Bolotnaya on December 24, 2011, Gudkov announced that he was ready to surrender his deputy’s mandate if the mandates were taken from the deputies in the ruling party. He was part of a team organizing 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.
Departure from the deputies
At a State Duma meeting on September 14, 2012, Gudkov’s deputy mandate was canceled by open vote. The reason was the charge brought against him by the Investigative Committee of Russia and the Prosecutor General. Gudkov at this meeting called not to support the deprivation of his deputy powers, otherwise he promised to talk about incriminating materials on United Russia.
The factions of United Russia and Liberal Democrats for the most part (291 votes) supported the proposal to deprive Gudkov of a deputy mandate, 150 members of the factions of the Just Russians and the Communists voted against. Three deputies abstained from voting.
Allegations
Investigators believed that Gudkov violated the law on deputy status by his actions. In particular, the Bulgarian citizen I. Zartov testified that he was aware of the illegal occupation of Gudkov’s commerce and money laundering abroad.
The materials of the investigation also included materials that on July 5, 2012, Gudkov and his wife signed documents, on the basis of which the powers of the general director of the Kolomensky builder, the market in Kolomna, were extended, which proves his involvement in commerce, despite the exercise of parliamentary powers .
As a confirmation of the deputy’s involvement in illegal commercial activities, the fact of his request to the Moscow prosecutor’s office after the start of her verification of Pantana, a private security company, is 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 fact of deprivation of a deputy’s authority before the trial. The Investigative Committee of Russia did not obtain sufficient grounds to institute proceedings against Gudkov. The Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation retained immunity.