The dark past of a United Russia deputy: “We are waiting for them to start hanging us on all the pillars”

Dossier

Andrei Mikhailovich Makarov is a Soviet, Russian lawyer, statesman of the Russian Federation. Deputy of the Russian State Duma in 1993-1999, as well as from 2003 to the present. He represents the United Russia party in the Russian parliament. Another area of activity is TV presenter. He is one of the authors of the first part of the Russian Tax Code.

Let's present important facts about Andrei Makarov:

Date of birth: 07/22/1954. Today Andrei Mikhailovich is 64 years old.
Place of birth: USSR, Moscow.
Citizenship: Soviet Union and Russian Federation.
Marital status: Married.
Occupation: politician, lawyer, television presenter.
Education: legal (Law Faculty of Moscow State University).
Academic degree: Candidate of Legal Sciences.
Party affiliation: United Russia.
Awards: Order of Honor (received in 2014), Second Class Stolypin Medal (received in 2021), Certificate of Honor from the Russian President (received in 2013).

Now let's move directly to the biography of Andrei Makarov.

Makarov Andrey Mikhailovich - head of the budget committee of the State Duma

It is very curious, on the one hand, and on the other hand, it is very shameful that such people head posts that are very important for the country.
This is the man who initiated tax measures to strangle small businesses in the country... a lot more can be said about him, BUT... there is a lot more in this copy-paste and... it’s all true!!! Link https://parad-gordosti.livejournal.com/1055.html Andrey Mikhailovich Makarov. 58 years old. Jew, Muscovite. Hereditary lawyer; his mother ended her career as chairman of the Moscow Regional Court, and her stepfather headed the Moscow City Bar Association for decades. Graduated from the Faculty of Law of Moscow State University. In 1976-83 he taught at his native faculty, then worked at the All-Russian Research Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR. In 1983-93, lawyer at the Moscow City Bar Association, one of the founders of the Union of Lawyers of the USSR. Defended Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade of the USSR Sushkov (bribes), Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Churbanov (bribes), and head of Vostok-Handelsbank Karnaukh (embezzlement). In 1990, on his own initiative, he was a public prosecutor in the sensational case of Konstantin Smirnov-Ostashvili, chairman of the Union for National Proportional Representation “Memory”. In 1990-92, legal director of the Cultural Initiative Foundation (Soros Foundation), in 1992-95 head of the foundation. In 1992, he acted as a prosecutor at sessions of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, which considered the so-called “CPSU Case” (observers characterized Makarov’s behavior in court as “artificially theatrical,” “offensive,” “defiant”). In March-November 1993, member of the working group for the preparation of the draft of the new Constitution of the Russian Federation. In April-November 1993, the head of the Directorate for Supporting the Activities of the Interdepartmental Commission of the Security Council of the Russian Federation for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption, commissioned by the Yeltsinists, fabricated a case against Vice President Alexander Rutsky on charges of “illegal financial transactions”, tried to fabricate cases against the then Prosecutor General Stepankov and Minister of Foreign Economic Relations Glazyev. In 1993-95, deputy of the State Duma of the 1st convocation (first Gaidar’s “Choice of Russia” faction, then Khakamada’s deputy group “Liberal Democratic Union of December 12”; member of the Committee on International Affairs, member of the Committee on Legislation and Judicial Reform). In 1995-99, deputy of the State Duma of the 2nd convocation (member of the Committee on Budget, Taxes, Banks and Finance). In 1998 he was appointed a member of the board of the State Tax Service of the Russian Federation, in 1999 he was approved as a member of the board of the Ministry of Taxes and Duties of the Russian Federation, in 2000 he was appointed chairman of the Expert Council on Tax Legislation under the State Duma Committee on Budget and Taxes. In 2001, legal consultant, a branch of an American pharmaceutical corporation. In 2003 he was appointed advisor to the governor of the Kemerovo region Tuleev on legal issues, in June 2003 - vice-governor of the region “for legal support of economic activities.” In 2003-07, State Duma deputy of the 4th convocation from United Russia (deputy chairman of the Committee on Budget and Taxes, member of the Commission for the consideration of federal budget expenditures aimed at ensuring the defense and state security of the Russian Federation), in 2007-11 - 5th convocation from her (Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Budget and Taxes). In 2009 he proposed to liquidate the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Since 2011, deputy of the State Duma of the 6th convocation from the United Russia party (Chairman of the Committee on Budget and Taxes). Co-founder of the Moscow law firm “Andrei Makarov, Alexander Tobak and Partners”. "Notable chess player", international chess master (based on the table of two tournaments in which he is listed as the winner, although he is said to have taken no part in them at all), 1994-98 President of the Russian Chess Federation (his election to this post was not was recognized by the majority of chess players supported by FIDE President Ilyumzhinov). TV presenter, in 2010-11 he hosted the “Justice” program on REN-TV, and since 2011 he has hosted the “Freedom and Justice” program on Channel One. “Film actor”, starred in the film “The Circus Burnt Down, the Clowns Ran Away” (1998). He suffered from obesity for a long time (there is a well-known story when in 1993 he was unable to squeeze into an armored personnel carrier specially fitted to his plane and was stuck for a long time), since the late 90s he lost 73 kg (from 167 to 94) using the “Dr. Volkov method.” According to media reports, in 1993-99 he lobbied in the State Duma the interests of the Most Group of the oligarch Gusinsky, and since the early 2000s he has been lobbying the interests of the Evraz Group of the oligarch Abramov and the MDM group. According to rumors, he is one of the leading gay lobbyists in the Duma; according to journalist Alexander Nevzorov, in high-ranking gay circles Makarov is known under the nickname “Tanechka” or “Tanya” (as Nevzorov said, “There are interesting moments in the State Duma. For example, the famous lawyer Makarov is walking down the aisle of the hall, and one of Duma hooligans shout: “Tanya!” And he turns around!”), and the then Radio Liberty correspondent Mark Deitch wrote in 1993 that Makarov was a paid KGB sex worker under the nickname “Tatyana.”

Childhood and youth

Andrei Mikhailovich was born on July 22, 1954. His place of birth is the city of Moscow. Andrei Makarov also spent his childhood in the capital of the USSR. His life path was largely predetermined - the boy was born into a family of hereditary lawyers. His mother, for example, worked as a people's judge for many years. And she ended her career in the honorary position of chairman of the Moscow Regional Court. The stepfather (Konstantin Apraksin) presided over the capital's city bar association.

Andrei Makarov had no hesitation in choosing his future profession. After graduating from high school, he entered Moscow State University, the Faculty of Law. Andrei Mikhailovich completed his education there in 1976.

Four years after graduation, he defended his dissertation at the All-Russian Research Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. It was devoted to the use of technical and scientific means in criminal investigation. The defense of the dissertation made Andrei Mikhailovich Makarov a candidate of legal sciences.

Childhood and family of the future lawyer Andrei Makarov

Andrei Makarov was born into a metropolitan family of hereditary lawyers on July 22, 1954; his entire childhood was spent in Moscow.
Andrei Mikhailovich’s mother worked as a judge for a long time, and later served as chairman of the Moscow regional court, and his stepfather presided over the Moscow City Bar Association. In such a family, Andrei could not have any doubts about his future profession, and after graduating from high school, he easily became a student at the Faculty of Law of Moscow State University, from which he graduated in 1976. Three years later, Makarov completed his postgraduate studies there, successfully defending his PhD thesis on the use of technical means when considering criminal cases in court. After graduation, Andrei Mikhailovich devoted some time to teaching at his native university, and also worked at the research institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Lawyer Andrei Makarov before losing weight

Having finally started practicing law, Andrei Makarov almost immediately gained all-Russian fame thanks to his participation in high-profile cases of the late 80s and early 90s: he acted as a defense attorney in the trials against Yuri Churbanov, Deputy Minister Vladimir Sushkov, and acted as a prosecutor in the case against Konstantin Smirnov -Ostashvili. In 1990, Makarov began working at the Soros Cultural Initiative Foundation, to which he devoted two years of work, and even headed the organization for some time.

Andrey Makarov is a co-founder of one of the law firms in Moscow.

Carier start

Andrei Mikhailovich taught for a short time at the law faculty of this capital’s university. After being laid off, he continued his career at the All-Russian Research Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Here he was considered the unofficial acting speechwriter for Yu. Churbanov.

As a lawyer, Andrei Makarov became famous quite quickly. This was facilitated by his participation in high-profile cases. It was he who was the defender in the “cotton case” against the same Yuri Churbanov. Acted as a public prosecutor in the case of the leader of the Memory society Smirnov-Ostashvili.

Career Achievements

At the age of 38, Andrei Makarov in Moscow acted as a prosecutor in the “CPSU Case” in the Russian Constitutional Court. In the nineties, he began working at the Soros Foundation. He devoted two years to this organization, including heading it.

It so happened that Andrei Makarov’s political activities were inextricably linked with his legal activities. In 1993, he was invited to work on the draft Constitution of the new Russian state. Andrei Mikhailovich accepted this invitation.

In the same spring of 1993, Andrei Makarov took the post of head of the Directorate for Supporting the Activities of the Interdepartmental Commission of the Russian Security Council for the Fight against Corruption and Organized Crime. However, he later left this high position by his own decision - because of his desire to run for deputy of the State Duma.

A year after leaving his high post, Andrei Mikhailovich becomes a member of the Committees on International Affairs, as well as judicial and legal reform and legislation.

But this is not all the achievements of Andrei Makarov. Starting at the age of 40, he headed the Chess Federation of the Russian Federation for three years. Received the title of International Master. This happened after the FID presented the tables of two chess tournaments held by Andrei Mikhailovich in the country. True, conflicting information later appeared in the media about this event. In particular, journalists wrote that the games played by Andrei Makarov were simply copied by him from the great chess players of the past.

The dark past of a United Russia deputy: “We are waiting for them to start hanging us on all the pillars”

Maria Ivatkina decided to remember what the Chairman of the State Duma on Budget and Taxes, United Russia member Andrei Makarov did before he became a deputy. The path was long and not without dark spots. “We are waiting for them to start hanging us on all the pillars,” Makarov said in an interview. And now?

Do people need help? Chairman of the State Duma for Budget and Taxes, United Russia member Andrei Makarov, came out categorically against the free distribution of masks to the population, as it is “inhumane.” Selling masks in the metro for 50 rubles is humane, but handing them out for free is inhumane, says Maria Ivatkina in her author’s program “Ivatkina Index” on the Tsargrad TV channel. What does Deputy Makarov know about humanity and how much is this humanity sold? Is there an answer to this question?

The vote on the distribution of free masks was supposed to be held the other day. However, Andrei Makarov said from the podium: “PR on coronavirus is inhumane.”

He is convinced that his colleagues Kolomeytsev, Shurchanov and Kurinny are simply promoting themselves, trying to show concern for citizens. According to Makarov, no one asked people whether they needed help or not.

“Really, citizens, what are you doing? Need help? Can't you buy masks? 20 thousand is needed only for a family of three people. Expensive?" - the presenter sneers in her author’s program “Ivatkina Index”.

As a result, the legislative majority of United Russia did not support the idea. They simply refused to vote for this bill. Maria Ivatkina on her broadcast called Makarov a master of PR in defiance of his own statement. After all, he started doing PR back in the 1990s, when there was no such word. Now Andrei Makarov is not only a State Duma deputy. He also has his own political talk show on the federal channel. He has admitted more than once that it is difficult to live on a deputy’s salary of 400 thousand rubles.

"Nothing to do? Do you have a lot of free time? If I had delved a little deeper into my immediate responsibilities, I would have learned that people NEED help, and not everyone can afford to buy masks. And this is not inhuman PR, but real life, where 400 thousand is not a monthly salary, but the annual budget of a family of four. Where people don’t have an extra room to isolate a coronavirus patient, where disposable masks are boiled in a saucepan,” Maria Ivatkina said at the end of the episode.

Ivatkin also recalled other milestones in the deputy’s career and generally dark past. In 1993, he became famous for quoting “one of the former deputies,” who said: “Nothing, soon we will come to power and hang you all...” In a conversation with a journalist, Makarov retorted to this deputy, so to speak, in absentia: “Then I also joked: Yes, no rope can hold me.” In response, Makarov heard from his opponent: “Nothing, we will find a wire for you.” “And we endure, we intelligently wait until they start hanging us on all the poles,” summed up Andrei Makarov.

Makarov’s speeches are saturated with PR - both then and now. However, Ivatkina believes, nothing surprising. Service obliges.

“Who doesn’t know, Andrei Makarov started out as a lawyer,” Ivatkina recalled. “He gladly undertook to defend corrupt officials and bribe-takers, because they could not only bring money, but also significantly expand his contacts in influential circles.”

Among other things, he defended a person involved in the cotton case, Brezhnev’s son-in-law Churbanov, former minister Vladimir Sushkov, and after Makarov turned into an accuser. He began to fight organized crime in the highest echelons of power, and then everything was prosaic, with the exception of two facts, Ivatkina noted:

“Andrei Makarov starred in the film “The circus burned down and the clowns fled.” He also ended up at the head of the Russian Chess Federation. At the same time, the deputy received the title of international master after games from two Russian chess tournaments were provided to FIDE. Later it turned out that Makarov’s chess games were copied from famous masters of the past.”

In conclusion, we would like to add that masks today not only save you from infection, but also play into the hands of scammers. As Nevskie Novosti writes, a fraudster from Vologda who deceived a 102-year-old labor veteran was detained in Pomorie. She stole money from him. She hid her face with a mask.

State Duma and government positions

The year 1995 was significant for Andrei Mikhailovich due to his significant career advancement. He became a deputy of the State Duma, as well as a member of the Committee on Finance, Taxes, Budget, and Banks. Three years later, in 1998, Andrei Makarov was appointed a member of the Board of the Russian State Tax Service.

A year later, he began to occupy the same position, but only in the Ministry of Collections and Taxes of the Russian Federation. In the spring of 2000, Andrei Makarov became chairman of the Council of Experts on Tax Legislation of the Russian Federation.

At the age of 49, Andrei Mikhailovich was appointed advisor to Aman Tuleyev, who was at that time the head of the Kemerovo region. Just a few months after this appointment, Makarov becomes vice-governor of the same region.

Since 2003, Andrei Makarov has been a deputy of the State Duma, who then becomes a member of the well-known United Russia faction. Four years later he will be elected again as a deputy, but from this party. Andrei Makarov chose United Russia as his party. Thus, he becomes deputy chairman of the Committee on Budget and Taxes. In the Duma of the sixth convocation, he has already been appointed head of this Committee.

Together with his partner, the politician-lawyer opens his own law office. It is called “Andrei Makarov and Alexander Tobak”.

The Insider: State Duma deputy Andrei Makarov turned out to be a person of no fixed abode

Arguments of the week, Olesya Averyanova The Insider has found out that State Duma deputy from United Russia Andrei Makarov did not indicate in the declaration the use of the apartment in which he actually lives. He has already been elected to parliament 4 times, and now heads the committee on budgets and taxes. In Makarov’s declaration, you can see that he earns 5.5 million rubles a year, and only owns a Lexus car and a small apartment with an area of 53 m², in which he no longer lives.

The apartment belonging to the deputy is located at Verkhnyaya Maslovka Street, 27, bldg. 2. In a conversation with the concierge, The Insider established that Andrei Makarov does not live there: “His mother used to live there, but he took her to live with him a long time ago.”

According to the publication, the deputy’s youngest daughter, 22-year-old Alexandra Makarova, is registered in house 16/12 on Burdenko Street. According to the archive of the capital's paid parking lots, the parliamentarian's Lexus often parks next to this house. An apartment with an area of 181 m² and a market value of about 95 million rubles is owned by the former wife of the deputy Natalia Makarova. About a year ago they officially divorced, so the apartment is not indicated in the United Russia declaration.

Whether deputy Makarov lives on Burdenko Street or has another apartment or house in Moscow is not clear, but it turns out that in the declaration he hid the housing he was using.

“Deputies of the State Duma are taking advantage of a hole in the law that allows them not to declare the use of real estate if the term of the lease agreement does not exceed 11 months. However, from a legal point of view, if contracts are extended, this should be reflected both in Rosreestr documents and in the declaration. If Makarov lives unofficially not with family members, then this is already a property service, and the issue moves to the level of corruption,” said Ilya Shumanov, Deputy General Director of Transparency International Russia.

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Previously, the publication “Our Version” reported (12/17/2018):
“We remember how, since 2014, a wave of divorces swept through the upper levels of the Russian government. Then many said that in this way the deputies were trying to hide their property, transferred to their wives, from declaration. So Andrei Makarov had a wife, Yulia, who, according to the declaration for 2013, earned 99 million rubles - 10 times more than her husband. And the next year it disappeared from his declaration, along with mention of a house in Spain, as well as five plots of land, a residential building with an area of 746 square meters and an apartment of 190.7 square meters in Russia. What if she now decides to move to the sunny Iberian Peninsula and sell real estate in Russia? Thanks to her ex-husband, she will save on taxes, and one day (who knows?) the family may be reunited under the warm Spanish sun.”

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Television activities

In 2010, the politician-lawyer was also a TV presenter on the Justice project. The program was broadcast on the REN-TV channel. Alas, due to changes in the leadership of the TV channel, it ceased to exist.

Andrei Mikhailovich himself told reporters that the television program was one of the attempts to honestly talk with the viewer about the problems that arise every day in our lives. The project was dedicated to discussing pressing issues that arose in the social sphere of society.

But his story on TV did not end there. Three years later, already on Channel One, an updated version of the program was released. It was called "Freedom and Justice". Andrei Makarov again acted there as a TV presenter. However, the project was completed even faster - literally two months after its launch.

Personal condition

According to the declaration for 2011, the following can be said about Andrei Mikhailovich’s personal condition:

His own income is 7.5 million rubles.
The wife’s income is about 75.3 million rubles.
Children's income is 92.4 thousand rubles.
He and his family members are the owners of two plots of land intended for farming. Their area is 0.25 hectares each.
Andrey Makarov and his family own a plot of land intended for dacha farming with an area of 0.18 hectares.
Politician, TV presenter and lawyer Makarov, together with his family, also own a couple of land plots intended for individual housing construction. The area of each plot is 0.14 hectares.
The Makarov family owns a residential building located in Spain. Its area is 318 square meters.
The family also has an individual house in Russia. Living area - 746 m2.
The Makarov family also owns two apartments - 53 and 190 m2.

Today

Now let's turn to the present day. Today Andrei Mikhailovich Makarov is the chairman of the Russian State Duma Committee on Taxes and Budget.

In particular, in March 2021, a bill authored by Andrei Mikhailovich was adopted. According to it, a person who is under a number of foreign sanctions may not be recognized as a tax resident of the Russian Federation. It is worth noting that the law is retroactive. Only the United Russia faction voted “for”. The remaining deputies were against this bill.

Deputy Makarov: dizziness from income

There is a United Russia member Andrei Makarov, chairman of the State Duma Committee on Budget and Taxes, who recently made a sensational statement in the Duma on the so-called “self-employed”:

“We propose that if a person is found to have such income, but he has not registered and does not pay, he pays a fine in the amount of the income he received.”

The man seemed to have become dizzy from his own income, which apparently prompted him to take off the last of the poor people’s pants.

He himself owns, together with his minor daughter, two plots of land (2915 sq.m.) and a residential building (318 sq.m.) in Spain; in Russia, together with his wife, two plots of land (5000 sq.m.) and a residential building (746 sq.m.). And individually - the land plot under (1837.3 sq. m.).

He also has two Lexus RS350 and LS460 cars.

From 1983 to 1993 Makarov worked at the Moscow Bar Association. Defended major Soviet officials in corruption trials (the case of Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade Vladimir Sushkov and Brezhnev's son-in-law Yuri Churbanov). On the part of the prosecution, he participated in the case of the CPSU in 1992, and was a member of the working group for the preparation of the Constitution of Russia.

That is, he developed a craving for rich swindlers back in the USSR.

Then, stern guys in uniform came to citizens living on unearned income and offered to document their possessions in the form of luxurious country houses, cars and gold-diamonds with appropriate salary certificates. And if the income did not match the expenses, all “unproven” property was subject to confiscation. And its owner went straight to court.

Today, thanks to such anti-Soviet deputies, this Soviet barbarism has completely ended. There are no more repressions against citizens who clearly live beyond their means. For example, officials who own mansions worth millions of dollars, hundreds of times more than their salaries. Policemen in jeeps worth a thousand years' worth of income, registered to a retired mother. Moscow unemployed, from whom I take out millions from pickpockets...

The system has become humane to the point of impossibility, generously forgiving those who have committed financial crimes. But only from the ruling class!

But in order for the people, who have recently been dubbed “new oil,” to produce more milk and wool, they need to feed less and milk and shear more.

And the State Duma, not daring to confiscate the unearned income of the oligarchs and officials, decided to take revenge on the labor elements, who were placed in inhumane conditions by our wild taxes and levies.

What are the deputies trying to achieve with this? So that people who can barely make ends meet die quietly? After all, there is no talk at all about helping them come out of the shadows with the help of human laws! Politics: drive into a corner and finish off! And this at a time when the army of parasite officials is multiplying at an accelerated pace.

But there won’t be enough deputy and government seats for everyone anyway!

…Once during my school years I received an A on a test, which I hastened to brag to my mother about. Mom was very happy and asked: “Were there a lot of twos?” That is, it wasn’t enough for her that I distinguished myself - it wasn’t enough for her to be completely happy that others would also disgrace themselves.

We are seeing something malicious even now: it is not enough for our overfed masters that they overeat - we also need others to die of hunger!

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Changes in appearance

In the late nineties, many media outlets were full of the news “Andrei Makarov has lost weight!” Why are information sources so excited about the change in the figure of not a media person, but a politician or lawyer? A person whose appearance is not the main thing in his activities?

The point here is that Andrei Mikhailovich suffered from excess weight for a long time. And this was really a problem for him - he weighed almost 170 kilograms.

In the late 90s, he managed to complete a difficult task - to lose 73 kilograms. As a result, the man’s weight was 94 kg. Andrei Makarov does not name any special secret. According to him, only two factors helped him return to normal weight: regular walking (he specifically walked specified distances, counting them with a pedometer) and healthy eating.

Today it is difficult to say from Andrei Mikhailovich that he once had problems with excess weight. The man himself provides information that his real weight is 78 kg with a height of 176 cm.

Last news

Let's take a closer look at Andrei Makarov's current activities. Let's see the latest news with his participation:

In August 2021, Andrei Makarov made a statement that the government intends to harshly suppress discrimination of job seekers by employers based on age. He supports President Vladimir Putin's proposal to introduce strict penalties (even criminal) for employers who refuse applicants because of their pre-retirement age. Of course, a one-time violation will result in an administrative fine. But abuse is already criminal prosecution.
News June 2021: Andrei Makarov remains in the position of Chairman of the State Duma in the Commission of the Cabinet of Ministers on budget projects. This applies to the planning period and the current financial year.
In March 2021, Andrei Mikhailovich stated that all changes regarding tax projects should be adopted during the spring session of the State Duma. The legislative activity of the Russian parliament during this period was based on questions about cash registers. Andrey Makarov is confident that this particular technique will simplify tax reporting, as well as minimize the costs of small businesses.
News from February 2021: Andrei Mikhailovich told reporters that the capital amnesty will legalize those funds and companies that are located outside the Russian Federation. At the same time, the first period of capital amnesty has already passed in Russia. But business turned to the Russian President with a request to extend its period. In response to this proposal, deputies of the domestic parliament prepared three bills. The amnesty should take place from the beginning of March 2021 to March 1, 2019. Since today Russian business is experiencing unprecedented pressure abroad, the introduction of such a measure will be a salvation for many companies and entrepreneurs.

Andrey Makarov is a truly versatile person who succeeds in many areas. This is a politician, lawyer, TV presenter. He managed to act in films and plays chess professionally. Today, Andrei Mikhailovich is most focused on his activities as a deputy of the State Duma of Russia.