Anatoly Alexandrovich Sobchak

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Anatoli Alexandrowitsch Sobchak ( Russian Анатолий Александрович Собчак , scientific transliteration Anatolij Aleksandrovič Sobčak ; born August 10, 1937 in Chita ; †  February 19, 2000 in Swetlogorsk , Kaliningrad Oblast ) was a Russian politician . From 1991 to 1996 he was the first democratically elected mayor of Saint Petersburg and is considered the political foster father of Vladimir Putin and Dmitri Medvedev .

Anatoly Alexandrovich Sobchak (1996)

Life

Sobchak was a professor of law at the University of Leningrad during the Soviet Union . Putin was one of his students. When Sobchak became mayor of Petersburg in 1991, he brought Putin into office as head of the Committee for Foreign Trade. Medvedev served as a foreign trade advisor, and Putin later became deputy mayor. In 1992, a city parliament committee chaired by Marina Salje examined Putin's business. He concluded that export licenses were given to one-day firms and unusually high commissions were granted. In addition, many of the raw materials were sold abroad for a fraction of the real price. In total, the commission found illegal deals worth about $ 100 million. On the basis of Marina Salye's report, the city parliament demanded Putin's dismissal and got the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Moscow and Yeltsin's presidential administration to begin an examination of Putin's business. Sobchak protected Putin and the investigation was stopped. Putin later retaliated when Sobchak was charged with serious corruption after he was voted out of office in 1996 and Putin already held influential posts in Moscow.

During the attempted coup against Mikhail Gorbachev in August 1991, Sobchak organized demonstrations and rallies against the coup plotters in Leningrad. In her book “The Man Without a Face: Vladimir Putin. A revelation ”describes Masha Gessen how Sobchak arranged himself with the putschists during the coup and hid in a bunker. He campaigned for Leningrad to be renamed Saint Petersburg and tried to design an ambitious program to make the city on the Gulf of Finland attractive to western investors and tourists.

In the 1996 elections he lost to Vladimir Yakovlev . Yakovlev had also previously been Sobchak's deputy, and those around him viewed the candidacy for battle as treason . Corruption allegations against Sobchak surfaced during the election campaign . These could not be confirmed in the end, but led to an interrogation before the public prosecutor.

Sobchak died on the night of February 19-20, 2000 in a hotel in Svetlogorsk . A heart attack was given as the official cause of death , although the autopsy found no traces of it. In a BBC interview on March 5, 2018 with Lyudmila Narusova, Sobchak's widow, she suggested the possibility that her husband had been murdered - she was keeping the results of a second autopsy she had arranged in a safe, unknown location outside of Russia, As a kind of "life insurance" for yourself and your daughter in an unsafe country. In Narusova's view, the alleged murder was certainly not at the behest of Putin, but there are people in the Kremlin for whom Putin was a vehicle for power and who wanted to limit Sobchak's influence on him.

His daughter is the television presenter and political activist Xenia Sobchak .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The best theory for explaining the mysterious death of Putin's mentor businessinsider.com of February 17, 2015, accessed on January 19, 2018.
  2. ^ The day Putin cried. BBC News, March 5, 2018, accessed March 5, 2018 .
  3. ↑ candidacy with many question marks orf.at from October 20, 2017, accessed on January 19, 2018.
  4. ↑ Anatoly Sobchak: "The knives in my back" - Russian-style politics
personal data
SURNAME Sobchak, Anatoly Alexandrovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sobčak, Anatolij Alexandrovič; Собчак, Анатолий Александрович
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Chita , Russian SFSR
DATE OF DEATH February 19, 2000
Place of death Svetlogorsk , Russia