State Department gentleman Chirikov is afraid of becoming a hysterical vixen

The political agenda in Russia has long included ecology in the list of pressing issues. Changes in the quality of life associated with the impact on the environment concern many, and the sacramental question “What kind of air will our children breathe?” citizens of the country are increasingly interested in.

It is not surprising that the topic of ecology has become one of the central issues in many public discussions. At the same time, destructive forces began to parasitize the ecology, which were accustomed to replacing scientific expertise with the heart-rending cry of the Luddite “Back to the caves!” and rotten rally stuff.

What's worse is that often this slogan, in one form or another, disguises an attempt to stop Russia's development and deindustrialize its economy through pretentiously understood environmental concerns.

The Federal News Agency will talk about one of these “environmental activists” - Evgenia Chirikova .

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From Moscow to the Pampas

Evgenia Sergeevna Chirikova was born on November 12, 1976 into a successful metropolitan family. Her father was a researcher at the prestigious MEPhI and defended his Ph.D. thesis. The mother held a more modest position as a social worker.

In 1994, Zhenya graduated from the literary class of school No. 201 named after Zoya and Shura Kosmodemyansky, after which she entered the Moscow Aviation Institute. In 2000, she, according to her own statement, graduated from two faculties of the Moscow Aviation Institute - engineering and economics.

Two educations, hard work and, of course, family connections allowed Chirikova to quickly build a professional career and start her own business. While still a student, in 1999, Zhenya began working as a software engineer at the Lenin Komsomol Automobile Plant - the famous AZLK, slowly dying under Mayor Yuri Luzhkov . And in 2000, after graduating from university, she went to work at, where she first worked on the creation of automation systems, and then headed the department for the implementation of such systems.

Since 2004, Chirikova has already opened her own business, taking the position of executive director in her own (“Electric power and interference protection”). In this endeavor, she was supported by her husband, businessman Mikhail Matveev , whom Evgenia met while still studying.

"ESOP" became a family company: the Chirikov couple acted as its founders. This engineering and design firm specialized in design documentation for the construction of nuclear power plants, switchgears, high-voltage lines, etc.

The secret to the success of the family business was simple: in Moscow the expert market is most developed, since many design institutes and approving government bodies are located in the capital. And the small company of the Chirikovs acted as an intermediary in obtaining various examinations for enterprises from all over Russia.

At the same time, apparently, the fixation on the topic of “disturbed ecology” was present in the Chirikov family from the very beginning. Already at the end of the 1990s, they moved from the capital to Khimki near Moscow so that their future children could “breathe good air, because this is impossible in Moscow.” Lisa and Sasha, were born there .

And there the Chirikovs turned onto the “narrow path” of home-grown environmental activism. According to Evgenia herself, in the summer of 2007, while walking with her husband in the forest park, she discovered marks applied to the trees. The couple began to look for information about the “mysterious” marks on the trees - and found a decree from the then governor of the Moscow region, Boris Gromov , that a new road would be built through the forest park, the M11 Moscow-St. Petersburg federal highway.

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It turned out that moving to Khimki was a waste of time and money! Instead of a quiet forest and clean air, the Chirikovs received an entire highway at their side, the traffic on which would never cease. This is how the collapse of personal “paradise” turned out.

The normal reaction of a metropolis resident to such changes around you is a search for a compromise with reality. But the Chirikovs were not like that!

In 2008, Evgenia Sergeevna first became an activist and then the leader of the informal Eco-Defense movement. In it, she tries to unite residents of Khimki who are also dissatisfied with the construction of a new road and prevent its construction. However, by November 2009, all their efforts were in vain: part of the land of the Khimki Forest Park was transferred to the category of transport and industrial land, which opens a direct path for the future construction of the highway.

And then for some reason Chirikova decides to fight not with the government decree and not with the expertise supporting her, but... personally with the then head of the executive branch of Russia, Vladimir Putin . She records a video message to the then Russian President Dmitry Medvedev demanding that the government resign!

Let us remember that according to this decree, the Khimki Forest was not destroyed at all. Of the total forest park area of ​​1,100 hectares, already sandwiched between Moscow and the growing suburbs, only 145 hectares were taken for the needs of the road - a little more than a tenth of all plantings.

It got ridiculous: during an investment forum in Paris, they began to pester Medvedev with the question of how he felt about cutting down... 14 oak trees during the construction of the highway. Medvedev at first didn’t even understand the essence of the question, asking again what kind of wonderful oak trees they were and who planted them.

Today, taking into account the past years, it is easy to see the extremely low level of “argumentation” of Chirikova in her open letters. For example, as an example of an allegedly unsuccessful decision that “ruined” the capital’s ecology, Evgenia Sergeevna cited the construction of the Aeroexpress line to Sheremetyevo airport:

“With the construction of the railway, nature was destroyed, and few people use the railway because of the extremely expensive fare,” Chirikova said.

Now, without a doubt, the stupidity of her argument is clear to everyone. And then, it seems, Evgenia was ready to offer those departing to walk to the airport - just to save a couple of aspen trees.

TASS / Mikhail Metzel

Chirikova Elena Gennadievna

Plastic surgeon, cosmetologist, candidate of medical sciences, doctor of the highest category. Has been practicing plastic surgery since 2000.

Studied at the Moscow Medical Dental Institute named after. ON THE. Semashko at the Faculty of Medicine, specializing in Surgery. She completed an internship and a course in operative surgery at the Department of Surgical Diseases No. 1 of the Moscow Medical Dental Institute. She worked as a junior researcher at the Department of Faculty Surgery of the Moscow Medical Academy named after. THEM. Sechenov on the basis of the Department of Surgery of the City Clinical Hospital No. 61.

specialized in the use of modern cosmetic preparations and the latest techniques on the basis of Russian and foreign clinics and received the appropriate certificates.

Chirikova Elena Gennadievna takes part in scientific congresses, symposiums and conferences on aesthetic and plastic surgery. She is the author of the method of lifting the breasts and buttocks using Silhouette-Lift threads.

Plastic surgeon Chirikova E.G. works in a medical diagnostic department, where he performs blepharoplasty, sectoral facelift, circular face and neck lift, contour plastic surgery, rejuvenation with gold threads and Silhouette Lift threads, breast augmentation, reduction and lifting, operations to correct the shape of the halo and nipple, abdominoplasty, liposuction, intimate plastic surgery and scar plastic surgery.

Clinic:

• Olympus Multidisciplinary Clinic

Prices for services:

From environmental activist to darling of the West

Using the example of “protecting the Khimki forest”, we can consider the entire scenario of promoting any pseudo-ecological problem in Russia through environmental activists - both enthusiasts and paid cynics.

By mid-2010, through the efforts of foreign politicians and the media, Chirikova’s movement was at the center of the Russian environmental agenda. “Defenders” who are not registered anywhere are suddenly supported by Greenpeace, WWF Russia and Transparency International1, who sent joint requests to Medvedev to “suspend the destruction of the Khimki forest.” The European Green Party suddenly became concerned about the fate of the forest park, and the cutting down of 14 oak trees even became the central point in the speech of the French senator Dominique Voine .

What's happened? Maybe the Western establishment feels sorry for the trees in Russia? Not at all: the answer to the increased interest in Chirikova lies elsewhere. It’s just that on March 10 of the same year, Evgenia Sergeevna signed the appeal of the Russian opposition “Putin must leave” - and immediately entered the “pantheon” of irreconcilable “fighters against the regime.” This crowd is absolutely alien to any environmental concerns, but is happy to replace it with a radical political movement.

“On the ground” this “struggle for the Khimki forest” looked as dirty and ridiculous as possible. Activists led by Chirikova unsuccessfully blocked construction equipment in the forest park for several weeks until their camp was dispersed by riot police. In response, “ecologists” did not come up with anything better than outright extremism. On July 28, 2010, movement activists threw stones and smoke bombs at the Khimki administration building, fired at the city hall with traumatic pistols (!) and covered its walls with slogans.

Need I say that this did not help matters? The construction route of the highway, if it was necessary to change, would not be by blocking equipment or attacks on administrative buildings, but by painstaking work with documents and examinations, perhaps even in the courts. However, nothing like this has been done - after all, it is boring and is unlikely to attract the attention of the West.

In December of the same year, after the government commission made a final decision that the Moscow-St. Petersburg highway would be built through the Khimki Forest, Chirikova, on behalf of the “defenders,” declared a new stupidity:

“We are starting a political struggle and will insist on changing the existing system.”

As they say, the circle is closed: if you go bankrupt in your eco-initiatives, demand a revolution, it will write off everything. Or immediately ask for a new planet. With forests, clean air and away from hated roads.

TASS / Sergey Bobylev