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Vyacheslav Lysakov

Biography

Vyacheslav Ivanovich Lysakov (born November 10, 1953) is a Russian politician and public figure, publicist. Chairman of the interregional public organization of motorists “Freedom of Choice”. Since December 4, 2011, deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the 6th convocation. Since 2013, leader of the All-Russian political party “Automobile Russia”.

He graduated from evening school, then from a vocational school with a specialty in “Diamond cutter into 4th grade diamonds.” After graduation, he worked at the Moscow jewelry factory “Crystal”.

Then he entered the medical school at the Moscow Institute. Sklifosovsky, at the same time worked as a massage therapist for the Dynamo and USSR national teams. After graduation, he was sent to work as a paramedic for the mobile resuscitation team of the Ambulance.

In 1981 he graduated from the Moscow Regional State Institute of Physical Culture and headed the educational and sports department at the All-Russian Sports Society “Labor Reserves”. In 1984, he went to work in Kamchatka as a simple sailor on fishing vessels, where he received the qualification of a 1st class sailor and an International Class sailor certificate.

Political activity

  • After returning to Moscow, during the period of perestroika he worked as a chief methodologist at the Juna cooperative, then at a self-supporting state (unitary) medical center as a massage therapist and bioenergetic therapist.
  • In 2005, he initiated the first all-Russian protest action in defense of owners of right-hand drive cars, which took place in 48 regions of Russia. Organized and headed the interregional public organization in defense of motorists “Freedom of Choice”, which held 10 all-Russian actions: in defense of owners of American cars, in defense of Oleg Shcherbinsky accused of (an accident with the tragic death of the governor of the Altai Territory Mikhail Evdokimov) under the slogan - “No to flashing lights” .
  • From 2009 to 2010 - author and host of the radio program “Fools and Roads” on City-FM radio.
  • From 2009 to 2011 - Deputy General Director for Innovation at JSC Moscow Institute of Materials Science and Effective Technologies.
  • On May 7, 2011, he became a member of the Federal Coordination Council of the All-Russian Popular Front (ONF). Since 2012 - Chief of Staff of the ONF.
  • On December 4, 2011, according to the ONF quota in the party lists of the United Russia party, he was elected to the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the 6th convocation, in which he took the position of first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Building, a member of the United Russia faction.
  • From 2012 to 2013, executive director of the All-Russian Popular Front (ONF).
  • On May 26, 2012, he organized the “Russian Party of Motorists” (ROSPA), the founding congress of which was held on May 26 of this year, the head of the Republican Department of Public Roads of the Altai Republic (RUAD “Gorno-Altaiavtodor”) Nikolai Nechaev was elected as its chairman. Vyacheslav Lysakov himself chose not to officially join its members and not hold official positions in it, remaining its informal leader. On September 24 this year, the party was officially registered by the Ministry of Justice.
  • On October 3, Vyacheslav Lysakov announced on the ONF website that his ROSPA party will join the All-Russian Popular Front (ONF). In the fall of 2013, the Russian Motorists Party (ROSPA) dissolved itself.
  • On March 14, 2013, he participated in the founding congress of the All-Russian political party “Automobile Russia”, at which he was declared its leader. On June 5 this year the party was registered.
  • On June 11-12, 2013, at the founding congress of the ONF, he was elected head of the central audit commission of the ONF

Fighting traffic jams

At the beginning of 2014, Lysakov sent a letter to the mayor of Moscow with a request to allow any type of transport to travel on dedicated public transport lanes at night, but six months earlier, speaking from the podium of the State Duma, Lysakov asked parliamentarians to vote against such an initiative at the federal level.

Awards

  • Gratitude from the President of the Russian Federation “For active participation in the election campaign for the election of the President of the Russian Federation” - 2012.
  • Award weapon: 9 mm Yarygin pistol - 2013.
  • Medal of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation “For Combat Commonwealth” - 2013.
  • Certificate of honor from the State Duma “For a special contribution to the development of legislation and parliamentarism in the Russian Federation, strengthening democracy and the constitutional system in the Russian Federation, ensuring the rights and freedoms of citizens of the Russian Federation” with the presentation of an honorary badge of the State Duma “For merits in the development of parliamentarism” - 2014.
  • Medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II degree (April 30, 2014) - for achieved labor success, significant contribution to the socio-economic development of the Russian Federation, merits in the humanitarian sphere, strengthening of law and order, many years of conscientious work, active legislative and public activity

Compromising evidence

And the king is naked!

Almost half of drivers of right-hand drive cars know nothing about “Freedom of Choice”

Most of the owners of right-hand drive cars have never heard of the ardent defender of the Japanese automobile industry, the head of the Interregional Public Organization (IPA) “Freedom of Choice” Vyacheslav Lysakov, or do not approve of his work. These are the data of a survey conducted on the forum of one of the major sites about Japanese cars. Freedom of Choice motorists have also recently been dissatisfied with their leader, wondering whose interests Lysakov represents at the meeting with the assistant to the US Ambassador.

The activities of the leader of the Interregional Public Organization of Motorists (MOOA) “Freedom of Choice” Vyacheslav Lysakov arouses suspicion among motorists themselves. An active fan of Japanese cars, Lysakov has long gone beyond the sphere of interests of ordinary car owners. In his numerous comments, he is increasingly trying to promote his own name and, apparently, gets great pleasure from this. Thus, describing in enthusiastic terms a meeting with the assistant of the US Ambassador to Russia, Lysakov says: “The conversation was constantly interrupted by calls from the media, asking for comment on today’s State Duma meeting on amendments to the Administrative Code. Irene, in my opinion, was impressed by such attention to us.” The joy of the self-proclaimed advocate of motorists is obvious; the attention of the US State Department is fraught with new grants and other material benefits.

I wonder if Americans know who they are buying? More and more motorists are perplexed about Lysakov and his activities. One of the major Japanese car websites recently conducted two surveys regarding the Free to Choose motorists' movement.

The first survey initiated at the forum did not arouse much interest, which is quite understandable: people are much more concerned about the problems of purchasing spare parts and discussing the quality of car service services than various kinds of human rights activists - their shirt, as they say, is closer to the body. However, the survey result reflects trends. 40.95% of the 114 (as of March 18, 2007) voters have an extremely negative attitude towards the leader of Freedom of Choice, almost 18% have little idea what kind of organization this is. Only 17.5% were on Lysakov’s side.

Another survey involved 1,809 people. Almost 50% do not know about the activities of the movement, and even if they heard, they did not understand Lysakov’s position. However, respondents gave 34% of the votes in favor of “Freedom of Choice”.

Motorists from the website of the Freedom of Choice movement also have many questions for their leader. A significant meeting for Lysakov with the assistant to the US Ambassador Arlis M. Reynolds raised many questions among ordinary motorists. Lysakov himself happily spoke about the meeting on the movement’s website. He believes that the US State Department is closely interested not only in the prospects for the development of civil society in Russia, but also in the history, working methods and Internet technologies of Freedom of Choice.

“Beautiful, charming young woman. Letting her go ahead in the cafe of the Tchaikovsky Hall, I asked whether this would be perceived as sexual harassment by American standards? She appreciated the joke and laughed,” Lysakov very romantically shares how he treated the lady to tea and cake. According to the story of the head of “Freedom of Choice,” “they talked for an hour and a half (I had to run to the State Duma, and she had to run to another meeting). As usual, he talked about us, about our affairs.”

Lysakov did not answer the bewildered questions of motorists, for whom the details of the “warm friendly atmosphere” are not important, but the essence of the conversation, but literally cut off sharply.

“- I make decisions on external contacts, because... “As the head of the organization, members of the Freedom of Choice Association delegated this right to me,” he noted. “We are free people of a free country and we meet and talk with whomever we want and about what we want.”

No one understood how an American could help motorists. But with Vyacheslav Lysakov, everything became clear: with the help of foreign support, you can count on satisfying your personal material and political ambitions.

As a vocal oppositionist and fighter against the system, he disappeared into it at the first opportunity

United Russia member Vyacheslav Lysakov has something to be proud of in his declining years. At 62 years old, he has achieved a lot - just the list of official regalia and positions immediately “inspires” even compared to his fellow deputies. Chairman of the Central Audit Commission of the All-Russian Popular Front (ONF). Leader of the All-Russian political party "Automobile Russia". Deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the VI convocation (United Russia faction). First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Building. In a word, a Very Important State Person who, as they say, “came to success.”

It’s hard to imagine, but just a few years ago Mr. Lysakov was a member of the thoroughly oppositional “Other Russia”, organized protests with orange ribbons near the White House, cursed his future United Russia colleagues with his last words and was considered one of the leaders of civil protest in Russia. Today he is the most conservative deputy who votes for the most “cannibalistic” laws, and if he hesitates, it is strictly along the party line. What made the irreconcilable fighter against the system change his flags and turn into one of its worst supporters? To understand this, we will have to consider the entire creative path of Vyacheslav Ivanovich, which turned out to be very, very extraordinary.

Ostap Bender of our time

The biography of our hero is truly worthy of the pen of Ilf and Petrov, the famous singers of the “Benderiad,” since Lysakov’s intricate path to the deputy chair and the accompanying regalia was thorny and unpredictable. Back in 1953, nothing foreshadowed a brilliant government career for little Vyacheslav: he was born in the Podolsk district of the Moscow region in a place called “Sanatorium 17”, where, in his words, “I, my sister and two nieces lived like beggars on my mother’s salary, whom we raised after taking them from the orphanage." Lysakov’s mother worked from morning to night, her husband beat her, and the future deputy chairman of the Duma committee could not count on anything good (including education). Therefore, he naturally graduated from evening school and entered a vocational school, receiving the specialty “fourth-class diamond cutter.”

However, Lysakov did not take to working with precious stones, so he decided to change his specialty to... a ladies' hairdresser. Young Vyacheslav showed a penchant for sharp turns in life from his youth, so his further “path to himself” is more like an adventurous novel than a well-thought-out strategy. Tired of working with scissors, he goes to the letters department of the magazine “Man and Law”, then tries himself in medicine, becomes a massage therapist, then an ambulance paramedic. But soon, as in “Eugene Onegin,” “he was overcome by anxiety, a desire to change places” - and Lysakov rushes from Moscow to Kamchatka, where he becomes a real sailor.

This, however, required a miracle: at the age of 15, our hero underwent a complex operation, and therefore the future statesman’s military ID bore the treacherous “unfit” stamp. This meant a sure end to his naval career. But the Far East itself and the desire for big earnings had an incredible healing effect on Lysakov: he was re-examined, and this time he turned out to be completely healthy. (It seems that Russian medicine and the Ministry of Defense completely in vain underestimate the healing effect of Kamchatka, ignoring this unique case of miraculous healing. It’s scary to imagine what broad opportunities both for treating incurable patients and for increasing recruitment into the Armed Forces are fraught with the study of this precedent - which , of course, is still waiting for its researcher in uniform).

One way or another, luck finally smiled on Lysakov, who, after several years of sailing on fishing vessels, managed to earn a fantastic 50 thousand rubles by Soviet standards. Having squandered this fortune in his youth, he returns to Moscow, where he meets the healer Juna, popular at that time (in the world - Davidashvili). As a result of this meeting, Lysakov finds a wife (Juna’s niece), and at the same time discovers his remarkable talent as a bioenergy therapist.

Having received a dubious diploma of Doctor of Alternative Medicine from the International University of Complementary Medicine of Sri Lanka, he spent the next few years doing healing in his specialty. But again, not for long: the era of the Chumaks and Kashpirovskys ends as quickly as it began. And then Lysakov becomes a specialist in repairing Japanese cars. It was from this position that his dizzying political career began.

From a government threat to a loyal United Russia member

It was a stable year in 2005. The government at that moment was seriously thinking about limiting the circulation of right-hand drive cars, which threatened to again leave Lysakov without a stable income. He could not allow this to happen, and through auto forums on the Internet he managed to organize a protest in dozens of Russian regions at once. The epicenter was in Moscow - drivers of right-hand drive cars with emergency lights on and orange ribbons on their cars circled around the government house until its complete capitulation. The law banning right-hand drive cars was buried, car enthusiasts were recognized for the first time as a real political force, and Lysakov became famous overnight as the leader of this protest.

On the wave of success, the future deputy (and then a novice oppositionist) registers the “Freedom of Choice” auto movement, which in subsequent years tyranns and terrorizes authorities at all levels with civil resistance, requests, initiatives and others. The agenda was broad: freezing gasoline prices, refusing to increase the transport tax, easing penalties for tinting, fighting against import duties on car seats and much more. The movement amended the traffic rules, defended motorists in the courts, and made life difficult for officials in every possible way.

Lysakov model 2005-2007. - an irreconcilable fighter against corruption and bureaucratic arbitrariness. He writes vicious accusatory columns in the mouthpiece of the opposition, Novaya Gazeta, where he trashes the legislative initiatives of United Russia deputy Vladimir Pligin. “Why did we get such an “elite”, for what sins and how can we control it now, in the presence of the current crippled electoral system, how can we escape from it?” the novice oppositionist asks rhetorically.

But in 2007, a significant event occurred - Lysakov was invited to the State Duma Committee on Transport as an expert. Cooperation with the authorities did not pass without a trace: the leader of “Freedom of Choice” quickly loses the veneer of opposition, but the process of bronzedness is gaining momentum. In 2011, he joined the ONF, where he became the chief of staff, and then a State Duma deputy from United Russia. There he is appointed deputy chairman of the committee on constitutional legislation and state building, and his boss, ironically, becomes the same Pligin, whose initiatives Lysakov so vehemently criticized.

How quickly views change... Already at the beginning of his “front-line” career, the former leader of protest actions states that “those who protest are those who do not work and spend hours on the Internet.” According to him, dozens of bloggers thought that they were Russian people and began to stir up something there. “And the people of Russia are those people who work for hours in factories, factories, and small businesses. It is they, and there are millions of them, who are for stability in Russia, for Putin,” a recent opponent of the Putin system asserted with a clear eye.

The change of flags by the leader of “Freedom of Choice” occurred quickly and in full. Here Lysakov, on the eve of his government career, meets with Assistant to the US Ambassador Arlis Reynolds, later talking with admiration about the State Department’s interest in his activities. And last year, he was in the forefront of voting to deprive Barack Obama of the Nobel Peace Prize - in full accordance with the party line. Lysakov prefers not to remember his participation in the opposition “Other Russia,” calling this episode of his biography a “passed stage.”

It ended with the fact that in December 2014, Lysakov, together with Pligin, introduced a controversial bill on the rules for towing cars. The deputies advocated toughening penalties for parking in spaces for disabled people, mandatory evacuation of cars with foreign license plates if they had overstayed their stay in the Russian Federation, and the transfer of evacuation powers from the local to the federal level. However, the bill did not find understanding in other government bodies, and disputes over it are still ongoing.

In other words, from a principled fighter for the rights of motorists, Lysakov in a couple of years turned into a classic Russian official who, without any embarrassment, explains how, as a State Duma deputy, he can buy a three-room apartment in Moscow with the salary of an ordinary deputy at a price three times lower than the market price. “I asked, the authorities asked for me. This is by no means a common method, but if you apply... After all, we, State Duma deputies, do not even have the right to stand in line for housing. Otherwise, my term would have ended, and I would have been homeless,” he complained about the difficult life of the people’s choice to the publication Slon. At the same time, at the time of the interview, no one kicked the potential “homeless” person out of the service apartment: “I don’t know how management will decide. Perhaps I’ll stay in this apartment,” he said without hesitation.

And one more interesting fact. Lysakov’s current wife, Lydia, owns a three-room apartment with an area of ​​75 square meters. m in a house with an improved layout on Polotskaya Street, built in 2006. Moreover, judging by the documents, she received it at the end of 2013 under a transfer agreement... directly from the city. I wonder for what merit? By the way, the market price of a similar apartment in the same building, according to the website cian.ru, today is almost 20 million rubles.

However, to work in the State Duma, it is not enough to simply be loyal to the authorities - you must also engage in lawmaking. As elsewhere, an effective deputy is not born - he is made. Our hero is not doing the latter very well so far. From the outside, some kind of vigorous activity is visible, but upon closer examination it turns out that this is either an imitation of it, or initiative, forcing one to suspect some kind of mercantile interests at its basis.

Mr. Lysakov, from old memory, positions himself as a defender of all humiliated and insulted motorists. However, the car enthusiasts themselves do not like him, and for good reason - after all, it is the newly-minted deputy who changes their lives for the worse.

For example, one of Lysakov’s sensational initiatives is the return of the non-fined speed limit from 20 km/h to 10 km/h, which benefits primarily those who collect fines (the lion’s share of them falls on cases of minimal speeding). This is unlikely to add to road safety - the increase in the limit actually led to a decrease in the accident rate - however, the deputy does not seem to care much about this fact.

Well, the main prize for delusionality, of course, goes to Lysakov’s proposal to limit access to certain government services to citizens with arrears of administrative fines exceeding 10 thousand rubles. According to the initiative, such debtors will not be able to obtain a foreign passport, take a driver's license exam, or register a car.

The proposal was sharply criticized even by Lysakov’s colleagues in United Russia. Then the chairman of the State Duma Committee on Economic Policy and Entrepreneurship, Evgeny Fedorov, said that supporters of destabilizing the situation in Russia are promoting such bills.

“If we want a coup in Russia, we need it to be fueled by millions of dissatisfied people. It is necessary for unemployment to grow, for the state to hinder the activities of citizens in every possible way, fire them, reduce salaries, pensions, and irritate them with new innovations,” the deputy explained. According to him, “now is not the time when we need to tighten the screws.”

At the same time, Lysakov manages to completely “oversleep” all the really necessary initiatives on his favorite automotive topic. For example, a proposal to abolish the transport tax, which as a result came to the State Duma from below - from the Federation of Car Owners of Russia (FAR), which organized the collection of signatures on the Internet. An attempt to correct the situation by putting forward a similar proposal from his own organization “Freedom of Choice” only exposed Lysakov to ridicule - it turned out that the deputy initiated the people’s appeal to the deputies, that is, to himself.

Another “failure” is the initiative to abolish zero ppm. This initiative, in turn, was introduced by auto journalist Yuri Geiko, while the highly promoted “defender of motorists” from the ONF, Lysakov, did not dare to go against the opinion of his new comrades in the United Russia party (who advocated strict zero). Subsequently, he tried to correct himself by preparing amendments on the minimum level of 0.2 ppm, but this looked like a belated attempt to take credit for someone else’s idea.

Our deputy compensates for the lack of necessary initiatives with an abundance of unnecessary and suspicious ones from the point of view of lobbying. For example, he put forward rather crazy initiatives to introduce a strange development of Voronezh scientists - a unique device supposedly determined chronic alcoholism. It was assumed that when it was adopted by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, identified alcoholics would not have their licenses returned either a year or two after deprivation. At the same time, Lysakov (to the great joy of all car owners, languishing under the yoke of extra money) proposed to mandatory equip cars with an alcohol lock.

Another similar initiative concerned the creation of a “unique, protected from third party intervention” video recorder for Russia. On this occasion, Lysakov was not too lazy to negotiate with a certain Korean manufacturer. However, the feasibility of such a device seemed dubious to many, but the benefits of the state order for the manufacturer of the “unique DVR” and its lobbyist, on the contrary, were obvious.

Weathervane Man - a hero of our time

In other words, next to our hero, Ostap Bender and any other literary adventurous character fade away. As often happens, life turns out to be much more interesting than any fiction.

A multi-faceted, resourceful, unprincipled weathervane man came to the court of the current State Duma, which has long been no longer a place for discussion. Perhaps Lysakov can rightfully be considered a hero of our time, but this is not his merit either: times have just come for us now, bad and vile.

In 1981 he graduated from the Moscow Regional State Institute of Physical Culture (now the Moscow State Academy of Physical Culture) with a degree in physical culture and sports, in 2015 – the department of “Legal Support of State and Municipal Administration” of the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation in the field of jurisprudence.

After school, he graduated from a vocational school with a degree in 4th grade diamond cutter. He worked as a cutter at the Moscow Crystal plant, then as a hairdresser in the letters department of the magazine Man and Law, and as a massage therapist for the USSR national track and field athletics team and the Dynamo team.
He studied at the medical school of the Institute of Emergency Medicine named after. N.V. Sklifosovsky, at the same time entered the Moscow Regional State Institute of Physical Culture. During his studies, he worked as a paramedic for a mobile resuscitation team at an ambulance and emergency medical care station. After graduating from the institute, he was the head of the educational and sports department of the Moscow regional branch of the All-Union Voluntary Sports Society "Labor Reserves".
In the 1980s went to Kamchatka, where he worked for three years on the fishing vessels of the Kamchatka association of fishing collective farms "Dalryba". Qualified as a 1st class sailor.
After returning to Moscow, he met Evgenia (Juna) Davitashvili, a healer and president of the public organization International Academy of Alternative Sciences, and became her student. Subsequently, he worked as the chief methodologist of the cooperative scientific and methodological center for non-traditional methods of healing "Juna", a massage therapist and bioenergy therapist. Received a Doctor of Alternative Medicine diploma from the Open International University of Complementary Medicine (Colombo, Sri Lanka). According to media reports, the first wife of Vyacheslav Lysakov was one of Juna’s nieces.
In the 1990s. worked as a car mechanic. According to media reports, he was engaged in repairing right-hand drive Japanese cars.
In 2005, the Ministry of Industry and Energy developed a draft technical regulation on the safety of wheeled vehicles. The document, in particular, provided for restrictions on the import and registration of imported cars with right-hand drive. Vyacheslav Lysakov, using the Internet, organized an initiative group to hold the first all-Russian protest action in defense of owners of right-hand drive cars. The action took place on May 19 of the same year in 48 regions. In Moscow, car owners blocked traffic in the center of the capital; the symbol of the action was orange ribbons on the cars of protesters.
Since April 2006 - founder and chairman of the coordinating council of the Interregional public organization of motorists "Freedom of Choice". The organization carried out more than 10 all-Russian actions (against the increase in transport tax, the use of special signals, in defense of the driver Oleg Shcherbinsky, convicted of an accident that resulted in the death of the head of the Altai Territory, Mikhail Evdokimov, etc.). The movement also represented the interests of motorists in courts and initiated amendments to Russian legislation.
In 2006, as the head of “Free Choice”, he participated in conferences and meetings organized by the opposition political party “Other Russia”, in 2007 - in the pre-election congress of the “Union of Right Forces” party. According to Vyacheslav Lysakov, applications for membership in his organization were submitted by Irina Khakamada, Mikhail Kasyanov, Nikita Belykh, Lyudmila Alekseeva and others.
In 2007, he became a member of the expert council of the Russian State Duma Committee on Transport.
He was a columnist for Novaya Gazeta and wrote a column for the Vedomosti newspaper.
From 2009 to 2010 - author and host of the “Fools and Roads” program on City-FM radio.
In 2009-2011 - Deputy General Director for Innovation of JSC "Moscow Institute of Materials Science and Effective Technologies" Marcel Bickbau.
In May 2011, he became a member of the Federal Coordination Council of the All-Russian Popular Front (ONF), created on the initiative of the head of the Russian government, Vladimir Putin. In 2012, he headed the apparatus of the ONF.
In 2011, he was nominated as a candidate for deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation by the United Russia party under the ONF quota.
On December 4, 2011, he was elected to the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the sixth convocation on the list of United Russia (sixth number in regional group No. 52, Moscow region). Joined the party faction. On January 13, 2012, he took the post of first deputy chairman of the Duma Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Building.
From 2013 to 2014 - head of the central audit commission of the All-Russian Popular Front, in 2015 he became co-chairman of the Moscow headquarters of the organization.
In 2012-2013 - Chairman of the Russian Party of Motorists (established on May 26, 2012, liquidated in the fall of 2013).
From March 14, 2013, he headed the All-Russian political party "Automobile Russia" (he was not a member of the party), which was liquidated by the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation on July 26, 2017.
In May 2016, he participated in the preliminary intra-party voting (primaries) of United Russia to select candidates for deputies of the State Duma of the Russian Federation from Moscow. He took first place according to the results of the primaries in the Kuntsevo single-mandate district (47.32%) and 17th place in Moscow (3.75%).
On September 18, 2016, he was elected as a deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the VII convocation from United Russia in the Kuntsevsky single-mandate electoral district No. 197 (Moscow). He received 29.52% of the votes, his closest rival from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Yulia Mikhailova - 15.57%. In the lower house of parliament he became a member of the party faction. He was again elected first deputy chairman of the Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Building.

Chairman of the Board of the National Taxi Council Association.

The total amount of declared income for 2015 was 4 million 848 thousand rubles, spouses - 659 thousand rubles.
The total amount of declared income for 2016 was 4 million 705 thousand rubles, spouses - 710 thousand rubles.
The total amount of declared income for 2017 was 4 million 763 thousand rubles, spouses - 200 thousand rubles.
The total amount of declared income for 2018 was 4 million 733 thousand rubles, spouses - 203 thousand rubles.

Awarded the medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II degree (2014).

Awarded a Certificate of Honor from the President of the Russian Federation (for active participation in the election campaign for the presidential elections of the Russian Federation; 2012).

Married. He has three children, the eldest son and daughter from his first marriage. Wife - Natalya Ivanovna Lysakova (Kruchinina), works in the apparatus of the State Duma of the Russian Federation.

Member of the faction of the political party "United Russia".

First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on State

construction and legislation.

Vyacheslav Lysakov was born on November 10, 1953 in the Podolsk district, Moscow region. He graduated from evening school, followed by a vocational school with a specialty in “Diamond cutter into 4th grade diamonds.” After receiving his education, Vyacheslav worked in his specialty at the Crystal jewelry factory in Moscow.

Then he entered the medical school at the Moscow Institute. Sklifosovsky, at the same time worked as a massage therapist for the Dynamo and USSR national teams. After completing his training, he was sent to work as a paramedic in an emergency ambulance mobile resuscitation team. In 1981 he graduated from the Moscow Regional State Institute of Physical Culture, after which he was invited to the position of head of the educational and sports department at the All-Russian Sports and Social Society “Labor Reserves”.

In 1984, he went to work in Kamchatka as a simple sailor on fishing vessels, having previously qualified as a 2nd class sailor. After a three-year absence, he returned to Moscow as a 1st class sailor and holder of the International Certificate of International Class Sailor. During the period of perestroika, he worked as the chief methodologist at the Dzhuna cooperative. He worked in a self-supporting state (unitary) medical center as a massage therapist and bioenergy therapist.

In 2005, he initiated an all-Russian protest action in defense of owners of right-hand drive cars, which took place in 48 regions. Since 2006, Vyacheslav Ivanovich has headed the Interregional public organization of motorists “Freedom of Choice”. From 2009 to 2010, he was the author and host of the radio program “Fools and Roads” on City-FM radio. From 2009 to 2011, Lysakov was Deputy General Director for Innovation at the Moscow Institute of Materials Science and Effective Technologies OJSC.

In 2011, on May 7, he became a member of the Federal Coordination Council of the All-Russian Popular Front. In 2012, he headed the apparatus of the ONF. According to the ONF quota in the party lists of the United Russia party, on December 4, 2011, he was elected to the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the 6th convocation, in which he took the position of first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Building, a member of the United Russia faction.

Soon, at the founding congress of the ONF, in June 2013, he was elected head of the central audit commission of the ONF. In 2015, he was elected co-chairman of the Moscow headquarters of the All-Russian Popular Front. In 2016, as the leader of the Automobile Russia party, in the preliminary vote of United Russia he was elected as a candidate for deputy of the State Duma of the 7th convocation, from United Russia in the Kuntsevo single-mandate constituency No. 197 of Moscow.

In the elections on September 18, 2016, Vyacheslav Ivanovich Lysakov was elected as a Deputy of the State Duma of the VII convocation from electoral district 0197, Kuntsevsky - Moscow city. Member of the United Russia faction. First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on State Building and Legislation. The start date of the term is September 18, 2016.

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Vyacheslav Ivanovich Lysakov(born November 10, 1953) - Russian statesman and political figure. Deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation of the VI and VII convocations. Chairman of the interregional public organization of motorists “Freedom of Choice”. Since December 4, 2011, since 2013, non-partisan leader of the all-Russian political party “Automotive Russia”.

Biography

From 2009 to 2011 - Deputy General Director for Innovation at JSC Moscow Institute of Materials Science and Effective Technologies.

Political activity

In 2015, he was elected co-chairman of the Moscow headquarters of the All-Russian Popular Front.

He is the author of the initiative to introduce into legislation the concept of “possible total measurement error” when determining the driver’s state of intoxication (up to 0.16 mg of ethanol per liter of exhaled air or 0.32 ppm), changed the non-alternative administrative penalty in the form of deprivation of a driver’s license for driving into oncoming traffic traffic lane - a fine of 5 thousand rubles. in the first act, author of the law criminalizing the theft of license plates. Introduced a minimum (20 km/h) non-punishable limit for exceeding the permitted speed. He is the author of the law on a 50% discount for early payment of a fine (from 01/01/2016) and an amendment on the early return of a driver’s license.

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“Show me off, show me off, I’ll... I’ll... I’ll do it,” Pierre said hastily in a breathless voice.
The dirty girl came out from behind the chest, tidied up her braid and, sighing, walked forward along the path with her blunt bare feet. Pierre seemed to suddenly come to life after a severe faint. He raised his head higher, his eyes lit up with the sparkle of life, and he quickly followed the girl, overtook her and went out onto Povarskaya. The entire street was covered in a cloud of black smoke. Tongues of flame burst out here and there from this cloud. A large crowd of people crowded in front of the fire. A French general stood in the middle of the street and said something to those around him. Pierre, accompanied by the girl, approached the place where the general stood; but French soldiers stopped him.
“On ne passe pas, [They don’t pass here,”] a voice shouted to him.
- Here, uncle! - said the girl. - We'll go through the Nikulins along the alley.
Pierre turned back and walked, occasionally jumping up to keep up with her. The girl ran across the street, turned left into an alley and, after passing three houses, turned right into the gate.
“Right here now,” said the girl, and, running through the yard, she opened the gate in the plank fence and, stopping, pointed to Pierre a small wooden outbuilding that burned brightly and hotly. One side of it collapsed, the other was burning, and the flames were shining brightly from under the window openings and from under the roof.
When Pierre entered the gate, he was overcome with heat, and he involuntarily stopped.
-Which, which is your house? - he asked.
- Oh oh oh! - the girl howled, pointing to the outbuilding. “He’s the one, she’s the one who was our Vatera.” You burned, my treasure, Katechka, my beloved young lady, oh, oh! - Aniska howled at the sight of the fire, feeling the need to express her feelings.
Pierre leaned towards the outbuilding, but the heat was so strong that he involuntarily described an arc around the outbuilding and found himself next to a large house, which was still burning only on one side of the roof and around which a crowd of French were swarming. Pierre at first did not understand what these French were doing, carrying something; but, seeing in front of him a Frenchman who was beating a peasant with a blunt cleaver, taking away his fox fur coat, Pierre vaguely understood that they were robbing here, but he had no time to dwell on this thought.
The sound of the crackling and roar of collapsing walls and ceilings, the whistle and hiss of flames and the animated cries of the people, the sight of wavering, now scowling thick black, now soaring lightening clouds of smoke with sparkles and sometimes solid, sheaf-shaped, red, sometimes scaly golden flame moving along the walls , the sensation of heat and smoke and the speed of movement produced on Pierre their usual stimulating effect of fires. This effect was especially strong on Pierre, because Pierre suddenly, at the sight of this fire, felt freed from the thoughts that were weighing him down. He felt young, cheerful, agile and determined. He ran around the outbuilding from the side of the house and was about to run to the part of it that was still standing, when a cry of several voices was heard above his head, followed by the cracking and ringing of something heavy that fell next to him.
Pierre looked around and saw the French in the windows of the house, who had thrown out a chest of drawers filled with some kind of metal things. Other French soldiers below approached the box.
“Eh bien, qu"est ce qu"il veut celui la, [This one still needs something," one of the French shouted at Pierre.
- Un enfant dans cette maison. N"avez vous pas vu un enfant? [A child in this house. Have you seen the child?] - said Pierre.
– Tiens, qu"est ce qu"il chante celui la? Va te promener, [What else is this interpreting? “Get to hell,” voices were heard, and one of the soldiers, apparently afraid that Pierre would take it into his head to take away the silver and bronze that were in the box, advanced threateningly towards him.
- Un enfant? - the Frenchman shouted from above. - J"ai entendu piailler quelque chose au jardin. Peut etre c"est sou moutard au bonhomme. Faut etre humain, voyez vous... [Child? I heard something squeaking in the garden. Maybe it's his child. Well, it is necessary according to humanity. We all people…]
– Ou est il? Ou est il? [Where is he? Where is he?] asked Pierre.
- Par ici! Par ici! [Here, here!] - the Frenchman shouted to him from the window, pointing to the garden that was behind the house. – Attendez, je vais descendre. [Wait, I'll get off now.]
And indeed, a minute later a Frenchman, a black-eyed fellow with some kind of spot on his cheek, in only his shirt, jumped out of the window of the lower floor and, slapping Pierre on the shoulder, ran with him into the garden.
“Depechez vous, vous autres,” he shouted to his comrades, “commence a faire chaud.” [Hey, you're more lively, it's starting to get hot.]
Running out behind the house onto a sand-strewn path, the Frenchman pulled Pierre’s hand and pointed him towards the circle. Under the bench lay a three-year-old girl in a pink dress.
– Voila votre moutard. “Ah, une petite, tant mieux,” said the Frenchman. - Au revoir, mon gros. Faut être humaine. Nous sommes tous mortels, voyez vous, [Here is your child. Ah, girl, so much the better. Goodbye, fat man. Well, it is necessary according to humanity. All people,] - and the Frenchman with a spot on his cheek ran back to his comrades.
Pierre, gasping for joy, ran up to the girl and wanted to take her in his arms. But, seeing a stranger, the scrofulous, unpleasant-looking, scrofulous, mother-like girl screamed and started running. Pierre, however, grabbed her and picked her up; she screamed in a desperately angry voice and with her small hands began to tear Pierre’s hands away from her and bite them with her snotty mouth. Pierre was overcome by a feeling of horror and disgust, similar to the one he experienced when touching some small animal. But he made an effort over himself so as not to abandon the child, and ran with him back to the big house. But it was no longer possible to go back the same way; the girl Aniska was no longer there, and Pierre, with a feeling of pity and disgust, hugging the painfully sobbing and wet girl as tenderly as possible, ran through the garden to look for another way out.

When Pierre, having run around courtyards and alleys, came back with his burden to Gruzinsky’s garden, on the corner of Povarskaya, at first he did not recognize the place from which he had gone to fetch the child: it was so cluttered with people and belongings pulled out of houses. In addition to Russian families with their goods, fleeing here from the fire, there were also several French soldiers in various attire. Pierre did not pay attention to them. He was in a hurry to find the official’s family in order to give his daughter to his mother and go again to save someone else. It seemed to Pierre that he had a lot more to do and quickly. Inflamed from the heat and running around, Pierre at that moment felt even more strongly than before that feeling of youth, revival and determination that overwhelmed him as he ran to save the child. The girl now became quiet and, holding Pierre’s caftan with her hands, sat on his hand and, like a wild animal, looked around her. Pierre occasionally glanced at her and smiled slightly. It seemed to him that he saw something touchingly innocent and angelic in this frightened and painful face.
Neither the official nor his wife were in their former place. Pierre walked quickly among the people, looking at the different faces that came his way. Involuntarily he noticed a Georgian or Armenian family, consisting of a handsome, very old man with an oriental face, dressed in a new covered sheepskin coat and new boots, an old woman of the same type and a young woman. This very young woman seemed to Pierre the perfection of oriental beauty, with her sharp, arched black eyebrows and a long, unusually tenderly ruddy and beautiful face without any expression. Among the scattered belongings, in the crowd in the square, she, in her rich satin cloak and a bright purple scarf covering her head, resembled a delicate greenhouse plant thrown out into the snow. She sat on a bundle somewhat behind the old woman and motionlessly looked at the ground with her large black elongated eyes with long eyelashes. Apparently, she knew her beauty and was afraid for it. This face struck Pierre, and in his haste, walking along the fence, he looked back at her several times. Having reached the fence and still not finding those he needed, Pierre stopped, looking around.
The figure of Pierre with a child in his arms was now even more remarkable than before, and several Russian men and women gathered around him.
– Or lost someone, dear man? Are you one of the nobles yourself, or what? Whose child is it? - they asked him.
Pierre answered that the child belonged to a woman in a black cloak, who was sitting with the children in this place, and asked if anyone knew her and where she had gone.
“It must be the Anferovs,” said the old deacon, turning to the pockmarked woman. “Lord have mercy, Lord have mercy,” he added in his usual bass voice.
- Where are the Anferovs! - said the woman. - The Anferovs left in the morning. And these are either the Marya Nikolaevnas or the Ivanovs.
“He says she’s a woman, but Marya Nikolaevna is a lady,” said the yard man.
“Yes, you know her, long teeth, thin,” said Pierre.
- And there is Marya Nikolaevna. “They went into the garden, when these wolves swooped in,” the woman said, pointing at the French soldiers.
“Oh, Lord have mercy,” the deacon added again.
- You go over there, they are there. She is. “I kept getting upset and crying,” the woman said again. - She is. Here it is.
But Pierre did not listen to the woman. For several seconds now, without taking his eyes off, he looked at what was happening a few steps away from him. He looked at the Armenian family and two French soldiers who approached the Armenians. One of these soldiers, a small, fidgety man, was dressed in a blue overcoat belted with a rope. He had a cap on his head and his feet were bare. The other, who especially struck Pierre, was a long, stooped, blond, thin man with slow movements and an idiotic expression on his face. This one was dressed in a frieze hood, blue trousers and large torn boots. A little Frenchman, without boots, in a blue hiss, approached the Armenians, immediately, saying something, took hold of the old man’s legs, and the old man immediately began hastily to take off his boots. The other, in a hood, stopped opposite the beautiful Armenian woman and silently, motionless, holding his hands in his pockets, looked at her.

There is something to be proud of in your declining years. At 62 years old, he has achieved a lot - just the list of official regalia and positions immediately “inspires” even compared to his fellow deputies. Chairman of the Central Audit Commission of the All-Russian Popular Front (ONF). Leader of the All-Russian political party "Automobile Russia". Deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the VI convocation (United Russia faction). First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Building. In a word, a Very Important State Person who, as they say, “came to success.”

It’s hard to imagine, but just a few years ago Mr. Lysakov was a member of the thoroughly oppositional “Other Russia”, organized protests with orange ribbons near the White House, cursed his future United Russia colleagues with his last words and was considered one of the leaders of civil protest in Russia. Today he is the most conservative deputy who votes for the most “cannibalistic” laws, and if he hesitates, it is strictly along the party line. What made the irreconcilable fighter against the system change his flags and turn into one of its worst supporters? To understand this, we will have to consider the entire creative path of Vyacheslav Ivanovich, which turned out to be very, very extraordinary.

Ostap Bender of our time

The biography of our hero is truly worthy of the pen of Ilf and Petrov, the famous singers of the “Benderiad,” since Lysakov’s intricate path to the deputy chair and the accompanying regalia was thorny and unpredictable. Back in 1953, nothing foreshadowed a brilliant government career for little Vyacheslav: he was born in the Podolsk district of the Moscow region in a place called “Sanatorium 17”, where, in his words, “I, my sister and two nieces lived like beggars on my mother’s salary, whom we raised after taking them from the orphanage." Lysakov’s mother worked from morning to night, her husband beat her, and the future deputy chairman of the Duma committee could not count on anything good (including education). Therefore, he naturally graduated from evening school and entered a vocational school, receiving the specialty “fourth-class diamond cutter.”

However, Lysakov did not take to working with precious stones, so he decided to change his specialty to... a ladies' hairdresser. Young Vyacheslav showed a penchant for sharp turns in life from his youth, so his further “path to himself” is more like an adventurous novel than a well-thought-out strategy. Tired of working with scissors, he goes to the letters department of the magazine “Man and Law”, then tries himself in medicine, becomes a massage therapist, then an ambulance paramedic. But soon, as in “Eugene Onegin,” “he was overcome by anxiety, a desire to change places” - and Lysakov rushes from Moscow to Kamchatka, where he becomes a real sailor.

This, however, required a miracle: at the age of 15, our hero underwent a complex operation, and therefore the future statesman’s military ID bore the treacherous “unfit” stamp. This meant a sure end to his naval career. But the Far East itself and the desire for big earnings had an incredible healing effect on Lysakov: he was re-examined, and this time he turned out to be completely healthy. (It seems that Russian medicine and the Ministry of Defense completely in vain underestimate the healing effect of Kamchatka, ignoring this unique case of miraculous healing. It’s scary to imagine what broad opportunities both for treating incurable patients and for increasing recruitment into the Armed Forces are fraught with the study of this precedent - which , of course, is still waiting for its researcher in uniform).

One way or another, luck finally smiled on Lysakov, who, after several years of sailing on fishing vessels, managed to earn a fantastic 50 thousand rubles by Soviet standards. Having squandered this fortune in his youth, he returns to Moscow, where he meets the healer Juna, popular at that time (in the world - Davidashvili). As a result of this meeting, Lysakov finds a wife (Juna’s niece), and at the same time discovers his remarkable talent as a bioenergy therapist.

Having received a dubious diploma of Doctor of Alternative Medicine from the International University of Complementary Medicine of Sri Lanka, he spent the next few years doing healing in his specialty. But again, not for long: the era of the Chumaks and Kashpirovskys ends as quickly as it began. And then Lysakov becomes a specialist in repairing Japanese cars. It was from this position that his dizzying political career began.

From a government threat to a loyal United Russia member

It was a stable year in 2005. The government at that moment was seriously thinking about limiting the circulation of right-hand drive cars, which threatened to again leave Lysakov without a stable income. He could not allow this to happen, and through auto forums on the Internet he managed to organize a protest in dozens of Russian regions at once. The epicenter was in Moscow - drivers of right-hand drive cars with emergency lights on and orange ribbons on their cars circled around the government house until its complete capitulation. The law banning right-hand drive cars was buried, car enthusiasts were recognized for the first time as a real political force, and Lysakov became famous overnight as the leader of this protest.

On the wave of success, the future deputy (and then a novice oppositionist) registers the “Freedom of Choice” auto movement, which in subsequent years tyranns and terrorizes authorities at all levels with civil resistance, requests, initiatives and others. The agenda was broad: freezing gasoline prices, refusing to increase the transport tax, easing penalties for tinting, fighting against import duties on car seats and much more. The movement amended the traffic rules, defended motorists in the courts, and made life difficult for officials in every possible way.

Lysakov model 2005-2007. - an irreconcilable fighter against corruption and bureaucratic arbitrariness. He writes vicious accusatory columns in the mouthpiece of the opposition, Novaya Gazeta, where he trashes the legislative initiatives of United Russia deputy Vladimir Pligin. “Why did we get such an “elite”, for what sins and how can we control it now, in the presence of the current crippled electoral system, how can we escape from it?” the novice oppositionist asks rhetorically.

But in 2007, a significant event occurred - Lysakov was invited to the State Duma Committee on Transport as an expert. Cooperation with the authorities did not pass without a trace: the leader of “Freedom of Choice” quickly loses the veneer of opposition, but the process of bronzedness is gaining momentum. In 2011, he joined the ONF, where he became the chief of staff, and then a State Duma deputy from United Russia. There he is appointed deputy chairman of the committee on constitutional legislation and state building, and his boss, ironically, becomes the same Pligin, whose initiatives Lysakov so vehemently criticized.

How quickly views change... Already at the beginning of his “front-line” career, the former leader of protest actions states that “those who protest are those who do not work and spend hours on the Internet.” According to him, dozens of bloggers thought that they were Russian people and began to stir up something there. “And the people of Russia are those people who work for hours in factories, factories, and small businesses. It is they, and there are millions of them, who are for stability in Russia, for Putin,” a recent opponent of the Putin system asserted with a clear eye.

The change of flags by the leader of “Freedom of Choice” occurred quickly and in full. Here Lysakov, on the eve of his government career, meets with Assistant to the US Ambassador Arlis Reynolds, later talking with admiration about the State Department’s interest in his activities. And last year, he was in the forefront of voting to deprive Barack Obama of the Nobel Peace Prize - in full accordance with the party line. Lysakov prefers not to remember his participation in the opposition “Other Russia,” calling this episode of his biography a “passed stage.”

It ended with the fact that in December 2014, Lysakov, together with Pligin, introduced a controversial bill on the rules for towing cars. The deputies advocated toughening penalties for parking in spaces for disabled people, mandatory evacuation of cars with foreign license plates if they had overstayed their stay in the Russian Federation, and the transfer of evacuation powers from the local to the federal level. However, the bill did not find understanding in other government bodies, and disputes over it are still ongoing.

In other words, from a principled fighter for the rights of motorists, Lysakov in a couple of years turned into a classic Russian official who, without any embarrassment, explains how, as a State Duma deputy, he can buy a three-room apartment in Moscow with the salary of an ordinary deputy at a price three times lower than the market price. “I asked, the authorities asked for me. This is by no means a common method, but if you apply... After all, we, State Duma deputies, do not even have the right to stand in line for housing. Otherwise, my term would have ended, and I would have been homeless,” he complained about the difficult life of the people’s choice to the publication Slon. At the same time, at the time of the interview, no one kicked the potential “homeless” person out of the service apartment: “I don’t know how management will decide. Perhaps I’ll stay in this apartment,” he said without hesitation.

And one more interesting fact. Lysakov’s current wife, Lydia, owns a three-room apartment with an area of ​​75 square meters. m in a house with an improved layout on Polotskaya Street, built in 2006. Moreover, judging by the documents, she received it at the end of 2013 under a transfer agreement... directly from the city. I wonder for what merit? By the way, the market price of a similar apartment in the same building, according to the website cian.ru, today is almost 20 million rubles.

However, to work in the State Duma, it is not enough to simply be loyal to the authorities - you must also engage in lawmaking. As elsewhere, an effective deputy is not born - he is made. Our hero is not doing the latter very well so far. From the outside, some kind of vigorous activity is visible, but upon closer examination it turns out that this is either an imitation of it, or initiative, forcing one to suspect some kind of mercantile interests at its basis.

Mr. Lysakov, from old memory, positions himself as a defender of all humiliated and insulted motorists. However, the car enthusiasts themselves do not like him, and for good reason - after all, it is the newly-minted deputy who changes their lives for the worse.

For example, one of Lysakov’s sensational initiatives is the return of the non-fined speed limit from 20 km/h to 10 km/h, which benefits primarily those who collect fines (the lion’s share of them falls on cases of minimal speeding). This is unlikely to add to road safety - the increase in the limit actually led to a decrease in the accident rate - however, the deputy does not seem to care much about this fact.

Well, the main prize for delusionality, of course, goes to Lysakov’s proposal to limit access to certain government services to citizens with arrears of administrative fines exceeding 10 thousand rubles. According to the initiative, such debtors will not be able to obtain a foreign passport, take a driver's license exam, or register a car.

The proposal was sharply criticized even by Lysakov’s colleagues in United Russia. Then the chairman of the State Duma Committee on Economic Policy and Entrepreneurship, Evgeny Fedorov, said that supporters of destabilizing the situation in Russia are promoting such bills.

“If we want a coup in Russia, we need it to be fueled by millions of dissatisfied people. It is necessary for unemployment to grow, for the state to hinder the activities of citizens in every possible way, fire them, reduce salaries, pensions, and irritate them with new innovations,” the deputy explained. According to him, “now is not the time when we need to tighten the screws.”

At the same time, Lysakov manages to completely “oversleep” all the really necessary initiatives on his favorite automotive topic. For example, a proposal to abolish the transport tax, which as a result came to the State Duma from below - from the Federation of Car Owners of Russia (FAR), which organized the collection of signatures on the Internet. An attempt to correct the situation by putting forward a similar proposal from his own organization “Freedom of Choice” only exposed Lysakov to ridicule - it turned out that the deputy initiated the people’s appeal to the deputies, that is, to himself.

Another “failure” is the initiative to abolish zero ppm. This initiative, in turn, was introduced by auto journalist Yuri Geiko, while the highly promoted “defender of motorists” from the ONF, Lysakov, did not dare to go against the opinion of his new comrades in the United Russia party (who advocated strict zero). Subsequently, he tried to correct himself by preparing amendments on the minimum level of 0.2 ppm, but this looked like a belated attempt to take credit for someone else’s idea.

Our deputy compensates for the lack of necessary initiatives with an abundance of unnecessary and suspicious ones from the point of view of lobbying. For example, he put forward rather crazy initiatives to introduce a strange development of Voronezh scientists - a unique device supposedly determined chronic alcoholism. It was assumed that when it was adopted by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, identified alcoholics would not have their licenses returned either a year or two after deprivation. At the same time, Lysakov (to the great joy of all car owners, languishing under the yoke of extra money) proposed to mandatory equip cars with an alcohol lock.

Another similar initiative concerned the creation of a “unique, protected from third party intervention” video recorder for Russia. On this occasion, Lysakov was not too lazy to negotiate with a certain Korean manufacturer. However, the feasibility of such a device seemed dubious to many, but the benefits of the state order for the manufacturer of the “unique DVR” and its lobbyist, on the contrary, were obvious.

Weathervane Man - a hero of our time

In other words, next to our hero, Ostap Bender and any other literary adventurous character fade away. As often happens, life turns out to be much more interesting than any fiction.

A multi-faceted, resourceful, unprincipled weathervane man came to the court of the current State Duma, which has long been no longer a place for discussion. Perhaps Lysakov can rightfully be considered a hero of our time, but this is not his merit either: times have just come for us now, bad and vile.