Have you seen a pretty woman for a long time who says so easily that yesterday she signed an order to transfer 5 billion rubles? Meet: Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Tatyana Shevtsova. In an exclusive interview with AiF, Shevtsova spoke about how the salaries of military personnel and payments to military pensioners will change in 2018, as well as about the commissioning of housing and why the army actually makes a profit.

If tomorrow sequestration

Sergey Osipov, AiF: - Tatyana Viktorovna, one of the commanders of the past said that fuel is the blood of war. And money?

Tatyana Shevtsova:- The formation of the budget of the Defense Ministry depends on the tasks set by the Supreme Commander-in-Chief. Every year, the president sets certain tasks for which the General Staff plans military development. And the financial service should ensure uninterrupted financing of these activities.

Tatyana Viktorovna Shevtsova was born on July 22, 1969 in the town of Kozelsk, Kaluga Region, in the family of a military man. In 1991 she graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Finance and Economics. N. A. Voznesensky. In 1991 - 2010 worked in the tax authorities. She went from a tax inspector in the Central District of St. Petersburg to the head of the department of the largest taxpayers of the Ministry Russian Federation on taxes and fees. From November 2004 to May 2010 - Deputy Head of the Federal Tax Service. In May 2010 she was appointed Advisor to the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, after 3 months - Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation. Supervises the organization of financial support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. Married. The husband is a former soldier. Raises two sons. By the way, the big stars on Tatyana Viktorovna's shoulder straps do not at all indicate the rank of army general. She is an active state adviser of the Russian Federation, 1st class.

— And if there is a sequester tomorrow?

“We proceed from the premise that defense capability must be ensured no matter what. This was the case in 2016, when all departments were cut by 10%, and the Ministry of Defense by 5%. Then it was necessary to increase the grouping in Syria, build facilities in the Arctic ... In 2017, all departments were reduced by 10%, the Ministry of Defense, in fact, by 6%. I must say that we coped with these financial losses quite easily by starting the "Effective Army" program. The reduction in funding had no effect on the fulfillment of social obligations, the State Armaments Program, or the costs of the current maintenance of the Armed Forces.

In 2017, the campaign in Syria ended. For 2018, it was decided that the funds of the Ministry of Defense are not subject to sequestration at all. Unlike other departments, the army budget will be financed at the level of 2017. In the 2016 budget, the share of spending on national defense was 4.1% of GDP. In 2017 - 3.1%. 2.8% is planned for 2018.

- In absolute terms: the budget of the Ministry of Defense in the 16th year - under 4 trillion rubles, in the 17th and beyond - less than 3 trillion. Where did we lose a quarter of the budget?

- Nowhere lost. The difference is prepaid loans. As you know, the implementation of the State Defense Order is financed from two sources: budget money and bank loans under state guarantees. We decided to part with the burden of debts and repaid loans ahead of schedule with interest. In 2016 - 792 billion, in 2017 - 186.8 billion. The savings from this amounted to 130.7 billion rubles.

- How is the money allocated for national defense spent?

- National defense spending is not equal to the cost of maintaining the army. Over the past couple of years, we have been spending 60% of the military budget on equipping the army and 40% on maintenance. For 2018, in absolute terms, this will amount to 1.5 trillion for the first item of expenditure and 1.3 for the second.

- There is an opinion among a number of economists that defense spending hangs on the budget like a dead weight, since tanks, unlike tractors, do not bring profit ...

“Well, that's not entirely true. Military-industrial complex enterprises pay taxes in all subjects of the federation, pay salaries to their employees, and provide subcontractors with orders. In recent years, 481 billion have been paid in taxes alone. Salary - by 444 billion, 121 billion in Pension Fund, 259 to the Compulsory Medical Insurance Fund ... Agree, a strong argument in favor of those who say that defense spending is too high and it would be nice to cut it. Our defense industry is a driver for the development of the Russian economy. Following it, not only such traditional industries as energy and metallurgy are developing, but also science-intensive industries. Almost half of all investments of the Ministry of Defense in the industry falls on radio electronics. 14 - to the aviation industry, 8 go to the missilemen ...

- Until recently, there was such an unpleasant phenomenon in relations between the Ministry of Defense and the defense industry: overpricing. Sometimes it reached 200 - 300% of the contract. Did you manage to solve the problem?

- We recently set up an experiment on the basis of two defense industry enterprises in the Tula region. One director scrupulously maintained the declared prices. Well done, thank you! Only profit received half as much as planned. At the second enterprise, prices rose almost immediately: components went up in price, electricity, housing and communal services tariffs grew up ... Also bad.

In fact, the same thing happens everywhere. Namely: defense industry enterprises are trying to shift the costs of their "social program" onto the shoulders of the budget of the Ministry of Defense ...

Therefore, in the first half of 2018, a government decree will be issued that will regulate the maintenance of separate analytical accounting at enterprises. We have developed a methodology for the correct formation of the cost of products, which will allow us, as a government customer, to protect the cost of our products and effectively plan our finances. And enterprises will be able to argue their costs to regulatory authorities.

From January 1, 2018, the salaries of military personnel and pensions of military pensioners will increase by 4%. From October 1, 2019 - another 4%. From October 1, 2020 - by the same amount. Thus, the average salary of servicemen will be 66.1 thousand rubles.

- But enterprises can be understood: who will maintain their polyclinics, kindergartens, sanatoriums, dispensaries?

- Exactly! But why include the entire social program in a contract with the military department? After all, most defense industry enterprises produce both dual-use products and frankly civilian-commercial products. Let's divide proportionally!

- By the way, what are these two enterprises from the Tula region, so rich in defense industry enterprises?

Until I tell you. They got into our pilot project to cut this Gordian knot with pricing. We'll figure it out, then we'll report back.

Shoulder straps, money and housing

- It is customary in the Ministry of Defense to emphasize in every possible way that salaries in the department are high. At the same time, it is somehow forgotten that there has been no indexing since 2012.

- I can gladly inform the military personnel and military pensioners that the decision to index the monetary allowance has already been made. From January 1, 2018, the salaries of military personnel and pensions of military pensioners will increase by 4%. From October 1, 2019 - by another 4%. From October 1, 2020 - by the same amount. Thus, the average salary of servicemen will be 66.1 thousand rubles. That is, on average, an ordinary contract soldier by the end of 2020 will receive 34 thousand rubles, a squad leader - 51 thousand, a platoon commander - 71 thousand, a company commander - 83 thousand, a battalion commander - 96 thousand, and so on.

Despite the long absence of indexation, the Russian Ministry of Defense since 2012 has kept the average level of wages at the level of the leading sectors of the economy. This was achieved through incentive bonuses (for example, for physical training), as well as through annual bonuses based on the results of the year. So, at the end of last year, 24.5 billion rubles were allocated to encourage military personnel.

For 5 years, 457 thousand military personnel received apartments. Moreover, the housing subsidy, which allows military personnel to effectively solve the housing problem, is very popular.

- Where did you get it?

- Saved.

- And what about housing in the Armed Forces?

- For 5 years, 457 thousand military personnel received apartments. Moreover, the housing subsidy, which allows military personnel to effectively solve the housing problem, is very popular. Thus, at the end of 2017, out of the saved funds, we allocated an additional 5 billion rubles to this item of expenditure. I recently signed an order to transfer this money to its intended purpose. This made it possible for the most New Year to issue housing subsidies to an additional 777 officers. not bad new year gift them and their families, and this together is about 2,500 people!

In St. Petersburg, Aleksey Anokhin, a nephew of Russian Deputy Defense Minister Tatyana Shevtsova, was convicted of fraud. Despite the impressive amount for which he caused damage to the state, the sentence turned out to be suspended. Note, meanwhile, that Tatiana Shevtsova is the last of the Mohicans of the "women's battalion" of ex-Minister of Defense Anatoly Serdyukov.

Conditionally. Everyone.

In St. Petersburg, a 34-year-old 34-year-old was sentenced to 4.5 years of probation by the Kuibyshev court for fraud Alexey Anokhin, who is the nephew of the Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Tatyana Shevtsova. In addition to him, in the dock were present Alexey Titov, Olga Anokhina, Dmitry Govorov, Tatyana Nedikova, Andrey Fedorov, Nikolai Prudov, Vitaly Mozgovoy. They also got off with a conditional sentence of 4 to 1.5 years.

Olga Anokhina - spouse Alexei Anokhin, they signed already during the investigation, which lasted about a year and a half. BUT Vitaly Mozgovoy- a lawyer who provided legal support to an economic organized crime group.

As the investigators established, with whom the court eventually agreed, it was Anokhin who was the organizer of the criminal group, which increased the amount of VAT paid on the purchase of products, which led to an unreasonable overstatement of the tax to be reimbursed from the budget of the Russian Federation by a total of 294.3 million rubles.

The essence of the scam was that non-ferrous metals were fictitiously supplied abroad. In particular, as follows from the materials of the criminal case, Anokhin controlled the company " TD KMK”, which is mentioned in a fictitious transaction with a UK resident Hillgold Properties Limited. It follows from the companies' agreement that TD KMK sent to Britain copper powder for 10 million dollars, but there was actually no delivery. The persons mentioned above bought scrap of non-ferrous metals in the territory of the Russian Federation, processed it at their industrial facilities, passed it through a chain of one-day firms (there were about seventy of them), and then sold it through the Svelen holding company for export to Germany or Austria at inflated prices. After that, in fact, they received a refund for VAT.

The economic police of St. Petersburg announced the disclosure of this crime back in 2016. All this time there was an investigation, and then a trial. Initially, it was said that the damage to the state amounted to almost a billion rubles, but the amount, as we see, has significantly decreased - for reasons that have not yet been announced.

Conditional terms for an economic, but still bandit group, which caused major damage to the state, cause certain bewilderment. Anokhin's close relationship with Deputy Defense Minister Shevtsova, apparently, may not have anything to do with it, but this woman deserves special mention.

Protege of Anatoly Serdyukov

A native of the Kaluga region, in 1991 she graduated from the Leningrad Financial and Economic Institute named after N.A. Voznesensky (better known as FINEK) and entered the civil service the same year. She worked her way up from a state tax inspector to a deputy head of the Federal Tax Service of the Russian Federation. In St. Petersburg at the beginning of the 2000s, she became close at work with the future Minister of Defense Anatoly Serdyukov, then deputy head, and then head of the Ministry of Taxes and Duties in St. Petersburg. As former employees of the UMNS say, Serdyukov praised Shevtsova as an intelligent and thoughtful worker who dealt with the largest taxpayers in the northern capital. That is, "carrying golden eggs."

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In those days, there were a lot of rumors about the love of Anatoly Eduardovich, but the story with Evgenia Vasilyeva is still piecemeal. One way or another, in 2010, for three years as Minister of Defense Anatoly Serdyukov remembered Tatyana Shevtsova, who was appointed deputy minister of the department and soon received cool rank Acting State Councilor 1st class, which corresponds to military rank"army General". Recall that under Serdyukov there was a real expansion in the Ministry of Defense of the former tax workers of St. Petersburg, whom journalists dubbed the "women's battalion".

Then and now, already under Sergei Shoigu, Shevtsova, the last of that "battalion", answers in broad sense for the economy of our army. This includes both higher accounting activities, estimates and budgeting, as well as creative financial work like proposals to improve the economic indicators of the Ministry of Defense. As follows from the department’s website, Ms. Shevtsova “manages the planning of federal budget expenditures for the next financial year and the planning period, drawing up justifications for budget allocations; distribution of budgetary appropriations and limits of budgetary obligations; financing of expenses, including state capital investments, provided for by the federal budget for the Ministry of Defense; formation of a unified accounting policy and budget reporting of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation”.

Her services to the Fatherland are appreciated: she was awarded the orders "For Merit to the Fatherland" IV degree, "For Merit to the Fatherland" II degree "and many medals.

If, according to the common expression, “the son is not responsible for the father”, probably the aunt for the nephew - even more so. However, let's see how the career of Tatyana Shevtsova, Honored Economist of the Russian Federation, will be affected, albeit conditional, but by the term of her nephew Alexei Anokhin, who has always been considered a talented economist. Tatyana Viktorovna is 48 years old, and it is unlikely that she is going to retire.

After the start of the military operation in Syria, our military began to appear frequently on TV screens. And the people opened their mouths: the officers at the air base in Latakia wear shorts, and the generals in Moscow - in general, some in green and some in black, shoulder straps are stitched with white thread, and large and small stars are arranged in one row.

For answers to questions about the new military uniform, the correspondent of "RG" turned to the Ministry of Defense.

Were the shorts tailored specifically for our military, who are sent to Syria?

Answer: No, this uniform is designed for all military personnel located in areas with a hot climate, up to +40 degrees. For example, soldiers and officers of the Russian 201st military base in Tajikistan wear the same shorts and panamas in the summer.

Are shorts for colonels and generals? Can they be worn, for example, by the Minister of Defense, who arrived with an inspection in one of the southern parts?

Answer: The minister himself and his generals with colonels are servicemen. Therefore, they can wear any uniform approved for the army. Shorts - including.

Why is the uniform of Deputy Defense Minister Antonov black, that of Deputy Defense Minister Shevtsova - dark blue, and the rest - green?

Answer: Two years ago, the Secretary of Defense introduced for federal government civil servants of his department new form. For now, they are being equipped in accordance with the temporary regulations approved by Sergei Shoigu, but soon this wardrobe will become permanent and officially legalized for officials - the draft order in the Ministry of Defense is already ready.

Army rear services did not introduce special colors for civilian colleagues. Their uniform has the same coloring as that of the military. Olive (not green) office uniform indicates belonging to the Ground Forces, black - to Navy, blue - to the Aerospace Forces and the Airborne Forces.

And on the front tunics of the military deputies of Shoigu - Gerasimov, Bulgakov and Pankov, shoulder straps of army generals. RIA Novosti www.ria.ru

It is clear that when it comes to senior civil servants, no one will impose this or that color on them. Apparently, Deputy Defense Minister Ruslan Tsalikov himself chose the olive color of the uniform, while his colleague Anatoly Antonov preferred black. Like Tatyana Shevtsova, on whom the reader of "RG" mistakenly saw a dark blue uniform - maybe something is wrong with the colors on the TV.

Why do the deputies of the Minister of Defense Shevtsova, Antonov and Tsalikov have 4 stars on their shoulder straps, while Deputy Minister Pankov has one big one?

Answer: State Secretary of the Ministry of Defense Nikolai Pankov resigned from military service in the rank of general of the army with the right to wear military uniforms. This is the uniform he wears now. Some of his colleagues, such as Tatyana Shevtsova, never served in the army. Therefore, they are assigned the uniform of a federal state civil servant with shoulder straps of a class rank. Shevtsova, Antonov and Tsalikov have the rank of the actual state adviser of the Russian Federation, 1st class. It corresponds to the army rank of colonel-general, but implies wearing not three, as in the army, but four embroidered stars on shoulder straps.

And what military ranks correspond to shoulder straps of other civil servants?

Answer: A four-star officer is the same army colonel general, a three-star officer is a lieutenant general, a two-star officer is a major general. And an employee with one sewn star has no analogues among the military. Figuratively speaking, this is a senior colonel. By the way, there is such a title in the Chinese army.

The job breakdown is like this. Four sewn stars correspond to the rank of the military deputy minister of defense. A three-star official is, as a rule, the head of a department; in the army, he would command the commander in chief. Two stars in the military correspond to the position of the head of the central administration, one - his deputy.

Who, besides Minister Shoigu, has one big star on shoulder straps?

Answer: His military deputies - army generals Gerasimov, Bakhin, Bulgakov and the already mentioned Pankov.

Why does adviser Shoigu Kitaeva have shoulder straps without stars?

Answer: Apparently, you saw Ms. Kitaeva even before her attestation for the class rank of a federal civil servant. After passing the exams, she received the status of a real state adviser of the Russian Federation of the 3rd class, now she wears shoulder straps with two embroidered stars.

Outwardly, the rank of a civilian official of the Ministry of Defense can be defined as follows: the assistants of the state civil service wear epaulettes with one clearance and small stars. The advisers already have shoulder straps with two gaps and stars the size of senior officers in the army. And real state advisers have shoulder straps stitched with white thread with embroidered stars on their shoulders.

In hot, literally and figuratively, Syria, shorts and panama are the most comfortable uniform for our military. AP

What kind of T-shirts are worn in the Ministry of Defense and why are they different colors?

Answer: Uniform T-shirt - an element of the office uniform, which was introduced for staff officers by Minister Shoigu. The color of the shirt, as well as the uniform itself, is strictly normalized. For example, with a black uniform, the military is supposed to wear a vest, and civil officials - a white T-shirt. The blue office uniform should be combined with a dark blue T-shirt (for paratroopers - again with a vest). Under the olive uniform, it is supposed to wear a light green T-shirt. By the way, such underwear has the brand name "Army of Russia" and is issued in army and navy warehouses.

Why are women in the Ministry of Defense without hats? This is a violation of the dress code!

Answer: There is no violation, caps are not provided for women. But there is a ladies' headdress in an office uniform. This is a rather elegant hat (officially it is called a hat) of black or olive color, depending on the official's uniform.

Deputy Defense Minister Borisov was once shown on TV in a luxurious dress uniform. Are such outfits provided for everyone in the Ministry of Defense?

Answer: Dress uniforms for civil officials, such as Mr. Borisov, are indeed required. Depending on the rank of the official, it looks different. For officials of the level of Borisov, they developed a dress uniform of a general's cut: a double-breasted gray tunic, shoulder straps and a cap, richly decorated with silver thread. But stripes are not sewn on the trousers of an official.

To begin with, let me remind you of an old anecdote in which two friends who met after the end of the war share their impressions of their military adventures.

One says that she was a lieutenant colonel in the war, and the second, in defiance of her, replies that she was UNDER THE GENERAL ...

Well, what can you do if it has so historically happened that women in the conditions of war and peace always find themselves in the position of “service personnel” for men who, in gratitude for their reliability, assign them “honorary titles”, such as PJP?

(By the way, for some reason, PZH is constantly translated as a field wife, although in fact this abbreviation is translated more roughly - a field ass)

But everything flows, everything changes. If my memory serves me right, in Soviet times there was not a single female general, despite the fact that after the Great Patriotic War candidates for the rank of general were hundreds of female heroes (not to be confused with PJ!).

The Soviet government did not give the opportunity to become generals to either the PPJ or the HEROES.

But in Putin's kingdom-state, everything has changed in the most fabulous way in this regard - all PJs are turning into generals with many stars! It is no longer enough for Putin’s male generals to have ordinary women UNDER THEM (nurses, telephone operators, secretaries, etc.) - give them female generals who will spread their legs in front of them ...

Do you want examples? You are welcome!

Let's start with the "Tuva reindeer herder", who knows for sure that nothing warms you in severe frosts like a woman's body.

No sooner had the “reindeer herder” moved into the chair of the Minister of Defense, when he immediately pulled his faithful PJ along with him - a 26-year-old beauty, leading from the Rossiya TV channel Maria Kitaeva, who in just a few months became a “vertical take-off general”: in June In 2012, she took the post of adviser to the governor Shoigu on information policy with the rank of minister, and already in November she became his “favorite adviser” with the rank of general.

Marina Kitaeva - a general for all generals, isn't it?

Shines with beauty and Tatiana Shevtsova, Deputy Minister of Defense, real state adviser of the Russian Federation of the 1st class, which corresponds to the military rank of Colonel General ...

Tatyana Shevtsova - well, why not a chick?

And in general, I’ll tell you a big secret (just don’t tell Putin!), that THIRTY-FOUR major posts in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation are occupied by ladies a little over thirty years old (I named the names of the MOST EFFICIENT according to external data).

Still want an example? You are welcome…

All the people of the "Rassean" were surprised at how "goat-like" Tolik Serdyukov acted with Zhenya Vasilyeva. As it turned out, he had good reasons for this, since in the main favor he had thirty-year-old Marina Chubkina, who is connected with the disgraced Minister of War by a close “dryuchba”.

In response to his favor with Chubkina, at the suggestion of Serdyukov, Vladimir Putin conferred the rank of real state adviser to the Russian Federation, which corresponds to the military rank of major general. Her position is the head of the apparatus of the special construction ...

Marina Chubkina is also a sickly general!

I will not say anything for Evgenia Vasilyeva and Ekaterina Smetanov - I will only give their joint photo, since so much has been written about them.

Vasilyeva (right) and Smetanova are civilian generals.

Well, and finally, I will dwell in more detail on one more beauty, though not as young as those mentioned above - Elena Skrynnik (nee Novitskaya), who made a dizzying career, "helping" her two husbands to go to jail .

Elena Skrynnik

Here are her career milestones:

1986 - graduates from medical school in Chelyabinsk and goes to work at the regional clinical hospital.

1992 - receives a diploma from the Academy of National Economy under the Government of the Russian Federation. He is doing an internship in Germany and France with a degree in leasing technologies.

1994 - graduated from the Interregional Medical Leasing Company "Mudlizing".

Since 1997 - Head of the Russian Association of Leasing Companies.

year 2001 - CEO JSC Rosagroleasing.

Since November 2008, he has been elected to the Supreme Council of the All-Russian Political Party "United Russia" (party nickname - Madame Leasing).

Having lived a little abroad, since 2016, Skrynnik has been leading the International Independent Institute for Agrarian Policy, which she created, which is developing the “Strategy for the Development of Russian Agriculture until 2050 ...

Well, finally, one more anecdote.

At a corporate party, the wife asks her husband which of the women present are the mistresses of his bosses, and also asks to show his own mistress.

After the husband showed her everyone, the wife joyfully sums up: - “Our most beautiful!”

So, speaking about Putin's female generals, we can only "joyfully" state the obvious fact that, in comparison with Western female generals, OUR MOST BEAUTIFUL ...)))

Deputy Defense Minister Tatyana Shevtsova:

“You can’t equate spending on national defense and funds for maintaining the army. More than 55 percent of the budget of the Ministry of Defense goes to finance the State Armaments Program. And only less than half goes to the actual needs of the armed forces: combat training, equipping troops, monetary allowances, social payments, and so on. Further...".

Of course, it is impossible, but as the practice of recent years shows, the Ministry of Defense, instead of standing as a wall for military personnel in front of legislators and the highest authorities, is more engaged in verbiage. For example, Shevtsova repeatedly stated that:

"with the help of additional payments and allowances, we nullified the inflationary losses of monetary allowances ...".

Quotes

"The Ministry of Defense works like the State Planning Commission."

"Social payments in the army will not be reduced."

Achievements

In 1991 she graduated with honors from the Leningrad Financial and Economic Institute named after N. A. Voznesensky.

Honored Economist of the Russian Federation.

Candidate of Economic Sciences.

Career

In the public service since 1991, the State Tax Inspector and through the steps reached the Deputy Head of the Federal Tax Service of the Russian Federation.

Since May 2010, she has been an adviser to the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, and on August 4, 2010, by decree of the President of the Russian Federation, she was appointed Deputy Minister of Defense. Supervises the organization of financial support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.