Neverov condemned Maksakova's betrayal. The opera diva belonged to the inner circle of Putin's power elite. Now the superstar is considered a traitor to the motherland

For a week, the public has been discussing the move of opera singer Maria Maksakova and her husband Denis Voronenkov from Russia. The couple decided that it would be better for their family to settle in Ukraine. Moreover, the man received the citizenship of this country in early December. Information also began to appear that the former State Duma deputy was put on the federal wanted list due to fraud on an especially large scale. However, some are outraged that Maksakova and Voronenkov left Russia and now, in their opinion, they allow themselves to speak negatively about their homeland. Music producer Maxim Fadeev also did not restrain his emotions regarding the history of the opera diva and her husband.

“Whatever it is, no matter how much you love the government of your country or how much you don’t like the system in which you live today, you cannot flood your country with slop and mud. She still gave you life, bread, upbringing, education. If you're sick of all this and don't like it - go wherever you want, but keep quiet! Never speak badly of your country. This is the same as talking badly about your mother, ”the musician argues.

Fadeev remembered the times when he lived abroad. Maxim said that, despite a good salary and career, he madly missed his native places. It was unbearable for him to live in a foreign land for 15 years, and therefore he decided to return to Russia forever with his family. He tried to do everything for the well-being of his country, to invest his strength and knowledge in his students.

“Once, while in Paris with my family, we stopped at a crossroads, and Rosenbaum’s track “Let’s Raise a Bowl for Our Children” sounded from a nearby car. And we all cried together. And I told my wife: "That's it, Natasha, let's go home." And in 2005 I finally returned, ”the man shares his nostalgic memories.

The famous producer does not understand how Maksakova and her husband were able to leave their native country. He believes that the opera singer's family betrayed their homeland. Fadeev is very offended that the singer disappointed him so much.

“Returning to Mrs. Maksakova and her wonderful companion, I would like to say: no matter what country it is, it cannot be betrayed. Yes, she is sick, but it's the same as betraying and abandoning a sick mother. I am sure that they will not find happiness by betraying their homeland. And so they will hang around the world as outcasts, traitors. Because any person knows - if you managed to betray your homeland - you will also betray any other. I loved this singer so much. And today I am very disappointed. Farewell, my disappointment, ”concluded Maxim.

Superstar Maria Maksakova lived the life of the ruling class in super-expensive apartments in Moscow, vacationed in Cannes and participated in the Kremlin's celebrations.

· Opera diva of the world-famous Mariinsky Theater and the Bolshoi Theatre.

· TV star with own program.

· Politician of Putin's own United Russia party.

Now she is declared an enemy of the people and a traitor.

“I left because I don’t want to spend the rest of my life in pseudo-patriotic hysteria,” says Maria Maksakova in an interview with Aftenposten.

From superstars to public enemies

Aftenposten met with one of Russia's most wanted women in the lobby of a luxury hotel in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv.

Aftenposten: How does a person who is called a traitor and enemy of the people feel in the Russian media?

Maksakova: It's really bad. At the same time, it feels ridiculous and completely absurd.

Within two weeks, she was fired from her job at a Russian music academy, expelled from Putin's party for "illegal dual citizenship" and branded as a "political prostitute" in pro-Kremlin media.

Her Russian record company canceled an upcoming project.

“Who knows what these raging people will do. Not that I was very scared. I just feel powerless. It is useless to try to explain your actions.”

Therefore, the Kremlin was shocked

Her husband, Denis Voronenkov, agreed in January to testify against ousted Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, who had close ties to the Russian regime.

On January 28, a Ukrainian investigator boasted in the Kiev media that he had a new "key witness".

“Then I realized that the temperature would rise. On the same day I flew out of Moscow. But I never thought the reaction would be so strong. And so vicious."

Many flee from Russia

From 2014 to 2016, according to official figures, 800,000 people emigrated from Russia.

Previously, the most famous defectors were activists, oppositionists, journalists and businessmen who dared to challenge Putin, such as Pavel Durov, the founder of the social network VKontakte.

No one thought that the superstar and her wealthy husband, a politician from the mainstream power elite, would also run away.

“If many members of the elite run, people start to wonder what is happening. I think this is the reason why so much anger is directed against me. They want to scare others who think the same way we do.”

Tarnished reputation

Russia specialist Helge Blakkisrud of the Norwegian Foreign Policy Institute (NUPI) believes the case is considered special precisely because Maksakova chose to leave for Ukraine, a country in conflict with Russia.

“The regime does not want to draw much attention to the fact that some decide to go there. Refugees who left the Ukrainian region of Donbass for Russia are often mentioned in media reports. When representatives of the Russian elite decide to go in the opposite direction, then this is a blow to the reputation of the Russian authorities, ”says the researcher.

He believes that Maksakova's decision to leave Russia illustrates a deeper problem.

“The situation is such that entry into Russia exceeds exit from it. However, the exit illustrates the brain drain. Many of those who leave are highly educated people, while those who come are unskilled labor. From this point of view, we can state a bias in the migration process, which in the long run can create economic problems in Russia.

Blakkisrüd does not believe that the departure will have immediate political consequences.

“Those who leave Russia at the present time are often people who do not identify themselves with the Putin project and are not considered some kind of “loss” for the regime,” he states.

Song duet with the chief of spies

Until the fall of 2016, Maria Maksakov and her husband Voronenkov were members of parliament, she is from Putin's party, he is from the Communist Party.

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When love arose between them in the Duma, and they got married in March 2015, many powerful people from Putin's inner circle came to their wedding.

The head of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), Sergei Naryshkin, who at that time was the speaker of the Duma, sang a duet with the bride.

"Everyone on television or in debate acts like actors in a theatrical play."

The Kremlin Elite Loves Europe

Friends included Putin's press secretary Dmitry Peskov, as well as Russia Today chief and chief Kremlin propagandist Dmitry Kiselev.

“I know them both. A few years ago they were very European integrated. They went there when they wanted to."

Kiselev is currently on the sanctions list.

Among the friends was also a man who was considered a great Putin strategist - this is the former head of the presidential administration in the Kremlin, Vladislav Surkov.

“People prefer to live in the vacuum they create and tell themselves they are doing God's will. It's hypnotic hysteria."

Everyday they make small decisions

The entry of Russian soldiers into Crimea in March 2014 came as a shock to many in the Kremlin, Maksakova said.

“So many members of the elite were downright frightened by this. But everyone knows it's dangerous to say what you think."

Do the rulers in the Kremlin themselves believe the propaganda that God has instructed Russia to liberate the land, that fascists rule Ukraine, and that the West and NATO want to destroy Russia?

“They make small decisions all the time, every day. After that, they find an opportunity to justify themselves for what they have done. Slowly but surely they fall into the trap of these hypnotic ideas. We fight the world.

Lack of heroes

Maksakova's husband was a bureaucrat all the time before being elected to the Duma in 2012. Nevertheless, he amassed a large fortune for himself.

Denis Voronenkov left Moscow at the end of October, days before his parliamentary immunity expired.

According to the independent Novaya Gazeta, this is a typical Russian politician, who is being investigated in several criminal cases. He always, as the newspaper writes, "miraculously" got out of such a situation.

According to the leaked Panama Papers, he owned a company in the British Virgin Islands between 2007 and 2012.

The FSB has cases in "sleep mode"

As soon as it became known that Maksakova left the country and went to Kyiv, the same evening, the Russian police put her husband on the wanted list for illegally seizing an apartment in 2011.

What can you say about the accusations against your husband and you?

- Absolutely unreliable and fabricated accusations. As a member of the anti-corruption committee, my husband participated in the arrest of 15 FSB leaders. Now the FSB wants to take revenge on us.

According to her, her husband made a fortune buying and selling real estate and is extorted by old enemies from the security service.

“The FSB has such cases against many in “sleep mode”, which can be used at the right time.”

I didn't have the courage

As a politician, Maksakova has voted against many of the most controversial new laws, in particular against the law on “homosexual propaganda” and the ban on the adoption of children by foreigners.

She also criticized the law on "insulting the feelings of believers."

“What we considered insane and ridiculous five years ago in Moscow has now become absolutely normal and mundane. We are now putting into practice the ideas of a hundred years ago. I told myself that everything would be better, and that it would be possible to change everything from the inside. Now I realized that it is very difficult to change anything. I lacked courage. I didn't feel strong enough to cut all ties."

They scream so loud that no one can see what's going on

The opera star's escape to Kyiv generated more interest last week than Donald Trump's claims that Crimea belongs to Ukraine.

“They do it on purpose. This is how propaganda is done. Now there is a big noise, in which some things are drowning. They scream so loudly that no one understands what is going on. Compared to what Trump says about Crimea, I am a very, very small thing.”

Diva's family from the Soviet Union

Maksakova comes from a family of several famous stars.

Grandmother Maria Maksakova Sr. was one of the most famous opera stars of the Soviet Union in the thirties. Stalin's security chief, Beria, called her "my Carmen," and Stalin was a big fan of hers.

“There were rumors that I was Stalin’s daughter,” said Maksakova’s mother, who herself became a very famous theater and film actress and who starred in more than 25 films.

“It is incomprehensible that they want us to return to where we were now. We didn't like the Soviet Union. Millions of people suffered under the Stalinist regime. Now Stalin has again become very popular in Russia. This is madness".

What is the Kremlin most afraid of?

The former Putin politician has no doubts about what the rulers in Moscow fear the most:

“I think the MH-17 case is the biggest fear in the Kremlin. They know that the case will never go away on its own.”

The crash with the downed Boeing plane in eastern Ukraine in the summer of 2014 claimed the lives of 298 people.

Maksakova emphasizes that the criminal investigation in connection with the Lockerbie case continued for 15 years, until Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi extradited the criminals and paid a billion in compensation.

“As long as they are in power, they have immunity. Therefore, they will use all means to maintain power as long as possible.

What is the elite of society? Of course, these are famous artists, politicians, military and scientists. There are many famous dynasties in Russia, known all over the world. Among them are the Tolstoys, the Mikhalkovs, and now also the Maksakovs.

But if the Tolstoy and Mikhalkovs were not seen in any special scandals, then the name of the Maksakovs became an adornment of almost all tabloids and it’s not about their merits to the Fatherland, but about the obscene behavior of some representatives of the famous family.
So, how will we remember the Maksakovs?

Well, firstly, Maria Petrovna - an opera diva, People's Artist of the USSR. It was she who became the founder of the dynasty. In 1940, her daughter Lyudmila was born. The girl's father was an artist of the Bolshoi Theater. Unfortunately, he was not interested in his child and very soon left the USSR to build his career in the West.

Lyudmila Maksakova first married the notorious artist Lev Zbarsky. It was for the sake of young Lyudochka that this secular lion of all Moscow abandoned the "Red Queen", the fashion model of Slava Zaitsev, Regina Zbarskaya.

The same fate will be repeated by the son of Lyudmila Maksakova. The father will never be interested in his son and will leave Russia in the same way.

What do we know about Maxim Zbarsky (Maksakov)? Nothing, except that he actively plundered budget funds and was convicted. It was proved that Maxim Maksakov was the organizer and participant in the theft of 260,000,000 rubles from the state budget.

Agree. not the best biography. Now Maxim's son, Pyotr Maksakov, is happily married to another elite family member, the Yudashkins. Let's wish them happiness.

But the most famous Maksakova is the same Maria who fled from Russia to Ukraine, where misfortunes never cease to haunt her.

Sometimes we have to regret that we did not obey our parents in time. All the same, the advice of fathers and mothers is invaluable, but only as adults and breaking firewood, we begin to understand how right they were.

A striking example of the fact that one must obey one's mother is the odious Maria Petrovna Maksakova Jr. So many misfortunes have fallen on the lot of this amazingly unlucky woman that it is generally incomprehensible how she finds the strength in herself to live. But Maksakova herself is to blame for all her troubles, having piled up a real garden of lies, vanity, an endless search for freebies and a complete lack of love in her fate.

There is such a type of women that, like a magnet, attracts swindlers, gigolos and scoundrels of all stripes. What's to blame? Maybe some specific vibes or wrong behavior?

It seems to me that the main problem of Maria Maksakova is her mother, Lyudmila Maksakova. A beautiful, talented, but very authoritarian and cruel lady, wished her children only the best, but, alas, nothing came of it. The son turned out to be dishonest, and the daughter betrayed her country.

At first, Maria Maksakova lived in a civil marriage with a crime boss named Tyurin and bore him two children, then she had an affair with a jeweler with Caucasian roots - Jamil Aliyev, and then a certain Denis Voronenkov appeared in her life.

It is worth noting that the relationship between mother and daughter did not develop from the very beginning. It is very difficult to endure a heavy maternal disposition. Lyudmila Maksakova was sharply against the relationship of her only daughter with a bandit and could not stand Voronenkov. After the murder of her son-in-law in Kyiv, this lady will say: “Well, God be thanked. .

The misfortunes of Maria Maksakova did not end there. After the murder of Voronenkov, she does not want or cannot return to Russia, where her children live and grow up, relations with her mother are ruined forever and her personal life is bursting at the seams.
More recently, news was published that she secretly married a young Caucasian who took away her Moscow apartment on Frunzenskaya Embankment, and just yesterday, unknown people broke into her Kiev apartment and asked her to leave the occupied living space with her child at 24 o'clock.

What else can happen in the life of Maria Maksakova to finally finish her off? What's to blame? Her boundless credulity, as she herself claims, or a craving for murky personalities like Tyurin and Voronenkov?

Ex-deputy of the State Duma, opera singer who left for Ukraine after her husband Maria Maksakova, did not confirm the fact of her dismissal from the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music, where she taught. At the same time, her husband Denis Voronenkov has already been put on the wanted list in Russia, and Vladimir Zhirinovsky predicts an inglorious end for the fugitives.

Earlier, Gnesinka said that Maria Maksakova, who moved to Ukraine along with former State Duma deputy Denis Voronenkov, who was put on the federal wanted list, is still listed as a teacher at the Academy, but the issue of her dismissal will soon be resolved.

“I didn’t write a statement, I found out about it / about the proposed dismissal/ from their students,” Maksakova said in an interview with Kommersant.FM radio station. At the same time, according to the singer, she never received money for her teaching work, since she always earned money by singing.

“My work with students is a form of Christian virtue,” the ex-deputy noted.

At the same time, the singer understands that the leadership of the Academy has legal grounds for her dismissal, although no one warned her about this, and she did not write a statement of her own free will.

“I didn’t write any statement,” she stressed. - Probably, there will be some form, for absenteeism, maybe. It's hard for me to say how they'll do it. But it's all over formalization, because it's a creative process, you know? We are not turners - the whistle rang, and everyone went to the factory.

Despite the difficult situation that developed after her husband's flight from Russia, Maksakova said that she sees no obstacles for her visits to Russia, both on tour and for teaching, and all the talk that some kind of sanctions, considers frivolous.

Recall, earlier the media reported that Maksakova's husband, former member of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Denis Voronenkov, who had already received Ukrainian citizenship, testified in the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine against the ex-president of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych in the case of allegedly perfect “high treason” by him.

“Nevertheless, do you think we are in our 37th year? Am I a member of the family of an enemy of the people?” Maksakova retorted in response to a journalist's question whether she was afraid to come to Russia.

According to Maksakova, she and her husband live in the center of Kyiv, they do not hide from anyone, so the information that he is wanted in Russia seems strange to her. According to her, although her husband has already received Ukrainian citizenship, she is not going to give up her Russian passport.

"I have / in Ukraine/ resident card. I live, enjoy life. What plans can I have? I sing, I work out, I have a tour schedule. Everything is as it was, and remains,” she said.

Neither with Maria Maksakova, nor with her agents, nor with Denis Voronenkov Federal news agency could not be contacted promptly. On Maksakova's Facebook page, the last entry is dated late December, this is the announcement of her concert at the Mariinsky Theater. Under the post are a few sarcastic comments:

And why do you, in fact, have a site in the Ru domain?

How is Kyiv?

Say hello to your husband, a true party member.

There are no other records, perhaps someone is diligently cleaning up unpleasant comments.

However, perhaps Maksakova and especially her husband have something to fear. Here is how the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party commented on this scandalous story Vladimir Zhirinovsky.

“Our LDPR party never recruits or nurtures traitors,” Zhirinovsky said in a comment to the Federal News Agency. “Our deputies are all in Russia, we expelled all potential traitors long before their possible misdeeds, and other parties picked them up, for which they paid.”

As for Denis Voronenkov, Zhirinovsky found the harshest words for his act, predicting an inglorious end for the defector, like all traitors.

“This Voronenkov is a real Vlasovite, there have always been such people in the ranks of the Communists,” Zhirinovsky said. - Now the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, in order to wash off, it is necessary to exclude from the party not only this Voronenkov, but also all those who vouched for him at the reception. And all the same, this is the strongest blow to this party.”

“Voronenkov himself did not have long to rejoice at betrayal. When power changes in Ukraine, he will still have to answer to our court,” the LDPR leader added.

On his Facebook, he outlined his position regarding Maria Maksakova, who was previously a member of his faction.

Neverov titled his text "False Note of an Opera Singer".

Former party chief Maksakova confirmed that she lied about her second citizenship, and now she is doing PR for herself by giving interviews abroad.

“In her interviews, she herself admitted that she had violated Russian law, which prohibits deputies of the State Duma from being a citizen of another country. She admitted that she was a liar. Because back in 2011, when she was first elected to the Duma, she fiercely argued that she has only Russian citizenship and there is no other that wants to devote her life to serving Russia. And now we all know that her whole life is a complete lie"- wrote Sergey Neverov.

Sergey Neverov confirmed that back in 2016, Maksakova signed an application for participation in the primaries, that she does not have and does not plan to receive citizenship of a foreign state.

“Maksakova-Igenbergs, scolding the country and the parliament, which she was so desperately eager to get into for the second time, says that she is glad that she did not give up her second citizenship. That is, she is glad that she deceived people, that she violated the law. With the same zeal she sang the Russian anthem within the walls of the Duma, with which her husband, a deputy at that time, spoke about the reunification of Crimea with Russia on his page in social networks. Neverov recalled.

It should be noted that before accusations of raider seizure of real estate, the deputy positioned himself as a patriot of Russia, and very actively supported the reunification of Crimea with Russia.

Now, according to Sergei Neverov, he "hardly fits in his head: how can this be"?

“No, no, yes, the thought comes that, in fact, this couple is being tortured in the dungeons of the SBU, Denis is stuck with needles under his nails, and the opera singer is threatened with lead in her throat or the life of their “first inter-factional” child is threatened. send a special unit to Ukraine to rescue them? Only, I’m afraid that this is still the false nature of Maria Maksakova-Igenbergs and her next man, and I am glad that they are not on the lists of deputies of the State Duma of the 7th convocation", - wrote the head of the United Russia faction in the State Duma.

According to Neverov, traitors are not loved everywhere, and Kyiv is no exception here..