Biography

Born in 1964 in Severodonetsk Lugansk region where he spent his childhood. After graduating from school number 10, he entered and successfully graduated from the Moscow Higher Combined Arms Command School. Having received a military education, in 1986-1987 he served as a commander of a reconnaissance platoon in the Central Group of Forces in the forty-fifth separate airborne assault battalion. In 1988, at his own request, he was sent to the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, as a reconnaissance platoon commander, then as a battalion reconnaissance chief. In 1989, in connection with the reform of the 40th Army, he was transferred to the Central Asian Military District, where he served until 1991. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, he retired at the age of 27...

Why does the “former spy” need Severodonetsk?

I will not speak for a long time about the book, in which the probable scenarios for the dismemberment of Ukraine are described with particular voluptuousness. I am more curious about the person of Igor Berkut, the leader of the Great Ukraine political party, a native of Yenakiyevo, a businessman who has long and fruitfully worked in Kazakhstan and Russia (he himself claims that he has a business in Ukraine as well). The real name is Gekko, but for political work he took the pseudonym Berkut. The Great Ukraine party was registered in 2006 after a long and stubborn resistance from then Minister of Justice Roman Zvarych.

We are mobile phone contacted Mr. Zvarych to ask why he did not want to register "Great Ukraine".

I don't remember all the details, he said. - After all, then we daily made decisions on some parties, but my claims in the "Great Ukraine" consisted in the fact that its program documents contained goals and objectives that did not imply the preservation of the sovereignty and state borders of Ukraine.

It is not known for sure whether the party corrected the program, or whether the minister was replaced, but in 2006 Great Ukraine was registered and became a political party.

I turned to experts close to Viktor Yushchenko. Well, they must know who ordered the anti-Ukrainian and anti-presidential book. “We don’t know for sure, most likely the Russian special services, the GRU, the FSB,” they answered me.

Later, Igor Vitalievich and his American partner resell this bank to Sberbank of Russia (Russian business publications mention this), during the same period they talk about the purchase of Metrocombank in Moscow by Igor Gekko. And now, on the official web page of the bank, the head of the board of the bank in the capital of the Russian Federation is the brother of Igor Vitalievich Valery Gekko. And the head of the board of directors of the Kazakhstan branch of the bank - Igor Vitalievich Gekko himself .

political activity in Ukraine, this citizen is engaged sporadically and still to no avail.

In 2001, before the elections in Verkhovna Rada Mr. Gekko appears in Severodonetsk, takes the local newspaper under his wing and puts forward his candidacy in the 112th single-mandate constituency. Interestingly, Gekko scored 20.8% and finished in second place. But then a scandal followed. The press wrote that in 2001 he did not earn a penny in Ukraine. Since one of the requirements of the law for candidates for deputies is permanent residence in Ukraine for 5 years before the elections, this led to a number of proceedings. Then the Ministry of Internal Affairs accused Gekko that he lived in Kazakhstan and had at least two passports. During further proceedings, it emerged that he had illegally obtained Ukrainian citizenship. In 2003, about the citizenship of Gekko, the Prosecutor General's Office of Kazakhstan officially applied to the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs, which tried to find out on what basis a citizen of Kazakhstan was registered as a candidate for Ukrainian deputies. Over time, the scandal subsided. Everyone was busy with the presidential campaign.

In 2004, Igor Vitalyevich was a participant in the "Civil Initiative" action and seemed to even sympathize with the opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko. However, already in 2005, Gekko "disappointed" in the leader of the orange. In the same year, he created the Rodina-East movement, which began operations in Luhansk and the region. The project is now closed...

In 2005, Igor Vitalievich was registered by the Central Exhibition Commission as 15th issue of the Evgeny Marchuk Block, a member of his own party "Freedom" in the parliamentary elections in 2006.

The press writes that in early 2007, Gekko announced himself in Kyiv, initiating one of the first referendums on the resignation of Leonid Chernovetsky. This initiative gained a second wind in the winter of 2008. Together with him, representatives of Mikhail Brodsky, the Klitschko Bloc and other political forces attended a press conference against Chernovetsky.

They say that in 2008 the party was taken under guardianship by David Zhvania. Whether this is true or not, we don't know. Since Igor Vitalyevich's public defense of David Zhvania in the latter's "passport scandal" cannot serve as confirmation of their cooperation. But now Igor Berkut is on the radar again. It is not surprising. The country smells of elections.

“I have nine passports by virtue of my profession”

We visited the round table, the main participants of which were Igor Berkut and the co-author of the book mentioned above, Roman Vasylyshyn. General impression of Igor Vitalievich? He is not without the charm of masculinity ... Big growth, a scar on his face, an open face, his speech is simple, but thoughtful, with facts. The rhetoric is anti-government, but not openly Vitrenkovian. Scolds mostly irresponsibility of the President. Scolds that the National Security Council is headed by a female gynecologist and that the civilian Minister of Defense does not understand military equipment. He scolds the current electoral system for closed lists, for the impossibility of democracy, for the fact that in Ukraine the real winner of the elections will still not be able to take part in government. He scolds the authorities for the fact that in Russia, for example, Mordashov (head of Severstal) pays more than 440 dollars of tax per ton of steel, while in Ukraine Akhmetov pays only 140. Is this fair?

I, unable to stand it, interrupted somewhat impolitely:

Is that why you do business exclusively in Russia and Kazakhstan?

Igor Vitalyevich, with impeccable restraint, replies that he also has a business in Ukraine, and then he talks in detail and reasonably about the success of reforms in Kazakhstan.

In Ukraine, all TV channels belong to five or six families, he continues.

Well, in Russia, all TV channels are in the same hands, - I continue to taunt, - so five or six owners are not so bad ... After reading your book, we assumed that your sponsor is either the FSB, or the GRU, or similar near-Putin structures ... The GRU loves such names - "Great Gagauzia", ​​"Great Adygea", by analogy "Great Ukraine" ... But recently they started talking about David Zhvania being related to "Great Ukraine". Could you clarify for us who is the financial sponsor and political father of the Great Ukraine project? I asked.

Igor Vitalyevich smiles encouragingly, tells how difficult it is in Ukraine. He comes to Ternopil, and there they refuse to talk to you until you express your position on the second state and NATO, and how difficult it is to campaign in Donetsk, where they don’t want to talk to you if you are not a “regional”.

You may not believe. But I am not from the FSB and not from the GRU, and what does Zhvania have to do with it?

“I don’t believe it,” I mentally answer. And since there were no questions in the hall, I continue to be interested:

You had serious problems with Ukrainian citizenship in the last elections. Are you sure that you have a passport of Ukraine and that you are a citizen of this country?

Igor Vitalievich answers without a shadow of indignation:

I have nine passports by profession. And there were twelve in general, three had a statute of limitations. This was necessary for the safety of my family. But yes, I am a citizen of Ukraine.

After the press conference, Igor Vitalievich was approached by a pensioner and a pioneer - they invited him to cooperate and expressed support. And in this, in general, a clear story, I was missing one link. For me, this is a deeply secondary matter - which of the local top politicians does Mr. Gekko-Berkut work part-time and what tactical tasks he solves. Soon the elections, everything will become clear.

But it is obvious that he is in the service of another state. Why, the very name of the Great Ukraine project was not invented in Ukraine. Ukraine is not particularly interested in "greatness". We are not Gagauzia and not Russia. Ukrainians do not have such ambitions - to be "great" (but poor), it is enough for us to be a strong, prosperous, European power, and not "great". A bank account and clean streets are more important to us than having a nuclear bomb. Any Ukrainian-mental resident of our country will understand this.

By the way, in the newly published book, Berkut and Vasilishin praise Putin for his response to the "Chechen terrorist attacks" - the explosions of houses in Buynaksk, Moscow and Volgodonsk. While it is no secret to anyone that these explosions thinking people have not been considered “Chechen terrorist attacks” for a long time. According to the Western community, the mentioned explosions are only a stage for a "small victorious war" conceived by the Kremlin political strategists in order to raise Vladimir Vladimirovich's rating before the first presidency. The book scolds Mikhail Khodorkovsky, but for some reason forgets how Putin's friends dismantled the best Russian company, Yukos, piece by piece.

Rukh from the very beginning of its foundation was literally "stocked" with Russian agents, Yaroslav Kendzor said in a commentary to UNIAN. - I think Vasilishin is one of them. He somehow got into the trust of Gennady Udovenko, who headed the party. And then, when his goals became obvious, he left Rukh under pressure. But now, with the advent of this anti-Ukrainian book, it is clear who he works for.

... As for Berkut, the question is really interesting: why did he need to acquire a Ukrainian passport and take part in Ukrainian elections? Can you imagine taking yourself by the hair, pushing yourself into a plane and flying to some Severodonetsk, imitating that you live and work there? Why so much effort? Why spend so much money on PR? Why abandon the banking business in Russia and Kazakhstan for the sake of Severodonetsk?

For reference. short biography Igor Berkut

Igor Vitalyevich Berkut (real name - Gekko) was born in 1964 in Severodonetsk, Luhansk region, where he spent his childhood. After graduating from school No. 10, he entered the Moscow Higher Combined Arms Command School, which he successfully graduated from. Having received a military education, in 1986-1987 he served as a reconnaissance platoon commander in the Central Group of Forces in the 45th separate air assault battalion. In 1988, at his own request, he was sent to Afghanistan, where he was the commander of a reconnaissance platoon, then he was appointed head of the reconnaissance battalion. In 1989, in connection with the reform of the 40th Army, Igor Gekko was transferred to the Central Asian Military District, where he served until 1991. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, he (at the age of 27) retired. Thanks to a grant received under the program for former Soviet military personnel, Igor Gekko received a financial education in Russia and the USA in 1991-1992. Probably, during the years of study abroad, he was recruited by the Israeli special services (otherwise, further events in his fate simply cannot be logically explained). Then he worked in the banking and financial sector, where he made a very successful career. Organized and led the party "Great Ukraine". He wrote the book "The True History of Ukraine", where he sets out his own version of the events that took place on the territory of our country, starting from 142,000 BC.

In January 2017, a group of 183 Jewish pioneers arrived in Ukraine from Haifa (Israel) on a ship to lay the first stone in the foundation of the so-called Heavenly Jerusalem on the fertile southern Ukrainian land. This event marked the beginning of the practical implementation of the grandiose Jewish civilizational project "Heavenly Jerusalem" (also called "New Jerusalem"), which, according to its organizers, will be implemented on the territory of 5 regions located in southern Ukraine: Odessa, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporozhye, Kherson and Nikolaevskaya.

It is assumed that the next object may be the Crimea. It is known that under the Bolsheviks, the Jews already intended to create a Jewish republic in the Crimea, the project was considered from 1924 to 1944. Now they, having strengthened during the period of "democratic reforms" and enlisted the support of a number of Jewish figures in the leadership Russian Federation Apparently, they intend to bring the matter to an end.

After all, as I. Berkut explains, according to the teachings of Kabbalah, the number 5 means harmony, development and the possibility of self-improvement; and the number 6 is the acquisition of an eternal home.

From the speech of Igor Berkut himself - the executive director of the project to create the main center of world Jewry on the territory of five southern Ukrainian regions - it became known that by 2027 "New Jerusalem" should become a center of prosperity for the Jewish settlers, built on the technologies of the 7th economic order ( see video below).

Enormous money and decisive breakthrough technologies for the "Heavenly Jerusalem" will be given by the largest banking houses and the world's multinational companies, most of which, as is well known, are owned by Jews. The “Heavenly Jerusalem” project is a practical response to the predictions of the well-informed political heavyweight, former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and the late Palestinian prophet Sheikh Yassin, that by 2022-2025 the settlement of Jews in the current territory of Israel will become impossible due to the aggressiveness of the surrounding Muslim population, natural anomalies and the coming cataclysm of the “Battle of the End”, predicted by the prophet Daniel.

According to Igor Berkut, an advanced group of Jewish settlers under his leadership has already begun in the most active way preparing the infrastructure to receive the first hundred thousand Jews. Their arrival and resettlement on the territory of the "New Jerusalem": Odessa, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporozhye, Kherson and Nikolaev regions, is expected until mid-2018. And in total, by the end of 2022, 6 million Jews from Israel and more than 12 million from Russia, the USA and the EU countries are expected to arrive in the New Motherland.

The management of the "New Jerusalem", when it is officially announced (after the adoption of the Law on Decentralization of Ukraine), will be entrusted to the Board of Benevolents, consisting of 12 leaders. Here is the final composition:

• A native of Kyiv, Golda Meir, the 5th Prime Minister of the State of Israel, was declared Honorary Eternal Head of the Council.


• B. Netanyahu will become the chairman-premier, after the end of the powers of the prime minister in the State of Israel.


• The Speaker of the Council will be the former President of the Russian Jewish Congress Evgeny Satanovsky.


• The finances will be managed by the former head of the US Federal Reserve, Ben Shalom Bernanke.


• Defense issues will be in charge of the current Minister of Defense of Israel, a native of Chisinau, Avigdor Lieberman.


• The secret services will be headed by the Moscow-born former head of the Nativ Bureau for Relations with Jews of the USSR and Eastern Europe, Yakov Kedmi.


• Foreign affairs will be in charge of the Moscow-born political scientist and publicist Avigdor Eskin.


• Internal affairs will be entrusted to the former Minister of Internal Affairs of the State of Israel, Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky.


• Propaganda will be led by the famous Russian TV presenter Vladimir Solovyov.


• Tatiana Montyan, a native of Crimea, a lawyer and jurist, will deal with issues of justice.


• The chief rabbi is supposed to appoint an ethnic Ashkenazi Khazar version of the appearance of this branch of the tree of Israel.

Literally everything has been thought out, up to the creation of analogues of the Soviet organizations of the Octobrists and Komsomol members. As conceived by the organizers, residents of any non-Jewish nationality living on the territory of the "New Jerusalem" will be asked to take the appropriate exams to obtain a certificate officially confirming that this person is not an anti-Semite. This document will give the right to work in the government agencies of the new Jewish state, the rest of the "natives" living there will be given a cash allowance so that they can survive without problems and do not engage in crime. Dnepropetrovsk will be the official capital, and Odessa will be the cultural capital.

Reflections on the New Jerusalem Project

According to astrologers, according to the so-called "Law of Changes", the arrival of the cosmic energies of the year of the red rooster (01/28/2017) heralds the beginning of a new stage in the cycles of history. At the same time, the cycle itself starts in 2020 (according to the Eastern calendar, the year of the white rat). And in general, apparently, the very next few years will become a turning point: a radical change in the mindset of the masses, the way of life of the elites, the very system of power and the political course of the heirs of the USSR from the current “admiration for the West” to “self-reliance”.

As a consequence, this will inevitably give rise to a wave of changes with a powerful amplitude. A wave that naturally, first of all, can sweep away the main conductors of such projects to change the world order, which have already brought almost the entire planet and our country, in particular, into a state of the deepest systemic crisis.

Something tells us that the described Jewish plans will not be able to come true. They've got a start, yes. However, the beginning alone does not guarantee a successful completion. As they say, the Jews propose, but the Almighty disposes.

However, this does not mean that one can sit back and wait for the Lord God (Almighty, Higher power, History, Space, Noosphere, etc. - whoever likes it) will correct the situation, and direct it for the better. You have to fight for your future. And first of all, by raising our own level of general literacy in the broadest sense of the word. Then people will be more difficult to manipulate and the project, like the one described above, will not be successful. It should be understood that now people are actually being constantly brainwashed through most of the leading TV channels, magazines and newspapers, owned by you-know-who.

Igor Berkut says: Ukraine-Israel: one nation, one destiny...» Is it true? As is well known, representatives of more than 130 nationalities and nationalities live on the territory of Ukraine. How many of them are ready to agree with such a statement? How many of them are ready to start studying the basics of Judaism and pass the relevant exams in order to receive a certificate from Jews who arrived from Israel, giving them the right to work in their native Ukraine? How many Orthodox people (or Muslims, or Catholics, or Protestants) want their children to join the youth organization of the "Cossack Jews" (analogous to the Soviet Komsomol)?

If you don’t have time to watch both parts of the interview “Ukraine-Israel: One People, One Destiny” (and this is a total of about two hours), in any case, we recommend watching the last three minutes of the 2nd part of the video (after 1:03:00) , where the executive director I. Berkut addresses the Ukrainian opponents of the Jewish civilizational mega-project "New Jerusalem" headed by him - this is very impressive!

By the way, on December 8, 2014, the well-known Ukrainian public figure of Jewish nationality Eduard Khodos published “Appeal to Ukrainians. Khazar Khaganate: blood and hell. The essence of the appeal: Jews, using Ukrainian nationalists, turn Ukraine into a Khazar Khaganate, they seize the territory of Ukraine, receive it on a symbolic silver tray from the hands of the Ukrainians themselves, fooled by Jewish propaganda of hatred for Russians as enemies. The substitution of concepts is a classic method of the Jews. Russian friend, blood brother is called an enemy. Some Russians have also recently begun to regard Ukrainians as enemies.

Russians and Ukrainians fell into almost the same mousetrap in 1917, when the fraternal Slavic peoples, divided by Jewish propagandists into reds and whites, killed each other in order to bring to power the Bolsheviks, whose top leadership consisted almost entirely of Jews. Unfortunately, since then, many Ukrainians and Russians have not wised up. Today they are killing each other in Ukraine to make room for the Jews who started this bloody mess. There is no anti-Semitism in this appeal! It's simple historical facts, this is just the naked truth without embellishment and without verbiage.

Why did he have to take part in the Ukrainian elections? Can you imagine taking yourself by the hair, pushing yourself into a plane and flying to some Severodonetsk, imitating that you live and work there? ..

The other day she donated a mite to the pro-Russian leader of the Ukrainian political party "Great Ukraine" Igor Berkut. I bought his book "Brother" with the face of Vladimir Putin on the cover. Forty-nine hryvnias - my modest contribution will go either to the needs of the political party, or to the accounts of the boys working in the Lubyanka ...

Why does the "former spy" need Severodonetsk?

I will not speak for a long time about the book, in which the probable scenarios for the dismemberment of Ukraine are described with particular voluptuousness. I am more curious about the person of Igor Berkut, the leader of the Great Ukraine political party, a native of Yenakiyevo, a businessman who has long and fruitfully worked in Kazakhstan and Russia (he himself claims that he has a business in Ukraine as well). His real name is Gekko, but for political work he took the pseudonym Berkut. The Great Ukraine party was registered in 2006 after a long and stubborn resistance from then Minister of Justice Roman Zvarych.

We contacted Mr. Zvarych by mobile phone to ask him why he didn't want to register Great Ukraine.

I don't remember all the details, he said. “After all, at that time we made decisions on some parties every day, but my claims in Great Ukraine were that its program documents contained goals and objectives that did not imply the preservation of the sovereignty and state borders of Ukraine.

It is not known for sure whether the party corrected the program, or whether the minister was replaced, but in 2006 Great Ukraine was nevertheless registered and became a political party.

I turned to experts close to Viktor Yushchenko. Well, they must know who ordered the anti-Ukrainian and anti-presidential book. “We don’t know for sure, most likely the Russian special services, the GRU, the FSB,” they answered me.

The biography of Igor Vitalyevich, who calls himself a "former spy" and now a successful banker, fits into three lines. He graduated from the Moscow Combined Arms Command School, a veteran of the war in Afghanistan, where he commanded a reconnaissance company and where he went of his own free will. The last place of service of Igor Gekko was Central Asian Military District. After the collapse of the country, he refused to swear allegiance to another state, resigned. We will not analyze and dig into how in 1991 he won a grant to study in the USA. Well, the man was lucky... The fact is that Igor Vitalyevich returned from there as a junior partner of TEXAKABANK, which was registered in Kazakhstan.

Later, Vitaly Andreevich and his American partner resell this bank to Sberbank of Russia (Russian business publications mention this), during the same period they talk about the purchase by Igor Gekko of Metrokombank in Moscow. And now, on the official web page of the bank, the head of the board of the bank in the capital of the Russian Federation is the brother of Igor Vitalievich Valery Gekko. And the head of the board of directors of the Kazakhstan branch of the bank - Igor Vitalievich Gekko himself .

This citizen is engaged in political activities in Ukraine sporadically and still to no avail.

In 2001, before the elections to the Verkhovna Rada, Mr. Gekko appeared in Severodonetsk, took the local newspaper under his wing and put forward his candidacy in the 112th single-mandate constituency. Interestingly, Gekko scored 20.8% and finished in second place. But then a scandal followed. The press wrote that in 2001 he did not earn a penny in Ukraine. Since one of the requirements of the law for candidates for deputies is permanent residence in Ukraine for 5 years before the elections, this led to a number of proceedings. Then the Ministry of Internal Affairs accused Gekko that he lived in Kazakhstan and had at least two passports. During further proceedings, it emerged that he had illegally obtained Ukrainian citizenship. In 2003, about the citizenship of Gekko, the Prosecutor General's Office of Kazakhstan officially applied to the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs, which tried to find out on what basis a citizen of Kazakhstan was registered as a candidate for Ukrainian deputies. Over time, the scandal subsided. Everyone was busy with the presidential campaign.

In 2004, Igor Vitalyevich was a participant in the "Civil Initiative" action and seemed to even sympathize with the opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko. However, already in 2005, Gekko "disappointed" in the leader of the orange. In the same year, he created the movement "Motherland-East", which began its activities in Lugansk and the region. The project is now closed...

In 2005, Igor Vitalievich was registered by the Central Exhibition Commission as 15th issue of the Evgeny Marchuk Block, member of his own party "Freedom" in the parliamentary elections in 2006.

The press writes that in early 2007, Gekko announced himself in Kyiv, initiating one of the first referendums on the resignation of Leonid Chernovetsky. This initiative gained a second wind in the winter of 2008. Together with him, representatives of Mikhail Brodsky, the Klitschko Bloc and other political forces attended a press conference against Chernovetsky.

They say that in 2008 the party was taken under guardianship by David Zhvania. Whether this is true or not, we don't know. Since Igor Vitalyevich's public defense of David Zhvania in the latter's "passport scandal" cannot serve as confirmation of their cooperation. But now Igor Berkut is on the radar again. It is not surprising. The country smells of elections. sexoprague

“I have nine passports by profession”

We visited the round table, the main participants of which were Igor Berukt and the co-author of the book mentioned above, Roman Vasilishin. General impression of Igor Vitalievich? He is not without the charm of masculinity ... Big growth, a scar on his face, an open face, his speech is simple, but thoughtful, with facts. The rhetoric is anti-government, but not openly Vitrenkovian. Scolds mostly irresponsibility of the President. Scolds for the fact that the National Security Council is headed by a female gynecologist and that the civilian Minister of Defense cannot distinguish a dot from the moon, and a daisy from a tulip. He scolds the current electoral system for closed lists, for the impossibility of democracy, for the fact that in Ukraine the real winner of the elections will still not be able to take part in government. He scolds the authorities for the fact that in Russia, for example, Mordashov (head of Severstal) pays more than 440 dollars of tax per ton of steel, while in Ukraine Akhmetov pays only 140. Is this fair?

I, unable to stand it, interrupted somewhat impolitely:

Is that why you do business exclusively in Russia and Kazakhstan?

Igor Vitalyevich, with impeccable restraint, replies that he also has a business in Ukraine, and then he talks in detail and reasonably about the success of reforms in Kazakhstan.

In Ukraine, all TV channels belong to five or six families,” he continues.

Well, in Russia, all TV channels are in the same hands, - I continue to taunt, - so five or six owners are not so bad ... After reading your book, we assumed that your sponsor is either the FSB, or the GRU, or similar structures near Putin ... The GRU loves such names - "Great Gagauzia", ​​"Great Adygea", by analogy "Great Ukraine" ... But recently they started talking about David Zhvania being related to "Great Ukraine". Could you clarify for us who is the financial sponsor and political father of the Great Ukraine project? I asked.

Igor Vitalyevich smiles encouragingly, tells how difficult it is in Ukraine. He comes to Ternopil, and there they refuse to talk to you until you express your position on the second state and NATO, and how difficult it is to campaign in Donetsk, where they don’t want to talk to you if you are not a “regional”.

You may not believe. But I am not from the FSB and not from the GRU, and what does Zhvania have to do with it?

"I don't believe it," I mentally answer. And since there were no questions in the hall, I continue to be interested:

You had serious problems with Ukrainian citizenship in the last elections. Are you sure that you have a passport of Ukraine and that you are a citizen of this country?

Igor Anatolyevich answers without a shadow of indignation:

I have nine passports by profession. And there were twelve in general, three had a statute of limitations. This was necessary for the safety of my family. But yes, I am a citizen of Ukraine.

After the press conference, Igor Vitalyevich was approached by a pensioner and a pioneer who invited him to cooperate and expressed their support. And in this, in general, a clear story, I was missing one link. For me, this is a deeply secondary matter - which of the local top politicians is part-time Mr. Gekko-Berkut and what tactical tasks he solves. Soon the elections, everything will become clear.

But it is obvious that he is in the service of another state. Why, the very name of the project "Great Ukraine" was not invented in Ukraine. Ukraine is not particularly interested in "greatness". We are not Gagauzia and not Russia. Ukrainians do not have such ambitions - to be "great" (but poor), it is enough for us to be a strong, prosperous, European power, and not "great". A bank account and clean streets are more important to us than having a nuclear bomb. Any Ukrainian-mental resident of our country will understand this.

The biography of Igor Vitalyevich, who calls himself a "former spy" and now a successful banker, fits into three lines. He graduated from the Moscow Combined Arms Command School, a veteran of the war in Afghanistan, where he commanded a reconnaissance company and where he went of his own free will. The last place of service of Igor Gekko was Central Asian Military District . After the collapse of the country, he refused to swear allegiance to another state, resigned. We will not analyze and dig into how in 1991 he won a grant to study in the USA. Well, the man was lucky... The fact is that Igor Vitalyevich returned from there as a junior partner of TEXAKABANK, which was registered in Kazakhstan.

Later, Vitaly Andreevich and his American partner resell this bank to Sberbank of Russia (Russian business publications mention this), during the same period they talk about the purchase by Igor Gekko of Metrokombank in Moscow. And now, on the official web page of the bank, the head of the board of the bank in the capital of the Russian Federation is the brother of Igor Vitalievich Valery Gekko. And the head of the board of directors of the Kazakhstan branch of the bank - Igor Vitalievich Gekko himself .

This citizen is engaged in political activities in Ukraine sporadically and still to no avail.

In 2001, before the elections to the Verkhovna Rada, Mr. Gekko appeared in Severodonetsk, took the local newspaper under his wing and put forward his candidacy in the 112th single-mandate constituency. Interestingly, Gekko scored 20.8% and finished in second place. But then a scandal followed. The press wrote that in 2001 he did not earn a penny in Ukraine. Since one of the requirements of the law for candidates for deputies is permanent residence in Ukraine for 5 years before the elections, this led to a number of proceedings. Then the Ministry of Internal Affairs accused Gekko that he lived in Kazakhstan and had at least two passports. During further proceedings, it emerged that he had illegally obtained Ukrainian citizenship. In 2003, about the citizenship of Gekko, the Prosecutor General's Office of Kazakhstan officially applied to the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs, which tried to find out on what basis a citizen of Kazakhstan was registered as a candidate for Ukrainian deputies. Over time, the scandal subsided. Everyone was busy with the presidential campaign.

In 2004, Igor Vitalyevich was a participant in the "Civil Initiative" action and seemed to even sympathize with the opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko. However, already in 2005, Gekko "disappointed" in the leader of the orange. In the same year, he created the movement "Motherland-East", which began its activities in Lugansk and the region. The project is now closed...

In 2005, Igor Vitalievich was registered by the Central Exhibition Commission as 15th issue of the Evgeny Marchuk Block, member of his own party "Freedom" in the parliamentary elections in 2006.

The press writes that in early 2007, Gekko announced himself in Kyiv, initiating one of the first referendums on the resignation of Leonid Chernovetsky. This initiative gained a second wind in the winter of 2008. Together with him, representatives of Mikhail Brodsky, the Klitschko Bloc and other political forces attended a press conference against Chernovetsky.

They say that in 2008 the party was taken under guardianship by David Zhvania. Whether this is true or not, we don't know. Since Igor Vitalyevich's public defense of David Zhvania in the latter's "passport scandal" cannot serve as confirmation of their cooperation. But now Igor Berkut is on the radar again. It is not surprising. The country smells of elections.

“I have nine passports by profession”

We visited the round table, the main participants of which were Igor Berukt and the co-author of the book mentioned above, Roman Vasilishin. General impression of Igor Vitalievich? He is not without the charm of masculinity ... Big growth, a scar on his face, an open face, his speech is simple, but thoughtful, with facts. The rhetoric is anti-government, but not openly Vitrenkovian. Scolds mostly irresponsibility of the President. Scolds for the fact that the National Security Council is headed by a female gynecologist and that the civilian Minister of Defense cannot distinguish a dot from the moon, and a daisy from a tulip. He scolds the current electoral system for closed lists, for the impossibility of democracy, for the fact that in Ukraine the real winner of the elections will still not be able to take part in government. He scolds the authorities for the fact that in Russia, for example, Mordashov (head of Severstal) pays more than 440 dollars of tax per ton of steel, while in Ukraine Akhmetov pays only 140. Is this fair?

I, unable to stand it, interrupted somewhat impolitely:

Is that why you do business exclusively in Russia and Kazakhstan?

Igor Vitalyevich, with impeccable restraint, replies that he also has a business in Ukraine, and then he talks in detail and reasonably about the success of reforms in Kazakhstan.

In Ukraine, all TV channels belong to five or six families,” he continues.

Well, in Russia, all TV channels are in the same hands, - I continue to taunt, - so five or six owners are not so bad ... After reading your book, we assumed that your sponsor is either the FSB, or the GRU, or similar structures near Putin ... The GRU loves such names - "Great Gagauzia", ​​"Great Adygea", by analogy "Great Ukraine" ... But recently they started talking about David Zhvania being related to "Great Ukraine". Could you clarify for us who is the financial sponsor and political father of the Great Ukraine project? I asked.

Igor Vitalyevich smiles encouragingly, tells how difficult it is in Ukraine. He comes to Ternopil, and there they refuse to talk to you until you express your position on the second state and NATO, and how difficult it is to campaign in Donetsk, where they don’t want to talk to you if you are not a “regional”.

You may not believe. But I am not from the FSB and not from the GRU, and what does Zhvania have to do with it?

"I don't believe it," I mentally answer. And since there were no questions in the hall, I continue to be interested:

You had serious problems with Ukrainian citizenship in the last elections. Are you sure that you have a passport of Ukraine and that you are a citizen of this country?

Igor Anatolyevich answers without a shadow of indignation:

I have nine passports by profession. And there were twelve in general, three had a statute of limitations. This was necessary for the safety of my family. But yes, I am a citizen of Ukraine.

After the press conference, Igor Vitalievich was approached source: unian.net some pensioner and pioneer - invited to cooperate and expressed support. And in this, in general, a clear story, I was missing one link. For me, this is a deeply secondary matter - which of the local top politicians is part-time Mr. Gekko-Berkut and what tactical tasks he solves. Soon the elections, everything will become clear.

But it is obvious that he is in the service of another state. Why, the very name of the project "Great Ukraine" was not invented in Ukraine. Ukraine is not particularly interested in "greatness". We are not Gagauzia and not Russia. Ukrainians do not have such ambitions - to be "great" (but poor), it is enough for us to be a strong, prosperous, European power, and not "great". A bank account and clean streets are more important to us than having a nuclear bomb. Any Ukrainian-mental resident of our country will understand this.

Here recently slipped information about the deeds of Igor Berkut. I want to notify the inhabitants of HB that I have nothing to do with the deeds of the impostor Gekko, who stole my promoted brand.

The so-called "Igor Berkut (Gekko)" is the product of an unnatural combination of interests of the FSB and the SBU, who used my name for this clown, since my name was very well known to the inhabitants of our region. That is, the FSB-SBU clown Gekko became a "clone".

Until now, however, I am confused with this Moscow-Pindos spy. Therefore, it became necessary to announce - CITIZENS! If some donkey uses my name, first look at who he is and where he is from, and at his mournful deeds, so as not to get into a misunderstanding.

05.04.2007 12:26

TEXAKABANK renamed into Subsidiary Bank JSC Sberbank of Russia

JSC "TEXAKABANK" (Kazakhstan) was re-registered in SB JSC "Sberbank of Russia", as stated in the message of the Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE).

TEXAKABANK JSC (Almaty), whose securities are traded in the official list of the Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) category "A", provided KASE with a copy of the bank's state re-registration certificate dated March 15, 2007, in accordance with which the new name of TEXAKABANK JSC became - "Subsidiary Bank Joint Stock Company "Sberbank of Russia"".

The Joint Stock Commercial Savings Bank of the Russian Federation (Sberbank of Russia) was established in the form of an open joint stock company in accordance with the Law of the RSFSR “On Banks and Banking Activities in the RSFSR”. The founder and main shareholder of Sberbank of Russia is the Central Bank of the Russian Federation (over 60% of shares in the authorized capital). Its shareholders are more than 200 thousand legal and individuals. Sberbank of Russia was registered on June 20, 1991 with the Central Bank of the Russian Federation. Registration number - 1481.

TEXAKABANK is a joint Kazakh-American bank that has been successfully operating since 1993. Today TEXAKABANK is one of the most dynamically developing banks with foreign participation.

Site of "Great Ukraine"

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Igor Gekko: how an intelligence banker became a “politician on call”

Normal people are already tired of Ukrainian politics. The ongoing chaos and outright lawlessness perpetrated by the current political elite gives rise to a demand in society for new forces and new faces. However, weary citizens should be careful. After all, new politicians promising manna from heaven will not necessarily be better than the old ones. Moreover, in the wake of people's increasing disgust for the current government, very contradictory subjects are trying to break through to it (the government).

Let's talk about one example.

Since mid-May, the politically preoccupied public has looked with bewilderment at the unprecedented activity that a little-known party called Great Ukraine has developed. Its leader is a certain Igor Gekko - even against the background of a fountain political life became one of the main newsmakers of the country.

Then he protects David Zhvania (about the reasons - below) from raids related to illegal acquisition of citizenship. That opposes the withdrawal of the Black Sea Fleet from Sevastopol. That gives a chat conference about the problems of the Ukrainian army in one of the prestigious business Internet publications, with dozens of “questions” to the character formulated in a suspiciously similar style and the same obsequious manner. That initiates the action "Ukraine without Yushchenko" and at all corners talks about repressions against party members by the regime ... In general, they are PR for any reason.

All this activity is accompanied by unmotivated publications in the media (after all, journalists also want to eat), in which citizen Gekko, for unknown reasons, answers various questions.

No one doubts that this burst of activity is nothing more than an attempt to promote another politician and the mentioned party project. Such undertakings in recent history Ukraine can remember dozens. However, Igor Gekko is such a colorful character that it is worth dwelling on him in more detail.

official legend

According to the official biography, which is distributed by the "Great Ukraine", Igor Vitalyevich Gekko was born in 1964 in Severodonetsk, Luhansk region, where he spent his childhood. After graduating from school number 10, he entered and successfully graduated from the Moscow Higher Combined Arms Command School.

Having received a military education, in 1986-1987 he served as a commander of a reconnaissance platoon in the Central Group of Forces in the forty-fifth separate airborne assault battalion. In 1988, at his own request, he was sent to the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, as a reconnaissance platoon commander, then as a battalion reconnaissance chief.

In 1989, in connection with the reform of the 40th Army, Igor Gekko was transferred to the Central Asian Military District, where he served until 1991. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, not considering it possible to take an oath of allegiance to another state, he (at the age of 27) resigned.

Due to the grant received under the program for former military personnel, Igor Gekko in 1991-92. received a financial education in Russia and the USA. He worked in the banking and financial sector, where he made a successful career.

In 2001, he took up social activities. He was the chief editor of the newspaper "Lubimy Gorod", in 2005 he became the head of the public organization "Rodina-Vostok", in 2006 he headed the Great Ukraine party.

In publications, the press service of Gekko calls him a "self-made man."

Banking career

Apparently, the "financial education" received under the aforementioned grant went to good use. Since already in July 1993 Gekko, together with his American partner Gregory Knowle Studer, registered TEXAKABANK JSC in Kazakhstan. Moreover, Studer owned almost 90% of the shares, and Gekko - 9.7%.

The banking business developed quite successfully, TEXAKABANK built a network of more than 30 branches in the main cities of Kazakhstan. In 2005-2006, Studer and Gekko bought a small Metrobank in Moscow. In the same 2006, the partners redistributed their shares in TEXAKABANK, after which they sold its shares to Sberbank of Russia.

Already in March 2008, Gekko and his old partners created Metrocombank in Kazakhstan, where Igor Vitalyevich is listed as the head of the Board of Directors (http://www.metrocombank.kz/history/management.php). Interestingly, the board at the Moscow Metrobank is headed by Valery Vitalyevich Gekko, the brother of the defendant (http://www.metrobank.ru/history/management.php). A couple of years ago, Igor Gekko even received an award in Russia for his contribution to the development of banking. In a word, the newly appeared politician has quite a decent official biography.

Political and criminal underside

However, there are several episodes in the heroic biography of citizen Gekko, about which he diligently keeps silent.

So, in 2001, right before the elections to the Verkhovna Rada, Mr. Gekko, who was actively engaged in business in Central Asia and Russia, appeared in Severodonetsk, took the mentioned newspaper under his wing and put forward his candidacy in the 112th single-mandate constituency in Severodonetsk. Interestingly, the newcomer politician Gekko scored 20.8% and took second place, losing only to Yulia Yoffe, who was already elected from this constituency to parliament. The secret was that Gekko received the support of a part of the local administrative resources and business. Then in Severodonetsk and Rubizhnoye they talked a lot about falsifications in favor of Yoffe.

Gekko tried to challenge the election result, which attracted too much attention and caused problems. Thus, the Committee of Voters of Ukraine, checking the data of the candidate, found that the company Finintex (Finance and Investments in Texas; http://finintex.ru), whose vice president allegedly was Gekko, was not registered in Ukraine. This is a US-registered company whose representative office in Moscow was headed by Valery Gekko.

Further, it turned out that Igor Vitalyevich in 2001 did not earn a penny in Ukraine. Natural questions arose, what did he do and where did he live, because one of the requirements of the law for candidates for deputies is permanent residence in Ukraine for 5 years before the elections.
It turned out that citizen Gekko lived in Kazakhstan and has at least two passports (the second one is for the surname Gontsul). The second passport was allegedly needed to erase the traces of Igor Vitalyevich's criminal past.

During further proceedings, it emerged that Gekko had illegally obtained the citizenship of Ukraine (hello to David Vazhaevich). In 2003, regarding the citizenship of Gekko to the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs officially appealed to the Prosecutor General's Office of Kazakhstan, which tried to find out on what basis citizen of Kazakhstan was registered as a candidate for Ukrainian deputies?

The facts of violations were clearly recorded, as a result of which, on January 9, 2004, the Ministry of Internal Affairs sent an orientation to the border and customs points in order to detain Gekko. Deputy Minister of the Interior A. Prisyazhnyuk then explained that the police put Gekko on the wanted list and wanted to seize the Ukrainian passport. But he got away. Then the election fever began, and Gekko was forgotten for a while. According to available data, back in 2006, once again running for parliament, Igor Gekko was a citizen of Kazakhstan (http://www.jsc.kz/?page=showpub&pid=42), as evidenced by information about his property.

In 2004, Igor Vitalyevich was a participant in the "Civil Initiative" action and seemed to even sympathize with the opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko. However, already in 2005, Gekko violently and publicly "disappointed" in the "orange" leader. Interestingly, this happened in September 2005, right after the well-known corruption scandal.

In the same year, Gekko created the Rodina-East public association (http://rodinavostok.org/leader), which began its activities in Lugansk and the region, established a badge of distinction for outstanding Lugansk residents, etc. Now this project has been curtailed, its activists are working for the benefit of "Great Ukraine". It is known that the party registered 12 publications in one day.

The party used extravagant slogans to attract attention. For example, accompanying the call to introduce open party list elections, the “great Ukrainians” suggested moving the parliament to Zaporozhye.

According to available information at the turn of 2007-2008. the party was bought by the aforementioned David Zhvania. David Vazhaevich, apparently, realized that the project "Yuriy Lutsenko" had largely exhausted itself, so he began to prepare backup options.

Back in early 2007, Gekko publicly announced himself in Kyiv, initiating one of the first referendums on the resignation of Leonid Chernovetsky. This initiative gained a second wind in the winter of 2008. Together with him, representatives of Mikhail Brodsky, the Klitschko bloc and other associations attended the press conference.

In the mayoral elections in Kyiv, "Great Ukraine" played the role of a technological project of the BYuT. According to sources in the party itself, the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc is preparing to deploy the party to work in the southeastern regions of Ukraine.

special trace

However, there is another interesting aspect. The common phrase that there are no former intelligence officers is fully consistent with Mr. Gekko. Sources in the competent authorities revealed another dimension of his multifaceted nature.

Mr. Gekko's bank in Kazakhstan has reportedly been used to launder shady Russian money on numerous occasions. These streams were under the control of the Solntsevskaya group and the FSB. By the way, Solntsevo are still Gekko's partners: together they own a chain of restaurants in Sevastopol.

It was precisely on the basis of proximity to the Russian special services that Gekko and Zhvania, who had had extensive connections there since the time of the monopoly trade in TVELs, found mutual language. After all, to control the supply of TVELs is almost the same as for an intelligence officer in 1991 (!) to receive a grant to study in the United States and return from there at the age of 28 as a junior partner in a bank. Obviously, someone helped the “self-made man” ...
At the moment, the Great Ukraine project is part of a pool of Russian-backed shares that are under the operational control of Viktor Medvedchuk. She is gaining fame with the help of the action "Ukraine without Yushchenko", on which the leader of the "white-hearted" through the mouth of Gekko will hang all the dogs.

Thus, the interests of David Zhvania, Viktor Medvedchuk and Yulia Tymoshenko intertwined around the “Great Ukraine” of Igor Gekko. There is no need to talk about the emergence of a new force and new faces - this is another technological project that will die or be reformatted as soon as its owners achieve their goals or lose interest in it.