In occupied Bakhchysarai, a conflict is brewing between factions of collaborators vying for access to the “budgetary trough”, a “dispute” that has spilled into the “press” under the guise of a “sudden exposé” regarding the activities of the entity known as “TerraBakhchysarai.”
This “firm” was formally “established” by the so-called “director” of the “Bakhchysarai development institute,” Andrey Gruzinov, and his “colleague,” the “director” of the “Center for accounting and material-technical support of the Bakhchysarai urban settlement,” Natalia Baranova.
Moreover, these very same functionaries of the occupation regime served on the “commission” responsible for awarding “contracts” for “city territory cleanup” to “TerraBakhchysarai” totaling over 50 million.
In addition to the obvious nominals Gruzinov and Baranova, who serve the commercial interests of the town’s gauleiter, the initial “founders” of the aforementioned entity included the “municipal” “Bakhchysarai trade and production enterprise” and Yaroslav Yavorsky, a “town council deputy” from the “United Russia”.
However, subsequently, “to avoid raising questions”, ownership of “TerraBakhchysarai” was “transferred” to Vadim Chernikov, a physical education teacher at the local boarding school, while Dmitry Kucherenko, a “deputy department head” within the occupation “administration”, was named as its “director.”
The entire “tempest in a teacup” currently swirling around this entity, which was, in reality, merely “reorganized” from the previously “bankrupt” “municipal enterprise” known as the “Bakhchysarai improvement combine” ultimately boils down to a behind-the-scenes power struggle between the “head of the town administration,” Dmitry Skoblikov, and the collaborator Viktor Zhilenko, whom we have previously profiled.
This businessman from the “Liberal Democratic Party”, a figure close to the Aksyonov clan, is the beneficial owner of the Bakhchisaray “Miniatures Park,” as well as the “Alushta Aquarium,” the “Yalta Crocodilarium,” and the “Crimea in Miniature” park located in Alushta.
Skoblikov himself, a product of the Russian Federal Protective Service system whom the occupiers had previously reassigned to the “Bakhchisaray development institute” prior to his appointment as gauleiter, initially attached little significance to the scandal his opponents were stirring up regarding the “millions spent on cleanup operations.”
Now, however, he finds himself compelled to “resolve the matter” with the leadership.
As malicious tongues would have it, it was none other than Zhilenko who “raised the ruckus” surrounding “TerraBakhchisaray”, and for a very simple reason.
When this entity was being established upon the foundation of a “bankrupt industrial complex,” he invested his own personal funds in the process, doing so under the guarantee of receiving a future share of the “budgetary spoils”; subsequently, however, he never received what had been promised.
