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Case of Yevgeny Adamov

In early May 2005, the former head of the Russian Ministry of Atomic Energy Yevgeny Adamov was arrested in Switzerland. The US prosecutor's office accused the ex-minister of embezzlement of funds allocated by the United States to ensure the security of Russian nuclear facilities.
link: http://lenta.ru/story/adamov/

Yevgeny Adamov waited for the worst

The Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow yesterday issued the harshest sentence in the history of modern Russia to a former head of a federal agency. Former head of the Ministry of Atomic Energy of Russia, 68-year-old Yevgeny Adamov, was sentenced to five years and six months in a penal colony. The court found him, along with two accomplices, guilty of gross fraud and abuse of office. Moreover, Mr. Adamov was saved from an even longer term by his advanced age and services to the Motherland.
link: http://kommersant.ru/doc/ 855257

Adamov's connections

Prior to his appointment as minister, Adamov headed the secret institute NIKIET. During this period, the institute actively cooperated with American companies, one of which was Omeka LTD.

A certain Olga Pinchuk, registered at the address: Kudrinskaya Square, 1, apt. 165. By a strange coincidence, this apartment was the property of the current Minister Yevgeny Adamov, and Ms. Pinchuk turned out to be a close acquaintance of Yevgeny Olegovich. That is, the then head of the largest nuclear institute, Adamov, practically traded with himself, transferring budget money to American accounts.
link: http://www.compromat.ru/page_9341.htm

chain reaction of decay

The head of the Ministry of Atomic Energy, Yevgeny Olegovich Adamov, is a long-liver of the White House: he started with Chernomyrdin, and finishes, there are such rumors, with Kasyanov. The media are convinced that the atomic throne was raised by Boris Berezovsky, Roman Abramovich, Alexander Mamut (Sobin-Bank and Moscow Business World Bank), Tatyana Dyachenko. But about who Yevgeny Olegovich serves, the debate continues. Three versions are discussed: an American spy, an agent of US influence, Berezovsky's guarantor sent to privatize the most secret, rich, last industry left to the state. At one of the press conferences, the journalist innocently asked: “Evgeny Olegovich, are you a spy?”
link: http://www.compromat.ru/page_ 10509.htm

The Swedes recognized Yevgeny Adamov as a fraudster

Former Atomic Energy Minister Yevgeny Adamov has been officially recognized as a fraudster. This follows from the decision of the Stockholm Arbitration Court, which recognized the claims of the Swiss company Global Nuclear Service and Supply (GNSS) against Techsnabexport as unfounded. The court considered that the current owners of GNSS obtained shares illegally, and Adamov, who headed the Russian Ministry of Atomic Energy at that time, was involved in this.
link: http://www.compromat.ru/page_20896.htm

How the minister divided the "uranium pie" and received a suspended sentence

Three years ago, it seemed that because of this arrest, Russia and the United States would quarrel to the nines. In Switzerland, at the request of Washington, no one was arrested, but the former "atomic" Russian minister Yevgeny Adamov, one of the most valuable carriers of nuclear secrets. In Moscow, they were even confused. Hot heads from the Liberal Democratic Party immediately proposed a solution - they say, or maybe the ex-minister, just in case ... Eliminate ...
link: http://www.compromat.ru/page_22954.htm

5 years into the breakup period: Adamov abused and cheated

Yesterday, the Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow sentenced Yevgeny Adamov, the former head of the Ministry of Atomic Energy, to a real prison term. Two other defendants in the case received suspended sentences. Immediately after the verdict was announced, guards entered the hall and handcuffed the ex-minister. He will serve a term of 5 and a half years in a general regime colony.
link: http://www.compromat.ru/page_22243.htm

Yevgeny Adamov is released

Yesterday, the Moscow City Court ruled that the 5.5-year prison term assigned to Yevgeny Adamov should be considered suspended and released the convict in the courtroom. Prosecutor Viktor Antipov said that the Prosecutor General's Office would not appeal the court's decision. But the lawyers of the former official intend to seek recognition of his complete innocence.
link: http://www.compromat.ru/page_22578.htm

Chain reaction for ex-head of Minatom

Nine years of imprisonment with serving in a penal colony - the representative of the state prosecution in an appeal to the court asked the former head of the Ministry of Atomic Energy Yevgeny Adamov to appoint such a punishment. He is charged with embezzlement of public funds. According to the prosecutor, defendants Vyacheslav Pismenny and Revmir Freishtut, who are involved in the case, deserve seven and five years in prison, respectively.
link: http://www.compromat.ru/page_22092.htm

Yevgeny Adamov is demanded money for freedom

Yesterday, the ex-head of the Ministry of Atomic Energy of Russia Yevgeny Adamov, who is accused of fraud and abuse of power, spoke on the air of Ekho Moskvy. Released by the decision of the Supreme Court after a 15-month stay in a pre-trial detention center in Switzerland and Russia, Mr. Adamov came to the studio in handcuffs and accompanied by people in camouflage uniforms
link: http://www.compromat.ru/page_ 19030.htm

The Supreme Court released Adamov from custody on bail

A sensational decision was made last Friday by the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation (SC) as part of a high-profile criminal case against the former head of the Ministry of Atomic Energy of the Russian Federation, Yevgeny Adamov, who is accused in the United States of embezzlement of large sums of money, and in Russia of fraud, abuse and abuse of power, which entailed grave consequences . According to the decision of the Supreme Court, the ex-minister was released from arrest under a written undertaking not to leave the country.
link: http://www.compromat.ru/page_ 19008.htm

Adamov went to court. It took four months to investigate the case of the ex-minister

The Prosecutor General's Office has finished investigating the case against former Atomic Energy Minister Yevgeny Adamov, who was arrested last year in Switzerland at the request of the United States and extradited to Russia. Adamov is accused of causing damage to the state in the amount of more than 3 billion rubles, associated with the loss of state control over the GNSS company, which was an intermediary in the sale of Russian uranium by Techsnabexport to the world market under a contract with the US HEU-LEU. At the same time, GNSS itself continues to sue Techsnabexport in the Stockholm Arbitration.
link: http://www.compromat.ru/page_ 18627.htm

Yevgeny Adamov sits for 30 million dollars

Yesterday, the Basmanny Court of Moscow left Yevgeny Adamov, the former head of the Ministry of Atomic Energy of the Russian Federation, in custody for another two months. At the meeting, at which the retired official himself appeared before the public for the first time after his extradition from Switzerland, the Prosecutor General's Office announced its claims against Adamov, which had previously remained a secret to the public. It turned out that the ex-minister is accused of embezzlement "as part of an organized group" of over $30 million.
link: http://www.compromat.ru/page_18484.htm

Russian ex-minister waiting for American bunks

The Russian ex-minister was arrested on Monday in a court in the canton of Zug, where he tried to find out the reason for blocking the bank account of his daughter Irina. A few years ago she received Swiss citizenship and lives in Bern. Irina Adamova said yesterday that some time ago, a request was received from the United States to Switzerland about the availability of bank accounts for the surname Adamov. Since one of the banks had an account in her name, the Swiss authorities asked Yevgeny Adamov to come to clarify the origin of the money.
link: http://www.compromat.ru/page_ 16694.htm

The secret springs of the Adamov case

The definition of a chemical element takes up more than a page - it describes in detail the interaction of uranium with other chemical elements, properties, and the ability to enter into compounds. Reference books and encyclopedias do not report only one thing: uranium is a very expensive element. After enrichment, its price is comparable to the price of gold.
link: http://www.compromat.ru/page_20220.htm

Adamov's nuclear harem
Most recently, the underground millionaire and former minister Yevgeny Adamov turned 67 years old. Now he occupies "Khodorkovsky's room" in the special detention center "Matrosskaya Tishina": cheerful wallpapers, solid hotel furniture, a Finnish toilet bowl, German double-glazed windows. In Berne solitary Adamov had to wash in a common shower room, but now he has a separate shower and individual washcloth. In his turbulent life, Adamov managed a lot: he not only caused huge financial damage to Russia, but also broke a lot of women's hearts.
link: http://www.compromat.ru/page_18746.htm

How many children does the ex-Minister of Atomic Energy have?

66-year-old Yevgeny Adamov, who comfortably settled on a bunk in a special building of the Matrosskaya Tishina detention center, managed a lot in his life. American prosecutors have already discovered 7 personal bank accounts of Adamov in different parts of the globe. How many bank accounts his wives, children and grandchildren have, the investigation has yet to find out. And it won't be easy to do so. Even counting the relatives of the minister is quite problematic.
link: http://www.compromat.ru/page_ 18036.htm

Persian dossier of Adamov

After serving several months in a Bern prison, our former nuclear minister Yevgeny Adamov suddenly actively requested to return to his homeland. As if he felt (or found out?) That he was about to be handed over to the Americans. Why was he so afraid?
link: http://www.compromat.ru/page_ 17537.htm

Adamov's team almost arranged a new default

Few people in Russia now want the extradition of the ex-head of the Ministry of Atomic Energy Yevgeny Adamov to America. Some pity him. Others believe that he will definitely blurt out too much there.
link: http://www.compromat.ru/page_ 16895.htm

The battle for the peaceful atom. Who needs a "special operation" of the Accounts Chamber

February marks ten years of the famous Russian-American HEU-LEU agreement. Recall that, according to it, highly enriched uranium (HEU), released from nuclear weapons subject to destruction, is processed into low enriched uranium (LEU), suitable for use in the nuclear power industry of the United States. It seems, however, that the anniversary is thoroughly spoiled by another scandal that has flared up around HEU-LEU. The scandal began after the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation checked the procedure for receiving foreign exchange earnings from the sale of our uranium.
link: http://www.compromat.ru/page_ 12748.htm

Materials of the State Duma Commission on Combating Corruption

In accordance with the order of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation dated October 20, 2000 No. 97, the State Duma Commission for Combating Corruption verified the information that the Minister of the Russian Federation for Atomic Energy E.O. Adamov's US bank accounts and social security numbers, as well as the representative office of an American company registered in his apartment, and other facts related to his activities were studied
link: http://www.compromat.ru/page_ 10615.htm

Trans World Group is a secret partner of Minatom

Minatom thinks he knows how to keep secrets. To all the questions of the deputies, which were heard during the discussion of well-known initiatives, nuclear scientists stood to the death: partners and other details will not be named - a state secret! Secret, frankly, for internal use.
link: http://www.compromat.ru/page_ 10692.htm

Yavlinsky vs. Adamov

The State Duma is preparing to consider in the second reading bills on the import, storage and processing of irradiated nuclear fuel (SNF) in Russia. The projects appeared in the State Duma at the suggestion of the Ministry of Atomic Energy of the Russian Federation and are being strongly “pushed” by them. Most Russian environmentalists and economists are against the import of nuclear waste. They believe that it is unsafe for us and unreasonably expensive. Nevertheless, the vast majority of deputies voted for the drafts in the first reading, and it is possible that they will vote in the second. One of the main opponents of these documents is the Yabloko faction in the Duma. At her request, nuclear experts prepared a commentary on the feasibility study of the bills drawn up by the Ministry of Atomic Energy.
link: http://www.compromat.ru/page_ 10648.htm

Enriched with uranium

If Russia accepts 20,000 tons of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) of Western origin, it will receive $20 billion. The amount is significant, and therefore, in December last year, the State Duma approved the initiative of the Ministry of Atomic Energy of the Russian Federation and allowed the import of spent nuclear fuel into the country. The deputies did not know one thing: how and who, given the reputation of the head of the Ministry of Atomic Energy Yevgeny Adamov, would control and master the cash flow. We have documents that allow us to assert that the process will be controlled by people closely associated with Adamov's partner in American business Mark Kaushansky, a native of the American company Westinghouse, one of the main competitors of the Russian Minatom
link: http://www.compromat.ru/page_25801.htm

Garden of Eden of Minister Adamov

In the preamble to one of his speeches, President Putin threatened to be especially strict with state officials who allow themselves unofficial ties with the West. This unexpected statement sounded extremely implausible: there is no one to control the apparatchiks in Russia, and it is generally a big problem to track their dubious activities abroad. In the meantime, these most unofficial ties are growing stronger. For the most part - discrediting.
link: http://www.compromat.ru/page_ 10267.htm

Minatom Ltd.

It seems that in the very near future, following the oil and aluminum industries, the redistribution of property in another industry will finally be completed. It won't be long before the publication of the name of the oligarch, who finally got his hands on a tidbit of gospyrozh - the nuclear sector. There has long been no doubt about who this oligarch will be. It is not for nothing that the unsinkable Yevgeny Adamov, a friend and protégé of Boris Berezovsky and Co., has been at the helm of Minatom since March 1998. "Co." - this, as usual, is the Chukotka deputy Roman Abramovich and businessman Alexander Mamut, a member of the Supervisory Board of MDM Bank. It has been like this since the days of “Grandfather Yeltsin” - where there is one, there are others.
link: http://www.compromat.ru/page_ 10206.htm

Adamov fired, his work lives on
Until the end of December last year, all the arguments that “the regime is trying to turn Russia into a source of raw materials for the West and a dump of man-made waste” were just a statement of the versions of journalists and politicians seeking to create an image for themselves of fighters for the country's well-being. But now the State Duma voted to change Art. 50 of the Law "On Environmental Protection", opening the gate for the import into Russia of the first 20,000 tons of spent nuclear fuel from foreign countries.
link: http://www.compromat.ru/page_ 10753.htm

Sable fur coat for a glass of vodka

The title indicates the need to recall the summary of the "previous series". In February 1993, an intergovernmental agreement was signed between Russia and the United States: we undertake to sell to the Americans 500 tons of weapons-grade uranium extracted from dismantled warheads. The deal is stretched for 20 years, for the entire batch of uranium we should receive 12 billion dollars ... Everything would be fine, but there are two fundamental catches in this case of disarmament and profit.
link: http://www.compromat.ru/page_ 10018.htm

Adamov and "Family"

By the mysterious pirouettes that some ministers sometimes demonstrate, one can accurately judge to whose music they prefer to dance and to which political march they are marching into a brighter future for themselves. The music has been the same everywhere lately - the accumulation of funds for all kinds of election campaigns, whether it be a campaign somewhere in the provinces, a campaign of the leader's successor or, no matter how scary it sounds, his own.
link: http://www.compromat.ru/page_25802.htm

American lobbyist

The hero of many of our publications, Russian Minister for Atomic Energy Yevgeny Adamov, has already outlived two prime ministers and became subordinate to a third. Meanwhile, on the account of the head of Minatom, not only money in an American bank, a strange visit to the United States on a business visa “in a general passport”, lobbying the interests of Converse Bank (close, however, to the presidential entourage) in a multibillion-dollar foreign exchange contract, but also a number of other very strange cases that worried even the deputies of the State Duma.
link: http://www.compromat.ru/page_25803.htm

Consolidation of financial accounts.

Here is information about the income and property of Yevgeny Adamov, now the Minister of the Russian Federation for Atomic Energy, provided by the presidential administration.

“The total declared value of securities owned by E. O. Adamov is 70,600 rubles. E. O. Adamov, by right of ownership, owns a land plot (area - 0.1917 hectares) with a utility block built on it (area 162 sq. Meters) in Russia (Moscow Region), a GAZ-2410 car. There are no properties abroad.
link: http://www.compromat.ru/page_25804.htm

American spy
At a recent press conference, the head of the Ministry of Atomic Energy of Russia, Yevgeny Adamov, spoke at length and in detail about the plans of his department to reform the industry. Answering questions from correspondents of various publications, Adamov was extremely correct and polite. The head of Minatom was pissed off by the question of one of those present: “Evgeny Olegovich, are you a spy?”
link: http://www.compromat.ru/page_25805.htm

Our Stalin from Ordynka

Some argue that Yevgeny Adamov, who was appointed to the highest position in the Russian Ministry of Atomic Energy in March this year, is finally clearing the Augean stables that were formed here over the long years of democracy, as it should be with a “new broom”.
link: http://www.compromat.ru/page_25806.htm

Myths and legends of the Russian atom

Behind the veil of secrecy and talk about immeasurable treasures in the nuclear industry, there are big problems, huge expenses and small profits "The purposeful use of the huge potential, the development of which was laid by the work on the creation of nuclear weapons, should be the basis for the restoration and future prosperity of our country."
Minister for Atomic Energy of the Russian Federation Evgeny Adamov
link: http://www.compromat.ru/page_25807.htm

Plum

Another corruption scandal erupted in the structure of the former Minatom. This time, a high-ranking official of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Federal Property Management Center of the Ministry of Atomic Energy of Russia" of the Federal Agency for Atomic Energy, which is part of the Ministry of Industry and Energy, turned out to be in the field of view of law enforcement agencies. According to the head of the press service of the Department for Combating Economic Crimes of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the capital, Philip Zolotnitsky, "the case against the first deputy general director of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise is being investigated by the Main Investigation Department of Moscow." The head of the press service refused to give the name of the accused, citing the secrecy of the investigation.
link: http://www.compromat.ru/page_ 14748.htm

Yevgenia Adamova found an accomplice worth 3 billion

The prosecutor's office sent to the Moscow City Court the criminal case of the former president of the Russian-American joint venture Globe Nuclear Services and Supply Limited (GNSS), Alexander Chernov, who was accused of major fraud, investigated by the Investigative Department of the ICR for the Central Federal District. The investigation believes that as part of a group organized by the ex-minister of nuclear energy of Russia Yevgeny Adamov, Mr. Chernov participated in the transfer of 62% of GNSS shares owned by Russian companies to an American one. The damage from his actions amounted to 3 billion rubles.
link: http://www.compromat.ru/page_ 31148.htm

Evgeny Adamov vs. Vladimir Chuprov: "In Japan, there will not be a single person who will die from radiation"

I would like to change the form of representation, because ministers are now different, not always specialists. And since I was 61, after completing my education, I have been in the nuclear field, and after 50 years of work, I have the right to consider myself not a minister, but a specialist in this field. It is in this capacity that I would like to participate in the discussion today.
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Scientific supervisor of the project direction "Breakthrough"

Scientific supervisor of the project direction "Breakthrough", scientific supervisor of JSC "NIKIET", Doctor of Technical Sciences, Academician of the Russian Academy of Engineering Sciences (1995). Honored Worker of Science and Technology of the Russian Federation (1995). Author of more than 150 scientific publications.

The beginning of the labor activity of E.O. Adamov, after graduating from the Moscow Aviation Institute in 1962, was associated with the IAE. I.V. Kurchatov, with the first experimental nuclear power plant with direct energy conversion "Romashka", with work on the helium fine purification system, technologies for the use of liquid metals (Na, Na-K). At the Kurchatov Institute, E.O. Adamov conducted a set of studies on the use of high-temperature coolants in autonomous nuclear power plants and obtained original scientific results, protected by copyright certificates, including diagnostics of the state and performance of the primary circuit of nuclear power plants, studying the properties of special materials in extreme conditions. These results were implemented in a number of new technology objects, in particular, during the creation of the Yenisei nuclear power plant and original MHD devices.

In 1975 E.O. Adamov became the initiator of the development of an integrated system of automation of design and engineering work "CAPRI", which was a new progressive direction in the development of domestic engineering. For 1975-1985 he carried out a large complex of diverse studies, which made it possible to substantiate the principles of constructing flexibly adjustable systems of machine-building production, to develop software and hardware for integrated automation systems. The results of this work were implemented in many research institutes and design bureaus of the country and became the basis of one of the sections of the Federal Program for Mechanical Engineering. Chief Engineer, Deputy Director of IAE them. I.V. Kurchatova, E.O. Adamov supervised the large-scale expansion and renewal of the experimental base for fundamental and applied research, the construction of the Tokamak-15, Gamma facilities, many other physical and thermal-hydraulic stands, the reconstruction of existing reactors and loop devices.

A direct participant in the liquidation of the consequences of the Chernobyl accident in 1986, E.O. Adamov, together with other specialists, studied the actual distribution of fuel throughout the building of the power unit, which made it possible to drastically reduce the volume of the shelter being built, reduce material costs and dose loads on builders.

In November 1986, after the Chernobyl disaster, he headed NIKIET. Under his leadership, the most important work was carried out to improve the safety of NPPs with RBMK reactors, which excluded the possibility of a recurrence of Chernobyl-type accidents and made it possible to justify the possibility of operating these NPPs until the end of their design service life.

Initiated by E.O. Adamov, large-scale studies carried out, including by foreign specialists, as part of a number of international programs to improve the safety of nuclear power plants with RBMK reactors, showed that the safety levels of domestic and foreign nuclear power plants correspond to the same design and construction periods and convincingly demonstrated the absence of any technical or organizational reasons why the early decommissioning of Russian NPPs with RBMK reactors would be necessary. The results of the research and the justification of the safety of nuclear power plants with RBMK, confirmed by international expertise, provided Russia with an economic benefit from the continued operation of these plants, amounting to billions of dollars. In recent years, under his leadership, unique work has been carried out to restore the life of the graphite stack of NPPs with RBMK reactors. The economic effect is many billions of rubles.

In 1988, by the Order of the Council of Ministers of the USSR E.O. Adamov was appointed General Designer. In this position, he stepped up the development of industrial, research and experimental reactors of a new generation and at the same time began to work on the creation of a natural safety nuclear technology with a closed fuel cycle, which would deterministically eliminate the possibility of severe accidents at nuclear power plants, solve the problem of radiation-equivalent handling of radioactive waste, strengthen the nuclear non-proliferation regime and ensure the competitiveness of the nuclear method of energy production. E.O. Adamov is one of the authors of a new concept for the development of a promising large-scale nuclear power industry in Russia, in which an important place is occupied by the provision for a gradual transition in the country's export balance from energy exports to electricity exports from nuclear power plants
On the initiative of E.O. Adamov, in 1996 the International Center for Nuclear Safety was established and in 1999 - the International Center for Environmental Safety of the Ministry of Atomic Energy of Russia and the US Department of Energy. He was one of the initiators of the creation of the Nuclear Society of the USSR, later the Nuclear Society of Russia, and is currently a member of its board.

For many years E.O. Adamov is a member of the NTS of the industry, the NTS of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the editorial board of the journal "Atomic Energy". With the direct participation of the author and under the guidance of E.O. Adamov, specialists from enterprises and organizations of the industry, the Russian Research Center "Kurchatov Institute", the Russian Academy of Sciences, universities prepared and published two volumes of the encyclopedia "Mechanical Engineering of Nuclear Engineering".
In 1998-2001 E.O. Adamov served as Minister of the Russian Federation for Atomic Energy, was a member of the Security Council of the Russian Federation. Among the most significant achievements of the industry, directly related to the activities of E.O. Adamov as minister, we can name the excess of the Soviet level of electricity production at nuclear power plants (Minatom became the first industry to achieve such a result after the collapse of the USSR), the commissioning of the 1st power unit of the Volgodonsk (Rostov) NPP and the resumption of construction of nuclear power units of a high degree of readiness ( 3rd unit of the Kalinin NPP). The work on the construction of foreign nuclear power plants under Russian projects in Iran (Bushehr-1), China (Tianwan-1 and 2), and Kudankulam in India has significantly intensified. Work was launched on the comprehensive disposal of nuclear submarines and surface ships with nuclear power plants and the environmental rehabilitation of radiation-hazardous objects of the Ministry of Defense, transferred at the initiative of Adamov E.O. To Minatom of Russia.. The Strategy for the Development of Nuclear Energy in Russia in the First Half of the 21st Century was developed and approved by the Government of the Russian Federation and a legislative framework was prepared for Russia to enter the international market for reprocessing irradiated nuclear fuel. Under the leadership of E.O. Adamov, scientific and technical work was carried out, which formed the basis of the Initiative of the President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin, put forward at the UN Millennium Summit on September 6, 2000, on energy support for the sustainable development of mankind, a fundamental solution to the problems of non-proliferation of nuclear weapons and the environmental improvement of the planet Earth. Today, these works are carried out within the framework of the Breakthrough project of the Federal Program for Nuclear Technologies of a New Direction.

Most recently, the underground millionaire and former minister Yevgeny ADAMOV turned 67 years old. Now he occupies "Khodorkovsky's room" in the special detention center "Matrosskaya Tishina": cheerful wallpapers, solid hotel furniture, a Finnish toilet bowl, German double-glazed windows. In Berne solitary Adamov had to wash in a common shower room, but now he has a separate shower and individual washcloth. In his turbulent life, Adamov managed a lot: he not only caused huge financial damage to Russia, but also broke a lot of women's hearts.

Marusya ZAYTSEVA

Officially, Adamov married four times and divorced three times. The ex-minister is the father of two daughters - Irina and Irina. The difference between the sisters is almost 13 years. The youngest, Irina Adamova, lives in a luxurious mansion on the outskirts of Bern. For some reason, the eldest daughter settled in the tiny town of Pechory, in the Pskov region.

Offender "gentle Nina"

Yevgeny Adamov is a very cruel person, - one of the neighbors of Adamov's youngest daughter in a Moscow apartment angrily told the Express Newspaper correspondent. - Irochka now lives in Switzerland, and rents an apartment to the Americans.

At one time, Ira, with her mother Nina and father Adamov, lived in a luxurious apartment in a high-rise building near the Barrikadnaya metro station. Then there were big disagreements in the family, and a difficult divorce followed. Ninochka is a gentle lady, she was very worried: her ex-husband demanded that she and the girl immediately move out of the apartment. And they have nowhere to go. Nina asked her ex-husband to buy an apartment. Adamov huddled for a long time, but he already had a new passion - Olga Pinchuk, who wanted to live in a high-rise, so he gave Ninochka money for a new apartment. Nina was already the second wife of Adamov. She complained that her hubby was a petticoat. Never missed a pretty face. Especially stare at figured women. In my opinion, Nina and Irochka then bought an apartment on Klimashkina Street, and only then moved to our house. A few years later, Nina got married and drove off to Germany. The girl was raised by her grandmother. Adamov maintained a close relationship with his daughter, and when she turned 17, he sent her to Switzerland. No wonder Irochka studied at a German school in Moscow.

Husband of "severe Olga"

I came across two spouses of Yevgeny Adamov, - admitted Adamov's former first deputy in Minatom (from 1998 to 2001 - M.Z.), State Duma deputy Valentin Ivanov. - Completely different women! His fourth wife is Elena Borisovna, a very sweet and pleasant person. Evgeny Olegovich came with her to our seminars together. There was a case, we celebrated the New Year together. I was happy for Adamov: his previous wife (Olga Pinchuk. - M.Z.) was, well, a very stern woman, she suppressed him.

- Is it possible to suppress Adamov, whom his colleagues behind his back called "our Stalin from Ordynka"?- Evgeny Olegovich, indeed, is a very tough person, and he worked from dawn to dusk. Could schedule a workshop for 22.00. But one thing - subordinates, another - his relatives.

-Is Adamov a henpecked man?- I asked Ivan Nikitchuk, State Duma deputy (1995 - 2003 - M.Z.) and a member of the Anti-Corruption Commission that considered the Adamov case.

I think yes. When we were collecting documents on the large-scale activities of Mr. Adamov as director of a nuclear institute and in the chair of the Minister for Atomic Energy, we noticed how often the name Pinchuk appears in various financial documents. The Moscow representative office of one of Adamov's American firms was registered to this madam at her address: Moscow, Kudrinskaya Square, Building 1. It was Pinchuk who was one of the founders of a huge construction and investment company. And she had her own bank accounts in Pennsylvania, in the Arab Bank in France, in the CMB - the bank of Monaco.

Companion of "beautiful Elena"

The fourth wife of Adamov was found in the Russian Committee of the UNESCO Information for All Program. With the support of UNESCO, a Public Center for Legal Information has recently opened.

The opening of the center was largely facilitated by a certain Elena Borisovna Adamova, a very beautiful woman, - said Mikhail Todyshev, Vice President of the Association of Indigenous and Small Peoples of the North. - Elena Borisovna is also the vice-president of the club for the wives of politicians "Girlfriends". She helps us a lot. This "beautiful Elena" is the last wife of Mr. Adamov. I called her on my cell phone. Elena Borisovna was seriously frightened and refused to give an interview. Maybe this lady is trying hard to hide the fact that the man who is now sitting in Matrosskaya Tishina is her beloved husband? Nothing happened: at social events, Elena Adamova presents herself not only as the vice-president of the club for the wives of politicians "Podrugi", but also as the wife of Yevgeny Olegovich. So, a couple of months ago, Mrs. Adamova attended a party at the Lenin Museum, where the family of the King of Thailand opened a new direct flight "Moscow - Bangkok". Elena Borisovna communicated with persons of royal blood and with appetite I eat rice noodles with seafood.

Adamov's wife is friends not only with Nina Torshina (wife of Vice Speaker of the Federation Council Alexander Torshin. - M.Z.), but also with Margarita Nurgalieva, Ekaterina Zhukova, Larisa Sokolova. And I would very much like to make friends, as she said in an interview, with the wife of Prime Minister Fradkov.

Long time on the list

By the way, Mr. Adamov himself also loved social events: he was a regular at the Moscow elite club "Monolith" (annual membership - $ 12,000. - M.Z.) on Bolshaya Gruzinskaya street.

This club unites 550 of the most famous and wealthy families in Russia. Mr. Adamov came to secular parties with an interesting lady in furs. It remains to be guessed - was it Olga Pinchuk, Elena Adamova, or some other charmer?

- Viktor Nikitovich, was Adamov a womanizer?- I asked the academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the former Minister for Atomic Energy Mikhailov. “Oh, I don’t know,” Mikhailov chuckled. - He liked to drink vodka, have a bite, like any normal man. And with women, he was always courteous. The weaker sex loved the charming and wealthy atomic gentleman. Back in 1998, Adamov entered the "List of 1000 richest and most famous people in Russia", which was compiled by Boris Fedorov's department when he headed the State Tax Service of Russia.

The Fuhrer took the trail

The youngest, 31-year-old daughter of Adamov, has excellent living conditions: a large house with a garden on the outskirts of Bern. It was for the high fence of this mansion that the Bernese investigating judge Urs Fuhrer tried to look, the one who blocked the personal bank accounts of Adamova Jr.

On April 28, 2005, the Fuhrer was in excellent spirits. In the afternoon, he called the United States to say one phrase: - He is going ...

Meanwhile, Adamov was energetically packing his bags to fly to Bern. The day before, my beloved daughter Irina called:

My bank accounts are blocked. Need to figure it out. And you, daddy, sent a summons for some reason to my address. It is strange: the ex-Minister for Atomic Energy Adamov is registered in the village of Malakhovka near Moscow, on Stalsky Street, house number 14, but the summons for him comes to the Swiss address of his daughter.

My dad was lured into a trap, - Irina Adamova complained to Swiss TV journalists. He didn't need to fly to Switzerland. Dad was interrogated for more than four hours, and then announced that he was arrested!

It is, of course, a shame that the secret minister's daughter studied abroad, says nuclear physicist and State Duma deputy (1995-2003) Ivan Nikitchuk. - “Super-secret” Adamov took advantage of the perestroika confusion and sent his daughter to Switzerland on the sly.

Soon an apartment was bought for Irochka and a bank account was opened. Young Adamova registered two companies in her name: Omeka.ltd and Bellum.group. The young lady quickly abandoned social pedagogy, although she nevertheless graduated from the university. Then the youngest daughter of Adamov began to actively breed dogs of elite breeds. She married a Swiss. A daughter was born in the family. Today, Irina Adamova devoted herself entirely to raising a child and elite dogs.

Pechora heirs

Adamov's first wife, as people from the close circle of the ex-minister said, was his student love. However, no one could remember her name. The first daughter, Irina, is the fruit of a fiery student love. ...Salon of cellular communication in the city of Pechory on Zavodskaya street. A pretty plump lady of Balzac's age is the daughter of the former millionaire minister Adamov. The eldest Irina Adamova is 44 years old. She has a tired face. Is he really that worried about his dad? And who visited Yevgeny Adamov in "Matrosskaya Tishina" - the eldest Irina Adamova or her sister from Switzerland? According to the press service of the Federal Penitentiary Service, Yevgeny Olegovich was visited by both his wife and daughter three times already ... It turned out that Irina Adamova Sr. leads a very secluded life in Pechory. And on top of that, she is a very devout person. Often in church. “Adamova came to us about 12 years ago,” journalists from one of the local newspapers told Express Gazeta. - She worked as a psychologist in our gymnasium. I got some money. No one thought that she was the daughter of that same Adamov, although Irina Evgenievna built a noble mansion for herself. This is the most beautiful house in our town. They have their own gas supply. Adamov himself was never seen in Pechory.

We got through to a mobile communication salon in the city of Pechory. The young man picked up the phone and hastily explained that he was not allowed to make any comments. He advised me to call Irina Evgenievna on her mobile. Gave a number. But no one picked up the phone.

But the neighbors of Adamov's eldest daughter told what they knew: - This lady has two sons. One is 20 years old, he bears the name of his grandfather - Adamov. The second boy is about ten years old. Adamova only greets her neighbors. For a long time we did not believe that she was the daughter of this swindler, who was a minister. But then we read about it in the newspapers, but we still don’t believe it: why does she live in Pechory then? Not going to Moscow or Zurich? With such money as her dad, you need to live somewhere in the Alps, and not in the dusty Pechory.

Reference

* was born on April 28, 1939 in Moscow. * In 1962 he graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute with a degree in mechanical engineering. * From 1962 to 1986 he worked at the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy. Progressed from engineer to deputy general director. In 1986 he became the general designer and director of NIKIET. * In March 1998 he was appointed Minister of Atomic Energy. In March 2001, he resigned of his own free will. * In 2004 he joined the board of directors of Mezhprombank. Honored Worker of Science and Technology, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor.

By the way

Adamov was arrested in Switzerland in May 2005 at the request of US investigators. In the US, the ex-minister faces 60 years in prison and a $1.75 million fine. On December 31, 2005, the defendant was transported to Moscow by special aircraft, for which he paid $70,000 out of his own pocket.

Adamov, Evgeny

Former Minister of Atomic Energy of Russia, defendant in a criminal case related to financial fraud

Former Minister of Atomic Energy of Russia, held this post under five governments. Creator of the Chernobyl "sarcophagus", Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Academician of the Russian Academy of Engineering Sciences and the New York Academy of Sciences. Author of about 150 scientific publications in the field of space nuclear technology, safety of nuclear power and new nuclear technology. Since 2005, he has been a defendant in a criminal case, in February 2008 he was found guilty of fraud and abuse of office, sentenced to five and a half years in prison. In April 2008, the term of imprisonment was changed to conditional.

Evgeny Olegovich Adamov was born in Moscow on April 28, 1939. In 1962 he graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute with a degree in mechanical engineering. In 1962 - 1986 he worked at the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy in positions from engineer to deputy director (according to other sources, he worked at MAI in 1962-1965),.

In 1982, he was awarded the Order of the Badge of Honor for the successes achieved in the construction of the Leningrad NPP. The title "Honored Worker of Science and Technology of the Russian Federation" was awarded. Some public circles consider Adamov one of the initiators of the creation of the Nuclear Society of Russia and the dialogue with the public on the problems of using nuclear technology.

In 1986 he became the general designer and director of the Research and Design Institute of Power Engineering. The institute was engaged in the design of nuclear reactors,.

In May-August 1986, he took part in the liquidation of the consequences of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. He made a significant contribution to the construction of the "Shelter" (as the "sarcophagus" over the destroyed reactor was officially called). Then he began to deal with the problems of nuclear power plants.

Adamov supervised the work to eliminate the consequences of the accident directly at the scene. There - at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant - he met Mikhail Zurabov, who arrived in Chernobyl as a representative of one of the design institutes of the Ministry of Atomic Energy. A number of media outlets claimed that it was Adamov who helped Zurabov become deputy director for economic issues of another nuclear trust - Mospromtekhmontazh.

In March 1998, by decree of Russian President Boris Yeltsin, Adamov was appointed to the post of Minister for Atomic Energy. Adamov replaced Viktor Mikhailov at this post, who himself initiated his resignation in connection with his retirement and transition to scientific work. According to some reports, it was Mikhailov who recommended Adamov as his successor.

In the late 1990s, Adamov supported the idea of ​​creating the Atomprom concern. According to the minister's plan, the concern was to become a new natural monopoly and take over the entire production cycle involving atomic energy. At the first stage, Atomprom was supposed to become a fully state-owned concern, but after some time it was planned to sell some of the shares and gradually privatize the enterprise.

The concern was supposed to include all branches of the nuclear industry that make a profit and that can be engaged in commercial activities, and the rest was proposed to be given to the state for maintenance. It was planned to leave the weapons complex (including closed cities) and fundamental science (it was supposed to be transferred to the Russian Academy of Sciences) on budget financing.

The Security Council of Russia and the Ministry of State Property agreed to the splitting of Minatom, but Adamov did not have time to implement the idea. In 2006, Sergei Kiriyenko, who headed Rosatom, returned to her.

In June 1998, Adamov completed the preparation of an agreement between Russia and Germany on the supply of uranium from Russia. The document has been signed. In the same month, the head of the Ministry of Atomic Energy, during a visit to India, achieved a solution to the issue of building Indian reactors. The agreement on the construction of these reactors was signed by the leaders of both countries before the collapse of the USSR, and then suspended. In 1994, India decided to restore the treaty, and Adamov managed to agree on specific technical issues for the implementation of the document. Despite US objections, Russia has agreed to build two nuclear power plants in southern India.

It was with the agreement reached during Adamov's visit to India that the American newspaper The Washington Post connected the decree signed by Vladimir Putin in 2000, allowing the export of nuclear materials from Russia to countries that have not signed international security treaties in full. The publication claimed that in this way Putin tried to support Adamov in his desire to expand Russia's nuclear exports. The export of nuclear materials was considered the main source of currency for the Ministry of Atomic Energy.

In 1998, Adamov made efforts to reach an agreement between Russia and the United States on scientific and technical cooperation in the use of "weapon-grade" plutonium. This agreement was signed by both parties in the second half of the year. And in mid-1999, the head of the Ministry of Atomic Energy got the government to allocate about five million dollars for the modernization of nuclear power plant control systems as part of the work to prevent the "problem-2000". Minatom received about another $2 million from foreign states and international organizations. Adamov himself considered it necessary on the night of January 1, 2000 to be present at the situational and crisis center of the Ministry of Atomic Energy in order to personally control the operation of computers,.

In 2000, the Minister of Atomic Industry tried to increase tariffs for electricity from nuclear power plants. Adamov proposed to double the tariffs. In his opinion, this would make it possible to quadruple the industry's income and improve the state of the nuclear power plant, as well as launch a number of new stations. However, Putin rejected this proposal.

In 2000, Adamov sought permission to import spent nuclear fuel into the country. The minister argued that this fuel is a valuable raw material, and besides, the import of 20,000 tons of spent nuclear fuel into the country could bring Russia up to $20 billion. The head of the Ministry of Atomic Energy made significant efforts to achieve the introduction of appropriate amendments to environmental legislation. In 2001, the corresponding amendments to the legislation were approved by the State Duma.

For "strengthening the Russian economy," the Russian Biographical Institute in 2000 awarded Adamov with the Silver Cross and the diploma "Person of the Year."

After becoming Minister of Atomic Energy in the government formed by Yevgeny Primakov in September 1998, Adamov retained his post in the government of Sergei Stepashin (May - August 1999), the government of Vladimir Putin (August 1999 - March 2000) and the government of Mikhail Kasyanov (May 2000). ). On March 28, 2001, Adamov was relieved of his post as Minister for Atomic Energy by decree of the President of Russia.

In 2002, Adamov told reporters that he again took over as head of the Research and Design Institute of Power Engineering. According to some reports, since April 2004, Adamov has been a member of the board of directors of JSCB Intersectoral Industrial Bank.

Shortly after Adamov's resignation from his post, the Prosecutor General's Office became interested in his activities. This happened after the Duma Anti-Corruption Commission prepared and submitted to the president a certificate on Yevgeny Adamov's work as minister.

In fact, the deputies dealt with Adamov back in 2000. In the certificate prepared by them, in particular, it was indicated that Adamov conducted his entrepreneurial activity on the basis of the institute he headed. The document also argued that the policy pursued by Adamov was contrary to the interests of the state and could lead to catastrophic consequences for Russia.

The deputies argued that the Russian Minister for Atomic Energy recruited employees not for their professional qualities, but put his commercial partners in leadership positions. The deputies also accused Adamov of financial fraud - namely, that in 1999 he tried to intercept a large block of shares in the corporate Conversbank. All those who disagreed during the personnel reshuffle were allegedly dismissed from their posts.

On the basis of the data given in the deputy's certificate, the General Prosecutor's Office of Russia launched an investigation, but found nothing reprehensible in the actions of the former head of Minatom and refused to initiate a criminal case. At the same time, Adamov himself did not deny his entrepreneurial activity and the presence of accounts and a social security card in the United States.

However, the media reported that in 1996 significant amounts of money appeared on the accounts of the Adamov family (meaning his youngest daughter Irina Adamova, who lives in Switzerland). According to unofficial data, the source of funds was a fictitious deal - an agreement between the Research and Design Institute of Power Engineering and Omeka.ltd, registered in the name of Adamov's youngest daughter.

According to other sources, Adamov received the funds by negotiating "bypassing the existing order" with Iran on the construction of a research reactor. This information was subsequently verified by the Duma commission. The results of her check were sent to the President of Russia and became the basis for an investigation undertaken by the Russian Prosecutor General's Office.

In the winter of 2003, Adamov won a lawsuit for the protection of honor and dignity against journalist Andrei Karaulov and the Moment of Truth program. In one of the broadcasts, Karaulov said that the dismissal of Adamov was directly related to the corruption of the former minister.

On May 2, 2005, Adamov, at the request of his youngest daughter, flew to Bern, but was arrested there at the request of the US Department of Justice. The Americans accused Adamov of embezzling $9 million allocated by the US Department of Energy to maintain nuclear security in Russia. According to a number of media reports, American investigators began to look closely at Adamov after a significant amount was received on the accounts of Omeka.ltd from the United States.

Adamov refused the simplified extradition procedure to the United States. Less than two weeks after that, the Russian Prosecutor General's Office opened a case against the ex-minister, accusing him of fraud and abuse of power.

In mid-May 2005, Adamov's business partner, an American businessman of Ukrainian origin, 53-year-old Mark Kaushansky, at a meeting in a federal court in Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania), denied all charges and declared his complete innocence.

According to the media, the Russian authorities simply decided to return to their homeland the former minister, who could give the Americans "nuclear secrets" of Russia. State Duma Speaker Vladimir Zhirinovsky, in order to avoid the disclosure of these secrets, even proposed organizing the abduction or murder of Adamov, and making other carriers of state secrets travel restrictions.

On October 3, 2005, the Swiss Department of Justice decided to extradite Adamov to the United States. The ex-minister's lawyers appealed the decision.

On December 29, 2005, the Swiss Supreme Court announced that it had decided to extradite Adamov to Russia because the former minister had Russian citizenship and had committed the alleged violations in Russia. On December 31, 2005, Adamov was taken to Russia and placed in the Matrosskaya Tishina pre-trial detention center. The flight of the plane that delivered him to Moscow was paid by the former minister from his own funds,.

On December 31, 2005, Adamov was charged with fraud on an especially large scale (part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code of Russia) and abuse of power (part 2 of article 285 of the Criminal Code of Russia). Lawyers tried to get Adamov released on bail, but the court extended the arrest of the former minister.

In early January 2006, the ex-head of Minatom announced his intention to collect eight thousand francs from the Swiss justice department - one thousand for each month he spent in a local prison, as well as demand payment of legal costs. His lawyers said they were preparing a complaint against Swiss justice to the Strasbourg Court.

At the end of January 2006, it became known that the Prosecutor General's Office combined the case of the ex-head of Minatom with the case of the director of the State Scientific Center of the Russian Federation "Trinity Institute for Innovation and Thermonuclear Research" Vyacheslav Pismenny. A criminal case under Article 201 of the Russian Criminal Code ("Abuse of Power") against Written was initiated on September 25, 2000.

On January 30, 2006, it also became known that the case against Adamov was initiated on May 13, 2005 on the fact of embezzlement of property and money on a large scale in OAO Techsnabexport and other organizations subordinate to Minatom.

On July 21, 2006, the ex-head of Minatom was released from custody. The corresponding decision to change Adamov's measure of restraint to a written undertaking not to leave was made by the Supreme Court of Russia. Thus, the court satisfied the cassation appeal of Adamov's lawyers, who asked to declare illegal the decision of the Moscow City Court to extend their client's detention until August 8,.

In January 2007, the Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow began considering Adamov's case. The court examined almost 30 volumes of the case, but did not come to a decision. On April 16, 2007, the litigation began anew - in connection with the replacement of one of the judges. Adamov, like two other defendants - Vyacheslav Pismenny and former general director of Techsnabexport OJSC Revmir Freishtut - said they did not plead guilty.

On January 22, 2008, the judicial investigation in the Adamov case was completed, after which the court proceeded to the debate of the parties,. On February 19, 2008, by decision of the Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow, Adamov was found guilty of embezzlement of budgetary funds through fraud (Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and abuse of official powers (Article 85 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation),. Despite this, he, like other defendants in the case, who were on bail at the time of the court verdict, hoped for a suspended sentence. Indeed, Pismenny and Freishtut were sentenced to four years of probation, but Adamov's sentence was more severe: on February 20, 2008, he was sentenced to five and a half years in prison. At the same time, Kommersant noted that he was "saved from an even longer term by his advanced age and services to the Motherland" (Adamov was a participant in the liquidation of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant),.

However, after consideration of the cassation in April 2008, Adamov's term of imprisonment was changed to a conditional one. At the same time, the time spent by him in pre-trial detention from May 14, 2005 to June 21, 2006, will be counted as punishment by a court decision. In addition, the court appointed a four-year probationary period for Adamov, during which he must periodically appear at the penitentiary inspection at the place of residence, which he was forbidden to change for this period. Then Adamov was released from custody,.

In June 2011, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg considered Adamov's complaint against the actions of the Swiss authorities who detained him in 2005. According to the former minister, the Swiss authorities have violated the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms in terms of protecting the right to liberty and security of person and the European Convention on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters. Nevertheless, the court, by four votes to three, did not recognize Adamov's claim as justified,.

According to official data, Adamov was married three times, divorced twice. The former minister has two daughters - from his first and second marriages, both named Irina. The youngest lives in the Swiss city of Zug, the eldest - in the city of Pechory, Pskov region. Two firms are registered in the name of Adamova, who lives in Switzerland: Omeka.ltd in Bern and consulting firm Bellum.group in Zug. The latter company sells real estate, including in Moscow [

What is the Minister of Atomic Industry hiding?

There is no benefit from officials at all, but from nuclear ones - only losses ... Just imagine, over the past few years, thanks to their efforts, Russia has missed hundreds of millions of dollars.

Champions in terms of losses are three "heroes" who succeeded each other as the head of Minatom:

Minister Vitaly Konovalov brought the state under anti-dumping sanctions and "lost" five thousand tons of uranium (that's about $100 million), after which he remained in the "system", becoming the first deputy of the new minister Viktor Mikhailov.

Mikhailov began active cooperation with the Americans, but he imposed on them the creation of some kind of "joint venture", as a result of which Russia lost $250 million (currently frozen in the United States). And, in turn, he became the first deputy of the current minister, Yevgeny Adamov, who "warmed up" the state in just one year by about $20 million.

Did you notice how severely the ministers were punished? They were appointed first deputy ministers. To transfer experience?

"Techsnabexport"

Like any self-respecting ministry that has access to strategic raw materials and foreign trade, Minatom has its own commercial "daughter" - Foreign Economic Joint Stock Company "Techsnabexport", which deals with international contracts and payments.

In Soviet times, the All-Union Foreign Trade Association (VVO) "Techsnabexport" belonged to the Ministry of Foreign Trade of the USSR. In 1972, the first Soviet deal on the uranium market took place - a contract with the Cogema firm (France). Our side took over the services of uranium enrichment. In 1988, Techsnabexport was transferred to the jurisdiction of the USSR Ministry of Atomic Energy and, since 1990, it began to engage in the sale of uranium (natural and enriched), including on the American market.

The Americans became worried - there was nowhere to put their uranium - and warned the Soviet side that the balance on the international uranium market was rather fragile and there was no need to oversaturate it. According to calculations by Western experts, the maximum amount of uranium sold could not exceed six thousand tons.

The Americans were listened to. And Vitaly Konovalov (then still a minister) forced Techsnabexport to "throw away" about 11,000 tons of uranium for sale. Prices have dropped sharply. There was a scandal. American manufacturers staged an anti-dumping trial. And in the end, for 11 thousand tons of an expensive product, the Soviet side received about the same amount as it could get for six.

By the way, the American partner of Techsnabexport, trader Oren Benton, who owed the Soviet side a total of about $100 million, also suffered from our commercial ingenuity.

Contract for 12 billion

In January 1994, Techsnabexport, the Ministry of Atomic Energy of Russia and the US Department of Energy signed a contract under the HEU-LEU agreement (highly enriched uranium - low enriched uranium). According to this more than twelve billion currency contract, the Americans pledged to rid Russia of 500 tons of highly enriched (military) uranium, turning it into low-enriched (industrial) uranium.

The benefits are both financial and political. Disarmament under the SALT Treaties cannot be considered final and completed as long as each of the parties has a surplus of military uranium: it can always be used to recreate nuclear weapons, and quite quickly at that.

Having worked out a clear program, not forgetting either their own or Russia's benefit (otherwise, who needs this contract?), the Americans forgot about the most "important" thing - the unpredictable calculations of Russian officials...

Having settled some contradictions during a meeting in Vancouver under the patronage of the Russian and American presidents, Viktor Mikhailov (then already and still the head of Minatom) and deputy. US Secretary of State Linda Davis signed the basic principles of the HEU-LEU contract.

However, the Russian side managed to impose on the Americans the creation of some kind of "joint venture" as one of the conditions. (Who needed this joint venture is generally unclear. One thing is known for sure: the interests of the state were not thought about at the same time.)

The Americans made such a concession to us, completely unaware of its meaning, and in response they put forward their very important condition - to pay for the natural components (necessary for the "dissolution" of highly enriched uranium) after (!) the completion of the contract.

For your information, about 35% of the price of low-enriched uranium received is just the same natural component, the calculations for which, out of the goodness of our hearts, we postponed for twenty years. (Imagine what a profit this currency will make, scrolling in Western banks for two decades.)

If the negotiations were carried out with high quality, the Americans would pay immediately. And although the Ministry of Finance and many experts insisted on this, neither the government, nor the Ministry of Atomic Energy, nor Techsnabexport listened to their arguments. Obviously, the fate of the incomprehensible joint venture was more important ...

This joint venture was supposed to be a certain company "Matek". It was assumed that it was she who would take on all the concerns of Techsnabexport ... She could not. And then in the joint venture they began to read GNSS Delaware, USA.

51% of this company belongs to Techsnabexport, and 49% (Benton's buyout share) went to the American Pleiades Group. Pleiades Group now intends to sue the Russian side for about $1 billion for lost profits.

Minister Adamov as a businessman

When concluding this contract, the Russian side did not take into account one more circumstance. Since the Cold War, U.S. laws have been such that uranium cannot cross the American border and then, albeit processed, return to Russia, since there is no agreement between them on cooperation in the field of nuclear energy.

Generally strange, given this "problem", the very fact of the transaction. It turns out that we just donated uranium. However, according to experts, Russia could get out of this situation using the free circulation of materials agreement between the US, Mexico and Canada. Could, but did not use this scheme.

Minister Adamov thought for a year... Meanwhile, "deposits" of Russian uranium worth $325 million were formed in the United States. They offered to return the money (!). The Americans agreed, but put forward a demand: to reduce the state reserve of uranium to 22 thousand tons (taking into account the tens of thousands that “hung” idle, which actually does not belong to us now) and conclude an administrative agreement, according to which Minatom will provide the US Department of Energy with which, by the way, has its own intelligence unit) a regular report on the state of our uranium reserve.

In a word, they paid for the bungling not only with uranium, but also with state secrets, and at the same time, in the meantime, with the freedom to dispose of their own strategic raw materials.

Americans can be understood. How to understand our leaders?

Nuclear secret carrier

Minister Adamov loves the USA very much. There he has his own social security number, which is issued to non-citizens of the United States only if they have a residence permit, a place of work and a bank account.

The Minister of Atomic Energy of Russia has a place of work in the United States. He is one of the founders, as well as acting. Executive Director of the company "Omeka" (Monroeville).

In 1996, this company sold carpets and glue to the Research and Design Institute of Power Engineering (NIKIET), which at that time was led by Adamov, for ... 34 thousand dollars.

But it's not that. This company is not a hardware store. Selling God knows what, it buys Russian nuclear technology and uses Russian services in this area.

It turns out that Minister Adamov is trading with businessman Adamov, however, one can only guess which of them gets the most benefit.

Omeca's money is in P.N.C. Bank in Pennsylvania, in the same place as the accounts of the head of Minatom himself.

It is clear that such a restless business needs constant monitoring. It is difficult to do this from Moscow. Have to leave. Secretly. Self-willed.

There were times when the keepers of state secrets could not get abroad. Many of them are still considered "not to travel abroad", although in their entire lives they have only seen a cover from a secret unit. Another thing is secret bearers in ranks. Now they can go anywhere, even on their own initiative, for the sake of their business. And it seems that very big people are interested in their free circulation ... Abroad.

The head of Minatom, Yevgeny Adamov, had every reason to be embarrassed when, at one of the press conferences, he was puzzled with a direct question about espionage. What if the journalist who asked the question was aware that at the end of November last year, Minister Adamov was going to go (or maybe went?) to a foreign "AWOL", for which he issued a business visa, of course, in private, on a civil basis. (!) Passport.

Meanwhile, for the minister, this is unthinkable. People of his position (and his awareness), according to the established rules, are simply obliged to inform the government about such "business tours". Otherwise, it is not clear how the personal activity of the secret carrier will turn out for the state. In addition, a diplomatic passport for a minister, if necessary, is issued in just two hours. And for some reason, the head of Minatom needed bureaucratic difficulties ...

Minister Adamov intended to leave for business negotiations in his beloved state of Pennsylvania, namely, in the city of Monroeville, where a few years ago he tried himself in a new role as a private entrepreneur. He started his business together with the irreconcilable competitors of our nuclear industry.

This very fact prompts reflection... Let us assume that it is difficult for the government to observe the movements of all knowledgeable functionaries. But after all, there is a Second Directorate in Minatom, which monitors compliance with the regime day and night and is responsible for protecting information. By the way, the head of this department, Adamov's protégé, his former deputy. on security at the Research and Design Institute of Power Engineering (NIKIET) Viktor Romashin recently lost his job. It seems that he turned out to be extreme when analyzing someone's sudden flights.

It turns out that they let us go abroad easily, without paying attention to the identity of the traveler, as long as the documents are with the correct stamp. But in the United States, upon entry, non-citizens enter the computer of the immigration service. So, only we do not know which bird flew over its native borders.

And finally, an additional touch to the overall picture. From 1992 to 1998, Yevgeny Adamov (while still the director of NIKIET) and his deputy Viktor Orlov repeatedly visited Iran and held unauthorized negotiations. In early 1998, after one of these "diplomatic" meetings, well-informed people told us, former minister Viktor Mikhailov (who led the Minatom delegation) got so angry that he threw Yevgeny Adamov out of his hotel room. Along with the chair...

The reason was serious enough. Yevgeny Adamov and his deputy negotiated the construction of a research "heavy water" reactor and a research center. Iran was counting on this deal, which would allow it to mine plutonium and get pretty close to building a nuclear weapon. But... After the US State Department found out about the negotiations between the Iranian side and Minatom and about the latter's desire to transfer the special uranium enrichment technology "for use", there was a big scandal in the Russian press. And the President's order followed - to break off such "ties".

And in April of this year, American export control officials are going to come to Russia. During the visit, the Iranian problem will be discussed, to which the "separate" has something to do with. (Adamov was thrown out of the hotel with a chair. But he still remains in the chair of Minatom.) In the event that the Americans - and this is not excluded - introduce new sanctions in addition to the existing ones, Russia will suffer enormous losses, moreover in the field of commercial launches of satellites. And no cooperation with Iran will pay for them.
The Currency Expert Control of Russia, headed by Mr. Malkevich, is well aware of the contract between NIKIET and the Iranian side. (Among other things, this paper stipulates the possibility of supplying heavy water and graphite to Iran.) So, the contract was drawn up in violation of all conceivable norms. And the Americans, apparently, found out about this before the Russian government and the Currency Expert Control, and therefore imposed "unexpected" sanctions for us.

Now is the time to ask a question. The head of the Russian Ministry of Atomic Energy conducted secret negotiations in Iran on the supply of nuclear technology.

The head of Minatom has his own business in the USA. The head of Minatom has the opportunity to leave the country without the knowledge of the government and regime administration, and in America he will always be welcomed with open arms ... Question: by accident or by misunderstanding (let's forget the word stupidity) he acts in the interests of the United States, providing conditions that are inadvertently necessary for sanctions to oust Russia from a very promising and promising area of ​​international cooperation in outer space for us?

This question is not addressed to anyone. The Prosecutor General's Office is not up to the interests of the state - to survive in the fight against the Kremlin. The FSB would win in the fight against the prosecutor's office.

The Duma is sick before the elections. Country mind in Serbia. In a word, not to the atoms. And not to Adamov.

P.S. According to some reports, Minister Adamov's "petty pranks" were sorted out by a government commission headed by Deputy Prime Minister Bulgak. The commission assessed the activities of the head of Minatom as incompatible with the status of a minister. However, the damage caused to the state by this functionary turned out to be too insignificant. (Only $20 million is a trifle!)