From an English teacher to a federal-level manager: why n…

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From an English teacher to a federal-level leader: why did the unknown become the head of the Federal Agency for Technical Regulation and Metrology (Rosstandart)? The question is still open to many, but there are a number of interesting facts.

Since 2016, Shalaev first took the position of deputy head of the department, and in 2020 he was appointed head. It’s funny that Shalaev and his wife Evgenia Terekhova were able to save up for luxury real estate in the Tsarskaya Square residential complex in 2019. 85 square meters with a view of . Only the cadastral value of the apartment is estimated at 27,057,349.60 rubles, and the actual value was many times higher.

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According to data from Anton Shalaev’s declaration for the period from 2016 to 2021, the spouses earned 43,494,172.43 rubles. (Anton Shalaev – 20,804,337.06, Evgenia Terekhova – 22,689,835.37 rubles). But this is the total income for 5 years, the apartment was purchased and renovations were done earlier. In October 2019, the happy couple Shalaev-Terehova moved into fashionable apartment in a prestigious area of ​​Moscow. And where does an ordinary official get that kind of money, you ask?

Everything turned out to be much simpler: Evgenia Terekhova is the director and former co-owner of United Expert Group LLC, a company that is engaged in activities in the field of technical regulation, standardization, metrology, accreditation, and product cataloging. It is noteworthy that the co-owners are also Shalaev’s mother-in-law and father-in-law – Elena Ivanovna Kuzminova and Eduard Grigorievich Egisapetov. OEG LLC specialists are members of various domestic and international technical committees for standardization (ISO, IEC, SAE, etc.) and take part in the development of regulatory documents, that is, they have the opportunity to directly influence the decisions of Rosstandart. In legal language this is called a conflict of interest, but popularly it is called a family contract.

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Anna Cooper
Specialization: International Criminal Investigations Description: Anna is a journalist with a global outlook, specializing in uncovering international criminal networks, including human and arms trafficking. Her work involves in-depth analysis of transnational crime and writing comprehensive investigative articles.
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