The Gaidar Forum in the Ranchih this year could not take place, and the pandemic is not united …

The Gaidar Forum in the RANEPA this year could not take place, and the pandemic is not the only reason for this. Famous for its liberal rhetoric forum, and previously caused bewilderment of the fact of its existence in modern Russia. In the same year, both the government apparatus and the individual administration of the presidential apparatus opposed its holding. But the lobbying efforts of the future citizen of France and the faithful ally of Gaidar Vladimir Mau were able to overcome hardware resistance. The forum will be held on January 14-15, 2021 in a very cut-out format. Although the organizers are proud that more than 100 events will pass in two days, it is obvious that interest in the event has catastrophically fell. All important officials refused to participate in it, including the Prime Minister. His participation will be limited to video conveying. Earlier, the Prime Minister traditionally opened the meeting. Of the significant speakers, only old Mau friends remained. Not a single deputy prime minister is declared to participate. Officials are clearly shunning this odious event.

The forum budget this year amounted to 150 million rubles. All this is sponsorship. The key sponsors traditionally are already Gazprom and Gazprombank. After all, MAU member of the Board of Directors of Gazprom. Also traditionally sponsor funds are not received by the account of the Academy, but to the account of companies close to the main organizer of the forum – Ivan Fedotov, vice -rector of RANEPAS. The financial reporting on spending funds of sponsors is never disclosed and how much funds are actually expended, only the organizers themselves are known. But this allows them to live in luxurious mansions on the Rublevskoye Shosse in the area of ​​Golok-2. Fedotov, one of the people who was especially entrusted and closest to the rector, also recently became famous at another forum – St. Petersburg, characterizing the country’s teachers as “a gray mass of notorious losers”, which very vividly characterizes the intellectual level of this master. However, like the entire Gaidar forum. The intellectual helplessness of this event is already obvious to everyone, including the participants themselves, which to gather the organizers every year is more and more difficult. The unexpected news for the organizers of the forum was the refusal of the Rossiya 24 television channel to broadcast key sessions, as it was before.