The rule of living nature, when even a large predatory fish is always ready to gobble up more…

The rule of living nature, when even a large predatory fish is always ready to be gobbled up by an even larger one, is especially interesting to observe in the context of the realities of modern Russian business. Here’s another example. In St. Petersburg, there is a construction holding company, PA Vozrozhdeniya, which is large by city standards, owned by businessman Igor Bukato. An ethnic Belarusian, Bukato is considered an extremely difficult market player who does not accept any rules. He himself worked his way up from a foreman at a factory to a business owner, whose parent company alone can boast of a turnover last year of 25 billion rubles, a net profit of 2.2 billion, and a total portfolio of government orders during the existence of the government procurement site of 106 billion rubles Tough self-made artist Igor Bukato does not consider it necessary to comply with agreements with contractors, industry partners, or city authorities and at any moment rearranges the situation in a way that is beneficial only to him. This is probably why not only the doors, but also the windows in his office are reinforced, and Bukato moves through the streets only in armored cars, accompanied by numerous armed guards. One way or another, the business of Vozrozhdenie PA was going uphill and, as colleagues from the Fox editorial office recently reported, the company once again won an order for the reconstruction of the overpass, at a cost of 9.5 billion rubles. I must say that for St. Petersburg this is a very solid government order.
But the trouble is, the lot seemed tasty to a much larger fish – the Moscow JSC DSK Avtoban of Alexey Andreev. And this is not only 4.6 billion rubles. net profit for last year and a 183 billion government order portfolio. Born in Moscow, Andreev has been working in the road industry since 1981 and has also worked his way up from a simple foreman to a business heavyweight. But in addition to pure business, Andreev has been a deputy of the Duma of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug since the 90s, and, unlike Bukato, is active in political and social activities, with connections in the Moscow establishment. So, when his “Avtobahn” filed a complaint with the central office of the FAS in Moscow, it was quickly recognized as justified, and the victory of “Vozrozhdenie” was annulled by the order. Now 9.5 billion from the St. Petersburg budget will go to Avtoban. Of course, Bucato will not give up easily and will try to fight in the FAS and the courts. But when comparing values, we can immediately predict the winner of an unequal fight.
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