After the leadership positions in the State Variety Commission were taken by people from the Prosecutor General's Office who had no competence in selection issues, the situation between the State Variety Commission and the associations of breeders reached a state of white heat. Details at Rucriminal.info.

          In 2020, the post of chairman of the Rossortkomission was taken by Alexey Kulikov, who worked as a prosecutor in the main department for supervision of the investigation of particularly important cases of the Prosecutor General's Office. He brought with him to the position of head of the legal support and public procurement department Irina Loseva, his former office neighbor in the said department, who for some time also held the position of senior prosecutor in the unit for supervising compliance with legislation on minors. The breeders did not fail to express themselves in Aesopian language about how delighted they are that people who have no relation to this field of activity or experience in it will be in charge of breeding issues. Alexey Kulikov, who worked in the Ivanovo region before the Prosecutor General’s Office, is a former judoka, but for some reason he was not interested in a coaching career. Previously, both Kulikov and Loseva appeared in the media in scandalous publications about disputes with colleagues and questionable prosecutorial decisions and actions in criminal cases.

         Over the course of four years, this ingenious appointment resulted in an open confrontation between the Rossortkomission and the breeders.

         Confirmation of this was sent this year by the president of a very authoritative organization, the Russian Grain Union, in an appeal to the Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation and the President of the Russian Academy of Sciences. It reports that the Rossortkomission is imposing paid services and is blocking the activities of breeders and seed growers. The Chairman of the Russian Grain Union pointed out that previously the Rossortkomission properly fulfilled its tasks, but an ugly situation has arisen in recent years. In his appeal, he asked to create a government commission to verify the Rossortkomission. It must be assumed that for this reason the chairman of the Rossortkomission Kulikov currently wears the prefix interim.

         According to a source from Rucriminal.info, personnel policy is such that people who held ordinary positions in one department do not just pop up in leadership positions in another department with completely different competencies. This usually happens if these people are someone’s henchmen. And oversight of what the President of the Russian Grain Union is complaining about is the responsibility of the Prosecutor General’s Office. But due to its inaction, breeders and grain growers are forced to turn to the Government. Perhaps, according to the already established tradition, the Chairman of the RF IC, Alexander Bastrykin, will eventually have to get involved in the issue in which, for mysterious reasons, Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov is inactive, in order to clear up the problems in the Rossortkomission created by people from Krasnov’s subordination. Moreover, the claims of the Russian Grain Union to the Rossortkomission against the backdrop of sanctions and import substitution look like information about abuse of power and outright sabotage.

Arseny Dronov

Source: www.ruciminal.info