PRESIDENT OF TOGLIATTIAZOT, VLADIMIR MAKHLAI, AWARDED THE ORDER OF HONORARY CITIZEN OF RUSSIA
The Order of Honorary Citizen of Russia awarding ceremony was held at the President Hotel in Moscow. This order is a public award for persistent and effective activity contributing to the strengthening of power, dignity and prosperity of the Russian Federation. Over the years of its existence, more than a thousand business managers, scientists, physicians, educators, cultural figures and sportsmen have been nominated for this award.
The Council of Experts of the All-Russia Committee for Public Awards and Degrees resolved to award the Order of Honorary Citizen of Russia to Vladimir Makhlai, President of Togliattiazot, for his contribution to the development of the Russian chemical industry. Under his tenure, Togliatti Azot Factory has become one of the leading undertakings in Russia and the world’s largest producer and exporter of ammonia. Vladimir Makhlai is the author of over 60 research papers and inventions which have been successfully implemented in chemical production.
During the ceremony, the Order of Honorary Citizen was also presented to: Vladimir Etush, People’s Artist of Russia, Victor Gnevko, Rector of the Saint Petersburg Economics and Management Academy, Valery Platonov, General Director of Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant, Victor Livanov, Chief Designer of Ilyushin Aviation Complex, Grigory Pototsky, the architect, Alexander Isayev, General Director of Sibirtelecom, Vladimir Popov, General Director of Elektrostal Metallurgical Plant, and numerous other distinguished people of Russia.
A big scandal is about to happen in Samara Region. Ex-judge of the Samara Region Arbitration Court Nadezhda Kostuchenko has applied to the European Court of Human Rights with a request to check legitimacy of the award to deprive her of powers.
It seemed like any other workday at Togliatti Azot, a giant chemical factory in Russia's Samara region, on the Volga River 600 miles east of Moscow. Engineers were on their morning rounds, and union representatives had just finished a talk about financial support for newlyweds. Then around 11 a.m., dozens of men dressed in camouflage and toting automatic weapons charged into the administration building. "We thought it was a terrorist attack," Sergei Korushev, the plant's deputy director, says of the September, 2005, raid.
One of the main tasks confronting the country as a whole and especially State power is to create favorable conditions for running a business and developing entrepreneurship, as President Medvedev declared more than once. That, in its turn, presupposes first of all protection of property. The Head of the State, having recently taken up his post, is caught here by a very powerful and evasive enemy – raiders, who have been living and thriving for the second ten of years and have especially developed for the last 4-5 years. And who can be defeated only if blocked all around. Just that very conclusion was drawn in the report of the president of the Centre of Political Technologies Igor Bunin “Raidership as a social, economic and political phenomenon of Modern Russia” which he presented yesterday.