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Ivan Igorevich Sechin- one of the top managers of the largest Russian company Rosneft, the son of Igor Sechin, the head of Rosneft, was awarded an order from the hands of Russian President V.V. Putin.

Biography

Ivan was born in Leningrad in 1989. He was lucky with his family: the influential official Igor Sechin and his wife Marina, a future successful entrepreneur, spared no time, effort and money on their children. He was Sechin's youngest son in this marriage. Since childhood, he attended a specialized school and had a typical environment of children of influential politicians and businessmen.

Education

Since childhood, moving on the sidelines of the pillars of Russian politics and economics, Ivan chose the economic direction for himself as a promising work field.

After graduating from high school, Ivan applied to the most prestigious domestic university - Moscow State University named after Lomonosov. Entered and successfully graduated from the Higher School of Economics (Faculty of Economics, Moscow State University).

Career

To consolidate my knowledge in practice, I went to work at Gazprombank as an analyst.

In 2014, he joined the company managed by his father. He joined Rosneft in the offshore projects department, as deputy head of the department. The appointment attracted a lot of attention from the press, but Igor Sechin himself argued that his son was working in a non-managerial position, which was fully consistent with his skills and practical work experience. From the same moment, Ivan began to attend all significant exhibitions and forums that relate to the specialization of the Rosneft company.

The offshore block is now the most promising direction for the company; it has contracts with many major foreign partners (Statoil, ExxonMobil).

In 2014, Ivan Sechin joined the team of the exploration drilling project in the Kara Sea. His position in this project is one of the key ones, although he does not have a management function. Ivan organizes the most active part of the preparation for drilling. The approximate salary of a manager in this category is at least 300 thousand rubles per month plus a decent bonus at the end of the year.

Reward

The presentation of a state award to Ivan Sechin became one of the most scandalous news events for Russian and foreign media. State Duma deputies from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation wrote a series of requests asking for clarification of the participation of the son of the head of the Rosneft company in receiving such a high award. There was not a magazine, newspaper or news feed that did not cover this topic with sarcasm.

Ivan Sechin was nominated for a state award at the initiative of the Russian Minister of Economy. Together with him, 18 other senior managers of this state-owned company also received awards.

The award ceremony took place on January 21, 2014 in the Kremlin. Ivan Igorevich Sechin received from the hands of the head of state the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 2nd degree, for his “contribution to the development of the fuel and energy complex and many years of conscientious work.”

Personal life

In terms of his personal life, Ivan also followed in the footsteps of his father. He tries not to advertise his personal space and does not answer questions on this topic in interviews. It is only known that at the moment he is an eligible bachelor.

The son of the oil company's president, Igor Sechin, Ivan, went to work for the state-owned Rosneft from Gazprombank. He holds the position of deputy head of one of the departments of the department of offshore projects. Rosneft assures that there is no conflict of interest.

In March, the son of the president of Rosneft Igor Sechin Ivan became an employee of the company, sources familiar with the situation said. He took the position of deputy head of one of the departments of the department of offshore projects, which is supervised by Vice President Zeljko Runje. Ivan Sechin already participated in the Rosneft delegation during Igor Sechin's Asian tour at the end of March. Rosneft Vice President for Human Resources and Social Affairs Yuri Kalinin explained that Ivan Sechin “works in one of the production enterprises in a non-managerial position corresponding to his qualifications and experience - he received a specialized education and worked in one of the large banks in the same field ".

Ivan Sechin was born in 1989 in Leningrad, he is one of two children of Igor Sechin from his first marriage. Ivan Sechin, clarified in "Rosneft", graduated from the Faculty of Economics of Moscow State University. Sources say he also studied at the Moscow School of Economics at Moscow State University. M. V. Lomonosov, whose director is the head of the board of directors of Rosneft and Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexander Nekipelov. Career Ivan Sechin started as an analyst at Gazprombank (now the youngest daughter of Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, Ksenia, works there as an analyst, sources say). The bank's press service "does not comment on the presence or absence of labor relations with individuals."

According to sources, Igor Sechin has been actively engaging his son in business matters for the last year. For example, Ivan Sechin was part of the Rosneft delegation at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum in 2013. The interlocutors cannot name the list of his powers at Rosneft. But the shelf block is considered one of the most important by the company - Rosneft is implementing large projects with foreign partners: ExxonMobil, Eni and Statoil. The salary of the deputy head of a specialized department at Rosneft is 300-600 thousand rubles. per month, the bonus can be 100% of the annual salary. Daughter of Igor Sechin Inga chose banking business. She started her career at Surgutneftegazbank, which she later left.

This is not the first time that the children of the president of Rosneft make a career in the company. In 2004-2009, one of Sergei Bogdanchikov’s sons, Alexey, worked there, who then “for ethical reasons” went to work for NOVATEK, and now runs his own business. The children of major officials also worked at Rosneft. In 2006-2011, the son of the ex-director of the FSB, Secretary of the Security Council Nikolai Patrushev, Andrei, worked there. In the fall of 2011 he moved to Zarubezhneft, and in the summer of 2013 became vice president for capital construction at Gazprom Dobycha Shelf, operator of the development of the Kirinskoye and Yuzhno-Kirinskoye fields.

Yuri Kalinin assures that Rosneft “has an unspoken rule, a corporate code”: “The joint work of relatives in the central office is excluded, according to this principle we have already thoroughly cleaned up the company.” “At the same time, we welcome when relatives work in the production divisions of Rosneft; we believe that such production dynasties contribute to continuity and the transfer of professional experience, and strengthen patriotism towards the company,” said Mr. Kalinin. The head of the board of directors of the recruitment agency TopContact, Artur Shamilov, notes that in Russian companies this practice occurs quite often. “This is the first step, practice for novice managers,” the expert believes. In his opinion, there is no direct conflict of interest when Ivan Sechin works at Rosneft, because we are not talking, for example, about a contractor for the company.

Kirill Melnikov

The administration of Russian President Vladimir Putin explained to State Duma deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Valery Rashkin why the young son of the head of Rosneft Igor Sechin was awarded the medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II degree, but the communist admitted that the circumstances of this award were not clearer to him . "There is a little less information on the question posed there than none." ,” Rashkin complained on his Twitter, publishing a letter received from the Kremlin Department of State Awards.
From the text of the letter it follows that Ivan Sechin (an accountant, meanwhile) was among the group of people who “distinguished themselves in organizing and carrying out drilling operations at the world’s northernmost Arctic well, Universitetskaya-1, which resulted in the discovery of oil and the discovery of the Pobeda field “In the Kara Sea.”
The department recommended that Rashkin address the question about the validity of the award to the Ministry of Energy, which nominated him for the award. “The initiator of the award proposal can provide information about the contribution of each of the awardees to the implementation of the Arctic well drilling project,” the letter notes. It states that Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak made a request to award Ivan Sechin.
The award, which was presented to Ivan Sechin in January, caused public bewilderment: Igor Sechin’s son was noted for his “great contribution to the development of the fuel and energy complex” and “many years of conscientious work,” despite the fact that the young man is only 25 years old and has worked as an employee of the company less than a year.
Sechin Jr. holds the position of first deputy director of the department of joint projects on the shelf. At the same time, most of Rosneft’s joint projects with foreign enterprises were frozen after the imposition of sanctions against the state-owned company. Drilling at the Universitetskaya-1 well, which was carried out jointly with Exxon Mobil, was also curtailed.
Previously experts were dissatisfied with the work carried out by Rosneft in the Kara Sea. “We carried out a seismic exploration program for a year and a half and drilled one well, spending $650 million on it. After that, sanctions came - and Rosneft spent 3 weeks mothballing and plugging this untested well,” Mikhail Krutikhin, an expert at the RusEnergy analytical agency, told Fontanka.ru.
Deputy Rashkin, who sent the request to the presidential administration, was previously remembered for his irreconcilable fight against illegal enrichment among officials. In the fall of 2014, he indignantly told how much money the heads of state-owned companies, including the head of Rosneft, Igor Sechin, receive.

As always, they worked poorly, but they made good money. And they decided to cut down another order. Why stand on ceremony? The cattle must eat everything. But it didn’t eat, damn it...

Russian President Vladimir Putin awarded 19 Rosneft managers for many years of conscientious work. Among those awarded the medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II degree, was Ivan Sechin, born in 1989, the son of the head of Rosneft, Igor Sechin.

Such high services to the Fatherland at such a young age did not go unnoticed by the general public and were appreciated - mostly negatively. The Communist Party of the Russian Federation even sent a request to the awards commission asking for information “what specific services to our country and people became the basis for the award” (not counting the fact that the father of the “medalist” is one of the richest and most influential government officials).

Commendable initiative. But, by and large, is the event worth even a tiny fraction of the time and emotions that politicians, media and bloggers spent on it?

Firstly, the medal of the Order “For Merit to the Fatherland” was established on June 1, 1995. Citizens are awarded for carrying out specific and useful activities for the country on the labor and defense fronts. In the case of Ivan Igorevich - for participation in the discovery of the Pobeda oil field. Currently, there are about one and a half thousand such awardees.

Secondly, if we leave aside the overall extremely painful impression of the Russian “elites”, caused by their nomenklatura-gangster origins, low professional competencies, depressing moral quality, exceptional selfishness and uncleanliness, a painful craving for luxury, dubious patriotism, admiration for culture and values ​​of a geopolitical enemy... If we forget for a moment about these features of the Russian elite, then the awarding of Sechin Jr. can be seen as a positive sign.

There are no benefits for the medal, but new opportunities for creative and professional growth open up: a medal of the 2nd degree gives the opportunity to receive a medal of the 1st degree, a medal of the 1st degree - the Order of Merit for the Fatherland (IV -> III -> II -> 1st degree) . Ivan Sechin has every chance to become a holder of the order and be among such people as Boris Yeltsin, Alexy II, Viktor Zubkov, Viktor Chernomyrdin and others. But for this he must connect his fate and interests with the interests and fate of the Russian Federation.

When the second most influential person in Russia (according to Forbes) sends his son not abroad, but to the government’s service, this inspires some cautious optimism about domestic polymers. Again, judging by the wording “for many years of conscientious work,” Ivan Sechin was enlisted in the service right from the cradle, according to the age-old noble traditions - that is, the revival of customs and continuity is evident (of course, some will argue that the word “regression” is more appropriate here, but let's be optimistic).

Thirdly, awarding a “minor” is not such a blatant event, given that in Russia from time to time the highest state awards are given even to traitors to the Fatherland.

For example, the Imperial Order of the Holy Apostle Andrew the First-Called for No. 2 was personally received from the hands of Peter I by the Little Russian (from the end of the 19th century - Ukrainian) hetman Ivan Mazepa. In March 2011, the 3rd President of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Medvedev, made a historical reconstruction of this significant event and awarded the same order to the last President of the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev. “I believe that this is an adequate assessment of the great work that you carried out as head of state,” added Dmitry Anatolyevich.

Against this background, the scandal around Sechin Jr. looks like pimples on a leper - it is absolutely not worth the attention that is paid to it.

Fourthly, it is perhaps worth verbalizing the reason for the unrest of the general public, because the general public itself is not capable of doing this.

If Sechin Sr. had been awarded a medal, no one would have paid attention, since his power, influence, money can be accepted and explained as the right of the strong. But Sechin Jr.’s position in society is explained by another right - the right of birth. A new class of Russian rulers has already emerged. They can be smart or stupid, work for the common good or enjoy luxury, love Russia or the USA - it doesn’t matter at all in this particular case. The main thing is that the future elite of the Russian Federation is formed according to the principle of consanguinity - random people are not allowed to enter.

This fact is gradually beginning to dawn on society, and society categorically disagrees with this fact.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin this week awarded Igor Sechin's son Ivan with the medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II degree. The award to 25-year-old Sechin, who worked at Rosneft for less than a year, sparked outraged comments.

The BBC Russian service recalls other scandalous awards in recent years.

Timchenko's relatives

At the end of 2013, Vladimir Putin signed a decree awarding Finnish citizens Elena Timchenko and Ksenia Frank with the Order of Friendship.

The wife and daughter of Gennady Timchenko, a businessman close to Vladimir Putin, received awards for strengthening friendship and cooperation with Russia, as well as developing scientific and cultural ties and active charitable activities.

Both women are actively involved in charity work, but the award was perceived more as a gift to Putin’s associates.

Biker Surgeon

On March 13, 2013, Alexander Zaldostanov, known as the biker Surgeon and leader of the Night Wolves club, was awarded by presidential decree.

Mikhailov or Mikhas

Last fall, businessman Sergei Mikhailov, also known as Mikhas, received a personalized watch from Vladimir Putin.

The awarding of Mikhailov, whom many consider a crime boss, caused a scandal on social networks.

The businessman was forced to respond to the accusations in an open letter, where he stated that he had no criminal record and all the accusations against him were groundless.

“The amount spent on charity by the foundation I have headed for more than 20 years has exceeded $100 million,” Mikhailov emphasized.