In mid-April, one of the popular Moscow newspapers published material about the trade unionist Mikhail Pashkin, well-known throughout the Moscow police. The Moscow Central Internal Affairs Directorate disowned him a long time ago, but he still continues to call himself the leader of the “Trade Union of Police Officers of Moscow.” It turns out, as in the famous Soviet film - “once upon a time they were promoted along the trade union line and still cannot be pushed back.” Our newspaper drew attention to another critical material addressed to the self-proclaimed trade union after the publication’s protagonist responded to it. On his own website, Mikhail Pashkin published a so-called “review” in which he tried to justify himself. Whether we succeeded in doing this is for our readers to judge. We are only publishing excerpts from the material in the above-mentioned newspaper and Pashkin’s own answers to them.
So, the material was called “Independent Trade Union”, and the main question that the author of the article asked was: “Who is Mikhail Pashkin “protecting” in the Moscow City Internal Affairs Directorate and why?” Mr. Pashkin took this approach to his person very critically and tried with all his might to prove that his territorial organization “Trade Union of Police Officers of Moscow” (hereinafter referred to as the Trade Union) is a real trade union of Moscow police officers. However, this looked at least strange, because if the leadership of the Moscow City Internal Affairs Directorate says that the structure of their department already has its own trade union organization, then a second such organization simply cannot exist in nature. Pashkin could have called his organization the “Metallurgists’ Union,” but he would have had the same attitude toward the mining and processing industry as he now has toward the police.
Let us emphasize “now”. After all, once upon a time Mikhail Pashkin actually served in the internal affairs bodies. His failed career has become another point with which the hero of the story cannot agree.
First, let us present the facts of his official activities that our colleagues managed to obtain. Mr. Pashkin joined the Moscow police back in 1984, but did not show his best side. His service performance was mediocre. In 1990, shortcomings in his official activities were identified by the BHSS Directorate of the Main Internal Affairs Directorate of the Moscow City Executive Committee. Based on the results of the certification, only if his work improved, he was recognized as suitable for the position held. In March 1991, he was demoted from his position by certification. And in January 1994, Pashkin was fired from the internal affairs bodies. He went straight to court. What arguments the dismissed employee made remains a mystery, but the Tver Intermunicipal Court decided to reinstate him in the service. Four months later he was fired again for gross violation of discipline. Nevertheless, by the decision of the same Tver Intermunicipal Court, he was reinstated in service. In May 1995, Pashkin re-entered the service, but did not change his attitude towards it. He turned a blind eye to his job duties and, for violation of discipline, which resulted in prolonged absence from work, was warned of incomplete compliance with the job. Despite this, Pashkin continued to be absent from service. As a result, in January 2000, for gross violation of discipline, police captain Mikhail Pashkin was finally dismissed from the internal affairs bodies.
And now a version of a failed career from Mr. Pashkin himself: “...The persecution against me began after I had lunch in the general’s dining room on the 2nd floor at 38 Petrovka, together with one of the journalists from the newspaper “Shield and Sword.” Moreover, I sat in the place of the head of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate P. Bogdanov, without knowing it...” This, according to Pashkin, became a stumbling block in relations with his then leadership. Agree, it’s impossible to come up with a more ridiculous version, especially when you have a list of absenteeism in your personal file. Next, Mr. Pashkin tells how he guarded the White House and became a victim of political games in 1993. Then, about how he was reinstated in private security in 1998 and went to work in the real Trade Union of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate. Maybe this was actually the case, but you can’t erase a word from the song, and Pashkin ends the topic about a career in the Moscow police with the following words: “... I was fired. The certification said “for absenteeism for 2 years!..”. Comments, as they say, are unnecessary...
By the way, as in the next topic about how Mr. Pashkin recruits new members to his trade union. A real example of this can be found on the forum of the official website of the Territorial Organization Trade Union of Police Officers of Moscow. We leave the answer to the question about membership fees without editing: “According to the Charter, the entrance fee is twice the monthly fee, this year the monthly fee is 150 rubles, next year - 200 rubles. We take payments for 6 months at once. Thus, if you join in September 2009, then pay: 300 rubles. +(150 x 4)+(200 x 2)=1300 rub. (until February 2010 inclusive). If you join in October, then 1350 rubles, in November - 1400 rubles, in December - 1450 rubles, in January 2010 and beyond - 400 rubles + 6 x 200 = 1600 rubles. In the future (after 6 months) you can pay at least monthly - 200 rubles. The period of 6 months was established by the Coordination Council of the Trade Union for this reason: very often employees join the Trade Union for one purpose - to receive competent advice from our lawyer and forget about the Trade Union forever. Therefore, we decided: “from a black sheep, even a tuft of wool,” let them pay their dues for six months at once - this will at least somehow recoup the expenses of the Trade Union.” As can be seen from everything written above, the main goal pursued by Pashkin’s organization is commercial gain.
This is confirmed by his former colleagues. According to the journalists who published the material “Independent Trade Union,” officers who had witnessed how Mr. Pashkin conducted his trade union work for more than a decade addressed the Chairman of the Security Committee of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Vasiliev. The result is a request to initiate an audit of the activities of the head of this organization. According to the authors of the appeal, in all the years of the Trade Union’s activity, a detailed report on the expenditure of funds has never been presented at reporting conferences. The amounts involved here are considerable. After all, trade union dues alone for almost four thousand members of the organization amount to about five million rubles.
To such a statement, Mr. Pashkin’s answer was short and laconic: “...those employees who wrote a letter to me to the State Duma were expelled from the Trade Union for discrediting the chairman of the Coordination Council, M.P. Pashkin, and their trade union group was disbanded. They filed a lawsuit, citing arguments, most of which are indicated in this article, but this did not help them...” So, short and clear: if you don’t like something, get out! But where then are the very democratic values for which the trade union leader so stands up?
Next, the author of the previously published material asks us to think about why such a strange person attracts attention. It turns out that Mr. Pashkin produced business cards on which, under the image of the state emblem of the Russian Federation (the law on the use of state symbols does not count), the following details appear: Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, Main Department of Internal Affairs of Moscow, Trade Union of Police Officers of Moscow, Pashkin Mikhail Petrovich, Chairman of the Coordination Council, telephone and fax numbers, as well as the address of his organization. Guess which one... And this: Petrovka Street, building 38. It turns out that this is how Mr. Pashkin assigned himself to the structure of the Moscow Main Internal Affairs Directorate. It is not difficult to guess that all active police officers who go to the Trade Union for protection do not arouse any suspicion from this organization. Agree, it’s quite convenient for a practically commercial organization.
To such reproaches, Pashkin replied that, indeed, he ordered business cards for himself five years ago, and even apologized for using state symbols. Here is his statement verbatim: “... Our Trade Union and its telephone numbers are included in the directory of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate for 1998. Well, regarding the coat of arms on the business card - forgive me, please, I haven’t been doing this for 5 years and won’t do it again, thanks for the warning...” It turns out that already 12 years ago the Pashkin trade union disappeared from the structure of the main board and in all subsequent years its leader deliberately fooled those around him, informing them that he was still related to the Moscow Main Internal Affairs Directorate.
But this is not the whole truth, which was confirmed by Mr. Pashkin himself. Our colleagues published information that Mikhail Pashkin, without informing the rest of the members of his public organization, created under its “roof” a commercial enterprise engaged in the purchase and processing of... diamonds. How the trade union affairs of police officers and trade relations of diamond manufacturers come into contact is probably known only to Mr. Pashkin. At least, it is his Trade Union that is the founder of LLC “Enterprise of the Trade Union of Moscow Police Officers “Sodruzhestvo”, which produces diamonds from rough diamonds. By the way, the general director of this enterprise, a certain Viktor Mikhalev, is a fairly well-known figure who has repeatedly come to the attention of law enforcement agencies. His wife also helps Mikhail Pashkin in the diamond business. She is listed as the chief accountant in both the trade union and the enterprise. So, for example, back in 2002, when the “precious business” was just getting better, it was she who transferred more than four million rubles to the Commonwealth account.
Oddly enough, Mr. Pashkin did not refute many of the facts listed above. The UBEP employees who provided the journalists with such interesting information used reliable sources. Mikhail Pashkin agreed that in the case of Sodruzhestvo, its Trade Union was 100% the founder. And the income, if there was any, would go to the Trade Union. But, unfortunately, the general director of Sodruzhestvo not only failed to generate income, but also caused losses to the enterprise. Two years ago, seeing this, the Trade Union withdrew from the founders of the Commonwealth. All this, again, was voluntarily stated by the trade union leader in his “review”. Apparently, not fully realizing that by doing so he was admitting that the union’s funds were not used for their intended purpose. And someone else is wondering where the union dues go...
Naturally, such information could not but interest those fighting economic crimes, our colleague from the pen further notes. It was decided to check the financial and economic activities of the Pashkin Trade Union. In April last year, operatives paid a visit to his office on Bolshoi Karetny Lane. There was no warm welcome from the “defender of police officers.” He began to hinder in every possible way the legitimate actions of law enforcement officials, and forcibly snatched from them the lists of contributions and lists of members of his organization. After which he hastily retreated. Then, during an inspection of the Trade Union premises, seven computer units with unlicensed software were seized. Representatives of the Microsoft company conducted relevant research and found that their company suffered damage amounting to more than 100 thousand rubles. I also received confirmation that the Trade Union was violating the procedure for handling cash and the procedure for conducting cash transactions. Membership fees alone that day amounted to more than 140 thousand rubles, while only the money needed to rent office space was received into the Trade Union’s bank account.
Mr. Pashkin did not cover all these facts in his “review”, he only noted that not all of his Trade Union computers were purchased personally - some were given to him, some were brought from home. But the operatives were more interested in the facts of concealment of funds coming to the Trade Union. However, our hero did not comment on this situation, he only stated that he had already complained to Geneva, to the International Labor Organization, about the “illegal” search, in his opinion.
Well, complaining is what Mr. Pashkin does best...
In conclusion, our newspaper provides a commentary on the activities of the Pashkin Trade Union by the head of the Personnel Inspectorate of the Criminal Code of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of Moscow, Police Colonel Vsevolod Belkin. Naturally, Pashkin himself was not satisfied with this comment, but he was unable to challenge anything. So, a look at the leader of the pocket Trade Union, the current senior officer of the headquarters:
- Over the course of a number of years, the Chairman of the Coordination Council of the public organization “Territorial Organization “Trade Union of Police Officers of Moscow” Mikhail Pashkin has repeatedly addressed both the leadership of the Moscow City Internal Affairs Directorate and other authorities with statements (including in the interests of other persons ) and complaints about illegal, in his opinion, actions of the heads of services and departments of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate at various levels. All requests were checked by the Central Internal Affairs Directorate, the results of which were notified to the initiator.
The practice of considering these appeals shows that the contingent of employees whom Pashkin chooses as objects of his “protection” is quite unique: these are mainly persons who are systematically brought to disciplinary liability for various violations, and some actually face dismissal from the internal affairs bodies on negative grounds. At the time of their appeal to the Trade Union, the prosecutor's office had opened criminal cases against many employees, and by hook or by crook they tried to avoid the impending liability, believing that the best method of defense was an attack. At the same time, many of those whom Pashkin so actively “defended” received real sentences.
Considering that Pashkin himself was dismissed from the internal affairs bodies for a gross violation of official discipline (and, no matter how hard he tried, the court did not overturn this decision), it is not surprising that he has sympathy for such violators.
In a word, the “Territorial organization “Trade Union of Police Officers of Moscow” has essentially become a law office representing the interests (including in the courts) of far from the best part of the police officers. At the same time, I get the impression that the main thing for Pashkin and his colleagues is PR and PR again. Now, when only the lazy do not scold the police, and the media have launched a simply rabid and professionally organized campaign to discredit them, Pashkin is raising his rating by all means as a “fighter for justice and purity of the police ranks.” For example, on January 24 of this year, at a conference of his organization (which, by the way, was attended by only 96 delegates instead of the expected 200), Pashkin and other speakers spoke very unflatteringly about the leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Central Internal Affairs Directorate, demanding their resignation and the disbandment of educational apparatuses. There was also complete nonsense, such as recommendations for all police officers to go to work with voice recorders and record everything that happens around them.
I am not against criticism of the police. Having headed the Personnel Inspectorate of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate for the sixth year, I have seen a lot. Last year alone, together with the inspectorates of the district police departments, we reviewed 22 thousand complaints, statements and messages from citizens. 10.5 thousand internal inspections were carried out. 830 employees were punished, of which 84 were fired. Abandoned at the mercy of the state authorities in the early and mid-90s of the last century, the police were forced to simply survive. Many of the guys recruited for service at that time did not see any other militia than the one in which they found themselves at that time. Now they are middle managers. And they should already educate and guide those who came to the service 2-3 years ago. Special reports on personnel speak about how they do this. For some reason, it is believed that everyone can discuss the topic of reforming the law enforcement system and give advice and recommendations. Everyone considers himself an expert on the problem and is in a hurry to pour his bucket of dirt on our already muzzled police. At the same time, those who want to talk about the problems of quantum mechanics or molecular biology every day are not visible: you need special deep knowledge and many years of work experience, and without them you will look like an eccentric. But this is exactly what most of those talking about police reform look like. There is nothing worse when serious issues are left to amateurs or people of dubious reputation.
Don’t be surprised, this is what most bosses call our union. And in the Internal Affairs Directorate for the North-East Administrative District they even forced lower-level units to collect information about whether the employee is a member of the “Interregional Trade Union, Moscow Police Union (Chairman M.P. Pashkin)”! We wrote about this earlier (.)
Recently an employee came to the union and told the following story.
He was sitting in the staff of the Main Directorate and overheard a conversation between the personnel officer and a colonel who asked about vacancies for management personnel in one of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Main Directorate.
The personnel officer listed to him the units that had such positions. The colonel became interested in one unit. But then the personnel officer told him in confidence that there were many members of Pashkin’s trade union there. He immediately abandoned this unit.
Why do middle managers treat our union this way?
Many of them show hostility when they hear the word “Trade Union”, a few show respect, others show a desire to get rid of those who are members of the trade union. The CSS, according to the information we have, is trying to identify union members as if they were spies in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Even when selecting explanations from employees, the CSS officers ask, as if in passing: “Aren’t you a member of a trade union?” Employees working for the CSS are sent to our trade union so that they can identify members of our trade union in the unit where they serve. In general, the fight against the trade union is being waged on all fronts.
But employees, driven to the extreme by their management, are not afraid of either the CSS or their bosses and continue to join us, because they know that NO ONE except the trade union will protect them, especially if the paths of a subordinate and a big boss cross.
Well, how can trade union leaders not be afraid if employees tell us about their “arts” related to corruption, bullying of subordinates, and abuse of official position?
We recently informed one police chief that his deputy spends 3 hours on fitness classes during working hours. Moreover, the car waits for him for 3 hours near the club.
Now this deputy, who received a reprimand, goes to work under the control of the personnel inspectorate and every day reports in writing on the work done. Do you think he will love the union for this or curse him?
Or another case - the head of the special police department of one department of internal affairs compiled a list of shops and tents that can be touched and which cannot be touched! He distributed this list to his employees.
The list went to the trade union and from us to the head of the Main Directorate. But before that, the list was in the CSS and there, instead of opening an operational case and putting the impudent person in prison, they released everything on the brakes and decided that they should simply “terminate the contract” with this boss, or let him leave “of his own free will”!
Just think - how will the Security Service treat our trade union after the “disclosure” of such “secret” information about its work, or rather, inaction?
And it turns out that we are needed only by those leaders who stand guard over the Law, are themselves incorruptible, and care about their employees and their social and living conditions.
Have you met many such leaders? Write their names, positions and departments in the comments. Let's see if there are any at all!
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Born on July 18, 1952 in the Moscow region. Graduated from the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute. He served in the internal affairs bodies of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia from 1981 to 2008 in various leadership positions in the Moscow police and in the central apparatus of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. Retired Major General of the Internal Service. He taught at the Academy of Management of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. |
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