Mass media: Boris Titov's anti-corruption project is managed from abroad

In a message to the Federal Assembly, Russian President Vladimir Putin stressed the importance of strengthening Russia's sovereignty. Of particular importance is the independence of key social institutions from external influence, including financial influence. In this regard, the Political News Agency writes, the attachment of the Commissioner under the President of the Russian Federation for the Protection of the Rights of Entrepreneurs Boris Titov to work with the European Union and the Council of Europe is more than strange. This is the project Protection of the Rights of Entrepreneurs in the Russian Federation against Corruption Practices of PRECOP, the second stage of which ended in December 2019. According to the publication, the fight against corruption is chosen today by Russia's detractors as the main vector of state erosion and as such the opposition is recommended. Foreign foundations, public organizations, mass media and individual fugitive oligarchs such as Khodorkovsky, Nevzlin and Pugachev, whose history of their own fortunes is densely involved in corruption, are working on this topic. For what reason the civil servant Boris Titov went to this company, it remains only to guess. But it is the Office of the Business Ombudsman that has been named the main beneficiary and beneficiary of the funds allocated by the West for this project. According to the data of the Summary of the project Protection of the rights of entrepreneurs in the Russian Federation against corruption practices at the municipal level PRECOP II, published on the website of the Council of Europe, the budget of PRECOP II is 2 million euros. According to APN, now the document mysterious disappeared from the page of the site, but its text can still be found in the cache of search engines. This is likely due to an attempt to hide the sources of sponsorship. According to the document, the full management of the project, including control over expenditures, is carried out by the Division for Cooperation in the Field of Combating Economic Crimes of the Crime Prevention Department of the General Directorate for Human Rights and the Rule of Law of the Council of Europe, that is, directly from Strasbourg. If earlier, the publication continues, funding was provided by official inter-State associations of the European Union and the Council of Europe, the second stage of the project was provided by so-called voluntary contributions from individual States, including Luxembourg and Norway. But most of the funds of about 782.3 thousand euros were received from the UK. Recall that in the United Kingdom, as in the United States, which is its closest partner, Russia is included in the list of priority threats. Meanwhile, APN writes, the children of the Russian Ombudsman have acquired UK citizenship, studied there, worked, and Titov's daughter still lives in London. There are also the main clients of the London list, disgraced businessmen, whose return to their homeland became for Boris Titov, apparently, the main priority. It is PRECOP, writes the publication, whose goal, as stated, to help small and medium-sized businesses, Boris Titov considers almost his main achievement in the post of business