Former Governor Krasnoyarsk Territory Viktor Tolokonsky seems to have fallen into disgrace. Over the past two weeks, several federal and regional publications have published devastating articles about Tolokonsky and his family. We decided to inquire about the fate of the former and find out what was happening to our ex-governor.
At the end of May, long-lived Siberian political figure Viktor Aleksandrovich Tolokonsky lost two significant positions at once: on May 22, the former Krasnoyarsk governor was fired from the Siberian Institute of Management, where he held the position of a full-time expert, and on May 24, his name disappeared from the list of possible members of the board of directors of Russian Railways.
Immediately after this, on May 25, a devastating article by Ilya Ukhov “Nepotism 2.0” was published on the Life.ru portal. The text is dedicated to Viktor Tolokonsky’s wife, Natalya, and tells that the governor’s wife, being in fact the head of the Gubernskie Pharmacies enterprise, received, with the help of her husband, multi-million dollar contracts from the government of the Krasnoyarsk Territory.
“All this, in essence, is a special case of a conflict of interest, at the center of which is Viktor Tolokonsky,” concludes Ukhov.
Following Life, well-known pro-Kremlin bloggers Armen Gasparyan and Maxim Kononenko post negative posts about Tolokonsky. Both authors, in similar terms, accuse the former governor and former plenipotentiary representative of being a “swindler,” covering up his machinations with opposition activities and comparing Tolokonsky with Khodorkovsky, Chichvarkin and Navalny.
The same theses are repeated in the article “Why Tolokonsky went all-in” in the newspaper “Novye Izvestia”.
“There are plenty of examples of the appearance of such dissidents. Khodorkovsky declared himself exactly the same political dissident, who did not pay taxes and traded around the world some kind of “well fluid”, and not oil at all. And he announced everywhere that he was an honest businessman. Navalny did the same thing, who, being tainted by the affairs of Yves Rocher, Kirovles, etc., declared that this was political persecution against him,” says the author of the text, political scientist Oleg Matveychev.
“We need to send an investigation team there and do a very tough cleansing of all these comrades. Moreover, the third generation of Tolokonskys is already growing up there. There, the son is already involved in business schemes, and there are scandals around him,” says Matveychiv.
Both articles by political scientist Matveychev were published as a response to Tolokonsky’s interview, published on the NDN portal on May 15. In an interview, the Krasnoyarsk ex-governor sharply criticized the Acting Governor of the Novosibirsk Region Andrei Travnikov:
“I affirm that the Novosibirsk region is experiencing the crisis that exists in Russia today more difficult than many other regions. This is reflected in the fact that we have almost no investment. What is being built today - be it the private economy, be it the state budgetary sphere? There is no infrastructure, no construction, no investment, no development,” Tolokonsky said in particular.
The interview also included personal attacks on Andrei Travnikov, whom Tolokonsky accused of being unable to make decisions.
“We talked to him more than once, he seems to know how to listen, nods, but there are no consequences, no reaction. He can't think of anything. He waits and constantly violates the paradigm.”
Novosibirsk analysts associate this behavior of Tolokonsky with the support of the current mayor of Novosibirsk Anatoly Lokt, who intends to compete with Travnikov in the upcoming gubernatorial elections in September. Today Tolokonsky works as the chief adviser to Lokt. At the same time, Lokot is a member of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, and Viktor Tolokonsky himself has represented United Russia since 2005.
Viktor Tolokonsky and Anatoly Lokot. Photo BC
Now, according to the statement of the head of the United Russia faction in the Legislative Assembly of the Novosibirsk Region, Andrei Panferov, Tolokonsky may be expelled from United Russia.
“Now this whole situation will be sorted out by the General Council of the party. I think that he will instruct the presidium of the Novosibirsk Political Council to consider the issue of Viktor Tolokonsky being in the ranks of United Russia. And, judging by the responses of members of the political council and ordinary party members, it is possible that the toughest decisions will be made,” Panferov said in an interview with the Club of Regions.
According to experts, this will effectively mean the end of Tolokonsky's long career. In 1996, Tolokonsky was elected mayor of Novosibirsk; in 2000, governor of the Novosibirsk region, a position he held for 10 years. In 2010, by decree of President Medvedev, he was appointed plenipotentiary representative to the Siberian Federal District, and in 2014 he was elected head of the Krasnoyarsk Territory. In 2017, he resigned at his own request.
It would not be a great exaggeration to say that many of our regional leaders, being themselves, if you believe their public declarations, almost unmercenary, raise many “successful and effective” entrepreneurs in their circles. There are also enough heads of subjects whose immediate relatives, and often spouses, become such entrepreneurs. This is understandable, practically native blood, because not everyone can be entrusted with overseeing multimillion-dollar government contracts. The ex-governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, who was previously also the presidential plenipotentiary in the Siberian Federal District and the long-term governor of the Novosibirsk region, Viktor Tolokonsky, was no exception to this series of owners of wives with a suddenly awakened business spirit.
For many years, Tolokonsky was considered a kind of eminence grise in Siberian politics. IN last years he headed one of the key regions of the country - the Krasnoyarsk Territory, thus exerting a significant influence on the development of both the region and the largest federal district in the country. However, if you take a closer look at the business of Viktor Aleksandrovich’s wife, the image of a wise and experienced public manager breaks down and at least allows you to ask several extremely unpleasant questions.
Victor Tolokonsky with his wife Natalya. Photo: © RIA Novosti / Alexander Kryazhev
So, let's get acquainted: Natalya Petrovna Tolokonskaya. As follows from publications in the Krasnoyarsk media, she is a doctor of medical sciences, a professor and works at the Krasnoyarsk regional perinatal center; she also managed to work as a TV presenter on regional television. And Natalya Tolokonskaya is co-owner and president of the interregional public educational organization"Institute of Man" (MOPO "Institute of Man"), which is clearly seen from this extract from the SPARK-Interfax database.
It is interesting that this same MOPO "Institute of Human" (together with LLC "Novosibirsk Medical Corporation"), in turn, is a co-owner of another organization - a private educational institution of additional vocational education"Institute of General Medical Practice".
We have before us a standard “matryoshka” scheme of ownership and co-founding of various legal entities, which often makes it difficult to verify the final beneficiaries. It’s with this Institute of General Medical Practice that the fun begins. In 2016, without competition and at the maximum price, he received two government contracts for the provision of educational services to the state enterprise of the Krasnoyarsk Territory "Provincial Pharmacies" (let us just recall that Natalya Tolokonskaya is a professional physician and was tightly integrated into the regional medical environment when her husband was the governor of the region).
The total amount of contracts is about three million rubles. At the same time, the founders of the customer are the State Property Management Agency of the Krasnoyarsk Territory and the Ministry of Health of the same region. Both government agencies report to the governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory - in 2016, this position was held by Viktor Tolokonsky. Here, in particular, is a government contract for 1.6 million rubles.
And this is already a purchase for 1.4 million.
What can be said about the situation in which an organization established and headed by a structure where the president is the wife of the then governor Tolokonsky receives uncontested government contracts from government agencies under the jurisdiction of the head of the region? And the fact that all this, in fact, is a special case of a conflict of interest, at the center of which is Viktor Tolokonsky.
I just want to remind you of the very definition of a conflict of interest - as it is interpreted by the federal law “On Combating Corruption”:
In this Federal Law, a conflict of interest is understood as a situation in which the personal interest (direct or indirect) of a person holding a position, the filling of which involves the obligation to take measures to prevent and resolve conflicts of interest, affects or may affect the proper, objective and impartial performance of his duties (official) duties...personal interest means the possibility of receiving income in the form of money, other property, including property rights, services of a property nature, results of work performed or any benefits (advantages) by the person specified in Part 1 of this article, and (or) persons closely related to him or her (parents, spouses, children, brothers, sisters, and also brothers, sisters, parents, children of spouses and spouses of children), citizens or organizations with which the person specified in part 1 of this article and (or) persons closely related to him or her are related by property, corporate or other close relationships.
For about thirty years, the Novosibirsk region was actually ruled by one person.
At least, this is what many political scientists and journalists believe. They write that the ex-governor, ex-mayor, and now an ordinary pensioner Viktor Tolokonsky still continues to monitor the situation in the region and is not averse to influencing political decisions. Don't think anything patriotic, pure business.
At the end of last year, Tolokonsky criticized the then acting governor of the Novosibirsk region Andrei Travnikov, saying no less than that he considered the decision of the president himself not the best. And recently, one of the telegram channels reported new “dangerous games” with the AP - they say that Tolokonsky is preparing his man for the post of mayor of Novosibirsk for the 2019 elections.
Nationality - Siberian
The future eminence grise of the Novosibirsk region was born, as you might guess, in Novosibirsk. His father, who went through the war, chose for himself a very promising direction in the USSR - trade. This meant that in the Tolokonsky family they knew about the deficit only in theory, and they clearly had more friends and good acquaintances who were ready to help in difficulties than an ordinary Soviet family. Then political scientist Oleg Matveychev, who has a sharply negative attitude towards Tolokonsky, will call him a native of the old Soviet trade mafia.
Viktor Aleksandrovich, born in 1953, did not aspire to Moscow, and even if he dreamed of becoming an astronaut as a child (he turned eight the year of Gagarin’s flight), in his youth he preferred to follow the beaten path. In the USSR, the profession of an economist had not yet enjoyed such wild popularity, but from the example of his father, the young man well understood all the advantages of such an education.
He graduated from institute and graduate school there, in Novosibirsk. And in general, he remained a patriot of Siberia for the rest of his life, even proposing to introduce a special nationality - Siberian.
Leadership as a Lifestyle
At first, the young specialist applied to become a university teacher, and postgraduate studies contributed to this. Work at Novosibirsk State University, where Tolokonsky entered graduate school, lasted seven years. He never defended his candidate’s thesis, and in 1981 he decided to engage not in theory, but in practice in the Novosibirsk Regional Executive Committee. Good pledge have a successful career- the party card - was in his pocket and safely lay there until the collapse of the USSR.
Tolokonsky worked in the planning commission, but the spectacular collapse of the planned economy in the late 1980s and early 1990s did not hinder his career. He smoothly transitioned from the old governing bodies to the new ones. In 1991 and 1992, he was deputy chairman of the executive committee of the Novosibirsk City Council of People's Deputies, then became deputy mayor, and then mayor. He remained in this post for seven years, and then took the logical next step - he ran for governor.
Hostage - region
In 2010, Tolokonsky was promoted, becoming the presidential envoy to the Siberian Federal District. In 2014, he left for the Krasnoyarsk Territory to rule the region there. However, cut off from its native soil, it did not let go of the Novosibirsk region - at least, this is the opinion of journalists and experts.
This was expressed most sharply by the same Oleg Matveychev, who said in an interview with IA Regnum that Tolokonsky introduced his people into the environment of the new heads of the region and either controlled them or contributed to their removal from office.
“The Tolokonsky clan is a mafia clan that captured the Novosibirsk region and has been holding it hostage for 30 years,” the political scientist was indignant.
If you think that we are talking about the trading mafia, then you are wrong - it has long been no longer fashionable and not so promising. Another thing is healthcare.
Tolokon healthcare
Tolokonsky’s relationship with medicine is exclusively through family connections, more precisely, through his wife. Viktor Alexandrovich’s mother also worked as a laboratory doctor at the regional sanitary and epidemiological station, but that was a long time ago. Tolokonsky's wife is a successful doctor and an equally successful businesswoman in the present.
Natalya Petrovna – Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, Academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences and Honored Doctor. She is a versatile person: in addition to her medical practice, she runs social networks, shares signature recipes, and even hosted a health program on regional television in Krasnoyarsk. And she, “like a doctor,” believes that pure thoughts can improve the environmental situation. Well, maybe a specialist knows better...
But all this is lyrics. It is much more important for the family budget that Tolokonskaya, as happens with the wives of executives, discovered an entrepreneurial streak in herself. According to Life.Ru, Natalya Tolokonskaya is a co-owner and president of the interregional public educational organization “Institute of Human”, and this organization, together with the Novosibirsk Medical Corporation, is a co-owner of the Institute of General Medical Practice.
Private educational institution in 2016, without competition, it received as many as three million rubles from the state enterprise “Provincial Pharmacies”, the founders of which were the State Property Management Agency and the Ministry of Health of the Krasnoyarsk Territory. In which Tolokonsky was the governor at that time.
Someone might see this as a conflict of interest or even corruption, but Life.Ru journalists published an article in May 2018, when Tolokonsky already held a modest position compared to previous ones as an adviser to the mayor of Novosibirsk. So it was already too late to defend the Krasnoyarsk region from the Tolokonsky clan.
The portal Kompromat.Ru gives a much more impressive picture. This includes the imposition of paid services in state medical institutions, and paid but unnecessary vaccinations, and the activities of “lured” companies, and the purchase of medical equipment at inflated prices - a whole system built with the help of friends and relatives.
One way or another, law enforcement There were no complaints against the Tolokonskys then, and there are none now.
Clans and clanning
Children followed in the footsteps of their parents. My daughter, Elena, also became a doctor, and last year she opened the Aurora private medical clinic in Novosibirsk. Son Alexey decided to master management in medicine and succeeded. At the age of thirty, he was already deputy head of the health department of the Novosibirsk region - the fact that his father at that time occupied the governor’s chair is most likely just a coincidence.
However, in the end I had to say goodbye to medicine. Alexey was fond of mini-football, and in 2017 he was hired by the city government physical culture and sports of Novosibirsk. They explained that he was a well-known person in sports, that when he led the mini-football team, the team entered the top three in the country. And all sorts of insinuations are inappropriate - what should Alexey do now, lie on the sofa because of his parents or go to the windshield wipers? Alexey still holds the position, although Tolokonsky Sr. left the mayor’s office.
Tolokonsky's former son-in-law, Yuri Bravve, heads one of the city hospitals. It is unknown when he divorced Elena Tolokonskaya. For what reason - especially their own business. And the departure of Viktor Tolokonsky from governor, and then simply retirement, hardly has anything to do with this.
Tolokonsky vs Travnikov
In 2017, the president accepted the early resignation of Viktor Tolokonsky from the post of governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory. He immediately returned to Novosibirsk, where he was offered to join the regional strategic planning council. However, Tolokonsky chose to go to the mayor's office, as an adviser to the city mayor.
The heavyweight of regional politics apparently disliked the new acting governor of the Novosibirsk region just as much as political scientist Oleg Matveychev himself did. Travnikov was a Varangian and before his appointment as acting governor he worked in another part of the country, in Vologda, as a city manager.
Tolokonsky said that he personally had nothing against Travnikov, but in the Novosibirsk region they do not like strangers. And at a press conference organized by Kommersant, he even went so far as to criticize the leadership (no, not the mayor).
“I think the president’s decision is not the best,” Tolokonsky’s statement was replicated in the media.
The attack continued in May 2018. Tolokonsky gave an interview to NDN.info and this time spoke more specifically: Travnikov cannot make decisions, he does not think about the locals, he focuses on calls from Moscow.
Fall of Goliath
The statements were not accidental - as the same Kommersant wrote, in fact, Viktor Tolokonsky headed the election headquarters of the mayor of Novosibirsk Anatoly Lokt, who was going to compete for the governor’s seat with everyone. But in the summer of 2018 I changed my mind.
On June 1, Alexander Kharichev, deputy head of the internal policy department of the presidential administration, visited the Novosibirsk city hall. After this, Tolokonsky wrote a statement “of his own free will.” As Kommersant journalists wrote, in fact, there was a desire, but not from Tolokonsky... And a few days later, Anatoly Lokot announced that he would not participate in the gubernatorial elections.
“Lokot, Travnikov and the speaker of the regional parliament Andrei Shimkiv announced to journalists a consolidated position in the upcoming gubernatorial elections in September,” wrote the Taiga.Info portal. In other words, as a result of some events that remained unknown to the general public, communists determined to campaign suddenly abandoned participation in the elections in favor of the Kremlin’s protege.
Tolokonsky’s troubles did not end there - he was removed from the board of directors of Russian Railways and was even threatened with expulsion from United Russia. Journalists wrote that the Varangian Travnikov threatened the business interests of the Tolokonsky clan, and Matveychev even called on the federal center to send security forces into the region, as was the case with Dagestan.
Instead, Tolokonsky was simply sent into retirement. But they still remember him. Because reputation is reputation. And even if Tolokonsky simply grows cucumbers at his dacha, as a pensioner should, he will still be suspected of fraud and putting pressure on local politicians for a long time. Because, as they say, the mafia is immortal. Even in Siberia.
In the photo is the Governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory Viktor Tolokonsky. Photo from the press service
A petition has appeared on the Internet asking President Vladimir Putin to remove the governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, Viktor Tolokonsky, from office. The authors of the appeal accuse the head of the region of not deciding ecological problems regional center. At the time of writing, more than 9 thousand people spoke for Tolokonsky’s resignation. The reason was a scandal, somewhat unexpectedly provoked by a post by the governor’s wife Natalya Tolokonskaya on her Instagram page. In response to complaints from Krasnoyarsk residents about the poor environment, she replied that “when there are more clean thoughts in the head, dirty air will cease to be dangerous. I can teach like a doctor!”
The advice provoked a storm of indignation both on social networks and in local media. Tolokonskaya imprudently got involved in a skirmish, taking, in particular, under the protection of her high-ranking husband: “My husband is a Man with a capital M, rare purity and dedication, the highest professionalism!” Some townspeople doubted this. “The governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory shows no interest in the problems of the population! And his wife also mocks in social networks over the residents of the region, what is the meaning of the phrase “it’s not the black sky, but your thoughts,” the authors of the online petition are indignant. Tolokonsky's wife deleted the account.
Environmental problems have long irritated many residents of Krasnoyarsk. In July they complained about smoke from forest fires. This week, a regime of unfavorable weather conditions was declared in the city again. Petitions from the greens demanding a fight against Krasnoyarsk air pollutants appear regularly. Environmental performances have become fashionable in the regional center. Recently in Krasnoyarsk, 17 street sculptures were fitted with respirators, symbolizing the “black sky” regime, which is regularly announced in Lately in the capital of the region.
The authorities are trying to respond to challenges. In June, a regional environmental headquarters was created in Krasnoyarsk, headed by the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, Alexander Uss. Among the priority tasks is a new social structure aims to coordinate the efforts of the authorities and the green forces to prepare a program for the environmental rehabilitation of Krasnoyarsk and relevant bills.
The Green party is becoming more and more visible in the political arena of the region. “Other parties, if they remember environmental problems, limit themselves to general words and slogans. We are dealing with the topic systematically and are already offering concrete solutions. In July, we made more than 50 proposals for amendments to the draft regional law “On the Protection of atmospheric air“, the head of the regional branch of the party, Sergei Shakhmatov, told NG. – Environmental issues are among the top three most pressing issues for Krasnoyarsk residents. Of course, the problem is the youth of our party. Not all voters know about us, so we are not setting any grandiose goals for these elections. The minimum task is to gain 3% in the State Duma elections. The maximum goal is to overcome the five percent barrier. And we will set big goals for the next election cycle.”
Observers, however, are not inclined to overestimate the chances of parties and candidates who have relied on environmental issues in the upcoming elections. "Defense environment at the federal level in this campaign adopted “ United Russia“Perhaps in order to prevent their opponents from gaining points on it,” notes political scientist Sergei Komaritsyn. – But sociology clearly shows that in the region this topic is at the bottom of the top ten in the list of problems that truly concern Siberians. The noise that is observed around the “black sky” of Krasnoyarsk on social networks will not have any particular electoral impact. In this regard, the prospects for the Greens in the elections to the Legislative Assembly and the State Duma do not seem too rosy to me.”
For the Krasnoyarsk Territory, the concept of “first lady” for a long time didn't exist. The wife of Alexander Khloponin avoided publicity, the wife of Lev Kuznetsov appeared in the media only in connection with the birth of another child. Now it seems that the tradition of voluntary seclusion of governor's wives has been broken.
Natalya Tolokonskaya is a woman with a pronounced active lifestyle. She conducts her own trainings, willingly communicates with the media and, it seems, has seriously decided to take up Krasnoyarsk higher education. In the academic community of Krasnoyarsk, there have been persistent rumors for several months that Tolokonskaya will soon head one of the city’s universities. Whether this is true is not known for certain, but just in case, we decided to find out what the first lady of the region is famous for, and what she became famous for in the scientific community.
The official biography, as befits the governor’s wife, is impeccable. Judge for yourself:
R Natalya Tolokonskaya was born in 1953 in the city of Blagoveshchensk. She studied in Novosibirsk and graduated from school with a gold medal.
I met my future husband while still at school, and they got married as soon as they both turned 18. Since then they have been inseparable.
She entered the Novosibirsk Medical Institute. After graduation, she worked in a clinical residency in infectious diseases.
IN 1990 year– PhD defense on the topic “Brucellosis – an infectious-allergic disease of humans and animals.”
IN 1997 year became a doctor of the highest category and received the post of head of the department of infectious diseases at the medical faculty of the medical institute
1999 year– Doctoral defense on the topic “Pato- and morphogenesis of hepatitis C. Rationale for the treatment strategy for persistent infections.”
IN 2000 received the title of professor.
IN 1998-2002
years–
chief infectious disease specialist of the health department of the Novosibirsk mayor's office
Has titles:Honored Doctor of the Russian Federation (since 2005), full member Russian Academy natural sciences, full member of the International Slavic Academy. He is the scientific director of the private educational institution Institute of General Medical Practice and President of the International Union “Space of Possibilities”
As Natalya Tolokonskaya herself writes, all this time she was also a teacher at Novosibirsk State University, where from 1997 to 2012 she headed the Department of Infectious Diseases.
At first sight - an almost exemplary medical career. Institute, residency, postgraduate study, doctoral studies, scientific activity, department at a reputable institute. But if you look closely, even in official biography contains data that makes you wary.
For example, in quality of achievements, on the website of her school (more on this later in the text), the governor’s wife indicates that she is the creator« author's healing system« Prevention and healing of chronic human diseases» . The first lady also has a certificate from the International Erikson University (Canada, Vancouver) that she has completed the course« New coaching profession» . Cherry « achievement cake» is the title “Knight of Humane Pedagogy”, awarded to Natalya Tolokonskaya by the International Center for Humane Pedagogy, Academician Sh. A. Amonashvili.
In addition, along with the solid and honorable knowledge of a doctor of sciences and an honored doctor, Tolokonskaya is a member of two, to put it mildly, controversial academies: the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences and the MSA.
The Russian Academy of Natural Sciences (RANS), created in 1990 as a democratic alternative to the RAS, has over time turned into a real collection of scientific freaks. At various times, the ranks of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences included such personalities as the “psychic” Grigory Grabovoi, who promised resurrection from the dead, the reptilian hunter Nikolai Levashov, the reader of “ancient” texts on the Sun Valery Chudinov, the author of the new chronology Anatoly Fomenko and many others.
All that is known about the International Slavic Academy is that they have an unbearable website, and that membership in it will cost the professor 2,000 rubles in entrance fees and 500 rubles in membership fees. By the way, they also accept students there, for only 500 rubles per person.
Of course, membership in such organizations in itself is not a crime, but Natalya Petrovna, even in Novosibirsk, acquired the image of a fan of very unconventional medicine.
“I am a true follower of Academician Vlail Petrovich Kaznacheev in spirit, outlook on life, and aspirations. For fifteen years I listened to his every word. Unfortunately, he passed away. Now our task is: what he created - the real science of human studies - should be translated into a language understandable and interesting for young people, to make the latest scientific knowledge about life accessible to people from a young age,”– Natalya Tolokonskaya said in an interview with Novosibirsk News.
Photo: "Soviet Siberia"
Meanwhile, official science does not share Kaznacheev’s medical theories, and his research has not been published in serious medical journals.
“At his center they are trying to treat, for example, with “Kozyrev mirrors,” where time supposedly moves differently. Do you understand how crazy this statement is? Or attempts to seriously talk about the fact that a laser beam is reflected from the biofield; what scientist would take this seriously? There were even more stunning statements - for example, that there is a point on the planet where the time vector changes sign and there you can see the past and the future,”– The head of the RAS commission on combating pseudoscience and falsification of scientific research, advisor to the directorate of the Institute of Nuclear Physics SB RAS, Academician Eduard Kruglyakov, speaks about the activities of the Treasurer.
This statement was made by Kruglyakov in response to a proposal from Natalya Tolokonskaya, the current head of the Novosibirsk Regional Public Organization “Institute of Man” - dedicate the year 2009 to Vail Kaznacheev. The proposal was supported by the regional administration, then headed by Viktor Tolokonsky.
Tolokonskaya is known both as a regular participant in seminars on homotoxicology and as an active promoter of this area of alternative medicine. The ideas of homotoxicology are close to homeopathy, and like the latter, they are not supported by scientific data.
“The model and practice of homotoxicology is a clear example of pseudoscience, and even with a cursory acquaintance with this approach, it is easy to notice many warning signs indicating pseudoscientific treatments,” - notes renowned skeptic Dr. Brennen Mackenzie.
Perhaps it was precisely her commitment to exotic concepts that did not allow Tolokonskaya to be elected rector of the Novosibirsk Medical State University at one time.
Natalya Petrovna took part in the elections of the rector of NMSU in 2009. Even before the elections, her candidacy was actively supported by the city authorities, and immediately before the voting procedure, the husband of the candidate for rector, Governor Tolokonsky, addressed the assembled university employees. Nevertheless, Tolokonskaya’s only rival, obstetrician Igor Marinkin, won the election; 150 people voted for him. Natalya Tolokonskaya took second place with 122 votes.
However, failure in the rector elections did not dampen Natalia Tolokonskaya’s ardor. Having moved after her husband to Krasnoyarsk, she continued to lead socially active life. Conducts a program for teachers on pedagogical skills at the Krasnoyarsk State Medical University. Works as a professor at the Krasnoyarsk Regional Perinatal Center. He actively develops the activities of his Institute of Man in the region and writes educational books, and then sells them, according to eyewitnesses, among students of the Biryusa summer camp.
According to some, as yet officially unconfirmed information, one of the areas of future activity of the governor’s wife will be a series of seminars for doctors on new trends in medicine under the guise of a special project from a state enterprise"Provincial pharmacies".
Natalya is even more active in her own school “Natalia Tolokonskaya”. Logistics of Human Health, Family, Business.” According to data from the official website of the school, Tolokonskaya has a lot to teach residents in such matters as: healthy eating, raising children, homeopathy, sand treatment, flu treatment, pregnancy, vaccinations, neurology and brain development.
“When I was thinking about what to name my school, I thought for a long time what words would be understandable to people. And I wrote this: logistics of health, person, family, business,” The governor’s wife said in an interview with the Prima TV channel.
In addition, after the move, Natalya discovered a craving for social networks, and now Krasnoyarsk residents can learn news from the life of the first lady of the region from her pages on
