Sergey Sobyanin



Sergey Semyonovich Sobyanin (born 21 June 1958) is a Russian statesman and politician of Mansi descent. He has served as Mayor of Moscow from October 2010 to 5 July 2013, and was re-elected Mayor in the September 2013 city election.

As the Mayor of Moscow, Sobyanin has gradually relaxed the massive construction projects of his predecessor, for which he has won acclaim for the "most sane piece of city planning in years." As Mayor, Sobyanin created large mass media holding group of numbers TV and radio channels and newspapers, owned and controlled by Moscow Government. And he has also won praise for his efforts in combatting corruption.

Sobyanin has in recent years become a major target of controversy in the press. According to an independent poll, most Muscovites believe that since coming to power, Sobyanin's leadership has not differed from that of Yury Luzhkov.
 

Sobyanin takes off all the masks

Officials●26.05.2022

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin announced a "covid amnesty".

Sobyanin goes into eternity

Officials●06.10.2021

Which of the governors is being saved from resignation by a new bill.

Who is daughter of Moscow mayor Sobyanin? In short

Officials●24.10.2017

The eldest daughter of Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin, Anna, got herself into a great trouble in St. Petersburg. Her luxurious apartment in the city center was seized for debts. On this occasion, the editorial office of Russiangate recalls where Anna Sobyanina got an apartment and how her business career was developing.

Moscow forests are grown in Germany

Business●19.09.2017

The trees and bushes for the scandalous Zaryadye park in Moscow were purchased by Sobyanin and Khusnullin in Germany. This is not an accident, because even the famous Kremlin spruce is traditionally bought by Russia in Germany. 

The Moscow authorities decided to build 10 million square meters of real estate around the Moscow Ring Road

Officials●14.07.2017

10 mln square meters of real estate will be built on the lands adjacent to the Moscow Ring Road. This could be the largest construction project in the capital after the renovation project. Profitability of the project is low, experts warn.

The son of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Igor Chaika climbed into the privy

Business●29.06.2017

How the partners of Igor Chaika get state money for the fact that Muscovites go to toilets.

Moscow had a record revenue in 2016

Officials●13.02.2017

Perhaps, 100 billion rubles in that income were provided by Sberbank. 

The Moscow authorities will spend 136 billion rubles on road construction in 2017

Officials●27.12.2016

The capital has had 29% more road tenders as compared to the last year.

Moscow will spend 10 billion rubles on the future park

Society●22.12.2016

The city is trying to attract private investment for this VDNKh project.

Sobyanin's Loona Park

Officials●21.12.2016

While hospitals are being closed, the Moscow mayor's office will spend 10 billion rubles on the park owned by billionaire Zelimkhan Mutsoev from United Russia.

Virus Chemezation

Business●31.10.2016

Rostec carved up millions of rubles on vaccines.

Senator Kanokov's entities interested in buying Kuntsevskiy market

Business●11.10.2016

Arsen Kanokov, representing Kabardino-Balkaria in the Federation Council, may become one of the major owners of Moscow's markets. Sindica Holding, which is controlled by him, discusses the purchase of Kuntsevskiy market.

God Nisanov and Zarakh Iliev buy up Moscow Oblast

Business●15.09.2016

Company affiliated with God Nisanov and Zarakh Iliev buys up elite land plots near Moscow.   

Pavel Te will ​​"heal" Moscow

Business●12.08.2016

Scandalous businessman Mr. Te is going to buy "Stolichnye Apteki".

RBC investigation: who owns the street trade in Moscow

Business●15.02.2016

Who suffers and who benefits from the demolition of kiosks and pavilions on the capital's streets.

RBC investigation: who earns on paid parking in Moscow

Business●31.12.2014

On December 25, a new area of ​​paid parking started to be functional in the Russian capital throughout the territory within the Third Ring Road.

Sobyanin has a new problem

Officials●26.11.2014

Hinstein exposed a large-scale trickery with the apartments of deceived investors.

RBC investigation: how officials outsmarted Yandex

Internet●23.10.2014

Officials no longer demand Yandex to register as a media, perhaps because they have learned to interact with the robot search engine.

Rosneft will pay Moscow 4.5 billion rubles for its new home

Business●18.08.2014

Rosneft will have to pay almost 4.5 billion rubles for panoramic views from its new Moscow office. 

Navalny: Sobyanin's daughter's apartment costs 6 times more than the family's income for ten years

Governance●10.08.2013

Olga Sobyanina is the owner of the 300 sqm apartment in a house where also live Mikhail Fradkov, German Gref, Sergei Ivanov, and other associates of Putin, according to the blogger.