MOSCOW, January 24 - RIA Novosti. The candidate for the presidency of Russia from the "Monarchist Party" and its founder Anton Bakov announced that he was withdrawing his candidacy from the elections.

According to Bakov, who became known for his intention to revive the Romanov empire on the islands of the Pacific Republic of Kiribati, he wrote an appeal to all presidential candidates, in which he explained the reason for his refusal to participate in the elections.

“I regret to inform you that, in accordance with the opinion of lawyers, I will be forced to withdraw my candidacy for the presidency of Russia. The recognition of the Romanov Empire as the first sovereign state by the Republic of the Gambia, in their opinion, automatically gave me a second citizenship, which, in accordance with paragraph 5.1 of Article 3 The Federal Law "On the Election of the President of the Russian Federation" makes it impossible for me to be elected president," the text of the appeal, which RIA Novosti has at its disposal, says.

Last December, Bakov announced that the Romanov Empire he created and the Republic of Gambia had signed a memorandum of friendship and cooperation. Bakov said that after the "ratification of the memorandum" in the territorial waters of the Gambia, it is planned to begin the construction of artificial islands with an area of ​​10 square kilometers.

However, later the Gambian authorities denied the information about the signing of the memorandum. A statement on the website of the President of the Gambia said that the corresponding document, published on December 11 by Radio of New Zealand, was a fake.

The founder of the Monarchist Party, in his address to the candidates, expressed confidence that the people of Russia would make a wise choice.

"If you succeed in the elections, I ask you to instruct the Russian Foreign Ministry to negotiate the establishment of diplomatic relations with the authorities of the West African state of the Romanov Empire," the appeal says.

According to Bakov, despite the fact that Russia did not recognize the Romanov Empire, the opening of its embassy in Moscow and consulates in St. Petersburg and Yekaterinburg "would contribute to national reconciliation and the acquisition of official status by the Romanov dynasty without the need to amend the constitutional legislation of Russia."

"The Romanov Empire expresses a firm and clear desire to become a reliable ally of the Russian Federation. An agreement on friendship and cooperation between our countries could also fix the waiver of the demand for restitution and other claims," ​​Bakov emphasized.

At a press conference in Yekaterinburg, the billionaire said that on Wednesday he would go to the election commission, where he would submit an application to withdraw his candidacy. He stressed that he does not consider these elections a farce.

Earlier, the Central Election Commission of Russia allowed Bakov to open a special account for the formation of an election fund, to start campaigning and collecting signatures in support of his nomination in the presidential elections in the Russian Federation. The CEC also registered authorized candidates for financial issues. Last week, Bakov said that he had collected all the necessary signatures for registration.

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Archchancellor of the Imperial Throne, well-known Ural politician and businessman Anton Bakov is seriously thinking about changing his place of residence. The businessman plans to leave Yekaterinburg, but he has not decided where. How the last monarchist of Russia should be remembered by the inhabitants of the Urals - in the material "AiF-Ural".

Introduction

He was an adviser and competitor of Rossel, competed in the mayoral elections with Arkady Chernetsky, lived in a trailer to become the head of the Kurgan region, created his own virtual government, and then decided to buy land in the Pacific Ocean and organize his own state.

Many call him a madman, others admire extraordinary actions and far-sighted thinking, others even consider him a swindler or even a clown, and others call him a genius. So it should be with any passionary. The phenomenon of Anton Bakov is difficult to understand, it is easier to look at his activities from the outside. Until he finally left Russia to live and rule in his state in Kiribati, the Gambia or elsewhere under the rays of the bright sun and warm ocean.

Anton Bakov. Start

The future chief monarchist of Russia and Archchancellor of the Imperial Throne was born in Sverdlovsk on December 29, 1965 in a family of engineers from Uralmashzavod. He studied at the 104th school, in 1988 he graduated from the UPI with honors ... The standard beginning of the biography of an ordinary person, but not for Anton Bakov.

In one of the numerous interviews, the businessman shared that the first steps in entrepreneurship began with organizing tourist trips to Verkhoturye, for which he borrowed 1,300 rubles from his grandmother. And already in the 4th year of the institute, he organized the Kedr tourist cooperative, and then the Malachite excursion agency.

Story 1. Millions for the Koran, or How Domodedovo Became International

Big money came to Bakov when he took up charter flights to Poland and China - Kedr and Malachite were transformed into East Line. The company was organized together with Bakov's friend and businessman Dmitry Kamenshchik and settled in Moscow's Domodedovo airport. In 1992, the partners managed to give the airport international status.

While Anton Bakov was engaged in air transportation, he managed to translate and sell 100,000 copies of the Koran and earn more than 2.5 million rubles on this: the book was sold at 27 rubles apiece. “It was crazy money - more than two and a half million! They sold it in Moscow, and in Yekaterinburg, and in Siberia, the rest of the circulation was brought to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, ”recalls Bakov in an interview.

In 1994, the businessman sold his soybean share to his partner Kamenshchik for $10,000 and went free-floating. More specifically, politics. From that moment on, the story of Bucks begins, which many people remember.

Story 2. Replacing the ruble

In 1991, Bakov initiated a new currency in the Sverdlovsk region - the Ural franc. The idea arose on the basis of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the system of commodity-money relations. The Ural franc was named after the Swiss franc.

Consent from the state to print money was received. Without transgressing the legislative norms, with all permissions in Perm, at the Goznak factory, 1,930 million banknotes were printed in denominations of 1, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 500 and 1000 francs.

Ural franc. Photo: Wikipedia

The currency was supposed to become the main one in the Ural Republic, the creation of which was announced by the governor of the Sverdlovsk region Eduard Rossel in 1993. However, this never happened - in December 1993, a new Constitution of the Russian Federation was adopted, where the ruble became the only currency, and Boris Yeltsin banned the autonomy of the Sverdlovsk region by his decree.

However, banknotes surfaced four years later, when Anton Bakov was the director of the Serov Metallurgical Plant. Ural francs were used in the form of food stamps, but after Bakov left office, they were banned by the new leadership. A total of 1 million copies were seized. Where the remaining 930 thousand disappeared is still unknown.

Story 3. Life in a construction trailer

After selling his stake in East Line to a partner, Anton Bakov went into politics, becoming a deputy of the Sverdlovsk Regional Duma and chairman of the Duma Committee on Legislation. Businessman and already a politician right hand governor of the Sverdlovsk region, was elected political coordinator of the Rossel movement "Transformation of the Urals". Anton Bakov was 28 years old.

Participating in the election of the mayor of Yekaterinburg in 1995 and taking second place after Chernetsky, Bakov wanted independence.

“The desire for independence led me to the Kurgan region, where in 1996 the election of the governor was announced. Alas, participation required a local residence permit, ”he recalls in an interview.

Anton Bakov, personal archive of Konstantin Kiselev

To resolve the issue of registration, Anton Bakov registered in a construction trailer in the village of Peschano-Koledino. But the Regional Electoral Committee refused to register. Then the enterprising politician attempted to solve the problem through the courts in order to prove that he was a full-fledged resident of the Kurgan region. On the side of the politician in court there was a woman, a local librarian (“Anton Alekseevich is a regular visitor to our library, he reads a lot”), on the other hand, a local police officer (“He was not involved with us, I don’t know anything about him!”). But the court still refused to register Bakov.

“I remember how the judge in Supreme Court asked: “If you lived in a trailer, where did you go to the toilet?” The failure was insulting,” recalls the monarchist.

Story 4. Fight with Fedulev and second after Rossel

Anton Bakov headed the Serov Metallurgical Plant from 1997 to 2000. He left his post with a scandal. As the businessman himself notes, the governor of the Sverdlovsk region, Eduard Rossel, was involved in this. Thus, Bakov from the governor's associates turns into an enemy. In parallel, together with the current leader of the Sverdlovsk "Fair Russians" Alexander Burkov, Bakov creates the May social movement, which advocates for the rights of workers and the social category of citizens.

In this status, Bakov actively intervenes in various political and economic performances, including high-profile scandals. One of the highlights was a fight with a well-known industrial raider from the Urals, now convicted, Pavel Fedulev.

In 2000, there was a struggle for the assets of the property of the Uralkhimmash plant. Not without Bakov, who in the office of the director of the plant management hit Pavel Fedulev on the head. The story resulted in a criminal case, which, due to the lack of corpus delicti, was eventually terminated.

In 2003, Bakov participates in the election of the governor of the Sverdlovsk region. The political struggle with the main candidate for governor, Eduard Rossel, is heated to the limit - Bakov is in second place with a slight margin. One of the main arguments against his opponent is Rossel's connection with the Uralmash OPS. It reaches the second round, where Eduard Rossel takes over, gaining 600 thousand votes, and Bakov 330 thousand.

Story 6. The Virtual State and the Monarchist Party

From 2003 to 2007 Anton Bakov is a member of the State Duma of the Russian Federation. And before the election, during the election campaign in Bakov's patrimony - Serov, even wooden toilets were pasted over with leaflets depicting Anton Alekseevich.

Since 2011, the monarchist Bakov has been creating a virtual state called the Russian Empire, of which anyone can become a citizen, and with a passport. And on July 12, 2012, the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation registers the first legal Monarchist Party in the country after the 1917 revolution, created by Anton Bakov. The following year, the party leader also finds the heir to the Russian throne, Nikolai Kirillovich, a descendant of Alexander II.

Story 7. Daughter for Mayor

The Monarchist Party in the election of the mayor of Yekaterinburg in 2013 puts forward its candidacy for this post - the daughter of the politician Anastasia Bakov. During the election campaign, Anastasia actively distributes interviews, walks with a dog at public events and holidays, and sings the "Monarchical Anthem" of Russia.

Story 8. New empire: Kiribati, Gambia and more

In 2014, Anton Bakov is trying to put the ideas of monarchism into practice - from the virtual state "Russian Empire" there is a transition to a sovereign state. Nikolai Kirillovich is declared the sole heir to the throne, becomes Emperor Nicholas III, on the basis of which the sovereign state of the Imperial Throne is proclaimed, in which Anton Bakov is Archchancellor.

Anton Bakov, photo from the personal archive of Anton Bakov

Interesting Facts

Anton Bakov is married for the second time. He took his wife Maria away from the family in the late 80s. The couple have four children and five grandchildren. Ural writer Alexei Ivanov called Bakov a "political Leonardo" and a "shuttle man". As a candidate of technical sciences, he has 20 patents for inventions.

From that moment on, Bakov begins to look for plots of land for his empire. Negotiations are underway with Montenegro, Macedonia, Albania, Gambia, Antigua and Barbuda and Kiribati. Negotiations are ongoing to this day. But Anton Alekseevich does not lose heart and continues his search. During this time, well-known publications in the world - The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, BBC, The Times and others - write about the Ural monarchist.

In April 2017, Anton Bakov announced that he was selling all his assets in Yekaterinburg and leaving the country. It is not the first year he makes such loud statements, but every year these statements become more and more confident.

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“Russia is such a country: sweet, but very stupid”

The founder of the Monarchist Party, Anton Bakov, announced his participation in the presidential elections in the Russian Federation

The founder of the "Monarchist Party" Anton Bakov is going to take part in the presidential elections in Russia in 2018. Today, such a decision was made at the political council of the party. Bakov is a well-known Ural politician and businessman who is famous for his trolling of the current political system. In 2013, he nominated his 22-year-old actress daughter Anastasia, who ran under the slogan “the mayor is powerless,” to the election of the head of Yekaterinburg. In 2011, he founded the virtual state of the Roman Empire, which is "headed" by the heir to the Romanov dynasty. This year, he announced that the empire would have real territory on artificial islands in the Gambia. In an interview with the site, the politician told why he needs the presidential election and why Alexei Navalny is new Vladimir Putin.

- On Saturday, the Monarchist Party is going to nominate you as a presidential candidate. As far as I know, you doubted whether to participate in the elections. Why did you decide anyway?

- I didn’t decide, the decision was made by the political council of the Monarchist Party. Today, 6 out of 8 of our members [the political council of the party] have gathered in this epicenter of the cultural and political life of our region - in the village of Kosulino, in the Kuznechnaya 7a building, and unanimously decided that we need to hold a congress of all branches of our party on December 23. One question: who is worthy of being a candidate for the presidency of Russia from our party. While they think it's me. But who knows. Voting is secret, there may be surprises, there may be a rain of meatballs. But it's not very likely.

— Are you ready for such a responsible mission?

- It is very inconvenient for me to participate in presidential elections, because I always take second place in such elections. In 1995, I took second place in the election of the mayor of Yekaterinburg, I was not yet 30. In 2002, I was not yet 40, I went to the second round with Eduard Rossel in the election of the governor of the Sverdlovsk region. If I take second place in the elections with Vladimir Putin or, God forbid, go to the second round with him, then I will not be greeted. After all, why not. Who does not take risks does not drink champagne.

— Who, besides Vladimir Putin, do you consider your main rival?

“I don’t consider Putin a rival either. And I hope that he will not consider me a rival. Because I would not want to repeat the fate of my friend Boris Nemtsov.

By the way, in 2015, after the murder of Boris Nemtsov, you said that you were emigrating from Russia. Why do you now decide to return to Russian politics?

— I did not return to Russian politics. I emigrated, this year I lived in Oceania and Africa for half a year. I am busy with the projects of the Romanov Empire, I just think that it is useful for the Romanov Empire to interact with the Russian Federation in these elections. We have recognition from the Gambia.

To be honest, the purpose of my participation in the elections is to receive diplomatic recognition from the Russian Federation. We are just being ripped off. We are like fools. Russia is such a country: nice, but very stupid.

I watch all the latest headlines about Putin's presidential nomination. We know that he is running for president in order to legitimize his power, so that everyone knows that the source of power Russian President- The vote of the people. At the same time, “Tsar, Tsar, Tsar” is written everywhere, and Putin is wearing a crown. You cannot be a tsar and a democratically elected president at the same time. Those who call him Tsar are not humiliating him, but Russia, destroying the majestic glittering myth that we are trying to create, that there is some kind of democracy in Russia.

The simplest thing is to admit that the tsar is not Putin, but some other person, a descendant of the Romanov dynasty, who reigns over 10 square kilometers in the Republic of the Gambia in West Africa.

It seems to me that this would be a reasonable system-forming move, because we are confused. We really do not understand, we are trying to fit in one bottle and tsarist Russia, and communism, and the new democratic Russia. If the Chanel brand or Apple tried to create a brand that would contradict itself and look like a hedgehog, no one would succeed. We need to stop cross-breeding with a hedgehog. Although I understand that the result in the form of barbed wire would suit many.

— Do you already have ideas how you will run the campaign?

— I had two ideas. The first is to kill the old man [Vladimir] Zhirinovsky and take his niche, but then how to live with this? I have children, grandchildren, a disgrace. I don't mind being considered a clown, but still ... It's one thing to be a clown on charges of enemies, another thing is to be a clown by nature. No, excuse me, Vladimir Volfovich, nothing threatens you.

Therefore, the campaign will be intelligent, smart, maybe too smart, for sure no one will understand it. The way I am.

- You also participated in Andrey Bogdanov's "Third Force" primaries. Is this project no longer interesting to you?

— I was in Africa. Bogdanov called me and asked: “Are we turning you on?” I replied, "Of course, I'm a person like everyone else." They needed me. At first they wanted to ask me for 100 thousand rubles, but in the end they did not ask. So it's all charity, and it's all very good.

- Would you be interested in taking a place in system politics?

“No, of course not, because it's not like I'm a rat that's running from a sinking ship. I have a friend Sasha Burkov (Alexander Burkov - Acting Governor Omsk region, ex-deputy of the State Duma - approx. Ed.), whom I have known for a hundred years. He was appointed governor of the Omsk region. No one will appoint me governor, thank God, of any region. But if I had received such an offer, of course, I would have refused, because I think that such is the time. I don't want to participate in what is called Russia's systemic politics. I am now engaged in the policy that will be in Russia in 10, 20, 30 years. Most likely, I will not live, but my children, the most illustrious princes Bakov, will live. And then, perhaps, my efforts will not be in vain.

- Can you describe what, in your opinion, politics will be in 15-20 years?

Let's go right now:

no need to blame Vladimir Putin. He follows the line of least resistance. He accepts Russia as it is.

He adapts to these people who are growing up, to the unfortunate victims of Soviet undereducated education, the shortage of sausages, people who do not think broadly enough, because from childhood they are exposed to propaganda when their brains are blown to smithereens. You have no idea how different the education system in Russia used to be from what children are taught in more advanced countries. Everything that Putin does is playing along with the masses.

But we must go to the future. The leader is not the one who trudges behind and follows the opinion of the unfortunate people crippled by the Soviet regime. The leader is the one who is ahead, who is laying new paths, roads, trajectories. But in order for people to follow them, you must first come up with them in your head, then slowly propagate them.

Yes, I've been playing for a long time, maybe playing a game longer than my life. It's okay, Russia will remain even after Vladimir Putin - in this I disagree with those who say that Putin is Russia. I'm sure Russia will survive it too.

— What are you personally going to do after March 2018?

— I agreed to build artificial islands in the Gambia. Maybe I will offer some of the islands to Lekh Navalny (to oppositionist Alexei Navalny - ed. note). I've known him for more than 10 years, he's a good guy, but he, unfortunately, also tries to flirt with the majority. It turns out that he is the new Putin. It seems to me that this is wrong. I will give him 2 kilometers of artificial islands and offer to build the beautiful Russia of the future, which he constantly talks about. And we'll see. Why all these empty promises? Putin won't let you do it. It's very hard, but here's the sandbox, play, show what kind of sand castle you can build.

Have you made him such an offer yet?

— Not yet, this is an exclusive for you. But of course I will contact him.

Why do you think Navalny is the new Putin?

“Because Navalny is addressing the same people as Putin. It's like feeding pigs. The old pig farmer fed them, the young one will come, what will he feed them with? The same.

One [ex-Minister of Economic Development Alexei] Ulyukaev imprisoned, the other promises to imprison [Russian Prime Minister Dmitry] Medvedev. Do you really think that this will change anything?

- And what can change something?

“I don't know myself. It doesn't have to be done by just one person. I am trying to create a monarchy, a new empire, where there are many monarchs, where many people can become monarchs and realize the vision that they cannot realize in this system. It is far from being ruled by Putin. Putin is a scarecrow that comes from above. Bureaucracy really rules. She rules in all countries. I worked, except for Russia, in 8-9 countries, I communicated with presidents, ministers, officials. Everywhere everything is the same. Everywhere everyone is jammed, there is no will of the people. Where can you break through and succeed? In private business. Private business is booming.

And what good have modern states done? No hunger, no global warming, no deliverance from terrorism and some kind of armed conflicts. We have genocide all over the planet, including in our country. Because the bureaucracy rules, for which the main thing is to secure their own privileges. I'm not saying that I'll figure everything out. But I am creating such an alternative model where people can come, some of whom may succeed. Everything on the person. The only basis is man, nothing but man exists. All these states, parties, ideologies are all secondary. The most important cell is a person. The atom from which our universe is made.

Anton Bakov is a Russian businessman and political figure, founder of his own virtual state and head of the Monarchist Party of Russia.

early years

Anton was born on December 29, 1965 in Sverdlovsk (Yekaterinburg). His parents were simple engineers of the Uralmash city plant, so the childhood of the future presidential candidate was no different from the childhood of the average Soviet child.

After graduating from high school in 1983, Anton Bakov entered the Ural Polytechnic Institute. He studied for one five and received a prestigious Lenin scholarship. In 1988, Anton successfully graduated from the Faculty of Metallurgy, receiving a red diploma and becoming an honorary graduate of the university.

Entrepreneurial activity

Anton began to earn money by entrepreneurship while still studying at the institute. In his senior years, he created several cooperatives that were focused on the sale of tourist vouchers for Soviet Union. After perestroika, Bakov took up trading in markets throughout the Sverdlovsk region and air travel.

In 1991, Anton created the East Line transport company on the basis of his travel cooperatives. His business partner was entrepreneur Dmitry Kamenshchik, who to this day remains the chairman of the board of directors.

The services of the East Line were actively used by "shuttle traders" (small wholesale traders), who brought products to Russia from China and Europe. During two years active work enterprises Bakov and Kamenshchik were able to earn quite solid capital and became the main owners of the Domodedovo airport.

Walks in Yekaterinburg: Anton Bakov

In 1994, Anton decided to enter politics and sold his share of the East Line to a partner. Nevertheless, several distilleries that he acquired in the Sverdlovsk region remained in his assets - they are the main sources of income for Bakov.

Career in politics

In the summer of 1993, Anton got the position of head of the Ural-Volga branch of the Ministry of Nationalities and Regional Policy. Soon he became the right hand of Eduard Rossel - the head and future governor of the Sverdlovsk region.

After leaving the East Line, Bakov was elected to the Sverdlovsk Regional Duma. The first years of their political activity he devoted to the fight against the appointments of the mayor and governor of the region without the participation of Russian citizens. Together with his associates, Anton managed to get elections to the local duma in 1995 and 1996. He put forward his candidacy as mayor of Yekaterinburg, but lost this position to Arkady Chernetsky.

From 2000 to 2003, Anton was a member of the Legislative Assembly of the Sverdlovsk Region. During his work, he conducted anti-corruption activities and became the founder of the Antimafia social movement, which opposed the redistribution of state property in Yekaterinburg. From 2003 to 2007 Bakov was a member of the State Duma.

Anton Bakov: about the idols of power and the revival of the monarchy

In 2012, Bakov founded his own party, the Monarchist Party of Russia, within which he promoted the ideals of autocracy and called for the creation of a constitutional monarchy in the country.

In 2014, Anton told the press about the creation of his own virtual state, which he called the "Romanov Empire". Later it was renamed the "Romanov Empire". It is noteworthy that the state of Bakov was recognized by the Gambia, the smallest African country. The Gambian authorities and the Bakov signed a memorandum of friendship in December 2017. The Russian claimed that he would soon start building an independent state on the territory of artificial islands in the Gambian waters.

Personal life of Anton Bakov

Bakov was married twice. Nothing is known about the first chosen one of the entrepreneur. Currently, Anton's wife is Marina, a teacher of foreign languages, who bore him four children.

Anton Bakov now

In August 2017, it became known that Bakov plans to participate in the 2018 presidential election. He managed to collect the required number of voter signatures, but in January 2018 he refused to run. The reason was that Anton had dual citizenship: Russia and the Romanov Empire (earlier, another presidential candidate, Alexander Chukhlebov, was denied registration by the CEC because he had a residence permit in Finland). Bakov said that he now intends to fully focus on the development of his state.

Former State Duma deputy businessman Anton Bakov creates a state in the Pacific Ocean. The new "Russian Empire" will be located on three of the twenty uninhabited islands of the Republic of Kiribati - Malden, Starbuck and Millennium. The project will cost the businessman $350 million.

Anton Bakov is the founder of the Monarchist Party, he has already tried to recreate the Romanov Empire in Montenegro and the Cook Islands in Polynesia, but the project has not yet been completed. The authorities of Kiribiti must approve the lease agreement for the islands at the end of February. The Insider spoke to the founder " Russian Empire”and found out why the businessman decided to organize his project so far from Russia.

- Why the monarchy?

For many years I was involved in politics in Russia - for 14 years I was only a deputy in the Sverdlovsk region, then in State Duma. I have accumulated a lot of questions to the Russian, and, in general, not only to the Russian state. This concept needs to be reformed, and will change globally. Just as the socialist state has already died, the national state is dying before our very eyes, and obviously completely new types and types of states will arise that will exist in organizations like the European Union. We see a rise in Catalonia, in Scotland, but these are belated outbursts of nationalism, their time has been lost. What will the modern state be like in 20, 50 years? I think it will be monarchical, since the monarchy is the most effective method management. It is not in vain that unity of command prevails both in the army and at enterprises. I recently published a monarchist manifesto, in which I prescribe all this in more detail.

In the USSR, the monarchy was presented to people at school as something bad - that it was serfdom, that they would flog in the stable, and so on. At the same time, in Russia they forget that it was Tsar Alexander II who abolished this serfdom, and the Bolsheviks reintroduced it. We are all victims of propaganda and educational errors, in this case quite conscious errors. Undoubtedly, the monarchy cannot resemble that school image, so one has to look for new ways and new knowledge.

I would pay special attention not to the traditional European constitutional monarchy, but to the real absolute monarchies that exist, for example, on the Arabian Peninsula - all the prosperous states in this region are absolute monarchy.

Anton Bakov (left)

The only place where the monarchy was overthrown with the assistance of the USSR is Yemen. And we know that it is there that the greatest famine, devastation and Civil War. In countries where absolute monarchy has been preserved, everything is fine.

Take the other end of the world - the monarchy is flourishing in the Malaysian Federation. This is a union of ten sultanates, and at the same time the most growing country in the region. Compare Burma with its constant turmoil, poverty, and neighboring kingdoms - Thailand and the Federation of Malaysia.

In my opinion, a monarchy can be both efficient and modern, but we are not satisfied with the options that exist today. Firstly, we must find our national Russian solution, and secondly, perhaps, a universal, modern monarchy of the 21st century. After all, the tradition is torn, and it is impossible to renew it - you cannot step into the same river twice.

- The word "monarchy" for many Russian people is also associated with tyranny and bloody events ...

Maybe you are confusing a Russian person with a Soviet person? With a homunculus, which the communists bred in a test tube for 70 years? What can you do, we can't get inside these people's heads - that's what President Putin is for, he's doing a good job of it.

Republic of Kiribati.

- And in a pleasant Pacific climate - is it just for greater attractiveness?

Indeed, we are adding an additional advantage to ourselves - this is not quite sporty, but what can we do, we are not athletes.

- Who do you see as citizens in your new state?

Our project is almost five years old, at first we had a small virtual state of the Russian Empire, and we gave citizenship to everyone, during this time a little more than 5 thousand people joined us. So far, we have suspended this process - we are not conducting campaign work: 5,000 is already enough not to be a house of cards. Now no one forbids joining us either - anyone can come to Ekaterinburg at 11 Turgenev Street, apartment 2 and get a passport with a double-headed eagle with the inscription "Russian Empire".

In the future, of course, priority will be given to professionals who will work on the islands. There is a proposal to establish official citizenship for the duration of work, as in the Vatican, but I am not a supporter of this idea - residents and their descendants should have the right to obtain a passport. Now the president of Kiribati has gone to inspect the islands and he will return on February 23, I really hope that we will sign the lease. Of course, it would be symbolic to sign the papers on the day of the centenary of the abdication of Nicholas II from the throne, but symbolism is symbolism, but we will do what is best for the cause.

- How noticeable is the desire of people to leave Russia for you? Who are they and what are they running from?

You yourselves know that very many people are leaving Russia, and a lot of our mutual acquaintances left it long ago. We looked at friends who liked some of our publications on Facebook - we laughed that they all live in different parts of the world. Someone left 20 years ago, someone 25, and someone - in last years. Everyone has their own life circumstances, but for me the turning point was the murder of Nemtsov. Then I finally decided that it was necessary to end this, nothing good would happen here.

When choosing future fellow citizens, will you give preference to those people who leave here for the same reasons? Or will it be more of a professional selection?

I will give preference to those who are persistent. Australia and New Zealand are very attractive because of the more suitable climate. Here, nevertheless, all year round+ 27-28 degrees: it's one thing to come to lie on the beach, and another thing to live all your life in shorts and a T-shirt. I like it, for example, but a girl in stilettos doesn’t, she will be perplexed where she should go in stilettos.