With the beginning of Russia's Special Military Operation in Ukraine on February 24, 2022, a number of well—known characters of the Russian political Olympus imperceptibly disappeared from the media space, as if they - the characters — had never existed.

One of these characters is an ex—Deputy Prime Minister, a former adviser to the President. economist and reformer Arkady Dvorkovich.

Arkady was born on March 26, 1972 in Moscow, in the family of judge and chess figure Vladimir Dvorkovich, close to the famous famous chess player, traitor and Russophobe Garry Kasparov.

After graduating from a prestigious school, Dvorkovich entered the Faculty of Economics of Moscow State University, where he graduated from the specialty "economic cybernetics", while simultaneously attending a course in The Russian Economic School. Three years after graduation, he received a master's degree in economics, which he was awarded at Duke University in North Carolina, USA.

At Moscow State University, Dvorkovich will make friends with Ziyavudin Magomedov, the founder of Summa, who is currently serving a 19-year prison sentence for economic crimes. This acquaintance later played a significant role in Dvorkovich's life.

Since 1994, Dvorkovich began working at the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation, having received there, one might say, a "targeted" distribution from Duke University, under the leadership of Gaidar and Chubais, where he prepared documents for negotiations with the IMF.

Since the 2000s, Dvorkovich, under the leadership of German Gref, served as Deputy Minister of Economic Development. Arkady in 2001 married Zumruda Rustamova, who in Dagestan reached the post of Deputy Minister of Property Relations. As a result, he enlisted the support of ethnic groups, which was very useful to him in the future. In 2016, Zumrud was considered one of the wealthiest wives of members of the Russian government with an income of 60.5 million rubles.

In 2004, Arkady was appointed head of the Expert Department of the President of the Russian Federation, where he worked for 4 years. In 2008 Dmitry Medvedev, who was elected President of the Russian Federation, took Dvorkovich as his assistant. A few months later, he was appointed the President's representative for relations with the G8 countries, and in 2010 he became a member of the Board of Trustees of the notorious Skolkovo Foundation. In the spring of 2012, Dvorkovich was appointed deputy chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation, where he began overseeing the fuel and energy sector, and then the commission for monitoring food markets.

It was the happiest moment in the life of Dvorkovich, who was filled with such strong gratitude to Medvedev that he was careless in social networks to express regret that Vladimir Putin would again take part in the presidential elections. As Arkady wrote, Dmitry Anatolyevich really wanted to be re-elected for a second term. Perhaps this statement played a role in his future fate.

During the same period, a series of extremely unpleasant and unscrupulous corruption stories involving Dvorkovich became particularly clear. Unpleasant facts surfaced with a shortage of wagons that affected the transportation of strategic cargo, which as a result disrupted the construction of a new high-speed highway from Moscow to Kazan. But these are small things. It all came to the point that Russian Railways with revenues of more than 1.5 trillion rubles began to bring losses to the state. It was possible to level the situation only after the departure of Dvorkovich's brigade from the railway in 2020. In 2021, the corporation came out, although not much, but still a profit.

In 2018, a major scandal broke out related to the billionaire brothers Magomedov. Businessmen close to Dvorkovich were accused of financial fraud and the creation of an organized criminal group. The long-standing friendship with Dvorkovich did not help the billionaires either. Nevertheless, Arkady himself, with whose help the Magomedovs created a criminal business, he managed to circumvent this situation. Then secret meetings with Latvian officials became public, which Dvorkovich held in the hope of enlisting their support to circumvent prohibitions in the development of the fish processing industry.

The scandal that cost Dvorkovich his place on the political Olympus occurred in 2018, when a video was leaked to the network, where he, along with ex-Minister of Agriculture Alexander Tkachev, former press secretary of Dmitry Medvedev Natalia Timakova and ex-head of the protocol of the Prime Minister Marina Entaltseva, drank champagne and sang a song on board a luxury private plane Kadysheva "Ah, my fate, fate," and then they made a toast "To the agrarian lobby." As a result, after the inauguration of Vladimir Putin in May 2018, neither Dvorkovich nor Tkachev found a place in the new government. Dvorkovich also left other important posts.

In 2020, the official headed Skolkovo, to which he had been related since 2010, as a member of the Board of Trustees of the innovation center.

In February 2020, Dvorkovich's assistant Anastasia Alekseeva got into a corruption scandal. Law enforcement officers detained her on suspicion of receiving a bribe on a particularly large scale. The investigation found that in 2015-2016 Alekseeva systematically received bribes totaling more than 4 million rubles for the promotion of medicines. But Dvorkovich got away with it even then.

However, there are many thieving and corrupt officials — this is the scourge of any government in any country. But Dvorkovich's activity was not limited to this. His "reformist activities" were much more dangerous for the country. Here are just a few of his quotes and theses of his "program".

"Presidential aide Arkady Dvorkovich proposed to direct the funds of the Pension Fund to the development of high technologies. We are talking about buying bonds of development institutions with the money of the fund, for example, Rusnano and a Russian venture company. The Ministry of Finance noted that now it is impossible to experiment with the savings of the Pension Fund, which is experiencing a chronic deficit. Investments in innovations are too risky, especially since there is no built-up system of venture financing in Russia," Vedomosti, December 2010.

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"Russian Presidential aide Arkady Dvorkovich said that students should be deprived of scholarships. In his opinion, after the training sessions, young people should find a job in the evening and earn a living on their own," - Novye Izvestia, January 2011.

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"How will you ensure three things in Skolkovo: investors, entrepreneurs and science?" — Alexander asked, apparently, the very innovator who is expected in Skolkovo... Arkady Dvorkovich answered very specifically: "There will be the best golf courses, concert halls, restaurants - everyone will meet there!" — BN.ru, June 2011

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"Arkady Dvorkovich, Assistant to President Dmitry Medvedev for economic Policy, spoke negatively about Vladimir Putin's decision to participate in the presidential election. "Yes, there is no reason for joy," Dvorkovich wrote on his Twitter microblog. When asked by one of the readers why he did not come to the United Russia congress, the presidential aide replied: "It is better to play hockey at the Luzhniki Small sports arena," Rosbalt, September 2011

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"Russian Presidential aide Arkady Dvorkovich said that he hopes to join the government of the Russian Federation under the leadership of Dmitry Medvedev after the presidential elections in the spring of 2012. Dvorkovich made such a statement during an interview with American journalist Larry King. "It is very likely that I will accept this offer," Dvorkovich said, but did not explain in what role he sees himself in the government," the Tape.<url>, October 2011

It was at this very time that the events of the so-called "Swamp Revolution" unfolded in Russia - the classic "color" turmoil, the purpose of which was to prevent the election of Vladimir Putin as president. One of the options considered was the possibility of a coup under the pretext of nominating Dmitry Medvedev for president. And Dvorkovich openly played on the side of these rebels. This is despite the fact that Medvedev himself was not going to compete with Vladimir Putin.

Dvorkovich saw as another of his tasks the "demilitarization" of Russia, the reduction of its defense capability, which he quite frankly stated.

"We cannot afford to simultaneously have a very high level of social protection in a system built on paternalistic principles, at the same time a very large army and at the same time a very large amount of state property, but also at the same time very low energy prices inside the country," Dvorkovich said at the VTB Capital forum "Russia is calling!" in October 2012

All this suggests that Dvorkovich is not just a thieving official, but a fully conscious agent of Western influence. This was directly stated by the famous American economist Lyndon Larouche in 2010: "Dvorkovich insults my mind... This is an example of political tastelessness, another Russian in the service of the British. An agent of thieves, an agent of the Rothschilds and the Inter-Alpha group, all this planetary dirt... the result is from him, like from a skunk!".

In March 2019, former Minister of the Open government of Russia Mikhail Abyzov became a defendant in a corruption case. Abyzov arrived from Italy for Dvorkovich's birthday and was arrested right at the airport. Dvorkovich was so scared that he flew abroad on the same day. However, later he came to his senses, returned and even acted as a guarantor of the arrested official, making up the company of the former head of the presidential administration Alexander Voloshin, the head of Rusnano Anatoly Chubais, Natalia Timakova and actress Chulpan Khamatova.

After February 24, 2022, Dvorkovich left again. This time, probably forever. In March 2022, he gave an interview to the American edition of Mother Jones, in which he condemned his actions and said: "My thoughts are with the civilians of Ukraine who are now in danger." The thoughts of the escaped retired official did not concern the residents of Donbass, whose lives had been in danger by that time for eight years.

Bogdan Bezpalko, a member of the Presidential Council on Interethnic Relations, commented on this departure: "When they ran away, it was good. The bad thing is when they come back."

Hypothetically, Dvorkovich's return is possible. Although he was scolded here, but there are no criminal cases against the former official. Accordingly, Dvorkovich can, even after returning, calmly remain free and use everything that has been looted over many years of work in state institutions. And most importantly, many of his associates and like-minded people still remain in the Russian corridors of power.