Personal army of Minister Vitaly Mutko. Kamancha under cover! Shprygin is suspected of organizing the Marseille massacre Alexander Shprygin, President of the All-Russian Fans Association

New facts and evidence are emerging regarding the organization of riots at the European Championships. And first of all, they say that the head of the VOB Alexander Shprygin, who is called Kamancha among football fans, did everything possible to ensure that the most radical representatives went to the first match of the Russian national team at Euro 2016 on a charter paid for by the RFU fan movement.

The departure of Russian fans to the Euro became the main news of the first days of the championship. Images of the destroyed streets of Marseille and the bloodied faces of British opponents filled the front pages of the Western press. From the outside, the story of sending a plane with fans of the Russian national team from Moscow looks like a detective story. WITH the list of those departing was presented by Shprygin literally the day before the departure of the flight from Sheremetyevo, which did not allow verification measures to be carried out and the isolation of the so-called radicals who flew to France solely to wave their fists.

There were a lot of people who wanted to get into the Vobov charter,” one of the fans of St. Petersburg “Zenith” told Life. - There was no clarity on the flight for a long time. This was explained to us by the fact that the VOB and the Ministry of Sports could not find an economical flight option and money to rent an aircraft. It seemed like no one was ready to spend a lot on fans. As a result, VOB was nevertheless allocated a plane, and the distribution of seats was entrusted to the heads of fan clubs. The charter was taken on the following principle: mainly leaders and authoritative representatives of fan groups were included; it was extremely difficult for ordinary fans to fly to France.

As a result, an impressive team of football hooligans went to Marseille on a charter. There were a lot of fans of Spartak (a club that officially left the VOB several years ago), many representatives of Lokomotiv, several people from the Moscow clubs Torpedo and Dynamo. Some of the seats went to representatives of regional fan movements. True, for most of the Wobb charter, the Euro ended in Marseille.

From France the plane flew almost empty. Many who arrived on it were afraid, for obvious reasons, to return home on the same flight, so as not to be detained at Marseille airport. After the fight in the port, fans left France in scattered groups through neighboring countries. Many had problems with leaving: those who arrived on a free charter did not expect to urgently buy tickets to Russia, the price of which increased several times during the European Championship.

It is possible to understand those who did not dare to board a free plane again. As a result of those events, members of the VOB central council Alexei Erunov, Sergei Gorbachev and Nikolai Morozov, who arrived in France on a charter, were sentenced to prison terms and still continue to be in a Marseilles prison. Another 22 fans from that charter, including Shprygin himself, b were expelled from France. True, after a couple of days the head of the VOB returned to France. But not to rescue his comrades who remained in captivity, but to the final game of the Russian national team against the Welsh national team. Continuing to this day to adhere to the position thatVOB was not the organizer or customer of fights with English fans and was interested in peaceful support for the national team.

In order to understand why Shprygin took “radicals” on the plane, it’s worth diving a little into the history of the Russian fan movement in general and the creation of the VOB in particular. Despite his public position, the chief football fan the country has not enjoyed support among ordinary fans for a long time. There is an opinion among fans that Shprygin’s activities were initially aimed not at unification, but at splitting the fan movement and radicalizing the fan environment, which together caused image damage Russian Federation as the hostess of the upcoming 2018 World Cup.

The split in the VOB matured back in2010, when a real revolution took place in the central council of the organization, as a result of which representatives of Spartak and CSKA, authoritative in the fan world, left the organization. Later, representatives of the capital's Dynamo staged a demarche after them. As a result, today the central executive committee of the organization includes only representatives of Lokomotiv, Torpedo, Tom, Samara Krylia Sovetov and Rubin.

Another confirmation that there is no unity in the VOB was the organization’s conference, which was held in January 2016 in St. Petersburg. Only 45 out of 90 delegates came to the city on the Neva. And only those who supported Shprygin came. Currently, fans are openly sabotaging all VOB events. For example, in July in Voronezh, under the auspices of the VOB, a football tournament “Holy Rus'” was planned. But representatives of 12 regions of the country officially refused to participate in the tournament, which was eventually cancelled.

Let's go back to the year 2010. In order to maintain power over all Russian fans in his hands, Shprygin began to actively flirt with the leaders of football hooligans, organizing free trips to Europe under the auspices of the RFU and VOB. The split immediately arose due to the fact that in 2010, Shprygin’s dubious affairs in selling tickets for matches of the Russian national team became public. They say that Shprygin then sold part of the tickets allocated free of charge and earned a significant amount, which is expressed as a figure with six zeros. All this provoked statements from fans of Spartak, CSKA, Dynamo and many regional branches about leaving the VOB.

Where is the money, Kamancha?

But let's return to the events at Euro 2016. The actions of the head of the VOB left active fans without a championship, and the national team itself without support. Facts of abuse of official position in the distribution of funds allocated by the RFU to the VOB for organizing the performance became public knowledge. Thus, according to VOB members, the RFU allocated 5.5 million rubles from the budget to the organization before the start of the European Championship.

It was assumed that this money would be used to produce banners and other paraphernalia that would be used at all matches of the Russian national team. In fact, the promotion from VOB football Europe I saw it only at the group round match between Russia and England, when at the very beginning of the game a huge Russian flag was stretched out in the sector behind the goal.

As for supporting the team, here we completely failed the Euro,” one of the active fans, who attended all three Russian games in France, said in a conversation with Life. - We only looked decent in the match against the British. In Lille and Toulouse, the team was essentially left without support, both visual and noise. There were no performances, there were only “Kuzmichi” with their families in the stands. In Lille, even the Slovaks beat us in terms of support, to say nothing of the Wales fans, who are remembered throughout Europe for their outstanding support.

Personally, I saw the performance of the Russian national team, but I don’t presume to say how much money was spent on its production,” Sergei Drozdov, an authoritative representative of the Dynamo fan movement, former executive director of VOB, told Life. - If we are talking about 5.5 million rubles, then perhaps Alexander Shprygin sewed the banner from gold thread.

People around Shprygin himself also believe that only a small part of the money was actually used for its intended purpose. The main funds ended up in the pockets of the head of the VOB and several of his friends.

Fans are sure that Shprygin enriched himself at the Euro not only by saving on performance. The head of VOB also made good money on tickets. Thus, 940 tickets were allocated for each match of the VOB group stage. Almost all of them were sold by Shprygin (his trusted people) not at face value, but with a 20% markup. Moreover, the tickets, which were intended for Russian fans, were in fact sold to everyone. This is how, at the Russia-England match, English fans ended up in the sector where only Russians were supposed to sit. They got there using tickets sold by VOB. All this resulted in brawls during the match and at its end.

There is a rather strange situation with tickets for the Euro,” one of the fans who visited France told Life. - All clubs submitted applications for tickets centrally through the same VOB. Thus, the Russian side had to win a large number of packages for three Russian matches. On average, we expected to receive 10-15 packages in our hands. But in the end we received 4-5 packages (three tickets in one package) per person. The biggest excitement was, of course, around the match with England. Two weeks before the game it was no longer possible to get tickets. Therefore, it was surprising when in Marseille itself there were an abundance of free tickets for sale on the streets.

But Shprygin’s ticket program was valid not only for national team matches. Dynamo fans are confident that, having built a speculative chain in the club, he regularly makes a profit from the blue and white home matches. The club's fan relations staff are involved in the process and have many opportunities to leak so-called free tickets to speculators.

The process consists of several stages. Dynamo has a program to attract spectators, for which hundreds of tickets are written off. For example, an educational institution makes an official request to a club to provide seats for students at a match. The management approves it without any problems, after which the tickets end up in the hands of fan relations specialists through the box office. From this moment on, only they are responsible for their subsequent implementation. Some of the tickets, of course, reach the right consumer, but the other part simply disappears and turns up at the stadium in the hands of hucksters an hour and a half before the start of the match. Fans claim that Shprygin is trying to control the operation of this scheme personally, regularly appearing at Dynamo home matches in Khimki. By the way, on last match Dynamo and Baltika were also present.

In the 2016/17 season, the activity of speculators for Dynamo matches increased sharply. Due to the fact that the team dropped out of the RFPL to the FNL, the number of ticket offices at the home arena in Khimki was almost halved. In addition, due to traffic jams on Leningradka on the eve of matches, a huge line forms at the box office half an hour before the start of the game. In this case, it is really easier to buy a ticket from speculators.

Path to power

In light of the above circumstances, it is worth recalling how Alexander Shprygin appeared in the football community and headed one of the most mass organizations football fans in Russia.

Being one of the leaders of the leading informal association of Dynamo fans, Blue White Dynamite, from 1996 to 2000, he established close contact with the club’s management. Even then, at the expense of the team’s budget, he organized trips to away matches. At the same time, the monthly income of the organizer himself, according to sources in the club, reached 500 thousand rubles. In 2007, Alexander decided to go further and initiated the idea of ​​creating a VOB. She was supported by the president of the RFU at that time, Vitaly Mutko, but he did not see Shprygin himself at the head of the organization. But the then and current president of the RFPL Sergei Pryadkin and the former commercial director of the RFU Makarenko spoke in favor of the latter. As a result, in the same year, at the May founding conference, Shprygin was elected president of the VOB. Having come to power, he personally began to organize ticket programs for matches of the Russian national team at international football tournaments(European Championship 2012, European Championship 2016, World Cup 2014). According to available information, Shprygin’s profit from the sale of tickets for these three tournaments alone is measured in a figure with six zeros in foreign currency. Sources in VOB said that only at the Russia-England match in 2008, a narrow circle of people in the leadership of VOB pocketed from 1 to 2 million dollars. The overall funding of the VOB was provided by the RFU, with Shprygin’s organization receiving up to 50 million rubles a year annually. The organization allocated 500 thousand rubles monthly for renting an office in Tovarishchesky Lane alone.

But it seems that Shprygin’s long-term financial scheme will not last long. The Marseille pogroms, perpetrated by Kamancha with money from the RFU, forced the country's football leadership to take radical measures. At the last meeting of the executive committee, Vitaly Mutko announced that he was closing the VOB, and a new organization would be created in its place.

The VOB has let us down. We expected that the fans would come to support the team and not start riots. Mr. Shprygin showed disrespect for the entire RFU and all of us,” Mutko concluded.

I decided to write this material at the big request of people close to me. It was planned to be in the book that I want to publish for the 10th anniversary of Fratria at the end of this year, but my colleagues convinced me to do it separately in order to finally dot the i’s. Why didn’t I write and publish this before? There are several reasons. Firstly, I have no one to justify myself to - my friends and immediate circle already know it all, and I didn’t see any point in proving something to someone unknown. Secondly, until the last moment I doubted whether it was necessary to bring all this information to the public eye - I was sure that in the 5 years that I had been outside the Spartak movement, everyone would forget about me and I would be of no interest to anyone, but time passes, and rumors and the speculation around my person not only does not subside, but only multiplies. And so, my comrades convinced me to post this material in order to answer everyone’s questions and finally close this topic.

The topic of what happened in the winter of 2009-2010.

The All-Russian Association of Fans (VOB) was created in the spring of 2007. At that time, the organization’s presidium included all the real leaders of the country’s leading fan movements. A “conditionally neutral” was elected president Shprygin (Kamancha). If there had been a person from Spartak, the horses would not have accepted him; if from the horses, I would never have agreed with this. And so - an option where the nominal president is from Dynamo, according to right hand Spartak, and on the left - CSKA, suited everyone.

The management and decision-making scheme in VOB looked like in the following way- everything was decided strategically by the three of us - Kamancha, Max Rabik and me. Next came a slightly more expanded composition in the person of Andrei Batumsky, who at that time worked as the press attache of the RFU, maintaining direct communication with the leadership Russian football and the leader of the Lokomotiv movement - Sergei Latysh. It was not difficult for our trio to convince the two of them of something, especially since we never did anything bad - we simply came up with new topics for the benefit of all movements, quickly received the consent of the others and implemented them.

The primary task - to raise the prestige of the national team, fill the stadium stands at home matches and arrange colorful performances at the national team's games - was completed quite quickly. We did this with joy, having extensive experience behind us at our club level. I won’t speak for the others, but I, like Fratria, was really “sick” about this topic! I was constantly coming up with something, new performances, organizing trips, new exercises for the national team, contacts with partners, attracting sponsors - I really liked all of this and was truly a gem. The three of us constantly communicated - we met in the office, had dinner in restaurants, went to the countryside for barbecues, and this was the key to the success of VOB at that time - there was trust between us. Fragile, but trusting.

But the main thing is that our movements benefited most from this cooperation within the framework of the VOB. We resolved all problems with the administrations of stadiums, cities, and police wherever our teams played. We carried out titanic work and our movements were really at the top not just in Russia, but throughout Europe! Now we can say this with confidence.

In 2009, the delicate balance of our mutual trust began to crumble. Several times during the year we openly accused Kamancha of dishonesty - incomprehensible money transactions, separate meetings with some high-ranking people, and every time we raised these issues in our narrow circle - he made surprised eyes, said that you were imagining all this, and if you want accuse me of something - prove it. We simply could not prove anything without real levers to manage the organization - access to accounts, accounting (Kamanchin was the accountant) and everything else. All this was superimposed on Max and I’s open dissatisfaction with the fact that nothing was happening with the organization itself - it was not developing.

Yes, we filled the stadiums at the national team, yes, we staged beautiful performances, yes, we organized trips, but what about the other questions? They hung like a dead weight - membership and the loyalty system and the legal service and a bunch of other topics that had long been invented, planned, but not implemented. And most importantly, nothing was done to implement them. By the fall of 2009, Max and I decided to replace Kamancha as president of the VOB.

I was then 26 years old, behind me, as I thought, stood the strongest movement in the country and one of the strongest in Europe. All this time, the wind always blew favorably for me, despite all the difficulties that I had overcome by that time. I was full of strength, energy and self-confidence. It didn’t seem difficult for me to replace Kalancha - after all, the truth was definitely behind us. We prepared very poorly for the “coup”, one might say, we practically did not prepare. And the most important matches of the national team lay ahead. On October 10, 2009, Russia played Germany at home. The most important game and if we had won, we would have qualified directly for the World Cup in Brazil. The excitement around the match is colossal. Putin and Merkel were supposed to attend the game, but in the end they were not, but Medvedev, the German ambassador and other top officials of the country filled the Luzhniki presidential box to capacity. When such important matches happen, and even with such an important opponent, there is always an incredible rush for football tickets. Here we need to make a small digression and talk about the tickets that VOB sold.

The VOB podium was always behind the gates. We divided it proportionally between all Russian movements and almost never refused anyone - there are a lot of tickets, Luzhniki can accommodate almost 20 thousand behind the gates and all movements received as much as they asked for. For Spartak, I always took from two to three Luzhniki sectors. We always officially received a commission from the RFU from all tickets sold. According to the official agreement, they received their small agent percentage absolutely legally. This money went into our movements. I can’t say who spent it and on what, I can only speak for myself and for the Spartak movement - we were all aware of this. The entire council of Fratria always knew how many tickets I took for the national team and how much money we received from them. Since there was never any money in Fratria, this commission immediately went to our own performances, to pay for the office, to pay off debts and other expenses that we constantly incurred. The tickets that I picked up for the movement were first divided between our football-related companies, ultra organizations and simply informal associations of fans, and only then were released into open sale. I always tried to treat everyone absolutely equally - I was not a member of any company or organization and was equidistant from everyone, but at the same time Union always thought that I communicated more with the Alliance, and the Alliance always believed that I was closer to Union and I sympathize with them more. In reality, both were equal for me - the only ones I really empathized with and constantly tried to give more tickets to were the young ultras. There were several reasons for this. Unlike football-related companies, they did not give away their tickets to hucksters and did not replenish their common fund due to this. During the hype matches, the official teams sold 50 to 100% of their tickets to hucksters. Everyone knew this very well and this situation existed in all movements. This was no secret to anyone. But I also couldn’t refuse to satisfy their requests, so cutting them down as much as possible, constantly hearing people say “I’m crazy,” I tried to give more tickets to young ultras who regularly went to matches and made a fool of themselves - We had to support the team somehow! That is, VOB tickets for the national team were first divided between the main fan movements of the country, which occupied the central sectors behind the gates, stirred up performances and organized support for the team. Next came the regions, whose requests we also always satisfied almost 100%, since they had tiny requests for dozens of tickets. Next came our friends and partners, who helped us in our work and whom we always helped with tickets, and we simply sold the rest through the office. There were always about 20-30% of the total leftovers - in the entire history of VOB - there were only two super-hype matches - Russia - England in 2007, where we deprived half of the hucksters of tickets for the game and in the end I quickly left for the army, and Max a few I lived in Turkey for months while the issue was being resolved here. And this game with the Germans. Why am I telling all this? There is a series important points, which will then greatly influence both my fate and the fate of the movement.

The excitement around the match with the Germans was enormous. Simply colossal. The commercial director of the RFU, Pyotr Makarenko, who, after the same match with the British in 2007, without any hesitation, arrived in a brand new blue Bentley literally a week after the game, smiling modestly and rubbing his hands. The RFU put a lot of pressure on us to put half of our tickets on public sale. On the one hand, we were torn apart by our movements, where each party sent me applications from the series - Alliance - 500 tickets, Union - 350, etc., despite the fact that both of them had never taken more than 200-250 before)) ) On the other hand, there was pressure from the RFU, which leaked most of their tickets to huckster agencies, and for the right picture and for journalists, they had to show that fans have the opportunity to buy tickets to the game. Superimposed on all this was the preparation of a large-scale performance for the entire stadium. We only dreamed of peace.

A couple of weeks before we received the tickets, Kamancha suggested that I lose a couple of thousand to hucksters and make money. In all the time of our communication, this was the first and only time. I am ready to swear on the Bible that during the entire time that I was in the fan movement, I did not leak a single Spartak ticket or a single national team ticket to the hucksters. This fateful match with Germany was the first and the last. And so, I heard this proposal in the VOB office, looked at Rabik sitting next to him - Maxim, in his unique manner of God's dandelion, smiled modestly and I agreed. The following scheme was invented - we announce a lottery. Anyone registers on the site, receives a serial number, after which we hold a drawing and randomly select about 4,000 thousand lucky ones. Here I will note again - these were purely VOB tickets, our movements had already received their standard quota by that time, and we always sold these tickets directly through the office. It was decided to lose half of the tickets to the dealers. In order to avert the slightest suspicion, everyone registered on the newly created fanat.ru portal owned by Championship.com and the draw was carried out by them - the General Director of the Championship, Dima Austrian, was also in on it. Moreover, he was supposed to become the future president of the VOB, although neither Kamancha nor he himself knew about this yet. We have not yet had an open war with Kamancha, and I have just begun to process the Austrian for a future post. Thus, everyone was in the black - we would openly sell several thousand tickets, the Fan.ru portal received several tens of thousands of registrations within literally a week, journalists who came to the drawing received a beautiful picture with queues for tickets and a transparent drawing - the RFU was satisfied, and we Each earned about one million rubles. The whole secret was in the winning numbers - we bet on the standard inattention of people. We really registered everyone, we really assigned numbers to everyone, we really entered all the numbers into the computer, pressed the magic button in front of the journalists under the cameras and held a drawing. And we actually received more than four thousand winning numbers. It’s true that no one bothered to check further - all the numbers that were drawn were drawn twice. That is, each number was duplicated and instead of more than four thousand, two thousand actually won. Who received their tickets, and the rest went to the left to hucksters.

I dwelled on this episode in great detail for only one reason - this was the only time in my entire life when I took part in such a fraud, and in the future it will have its say.

We lost the match with the Germans. Last game in Baku, in Azerbaijan, where I simply took my friends at my own expense (this money came to me so easily, so easily and quickly I parted with it) did not solve anything. We had play-offs with the Slovenians coming up. The first game was at home and again at Luzhniki. This was a month later, November 14, 2009. There was no longer any excitement here - Luzhniki was half empty and there were a lot of these tickets to be chewed up. We are standard scheme distributed tickets and sold a certain number of them through our movements. But we couldn’t even sell our stand outside the gates - people were very disappointed in the national team and no one wanted to go to the stadium to watch football, freezing in mid-November. At the same time, I regularly sold my Spartak quota and took the money to the VOB minus our standard commission, which then amounted to about 600 thousand rubles. And then Kamancha began to push the topic to me, saying that the RFU does not pay VOB a commission for this match, because few tickets were sold and we did not even sell our entire stand. Like, take the commission to the cashier too. To which I sent him away and said that this is the money of our movement, we sold all our tickets and have a legal right to our commission and that if anyone from the RFU has questions about this, let them call me. And then I made another mistake - I sent Kamanche an SMS saying that we already knew everything about this. I lied - we weren’t all in the know, since there had not yet been a gathering within the movement, and this one unfortunate SMS would later play a role. And a couple of weeks later, on November 29, there was an enchanting game of Spartak in St. Petersburg. It was memorable, first of all, for the fact that our entire squad did not make it to the game due to a beautiful passage in St. Petersburg wearing masks. Yes, yes - all these masks and much more for this match were bought, including with this money. Buses were organized and other things were paid for.

For this topic, I received two days of administrative arrest in court and slept in a cell for two days.

And then December came. And active actions began to overthrow Kamancha from the VOB throne. The plan was as simple as five kopecks and looked something like this - “well, Max and I will push, our movements will support us, the rest will also take our side, the new president will be an Austrian, social network Fan.ru, with almost 80 thousand registered users, is becoming our main resource and we are taking the organization to a fundamentally new level of development.” Yes - everything was just that naive and simple. After all, the truth was behind us...

We knew that Kamancha had some connections and patrons among our special services. We didn’t understand how much he was patronized by the Minister of Sports Mutko. Therefore, we were afraid to push ourselves directly and were looking for serious support. At first we tried to get it from Mutko - we went to his ministry several times, met and talked. We openly stated our position, said why we are not satisfied with Shprygin, why we want to replace him and what will happen after that. Mutko’s reaction can be briefly described as follows: “do what you want, just don’t touch me, I don’t care who your president will be.” At the same time, we worked within our movements - I carefully met with all the leaders of our official collectives and ALL assured me of support. Rabik achieved the most important thing - the unconditional support of Yaroslavka, in 2009 this was more than enough for the horse movement. They were aware of Jugent, but were a little distant, while they openly did not like Rabik, because all the benefits went to Yaroslavka, and they got the crumbs. In general, I had an even relationship with everyone, I didn’t reveal all my cards to anyone (which was also my mistake), but at the same time I received verbal support from the Union and from the Alliance and from the School and from the old people in the person of KVO and MB . Within the VOB itself, we immediately won over Lokomotiv to our side; Batumsky took the longest time to make up his mind and, in general, expressed sound, balanced concerns, but when Rabik received support from Yaroslavka, he also stood with us. The last vote of a member of the Central Council - Vasya Petrakov from Torpedo in this context was no longer very important, so Vasya was simply confronted with a fact and he signed a formal piece of paper where all members of the Central Council of the VOB insist on changing the president and holding an extraordinary conference on this matter.

In addition to purely fan matters, we were also looking for administrative support. We found her in the person of two people from the Presidential Administration with whom Styopa Grib brought us together. They supervised the fan topic, were aware of all the plans and expressed their unconditional support for us by starting to help with lawyers and preparing documents for our extraordinary congress. All these events happened in just a month. Everything was so fast, everything changed so quickly that now I can’t even believe it. But in reality, all the events described are just the end of December 2009 - January 2010.

Before the open phase of our conflict, we last time The three of us met with Kamancha - Rabik, me and Kamancha. We met in a cafe on Prospekt Mira - the situation was tense to the limit. Everyone already understood everything, but it was not said openly yet. At the meeting, we suggested that Sasha calmly resign from the post of president, otherwise, we will do it as we see fit. He did not accept our ultimatum and said “let’s fight.” On this we parted ways.

Next came our attack on Shprygin. Direct, open, dashing - checkers drawn, brave, in general. We unleashed a barrage of attacks on him in the media - we had all the sports media and the future president of the VOB, an Austrian, coordinated the work with them. All the country's sports media wrote about Shprygin's change, about the extraordinary VOB conference, and at the same time completely ignored him. The only resource that Kamancha had left was the VOB website - it was put up with the help of our friends from the presidential administration. When he published a statement on the RFU website, they also shut down the RFU website, which had not worked for almost a week, and Mutko yelled that we were completely stupid and that the RFU website should be quickly restored.

An extraordinary conference was scheduled for January 30, 2010; a sufficient number of delegates from all our regions were supposed to fly to it to make a legitimate decision on the re-election of the president of the organization. We paid for the entire event ourselves - the Austrian gave the money and we ourselves covered tickets, accommodation and other organizational expenses for all delegates. But since we were complete idiots and had no experience in all these dirty behind-the-scenes games, we did not calculate at all and did not even think about what Shprygin would do in response. And in mid-January we met with him again - by that time we had an overwhelming advantage on all fronts and Sasha looked depressed. And at this meeting we came to an agreement! We agreed that he sits quietly until April, when we are supposed to have a planned, annual conference, and already at this conference, he voluntarily leaves his post and we elect an Austrian as the new president. It was a victory.

That same evening, Max and I, joyful, met with Grib and two people from the AP and at this meeting, completely unexpectedly for us, Mitryushin appeared, who had never appeared anywhere before! At first this bothered us, but Mitryushin immediately promised Max to “close the issue with the Yugents” and help us in every possible way. Well, we tell everyone that this is how it is, we agreed with Kamancha, everything is fine, and in a couple of months we will officially change it at the annual conference.

And here comes a topic that I still don’t have an answer to. These characters from the Presidential Administration sharply, without objection, insist that this is all complete nonsense and in two months everything can be turned upside down and that we must act according to the previously developed plan and hold a conference on January 30th. Nobody wanted to listen to any arguments - either January 30th, or “do everything yourself.” I remember very well how much it stressed me then - I could not understand the logic of this decision and my whole insides resisted such a turn. But after the meeting, I called Kamancha and said that our daily agreements were cancelled, we were holding the conference now and changing it now. The clock was ticking the countdown tick-tock tick-tock... For Kamancha it was a severe blow then. And if it weren’t for his closest ally Bykovsky, I think he would have accepted defeat. But the older comrade did not let him fall and they began to practice their game - that is, to drain EVERYTHING that was in the VOB. It was the twentieth of January, the phone was ringing off the hook - dozens of delegates from all over the country were flying to Moscow, it was necessary to organize a conference room, invite journalists, organize a bunch of events, prepare just piles of documents. We worked day and night with terrible nerves, and I gradually began to receive alarm bells... The Boxers were the first to call me - we met with Plus, with Fabio and with someone else, whom I simply don’t remember now. And at the meeting Plus tells me that Kamancha came to them and offered five thousand euros so that the Boxers would dump me from VOB! We then laughed with them, saying how cheaply he values ​​me, but they told me, “be careful, Kamancha works for you, and not everyone in the movement loves you like we do.” Looking ahead, I will say that he also offered money to other people in our movement for me - I don’t know whether they took it or not, but only the Boxers told me about it. I didn’t attach absolutely any importance to it then - I was so confident in my own abilities, that these attempts of Kamancha seemed funny to me. On January 28, Roma Kolyuchy calls me and says we need to meet. We meet in the evening of the same day at their base. And the Alliance’s base then was the office OUR movements, which they guarded and through which they stirred up their topics. And so I come to Belorusskaya, to the office of OURS, the young Alliance is everywhere on guard, I go up to the hall on the second floor - Roma Kolyuchy, Vasya Killer, Ilyusha Ninja and Kiril Kerensky are waiting for me there. So and so - we have information, they say, do you want to tell us anything about VOB? At first I didn’t understand what the joke was, until Vasya nervously took out of his pocket a previously prepared piece of paper on which a number was written - one and a half million rubles. “That’s exactly how much you got from tickets at VOB - we know for sure!” Vasily blurted out to me. Here I begin to understand that Kamancha leaked this whole topic with Germany to them, but in what context I did not understand and therefore said that this is complete nonsense and either show evidence or goodbye. I understood perfectly well that they couldn’t have any evidence other than Kamancha’s words and, naturally, they didn’t have any. The conversation was generally very strange with a lot of omissions; it ended with Kolyuchy proposing to organize a general meeting tomorrow before the VOB conference. With that we shook hands. The next day a meeting of the Council of Phratria was held. Literally a couple of hours before the training camp, Kiril Moskal called me and said that we definitely need to meet before the training camp. The gathering was in our Hardcore pub on Chistye Prudy and Moskal and I met right on the road on Sakharov Avenue. They didn't talk for long - literally five minutes. Kiril decided to warn me that at the training camp I would be “cut down from the VOB.” At first I didn’t understand what he meant - then all these meetings, all the calls, really seemed like nonsense to me - my brain was on a completely different plane, I was thinking about completely different things and to imagine that a movement (any one) could kill its representative in At that time, it was simply impossible! So that everyone understands, the Council of Fratria never discussed VOB’s affairs! NEVER! At all the Councils, I spoke briefly about what was happening, they discussed tickets, discussed departure (especially when it came to freebies) - but no one ever got into it, no one cared!

And so I come to Hardcore for the training camp. To be honest, such a representative composition of meat was assembled only once before - on the day when they decided to make Fratria five years ago. The focus was then on me, and today, January 29th, 2010, the only agenda was me.

When we all somehow sat down in a separate room where all our training took place, I was amazed and it was at that moment that it finally dawned on me what was happening. Absolutely everyone was there! Even young ultras who had never participated in any Council were invited. The Professor was barking from the side, Prickly was broadcasting. He took out his phone and showed me the same SMS that I sent to Kamanche that I had taken a commission from tickets for the match with Slovenia! Kamancha sent this SMS to Roma and do you know what the motive was for me?! Attention! I was told that I did not have the right to dispose of this common money at my own discretion! At that moment everything just exploded in me and I lost it! I just started yelling that you are all crazy and why the hell even allow yourself to make such claims to me! Here I have to make another, small digression.

Since the founding of Fratria, for five years, the entire common fund of the organization has always been with me! All Phratrian money always went through me! For all five years, for all the time that we met dozens of times, NOT ONCE, NOT ONE PERSON asked me a single question about money! Do you know why?! Because Fratria never had them!!! We always didn’t have enough money for anything!!! During all the time I ruled Fratria, the club never helped us. Everything we did, everything we did, everything we achieved was done at our own expense! Where did they come from? Good luck to the world! That's it literally! At first we made a markup of 50 rubles on tickets, then, when I could no longer tolerate the constant attacks and accusations of ticket huckstering, we actively began organizing trips, sometimes earning something from the buses, and sometimes even going into the red. Then we made membership, started collecting money from firms and initiative groups - all firms chipped in at five thousand rubles a month, and initiative groups at three thousand. And do you know how it happened? Well, when I finally pestered someone over the phone, the leaders of the companies brought me debts for 2-3 months. Only Vasya Killer always delivered on time. All the rest - until you call a hundred times. Then they began to develop the store, but it was still very far from profit. Some of our performances cost more than a million rubles! There was never enough money for anything! Everyone knew about this very well, everyone was aware of it, and everyone always preferred to pretend that everything was fine - the battalion commander would resolve the issue anyway. And the Battalion Commander solved the problems - he constantly invested his money, ran around among businessmen who supported Spartak, begging them like a beggar for money for performances, looked for sponsors, negotiated with companies about the most low prices, contacted manufacturers directly to purchase everything needed as cheaply as possible! And sometimes he simply wrote promissory notes, received fabric or paint, and paid later when the money appeared. [...]

Now imagine my state when I’ve been sleeping 4-5 hours a day for the last couple of weeks, I’m all on my nerves with the VOB conference, which is supposed to take place tomorrow, and they present me with the fact that the money that I pulled out of the VOB (!) was brought to I didn’t have the right to spend my money (!) as I saw fit! All five years before I had the right, but now I don’t, and due to the “loss of trust,” as they say now, I can no longer represent the interests of Spartak in the VOB.

That's the whole result of this collection.

And here is the official statement of Fratrius on this matter, which I also wrote, like all previous statements of the movement:

Lately there have been a lot of rumors and gossip around the situation in and around the All-Russian Fans Association. As a result, many fan movements in the country were drawn into the conflict.

Today there was a meeting of the leaders of the Spartak fan movement. ALL Spartak associations and blocs were represented. The current situation around the PSA was examined in detail and a unified position on everything that was happening was developed.

I have been instructed to present it:

The current president of the VOB, Shprygin Alexander, bears full responsibility for the current situation and, as having failed in his duties, must immediately leave his post.

The Central Council, as the main governing body of the PSB, is also responsible for everything that happens and must resign in its entirety.

A reporting and election conference of the PSB should be held in the near future.

Due to the fact that Ivan Katanaev, as a member of the Central Council of the VOB, is involved in this conflict, until the current situation is resolved, the position of the Spartak fan movement will be represented by Ilya Novikov.

Ilya Novikov, this is Ilya Ninja from Kabanov, this pseudonym was invented for him right at the training camp. This was an official statement, but unofficially we agreed that I would prepare a report on the money, report to the meeting and all issues would be closed. That evening it was just a huge blow for me. I simply took it as a stab in the back from my own movement. Let me remind you that all this happened exactly on the eve of the announced conference! The very next morning there was this VOB conference. I didn't sleep all night. I just lay in some kind of prostration, lay there until 6 in the morning, took a shower, got dressed and went to the Belgrade hotel, where our conference was held. Not only was I the host, I had to give out a million more interviews, sign a bunch of papers and everything else. I conducted the conference purely automatically. Kamancha at that time was sitting directly opposite the hotel in the IlPatio restaurant on Smolenka and nervously caught any news from there. We held a conference, but it didn’t matter. While fighting Kamancha, we did not think at all that a third force might appear that would enter into a fight with us and with him. And such a force, completely unexpectedly, appeared at the very last moment, when the Spartak Alliance decided to take the VOB for itself. After only six months, having dug deep into this and realizing that VOB is just an abbreviation, but in reality these are living people who made this organization successful and that nothing works without us - they will abandon this matter and completely anathematize VOB. But this will happen only in the summer, and for now it’s February. Having become agitated and somehow calmed down, I began to play the situation back. Moreover, everyone expressed support for me - like, come on, let's report and win it all back. At that meeting, it is worth saying that the absolute majority simply remained silent. No one opposed the Alliance, and with my hysteria I also did not give a reason to vote for myself. The only one who said words in my support was Kosoy from Union, the whole ultra was silent, it is understandable given such a composition of participants, the Alliance was sharply against me, Union, Boxers and the School were silent, the Professor barked, but he always barks and no one pays attention to it attention. That's how we made that decision. But a week later, everyone once again expressed support for me and said - let's get ready for the next training camp. And here a new blow - Rabik is cut down by horses! He was my ally, and those who are in the know understand perfectly well that he could also influence some topics in meat. And here the whole horse movement, which he lived by as much as I lived by Spartak, makes him anathema. A video was leaked online where he gets into someone’s car and allegedly leaks an internal story to the cops. I can’t help but tell you how this video appeared. The fact is that Rabik had one, but very strong problem - he was on all Interpol lists and travel abroad was prohibited for him. And knowing his connections with hooligans in Europe, knowing his desire to stir up topics in Europe and generally ride around Europe for CSKA - you can imagine how much this issue bothered him. Yes, he could not sleep peacefully trying to solve this issue by any means and disappear from these lists. And so Roma Kolyuchy suggested to him, a few months before our revolution, to resolve the issue using his connections, which by that time Roman actually had serious connections. Kolyuchy put him in the car where they recorded Rabik and Max, the fool, got hooked and got this video as a souvenir. There were no options here, and even his Yaroslavka, which he brought to the European top and in which he invested everything he had then, even they did not support him. The game was played. Both Rabik and I got our own movement at VOB in just one week. And Kamancha no longer interfered with the new representatives of our movements. They came to an agreement with him. But I was still in the game. Having lost the official support of his own movement, Kamancha unleashed his bull bandits on me, who tried to “talk” to me by catching me near my house. Like any bull bandits, they did it rather clumsily and ingenuously, never getting anywhere. I quite quickly prepared a report on all the finances of Fratria for almost the last six months, sat and waited for the next collection. You yourself understand where my mood and general state of mind was all this time. And so, the gathering was scheduled three weeks after the events described - February 22, 2010. Still the same Hardcore, still the same lineup. I arrived at half past eight, as usual, half an hour before the meeting. Usually everyone arrived at this time, ordered a pint of beer and at 8, without delay, the gathering began. And there was no one in Hardcore, my high spirits immediately disappeared, I ordered a pint of beer and waited. Twenty minutes to... It's fifteen minutes to eight - I started dialing numbers - no one is available. At exactly eight o'clock I realized that I had been leaked. All phones are turned off - all are inaccessible, which means that the collection is taking place, but in a different place. You know, the next couple of hours were some of the hardest in my life - this oppressive feeling of extreme disappointment. A feeling of betrayal that just tears you apart and you can't do anything. I don't care about my enemies, but my friends?! I talked to you on the phone this afternoon and we discussed today’s training camp! I was betrayed even by those whom I sincerely considered my friends, and this understanding simply destroyed everything alive in me. For two hours I couldn’t even drink one glass of beer - nothing would fit, there was a lump in my throat and there was complete devastation. I never expected this. This situation took me by surprise and I was completely unprepared for such a turn. At about 10 pm I left Hardcore and walked across half of Moscow towards home. I just wanted to go wherever my eyes looked without thinking about anything. The first call came to me at the beginning of the twelfth night - Poodle called. Sorry, he says, the Alliance, literally a few hours before the meeting, moved the meeting place from Hardcore to Small Pub, they said that I should not be at the meeting under any circumstances, like we are discussing VOB affairs, and, they say, we will discuss me later. I hung up the phone silently. [...]

The other day, a council of all significant associations of the Dynamo fan movement was held, as a result of which the following decision was made:

From this day on, Alexander Shprygin, due to loss of trust, no longer has the right to represent the interests of Dynamo fans. As the General Director of Fan Club LLC football club“Dynamo Moscow” he represents only himself and his personal interests.

For this reason, the Dynamo fan movement does not want to have anything to do with this person and leaves all organizations headed by him.

Dynamo movement: 9, Patriots, Capitals, OTF, Ultra, Internet, Old West.

Shprygin: An Extraordinary PSB Conference may be convened in the near future:

Today it became known that the Dynamo fan club announced its withdrawal from the All-Russian Fans Association. The head of the VOB, Alexander Shprygin, spoke about this in a conversation with a correspondent, “ Soviet sports" Official statement.

“Today at the Dynamo office there was a meeting of the leaders of all the main groups of blue and white fans,” says Shprygin. – At the meeting, the issue of the further functioning of the Dynamo fans club was discussed. Since 2008, I have not been a representative of the executive management body of the fans club. However, until the last moment I remain a guide in the dialogue between fans and the club’s management. On February 20, the Founding Conference of the Dynamo Fan Club MOO was held, the president of which was elected Sergei Drozdov, who is a representative of the Dynamo movement in the VOB. Unfortunately, in my opinion, Sergei did not cope with his task - neither as the head of the Dynamo Design Bureau, nor as a representative of the movement in the VOB. The founding documents were not submitted to the Ministry of Justice; the club does not have a legal entity. All collegial governing bodies today are conceptual. I respect the opinion of Dynamo fans, I come from the club, it is dear to me. I have been an active participant in the Dynamo fan movement for more than 20 years. From 2002 to 2008 he was the head of KB Dynamo. And the way the question was raised, when colleagues expressed distrust, is a personal tragedy for me. During the 5 years of my presidency in the VOB, the issue of a vote of no confidence was raised many times, but from a legal point of view, the Conference elected me as leader. And as in the case of the so-called VOB revolution, it still did not become clear to me how I deceived the hopes of Dynamo fans.


“Nevertheless,” Shprygin continues, “if the decision on a vote of no confidence is made by a majority of votes, then as a self-respecting person I cannot but agree with it.” And I don’t see any further point in my participation in the governing bodies of the Dynamo fan movement. At the same time, I will always remain a devoted fan of the club and am ready to fully help by passing on my experience. I really hope that in the near future the movement of Dynamo fans will take into account the mistakes, form a single organization, register it legally in order to conduct a dialogue with the official bodies, and elect a worthy leader. A little time will pass and some nuances will appear decision taken will float up. I can’t comment in detail, but I regret what happened.

— In addition to KB Dynamo, where I was employed, there is VOB, which is a very powerful organization in its structure, has a wide network of regional offices, is part of the RFU, has a voice at the Conference, and a place on the executive committee. VOB is an organization supported by the state; since 2007 we have been registered with the Ministry of Justice. According to the results of the meeting of fans with the then Prime Minister of the country V.V. Putin, representatives of the VOB in those cities where the 2018 World Cup will be held are involved in the work of regional organizing committees, and the VOB is a partner of the organizing committee of the 2018 World Cup. This is an established organization that is part of the country's football system. But when the VOB leaves the movement of my native Dynamo, which has been my stronghold all these years, I don’t see it possible for myself to count on the fact that I will continue to be the president of the organization for a long time. But I will in no way let down the people with whom I have worked all this time. All current activities of the VOB will continue in full, but I do not rule out that in the near future an Extraordinary Conference of the movement will be convened, which will attract fans from all over the country and where I will most likely announce my resignation from the post of president of the VOB. I would like for the VOB to become in the future what it is according to its Charter - a trade union that unites all fans of the country. I hope that in this case, representatives of fans of Spartak, CSKA and Zenit will restore their membership in the organization. The elections, like the last presidential elections of the RFU, will be held openly and democratically. Wherein I would not like people with extremist sentiments to take power in the organization in the future. I have always defended the interests of the fans more than ordinary fans. But I wouldn’t want people with extreme views to stand at the head of the movement and defend these views at the official level. I hope that in the future the organization will also defend the interests of ordinary fans. VOB has a great future, I hope that at the two October matches of the national team the fans will rally around national team. The RFU is ready to cooperate with fan associations to attract fans to the national team’s matches, as Nikolai Aleksandrovich Tolstykh stated at a meeting with the leaders of fan movements shortly after his election.

On the morning of June 14, French security services detained a bus with a group of Russian citizens belonging to the organization “All-Russian Social Movement All-Russian Association of Fans - Russia Forward” or abbreviated as “VOB”. Previously, the largest international sporting event attracted the attention of the press and public not so much sporting achievements, as much as reports from police chronicles, in some places reminiscent of reports from the theater of military operations. The main “heroes” of the news were Russians football fans. Today the leader of these “fans” is a certain Alexander Shprygin with the speed of a machine gun scribbling from the police station desperate posts on Twitter, indignant at the actions of the French security forces, who “out of lawlessness” detained peaceful Russian ball game lovers.

However, before you begin to sympathize with the victim of tyranny, it is worth getting acquainted with what the “All-Russian public movement All-Russian Association of Fans - Russia Forward” is and who its permanent leader is.

Society learned about aggressive “near-football” in the first half of the 90s. Copying the behavior of their English “colleagues,” Russian fans united into “firms” and fought, and for many, football was more of a reason for a fight than a sporting hobby. All-Russian fame for “near-football” came after “Manezhka” - a mass pogrom that occurred in 2002 at Manezhnaya Square during the broadcast of the match Russia - Japan. Then 47 people were injured, one died in the hospital. It’s worth noting here that Manezhka became the convenient occasion thanks to which the Russian State Duma was able to toughen punishment for extremism. Around the same period, publications began to appear in the press about successful and mutually beneficial cooperation between the authorities and fan “firms.” According to the opinion, the current Minister of Sports of the Russian Federation and Vladimir Putin’s former colleague at the St. Petersburg mayor’s office, Vitaly Mutko, played a key role in this.

“Gladiators “Roma Prickly and Vasya Killer”

The cooperation consisted of the following: the authorities used fans as militants who could be set against representatives of the opposition. In turn, the “fans” received funding and protection, as well as a lenient attitude towards criminal activity on a fan basis (which, according to various sources, included racketeering, raider takeovers and protection of the drug business). Therefore, by the end of the first half of the 2000s, the Nashi movement, patronized by Vladislav Surkov, had its own controlled, well-prepared and “sharpened” under street fighting fan "firms" - "Gallant Steeds" and "Gladiators". However, their activity faded over time. A different fate awaited another structure created around the same years called VOB (All-Russian Association of Fans). It turned out to be the most successful of all the others due to the fact that it was initiated directly by the then head of the Russian Football Union (RFU) Vitaly Mutko. It is characteristic that from the very beginning the VOB was called “Mutko’s personal army.”

However, everything is in order:

Also typical is the case of an attack on activists near the Tagansky District Court, which was attended by representatives of another pro-Kremlin movement, “Local,” which also used fan “firms” for violent actions against the opposition. Roman Popkov, a participant in these events, writes:

We fought back and handed all these comrades over to the police. An obvious act of aggression, we are the victims, the defending party, everything was recorded by surveillance cameras near the court. They come out in a few hours, and a month later we are all arrested. Head of the Lyubertsy cell of the “Locals” Leonid Simunin– a participant in a violent provocation against the opposition, he also emerges as a person collaborating with the presidential administration in the case of the “Combat Organization of Russian Nationalists” and does not even particularly try to hide his closeness to the Kremlin. Alexey Mitryushin, who was one of the leaders of the Gallant Steeds group and participated in the attacks, is now posing as one of the Moscow region officials (Mitryushin is the chairman of the Council of Deputies of the Vidnoye urban settlement. - Ed.) in front of news agency cameras and feels comfortable.

Leonid Simunin “DPR” summer 2014

It is also interesting that the above-mentioned Leonid Simunin, according to Novaya Gazeta, was the curator of the nationalist organization “Russian Image” and terrorists from the so-called. BORN, who is responsible for many murders, the most famous of which are the murder of Anastasia Baburova and Stanislav Markelov. In this regard, no one should be surprised by the fact that Leonid Simunin surfaced in 2014 as one of the curators of the so-called militants. "LPR-DPR".

Now let's move on to our hero of the day - Alexander Shprygin, known in narrow circles under the nickname "Kamancha". This former leader Dynamo fan movement (Moscow), now a member of the RFU executive committee, head of the All-Russian Fans Association. An interesting fact is that Shprygin’s business took a sharp turn after Vitaly Mutko was elected president of the RFU, who immediately held a meeting with the leaders of the main fan groups, including the already mentioned “Gallant Steeds” and “Gladiators”. The then head of the Dynamo fan club (Moscow), Shprygin, also took part in the meeting.

Shprygin himself talks about his career rise as follows:

Vladimir Putin and Shprygin (Comanche)

“When the MOB emerged, we met with the president of the RFU, Vitaly Mutko. He immediately gave us amazing discounts on tickets and a task: to create an all-Russian fan club called “Forward, Russia!” He promised to give the right to vote in the RFU. And then we will create a federal association, with local representatives. We are now out of politics, but closer to the elections we will change this position. The condition for cooperation so far is this: our representatives must be on the lists of parties in passing seats. So that laws are not passed without us.”

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