The Foundation for Social and Cultural Initiatives was founded in December 2008. The President of the Foundation is Svetlana Vladimirovna Medvedeva - trustee National program“Spiritual and moral culture of the younger generation of Russia.” On her initiative and with her personal participation, a number of important social, cultural and educational projects were developed. These include the All-Russian holiday “Day of Family, Love and Fidelity”, celebrated since 2008, and the “Give Me Life” campaign, which is based on the child’s right to life and concern for women’s reproductive health. With the participation of the Foundation, charitable diagnostic centers for women's health "White Rose" were opened in St. Petersburg and Vladivostok. Their main task is the prevention of cancer of the reproductive system and mammary glands. Soon such centers will be opened in other regions of Russia.

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Ilya Eliseev is the chairman of the supervisory board of the Dar Foundation, the Fund for Support of Socially Significant State Projects (Sotsgosproekt), the Fund for the Support of Winter Olympic Sports and the Fund for Social and Cultural Initiatives (FSCI). Only in the Foundation for Social and Cultural Initiatives, since its creation in 2008, the president has been the wife of the Russian Prime Minister, Svetlana Medvedeva.

The Foundation for Social and Cultural Initiatives was founded in December 2008. The President of the Foundation is Svetlana Vladimirovna Medvedeva, a trustee of the National Program “Spiritual and Moral Culture of the Younger Generation of Russia.” On her initiative and with her personal participation, a number of important social, cultural and educational projects were developed. These include the All-Russian holiday “Day of Family, Love and Fidelity”, celebrated since 2008, and the “Give Me Life” campaign, which is based on the child’s right to life and concern for women’s reproductive health. With the participation of the Foundation, charitable diagnostic centers for women's health "White Rose" were opened in St. Petersburg and Vladivostok. Their main task is the prevention of cancer of the reproductive system and mammary glands. Soon such centers will be opened in other regions of Russia.

A number of the Foundation’s projects are aimed at providing assistance to talented and gifted children, at implementing programs for the social adaptation of orphans and children without parental care, at promoting the comprehensive development and formation of the civic position of the new generation. Thanks to the effective participation of the Foundation for Social and Cultural Initiatives and Svetlana Medvedeva personally, the International Charity Film Festival “Radiant Angel”, which is held annually in Moscow during the November school holidays, received a new impetus.

The Foundation's projects in the field of culture and art are aimed at expanding and strengthening interregional cultural ties, restoring a single cultural space in Russia and the CIS countries, conducting cultural dialogue between near and far abroad countries in a language that has no national, geographical and political boundaries - in the language art.

The Fund for Socio-Cultural Initiatives is designed to support state and public initiatives and serve for the benefit of cultural development and social well-being of Russia.

The Ministry of Education and Science spent 5 million rubles on holding a “fake” event of the Social Initiatives Fund, the president of which is the wife of the Prime Minister

The name of the wife of the Russian Prime Minister served as a screen. At the end of 2014, the federal ministry allocated 5 million for the development of the Social Initiatives Fund project, whose president is Svetlana Medvedeva. Fontanka was looking for traces of this money, spent on a press conference without press and on top bloggers without an audience. The amount was paid to an invisible company whose telephone number was installed in the office of the Ministry of Education and Science.

Fontanka wanted to write about good things. About how the state cares about the Russian language and its development in Finland: in the fall of 2014, for the development of educational teaching materials The Ministry of Education and Science spent 847,725 rubles on teaching Russian as a foreign language specifically for this country. Thus, the subject of journalists’ attention was Capital Education LLC, which fulfilled the state order.

It was not possible to tell our readers in more detail about the undertaking, since traces of the methodology were lost. The Ministry of Education and Science, having heard the question, asked to send it in writing - there is no answer yet. An attempt to contact Capital Education led to confusion: the contact phone number of the contractor indicated in the government contract card on the official website, as it turned out, was installed in the Ministry of Education. The organization does not have its own website.

Lightning-fast technique

Surprised by the mystery of the scientific organization, Fontanka took a closer look at the terms of the government contract and was even more surprised. According to the assignment, the result should have been a work of 12 printed sheets, which approximately corresponds to a hundred A4 pages. It had to include at least five sets of information and methodological educational, didactic and methodological materials and manuals aimed at solving the problems of teaching the Russian language in Finland, taking into account different levels of education and years of study. The contract was concluded on December 17, after Capital Education won the competition against two competitors with a minimal advantage. The work execution certificate was signed on December 22, 2014. That is, scientific and methodological work of 100 pages was completed by specialists from Capital Education in 2 working days. It doesn't happen that way.

The skepticism of journalists was shaken by the impressive package of government contracts successfully completed by the company. According to the official government procurement website, in 2013-2014, Capital Education entered into 12 contracts, receiving about 22 million rubles from the Ministry of Education and Science and budgetary funds. educational institutions Moscow. To finally be convinced of the groundlessness of skepticism, we looked at how “Capital Education” coped with the previous major task. The result made us think about the courage of businessmen and officials who, it seems, wrote off several million under Svetlana Medvedeva’s foundation. The relatively modest hundreds of thousands for a method of studying the Russian language in Finland (which the Finnish professors had not heard of) seemed like a prank.

5 million to promote goodness

The Social Initiatives Foundation is an organization founded in December 2008 under the patronage of Svetlana Medvedeva, the wife of then President and now Prime Minister of Russia Dmitry Medvedev. Among the foundation’s projects is the public-state initiative “Warm Heart,” which is designed to “find, support, express recognition and gratitude to caring people, children’s and youth public associations and organizations that are ready to unselfishly come to the aid of people in need, have shown examples of courageous and courageous actions, and have implemented socially significant initiatives and projects.” Those found to be caring are gathered annually in Moscow, where they are honored in the presence of government officials and pop stars, and are also awarded a special badge.

The fund’s initiative is actively supported by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Emergency Situations and the Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights. The Ministry of Science and Education also supports. So much so that in the fall of 2014 it announced a competition for concluding a government contract, promising to pay 5 million rubles for “organizational support of the All-Russian public-state initiative “Warm Heart”. Having reduced the price by 75 thousand, the competition was won by Capital Education. Judging by the signed certificate of completion of work, the contractor completed the task. To clear their conscience, Fontanka journalists familiarized themselves with the conditions. Read the list necessary work, compared them with reality. And we wondered why the director of the department public policy In the field of education of children and youth, the Ministry of Education and Science, Alexander Stradze, signed an act on the completion of work, no traces of which could be found.

Money for air

In accordance with the state contract, during the period from October 1 to October 15, 2014, Capital Education had to accomplish a lot to popularize the Warm Heart initiative. According to the act, it was in time. A quick comparison of the work execution document with reality causes dissonance.

Even basic requirements have not been met, as any Internet user can see. In the contract, the contractor is obliged to create three accounts in in social networks(Facebook, Twitter and VKontakte) “with content for 10,000 people.” Searches for these accounts on social networks were unsuccessful. It is possible (and paid for) to order publications from top bloggers. It would be interesting to see examples. We didn't find them.

But we found the VKontakte community. According to the terms of the paid contract, the group must contain 10,000 unique members. In January 2015, the group had 3 (three) participants and 2 (two) entries - the emblem of the initiative and the unanswered question: “Which of us is proud of what he has accomplished?”

Further in the conditions - writing scripts and filming “viral videos”. The plural means that there must be more than one video. Fontanka was able to find one video of “Warm Heart” on the Internet, which appeared in the fall of 2014. The question remains whether the video, which was viewed by 12 people (including two journalists), can be called “viral.”

Virtual characters of social networks are pennies compared to the money that was allocated and spent on holding (or not holding) mass events. Seminars were allegedly held in 9 federal districts (including the Northwestern Federal District), each of which was supposed to be attended by 4 candidates of sciences as speakers, and 150 students as participants. We do not know whether these seminars were held. If they were carried out, they were carried out so secretly that even the specialized committee on youth policy of the St. Petersburg administration did not find out about the important public and state event. There they assured Fontanka that, of course, they knew about “Warm Heart,” but they had not heard about any seminars in October.

Lost Conference

The culmination is the All-Russian conference “Warm Heart”, which, judging by the contract and the certificate of completion, was successfully held in Moscow. The event, according to documents, was attended by at least 250 people responsible for youth policy in the regions. All those present were provided with bags, diplomas, plastic envelopes and notepads. Ballpoint pens and pencils to write in notebooks, and erasers to erase if you wrote incorrectly. The conference room was equipped with all kinds of technology, and two banners hung on the walls. The meeting lasted two days, the cloakroom and buffet were open.

Based on the results of a simple conference, recorded in the work completion report, a press conference was held, about which releases were sent out in advance to print and electronic media, television channels and radio stations.

Fontanka journalists searched for a long time and unsuccessfully for traces of a large-scale event. The forum and subsequent press conference passed without leaving anything in the information field. No remedies found mass media, which mentioned him. Moreover, about all-Russian conference“Warm Heart” doesn’t say anything even on the official website of “Warm Heart”.

Stunned by the new format of the event - a secret press conference kept secret from the press, the correspondent turned to the Social Initiatives Foundation. The head of the foundation’s public relations department, Alexander Pashkin, assured that the foundation did not hold any conferences or press conferences in the fall.

When the journalist asked how the foundation could comment on the contents and results of the government contract, Alexander Pashkin suggested that this could be an event of the Ministry of Education and Science, conducted without the knowledge of the foundation. And the press conference could have been closed, so the press would not know about it.

Even if, in fact, the specialists of “Capital Education” carried out a daring innovative project, managing to hold a conference of the movement without the organizer of the movement and a press conference without the media, it is not clear why the customer in the person of the Ministry of Education and Science did not have any questions: nevertheless, according to the task, journalists should were present at the event. If Fontanka is wrong, it will not be difficult for Capital Education to refute the unworthy insinuations, because after the conferences, according to the same contract, 1.5 thousand photographs and a two-hour video should remain.

At Alexander Stradze’s reception they refused to connect the correspondent with the director of the department, redirecting him to the press service of the ministry. The press service asked for a written request, which was sent immediately.

Invisible Performer

Interested in a new approach to the advertising process, the main distinguishing feature of which is invisibility, the journalists continued trying to contact the management of Capital Education LLC. According to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, the general director of the LLC is Andrey Andrianov, and the sole founder is Irina Knyazeva. Using the SPARK-Interfax system, the phone number of the general director was discovered. Ekaterina Emelyanova, who, according to SPARK, headed the company until May 2014, answered the phone.

Ekaterina Emelyanova assured that for more than a year she has not had anything to do with Capital Education, she does not know the address or telephone number, and there is no point in calling the founder, since she also has nothing to do with the activities of the society. But still asked to send the question to email. She will try to contact “whoever is doing this now.” The question has been sent, but no response has yet been received. The conversation left a strange impression, especially since the government contract card for “Warm Heart” indicated Emelyanova’s mobile phone number as a contact number.

With this, the search for “Capital Education” ended before it began. Trying to locate a company by place of registration would be naive - in office 19, building 44 on Bolshaya Serpukhovskaya Street in Moscow, 4,658 companies are registered (data from SPARK). The persons responsible for concluding government contracts with Capital Education at the Ministry of Education and Science listened politely and promised to call back. Haven't called back yet.

As for the general director Andrei Andrianov and the founder Irina Knyazeva, information about them is scarce. Knyazeva, according to Fontanka, previously worked at the Academy of Management and Market (which, before moving to the Moscow and then the federal government, was headed by Deputy Minister of Education and Science Veniamin Kaganov).

High patrons

“Warm Heart” has plenty of top-level patrons. Starting from Svetlana Medvedeva, who heads the organizing committee, and continuing with Deputy Minister of Education and Science Veniamin Kaganov, State Secretary of the Ministry of Emergency Situations Vladimir Artamonov, Children's Rights Commissioner Pavel Astakhov and other serious people.

Fontanka is interested in their reaction to our publication.

Denis Korotkov

The Novaya Gazeta correspondent tried to figure out what the charitable foundations “Dar”, “Gradislava”, “Sotsgosproekt”, the Winter Olympic Sports Support Fund and the Foundation for Socio-Cultural Initiatives are doing - ​their names are once again heard thanks to recent investigations by “Sobesednik” and Anti-Corruption Foundation, which found out that residences in the Moscow region, Krasnodar region, Ivanovskaya and Kursk regions, where Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev visits, belong to several organizations that call themselves “charitable foundations” and are run by Medvedev’s classmates. The funds turned out to be secret: only one of the five has a website, two have signs on the building, and one is not located at the registration address at all. Attempts to request reports from these organizations posing as charitable foundations turned out to be similar to a quest.

In search of lost funds

According to the law on NPOs, non-profit organizations are required to submit a report to the Ministry of Justice every year on their activities and spending purposes. Money and use of property, and “foreign agents” also means an audit report. NPOs can get by with a message about the continuation of activities if they have received no more than 3 million rubles in a year, there are no foreigners among the founders and there have been no receipts of funds from abroad.

This means that reports on who the fund received from and how it spent the money should be either on the Ministry of Justice portal or on the website of the fund itself. Large Russian charitable organizations usually publish reports on their websites so that anyone can easily find out where donors' money is going.

Thus, the Gift of Life foundation publishes monthly reports on how much money and from whom it came through the bank, payment systems and mobile app, what medical centers they went to see what exactly they bought with them. “Rusfond” reports every month which children were paid for operations, medications, medical devices and services, how much it cost, and also lists the donors. Other well-known charities operate in a similar way: transparency of finances allows people to believe that the fund is worth donating money and it will go to a good cause.

But with the funds of Dmitry Medvedev’s acquaintances, it’s a completely different story. There are no reports on the Ministry of Justice website, and their own sites actually do not exist: sites gradislava.ru, olimpicsports.ru and sgpfund.ru, listed in constituent documents, do not work, and the Dar Foundation website darfond.ru is closed, and when you try to access it, it requires you to enter your login and password.

"Dar" Foundation. Photo: Vlad Dokshin / Novaya Gazeta

“Dar” is a foundation that owned the “Milovka” estate in Plyos, where Dmitry Medvedev was seen on vacation. We sent a request to the fund, and the secretary girl confirmed by phone that the request had been received. But when the correspondent of Novaya Gazeta went in search of the Dar office, it turned out that at the registration address: 2nd Spasonalivkovsky Lane, building 6, there is a construction site; a residential complex is being built here by the company Codest International S.R.L. " The telephone secretary refused to tell the correspondent the current office address (if there is one), asking that the question be sent in writing.

Other events

The only source of information about how funds associated with Medvedev spend funds is databases like “SPARK”, where, among other things, you can find reports on the intended use of funds. There you can find out, for example, that the Fund for regional non-profit projects “Dar” in 2015 received 1.4 billion rubles in the form of donations, and spent 454.6 million on targeted activities, but this is not social and charitable assistance, conferences or seminars, - ​0 rubles were spent on these articles, and all the money went to “other events.” At the same time, 224.7 million were spent on salaries, business trips, maintenance of cars and buildings, and another 574 million were purchased for “fixed assets, inventory and other property.” In 2013, 874.6 million was spent on “other activities.” The report for 2011, however, indicates very large costs for charitable assistance: more than 1.3 billion rubles.

Unfortunately, from such a report it is impossible to understand what kind of assistance and what “other activities” are meant.

For some years there are no reports at all, and in those that exist, every time by the end of the year, from 6 billion to 8 billion remain unused.

The director of one of the largest Moscow foundations involved in real charity says that these are “giant funds.” According to him, balances of this size can accumulate at the fund when, for example, it is going to build some building, but cannot immediately begin construction due to the fact that it needs to receive permits. According to the law on charitable activities, a charitable foundation can use up to 20% of incoming funds for administrative expenses.

You can learn about some of the expenses of the Dar Foundation from the file of arbitration cases. For example, that in 2010, “Dar” paid the Krasnodar company “Ricco-Style” LLC 603 .4 million rubles for the construction of “a non-residential building with a swimming lane at the address: Russian Federation, Ivanovo region, Privolzhsky district, village. Milovka, “The Chernev Estate (“Milovka Estate”),” follows from court documents in which “Dar” demanded to recover an advance from “Ricco-Style” for work that it did not complete—​most of the amount paid.

Reports of other funds in the public database also provide scant information, often showing only dashes for all items of income and expenses. For example, about the Gradislava Foundation for the Preservation of Cultural and Historical Heritage, which, as FBK found out, received an estate in Milovka from Dar as a donation, you can only find out that in 2013 it received profit from a certain entrepreneurial activity in the amount of 531 thousand rubles and another 749 million from an unnamed source, and they are not classified either as donations or as income.

The Fund for Support of Socially Significant State Projects (“Sotsgosproekt”) received 58 million in donations in 2012, and spent 103.6 million on targeted activities - again, it is not known which ones. In 2013, donations reached 261.8 million, the fund received another 9 million in the form of profit from business activities and 23 million from “other” sources. 204.9 million were spent on “other events” (not charity or conferences). In 2015, Sotsgosproekt received 1 billion and spent 750 million rubles on charitable assistance. But it is absolutely impossible to find out what good deeds this money went to: no traces of the activities of either “Dar” or “Gradislava” could be found. (Read below about the fate of our requests.)

The Winter Olympic Sports Support Fund, the owner of the Psekhako reception house near Sochi, reported in 2015 that it spent 160 million rubles on charitable assistance - and 211 million on the maintenance of the management apparatus, that is, on salaries, rent and other own expenses.

Of all the funds associated with Dmitry Medvedev, the Foundation for Socio-Cultural Initiatives (FSCI) is the most open. True, he did not appear in the investigations as the owner of real estate, but he is associated with the Dar Foundation - its subsidiary Management Company The Dar Foundation was registered at the same address as FSCI. The Foundation for Social and Cultural Initiatives itself is located not in some business center where dozens of companies rent offices, but in a one-story house of the 19th century, on Bolshaya Ordynka, 70 - ​to imagine that the organization, where Svetlana Medvedeva is the president, divided It would be difficult to have a small old mansion with some kind of alien organization.

FSCI is the only fund on the list that has a working website. There are descriptions of the foundation’s projects, for example: the national target comprehensive program “Spiritual and moral culture of the younger generation of Russia”, the all-Russian action “Stop HIV/AIDS”, “Academy of Young Opera Performers from Russia at the Monte Carlo Opera”, the “Warm Heart” award , diagnostic centers "White Rose" and others. But there are no reports on the website about from whom the fund received donations, how and what it spent them on.

How to get to the fund?

Novaya's correspondent tried to obtain reports from the funds themselves. The FSKI phone is answered by a girl named Christiana, who refuses to give her position and last name. She reports that the foundation posts reports “on various other sites,” but is unable to specify which ones. Then, after consulting with management, she calls back and says that the reports on the Ministry of Justice website are simply stored for only one year, and they were there, and the report for 2016 will appear only on April 15. However, this is not true: on the portal of the Ministry of Justice you can find reports from non-profit organizations since 2014.

After much arguing, Christiana says that she needs to leave, promises to call back... and disappears. Nevertheless

the foundation sent a parcel to the editor: a folder with brochures about the dangers of HIV, a memorial book about people who showed courage during fires, called “Warm Heart” and another stack of printed materials

according to the programs that the fund lists on its website (thanks for that. — ​ Ed.). Obviously, this is a report on the activities of the FSCI.

At least one tangible FSCI project is the White Rose diagnostic centers, in which women are offered free screening for possible cancer. Judging by a large number reviews on the Internet, the centers really work, in 2014 the White Rose Foundation reported that it received 90.7 million rubles, spent 303,000 rubles on salaries, and purchased property for 18 million.

The Gradislava Foundation is not very open to communication with the press. The phone number specified during registration belongs to you personally to CEO Ivan Karabinsky. When talking with a Novaya correspondent, he refused to give an email address or fax, noting: “I can’t identify you as a journalist,” and suggested bringing the request to the office.

At the registration address: Kotelnicheskaya embankment, 25, building 1, there is an office building, there is no Gradislava sign on it. The guard at the checkpoint reports that Ivan Igorevich Karabinsky himself is not sitting here, but Roman Kalistratovich Kostetsky is sitting here. After a call from the security guard, he comes out - a tall man in a jacket with grayish hair. Introduces himself as the deputy director and takes the request.

A woman answered the call from Novaya’s correspondent at Sotsgosproekt; when asked where you can look at the fund’s reporting and whether there is an official website, she answered: “No, we don’t have a website,” and hung up. Then we tried to convey the request to the office, and it was like Franz Kafka's novel The Castle.

The foundation is registered at the address: Rossolimo street, building 17, building 2, which is the Rossolimo business center. In the lobby of the center there is a list of organizations that are located there, “Sotsgosproekt” is also indicated, along with the telephone number - the same as indicated in the constituent documents: 8 495 287-45-61. However, when the Novaya correspondent called on this phone, introduced himself and asked to accept the request, the woman on the other end of the line said the phrase: “Wrong number”... and hung up.

Then the security guards of the business center tried to call Sotsgosproekt on the same number - ​to no avail, no one answered. At the same time, the fund’s employees were obviously at their workplace: Novaya’s correspondent contacted the Rossolimo administration, and they reported that right at the time of the conversation they were “in touch” with a representative of Sotsgosproekt. However, after this communication session, the administration employee refused to provide the “correct” phone number and said that the request could be left in the mailbox, after which he hung up. We followed the advice, but the editors never received a response.

The Winter Olympic Sports Support Fund is located in a building on Kadashevskaya embankment, 6/1/2 (the building faces two streets and an embankment, so it has an address with two fractions). The entrance to the offices here is from the yard; you need to go through the gate, which security opens when the bell rings. There are no signs at the entrance. The security guards, having heard from a correspondent that a Winter Olympic Sports Support Fund is required, first spend a long time finding out whether such a fund exists in the building. The driver warming up the car at the porch had not heard of it either. It turns out that there is a fund, and the guards offer to leave a request with them.

We sent requests on March 20 and 21 and are waiting for answers. So far we have only received letters from FSKI, Gradislava and Dar: the organizations thank “ New newspaper» for attention to their activities and gently make it clear that they will not provide reports. For example, like this:

“Reporting on the activities of the Fund is submitted to the authorities supervising the activities of non-profit organizations in the manner prescribed by law. We wish the editors of the newspaper new creative successes, good news, reliable and objective materials, balanced assessments, and most importantly, the trust of readers!”

- ​reads a letter from the Dar Foundation, whose employees sent an answer to Novaya by email in the form of a Word file without a form.

We contacted the Ministry of Justice with a request to provide the funds' reports for the editors' review. The response of the Ministry of Justice reads: “The requirements of the Federal “On Non-Profit Organizations” for the provision of reporting by the specified non-profit organizations complied with. To familiarize yourself with the reporting, you must contact the specified funds.”

Instead of a report on the activities of the FSCI, we received:

1. Book of honor “Warm Heart” - 1 copy.
2. Illustrated edition “Patrons of family and marriage Saints Peter and Fevronia of Murom” - ​1 copy.
3. Album 2nd All-Russian competition young performers "Russian Ballet" - ​1 copy.
4. Brochure for the “Radiant Angel” charity film festival in Moscow - 1 copy.
5. Brochure for the “Radiant Angel” charity film festival in Murom - 1 copy.
6. Brochure for the “Radiant Angel” charity film festival in Tambov - 1 copy.
7. Brochure “Creative schools “Art Workshops”, Sevastopol, 2015 - 1 copy.
8. Brochure of the participant of the All-Russian Children's Military-Historical Assembly “Eternal Flame-2016” - 1 copy.
9. Invitation to the award ceremony for the laureates of the festival “Grave the Fatherland” in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior on November 10, 2016 - 1 copy.
10. Brochure “HIV infection is a global threat” - 2 copies.
11. Mini-brochure “5 steps to stop HIV” - copy.
12. Brochure “Congratulations! You are pregnant!" — 1 copy.

Updated:

The Winter Olympic Sports Support Fund sent a response to the editor that the Fund is not charitable organization, therefore, director Sergei Brovchenko considers our demand to provide information on income and expenses “insignificant.”

Maiden name - Linnik

14.03.2019

Medvedeva Svetlana Vladimirovna

President of the Foundation

Social and cultural initiatives

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06.11.2016 Results of the International Festival “Radiant Angel”

Wife of the third President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev. First Lady from 2008 to 2012.
Head of the board of trustees “Spiritual and moral culture of the younger generation of the Russian Federation.”
President of the Foundation for Social and Cultural Initiatives.

Svetlana Medvedeva was born on March 15, 1965 in the city of Kronstadt, Leningrad region. The girl was born into the family of military sailor Vladimir Alekseevich Linnik and economist Larisa Ivanovna Linnik. At the age of five, the family moved to St. Petersburg, where they soon went to school.

She met her future husband, Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev, in 1972 at school. The guy studied in a parallel class. They started dating in the seventh grade of secondary school No. 305 in Kupchino. Svetlana constantly participated in performances, KVN and other amateur performances. After receiving a certificate of secondary education, the girl graduated from the St. Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance, Faculty of Statistics, accounting And economic analysis. From her first year, Svetlana immediately transferred to the evening department.

The wedding of Svetlana Linnik and Dmitry Medvedev took place on December 24, 1993. Two years later, the couple had a son, Ilya. After the birth of the child, Svetlana did not work, but took care of the house. At the time of the wedding, the husband worked as a teacher in St. Petersburg state university. At the same time, he was an adviser to Anatoly Sobchak in the St. Petersburg City Hall. Later appointed as an expert of the Committee on External Relations of the St. Petersburg City Hall, headed by Vladimir Putin.

In November 1999, the Medvedev family moved to Moscow. Dmitry Anatolyevich was appointed Deputy Chief of Staff of the Government of the Russian Federation Dmitry Nikolaevich Kozak. Svetlana Vladimirovna became involved in the social life of the capital. She can often be seen at social events and modeling shows.

The work of Svetlana Medvedeva, her social activity, is connected with both Moscow and St. Petersburg. With the participation of Svetlana Vladimirovna, a number of programs have been developed, the purpose of which is to increase the social, cultural level of Russians, and education. In 2007, Medvedeva became the head of the board of trustees of the program “Spiritual and moral culture of the younger generation of Russia.” The goal of the program was “to introduce the country’s younger generation to domestic cultural, historical, spiritual and moral traditions.”

In 2008, Medvedev was elected president of the Foundation for Social and Cultural Initiatives. Activities are related to programs to promote a healthy spiritual climate in Russian families and the adaptation of children without parental care. The foundation's mission is to develop and advance gifted children in life. Among the Foundation’s initiatives: the all-Russian holiday “Day of Family, Love and Fidelity”, the symbol of which is the chamomile flower. As part of the protection of motherhood and childhood, and care for the reproductive health of women in Russia, the “Give Me Life” campaign was organized. The action was highly appreciated by the Moscow Patriarchate and the Slavic Fund of Russia.

In 2010, Svetlana Vladimirovna co-founded the Russian Ballet competition for young talents. At the same time, he is the head of the board of trustees of the targeted comprehensive program “Spiritual and moral culture of the younger generation of Russia,” created with the blessing of Patriarch Alexy II. He also does a lot of charity work: he patronizes the St. Petersburg boarding school No. 1, where 316 pupils live from 4 to 25 years old.

Svetlana Medvedeva has received many prizes and awards. Among them: “Order of the Russian Orthodox Church of the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Princess Olga, II degree,” “International Cyril and Methodius Award,” “Order of Glory and Honor, I degree,” “ Certificate of honor President of the Russian Federation." He is an “Honorary Citizen of the City of Cannes.”

Awards and Recognition of Svetlana Medvedeva

2007 - Patriarch Alexy II awarded her the Order of the Russian Orthodox Church of the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Princess Olga, II degree

2008 - Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Alexy II presented her with a public award from the Regional Charitable Public Foundation named after. Grand Duchess Evdokia of Moscow - Patriarchal sign of Grand Duchess Evdokia of Moscow

2008 - the mayor of Milan (Italy) Letizia Moratti presented her with the city's highest award - "Ambrogino D'Oro" ("Golden Ambrose", Italian. Ambrogino d "Oro)

2008 - Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad presented her with the Patriarchal Certificate for preparing and holding the first Day of Family, Love and Fidelity in Russia

2010 - International Cyril and Methodius Prize (Slavic Foundation of Russia and Moscow Patriarchate)

2010 - Honorary Citizen of the City of Cannes (France)

2012 - Order of Glory and Honor, 1st degree (ROC)

2012 - Order “Rukhubelent” (Turkmenistan) - for great personal contribution to the development of cooperation between Turkmenistan and Russian Federation in the fields of science and education, cultural and humanitarian fields, for services in strengthening friendly relations between the two countries, in educating young people of high spiritual and moral principles, as well as taking into account the large-scale public work carried out by them

Maiden name - Linnik

Father - Vladimir Alekseevich Linnik, military sailor.
Mother - Larisa Ivanovna Linnik, economist.