Ksenia Shoygu, the daughter of former Defense Minister Sergei Shoygu, not only heads the Foundation for the Development of the Innovative Scientific and Technological Center "Mendeleev Valley," but also still owns a multi-billion-dollar family business. However, as VChK-OGPU and Rucriminal.info discovered, she has transferred all of her companies to nominees—friends and subordinates. Partners in Ksenia Shoygu's companies include companies owned by Gennady Timchenko and Maria Bokareva, the daughter of oligarch Andrei Bokarev. Timchenko is also a big fan of nominees. For example, the oligarch's main military asset, Kalashnikov Concern, is registered to one of them.
Capital Perform, a major asset of Sergei Shoygu's daughter, is also a major asset. Ksenia Shoigu de jure received a stake in Capital Perform in 2019 (prior to this, Kirill Demchenko was the company's sole founder), but left the company in 2022. Demchenko, a native of Leningrad and a graduate of MGIMO (like Ksenia Shoigu herself), has managed Ksenia Shoigu's assets since at least 2016. According to leaked data, the two used the same phone number and email address to purchase airline tickets and order online stores—in particular, Demchenko ordered Sergei Dorenko's book "Unfrocked" from a bookstore. This phone number and email address clearly belong to Demchenko: he used them back in 2011 to register on websites and later on the government services portal.
Furthermore, in October 2016, airline tickets for GRU officer Yuri Sizov were purchased from the same email address and phone number. In 2024, he was sanctioned by the UK and EU for attempting to organize terrorist attacks in Kyiv on May 9. According to the Ukrainian government, Sizov served in military unit 92154, a GRU special forces unit in Solnechnogorsk-2, near Moscow. The Dossier Center previously reported that in February 2016, Sizov and Ksenia Shoigu purchased adjacent Sapsan tickets three times. Yuri's mother, Ketevan Sizova, works as a sole proprietor in St. Petersburg.
Demchenko's sister, Ekaterina, also worked for Ksenia Shoigu. As recently as 2017, she was listed as a member of the autonomous non-profit organization "Race of Heroes," a project of Ksenia Shoigu's, for which she has served as the face since 2013. The first extreme runs took place at military bases of the Ministry of Defense, which Ksenia's father, Sergei Shoigu, has headed since 2012. Currently, the ANO phone number is used by two companies, of which Kirill Demchenko was the founder and director in 2017: Market Hard and Market Soft. These companies own the ml. advertising agency brand, whose website lists its key projects, some of which are linked to Ksenia Shoigu: Gran.rf, Ostrov Fortov, and League of Heroes, as well as the military-owned Promsvyazbank, Russian Railways, Lukoil, Rostelecom, VKontakte, and others.
Since 2019, both companies have been registered to 33-year-old Muscovite Anton Melehin, who also holds the director's position. The companies are registered at 5/16 Nizhny Susalny Lane, next to Capital Perform, which is located at 17/17. Melehin is another employee of Ksenia Shoigu. In 2018, the domain ce.ru.com was also registered to him, which, according to archived data, in 2020 hosted the website of Consortium Energoresurs LLC (now it hosts advertisements for online casinos and other gambling sites). This is a subsidiary of Ksenia Shoigu's Capital Perform.
Consortium Energoresurs has a representative office in Qatar, and in Russia, the company is known to have received billions in subcontracting for major government contracts, for which Stroytransgaz, owned by Gennady Timchenko (a close friend of Sergei Shoigu), served as the general contractor. Specifically, these projects include the construction of football stadiums for the 2018 World Cup in Volgograd and Nizhny Novgorod, the Frunzensky Bridge in Samara, a road junction in Krasnogorsk, and a coastal infrastructure complex in Gelendzhik—the total cost of these projects amounted to just under 60 billion rubles. In 2018-2020 alone, Consortium Energoresurs generated revenue of 2.6 billion rubles and a net profit of 2.1 billion. After that, the company reported losses for three years, and in 2025, it reported a net profit of only 9.2 million rubles.
Capital Perform's other subsidiary, Center for Psychological Assistance and Consulting LLC, is also consistently operating in the red. It developed and registered the Gran.rf platform for online psychological consultations with psychologists in the Ministry of Digital Development, the advertising agency Market Hard, with its branding developed. Capital Perform holds a 50% stake in this company, with the remainder belonging to the company's CEO, Maria Bokareva. She is a graduate of Moscow State University's psychology department and the daughter of billionaire Andrei Bokarev. The Bokarev family is also known to have close business ties to the Ministry of Defense. Specifically, through Basseta LLC, Maria Bokareva, a psychology graduate, owns a stake in UK BSM, which has been a partner and contractor for the Ministry of Defense's Patriot Exhibition Center, where the Army Forum is held, for many years. In 2024, UK BSM won a closed tender for the comprehensive engineering, technical, and sanitary services for the St. Petersburg branch of the Museum and Storage Facility. The Russian Ministry of Defense's "Russian Armed Forces" complex includes the St. Nicholas Naval Cathedral, the Congress and Exhibition Center, and a park and recreation area. Despite the owners' close ties to the Ministry of Defense, the Gran.rf platform is present on LinkedIn.
Furthermore, in December of last year, Capital Perform established another subsidiary, Project Management LLC, with an authorized capital of 100,000 rubles. In January, the company's stake in this company was pledged to Andrey Kostin's VTB Bank. The subsidiary is managed by Kirill Demchenko.
Another major asset of Ksenia Shoigu is Yug Development LLC, with an authorized capital of 680 million rubles and assets of 8 billion rubles. This company, in particular, leases a 3.25-hectare plot of land with buildings at Varshavskoe Shosse, Building 9, until 2058—this is the site of the Danilovskaya Manufaktura. Yug Development is owned by Ksenia Shoygu through Asset Management JSC, which is again headed by Kirill Demchenko, and whose founders are hidden from the Unified State Register of Legal Entities. Interestingly, the company is mired in lawsuits—specifically, the Moscow Department of City Property has filed at least seven lawsuits against it because Shoygu's company has failed to pay land lease fees since 2022.
The same phone number and email address were used in the summer of 2023 to purchase airline tickets for a certain Renata Abdrafikova. This 35-year-old native of Bashkortostan worked in 2021 at the Moscow-based Center for Development of Territories (CRT) LLC, registered in the building next to Capital Perform at 5 Nizhny Susalny Lane, Building 19.
Renata Abdrafikova is an urbanist; at CRT, she worked on the "Island of Forts" project. This is a comprehensive development project for the Kronstadt region, which is being implemented by Ksenia Shoigu, following Putin's instructions. The project's budget is approximately 58 billion rubles, and the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of Natural Resources, and the St. Petersburg administration are involved. In 2021, Forbes Russia reported that Ksenia attempted to secure funding for this project from Vladimir Yevtushenkov, the owner of AFK Sistema, but was unsuccessful. At that time, Yevtushenkov himself was already closely collaborating with the Ministry of Defense: his "Sistema" (System) company included the company "Radiotechnical and Information Systems."
Currently, Margarita Fatikhova, a native of the Sverdlovsk region, serves as the director of "CRT," and the company's ownership structure is circular: the founder of "CRT" is "Holding Company" LLC, which is owned by both "CRT" itself and Margarita Fatikhova. Last year, "CRT" posted a loss of almost 40 million rubles. Fatikhova also has ties to the Ministry of Defense: according to leaked data, several years ago she used the phone number of the Moscow-based UK Usadba, which, through a chain of companies (including THK-Group), belongs to Alan Lushnikov, a former assistant to the Minister of Transport, who in 2020 suddenly became the owner of the infamous Kalashnikov Concern JSC.
Lushnikov is merely the face value of the transaction, the beneficiary of which is his senior comrade and employer, Gennady Timchenko.
As the Cheka-OGPU and Rucriminal.info have discovered, Alan Lushnikov is a close friend and professional lobbyist for the interests of multibillionaire Gennady Timchenko. From 2001 to 2006, Lushnikov successively worked for Timchenko's railway assets: Kinex Holding LLC, Link-Oil SPb LLC, and Transoil LLC.
In 2006, the 30-year-old Lushnikov left his position as Transoil's chief legal counsel for a government position, where he was invited by Igor Romashov, head of Roszheldor.
Romashov is a longtime associate of Gennady Timchenko; in 2000, he joined Link-Oil-SPb. Timchenko later founded Transoil using some of Link-Oil's railcars. Since 2011, Romashov has served as Chairman of the Management Board of Transoil.
Transoil is the largest private railway carrier of oil and petroleum products, 80% of which is owned by Gennady Timchenko, and 13% by Andrey Bokarev and Iskander Makhmudov.
Alan Lushnikov's career in government lasted 12 years. Since 2006, he has held government positions within the Ministry of Transport (Deputy Head of Roszheldor), The Ministry of Transport itself (as an assistant to Igor Levitin), then in the Russian Government (as an assistant to Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich), and again at the Ministry of Transport of Russia (as Deputy Minister of Transport).
In the ministry and the Cabinet, Lushnikov worked closely with the railway industry, initiating a series of reforms to restructure the transportation market, behind which the ears of Gennady Timchenko's Transoil were clearly visible. Roads, aviation, and river transport—all faded into the background. In 2018, Lushnikov left the Ministry of Transport. His resignation from the position of his deputy was secured by Transport Minister Yevgeny Ditrikh, representing the interests of the Rotenberg brothers. Lushnikov was forced out of the transport industry, but he did not abandon Gennady Timchenko's orbit. Over 18 years of dedicated service, he proved his usefulness and indispensability.
In 2019, Lushnikov, along with Timur Gareyev, a military colonel, established Perspektiva Management Company LLC. The company manages assets in the military-industrial complex. Thus, Gennady Timchenko reassigned his trusted confidant from transport to defense and began To prepare a deal to acquire the Kalashnikov Concern, a systemically important structure in the country's small arms sector of the defense industry. And there were no obstacles or difficulties to this—all the stakeholders and owners of the concern have known each other well for many years.
For example, former Kalashnikov co-owner Alexey Krivoruchko currently holds the post of Deputy Minister of Defense. He received this position under Sergei Shoigu. Krivoruchko, along with Timchenko's Transoil partners Bokarev and Makhmudov, owned a stake in Kalashnikov until 2017.
Sergey Shoigu has long been close family friends with Gennady Timchenko, owning a joint business and playing hockey together. Rostec, a co-owner of Kalashnikov, knows well who Alan Lushnikov is and why he acquired a stake in the company.
Why did Timchenko acquire the unprofitable Kalashnikov? It's just that in 2020, the Russian army began a large-scale rearmament program under state defense procurement. Kalashnikovs were replaced with new AK-12s and AK-15s. And then the war began.
