The grandson of the head of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Gennady Zyuganov, Moscow City Duma deputy Leonid Zyuganov will become a candidate in the election of the mayor of Moscow, while Zyuganov's son receives state contracts for development from the current mayor Sergei Sobyanin. The financial dependence of the Zyuganov family on Sobyanin is reported by the Metla publication.
34-year-old Leonid Zyuganov graduated from Moscow State University in 2010, first he became an assistant to a State Duma deputy, and two years later – an assistant to the head of the Communist Party faction in the Moscow City Duma. In 2014, Zyuganov's grandson became a member of the Moscow parliament and headed the commission on science and industry, and in 2019 he was re-elected and became deputy chairman of the Communist Party faction.
Zyuganov Jr. indicates the use of a service cottage with an area of 276.2 m². The publication suggests that he lives in the elite village of Deauville in Odintsovo. According to leaked delivery data, he orders food there. So, on November 7, 2021, he made an order for the amount of 2,951 rubles (Odintsovo, Ozernaya street, 1C), and on January 18, 2022 – for 5,863 rubles already at Akulovskaya street, 10.
United Russia deputies who support Sobyanin live next door to Deauville. Houses in that area were given to the head of the Moscow City Duma, Alexei Shaposhnikov, the ex-senator from the Moscow City Duma, Zinaida Dragunkina, and United Russia member Andrei Metelsky. Igor Levitin, adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin, also owns real estate next door, and since the mid-2000s, the "Orthodox oligarch" Konstantin Malofeev has lived nearby.
The father of Leonid Zyuganov and the son of Gennady Zyuganov, Andrey Zyuganov, owns AMD Project LLC, which works in the field of architectural and construction design. The publication notes that the company designs residential buildings, public buildings and objects of social and engineering infrastructure. In 2021, AMD Project, as part of a consortium of three companies, received a contract from the Moscow City Hall for 28.4 billion rubles for the development of Microdistrict 15 in the Lomonosovsky District. Despite the announced auction, only one application was submitted, and the multi-billion dollar contract was given without competition to Zyuganov's son. Metla notes that this development took place as part of the housing renovation program approved by Sobyanin. Work under the contract must be completed by May 31, 2036.
Earlier it became known that Sobyanin this year will run for a new term for the post of mayor of Moscow from the United Russia party, and not as an independent candidate, as in previous times. The head of the Moscow branch of the party and deputy chairman of the State Duma, Pyotr Tolstoy, said that Sobyanin made this decision because of his "close connection" with United Russia and "the consolidation of society around the president's party."
For Sobyanin, these elections, which will be held on September 10, will be the third. In 2010, he was appointed to this post by the president, and then twice, in 2013 and 2018, he won direct elections as an independent candidate.
After the start of the war with Ukraine, Sobyanin performed at the Luzhniki Stadium at a rally-concert in honor of the anniversary of the annexation of Crimea. The concert was held under the slogan “For a world without Nazism! For Russia! For the President".