"You don't understand, we're untouchable."

When Ruslan Tsalikov, following his friend and boss Sergei Shoigu, moved to the Ministry of Defense and took the post of deputy minister, one of his friends complained that he was being sent to the firing squad. Tsalikov dismissed the situation: "You don't understand, we're untouchable." Fourteen years later, a court seized property worth 5.5 billion rubles from Tsalikov, who was under house arrest. The property was registered to his children and friends, including the mother of former Defense Ministry press secretary Rossiyana Markovskaya. This is far from all his assets; sources estimate them at several hundred million dollars. But the criminal cases are clearly not the last. According to sources, security officials are currently actively investigating the activities of Ruslan Tsalikov (and, by extension, Sergei Shoigu) during his time as Deputy Minister of the Russian Emergencies Ministry. Their interest concerns the projects to establish the National Crisis Management Center (NCMC) of the Russian Emergencies Ministry and the Public Alert and Information System. As an added bonus to the corruption of the Shoigu-era Emergencies Ministry, they are investigating reports of large-scale smuggling of contraband on special flights masquerading as humanitarian aid worldwide. Financial documents from that era have already been seized. And the suspects are being questioned immediately – they are all the same people who later created the National Management Center (Shoigu's main and beloved brainchild) for the Ministry of Defense and participated in the development of air defense systems. Most of them are under investigation or have even received lenient sentences for their collaboration. We're talking about former executives and top managers of the RTI concern (at the time of the events, a subsidiary of the financial corporation AFK Sistema).

Incidentally, a warning system never materialized in Russia. For example, the Soviet earthquake warning monitoring system, or rather what remains of it, is still in use. And so on. The list goes on and on.