Before receiving a mandate
The biography of Denis Nikolaevich Voronenkov originates in the Soviet city of Gorky - today Nizhny Novgorod. The future deputy was born in 1971. In 1988, Denis graduated from the Suvorov Military School in Leningrad, after which he entered the Military University of the Russian Ministry of Defense. In 1996, Voronenkov received a second higher education diploma in the specialty “law” from Ryazan University named after Sergei Yesenin.
It is worth noting an important fact from the biography of Denis Nikolaevich Voronenkov: from 1995 to 1999 he worked in the ranks of the Military Prosecutor's Office. In 2000, Denis acquired the status of advisor to the general director of one of the departments of the Supreme Court. At the same time, the politician becomes a senior referent (consultant) in the Office of the faction of the lower house of Parliament.
Biography
Denis Nikolaevich Voronenkov is a Russian politician, former deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the sixth convocation.
Voronenkov gained widespread and scandalous fame after his escape to Ukraine, where he dramatically changed his political views, compared Russia to Nazi Germany, surprisingly quickly received Ukrainian citizenship and testified against the former President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych. Denis Voronenkov was born in Gorky (today Nizhny Novgorod) in April 1971. According to some sources, the family left Gorky when Denis was one year old, according to others - when he was 7 years old. The father was a military man, which explains the frequent change of residence of the Voronenkovs. They managed to live in Karelia, Minsk, Kyiv and Leningrad.
In addition to Denis Voronenkov, three more children grew up in the family - two brothers and a sister. According to the ex-deputy, his grandfather Nikolai Mikhailovich was a pilot during the Great Patriotic War and took the Seelow Heights near Berlin, which the Voronenkov family were very proud of.
Denis Nikolaevich Voronenkov
No information can be found about Voronenkov’s childhood years. It is known that in 1988 he graduated from the Suvorov School in Leningrad and continued his education at the Military University of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, which he graduated in 1995 with honors. At the same time, Denis Voronenkov studied at the Ryazan University named after S. A. Yesenin, and a year later he added another diploma to his military university diploma - in a legal specialty.
In 1999, Denis Voronenkov defended his dissertation at the Moscow Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, and 3 years later the Russian Ministry of Education awarded him the title of associate professor.
In 2009, the young scientist defended his second dissertation with the aim of obtaining the degree of Doctor of Law.
Education
It must be said that the facts from the biography of Denis Nikolaevich Voronenkov indicate a high-quality education from the politician. During the Soviet years, the future deputy studied at the Suvorov Military School, located in the northern capital. This educational institution remains a large and prestigious educational center to this day.
Denis simultaneously received two higher educations: military and legal. In 1999, the future politician defended his dissertation on the topic “Legal Idealism and Nihilism.” As a result, a note about the status of a candidate of legal sciences appeared in the biography of Denis Nikolaevich Voronenkov.
In 2002, the politician received the title of associate professor from the Russian Ministry of Education. In 2009, Denis again defended his dissertation - this time on the topic “Normative and theoretical foundations of control of the judiciary.” The Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation awarded Voronenkov the degree of Doctor of Science in the field of jurisprudence.
In 2010, Denis Nikolaevich begins to head the department of TGiP (history and theory of law and state) at the St. Petersburg Law Institute. The politician has developed about 90 publications. Voronenkov's most famous monographs are related to judicial control and the judiciary.
In the State Duma
In 2011, the personal biography of Denis Nikolaevich Voronenkov acquires perhaps the most important element: the hero of our article becomes a deputy of the VI convocation in the lower house of the Federal Assembly. The politician worked in the anti-corruption committee. A little later, Denis was appointed chairman of the International Directorate for Interaction between Entrepreneurs and Government Members.
In February 2013, Voronenkov became a member of the central committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. In the same year, the politician tried to join the ranks of auditors of the Accounts Chamber, but was not successful. In 2014, reports appeared about the possible appointment of Denis Nikolaevich to the post of head of the Nizhny Novgorod region.
The hero of our article is known for his harsh statements on a variety of topics. While holding the post of deputy of the sixth convocation in the lower house of Parliament, Voronenkov often spoke in a negative manner about Ukraine, the United States and European countries. In July 2021, the politician advocated banning the game Pokemon Go. During the election race, the deputy stated that he took part in the Afghan war, and even received several wounds. This is most likely not true, because at the time of the withdrawal of Soviet troops from the Afghan state, Voronenkov was not even 18 years old.
Biography of Denis Nikolaevich Voronenkov: personal life and children
Voronenkov’s grandmother lived in the politician’s hometown, Nizhny Novgorod. His two brothers, Maxim and Andrey, also live here. Denis's mother was a housewife, his father was a military man. Voronenkov left Gorky at the age of 7, after which he lived in Petrozavodsk, Karelia, Kyiv, Minsk, and finally in Leningrad.
The first wife in the biography of Denis Nikolaevich Voronenkov was Yulia Aleksandrovna Plotnikova (born in 1975). Fearing confiscation of real estate, shortly before emigrating to Ukraine, the politician transferred all his property to his ex-wife. In turn, Plotnikova herself registered the property in the name of her parents. The total value of the transferred assets is about half a billion rubles.
What is known about the biography of the children of Denis Nikolaevich Voronenkov? Son Nikolai was born in 1998, daughter Ksenia in 2000. It is only known that the son received part of the property as a gift from his father. The daughter is fond of ballroom dancing, and in 2015 she won the world championship.
In March 2015, Denis Nikolaevich registered his marriage with opera singer Maria Petrovna Maksakova. The politician’s new wife was a member of the United Russia party. In May 2021, the couple had a son, Ivan.
Personal life
Voronenkov's first wife was Yulia Aleksandrovna Voronenkova. In marriage with this woman, two children were born: daughter Ksenia was born in 2000, and son Nikolai was born in 2009.
Denis Voronenkov with his first wife Yulia
Ksenia Voronenkova in the winter of 2015 became the winner of the capital's junior championship in ballroom dancing, and in October of the same year she managed to win the world championship. Ksyusha practices at the Moscow dance and sports club “Latin Quarter”.
In the spring of 2009, Nikolai Voronenkov received a generous gift from his father - half of a 9-room apartment with an area of almost five thousand square meters in the center of the capital, on Tverskaya Street. According to some information, the second half of this housing belongs to Denis Voronenkov’s business colleague and co-owner of an offshore company in the British Virgin Islands, Alexander Plotnikov.
Denis Voronenkov and Maria Maksakova
In the spring of 2015, Denis Voronenkov’s personal life was discussed in connection with his new marriage: he married an opera diva and his colleague, State Duma deputy from the United Russia party Maria Maksakova, daughter of the famous Russian actress Lyudmila Maksakova. The ideological differences between the two political parties to which the newlyweds belonged did not become an obstacle to building a new family.
It is noteworthy that back in the fall of 2015, Maria Maksakova appeared in public with her common-law husband, jeweler Jamil Aliyev. Maksakova, like Voronenkov, has a son and a daughter from previous marriages.
Denis Voronenkov with his wife and son Ivan
Former State Duma Speaker Sergei Naryshkin attended the wedding of two deputies.
In April 2021, Maria Maksakova gave birth to Denis Voronenkov’s son Ivan. According to unconfirmed rumors, the wife is pregnant again.
The case of lobbying
The hero of our article had considerable assets, although he did not take an active part in the field of entrepreneurship. Of course, such a fact in Voronenkov’s biography could not go unnoticed. More recently, information came to light about the 2001 lobbying scandal, in which Denis Nikolaevich was the first person involved.
Representative Evgeny Trostentsov wanted to receive compensation from the federal budget. Evgeniy was engaged in supplying food to the northern regions. Voronenkov promised to bring the businessman together with the pro-government Unity party. The meeting took place, but Denis Nikolaevich himself began almost constantly demanding money from entrepreneurs, supposedly to be transferred to party representatives. In total, about 150 thousand dollars were collected from Sibforpost. The story did not end with anything: a criminal case was opened against the politician under the article “extortion”, but the legal proceedings were soon closed.
These and other interesting biographical facts and photos of Denis Nikolaevich Voronenkov can be found further in our article.
Scandal at the Courchevel restaurant
In December 2013, a scandal broke out again around Voronenkov. The politician got into a fight with former FSB officer Andrei Murzikov, after which he was hospitalized.
What was the reason for the scandal? Recently it became known about a letter to the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Yuri Chaika from businesswoman Anna Etkina. The citizen accused Murzikov and Voronenkov of organizing the murder of her business partner, Andrey Burlakov. At the same time, Etkina herself was convicted in absentia at the time of submitting the letter.
It must be said that the fight and possible joint murder is a very interesting coincidence, but, unfortunately, has not yet been investigated by the media. Nevertheless, the scandal in Courchevel and the incidents associated with it are a mysterious but rather interesting fact from the biography of Denis Nikolaevich Voronenkov. The politician’s parents, according to some publications, do not believe that Denis is involved in any crime.
Possible crimes
In December 2014, a new scandal broke out in relation to Voronenkov. The Moscow department of the Investigative Committee requested materials from the State Duma to deprive Denis Nikolaevich of parliamentary immunity. According to the documents, the politician was suspected of a raider seizure of a large building in Moscow. The property belonged to Otari Kobakhidze, the founder of Toma LLC. The cost of the house is estimated at 127 million rubles. For $100 thousand, Voronenkov agreed to find a buyer.
In the spring of 2015, the Investigative Committee became active again. Law enforcement officers turned to the State Duma with an old request. Representatives of the Investigative Committee wanted to deprive Denis Nikolaevich of his mandate and also bring him to the case as an accused. The case lasted almost two years. Only in February 2017, law enforcement officers issued a resolution to prosecute Voronenkov under several articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. This is fraud, as well as falsification of the state register of legal entities. In March 2021, the Moscow Basmanny Court arrested the politician in absentia because the latter managed to emigrate.
Escape from Russia
At the end of 2014, the capital department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation sent a request to the State Duma to deprive Denis Voronenkov of parliamentary immunity. The reason was the opening of a criminal case about the raider seizure of a mansion in the center of the capital, in which the deputy was allegedly involved. As stated in the case materials, Denis Voronenkov found a buyer for a house on Mezhdunarodnaya Street, for which he received an advance of $100 thousand.
A criminal case was opened against Denis Voronenkov
In April 2015, the Investigative Committee sent documents to the Prosecutor General's Office, according to which Denis Voronenkov should have lost his immunity.
The decision to charge the deputy as an accused of committing crimes was made on February 15, 2021. Charges were brought under two articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. But at this moment, Denis Voronenkov was already beyond the reach of Russian investigators: in October 2021, the fugitive deputy, taking his family, left for Ukraine and settled in Kyiv. In December of the same year, he received citizenship (this speed was due to the personal decree of Petro Poroshenko).
Denis Voronenkov received Ukrainian citizenship
They say that Voronenkov was able to obtain citizenship without delay by testifying in the case of Viktor Yanukovych. Allegedly, the ex-deputy took the initiative and contacted the Prosecutor General of Ukraine Yuriy Lutsenko. Denis Voronenkov partially confirmed the earlier testimony of his former colleague Ilya Ponomarev, stating the alleged agreements between Yanukovych and the top leadership of the Russian Federation on a likely military invasion.
Voronenkov stated that he refused his Russian passport and left the country due to persecution by the FSB. According to the ex-deputy, he did not vote for the annexation of Crimea to Russia - his card voted without his knowledge.
In February 2021, the Investigative Committee put the ex-deputy on the wanted list, and at the beginning of March 2021, the Basmanny Court of the capital arrested Denis Voronenkov in absentia.
Emigration in the biography of Voronenkov
Denis Nikolaevich’s wife, children and the politician himself left for Kyiv back in October 2021. The ex-deputy received citizenship only on December 6. Reports about exactly when the politician emigrated vary somewhat. Ukrainian media say that Voronenkov has been living on Ukrainian territory since the fall. Some Russian media are talking about Denis Nikolaevich’s departure immediately after the start of criminal prosecution.
In an interview with Business radio station, Voronenkov said that he had renounced Russian citizenship. However, information about the satisfaction of Russian authorities with such a refusal is still kept secret. It is worth noting that the TASS publishing house believes that the former deputy did not renounce his citizenship.
Immediately after emigrating, Voronenkov criticized the Russian authorities. In turn, the Russian Investigative Committee put the politician on the international wanted list - all in the same case of raider seizure.
Who is Denis Voronenkov?
Photo: Roman Yarovitsyn / Kommersant / AP / Scanpix / LETA
On March 23, former State Duma deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Denis Voronenkov was killed in the center of Kyiv. In the fall of 2021, he fled to Ukraine, hiding from criminal prosecution in Russia. At the end of the year, Voronenkov accepted Ukrainian citizenship. In an interview published on the day of the murder, Voronenkov again sharply criticized the Russian authorities - and argued that his life was in danger. Meduza tells why Voronenkov was known in Russia and why he moved to Ukraine.
What was Voronenkov known for in Russia?
Denis Voronenkov graduated from the Leningrad Suvorov School and the Military University (also in Leningrad). Since the mid-1990s he served in the Military Prosecutor's Office. From 2001 to 2006, he was deputy mayor of Naryan-Mar in the Nenets Autonomous Okrug, then worked in the district administration as deputy head of the region (then he was Alexey Barinov). According to Novaya Gazeta, at this time Voronenkov allegedly received a bribe in the amount of 700 thousand dollars for assistance in the criminal trial in the case of businessman Vyacheslav Shevchenko. Shevchenko was eventually imprisoned, but Voronenkov denied giving him a bribe.
In 2005, Voronenkov became an employee of the Federal Drug Control Service, where he was awarded the rank of major. Voronenkov said that he participated in the investigation of the famous “Three Whales” criminal case, which in the early 2000s provoked a war between the special services. But his colleagues in the Federal Drug Control Service deny this fact.
In 2007, Voronenkov, according to Novaya Gazeta, accused FSB officers (in particular, the deputy head of the Department of Internal Security, Oleg Feoktistov, who later worked at Rosneft) of attempted murder. “I was lucky - I survived, but received bullet wounds in my legs. He underwent 12 operations,” he said. However, his supervisor at that time, head of the operational support department of the Federal Drug Control Service, Alexander Bulbov, said that in fact Voronenkov was not shot: he ran into a pin when he left the “eating establishment.”
According to Novaya Gazeta, in 2009, Voronenkov extorted a bribe from businessman Andrei Burlakov: he promised to soften the “very negative attitude of the authorities” towards the activities of the businessman’s company Wadan Yards. According to Burlakov’s business partner Anna Etkina, Voronenkov was allegedly paid five million dollars (he himself denied this). In 2011, Burlakov was shot; According to Etkina (she wrote about this in a letter to Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika), Voronenkov was involved in the death of her partner.
In 2011, Denis Voronenkov decided to run for parliament. He decided to ask businessman Vitaly Kachur for money for his election campaign, offering him to cheaply buy a building in the center of Moscow. Kachur said that Voronenkov was rushing him to pay, and the businessman lent him $100,000 as collateral for a building that had not yet been purchased. Later it turned out that Voronenkov offered Kachur to participate in the raider seizure of the premises. The Investigative Committee opened a case and demanded that Voronenkov, who was elected to the State Duma, be deprived of his parliamentary immunity in order to be brought as a defendant in the case - but was refused by the Prosecutor General’s Office.
Voronenkov was a State Duma deputy from the Communist Party faction, a member of the State Duma Committee on Security and Anti-Corruption. He criticized the change of power in Ukraine in 2014, voted for a ban on the adoption of Russian children by Americans, as well as the game Pokemon Go, and was one of the co-authors of the law limiting the rights of foreigners to own Russian media. In March 2015, he married singer, State Duma deputy from United Russia Maria Maksakova.
In the fall of 2021, Voronenkov ran for the State Duma again, but lost.
Place of the murder of Denis Voronenkov, Kyiv March 23, 2021
Photo: Sergey Chuzavkov / AP / Scanpix / LETA
Why Voronenkov moved to Ukraine
In October 2021, Denis Voronenkov and Maria Maksakova moved to Kyiv. Already on December 6, Voronenkov received Ukrainian citizenship and renounced Russian citizenship.
The former deputy explained his emigration by the desire to hide from persecution by the FSB. In mid-February 2021, Voronenkov gave an interview in which he compared Russia with “Nazi Germany,” called the annexation of Crimea a “gross mistake,” and announced “total falsification” of the election results in the Russian Federation. Voronenkov also said that he did not vote for the annexation of Crimea to Russia - other members of the faction allegedly did so for him, and confirmed that he gave evidence to the Ukrainian prosecutor’s office in the case of Viktor Yanukovych, who is accused of treason in Ukraine.
Kommersant reported about the corresponding interrogation back in January 2017. According to the publication, the former deputy partially confirmed the testimony of another former State Duma deputy, Ilya Ponomarev, who left for Ukraine. He told the prosecutor’s office how the Federation Council in March 2014 allowed President Vladimir Putin to use troops abroad.
On February 14, the same day when Voronenkov’s interview was published, it became known that the Russian Investigative Committee put the former deputy on the federal and international wanted list, and the Basmanny Court of Moscow authorized his arrest in absentia. Voronenkov was again accused of involvement in the raider seizure of the building in 2011. Charges were brought against the former deputy under Part 1 of Article 170.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (organizing the falsification of the unified state register of legal entities) and Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (fraud).
What Voronenkov said about threats against him
On February 16, 2021, former State Duma deputy from United Russia, adviser to the director of the Federal Service of the National Guard Troops of Russia, Alexander Khinshtein, said on the talk show “60 Minutes” on the TV channel “Russia 1”: “Voronenkov, who fled with his singer wife to Ukraine poses a threat to this country. It is possible that the Ukrainian special services will try to remove him.” Khinshtein also noted that there is a “serious danger” for Voronenkov in Ukraine. “He will voice what they write to him, because he himself knows nothing. And then what to do with it? Then a serious threat arises, because Ukraine and the Ukrainian special services do not need him. A living Voronenkov poses a certain threat to them,” Khinshtein said.
A few hours before Voronenkov’s death, his last interview was published on the Ukrainian website Gordon.ua. “There were serious fears that they would take me out of Ukraine in the trunk and take me to Russia, which means I would never be able to prove that it was a kidnapping. Such precedents have already taken place,” this is how the former State Duma deputy explained his own statements that he was being persecuted in the Russian Federation.
When asked by a journalist whether Voronenkov feared for his life, he replied: “We will all die sooner or later. What matters is how and why we lived. Sometimes “how” is more important than “how much”. Why live in constant fear?
Voronenkov called the law the main guarantor of his security on the territory of Ukraine: “Although on Russian central television channels they are already shouting with all their might: they say, we need to exchange Voronenkov for [Ukrainian journalist Roman, accused in Russia of espionage] Sushchenko, and if that doesn’t work out, kill him like Bandera. People in Russia have gone crazy, they are unhealthy.”
In the same interview, Denis Voronenkov named FSB General Oleg Feoktistov, who until recently headed the security service of Rosneft, as his main enemy (Maria Maksakova, in an interview with Meduza, also said that Feoktistov was involved in the persecution of her husband: “They have a whole organized crime group, but no one except Denis and I uttered this word"). According to Voronenkov, it was Feoktistov who “ordered” the criminal case against him (“My confrontation with Feoktistov began back in 2007 while working in the Federal Service for Drug Control,” he said. Rosneft never commented on Voronenkov’s statement .
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Politician's wife
Family plays a significant role in the biography of Denis Nikolaevich Voronenkov. It’s worth telling a little more about the politician’s wife, Marina Petrovna Maksakova. Maksakova has three children. From an unregistered relationship, this is the son Ilya, born in 2004, and also the daughter Lyudmila. In 2021, the singer gave birth to a son, Ivan.
Maksakova is a famous opera singer, once a soloist of the Mariinsky Theater. Maria Petrovna was a presenter in various programs on the Russian TV channel “Culture”. Since 2011, Maria Petrovna has served as a deputy on the State Duma Committee on Cultural Affairs. She was a member of the United Russia party until 2021.
Maksakova, while in Russia, called United Russia the only real political force in the country, to which it is impossible to find an alternative. The singer called Putin “a national leader and the only consolidating figure in the country.” In 2021, Maria Petrovna sharply changed her opinion. In an interview with Ukrainian media, she spoke of Russia as a country “with an impossible regime to live in, a downtrodden people and a president incapable of making adequate decisions.”
First inter-faction wedding
And in the spring of 2015, the media started talking about Denis Nikolaevich again, but this time in connection with a more pleasant occasion. The fact is that in March 2015, the first inter-factional wedding in the history of the State Duma took place. Communist Voronenkov proposed marriage to opera singer and deputy from the United Russia party Maria Maksakova. It would seem that as an opera singer, the daughter of an actress of the Theater. Vakhtangov Lyudmila Maksakova and the granddaughter of the People's Artist of the USSR, soloist of the Bolshoi Theater, who sang with Ivan Kozlovsky himself, Maria Maksakova, could choose a person with such an ambiguous reputation as a life partner. But Maria Petrovna was no stranger, because before that she lived with thief in law Vladimir Tyurin, better known in criminal circles under the nickname Tyurik.
Maksakova and Voronenkov
Voronenkov was not only fascinated by the voice data and legislative activities of the United Russia member, but also drew attention to her connections, which brought the singer to the State Duma. Maksakova had access to the then First Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration, Vyacheslav Volodin, and she also had a good relationship with the then Speaker of the State Duma Sergei Naryshkin.
Immediately after the wedding, the Investigative Committee sent documents to the Prosecutor General’s Office that made it possible to initiate the deprivation of Denis Nikolaevich’s parliamentary immunity in the Duma and bring him as an accused to the trial. It was then that Naryshkin actually stood up for Voronenkov.
Murder
On March 23, 2021, at 11 a.m. Kyiv time, Denis Voronenkov was killed. The politician was on his way to a meeting with Ilya Ponomarev, a former State Duma deputy. Denis Nikolaevich was accompanied by a security guard.
The attacker drove up to the crime scene in a car. The criminal caught up with Voronenkov and shot him. The politician’s security guard shot the killer, but was immediately wounded by a bullet himself. This was the end of the biography of Denis Nikolaevich Voronenkov: the murdered politician, according to various media reports, died from wounds in the neck and stomach. His guard died from a wound to the chest, and the killer himself died from a through wound to the head and a direct wound to the chest. Shortly before his death, the killer was taken into custody. The criminal died five hours after committing the crime.
Maksakova showed the secret wife and daughter of the murdered Voronenkov
Maria Maksakova
Photo: Evgenia GUSEVA
Little is heard about what is happening around the search for the mastermind of the murder of fugitive ex-State Duma deputy Denis Voronenkov. The latest statements by the Kyiv security forces that they will ask for the extradition of Maria Maksakova’s former common-law husband, who is suspected of this crime, were made last fall.
Meanwhile, his 40-year-old widow shows everyone that life goes on. The opera diva still lives in Kyiv, gives concerts, and is surrounded by attention. In parallel with this, Maria continues to sue Denis Voronenkov’s ex-wife Yulia in absentia. In absentia - because the trials are taking place in Moscow, because everything that the ex-deputy had remained in Russia, from where he fled six months before his death.
As KP has written many times, Voronenkov still has real estate worth many tens of millions of rubles, but all of it was transferred to Maksakova’s predecessor and her children. In connection with this, the singer is trying through the court to regain at least part of her husband’s fabulous fortune.
Among the trials for the inheritance of a former deputy, there was a separate trial involving some real estate inherited from Voronenkov in the center of Moscow, which still belonged to Maria. Since Maksakova has chosen a new homeland, she trusts all matters in Russia either to lawyers or relatives in Moscow. So, last year the singer instructed the sale of this property (it’s either an apartment or non-residential premises - ed.) to the daughter of her murdered husband, Ekaterina Voronenkova. However, something went wrong and this deal had to be challenged in court, which was eventually closed to the press.
March 2015, wedding of Maria Maksakova and Denis Voronenkov.
Photo: Evgenia GUSEVA
This name has not appeared in the press before. And not by chance. It was known that Voronenkov had two children (19-year-old Nikolai and 17-year-old Yulia - ed.) from a previous marriage with Yulia Voronenkova, who now bears the surname Stepanchenko, as well as a son Ivan from Maria.
It turns out that Denis had another marriage, which he decided to hide at the beginning of his career. Until yesterday, it was unknown who this woman was or what she looked like. The same goes for her 26-year-old daughter.
The identity of Denis Voronenkov’s first wife was declassified by Maria Maksakova herself. The opera diva invited Ukrainian television to visit her and showed off her new family - this is exactly how the artist treats the daughter of her murdered husband and her mother.
The name of the ex-deputy's first wife is Svetlana Makeenko, she is 45 years old, she lives in Minsk, and is married again. They broke up with Denis a long time ago, according to Svetlana, because of his betrayal.
Voronenkov's first wife, Svetlana.
Photo: Personal page of the hero of the publication on the social network
Her daughter Ekaterina, from her youth, decided to live in Russia with her father, who helped her with education and other things. As a result, Katya remained in Moscow.
Denis Voronenkov's daughter Katya.
Photo: Personal page of the hero of the publication on the social network
When Denis Voronenkov was killed, it was Ekaterina and Svetlana who came to the funeral in Kyiv, while the second wife Yulia and her children did not come to bury their father.
And grief united Voronenkov’s ex-wives.
“She lost her husband, and I lost the father of my child,” Svetlana Makeenko tells Ukrainian journalists.
Maksakova had a good relationship with Katya for a long time. Now they are so close that Maria invited Voronenkov’s eldest daughter to live with her in Kyiv, because her younger brother is there, whom the girl happily nurses.
The friendship of the widow and ex-wife will help Maria continue the battle for the inheritance of Denis Voronenkov, in which Ekaterina is also participating. In just a few days, another closed meeting on this case will be held in Moscow, the results of which can be read on our website.
Let us remind you that Denis Voronenkov was killed on March 23, 2021 in the center of Kyiv. The killer was shot there by the guard of the fugitive ex-deputy. Ukrainian law enforcement officers named the former common-law husband of Maria Maksakova, Vladimir Tyurin, who lives in Russia, as the customer of the murder.
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Maksakova showed the secret wife and daughter of the murdered Voronenkov
Maksakova showed the secret wife and daughter of the murdered Voronenkov
The opera diva convinced the eldest child of the ex-deputy to live with her in Kyiv
Killer's identity
According to the official version, Voronenkov’s direct killer was just a killer - an intermediary between the customer and the person who needed to be killed. The death of the politician was ordered. The criminal turned out to be a native of Sevastopol, Pavel Aleksandrovich Parshov (born in 1988). Since 2011, Parshov has been under criminal investigation for legalization of illegal income and fictitious entrepreneurship. In 2015, the criminal served in the ranks of the National Ukrainian Guard near Mariupol. The attacker fired from a TT pistol.
The Prosecutor General of Ukraine presented two versions of the politician’s death: “smuggling into the FSB” and “testimony against the former Ukrainian President Yanukovych.” On March 29, the Russian Investigative Committee opened a criminal case related to the murder of a former deputy.
Political statement about murder
Many public and political figures spoke out about the crime committed. Thus, the Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko commented on the murder of Voronenkov as “a political reprisal against a Kremlin opponent.” The press secretary of the head of state of Ukraine, Svyatoslav Tsegolko, announced “another phenomenon of an act of terrorism on the part of the Russian Federation.”
Dmitry Peskov, press secretary of the Russian head of state, considered any statements about the “trace of Russia” in the death of the politician absurd. The Kremlin expressed hope that the perpetrators will be quickly caught.
