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Apparently, Onishchenko was guilty during the utterance of one of the speeches at some event."Requirements for official behavior of a civil servant oblige him to comply with the established rules of public speaking. Onishchenko G.G. violated these rules," the text of the document reads. No further details were provided.

We are talking about a violation of paragraph 14 of paragraph 1 of Article 18 of the Federal Law "On the State Civil Service of the Russian Federation". It reads: A civil servant is obliged to comply with the established rules of public speaking and the provision of inside information.

Gennady Onishchenko made his last public comment on the air of the Russian News Service on February 24. Then he spoke about Mars products in which plastic particles were found. "I do not rule out that after seizures in Europe, these products can be purchased by our unscrupulous entrepreneurs at a bargain price. After disposal, they will be brought to our country. As soon as something is closed somewhere, then wait for these products on our market," quoted by Kommersant.

Note February 26 Medvedev also appointed Andrei Slepnev to the post of assistant, who for four years served as Minister for Trade of the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC). He will probably lead the government's project office, which will deal with issues of innovation support.

Andrey Slepnev has been appointed Assistant to Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev – Government of Russia (@Pravitelstvo_RF)

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev issued a separate order to reprimand his assistant Gennady Onishchenko, the former chief sanitary doctor and head of Rospotrebnadzor. The formal reason is a violation of Article 18 of the Civil Service Law. What actions or words of Onishchenko could cause displeasure of the prime minister lately?

In the order published on February 26 on the government website, there is no specifics of what exactly one of the most honored and famous Russian health officials was guilty of. At the same time, article 18 of the law "On the State Civil Service in the Russian Federation", according to which Onishchenko made a fine, contains, among other things, the following points:

- carry out professional service activities within the framework of the competence of the state body established by the legislation of the Russian Federation;
- ensure equal, impartial treatment of all individuals and legal entities, not give preference to any public or religious associations, professional or social groups, citizens and organizations and not allow bias against such associations, groups, citizens and organizations;
- observe neutrality, which excludes the possibility of influencing their professional service activities by the decisions of political parties, other public associations, religious associations and other organizations;
- not to commit acts discrediting his honor and dignity;
- avoid conflict situations that could damage its reputation or the authority of a state body;
— comply with the established rules of public speaking and the provision of official information.

In our opinion, at least five episodes over the past two months deserve to be blamed by the authorities - either one of them individually or “in aggregate”. Here they are.

flu pills

Even before the start of a serious epidemic of swine flu, which swept all of Russia by mid-January, Onishchenko, not knowing that death records were ahead, announced at the end of December that, firstly, there would be no epidemic, and secondly, it was necessary to buy less any pills.

“It would be better to buy healthy food for children and for yourself than to scare each other with the flu. Tablets should be bought only as directed by a doctor.

And it’s better to just ventilate the room and do wet cleaning. That's all true, but to what extent is such a statement consistent with the interests of the manufacturers of Arbidol and Kagocel, strategically important drugs for the current head of the Accounts Chamber, Tatyana Golikova? After all, it was precisely as the Minister of Health that she included Arbidol in the recommendations of the Ministry of Health for doctors and personally checked the presence of Kagocel in the presence of television cameras.

US bioweapon

In a long interview at the end of December, Gennady Onishchenko uttered several reprimands at once. In general, from the transcript of the interview, there is a feeling that the official was out of his mind: he jumps from topic to topic, speaks in unfinished sentences and voices strange theories. For example, these:

“In Georgia, Kazakhstan, now in Ukraine [the Americans] are creating military-biological facilities, bases that are in the closest intimate environment with our country.”

According to Onishchenko, the Ebola virus was artificially launched by special services, and our "health" services are completely unprepared for biological attacks by NATO countries. And in mid-February, in an interview with the BBC, he reported sensational news: the United States deliberately infects mosquitoes in Latin America with the Zika virus.

“There is a sharp increase in the possibility that the mosquitoes I am talking about can be contaminated, intentionally contaminated.”

In an environment of international tension, when we are having such a hard time negotiating with the Americans over Syria and Ukraine, revelations about biological warfare are not very appropriate.

Beer in stadiums

Going public against Vitaly Mutko just before the start of the 2016 Rio Olympics and ahead of the 2018 FIFA World Cup is a sure way to earn a reprimand. In the same interview with the Russian News Service, Onishchenko encroaches on the sacred: beer is not allowed to be advertised at stadiums and you can’t drink it. Even for the championship.

“Football is a mass spectacle. In addition to the fact that this is a population valve for draining excess energy, it is also a positive image for a healthy lifestyle, and it is not worth combining a stadium, a temple of health, conditionally, with sacrilege in the form of drinking a low-alcohol, very insidious drink.

This is not only an anti-people statement, it also denigrates the authorities, showing disagreements within the government on such an important issue as drinking beer during football!

A woman is not a man

It turns out that women are to blame for the high mortality of "fragile" and "vulnerable" Russian men. And all because they do not take care of their husbands, fathers and sons, they take bad care of them, do not interfere with drinking and smoking. But a man is like a child. And "a woman is born and leaves this world by nature as a mother." So men need to raise the retirement age depending on their occupation, and women generally “let them work as long as they want.”

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev reprimanded his aide Gennady Onishchenko. The order states that the former head of Rospotrebnadzor violated the requirements of the law on civil service. No other details provided

Assistant to the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Gennady Onishchenko (Photo: Sergey Fadeichev/TASS)

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev reprimanded his assistant Gennady Onishchenko, the former head of Rospotrebnadzor. The order was published on the official Internet portal of legal information.

The document states that Onishchenko violated the requirements of Article 18 of the law on civil service.

This paragraph of the law contains requirements for official behavior of an official. In particular, the norm obliges officials to fulfill their professional duty conscientiously and at a high level. In addition, civil servants are prohibited from performing actions "related to the influence of any personal, property (financial) and other interests that impede the conscientious performance of official duties."

Paragraphs of Article 18 also prohibit an official from committing acts that discredit his honor and dignity, and also oblige him to show correctness in dealing with citizens and take into account the cultural and other characteristics of various ethnic and social groups and confessions.

A separate clause stipulates the obligation to "observe the established rules of public speaking and the provision of official information."

The prime minister's press secretary, Natalya Timakova, did not elaborate on the details of the violation by Medvedev's aide. Onishchenko himself, having heard a greeting from RBC, hung up.

For almost ten years (from 2004 to 2013), Onishchenko served as head of Rospotrebnadzor, the chief state sanitary doctor. He left this position in October 2013 due to the expiration of his term of office. Now the department is headed by Anna Popova.

Then Vedomosti wrote that one of the reasons for the resignation was the problem of Onishchenko's manageability. In particular, a source close to the presidential administration then claimed that Onishchenko had a long-standing conflict with Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets. Another source close to the Kremlin assured that the ex-head of Rospotrebnadzor had difficult relations with other members of the government, including Medvedev. The source explained that Onishchenko pursued a policy independent of the prime minister and sometimes started trade wars with those countries with which the head of government tried to conclude economic agreements.

A federal official in an interview with Vedomosti noted that Onishchenko was not subordinate to Medvedev, and the only person whom the ex-head of Rospotrebnadzor listened to was President Vladimir Putin.

During his work at Rospotrebnadzor, as well as as an assistant to the prime minister, Onishchenko regularly made loud and controversial statements. In particular, on February 15, in an interview with the BBC, the official said that mosquitoes carrying the Zika virus could be intentionally contaminated. According to Onishchenko, since 2012, Russian entomologists have been registering a subspecies of the mosquito that carries the Zika virus on the Black Sea coast in Abkhazia.

“That worries me because about a hundred kilometers from where this mosquito lives today, closest to our borders, there is a military microbiological laboratory of the United States Army,” he said, adding that “not for this, the Pentagon was building a military biological base to protect Georgian children from measles.”

In November 2015, Onishchenko also discussed the purchase of Turkish products. The statement came the day after the Turkish Air Force shot down a Russian Su-24. “Everyone understands that every Turkish tomato bought at Auchan or on the market is a contribution to the next rocket that will fire at our guys,” Onishchenko said (quoted by RIA Novosti). “Compatriots understand that they paid for this rocket: only Russians take €287 million to Turkey every year.”

With the participation of Peter Netreba and Elizaveta Surnacheva.