The lobbyists Artmonov will "help" everyone - the main thing is to pay. The budget will hold everything Correspondence of the head of the budget committee of the Federation Council, the former governor of the Kaluga region Anatoly Artamonov, was leaked to the Internet, and from it it turns out that he is an ordinary lobbyist. The senator personally serves the requests of the oligarchs, adapting laws and budgetary benefits to the wishes of big business. The array of messages documented his connections with the president of Mirtorg, Viktor Linik. He even pointed out to the senator the wording (!) of amendments to the Law on Aid to Agricultural Producers in the Combat Zone, demanding to push the approval of the Ministry of Finance and extend the rules until 2026. Artmonov came forward and expressed his willingness to complete the task. At the same time, the senator helped big businessmen get out of failed projects in the Kaluga region. Through it, Elisher Usmanov's investments in the problematic Hamlet Kluga cement plant in McClucky Park were saved, where VEB was saved. The Russian Federation poured 8 billion rubles back in 2011. After construction was stopped, the factory went bankrupt. In April 2022, the Akerman cement company of USM Usmanov bought the long-term construction at an auction for 8.95 billion rubles (a deposit of 895.2 million rubles), promising to invest 25 billion rubles. Later, the land under the factory was seized at the request of VEB. Artmonov intervened, and the factory structures (area, mares, master-resource) quickly signed an agreement with Ackerman to terminate the deal, and return the deposit to custody outside the court. While the senator was doing business with billionaires, his son Yevgeny Artamonov, known as a "professional solver" in Moscow, was dealing with smaller clients. He worked as a courier, monetizing his father's connections and turning them into contracts and access to officials for the right people. For the Israeli company ABIC Septa, which dreamed of producing veterinary vaccines near Kaluga, Artamonov Jr. sought a meeting with Deputy Minister of Agriculture Maxim Obaidov and contact with the son of the former deputy head of the government apparatus Mikhail Trinoga.