Mauri criticized Sokolov for publicly "scolding" the minister.

      In his TG channel, the former deputy chairman of the government of the Kirov region, Andrei Mauri, criticized the behavior of Governor Alexander Sokolov at the regular weekly meeting in the regional government. "Let me remind you that during a direct line on April 16, the governor forwarded the issue of repairs, considering the building to be municipal, to Vyacheslav Simakov, but already at the April 21 meeting he awkwardly corrected himself and directed all the anger from reading my post at Daniil Lvovich," Andrei Mauri wrote.

      He recalled that money for the renovation of the facade of the Family center in the Fileka neighborhood was requested back in 2022, when the budget for 2023 was being formed. But the money was not included in the expenditure part of the budget. This was reported to Sokolov by the Minister of Culture of the region Daniil Dvortsov. In response, Sokolov chastised the minister and asked, "what he personally did to ensure that the funds were allocated." "They were involved in the budget process," Dvortsov replied. "And?," Sokolov noted. - You know, it's a job. And the minister's job is not to say, "Give me the money and I'll do it." The minister's job is to convince his colleagues to give you the money. Convince them. The Philharmonic somehow convinced me that we should give money, and we did. The theater somehow convinced me. And here you can convince, find arguments. There is a budget process, and there are deputies who vote for it. There is a government. Chairman of the Government. You will convince the prime minister to put the issue before the deputies. Or deputies, so that they raise the issue with the government. Take care of the issue. Take up cultural politics. Solve the problem, prove that it is necessary, explain. I am waiting for the report within a month," Sokolov told Minister Dvortsov.

      "Arguing with Mr. Sokolov is like banging your head against a wall. Last year, the issue of building repairs was raised in the press, and, as former colleagues told me, Deputy Chairman Shumailova was well aware of this situation. She knew, but she did nothing. Being the supervisor of the industry, it was she who had to insist, as you, Alexander Valentinovich, correctly say, on allocating funds for repairs. In the current structure of regional government, in my opinion, if a minister is not a direct nominee of the first person, he is actually assigned the role of a butler. There is an unspoken rule for big managers not to publicly scold subordinates, there are closed formats for this. By humiliating his ministers in public, the leader humiliates himself, shows his weakness. It's time to become a governor instead of a political strategist!", - Mauri wrote on his TV channel.