[2] Deputy Governor of the Moscow Oblast (1999–2002), Deputy Mayor of Moscow (2002–2005), Head of Administration (Governor) of the Ivanovo Oblast (2005–2013), Minister of Construction Industry, Housing and Utilities Sector (November 1, 2013 — May 18, 2018),[3] Auditor of the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation (June 20, 2018 — June 2, 2021),[4][5] Full State Councilor of the Russian Federation, 1st class, Candidate of Philosophical Sciences.

Together with the famous songwriter Alexander Yelin, they produce the rock band "Primadonna",[13] which won Grand Prix at the All-Union Music Competition "Miss Rock-88".

[19][20] On October 19, 2010, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev submitted to the Ivanovo Oblast Duma the candidacy of current region's head, Mikhail Men, to give him governor's powers for a second term.

[23] In 2011, in order to modernize the local poultry producer Ivanovsky Broiler, a loan of 700 million rubleswas allocated from regional fund for small and medium-sized businesses at a subsidized interest rate.

[24] In 2020, the Prodo group, which was controlled by managers of Millhouse Capital investment company, and was the owner of Ivanovsky Broiler, repaid the loan by paing 710 million rubles to the budget of Ivanovo Oblast.

Ples on the Volga" and the "Mirror" film festival; creation of state professional recording studio "Ivan-Records" for young musicians in this region.

In 2004, Vyacheslav Nikonov, president of "Politika" Foundation spoke about Men's appointment:The introduction by President of Russian Federation about candidacy of the Deputy Mayor of Moscow in the metropolitan government of Mikhail Men for the Governor's post of Ivanovo Oblast is explained solely by business qualities of the Vice Mayor, and not by any political considerations[29]In 2013, political scientist Alexander Kynev said that because of the Governor, the political system in Ivanovo Oblast has degraded and:Behind the outwardly decent formal image of a complacent governor with a legendary surname, there was a hard tightening of nuts and reliance on imported Moscow region cadres[30]On November 1, 2013, the Ministry of Construction, Housing and Utilities was established by Decree of the President of the Russian Federation.

[31] As the newspaper Kommersant wrote, Mikhail Alexandrovich Men was remembered by the constraction market for numerous reforms in a field of shared-equity construction.

According to Ministry's plan, developers working with escrow accounts should be exempt from the need to make contributions to the compensation funds of shareholders.

During the years of Mikhail Men's leadership, the Federal State Information System of Pricing in the construction of the (FGIS CA) was put into operation.

According to Andrey Nazarov, co-chairman of Delovaya Rossiya, the Ministry of Construction of the Russian Federation has managed to reduce the number and cost of administrative procedures by more than half in six years, which is an excellent indicator.

[35] Sergei Gordeiko from Rusipoteka noted: “The preservation of the volume of mortgage lending was a great success of the Ministry of Construction during the period of Mikhail Men's leadership.

A few days before Kobylkin's resignation, Ilya Gudkov, the head of public law company “Russian Environmental Operator”, was removed from his post.

[50][51] In the last report of Mikhail Men was said that one of the largest companies - the "Big Three" - was engaged in modernization of unified state information system for accounting for waste from the use of goods (EGIS "UOIT").

It satisfied the submission of Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov and agreed to criminal prosecution Mikhail Men is responsible for the allegedly stolen loan,[53] which was paid in full to the budget of the Ivanovo Oblast back in June 2020.

[55] On June 22, 2020, even before the initiation of proceedings against M. Men, the Prodo Group, which was controlled by the managers of Roman Abramovich's investment company Millhouse Capital,[56] repaid the debt of "Ivanovsky Broiler", returning 710 million rubles to the regional budget.

[57] Despite the fact that the loan was repaid in full, the initiators of the "theft" were called "unidentified persons from among the beneficiaries" of the Prodo group of companies, which then included “Ivanovsky Broiler”.

Men, according to the investigation, led the theft, earlier another ex-governor of the Ivanovo Oblast, Pavel Konkov, who was the first deputy governor during the loan issuance period, was involved in the case.

At the same time, the court dismissed the cases against the ex-governor of the region Pavel Konkov and the managing director of JSC "Ivanovsky Broiler" Dmitry Grishin.

[58] On June 1, 2021, the Federation Council received a presidential submission on the early release of Mikhail Men from the post of auditor of the Accounting Chamber at his request.

"[66] Evgeny Minchenko “does not exclude that what is happening may be related to the sphere of Men's current work in the Accounts Chamber – he dealt with the topics of ecology and garbage reform”.

[69] Politician Boris Nadezhdin in a commentary to Meduza called the prosecution of Mikhail Men “political”:“There's some kind of fight going on under the carpet.

It's some kind of elite infighting; it's not a war on corruption.”[70]The head of the political expert group Konstantin Kalachev, in a comment to the Free Press, explained the persecution of Men by an intra-elite struggle: "If a case is raised ten years ago, then the trigger is the events of present time.

Obviously, this is connected not so much with the fight against embezzlement as with intra—elite showdowns," Kalachev also pointed out that the persecution of Me is probably related to his professional activities as an auditor of the Accounts Chamber - he was engaged in garbage and ecology.

In particular, Krichevsky pointed out: "In 2020, my department announced fraud with oil and gas reserves, having found out that raw materials companies put deposits on the state balance sheet, the resources of which are not subsequently confirmed.

[75] Later Mikhail Men organizes a concert tour of Joe Lynn Turner in Russia, where he performs as a producer and bass guitarist.

[77] In 2006, Mikhail Men, together with famous performers Grigory Leps, Alexander Marshal, Sergey Mazaev, Igor Sandler, Anatoly Alyoshin and others, took part in the recording of the official tribute album "Пипл про/to purple" which hits #39 in the Deezer All Genres Top 300 Releases chart in Russia.

The song Last Call is released as a separate single and in the debut album "Ivanovsky Blues" by the Natsproekt group on all digital showcases and on CD.

The collective successfully gave several concerts, including at the Luzhniki Small Sports Arena, for which the famous guitarist and one of the founders of the group Valery Gaina specially flew from the USA.

Thus, the composition Sarcasm held the 1st place in the Russian iTunes Top 200 Tracks in the jazz category, a record for this genre for three and a half weeks.