After the last strike in the LC at the mine “Komsomolskaya”, when 119 miners spent a week underground, requiring the payment of prescribed wages, the head of the unrecognized Republic Leonid beekeeper ensured that the protesters and their families will not be applied to violence and criminal prosecution. But still 7 out of 22 of those arrested by the Ministry of state security of LPR miners held in the building of the MGB.
However, 1600 workers of the mine “Komsomolskaya”, as the head of the Independent trade Union of miners of Donbass, Alexander Vaskovsky, still, finally got their hard-earned money.
the Authorities were forced to make concessions after realized that can’t stop an 8-day underground strike force.
At the same time, as reported by some local sources, the funds could come from Russia.
But what then? Whether to wait for new protests? Indeed, in such a suspended position in the Donbass today, not only the miners.
a Similar situation affected “Donetskstal”, yenakiieve and Makiivka metallurgical works, Enakievo koksohimprom, yasinovskiy coke plant, Khartsyzsk pipe plant as well as coal mines rovenkyanthracite, Sverdlovanthracite, “Krasnodonugol” and Alchevsk iron and steel works.
Aleksey Krasilnikov, the first former ex-Minister of agrarian and industrial policy of the DNI, one of the candidates for the presidency of the Republic and opponent of Alexander Zakharchenko in 2014 year told “MK” about his vision of the situation.
I was forced to flee to Russia at the time because of the conflict with Alexander Zakharchenko, as the Ministry, which I then headed, and I personally, opposed the export of goods and foodstuffs in Ukraine. We already meager resources, but instead to trade with Russia, Zakharchenko has made a trade with Ukraine, with which we were at war… However, the money and property was more important than victory”.
who do you think is to blame for what is happening in RESPONSE?
Usually the main enemy is the internal enemy. As can be seen in the republics of Donbass, which their own leaders, I believe, are destroyed much faster than any actions of Kiev.
People are losing faith and patience, and sooner or later will explode. Not receiving pay for 20 months, the miners went on strike. In response, they lowered their salaries in half, and tried hard to suppress the protest. The authorities LNR said that unprofitable mines, and miners believe that their money is simply stolen.
– who is it?
– it is necessary to ask the oligarch Sergey Kurchenko, once close to Viktor Yanukovych, that his company “Vneshtorgservis” owed to the miners of Donbass more than 8 billion rubles in 2015do the head of the DND Alexander Zakharchenko accused Kurchenko in an attempt raider seizure of the local fuel market and banned him entry to Donetsk. In March 2017, the SBU released an intercepted conversation Zakharchenko, he was complaining to someone in Moscow at Kurchenko. But in April, almost all the metallurgical and coal enterprises DND and LNR still came under the management of CJSC “Vneshtorgservis”. In 2018, Zakharchenko was killed by the directed blast in Donetsk cafe “Separable”… Immediately after this the government of the Republic, that’s a strange coincidence, was headed by the adviser to the head of the “Vneshtorgservis” — close to former Prime Minister of Ukraine Azarov Alexander Ananchenko.
But it is still a successful business?
In 2017, the company is exempt from taxes in the NPT, agreed to pay the Republic of 150 million rubles a year. Although the Ministry of industry and trade is one of the only metals in 2018 has brought the owners of more than 102 billion rubles. How much coal and where sold, kept secret. Officially DNR and LNR mined 15 million tons of coal per year, but the actual volume twice that many. While in 2019 it turned out to be the budget and state enterprises DND and LNR about 25 billion rubles. It is open data. So everything that happens in the republics of today, is quite natural.
– From the economic demands of wages actually robbed the miners can move to political?
– Complex issue. Although a prolonged strike under the ground is quite effective: the danger of explosion of methane prevents its dispersal. Therefore, the authorities LNR and tried week different ways to smoke miners “Komsomolskaya” to the top.
First, they were forbidden to pass on the striking water, food and medicines. Then he announced in Antratsitovsky district of sudden “outbreak of coronavirus”. The mine was surrounded the troops, the police, MGB, knocked out cell phone service and Internet.
June 8 disconnected electricity stopped working ventilation and pumping water, but the miners came out anyway. Only because of the risk of flooding and the explosion of hundreds of victims, the electricity supply resumed. To date, the mechanism of debt collection with the elusive “budget LDNR” the miners are there. “Komsomol” — not only striking the mines of the Donbass. Dozens of them… And the authorities LC and DNR, to publicly declare that Donbass mines too expensive to operate and has been losing money long before the crisis. And now, when coal prices fell, many will still have to close, some are already closed. And once the windfall profits of the export of coal does not give any more without them to pay the miners even for 11 thousand roubles a month nobody cares. Including Russia. And okay, it was only in one of Kurchenko. But in the Donbas today is the economic situation that this is not the exception but the norm. Problems in many branches of the “national” economy of republics. Rememberstore with the “lost” money of the Lugansk power grids? Consumers had gathered hundreds of millions of rubles, which then disappeared. Even the salaries of the people did not pay. And this despite the fact that a significant portion of this energy region is free from Russia. The same thing is happening in electricity DNI. And indeed in any state monopoly of republics for the prosecution just a pile not opened, but these need to society of criminal cases. War can not be attributed.
However, high-profile corruption scandals and no. That is that – not that everything will remain in its place.
Yes, and it undermines the position of the republics. But more than that undermines their total corruption, and as a consequence that citizens stopped believing in the idea on the defense which was once raised. It’s not the oligarchs and Co. in 2014 organized resistance to Kiev nationalists. It is the residents of Donbas, those who today have no respect. And those who now catches fish in troubled waters, six years ago, cowardly sat and waited, when again you can make money… And waited. In General, if suddenly the country will continue mass actions of protest, it is not necessary to talk about a fifth column of Kiev or agents of the SBU. Do not be like the the Security Service of Ukraine, which all the problems of the regime, which it now is, trying to shift the war in the Donbass. All the causes should be sought inside. They are in total corruption and theft. Today LDNR is forbidden to raise the subject. Usually share the secrets dismissed and resentful competitors former officials, but even these crumbs say about the whole situation… But Moscow can continue to pretend that nothing is happening that everything is as it should be. And thus, unfortunately, undermines its credibility. And if the Donbass will cease to believe Russia… That is what today should think about those who want to come to power.
– But the current political pool can be replaced sooner or later.
– Perhaps the miners themselves useless, but their performances will help bring to the leadership of the new forces, soon the miners will be forgotten, and can be, and these forces will be equally incapable of dealing with conceptual issues as their predecessors. Well, nothing. Most importantly, always talk about unity with the Russian world, of the victory over fascism and that Donbass no one will put on the knees. Under these loud slogans it is possible to create any chaos, to mock people as you like, which now, alas, happens.
– how to change the situation? Can anyone help? Kiev? Moscow? Any regular Minsk-3?
– I have repeatedly said that the development of a political settlement in the LDNR is lying only in the plane of economic growth of these regions and the political options regulatedia in any formats is not possible without economic justification of development of regions LDNR. Today, I believe there is a crisis at all levels, it is called by the officials, not knowing what to do and how to do, lack of managerial practices, besides it is characterized by a high degree of instability and the diversity in the leadership of the DNI, and expects the Ukrainian authorities, and not just counting, but also takes, I’m sure a direct part in the events, directly or indirectly.
