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WILL BEAUTY SAVE THE WORLD?
The joint action of Novaya Gazeta and the German media gives Eleonora Kondratyuk a new chance. The past year brought despair to the soul of even such a courageous girl. Ongoing judicial bullying in the form of a still unfinished trial of...
The joint action of Novaya Gazeta and the German media gives Eleonora Kondratyuk a new chance
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The past year has planted despair in the soul of even such a courageous girl. The ongoing judicial mockery in the form of the still unfinished trial of a mercenary who threw concentrated sulfuric acid in the face of 18-year-old "Miss Charm" had such a hard effect on the victim's well-being that the results of the brilliant Düsseldorf operation two years ago were nullified.
The light for Eli has dimmed again, the financial donations from Russia have long dried up, the expensive treatment at the University Hospital of Munich would have to be stopped at the beginning of February of this year. There was nothing left to do but turn to the German colleagues for help (“In the hope of seeing one has to look to the West”, Novaya Gazeta, No. 89, December 2, 2002).
The most popular Russian-language weekly in Western Europe was the first to respond. After publications in Russian Germany, my phone literally glowed.
Vasily Arnoldovich, who moved to Dusseldorf from Astrakhan "back in the era of developed stagnation", has a year left before retirement. The 63-year-old engineer now works as a salesman in a small shop. He earns little by local standards - one and a half thousand euros a month. But Vasily Arnoldovich intends to send “at least a tenth of this amount” to Elin’s account on a regular basis.
“You wrote that the country is no longer helping a crippled Russian woman,” a retired major of the Soviet Army, who is now receiving social benefits in Nuremberg, called with insult. I don't believe in such a disgrace! I hope to read soon in Novaya Gazeta that "Chubais, Khodorkovsky and Abramovich chipped in
$100,000 for the treatment of a compatriot.”
“If each compassionate reader of Novaya Gazeta and Russkaya Germany transferred just one dollar each, an amount would be accumulated that would be quite sufficient both to restore vision and to partially restore Eleanor’s charming appearance,” a recent migrant from Russia, who introduced himself as “ programmer Anatoly from Freiburg.
- It's very profitable - to accumulate good deeds in your own soul! - Kasper Manhanden from the Netherlands thought in a businesslike way. This 43-year-old businessman and his girlfriend Jenny intend to transfer 600 euros a month to a new foreign account: Die Stuttgarter Hilfsorganization Kinderberg International, Bank für Sozialwirtschaft, BLZ 601 205 00, Konto: 175 00 02, Stichwort "Ella"
The Kondratyuks themselves would not have been able to issue such bank details in Germany. They have no right to. Elya and her mother Tamara Vladimirovna should be grateful to the Stern magazine. At the request of the correspondent of Novaya Gazeta, our German colleague Georg Wedemeyer willingly joined the action and in the first January issue of the most reputable publication spoke about the tragedy of the winner of the Sochi beauty contest.
The description of the incredible suffering that befell Eleanor so shocked the employees of a very large television concern that they decided not to limit themselves to a one-time financial assistance. Novaya Gazeta's office has already received an official proposal to create a cycle of reports for several TV channels at once. It is also planned to organize a pan-European charitable foundation "Let's Save the Russian Beauty!".
I really want to believe that Russia will not remain aloof from this good deed. And it's been empty for over a year.