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In 2006, the Military Town No. 190-B was expelled from the list of closed ones. Gradually, civilian civilians began to settle here, only the house of officers and the name of the central streets - Lenin, Sovetskaya were preserved from the past life. Another “historical attraction” is a Voentorgov store: in Soviet times, when the supply of military towns was at times better, residents of neighboring villages sought to get here by hook or by crook. Now the store has moved into private hands, received the name “military organizer”, and the products in it are no worse and no better than in other stores in Moscow and the Moscow Region.
There is nothing to lose
Two kilometers from the center of the village in the forest - the main headquarters of the Air Force. Over the past few years, according to the stories of local residents, the number of staff has declined three to four times: “Reform!”
“My wife and I in this village since 2001, he has always been considered elite. Friends from their previous places of service, when they come to us, envy: forest, fresh air, close to Moscow, ”says Colonel Ilya Khanukaev. At first he served at the Air Force headquarters, and then he was transferred to one of the head administrations of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. Khanukaev is the only one who is not afraid to call his name in a conversation with The New Times: he has not served for more than a year. In the year before last, his headquarters was reduced, and his himself by order of the Minister of Defense was seconded to Khabarovsk. Not wanting to go to places rather remote, the colonel went to an unprecedented step - he appealed the order of the Minister of Defense in court to transfer to the Far East. In the Moscow District Military Court, he was refused - ahead of a appeal in the Supreme Court. In the meantime, Khanukaev and his family live in a two -room official apartment, in which they lived for the past ten years with two children - a son and daughter. Their apartment is in a prefabricated two-story house. These are called "cardboard." But the Khanukaevs are quite satisfied. “There is a bad climate in Khabarovsk, and we used to serve in units where radar stations constantly worked - there the children received a bunch of sores,” Olga, the colonel’s wife, complains. Khanukaev himself is now lonely: “After he went against the leadership, his colleagues stopped calling. And indeed, next to us in the village people are closed, they live separately, do not spread about politics. The main topic of conversations is to increase salaries for military personnel after the New Year: more than twice increased at once! ”
Will it be possible to buy?
The salary of a soldier consists of several parameters: title, position, length of service. Increase in the ranks and posts affected both the title: the colonel will now receive 12 thousand rubles for the same rank, the Army General - 27 thousand, the marshal - 30 thousand, military pensioners used to receive 9 thousand rubles, now - 19 thousand “estimate: the salary of a lieutenant who only graduated from the school will now be more than 40 thousand rubles, and this is throughout Russia,” says Ilya Khanukaev. - And in the same Volgograd, a miserable 10 thousand earn miserable in a civilian! Of course, now all the military will hold on to their posts. ” "
Army hopes that they themselves will not force them to disperse protest rallies. Even if half a city goes outside, they say, enough internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs
“The colonel is sure: many will go themselves, without any coercion to vote for Putin. How many votes will this be given to him?“ In the country there are about 1 million military personnel plus family members. In total - more than 3 million voters! ”
"I do not believe it"
If the neighbors of Colonel Khanukaev prefer not to disseminate politics and warmly discuss only a increase in salaries, then the relatives and colleagues of another resident of the town, a colonel of the response of Alexander P., political news-in the first place. “In our circle, we discussed Medvedev’s speech at the Congress of United Russia on September 24 last year,” Alexander P. shares with The New Times, who had served in the military forces for more than 30 years. -My father-in-law, a 80-year-old military pensioner, seeing this whole circus on TV, called me, hardly finding censorship expressions. “They are holding us for the cattle! He shouted. “They completely broke the roof?” 
We were late to wet
Another inhabitant of Gorodok No. 190-B, Lieutenant Colonel Sergei Grigoryevich, is indifferent to rallies in Bolotnaya, but is very surprised when he is asked about the “Orange threat”. The lieutenant colonel does not believe that someone from outside could organize “such a powerful protest mood”: “This protest is our own production.” True, our interlocutor admits that the organizers of the rallies were consulted from abroad: "After all, the Soviet special services at one time where they could create friendly regimes."
But the 29-year-old Captain Victor S., a listener of one of the capital's military academies, who found himself in a military town in official matters, is much more radical than his senior colleagues. Protesters, he is sure, pose a serious threat. “Sincere or not protesting, it doesn’t matter,” the captain mints, who, for some reason, also needed to hide his last name. “Rallies, protest shares are just a mechanism for changing power.” The United States and other leading foreign states are developing the idea of the young listener of the academy, “continue to make a redistribution of peace”: “In the case of Russia, everything is difficult-due to the presence of an atomic arsenal we have. Here you can only destabilize the economic situation and take people out into the street, and even after a set of critical mass, to demolish power. ” Captain S. regrets that the authorities did not immediately stop the “orange threat”: “Now it will be very difficult to convince people not to go out into the streets, but it will not work to intimidate - there will be not enough batons.” "
Now, after a significant increase in military salaries, it is likely that many without coercion will go to vote for Putin
“At the same time, the army hopes that they themselves will not force them to disperse protest rallies. Even if half a city comes out to the streets, they say, there are enough internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs - they have enough people and techniques.“ Most of my colleagues are now in the standby mode - they are carefully observing what is happening and waiting, they will take it, ”Lieutenant Colonel Sergei Grigoryevich shares with the magazine.
The turnout is please
Those with whom they managed to meet in the military town near Moscow did not really believe the numbers released by the Minister of Defense Anatoly Serdyukov in a letter to the Prime Minister immediately after the parliamentary elections: they say, 80% of the military and members of their families voted for United Russia. So, for example, according to observers from the Communist Party, in the same village of Zarya, the real results of the EP amounted to only 23%. In another military town near Moscow, even worse - only 18%. 
“In our party in the Party, the results were unsatisfactory,” says these data Lieutenant Colonel Sergei Grigoryevich. - And the commander of my unit was strictly reported for this. There are cases when, after the flight of flights, the commanders filed a dismissal report. They talked very disrespectfully with them. ”
Will it benefit? Will army conclusions draw by March 4? “It is impossible to force a military man to vote for someone,” the lieutenant colonel is firmly convinced. “The only thing that can be“ provided ”is a high turnout.” This is please. " At the same time, the lieutenant colonel himself does not see the alternative to Putin in the upcoming elections. Colonel Khanukaev, which was being convinced with the leadership of the Ministry of Defense, agrees with him: “Of course, the irremovability of the authorities scares me. But look: let it be late, but still the state drew attention to the military. This means that in a new date, Putin will be able to do something more constructive. ”
"And who instead of him: Zhirinovsky, or what?"
Vladimir A., 52 years old, the castle commander of one of the parts of central subordination:
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“I carefully examined panoramic photographs with Bolotnaya and Sakharov Avenue. People there are sincere. But I myself would never go to any such event. Testosterone is not enough.
A significant part of the young officers is afraid of Zyuganov’s power - they fear a communist revenge. Their main argument: Gazprom and Rosneft-key economic entities-and so de facto nationalized, the country feeds from them. And the coming to the power of the Reds will destroy the already established system. ”
Recently I accidentally heard a conversation between one officer and his wife - after we were raised a salary. The officer brings home the first “big” salary and says: “If they also pay the next month, I will vote for Putin.” And his wife to him: "So they buy you fools." This colleague is a representative of the young generation. And people like me are older than me are perplexed: why it was impossible to increase salaries in 2009-2010, as promised? It is obvious that, increasing salaries, they want to buy our loyalty. ”