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The governor of the Omsk region, where the veteran of the Great Patriotic War committed suicide, was awarded for active work with veterans
According to the portal of the regional government, on August 10, the President of the Russian Federation awarded Leonid Polezhaev with the medal "65 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War." In the diploma attached to the award of the Russian organizing committee "Victory", ...
According to the portal of the regional government, on August 10, the President of the Russian Federation awarded Leonid Polezhaev with the medal "65 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War."
The certificate of the Russian organizing committee "Pobeda" attached to the award, signed by the head of state, says that the medal was awarded to the regional head "for active work with veterans."
Among those with whom the governor probably “actively worked” was Vera Vasilievna Konishcheva, a veteran of the Great Patriotic War from the Muromtsevsky District. We talked about it in three June notes. Recall: On June 16, a 91-year-old woman who went through almost the entire war in the communications battalion passed away after drinking a bottle of vinegar. In her suicide note, she wrote: “I don’t want to be a burden to anyone.”
Vera Vasilievna lived in an uncomfortable house - without heating, gas, water. As deputy of the district council Alexander Rakhno told Novaya Gazeta, the grandmother was inspired by the president's promise to provide all war veterans with human housing. Rakhno helped Konishcheva collect documents for a housing certificate, but the district administration denied her the right to receive it, referring to the fact that the area of the veteran's housing exceeds the norm of square meters per capita. There was still hope for the governor: “This is the first time I am turning to you and asking for help. Help! I never thought that at the age of 91 I would encounter such callousness and heartlessness ... ”Polezhaev did not answer the letter. The regional government did not accept Rakhno's documents. He sent them to the presidential administration, from where the order came to the regional authorities "to figure it out and report on the measures taken." Those sent him to the Muromtsevsky district. Having familiarized herself with the order of the presidential administration, the lawyer of the district administration replied to the deputy Rakhno: “We are preparing a rejection material.”
Upon learning that she was denied housing, Vera Vasilievna committed suicide. At the request of another local deputy, Dmitry Shchekotov, the district department of the Investigative Committee initiated a criminal case under the article “Incitement to suicide”. The results of the investigation are not yet available. “In the Muromtsevsky district,” say the deputies Shchekotov and Rakhno, “dozens of war veterans live in unbearable conditions.” In the Omsk region, in all likelihood, there are thousands.
The publication in "Novaya" about the tragedy in Muromtsevo was discussed in the personal blog of D.A. Medvedev - therefore, he could not know about her. Leonid Polezhaev is the only head of the regions to whom the President of the Russian Federation has awarded a medal "for active work with veterans" (see above).