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The New Times went to the Russian farmer and birthday by John Copysk, who assures that he is ready to feed Russia

The "food program" is a substitute phrase is again entered into official use. Prime Minister Medvedev said the government is busy developing such a program. The Secretary of General Leonid Brezhnev spoke about Medvedev when the country was in lines: the Soviet food program was adopted on May 24, 1982, but it did not feed the country and did not save the country. What will save?

John Copyska hopes that Putin will pay attention to agriculture, as necessary, believes

Farmer, element of sovereignty. Krutovo village, August 12, 2014

“The main problem is that no one wants to tell the truth to the chief,” the 65-year-old copy cuts the truth-uterus. He is dressed in a huck -colored sweater, his face is decorated with a boyar beard. John is the owner of the Bogdarny farm, three hours from Moscow, in the Vladimir region, not far from roosters sung by Venochka Erofeev. The “chef” is President Vladimir Putin, whom he considers Comuski as a “real patriot” and even compares with Winston Churchill.

From the side of John's meat and milk farm, spreading on the picturesque shore of Klyazma, resembles a landowner estate. But the owner is not up to the bar's lifestyle: the number of 3600, of which 1700 dairy cows, which give 40 thousand liters of milk per day. The farm appeared 15 years ago on the lands of the former collective farm, from which only the fence and the wooden building of the administration remained. Everything else - cowsheds, gardens, an horse riding and a three -story ecotourist hotel - was built by a stranger John.

New Russian

For the first time, the British came to Russia in 1994, established export trade in Russian carbon here, received Russian citizenship after another 5 years, accepted Orthodoxy and met the future wife Nina-now they have five children. But to get used to some of our realities - for example, to bureaucratic red tape, so for now: “There are many corridors in Moscow, but no one wants to deal with our problems, their affairs for them (officials) are more important.” However, speaking of Russia, invariably says: "Our country." However, the former London does not see any contradiction in this: “Yes, I am a citizen of this country. Russian man is the one who lives in Russia whose money is in Russia, whose family is here, ”John declares. True, he adds immediately: “Of course, I can’t say that this is my homeland, I have not been born here, but this is my house - in a word, I am a Russian person who has a western experience.” The Copysk family speaks about their business not without pathos: "We are in this way the Fatherland."

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"Russian person is the one who lives in Russia, whose money is in Russia, whose family is here"

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At first, in the late 90s, the British considered the lands of the former collective farm as an help to the monastery standing next door. “But the mother-native immediately said:“ I'm not a fool. ” And here I’m a fool, ”he smiles at a copy, telling the story of his farm.

At the entrance to the estate, the guests are greeted by brisk striped kittens, over the site for exit horses, slightly shabby imperial banners with a portrait of Nicholas the Second and the Soviet flag. In the distant aviary, the boar caught in the next forest roars, there are next to the triples driving, on the building of the former barn you can see a poster with a quote from Stalin on the occasion of the end of the Great Patriotic War - the one where the leader glorifies the Russian people.

In total, 160 people work on a farm under the cockerels, of which half are migrant workers from Central Asia. The average salary in the district center is 12 thousand rubles, and twice as much on a farm at a copy of the copy. Just what? “The young people do not want to work with manure, it’s easier to spend half a life on the road in an electric train - that’s why we have three million drivers and how many guards,” comments Nina, the wife of John, dressed in a sundress, on the top of which the apron that was seen.

But John immediately adds: “This is the problem of the whole world, not only our country. Who works in milk in the USA? The American "Tajiks" are Mexicans, in England - Romanians and Poles. "

Agriturism helps John get small but stable money

Food sovereignty

Does British business differ from business in Russian? John sees the main difference in the fact that “here (in Russia) is not thinking about tomorrow”: “The Russians are too pessimistic-at least two generations need at least something to change.”

“Our chef (that is, Putin. - The New Times) show linden statistics, the boss does not show the truth - no one wants to say that there is a gangrene, and if you do not cut off your finger, you will have to chop the whole hand,” the Englishman says. However, despite the sympathy for Putin, the Copyska couple sincerely does not understand why Moscow agreed to join the WTO. “We do not need this, we must honestly say that we, Russia, are the third world, we need Brix,” says John.

Drinking the air with his hand, Nina tries to illustrate her husband’s words: “Our neighbor made a successful pig -breeding complex, but suddenly we joined the WTO. And all - bam! All customs restrictions were removed, the friend went into a hard minus. The peasant does not understand what to expect next. There, upstairs, we should make it clear to us - how much milk they need and where. In the meantime, we are only lost in conjecture. ” The spouses also complain that agricultural support is nothing more than a hobby of individual governors: “No one thinks about the food sovereignty of our country, independence from foreign supplies. Now Argentinean feed is cheaper than Kuban beans or clover, and therefore no one wants to switch to Russian raw materials. ”

Goldstein Frisa cows on the Bogdarny farm do not stuff growth hormones

Planned capitalist

John evaluates the beginning of the sanctions war: “Finally! It was necessary to start 15 years ago, now people have more patriotism than at the beginning of summer, which means that the emerging chance should be used. If it succeeds, there will be a breakthrough for the country's agriculture. ” The Briton adds that most of his familiar farmers are in solidarity. The correspondent of The NEW Times did not have the opportunity to talk with the farmers, but the manager of the jonov farm Vladimir Petrovich, who went to the farm, because “in his old age he wanted to serve the Motherland,” agrees with the authorities: “Obama must say“ thank you ”. Now the country will finally live richly and dignity-on its own meat. ” Vladimir Petrovich calls himself himself as a stand-as-standing “Bogdarni”, behind him ten years of his life as a worker in the monastery. The abbess prepared him for the adoption of a dignity, but - "I am a sinful man, which I can teach the flock."

Will the ban on grocery imports affect the cost of products? “Regarding prices for prices, this is all to retail chains and processors - the peasants have nothing to do with this,” Nina retroans tiredly. According to her, since the New Year, their purchase price fell by 7 %, therefore, in stores, the cost of products should decrease by 6 rubles. "Has anyone seen her decrease?" - Nina asks a rhetorical question. An invisible schedule in the air with his hand, John explains: “60 rubles costs a package of high -quality milk, of which the conditional Aushan receives 34 %, conditional Danone - 30 %, we are farmers - we stay in the red.”

Despite the patriotic attitude, the spouses are generally forced to admit that the farm share in modern Rosia is not easy. “We do not live in agriculture, we survive - all the time we are forced to balance on the verge,” Nina complains. “And we were still lucky, we have a completely tolerable credit load, last year’s debts we can extinguish with short -term loans.”

John interrupts again: “Or here is the cheese, it cannot cost 300 rubles, because 10 liters of milk need a kilogram of the product, which means that palm oil is used. The networks do not care - they need cheap goods. ”

According to the spouses of Kapiska, the Russian farmer has no choice for whom to give their products: either Pepsico or Danone. “They say they have a gentleman's agreement - they have no suppliers from each other,” says Nina. The exception was made only for a few enterprises, such as the “Ruz dairy products” of the Orthodox businessman Vasily Boyko-Great, but “here is another thing-he is a great friend of Putin*”.

160 people work in Bogdarne: half of them are migrants from Uzbekistan and Tajikistan

Planned marketers

A strange thing: a couple of copies seems to be individualists, and in words they advocate for a planned economy. “Russia developed well only when there was a protectionist policy when we were covered with an iron curtain,” says the hostess of Bogdarni. And he adds with satisfaction: “Now we are gradually returning to what we have left - surrounded by enemies, the cult of the army, we are friends with China, joined the Crimea.”

Farmers are confident in the need for a state plan with constant subsidizing agriculture. “Think for yourself: Europe according to the“ Marshall Plan ”subsidized for 25 years, and what are we worse?” - says Nina.

Now, according to her, the subsidy procedure is terribly bureaucratic - subsidies to farmers “simply impossible to get”. As an example, the Kapiska spouses put Belarus, where the equipment is transferred to collective farms for free - “because they have a vacation price of milk is equal to our cost”.

What about friendly China? “Due to large distances and cold climate, we are no one compared to China or India, where people are ready to work for a plane of rice,” says Nina. “Well, another ten years, and the Chinese will also want to live differently,” John correctly corrects his wife.

How many years will Russia need to completely switch to its products? John's mouths - no more than five years: "We will not starve, the Russian peasants will feed the country, but let it understand that it is necessary."

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