Completely deaf

The military and the authorities do not hear protests against the construction of an air base in the city

In response to the protests of the residents of Voronezh against the Baltimore air base, the commander-in-chief of the Russian Air Force Alexander Zelin promised to soon strengthen its power with new SU-24 bombers. Amazing this dialogue about the creation of the country's largest air base in...

In response to the protests of the residents of Voronezh against the Baltimore air base, the commander-in-chief of the Russian Air Force Alexander Zelin promised to soon strengthen its power with new SU-24 bombers.

This amazing dialogue about building the country's largest airbase in a residential area is in its second year. Residents, exhausted by the roar of engines and frightened by the neighborhood with ammunition and fuel, write letters to all authorities and pickets, and the authorities and the military, in response, explain to them the benefits of such a neighborhood. Commander-in-Chief Zelin once heard an echo of discontent and was very surprised, exclaiming: it cannot be that the Voronezh people were against Baltimore! From him, they say, one benefit to people!

After these exclamations, an initiative group of citizens held a series of pickets on the central square of Voronezh, demanding elementary respect for the laws by the bosses. In particular, to a ban on the construction of military facilities in the city and to sanitary standards for noise acceptable to the civilian ear.

After the pickets, there were more rallies in different parts of the city. And there, a doctor from a hospital in the zone of beneficial influence of the air base said that an operation during takeoff of planes becomes aerobatics for any surgeon, and it is better not to imagine what it is like for families with small children in houses near Baltimore. And the realtor said that housing prices in the vicinity of the airbase are declining and threatening to break into a peak.

At the next rally, mothers with prams, fathers with babies, grandparents adopted regular appeals to statesmen - more than 20 thousand signatures were collected under an appeal to Russian President Medvedev and Prime Minister Putin!

In July, walkers were sent to Moscow, and, of course, they were not allowed to see the president or the prime minister, but they managed to get to the chairman of the Federation Council, Sergei Mironov, who promised to personally discuss the problems of the Voronezh Baltimore with the head of state.

With the onset of autumn, the answer to the walkers and twenty thousand Voronezh residents was given not by the Chairman of the Federation Council, but by the Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force Zelin himself. He promised to send four new Su-24 bombers to Baltimore Air Force Base by the end of this year. The Commander-in-Chief also said that at a meeting with Governor Gordeev, they discussed plans for the construction of a second runway for the Baltimore.