Construction companies pay off workers in Sochi 24 days before the Olympics

The situation with the payments of wages to workers in Sochi, because of which one of the builders even sewn his mouth , will be resolved by January 14, when a little more than 20 days remain before the Olympics. Vladimir Lukin promised to follow this by the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation. He said that now the amount of debt is two million rubles, and construction companies promised to report on payments by mid -January, Interfax reports. And Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak assured that ecology in Sochi during the construction only became better contrary to the anxiety of human rights activists.

“One of the most acute issues during the construction of Olympic facilities was an unpaid salary of workers at the very recent time. Today this process is ending,” Lukin told reporters. “From a rather large amount of the shortage has grown into two million rubles.”

“We were firmly assured by a specific employer who specifically owed us, that on January 14 the calculation process would be completed,” the Ombudsman emphasized. He explained that in his name a statement would have to receive that the payment of debt has been completed.

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The Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Kozak also commented on the detention of salaries by construction companies: "More than 500 organizations were checked for timely payment of salaries, and this gave its result."

"At the end of December, the wage arrears of builders amounted to 277 million rubles from seven organizations. But for the New Year holidays it was repaid," Kozak said. He added that checks of firms will continue until construction in Sochi is completed.

According to him, in Sochi there are currently about 30 thousand nonresident workers, many of which will continue to work at the Olympic facilities. "Most of them remained as temporary personnel for the operation of all objects that were built in Sochi as part of the development of the city as a mining of the resort," Kozak said. He noted that more than 80 thousand nonresident workers were engaged in the construction of Olympic facilities, working with a rotational basis. “We must do everything so that they receive the necessary gratitude, the salary due to them, and to be comfortably taken to the places of permanent residence,” the Deputy Prime Minister believes.

It should be noted that in Sochi, the salary situation was really depressing at the end of last year. Many workers complained about systematic salaries. For example, at the end of December 2013, the coordinator of the Sochi reception network of the Memorial human rights center “Migration and Law” Semen Simonov said: “Almost all contractors are constantly delaying salaries for two months. People are accustomed and not worried about this. But those who managed to work at five Olympic facilities have come to us and did not receive money anywhere.”

The most high -profile event related to delays in payments occurred in mid -October 2013: then the Krilak Spetsstroy working company Roman Kuznetsov sewn his mouth in protest. He demanded to pay him a salary - on a home -made poster, Kuznetsov was written: "I need to feed the children." After a big scandal rose, Kuznetsov paid all the money for several days for his work at Sochi construction sites.

Ecology in Sochi, according to the Ministry of Natural Resources, has improved, contrary to complaints of ecologists

During the Olympic construction site in Sochi, it turns out that air and water became cleaner. Such data provided the government by the Ministry of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation. “In the city of Sochi today, air and water became cleaner than it were in December 2007,” said Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak.

He referred to the report of the Ministry of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation "On the results of monitoring the state of the environment in the city of Sochi", which for comparison provides 2007 data. “The air has become twice as cleaner. If the amount of suspension for December 2007, when there was no construction, was 1.2 maximum permissible norm, today - 0.6 maximum permissible concentration,” Kozak said.

“This is a very good result of work on the modernization of transport infrastructure, conducting environmental measures. I am absolutely sure that the landscaping of the territory will be completed now. Now the task of the final washing of the streets has been set, and the air will become even cleaner,” the Deputy Prime Minister made.

In his opinion, the preservation of "pure air in the habitat of people" is "the most important environmental achievement in populated areas." Kozak did not report on soil pollution, rivers and huge landfills. True, ecological organizations that investigated the influence of the Olympic construction on the environment in the vicinity of Sochi spoke about this.

For example, ecologists who participated in the public inspection on August 10 of last year came to the conclusion that for the sake of the Olympic construction in the Adler district of Sochi, an entire settlement is destroyed - the village of Akhshtyr . The inspection was organized after a scandalous decision of officials to place a landfill of construction waste in the Akhhtyr career. Other ecologists argued that in the capital of the Winter Olympic Games there is a systematic violation of the regime of specially protected natural territories - protected lands.

In the summer of 2013, it was also reported that along the Lazarevskoye-Adler railway line, from May to July, the catastrophic destruction of unique wood-brown vegetation, located on a 30-meter line of alienation, continued. Finally, the state of ecology in Sochi drew attention in the West: in the focus there was a problem of disposal of construction garbage . Researchers came to the conclusion that the Olympic program "Zero waste" in Sochi is not implemented.

The quarry near the village of Akhhtyr outraged Western activists: despite the statements of the Russian authorities that only the soil is exported in careers, it was filled with various construction garbage: spray cans, tires, foam sheets and concrete slabs. Ecologists warned that the main threat emanating from this landfill is the pollution of rivers and ponds that supply the city of Sochi with water. By the way, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak repeatedly rejected the allegations that Russia does not fulfill its environmental obligations. According to him, in Sochi, only the soil is thrown into landfills.

Deputy Prime Minister Kozak: "Olympic Games - Non -Lithual Event"

Currently, not a single application has been received for political actions during the 2014 Olympic Games, the Deputy Prime Minister of the Government of the Russian Federation Dmitry Kozak said at a meeting in Sochi.

"The Olympic Games are a non -political event, they are not a place for the emergence of various political protests and upholding their political positions," the politician noted.

He added that in accordance with the Decree of the President of Russia, which determines the procedure for holding rallies, processions and protests in the city of Sochi during the Olympic and Paralympic Games of 2014, the city authorities determined the place for such shares in the village of Khost.

“In my opinion, it is quite convenient and comfortable for holding any kind of political shares. Law enforcement agencies are given the task of ensuring order if there are such shares,” Kozak recalled.