Up to self -immolation

The editors continues to order texts to students of the school of civil journalism . This time, Anastasia Platonova talks about a man who came to the fight against the state one on one.

At the end of winter, I was at a rally of workers in Tver. I wanted to know how the life of the workers of the Tver Carbon -Building Plant changed: do they feel the crisis and how acute, do the authorities trust or accuse it?

The rally was held in the format of a meeting with the deputy of the Duma from the Communist Party Vasily Solovyov. Soloviev’s ten -minute speech listened silently, without reacting to the calls to “oppose a friendly front against the reductions”, or to attacks on the “sales trade union committee of the TVZ”. In my memory, it was the quietest rally: the speakers simply replaced each other one by one, and the workers stood silently. Only the equipment was noisy in the square: cars drove in circles, removing non -existent snow. But the rumor to this even rumble was quickly used to it.

The strange silence was broken only once: a woman with a pack of leaflets and an elderly man in a black coat were argued:

- We will go to the Maidan ourselves, because the roots of the Maidan in Russia. Putin on trial! Sechin is a friend of Putin, he receives five million per day, a scoundrel. You have to shoot such! The Maidan will be here, you will not go anywhere. My father died near Stalingrad not for this. We betrayed Russia, we are considered to be vegetables, and we are just silently sitting, there are vegetables!

They rested to the side from the stage, behind the crowd. The protesters did not turn to the noise: they listened to the performance of the deputy of the Tver Legislative Assembly of Andrei Istomin. He just said:

“You can’t wait silently while your problems solve.” Today you need to knock and scream. And who screams louder, he will knock out more for himself.

Later, a man in a black coat came up to me and handed a sheet of paper: an appeal to the Government of the Russian Federation from a certain Oleg Obraztsov. Figures, links to laws - dry official language. Samples requires to change the procedure for indexing pensions to the victims of production. “If the requirements are not fulfilled, I am determined to make a public act of self -immolation.”

- We have one person here. Turns, but it is filtered. Until self -immolation, ”the man speaks very quietly, looks to the side. After a pause, he adds: - I am this person.

Obraztsov gave me an appeal, began to talk about his essence, quickly crushed and hurried to leave. A phone number was indicated on a copy of the circulation. I agreed on a meeting.

At home of samples, he showed me two thick paper folders with the “Case No.” printed. Instead of the number on the folders, it was signed: “Correspondence for Indexation” and “Disabled”. The table littered with papers did not fit into the thorough, almost non -residential, the order of the room: a sofa, a closet, arranged books - there is nothing that would not be in its place. Only a large plush bear seemed foreign, who was sitting on the nightstand next to the table.

I lost all my teeth in the chemical industry due to sulfuric acid fumes. What can I insert my teeth for myself? So live. I am ready to give this life.

Oleg Obraztsova 71, janitor. In the first year of the school, at 21, he lost his right eye in production practice. Samples are corresponded with the government: it requires to change the procedure for indexing pensions to the victims in production.

The first appeal was dated 2006: Samples turned to the Duma. Then, in December, the first answer came. The content of the response of eight years ago almost completely coincides with the latter sent in February 2015: "The indexation coefficient and its frequency are determined by the Government of the Russian Federation."

- I also turn to the government, and they began to make a carousel. Wrap to the Ministry of Labor. And the Ministry of Labor replies that this is the prerogative of the government.

In 2000, Samples retired and tried to receive a benefit for his eyes once lost in practice. The amount of payment for injury amounted to 40% of the subsistence minimum: 3312 rubles per month.

- I write to make a fair coefficient. Every year, money is dodged from the victims. This is not true for me, I receive a pension and old age, albeit meager money. And those people? He, for example, is young. He cannot work, I received an injury. And they do not take anywhere, but they have a family, children. So they live on a beggarly pension. At first, when I started to write, I did not save these answers, I hoped. But the victims in production are not protected at all, they have no public organizations, no one represents their interests, these people seem to have no.

The victims, whose rights he defends, is not known to Oleg Borisovich: he knows for sure that there are such people, but personally is not familiar with anyone. A few years ago, he tried to find them through the social insurance fund, but there he was refused, based on the Law on Personal Data. But he did not leave correspondence:

“I will bomb them every year, when I already foresee that they will deceive.” I start to write in November, when they still approve the budget. But these vulgar answers begin, and each time the beggarly pays. In 2014, the idea of ​​self -immolation came to me for the first time. Once I turned, the second ... Well, what to do? What is in my power? If there was a weapon, I would with a weapon in my hands. It is a pity that I can’t take one of the bureaucrats with me. The last straw, of course, was a rise in prices due to their so-called crisis. For example, I allowed myself too much? Twice went to the theater (700 rubles), twice in the bathhouse (130) - and that’s all, the pension is over. I buy two times less vegetables and fruits, stopped writing out newspapers. I lost all my teeth in the chemical industry due to sulfuric acid fumes. What can I insert my teeth for myself? So live. I am ready to give this life. And I am ready to give her just to pay attention. I was preparing my whole life for this. I used to not: I cared for a disabled person of the first group, wife, but she died of rheumatoid arthritis. He went through everything with his wife, they did not give us medicines, strollers.

Oleg Borisovich says little about his wife: she fell ill in the 80s and gradually faded away. She died two years ago. Then, faced with his wife’s illness, samples entered the circle of “disabled problems” and began to engage in them. Now he is leading two stories: a pension to the victims of the workplace and the rights of disabled people in the Tver region. About five years ago, Obrazov founded an initiative human rights group of disabled people of the Tver region.

I know that my act will not solve the problem. I do not have illusions in this julnic state. But droplets - they also destroy the stone.

There are no photographs of his wife in his room, only in the folder with the papers I accidentally came across a schedule for taking her drugs on the sheet. He briefly mentions two sons - probably a strange bear on this room on the closet belonged to one of them.

- We wrote appeals, collected signatures, came to meetings, picked the Legislative Assembly of the Tver region. The last time I stood with a single picket on December 25, tried to convey to the deputies ... In 2012, the local administration also canceled half of the benefits for the disabled. We then arranged a meeting (disabled. - Ed. ): We phoned everyone, printed out ads at our own expense, hung around the city. A total of 150 people gathered ...

It ends all the stories of the samples the same way-“But we could not achieve anything”: it was not possible to get benefits for disabled carriers or a discount on the overhaul of the house.

Samples speaks and looks right in front of him: the artificial eye does not externally differ from the present, but the pupil of the prosthesis does not move. Because of this, the look also becomes static and detached.

- I do what is in my power. If you do nothing, it obviously will not decide anything. After all, this power is inaccessible to people. How else to talk to her? We cannot think only about ourselves, we have children, grandchildren. We must take care of them. Only thanks to those people who are fighting, we have not yet been bent into the ram. But there are few such people, everyone became vegetables. Uh-uh, here all life is needed only to fight, in this country, crooks and thieves. I just thought: what can I do? What can I do? I will take the answer to my conscience. I have no more funds, I do not see them. And so I just can't sit anymore. I am ready to finish the matter. I have practically nothing to lose. I know that my act will not solve the problem. I do not have illusions in this julnic state, what are the means here. But droplets - they also destroy the stone. I am ready to become one of the drops.