The battlefield

Ekaterina Prokudina recorded monologues of Russian farmers who held public protests

Mikhail Zenzin, the village of Ladva-Vytka, Karelia

He carried out single pickets with a noose around his neck and doused himself in the frost with cold water in front of the local government building, put a tent on the path of the Lesovz of the Laders of the Lespromhoz, and turned to the president .

Mikhail Zenzin photo: Valery Potashov

I am engaged in growing strawberries. I got the earth when everyone received these bunch lands, it was a state flesh. I have half almost a swamp. But on earth I was absent for more than 10 years - I alone had to raise my son, so I had to be in the city. And in 2008, as he was 18 years old, I returned.

He bought the best seedlings - American, Dutch, wherever possible, conducted experiments, chose the best varieties that grow on our lands. But now I have all my strength to fight.

I can’t develop, because in 2008 the only road to my lands was destroyed in 2008. Seven kilometers of the road, even on a tractor, is impossible to drive. In accordance with the Forest Code and the Rules of Wood harvesting, the logger is obliged to restore the road. But our Ministry of Nature Management completely ignores this, no one wants to follow this, they allow such a disgrace.

I was told that there are no roads, and this is a “forest path with a width of four meters I tried to sue this quote to sue , but even if there was a cadastral passport, the judge writes that my plot is not on the cadastral accounting, so I cannot prove that it is owned by me. This road does not seem to exist, although in all documents and in Rosreestr it is indicated as a dirt road. At first, I generally know what they said?! That there are no roads, and this is "a forest path of four meters wide." I have papers, when I show someone these papers, everyone laughs-these are the forest trails with us! But this year, when I did not let the timber industry go through my lands and set the tent in their way, on the contrary, I was fined five thousand - they indicated that I blocked the road.

How many times did the commission come, wrote conclusions that the road is passing and in good condition, just to do nothing. Although even according to fire rules, they are required to make these roads. Recently, there were several fires-there were 50-100 hectares of forest there were burned out due to the fact that the equipment could not pass.

Nobody will give me loans, since I cannot show my income. Due to a lack of money, you have to work in security Twisting this quote from my shares several times held meetings in the ministry and the government. This year, probably, there was good support for the media, they paid attention to me. The Minister of Nature Management of Karelia Chikalyuk went with me and, finally, became convinced - we were in UAZ, the so -called loaf, stuck, had to push the car. He walked to me on foot. After that, it was promised that they would make the road, but the fall is already on the way, then, they say, winter. They act very cunningly. In the summer everyone disappears, then they begin to come when the snow falls out, and they write in the acts "to check the condition of the road requires snow gathering." And so in a circle. I have a huge foot of papers - correspondence with everyone.

Nobody will give me loans, since I can’t show my income, now, due to lack of money, I have to work in security, because you need to work out for a day, and two or three can be engaged in farming.

I did not have a single meter of arable land - everything had to be constantly uprooted, cut down. And now I am expanding my plantation manually with a shovel, because a tractor with plows cannot drive to plow. Fertilizers try seven kilometers along this road to pull on yourself. This year I had to take it on myself and take the berry, I have to live on something. But at a time you will pull out two buckets, I can’t dangle there every day, you come, the berry deteriorates, you throw it out so much. And if it turns out to expand, where will I put berries without a road?

My place is very beautiful. Ecological rural tourism could be proposed. I still plan to grow a garden cranberry, which we are doing little - these are the same northern vitamins! Plus, in my swampy area, you can make a stream and start crucian carp. But again, without a road, I can not. But there would be additional jobs for the inhabitants of the village.

In our village, a frankage-vegetation, for example, is very great unemployment. Previously, 600 people worked in Lespromkhoz, and now only a few dozen and then mostly a rotational basis, local people were out of work.

The Ministry of Agriculture in our Karelia exists-about 100 people there, and there is no more agriculture by and large. You come to them like a swamp. All program support programs seem to be secret. They don’t explain anything, they say, look at the sites or where else, there are no interest in officials. The only thing left is to cut down the forests.

Import substitution does not work in any way. We do not have our own agricultural machinery, there is no good mini-technology, we do not have seed material, as they say, to switch to our own. There used to be very good seed stations - all this is abandoned. This is urgent to raise, because the most important thing is that personnel leave are those people who knew how to work. And now agricultural education is also in its infancy. The villages are dying, our poor villages are now.

Imagine, they wanted to have a criminal case for extremism - for contacting the president! Twisting this quote and now we had fun at all. Imagine, they wanted to have a criminal case for extremism - for contacting the president! The inhabitants of the village, too, are poor, suffer from the timber industry, the same way, the village of heavy equipment is traveling. We have one quarter, which has left without a bridge at all - the bridge is destroyed by this technique, they can now not drive up to the houses, neither firefighting, nor firewood can not be brought - nothing. We made an appeal to the president, I was the initiator. At school, one of the teachers signed, some were refused, they said we were afraid, then there will be a scandal with a forestry industry. And here we have a teacher at school, she collected signatures of high school students who have a passport, I asked her. The circulation was clearly indicated by the “elected president of the Russian Federation from the residents of the village” and the contact person - Zenzin Mikhail Viktorovich. And the text: that we, residents, are deprived of the opportunity to get into the forest, to collect berries, the environmental condition of the village is violated, the foresters do not comply with forest legislation and lease, officials of the Ministry of Nature Management do not monitor, do not control - that’s it. I said to the prosecutor’s office that I won’t say a word about the president’s appeal, this is not your business, to whom we write.

So they looked for traces of extremism. The school principals made her tell them the phones and addresses of the parents of the children - high school students who are with passports - and when they had to prepare for the exams, they were dragged to the prosecutor’s office so that they wrote statements that they were almost forced to sign this appeal. This is given that in the prosecutor’s office there is not even a text - only I have an appeal, I haven’t even sent it yet! But I will send it.

Sergey Gordienko, Odessa district, Omsk region

Together with his wife Anastasia Gordienko, 500 liters of milk were poured into the sewer before the residence of the governor, they turned to the president .

left: Anastasia Alekseevna Gordienko
right: Sergey Stepanovich Gordienko

Photo: http://www.bk55.ru/

In 2014, a criminal case was opened against Sergei Gordienko, accusing the inaccurate use of the grant of the regional Ministry of Agriculture, received in 2012 for the modernization of production. In June 2015, he was convicted (Article 159 of Part 4, fraud on an especially large scale) and sentenced to five years in prison with a conditionally with a half million rubles of compensation in favor of the ministry. In August 2015, he was justified.

We have 50 cows plus about 130 still - young, sheep, goats, there are still birds. We produce 300 tons of milk per year. I myself was engaged in improving this breed and deduced this rock group. I practically did not feel the help of the state over the years. For 30 years of honest conscientious work on Earth, I received a fraudster status and a pension of five thousand rubles.

The Investigative Committee even specifically issued a press release that I have been threatened for fraud in especially large sizes for 10 years, made us criminals and enemies of the people throughout the region. In the first instance, I was awarded five years of conditional. And now the regional board of the court justified me - they said that there is no corpus delicti, a complete rehabilitation.

I got with Grant in 2012, we had a strong drought, there was nothing to feed the cattle and I had to put Grant's money to preserve the number of livestock. I had to buy equipment, but instead of equipment I bought food, there was no way out, otherwise I would have to cut out the entire herd.

They saturated terribly - and there were searches at home, and up to it to close me Twist this quote , but in fact, all this is not because of the grant, but because last year, just on August 28, we held a protest against low milk prices and against the deception of the Military Mafia. We have milk buyers - Lyubinsky Military Railway plant. We said that they deceived us in the quality of milk in order to pay less money. Maybe for someone these are small amounts, but for me, if I am deceived by 500 thousand per year, this is a large, very large amount.

In protest, we announced the action and poured milk to the governor under his feet - where he leaves his residence. And for this we were applied. They stuck terribly - and there were searches at home, and up to the point to close me.

We have a contract for the supply of milk with the plant. Now we receive the first variety of 16 rubles, and the “tower” costs about 17 rubles. There are up to 60 rubles in stores in stores, here is the Lyubinsky plant on our liter of milk, how much milk makes, and we have only 16 rubles.

Prices for spare parts for this year increased by about 50% on average. And our milk is even cheaper than last year. And how can you survive? You can trade yourself, but we have not enough time to produce it. The cow is to make is the same process that cannot be stopped, 365 days a year you need to work.

With such an attitude, with such financial support as ours, many, many incorporate cattle. Yes, many already cut out I would at least sell this quote for 40 rubles. But then it is necessary to reduce the livestock. I would have more money with 10 cows than I have from 40-50 cows: they would sell milk, plus it would be processed a little for cream, sour cream, cottage cheese-it turns out that we would have received three current prices from a liter, 60 rubles on average. I am pushing me. Only this is a unique herd, of course, I would not want to cut it. But with such an attitude, with such financial support as ours, many, many incorporate cattle. Yes, many already cut out. The Ministry of Agriculture does not control these events, they are given to the purchasers who say: “And we have nowhere to put milk!” And reduce the price. The cost of milk was reduced only from spring by four rubles, and subsidies from the state for each liter of milk - 75 kopecks, you think about it! Import substitution is all stupidity. I watch ours report to the president, how they lie in his eyes. I’m already joking - I need to introduce the position of jester to the president, so that at least he tells him the truth.

We have an environmentally friendly zone, how many years we have been producing milk, meat. But I have almost a hectare of land for one head. What is it for the livestock - this is a fear! And nearby landowners who are engaged in the production of grain have up to 10 thousand hectares of land. In the spring they sowed, removed in the fall, and on this all the farming ends. They don’t know where to put the loot, but we do not know how to feed this poor cow.

You see, when the land is leased or sold, they can give, for example, two thousand rubles per hectare, but I can’t, because I am already enchanted to make ends. And they win any auctions, they take all this land. We already had Moscow organizations to stir up this land. The village is ruined, but the money is not working on the village, but somewhere in Moscow they go or at all, it is not clear where, I do not know this chain. There is just pumping the earth. Because there are no fertilizers to this earth, just the grain is exported and that’s it. And then they will throw this land, which in 10 years will not give birth at all.

The only thing that was subsidized in my whole life was 60% paid for the purchase of the refrigerator Twisting this quote almost all the means that are released to the region go to them. There is no honest and normal distribution, money is plundered. They buy the latest expensive equipment. The only thing I have subsidized in my life was 60%, 200 thousand rubles, and that’s all for the purchase of the refrigerator. No equipment, no combine, no tractor - nothing. I bought this unhappy milk, I almost got into debt. They didn’t give me loans, I took it at 30%. When they announced the national project on agriculture, it was in 2006 or in 2007, I asked me to have already issued three and a half million there, but in the end they did not give me. We had such support.

We have been engaged in farming for almost 30 years. This is my native land, I lived on it all my life, then we left, the village was quickly empty, in 1988 we returned and organized the livestock farm. But to this day, the foundation of the old house, which remained in the nearest village and has already collapsed (the village of Reshetilovka, in which farmers are far from farm, has not officially existed-it was officially recognized as unpromising in the 1970s.-Approx. TD). We wanted to somehow legitimize our residence in this territory so that we are given the status, we just need to somehow call us-at least an aul, at least a farm, at least some estate. But we were told - you can work on this land, but you have no right to live. No one wants to do this. In 2012, Nazarov came to us (Viktor Nazarov - the Governor of the Omsk Region since May 2012 - approx. TD) , he promised to solve this problem. But he never allowed.

Now we are building a house, we have three houses already. We live in one, in another working family. We can give another house to the worker. Now we have four people work: there are two and two workers of us with a family. Children come to sowing, help. We have accounting in Omsk, we all submit it there. And we don’t have a computer at home. They wanted to just buy, but for this year they wound us like that, and there is no time for us to use it.

Of course, there are those who want to work with us-normal families who already have adults, they would come, but they need a residence permit. This is from the region, in our villages it’s generally terribly, there is also unemployment up to 100%. We would give jobs if they helped us. I already raised the question - they would add lands to me, we would have kept 200 cows calmly, so we would produce milk not 300 tons per year, but 1,200 tons per year, or even more.

It seems to me that some kind of sabotage against the village is going on, this is a terrible something. If we used to have 30 graduates in this village, today there is only one graduate at school - there will be no one to work in the fields soon. There is no one to put a combine for the combine, before the schools were at least tractor drivers, but now no one goes to this school, there are practically no machine operators. This is the trouble of the bulk, 90% villages.

It is necessary to do something, because if they already raised a hand to the peasant who feeds them, then this is already some kind of chaos, we are getting out of 1937. In 1937 they shot for the fact that they were destroyed by cattle, and now for the fact that they preserve livestock, they bring them under execution.

So it was necessary to take a loan to the sowing campaign, but who will give me a loan, a fraudster, in a bank? In the spring, as a result, I did not sow grain this year. The price of seeds is 20 thousand, I need 40 tons. Here, consider, I needed 800 thousand only seeds. Now I have no grains this year, I only prepared hay. We will buy something, but part of the livestock, apparently, will still have to be cut out.

Marina Zlotnikova, Ramensky district, Moscow region

She sought the liberation of her husband, farmer and entrepreneur Oleg Zlotnikov, convicted of attempted murder, organized the Antiment movement, arranged folk gatherings in Ramensky and monthly protests in the square of the girl's field in Moscow. He heads the department of the movement "For Human Rights".

Marina Zlotnikova photo: Vitaly Ragulin

In 2014, a criminal case was opened against Marina Zlotnikova, accusing the attack on a policeman during one of the shares. In June 2015, it was convicted (Article 318 of Part 1 of the Criminal Code, the use of non -life and health of violence in relation to a representative of the authorities), sentenced to a fine of 150 thousand rubles.

In 1991, the village council gave us near the hectare of land together with an old house for 15 years. We made there a pond for half a hectare on the site of a village landfill. And I began to engage in waterfowl with waterfowl in the early 2000s. Now I already have a livestock of several thousand per season, about a thousand I leave for the winter. Caesar, turkey, chickens, geese, ducks, a herd of goats, two camels, horse - this is my farm.

Нам удалось выкупить в собственность два гектара возле нашего дома, хотя в «нулевые» администрация Громова (Борис Громов был губернатором Подмосковья в 2000-2012 г. — прим. ТД) занималась массовым переводом сельхозугодий под застройку. Муж работал на «Племзаводе Раменское» и, как мог, противостоял этому, выступал также против незаконной разработки торфяников, против незаконной охоты. Такие конфликты с власть имущими привели к тому, что против него сфабриковали уголовное дело, засунули на четыре года в тюрьму — с 2006 по 2010 год — и мне пришлось самой тянуть фермерское хозяйство и бизнес мужа.

Я, как вытащила мужа из тюрьмы, поняла, что есть рычаг, через который можно воздействовать, — это публичность и огласка незаконных действий. В 2011 году нам удалось предотвратить вырубку леса, который вывозили под видом «горельников» после пожаров и продавали. Мы тогда собрали большой митинг, он был запрещен Раменской администрацией, но все равно пришло человек 500. Потом проводили пикеты с требованием бороться с «земельной мафией», выходили и к правительству Московской области, и к Верховному суду. На протяжении двух лет, в 2013-2014 годах, я была организатором акций за конституционные права и свободы 10 числа каждого месяца, где мы тоже поднимали тему земли с речевками «Земли крестьянам, а не чиновникам-дворянам!». Я занималась темой обманутых пайщиков в Раменском, которые еще в 1990-е получили земельные паи, но ни один так и не получил ни земли, ни компенсации. Несколько тысяч гектаров обманным путем, используя административные рычаги, захватили и скупили за копейки «денежные мешки». Нам развиваться некуда, наши два гектара зажаты землёй нового феодала, который выкупил обанкротившийся «Племзавод Раменское». У простого человека проще было бы арендовать или купить землю, а мы платим аренду по коммерческой цене — за четыре гектара сельхозки 840 тысяч рублей в год!

многие жители даже и не знали, что проданы, например, противопожарные пруды Твитнуть эту цитату Понимаете, это настолько оголтело и безумно шло, что очень многие жители даже и не знали, что проданы, например, противопожарные пруды. Вот сейчас даже в деревне, где я проживаю, рыбаки хотят завести корову, но ее негде пасти, потому что земля уже продана. Это мертвая земля. Десять лет прошло, но там ни одного дома до сих пор не стоит — там один сорняк, трава с меня ростом. У нас идут пожары от этой травы, поэтому мы начали заниматься сеном, мы ее косим. Купили пресс-подборщик б/ушный германский, косилки, взяли у соседа за 50 тысяч трактор, отремонтировали его и каждый день тюкуем. Себе и на продажу.

У нас небольшое хозяйство, но многофункциональное. Мы торгуем молодняком птицы, живой птицей, мясными тушками, мясом, спрос очень большой на кур-несушек. Яйцо, только снесенное, домашнее, оплодотворенное, востребовано невероятно, вы просто не представляете! Верблюжью шерсть мы возим в Воронежскую область, там есть маленькая фабрика, они делают тапочки, одеяла, пряжу. Нашего верблюда Бахида два года назад отравили, есть у нас «доброжелатели». Красавец был, три с половиной метра в горбах, у него было даже свидетельство, в котором были записаны его бабушки, прабабушки, прадедушки. После Бахида мы завезли верблюжонка Хана. А девочка Кордишина у нас, ей уже 11 лет, мы ее называем Шинка.

Работают у нас родственники — вот приехали родственник из Краснодара, родственник из Белоруссии, есть даже одного моего знакомого родственник из Луганской республики. Есть со Средней Азии несколько помощников, делаем людям патенты, но так, на два-три месяца, когда авральная ситуация. В этом году нам сельсовет дал бесплатно полтора гектара засадить картофелем, еще часть земли под картофель мы взяли в аренду на несколько месяцев. На сбор всех позову, даже мои друзья-активисты, которым я помогала правозащитной деятельностью, приедут. Натурплатой отдам — кому мешок картошки, кому два, кому три.

Марина Злотникова Фото: Виталий Рагулин

У нас и бизнес связан непосредственно с сельхоздеятельностью. Мы чистим фермы, чистим пруды — в нашем поселении и, если заказывают, где-то еще. У нас есть техника, тросовые экскаваторы, два бульдозера тяжелых, отечественные, челябинские. В прошлом году в соседней деревне Захариха мы почистили пруд, который уже превратился в болото, он не очищался с 1957 года! Два года назад нам делала заказ Чеховская администрация, на бюджетные деньги мы чистили им очистные сооружения. Застройками в ближайшем Подмосковье нарушена мелиоративная система, которая стоила огромных денег при социализме, 20 лет никто не занимался очисткой, хотя каналы надо прочищать почти каждые год-два. Их мы тоже чистим.

Программу импортозамещения я на себе еще не ощутила, вместо этого ко мне в очередной раз пришла внеплановая проверка Раменского Росреестра — по землепользованию. Полтора года с прошлой прошло, и опять, хотя Путин издал указ не трогать производителей три года. Ну, получили еще одно заключение о том, что у нас все в порядке.

Программу импортозамещения я на себе еще не ощутила, вместо этого ко мне в очередной раз пришла внеплановая проверка Раменского Росреестра Твитнуть эту цитату Но знаете, у нас с министром сельского хозяйства области был разговор о том, что есть сотни гектаров земли, которая не используется годами. Сейчас, наверное, 50% земли ближайшего Подмосковья находится в мертвом состоянии, там либо несанкционированные свалки, либо неугодья. Чтобы она была пригодна для сельского хозяйства, ее нужно готовить, а сделать это лучше, чем крестьянин, никто не сможет. Условие одно — выделите нам ее или хотя бы дайте в долгосрочную аренду лет на 20, чтобы мы могли ей заниматься, невозможно же работать на чужой земле и арендовать ее каждый год — сейчас нам дали в аренду девять гектаров, на следующий год не дадут. И министр, и глава района обещали помочь в выделении земли. Из-за того, что федеральный уровень требует решения задач по импортозамещению, чиновники начали, по крайней мере, на словах шевелиться. Дела пока никакого, землю нам пока никто не дал, а ведь, чтобы вырастить урожай завтра, землю я должна была получить вчера.

Если мне власть даст землю, то хотя бы пару гектаров я хочу сделать таким зоопарком — ко мне и так приходят толпами дети с родителями каждый день. Погладить коня, к козам подойти, на верблюдов посмотреть. Я бы хотела, чтобы вместе с верблюдами были еще ламы, а у нашего Хана появился гарем — в природе самцы верблюда ходят с гаремом. Они очень хорошо живут в нашей полосе, плюс сорок — они гуляют, минус сорок — они гуляют. Вообще мы брали их, чтобы устраивать катания на верблюдах, но сначала муж попал в тюрьму, а сейчас и хозяйство, и правозащитная деятельность — у меня нет возможности заниматься еще и этим, просто руки не доходят — то сено, то картошка, то проверки. Они же с проверками не ходят зимой, они почему-то ходят летом. А это отрывает от дел, уходит драгоценное время. Они же не понимают, что пройдет сентябрь , и уйдет картофель, уйдет сено.