February 1, 16:21
On the work of the CPRF party organizations in the LPR
At the end of December, a working group of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation headed by a member of the Presidium, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Kazbek Taisayev, who has been regularly visiting Donbass since 2014, Vladimir Rodin, Advisor to the Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, and the author of these lines arrived in the Luhansk People's Republic. One of the tasks set before us was monitoring the work of local party branches. Together with the First Secretary of the Luhansk Republican Committee Igor Gumenyuk, in three days we managed to visit six party branches located in different areas - both those that have been part of the republic since 2014 and those liberated during the SVO. During the meetings, the communists not only talked about their work, but also raised pressing issues facing both the party branches and the population of the republic.
Severodonetsk
In the late 1980s, Severodonetsk was a well-maintained city with developed economic potential. Large enterprises of the chemical, mechanical engineering and instrument-making industries were located here. Today it is unrecognizable. Many buildings - half-destroyed, hacked by shrapnel, without windows and doors - resemble ghosts. In front of the destroyed building of the local bus station, we are greeted by the surviving pedestal of the monument to Kliment Voroshilov. The monument itself was dismantled by the occupation Ukrainian administration in 2015.
From 2014 until its liberation in June 2022, Severodonetsk served as the administrative center of the so-called Luhansk region of Ukraine. Now this city is home to not 150, as it once did, but about 50 thousand people, although the number of residents is increasing: people who left Severodonetsk at one time are returning home. Over the past two years, more than 280 residential high-rise buildings have been commissioned here. Life is gradually getting better. But young people are not drawn here.
There are good reasons for this. Travel to the city is limited. A strict curfew begins at 6 p.m. There are interruptions in the supply of water, electricity and heat. Medical care leaves much to be desired: the city has one therapist, one surgeon, one otolaryngologist. Sometimes people wait for weeks to see them.
Due to safety requirements that dictate that more than 50 people cannot be in a building at the same time, both kindergartens and schools accept children for only two hours a day. For schoolchildren, coming to school every day is not learning, but a consultation, and bringing children to kindergarten for two hours makes no sense at all.
The issue of registration of title documents for housing is acute. The only notary working in Severodonetsk has died. At the time of his death, the queue of people registering for an appointment with him was 950 people (the vast majority came to resolve issues related to real estate registration). Considering that all documents have a limited validity period, what should people do in this situation in a town where the curfew is 12 hours a day?
Another problem is abandoned dogs. When they find themselves on the street without their owners' supervision, they gather in packs and sometimes attack people. Shooting them is prohibited under Russian law, and the recommended trapping and sterilization are difficult to implement in the current conditions.
There are more than 20 communists registered in the city branch of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, created on the basis of the party organization of the Communists of Ukraine. Its current head, Mikhail Litvinov, was the first secretary of the city committee of the Communist Party before, in the CPU. Fleeing persecution by the Ukrainian Nazis in 2014, he moved to the LPR and lived in a hostel in the city of Stakhanov for 8 years before the liberation of Severodonetsk, working as a guard.
On the street at the entrance to the party office, we were met by the activists - about 15 people. Interruptions in heat and light did not become an obstacle to our friendly communication. We simply remained in our outerwear, by candlelight, and a dim lantern from the ceiling lit the office.
The meeting began traditionally: with the ceremonial presentation of a party card to a comrade who had rejoined the CPRF. And then the communists talked about their work. On the morning of December 21, in honor of Stalin's birthday, they held a motor rally. And although only a few cars decorated with flags with party symbols took part in it, this action was of great importance for the city, which was in information isolation.
At the initiative of the communists, the Committee of Defenders of the Fatherland was created in the city, which is engaged in the search for the dead and missing residents of Severodonetsk - fighters who stood up to defend the Motherland before the start of the SVO, and their families. On April 28, 2023, the President of Russia signed a law granting the status of veterans and disabled combatants to volunteers participating in the special military operation, as well as Donbass militias who participated in hostilities since May 11, 2014. However, the memory of the exploits of many militiamen, and sometimes even their names, have been lost. The militiamen had no IDs. It is difficult to find witnesses to their heroic deaths. There
are several photographs of young people on the table. Mikhail Litvinov talks about each of them. One of the beautiful women, Natalia Yushchuk, actively participated in organizing the independence referendum in 2014. Then she joined the people's militia and trained as a sniper. She had military awards. And in September 2014, she died during a reconnaissance operation. In 2022, when Severodonetsk was liberated, it turned out that no one here knew anything about her fate. Not even her son and daughter. There was no information at the military registration and enlistment office either.
The communists are ready for a lot of painstaking work, for which they have assisted in the creation of a search party at the local college. The party branch plans to organize a photo exhibition by May dedicated to the preparation and holding of the referendum in Severodonetsk and Lugansk, which covers the time period from March to May 2014. According to the organizers, about 300 photographs selected for it clearly show that the people of Lugansk took power into their own hands, without any pressure or coercion from Russia. The photos show large-scale rallies, people with happy faces standing in long lines at polling stations, the seizure of administration buildings, and how they take up arms. There are also video documents.
Another idea is to erect a monument to Lenin in the city. The location for it has already been agreed upon with the administration.
The communists also spoke in detail about their work during the election campaigns. Thanks to its activity and coherence, Mikhail Litvinov and Sergey Gulenko were elected as deputies of the Severodonetsk Urban District Council from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.
Melovoe
The village of Melovoe, located on the border with the Rostov Region of the Russian Federation, was one of the first to be liberated during the SVO - on February 24, 2022.
However, it has always occupied a special place in the Luhansk region. For three decades of "Ukrainianism", the residents of Melovo preserved the memory of the exploits of their fathers and grandfathers, continuing to honor the traditions of the Soviet era. Many residents of the village had Russian passports even under "independent" Ukraine.
During the years of decommunization in the Melovsky District of the LPR, all monuments to V.I. Lenin were destroyed, all memorials dedicated to the Great Patriotic War were desecrated. They tried to instill in the youth hostility towards Russia, anti-Sovietism and a nationalist ideology alien to us. But the residents of Melov did not give in and fought for their truth as best they could.
One of the manifestations of this struggle was the preservation of monuments to Lenin - a symbol of freedom and peaceful life, which in Nazi Ukraine can be equated to a feat.
On August 8, 2024, on Lenin Street in the center of the village, at the entrance to the building where the Melovsky District Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation is located, a bust of the founder of the Soviet Union Vladimir Ilyich Lenin was solemnly unveiled. Previously standing near the gymnasium, it was dismantled and thrown into the Melovaya River. Local activists of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation found it in the reeds, under a layer of silt.
Thanks to the residents of Melovaya, two more monuments to the leader of the world proletariat were preserved. One of them was transferred to Severodonetsk. The location for the second has not yet been determined.
The Melovsky local organization of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation is one of the most active structural divisions of the party in the liberated territories of the LPR. This became possible thanks to the steadfast life position and tireless energy of its leader, deputy of the Melovsky Municipal District Council Andrey Usik.
The small organization of 12 communists has not only restored Soviet-era monuments desecrated by Kiev gangs, but also carried out patriotic work with the younger generation and provided diverse humanitarian aid to the population.
The premises of the Melovsky District Party Office are warm and light. After their appeal to the ruling party went unheeded, people increasingly come here to the communists in the hope of real help. They know that they will be heard and that they will try to help. The earth is full of rumors. For example, during a meeting of communist deputies with residents of the village of Morozovka, two requests were made. One of them was to return a car taken from a paramedic station by the district clinic. The second was to provide heating to the local church. (It should be noted that the meeting of voters with representatives of the CPRF took place in a church where the priest who serves is the head of the settlement.) The communists did not let us down here either. In a short time, they managed to return the much-needed car to the paramedic station and found sponsors to purchase a solid fuel boiler for the church.
The communists provide assistance not in words but in deeds in resolving other issues of voters. Thus, it was the communists who helped restore the monument to the heroes of the Great Patriotic War at their burial site, although the media reported that it was done by United Russia. It was the communists who helped restore the lighting of a number of streets in the village, although the mention of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation was removed from the text of the article sent by grateful residents to the local newspaper.
The department plans to fight for the installation of a monument to the 64 Soviet soldiers who died during the Great Patriotic War, whose remains were found by searchers. On the central street of the village there is a banner reading "Our Motherland is the USSR! Our Party is the Communist Party of the Russian Federation!" A similar banner hangs on one of the shops in the village of Morozovka, it was installed by the hands of the local priest.
Support for refugees also requires attention. There is no reception center for them in the village administration, and people go to the communists for help. Thanks to the Luhansk regional branch of the VZhS - "Hope of Russia", the most needed items for people who find themselves in difficult life situations are being transferred to Melove - clothing and footwear for adults and children, basic necessities.
The population is turning to the communists with a request to sort out a rather unusual issue. Since 1991, the state border between Russia and Ukraine has passed along Druzhby Narodov Street, located south of the railway line. The houses on the even side of the street turned out to be Russian, and on the odd side - Ukrainian. But this did not interfere with the communication of residents of the Russian village of Chertkovo and the Ukrainian Me-lovoe. People went from Me-lovoe to work in Chertkovo and vice versa. In 2020, a fence was installed along the border, separating the Melovsky District from the Rostov Region. Almost three years have passed since the liberation of Me-lovoe from the Ukrainian fascists. For more than two years, residents of the Rostov Region and the Melovsky District have been citizens of the same country - Russia. However, the barrier between them still stands. Perhaps this is dictated by security requirements, or perhaps they just haven't gotten around to dismantling it.
After the meeting, we visited the nursery-kindergarten No. 1 "Lastochka" located in the village of Me-lovoe. The children prepared a wonderful concert for the guests. Then they sang, danced and danced in a circle with the guests. All the children were given "sweet" gifts from the CPRF.
Belokurakino
The urban-type settlement of Belokurakino was liberated during the SVO in March 2022. There was little destruction in the rural district, as in Melovoe. The Ukrainian Armed Forces withdrew from here almost without resistance: they simply had nowhere to gain a foothold in the fields.
Our meeting with representatives of the district's party activists began in the central square of the village, near the Lenin monument. The monument, demolished by the Ukrainian authorities in 2014, was saved by the director of the local transport company, who now heads the district committee of the CPRF. After the liberation of the village on November 7, 2022, on the day of the 105th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution, it was solemnly erected on a pedestal built with the assistance of the regional branches of the CPRF of Bashkortostan and Novosibirsk Oblast. During the opening ceremony, the residents of the village expressed gratitude to the party and personally to its leader Gennady Zyuganov for supporting the restoration of the monument, which will awaken the memory of outstanding figures in history and will not allow the history of their great country to be forgotten.
The bronze monument to Lenin in Belokurakino is undoubtedly the best of those restored in the liberated areas during the SVO. Local residents say that initially it was planned to install it in Leningrad near Smolny, but then they changed their minds and with the assistance of Dmitry Polyansky, a member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, who grew up in the neighboring area, it ended up in Belokurakino. Now the monument once again brings joy to the village residents.
At a meeting with party activists, the first secretary of the Lugansk regional committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Igor Gumenyuk harshly criticized the fact that, guided by good intentions, local communists painted the bronze monument with silver paint. He informed his comrades that the natural darkening of bronze is not rust. The first secretary of the district committee Vladimir Usov and the chairman of the Council of Deputies Vladimir Vinnik promised to correct this oversight. By the way, Belokurakino is the only municipal district in the LPR whose Council is headed by a member of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.
In the office of the motor transport company, where the Belokurakinsky district branch of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation is based, you can see many items associated with the name of Lenin and the Soviet era: paintings, busts, banners, pennants. As the first secretary of the district committee Vladimir Usov explains, the exhibition was created over many years. He bought some things himself, and some were brought by friends and residents of the village. Some exhibits were located here (albeit not in such quantity) under the Ukrainian authorities: knowing the attitude of the settlement residents, the occupation military administration preferred not to interfere.
There are 11 people registered in the district party branch. The number of supporters is many times greater. But people who have observed the persecution of the communist idea by the Ukrainian authorities for decades are still afraid to join the Communist Party. Nevertheless, the current active members include strong and confident people: heads of enterprises, farmers, moral authorities. They know the problems of the district and ways to solve them well.
In a conversation with the communists, many serious problems of life in rural areas were raised. One of them is an acute shortage of qualified personnel. There is no one to work in the hospital or school. Most of the qualified teachers and doctors have left. In the forestry enterprise serving two administrative districts, only 47 out of 110 staff positions are occupied. The picture is equally bleak in the transport sector.
Attracting workers "from outside" is not always justified. Most of those who left want to return home and work with full dedication in their previous place, Belokurakinsky communists are convinced. This is prevented, along with other obstacles, by excessively strict filtration at the border. A difficult question. It seems that in this situation, security issues should remain a priority: who knows what happened to a person during the years of life in Germany or Poland?..
Attempts to register a local DOSAAF branch have been fruitless for two and a half years, although the importance of this area of work has recently been often declared from high platforms.
Residents of the village are also dissatisfied with the results of the recent elections, which formed a local Council mainly from indifferent people who do not care about their native village.
Alchevsk
Alchevsk, a major center of the metallurgical and coke-chemical industries, became part of the LPR in 2014 and, fortunately, was not seriously damaged.
However, like most other settlements in the republic, it has problems with electricity and water supplies. The water supply schedule is constantly disrupted. The main reason is the deterioration of the infrastructure: pipes leak everywhere, and water sometimes simply floods the city streets. Street lighting also leaves much to be desired.
Nevertheless, the Alchevsk communists met us in a cozy, bright, warm room. Our attention was immediately drawn to the "Screen of political activity of the p\o" posted on the wall, where all primary branches of the organization are given points based on certain indicators.
Beginning her story about her work, the first secretary of the city committee Olga Kalinovna Leshchenko notes that the main achievement is the preservation of the backbone of the party organization and the premises for its work. Many of the meeting participants were once members of the CPSU, then joined the CPU, and are now actively working in the CPRF.
The communists took the results of the elections in the fall of 2023 painfully, during which they expected to receive at least three mandates in the Council of the urban district of the city of Alchevsk. As a result, only the deputy of the "Ghost" Alexander Bebeshko, who is currently at the front, became a deputy of the Council. And only his assistants can work with voters on behalf of the CPRF, which, of course, is not very effective.
Speaking about the current work, the communists noted that it must be carried out taking into account the current situation, which requires the unification of political forces for the sake of a common victory over an external enemy. It was built differently in the "noughties" in the CPU, when the government was an outspoken enemy. And the threat from the Armed Forces of Ukraine does not weaken. Therefore, equipment for street actions is rarely used.
Before holding the "Direct Line with Vladimir Putin" in December 2024, the communists of Alchevsk sent their questions to the president. One of them concerned the president's unmotivated, in their opinion, refusal to congratulate the country's residents on November 7 on a memorable date - the Day of the October Revolution of 1917, which is honored by many residents of Russia. Another was about the continuing practice of draping the Lenin Mausoleum during celebrations held on Red Square.
The communists conveyed great gratitude to the Central Committee for the three-volume work of the leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Gennady Zyuganov, which was transferred to the department along with other party literature. Both copies are constantly on hand. These books help us fill some gaps in knowledge, the comrades admit.
The communists of Alchevsk are expanding their influence among the population through public organizations. First of all, the Council of Veterans. Olga Kalinovna, the chairperson of the city Council of Veterans, a historian and teacher with extensive experience, takes part in meetings with the city’s population and often organizes them herself.
Another channel for finding party supporters in the city has recently become the "VZhS - "Hope of Russia". In the fall of 2024, students of the Alchevsk art school took part in a competition of the republican branch of the women's movement dedicated to A.S. Pushkin. Several children from Alchevsk became its laureates. Gifts were presented to the winners in a solemn atmosphere in the presence of other students and teachers. Those gathered heard about the Women's Union, about the activities of the CPRF that supports it. They also learned that 1924 is remembered not only for the anniversary of A.S. Pushkin, but also for the centenary of the death of the outstanding Soviet statesman V.I. Lenin.
The meeting participants also touched upon a number of other issues. In particular, maintaining party experience, improving information channels about the work of the CPRF. And, of course, more active involvement of young people in party work. There are many issues that need to be addressed. But the most important thing is that the Alchevsk communists remain a friendly team, selflessly loyal to their communist ideas.
There is no monument to Stalin in Alchevsk. Therefore, at the end of the meeting, the Alchevsk communists and their guests laid flowers together at the foot of the Lenin monument erected in the city center.
Bryanka
We have met with the communists of the miner's Bryanka more than once. And now the Bryanka city branch of the CPRF warmly welcomed us almost in full force, headed by the first secretary of the committee, the unbending Valentina Buzanova. Unfortunately, the number of members of the organization has greatly decreased over the past year. Four people have passed away, one is blind. There are 17 "bayonets" left in the ranks of the Bryanka communists.
The party premises, albeit with great difficulty, were preserved here. A lot of effort was spent on concluding utility contracts. But now all these worries are behind us. Moreover, thanks to the party leadership, the premises have received technical equipment: a computer and a photocopier have been installed, and the Internet has been connected. Once a month, the communists gather here to hold meetings devoted to their current work.
When talking about the life of their city, the communists first of all drew attention to the significant reduction in its population. In Soviet times, about 72 thousand citizens lived in Bryanka. After the collapse of the USSR, the closure of mines and factories, people began to leave the city en masse, many simply died. In 2014, a significant part of the population left for Ukraine, Russia or Poland. Today, about 14 thousand people live in the city. In five-story buildings, up to two or three apartments per riser remain residential. The rest are empty, although they are listed as someone's property. There is hope that new life will be breathed into them by recognizing them as ownerless in accordance with Russian law and transferring them to those in such need of a roof over their heads.
Although the city still periodically cuts off electricity and heat, there have been positive changes in this area. Previously, water was delivered by trucks, but now it is supplied on schedule for 4-5 hours every day.
During the meeting, the Bryanka communists asked to pay special attention to the problems of education. The number of children in the city has decreased significantly, and along with it, the number of educational institutions. Of the 23 secondary schools, 10 remain, and even those are in danger of becoming understaffed. For example, about 1,600 children previously studied at school No. 10. And now in the educational and training complex created on the basis of this school and kindergarten (two groups of 15 children), there are only 130 children. The classes are small, one class per parallel. The same picture is observed in other schools.
In total, Bryanka today has about 2,500 schoolchildren. And the city administration uses a certain part of them, as they say, to the fullest, attracting them to all cultural and sports events, shows and performances held in Bryanka. Like Lenochka with a bouquet from the famous poem by Agnia Barto. Of course, we must not forget about children, but some of the most "in-demand" of them simply do not have time to study, to attend classes at the Young Technicians Station or at the Children's Art House.
The level of teaching of a number of subjects in schools is also alarming, which remains extremely low due to the departure of many teachers. Teachers for additional classes are becoming increasingly in demand.
Medical care causes many complaints. A sick person can receive prompt medical care or get to a hospital only through an ambulance.
Despite the fact that only Valentina Buzanova was elected as a deputy of the Bryanka City District Council from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, the Communists are convinced that the Communist Party of the Russian Federation is familiar and close to many more people in Bryanka than the LDPR, which received two mandates in the Council.
First of all, the city residents are very grateful to the Communist Party of the Russian Federation for the humanitarian aid it has provided them over the years. It is still in demand today: many residents of Bryanka, especially the elderly, barely have enough of their own money for food and medicine, and have nothing to buy clothes with.
The Communists take an active part in all city events. They are frequent guests at the Children's Art House, which brings together children of different ages. The parents of many of them died or went missing.
The party branch has not yet been able to organize work with young people. Earlier, an officially registered pioneer organization was actively working in the city thanks to the Communists. But now all of its participants have grown up. Most of the young people - communists and supporters of the party - have died or are at the front. There are no educational institutions in Bryanka, except for schools, with which it is very difficult to establish cooperation.
Communists are concerned about many issues, including those that go beyond the scope of their current work. How can the demographic problem be solved at the state level without making housing affordable? Why not stop selling off land to developers who make huge amounts of money on housing construction? Why hasn't the moratorium on the death penalty for terrorism and corruption been lifted? Why is the Taliban movement in the Russian Federation declared a terrorist organization, while the current leadership of Ukraine is not?
The department's immediate plans include strengthening ties with public organizations and facilitating the creation of a local branch of VZhS - "Hope of Russia" in Bryanka.
Kirovsk
There are 36 communists registered in the Kirov local branch of the CPRF, and 5 primary organizations are operating. The party activists are predominantly elderly: the average age is 67. The ranks of the Kirov branch include two actively working doctors, two teachers, and three working in the field of entrepreneurship and trade. The rest are old-age pensioners, veterans of the SVO and the Ministry of Internal Affairs. But despite this, the Kirov branch remains combat-ready. Almost all members of the party organization came to the pre-planned meeting.
The entrance to the local party branch is visible from afar thanks to the sign and fluttering flags. There is temporarily no water or electricity in the party committee building, which is due to the paperwork for it.
The first secretary of the party committee, deputy Elena Polyakova, spoke about the results of the work done by the party branch and the communist deputies of the Kirov City District Council. Representatives of the CPRF participate in all significant events in the city. Its column invariably remains the brightest and most noticeable. A group has been organized in Telegram, which helps communists exchange news. Issues of the wall newspaper are regularly prepared. The Kirov branch promptly provides information to the republican party newspaper Luganskaya Pravda and has one of the best indicators among local branches in terms of the number of subscribers.
Despite the selfless work, only two deputies from the CPRF passed to the City District Council during the election campaign. It is difficult for them to work. It is not possible to oppose the pro-government majority in the Council on every issue. However, the communist deputies are trying to gain support for a number of their initiatives. One of them is to make May 3 a memorable date: on this day in 2014, the population of Kirov rose up to defend their city.
The communists are actively cooperating with the city Council of Veterans. Expanding the circle of their supporters, on Miner's Day they presented congratulations to all miners living in the city.
The Kirov City Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation was one of the first to take part in providing assistance to the Kursk Region. The general cargo collected by local branches was promptly sent by the Lugansk Regional Committee to the Kursk Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation only on the 4th day after the well-known events! In Kirovsk, they know firsthand what it means to be in trouble. At one time, many city residents survived only thanks to the aid that was delivered to them by humanitarian convoys of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. Today, the communists provide assistance to the defenders of the Fatherland. Many women knit warm woolen socks and give them to the soldiers on the front lines.
Fortunately, shelling in Kirovsk is no longer the most frequent occurrence. Schools and kindergartens are warm. They work as usual. The meeting participants noted the high level of patriotic work in educational institutions. Many have a desk of a hero - a teacher or student who died defending the Motherland.
The immediate tasks of the party branch are to provide the premises with electricity and water supply. And after that — organizing the documentation, the management of which suffers due to the lack of its own office equipment.
Communists, forward!
Meetings with the activists of the party branches of the Lugansk People's Republic, in which the head of the organizational department of the republican committee Ilona Filippova also took part, allow us to draw some conclusions. First of all, all district and city branches of the party work harmoniously under the leadership of the republican committee, realizing the importance of maintaining the organizational and ideological unity of the party ranks.
The issue of registering the ownership of 12 party premises that previously belonged to the Communist Party of Ukraine, which until recently seemed insoluble, has been successfully resolved.
The newspaper "Luganskaya Pravda" has become a tangible support for the party work. In conditions of unreliable telephone and Internet communications, the regular weekly publication of the party newspaper is of great importance. And given the insufficiently prompt work of post offices, dictating the need to distribute a significant share of the circulation through party committees, the newspaper becomes not only a propagandist and agitator, but also a collective organizer. Moreover, the organized subscription to the newspaper through post offices and party committees allowed the publication to become self-sufficient.
The "red" deputy corps has been formed and is successfully operating. Communist deputies are represented in almost all local Councils, which allows strengthening the party's authority and establishing new connections, expanding the circle of its supporters.
The Communist Party's initiative to restore Soviet-era monuments in the liberated territories has received support from both the population and most local administrations. And not only the initiative, but also its implementation, since the budgets of various levels of the republic do not provide for expenses on the repair and restoration of historical and cultural monuments.
A serious problem for the overwhelming majority of party branches remains the involvement of young people in their work, the formation of local branches of the LKSM RF.
Although in Lugansk and some other party branches it has been successfully resolved. It was young people — communists and Komsomol members — who made up more than a third of the participants in the ceremonial meeting of the party activists of Lugansk, dedicated to the 145th anniversary of Stalin's birth and the ceremony of laying flowers at his bust, which took place on December 21, the day of our arrival. It is Komsomol members who promptly deliver targeted humanitarian aid to fighters on the contact line and deliver children's New Year's gifts to remote settlements of the republic. It is Komsomol members who are the instigators of the organization of actions to distribute campaign materials and other actions.
The authority of the republican branch of the "All-Russian Women's Union - "Hope of Russia" is growing.
The most important problem of organizing party work in the areas liberated during the SVO remains ensuring security. We are not only talking about the much higher probability of shelling by the Ukrainian Armed Forces and drones, but also the actions of sabotage groups, the targets of which very often are the conductors of communist ideology and their supporters.
On February 3, 2024, as a result of an attack on a bakery in Lisichansk, the second secretary of the Lisichansk city committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, deputy of the Council of the Lisichansk city district Artem Trostyansky was killed, his wife was seriously wounded. And on April 1, 2024, the first secretary of the Starobelsk district committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, deputy of the Council Valery Chaika died. His personal car was blown up right under the windows of the education department of the Starobelsk district liberated from the Ukrainian Nazi authorities.
Entry is simply prohibited into some frontline cities and districts. The administration of a number of them is forced to be located literally in basements. And the curfew lasts from six in the evening until six in the morning. Mobile phones are prohibited there. The Internet does not work. There are still some "sleeping" citizens among the population - citizens with pro-Ukrainian views. Some, even in conditions of information isolation, manage to watch Ukrainian propaganda thanks to their "satellites". At present, the People's Council of the Republic is preparing a bill by communist deputies to confiscate these television dishes from the population.
It is extremely difficult to find those who would agree, who would be able to organize party work under these conditions. In Starobelsk, for example, it was not immediately possible to find someone willing to transfer the mandate of the deceased communist deputy, although the party list there consisted of local activists. Fortunately, party work under the leadership of the new first secretary - a young energetic man, a member of the territorial election commission - is getting better. However, the republican committee ordered that the prepared sign on the premises of the party office not be hung for now. They could plant explosives.
After the tragic death of Trostyansky, the second secretary, from an explosion, the activity of the party organization in Lisichansk has noticeably decreased.
Fear is a problem that cannot be solved by relying only on party resources. Therefore, due to objective reasons, party branches have not been formed in 7 cities and districts. But this is rather an exception to the energetic constructive work of most divisions of the Lugansk Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, which was once again confirmed by meetings with the party activists.
During the meetings, the guests answered many questions asked of them. They listened attentively to the instructions and wishes. Honored party members were awarded commemorative medals of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.
Addressing his comrades, Vladimir Rodin emphasized the need to intensify work with young people, noting the importance of forming a new generation of party members capable of continuing the traditions of the party. He also expressed a number of critical comments about the work of the deputy factions, adjusting its priorities. In particular, in addition to issues of bringing legislation into line with the legal framework of the Russian Federation, in his opinion, the most pressing issues of the life of the population of the republic should be included in the list of priorities, concerning the provision of housing and affordable food, solving problems of medical care, education and health care.
The meetings raised issues of interaction with local authorities, possible solutions to infrastructure problems, and the organization of events dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War.
The meetings we held during the trip were intended not only to help resolve issues of party work. They helped to identify the problems of the life of the Donbass population and find ways to solve them.
That is what we, communists, work for. What we work for in the republic. What we regularly go to Donbass for.
Always being on the front lines is our destiny, our conscious choice.
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February 1, 14:16
Court arrests Rusnano top manager Marina Kasenkova
She and several other employees of the state corporation are involved in a case of abuse of office. According to investigators, they falsified reports to hide the problems of the state company.
The Meshchansky Court of Moscow has remanded Marina Kasenkova, a top manager of Rusnano, into custody, the press service of the courts of general jurisdiction of Moscow reports. She was sentenced to arrest for a period of 1 month and 28 days.
On Friday morning, the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported that three employees of the state corporation Rusnano and "other persons" were detained in connection with the case of abuse of office (Part 3 of Article 285 of the Criminal Code). The maximum punishment under this article is imprisonment for up to 10 years.
The ministry's statement said that in 2017, the suspects — executive director Boris Podolsky, managing director for finance Artur Galstyan, and director for accounting methodology, taxation, and reporting Marina Kasenkova — "took illegal actions to reclassify financial liabilities" in order to conceal the negative results of the company's economic activities.
According to investigators, the defendants in the case used distorted reporting data to provide the sole shareholder of the company, the Russian Federation, with false information about the allegedly satisfactory financial position of Rusnano JSC. "This made it possible to avoid the withdrawal of previously issued state guarantees, as well as attract additional funding," the statement said. As a result, the state had to allocate over 43 billion rubles to the corporation in 2022-2024, the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported.
According to Kommersant, this amount was allocated for the creation of a flexible tablet for schoolchildren. Anatoly Chubais presented the gadget, which can "replace an entire set of textbooks on all subjects," to President Vladimir Putin in 2011. The project was not implemented. According to law enforcement agencies, the subsidiary company Plastic Logic stole 13 billion rubles during the creation of the tablet. The former head of the company, Boris Galkin, was arrested on suspicion of involvement in the crime.
The Kremlin did not comment on the detention of the top managers of Rusnano.
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The state had to allocate 43 billion rubles to the fraudsters. The state was forced to...
P.S. Oh, how the death penalty is needed, oh, how it is needed...
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Bring back school discos
February 1, 12:37
As part of the fight to improve the country's demographics, it is proposed to bring back school discos.
Young people are faced with a lack of conditions for romantic relationships, which may negatively affect their desire to start a family in the future. The return of school discos can eliminate this problem, believes Natalia Agre, Director of the Department of State Policy in the Sphere of Upbringing, Additional Education and Children's Recreation of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation.
"I recently carefully began to discuss, where are our school discos?" she said during the round table "From Population Preservation to Population Multiplication" of the State Duma Committee on the Protection of the Family, Issues of Fatherhood, Motherhood and Childhood.
Agre reported that only 8% of young people aged 18 to 21 express a desire to start a family. She emphasized that this is due to a lack of conditions for the emergence of romantic relationships.
"We need places where a boy can invite a girl on a date," she said.
According to Agre, the Ministry of Education regularly conducts surveys to assess the value orientations of young people. At the moment, according to her, the results of the study for the year demonstrate positive changes: the share of schoolchildren who did not plan a family decreased from 11% to 8%, and the share of those who did not want to have children decreased from 16% to 14%. The number of young people planning to have two or three children has also increased.
Agre believes that the changes taking place are the result of various initiatives, such as educational programs and media products aimed at strengthening family values. She also emphasized the importance of focusing on the formation of healthy relationships at a young age and the need to discuss reproductive health issues.
Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed to ensure the implementation of measures to overcome negative demographic trends and increase the birth rate in 2025.
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Yes, and Quaaludes...))
But seriously all video screen time needs serious reduction, worldwide.
And don'tya think that the daunting amount of money needed to raise a child decently is a factor?
Focusing on Western models is not just a tribute to fashion, but the result of a complex combination of factors. However, this does not mean that the Russian media space has no future. On the contrary, finding a balance between global trends and national identity can become the key to creating unique and popular content
