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Mikhail Bocharov, President, BUTEK corporation
First of all, it would be good if everyone here would put forward at least one concrete proposal
about how to improve the situation.
For instance, on April, 5, the representative of the National Anti-terrorist Committee, Nikolay Syrtsov,
announced that "in 2011 85 counter-terrorist and 12000 military operations
were conducted in the North Caucasus."
Just think about these numbers - in one year!
"During these operations 343 bandits were neutralized and 618 arrested".
This means 1000 people a year.
"500 bandits' bases were found".
This is the "southern front".
But we can talk about the "central front" too where people are killed daily, both Russian and Caucasian,
although I do not like the word "Caucasian",
we should rather speak about Armenian, Azeri, meaning foreign citizens,
while "Caucasians" are Russian citizens.
The information of the State Statistical Committee about the number of people that disappear.
According to the most modest estimates, about one million people get lost in action,
children, adults, especially elderly when it concerns housing question.
Some of them are found, some unfortunately no.
Some are buried in the forests, hidden in concrete and asphalt, lost in swamps, rivers and lakes.
Russia has more than 200 ethnicities, this is the Soviet heritage,
and I believe that there were more good than bad things in the Soviet times,
but nevertheless the separation of Russia into republics with their own presidents, governments,
flags and even their own embassies-representative offices in Moscow and other regions...
Even the US did no think about these things when you build an enormous construction
and serve it while the material situation of people is very difficult as it is in Russia.
I unfortunately lived closed to the representative office of Kalmykia on Kutuzovsky avenue
- it is a former kindergarten that was taken away from children and decorated with marble -
although Kalmykia lies in poverty.
I went there, looked at this luxury and I got sick.
Why does is happen that way?
Why the power and the people are so separated?
And why people loses the trust in the authorities more and more?
I have several proposals.
First is that we in fact do not know how many unemployed we have in the country.
The last census and the census of 2000 were conducted surprisingly badly.
I was not visited at all, but usually they asked: "Do you work?" - "Yes" - "Where?" - "I am a manager".
This is how they write it down, although a person has never worked.
We need to keep in mind that our criminality, including the ethnic and clan,
is first of all connected to the lack of jobs and money.
People go and steal, create bands and different associations.
For any price, for money.
Why do we have this 1000 people on the Caucasus per year?
And this is every year.
What if we count 20 years?
We were told that only 300, 400, 500 militants were left.
Nothing like this, their number grows with every year.
Because people have nowhere to work and no means to live.
And this is how they act.
If you give 100 dollars to a young man, he will take a machine-gun and to to shoot the so-called enemies.
If you look at the economic situation in the republic, you will be scared -
all the last places, 82nd, 81st and 80th are occupied by the republics of North Caucasus.
They have favorable climate, they used to have good infrastructure and agricultural and industrial production.
What happened then?
Why are these questions not solved today?
Why all the leading positions in the republics - there has recently been a scandal in Ingushetia -
are given to the representatives of the particular clans?
Russians you say?
Maybe there is a couple in the governments of these republics.
There are no Russians.
In 1991 we proposed a new division of Russia.
We had an international Russian club that involved ministers, heads of the republics, a serious organization.
We proposed to create 16 lands, like in Germany.
I guess if every nationality said that they wanted a land for them then we would end up with 200.
I can imagine what it would lead to.
I understand that this question cannot be solved now.
But there is another question.
Let's suggest to the government that State Statistical Committee,
the controls 200 other federal structures clearly, using the resources of Tax inspection,
Ministry of interior, Federal security service,
will give us a picture of what is going on with our population.
Can it be done?
Definitely, and even in a week, we will have concrete information.
As for the Caucasus, in this case we need to look from the economic point of view.
There are many projects.
The creation of jobs.
There should be a really strict attitude to the economic and social questions.
Yesterday we took part in a round table with the community of Transnistria.
Transnistrian community in Russia has already 1000 members.
There are many questions connected to yesterday's meeting.
Let's have a look.
"Multiethnic Russia", I mean the public organization.
Let's include the ehads of all the diasporas living in our countries - Georgians, Armenians, Tadjiks -
that also suffer from the problems that we discuss today.
Let's write letters.
I formulated the economic suggestions in a letter to Putin as to our president,
although his inauguration is only on May,7.
Let's put forward concrete suggestions.
I will not abuse your attention now, but there are many suggestions.
Therefore if we officially on behalf of "Multiethnic Russia" with the help of the journal
and other media resources do it, I think the resull will be enormous.
Thank you for your attention.