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The Christian Science Monitor
What Russia's pensioners want - and how they're starting to get it
Dissatisfied with Kremlin concessions restoring some welfare benefits, they plan a national 'day of protest' for February.
Рассказ о событиях в Химках и объяснение общей ситуации
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The reforms, passed with little scrutiny last summer by the Duma majority, were intended to streamline the cumbersome welfare system inherited from the USSR. The intent was to give recipients money to purchase services in the marketplace and shift much of the burden for locally delivered benefits to regional governments. Many pensioners, and some experts, argue that the intention was always to save money at the elderly's expense. "The claim that we are moving from a Soviet system to a Western one was a purposeful lie, aimed at concealing the fact that this is a big financial affair," says Viktor Kremeniuk, deputy director of the official Institute of USA-Canada Studies in Moscow.
According to Communist Party calculations, the full value of promised state benefits to some 100 million needy Russians was 1.5 trillion rubles last year, or about $50 billion. But only 550 billion rubles (about $18 billion) was actually paid out to fund the system last year. "The budget for 2005 provides only 160 billion rubles [about $5 billion]," says Vladimir Kashin, a leading Communist Duma deputy. "We are looking at a full-scale attack on the needs of the majority of people."
But one of the main authors of the welfare law, United Russia deputy Vitaly Shuba, insists there will be no backtracking on reform. "Ideologically, this law is right," he says. "There might be some corrections in the wording of the law, but the main thrust of it will remain."
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http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0121/p07s01-woeu.html
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BBC
Russia pays to pacify pensioners
Pensioners insist compensations for lost benefits are not adequate
The Russian government says it has allocated 105bn roubles ($3.7bn or Ј2bn) to soften the blow of scrapping of the old social welfare system.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4188499.stm
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Reuters
Russia protests break taboo on Kremlin criticism
Thu Jan 27, 2005 01:21 PM GMT
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A public outcry in Russia over a government plan to scrap Soviet-era benefits has emboldened Kremlin critics long muted by President Vladimir Putin's popularity and iron rule.
Opposition parties, moribund a month ago, are attracting thousands to their demonstrations against the reform law, and groups that toed the Kremlin line are now breaking ranks.
Protests began spontaneously when angry pensioners blockaded a highway in a Moscow suburb...
http://reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=reutersEdgeNews&storyID=662100
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Из социалистического обозрения
Russia: Pensions Anger Marks Political Shift
News Article by Dave Crouch, February 2005
Mass protests by pensioners in Russia have forced major concessions from the Putin government.
Тут ребята сильно удивлены
It is unclear how the pensioners' protests were initially organised. Neither the Communist Party nor the trade unions - the country's most frequent organisers of social protests - called people onto the streets, although they then supported the protests. This marks a major shift in Russian politics. During Putin's presidency most large-scale rallies have been either orchestrated by the Kremlin or by pro-Kremlin parties in the state Duma. The 'red-brown' coalition of Communists and nationalists is a dwindling force, partly because Putin stole its fire.
http://www.socialistreview.org.uk/article.php?articlenumber=9229
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Уже и четвертый интернационал (вроде это настоящие троцкисты )засуетился
Russia: wave of protests against welfare cuts
By Stanislav Smolin and Vladimir Volkov
27 January 2005
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Since the beginning of January, a growing wave of protests has developed in Russia against the so-called monetarisation of social security benefits.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jan2005/russ-j27.shtml
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Некие независимые медиа из Румынии пытаются сделать обзор наших событий
Protests against neoliberal reforms in Russia
http://romania.indymedia.org/en/2005/01/625.shtml