Tens of thousands of officers who did not fit into the "new look" of the army are left without a roof over their heads
The Ministry of Defense (MoD) actually failed a program to provide permanent housing for military personnel, which was supposed to be completed by the end of this year. This became clear from the words of the director of the housing department of the military department Olga Lirschaft, who at the end of October at a meeting of the Federation Council committee on defense and security said that the term of the mentioned program was postponed by at least two years - until the end of 2012. And then only "taking into account the receipt of budgetary funds for these purposes," she stressed.
In total, according to the head of the quartermaster department of the Ministry of Defense, 129 thousand soldiers who need permanent housing do not have a roof over their heads due to the fact that they did not fit into the "new look" of the army, which is given to it by Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov …
It is noteworthy that this statement was made literally a few days after Deputy Defense Minister Grigory Naginsky, speaking at the Duma Defense Committee, assured deputies and journalists that "the program to provide permanent housing for servicemen of the Armed Forces by the end of 2010 will be completed on time." They say, it's incredibly difficult for us, the volume of work is very large, but we can handle it. Surprisingly, Naginsky was not embarrassed that "in the remaining three months we must provide permanent housing for 50 thousand families of officers - that is, it is necessary to settle more than 15 thousand families a month." This means that until October, the housing program for the military, according to which in 2009 and 2010 90 thousand officers should get a roof over their heads, was simply not carried out.
In January of this year, Serdyukov bravo reported to the Supreme Commander-in-Chief that in 2009 the military department acquired 200 apartments more than planned - 45 thousand 614. Although even then his words aroused great doubts. Indeed, according to the Ministry of Defense itself, by the middle of November 2009, only "over 27,500 apartments" had been built. And how Serdyukov suddenly "erected" more than 18 thousand apartments in a month and a half is anyone's guess.
The military department has just calculated how many officers need a roof over their heads
This was followed in April by a "round table" on the problems of providing servicemen with housing. On it, Deputy Defense Minister Grigory Naginsky said that "out of 45 thousand 646 apartments received by the Ministry of Defense in 2009, only 21 thousand 61 apartments were occupied, that is, less than 50%." Until June 1, he said, everyone will be settled. Whether they were eventually settled is still unknown.
During 2010, public figures and officials of various departments and levels - from a number of unions of retired officers to the chief military prosecutor - expressed concern that the "unprecedented" program for the military is being thwarted.
Thus, in March, the chairman of the All-Russian Trade Union of Military Servicemen, Oleg Shvedkov, said the following: "The volume of housing allocated for the provision of servicemen will not allow solving the strategic task - to provide permanent housing to all servicemen in need of it in 2010. These plans need to be adjusted." It was then that the following fact became known for the first time from his words: as of January 1, 2009, 129.8 thousand people were queuing up for housing in the housing commissions of units and formations.families of servicemen (and by no means 90,000, for which the Ministry of Defense has drawn up its "unprecedented" two-year housing program). "From this it is clear," stressed the head of the military trade union, "that the efforts being made by the state are clearly not enough, especially taking into account the fact that reforms in the army are being accelerated and the associated massive redundancies in officer posts."
In his opinion, the attempts of some military leaders to "bravuraly" report on the fulfillment of the assigned housing task often lead to the violation of the rights of dismissed servicemen: "To reduce the number of people on the waiting list, many commanders and chiefs go to various tricks, trying to deprive people of their housing. servicemen are sometimes left to live in service apartments in abandoned garrisons where there is no work. " He also cited a case when "in one of the garrisons of the Navy, as it turns out, 30 officers and warrant officers were unreasonably dismissed without queuing up for the purchase of housing." In general, according to him, out of 67 thousand servicemen who applied in 2009 (in the first year of the aforementioned "two-year period") to the military prosecutor's office with complaints about the actions of their commanders, a third submitted the housing issue for consideration.
And in April, the Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Defense Committee Mikhail Babich, within the framework of the Army and Society exhibition-forum, said that the budget for the 2010 budget for the construction of permanent and service housing for military personnel is insufficient: the money in the budget is exactly twice as short. The parliamentarian clarified that up to 90–95 billion rubles are required for these purposes, while there are only 52–54 billion rubles.
“As you know,” he noted, “in 2009, the military was allocated 45 thousand apartments, but it turns out that at the beginning of 2010 there were again 93 thousand people in the queue for housing. deployment.
Attempts to "bravely" report on the implementation of the housing program often lead to the violation of the rights of the military
Finally, in September, Russia's Chief Military Prosecutor, Sergei Fridinsky, announced at the Federation Council that over 150,000 Russian servicemen and their families were in need of housing. True, at the same time, he made a reservation that of this number, more than 90 thousand people need permanent housing (that is, he operated on an outdated indicator from the same currently failed housing program). Fridinsky noted that, in addition to providing military personnel with a state housing certificate, other methods of providing housing have shown themselves to be ineffective, since the pace of purchasing housing for military personnel does not meet the needs of the military department. However, he noted, there are problems in the housing certificates, the main of which is related to the discrepancy between the real price per square meter of housing and the price stipulated in the certificate.
And he cited the following calculation: “In total, in Russia, more than 8 thousand families of military personnel living in closed towns are queuing up to receive certificates. Every year, 700-800 families are resettled from towns throughout Russia. Taking into account the number of those in need, this process will take at least 20 years.
And now the Ministry of Defense itself, through the mouth of the director of the housing department, Olga Lirschaft, has recognized the failure of the program to provide servicemen with permanent housing. Speaking about this at a meeting of the Federation Council's defense committee, the official explained that initially the task set by the country's leadership was designed to provide permanent housing for 67 thousand servicemen. Then it was increased to 91 thousand people. "The sharp increase in the number of officers without apartments is associated with a significant dismissal of officers for organizational staff activities, which continues to this day," said the quartermaster of the Ministry of Defense.
In this regard, it is surprising that the military department has just now calculated how many officers who have fit in and have not fit into the "new look" of the Armed Forces need a roof over their heads. Although Serdyukov announced large-scale reforms in the fall of 2007.
