Housing program for the military disrupted
The Ministry of Defense (MO) actually failed the program to provide permanent housing for military personnel, which was to be completed before the end of this year. This became clear from the words of the director of the housing department of the military department, Olga Lirshaft, who at the end of October at a meeting of the Federation Council committee on defense and security stated that the term of the said program was postponed for at least two years - until the end of 2012. And that is only "taking into account the receipt of budget funds for these purposes," she stressed.
In total, to date, according to the head of the quartermaster’s department of the MoD, 129’s thousands of soldiers do not need permanent housing due to the fact that they did not fit into the “new look” of the army, which Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov gives it .
It is noteworthy that this statement came literally a few days after Deputy Defense Minister Grigory Naginsky, speaking in the Duma defense committee, assured deputies and journalists that "the program to provide permanent housing for the Armed Forces military personnel by the end of 2010 will be completed on time." Like, it is incredibly hard for us, the scope of work is very large, but we can handle it. Surprisingly, Naginsky was not embarrassed that “in the remaining three months we must provide 50 with thousands of officer families with permanent housing - that is, we need to populate more than 15 with thousands of families per month”. This means that until October, the housing program for the military, according to which, in 2009 and in 2010, 90 thousands of 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 that in 2009, the military department purchased more apartments than planned for 200 apartments - 45 thousand 614. Although even then his words caused great doubts. Indeed, according to the data of the Ministry of Defense itself, by the middle of November 2009 was built only “over 27 thousand 500 apartments”. And how Serdyukov for a month and a half suddenly "erected" even more 18 thousand apartments, it remains only to guess.
The military department just now calculated how many officers need a roof over their heads.
Following this, a round table was held in April on the issue of providing housing for servicemen. On it, Deputy Defense Minister Gregory Naginsky said that "from 45 thousands of 646 apartments received by the Ministry of Defense in 2009, only 21 thousands of 61 apartments were settled, that is, less than 50%." Until 1 Jun, he said, everyone will be settled. Whether they were eventually settled, is still unknown.
Alarms that the “unprecedented” program for the military was frustrated were expressed by public figures and officials from various departments and levels during 2010, ranging from a number of unions of retired officers to the chief military prosecutor.
Thus, in March, Oleg Shvedkov, chairman of the All-Russian Professional Union of Military Personnel, said: "The volume of housing allocated to provide military personnel will not solve the strategic task of providing permanent housing to military personnel in 2010 for the year. These plans need to be adjusted." It was then that the following fact became known from his words for the first time: on 1 in January 2009, the housing commissions of units and formations were in line to receive housing for 129,8 from thousands of military families (and not 90 from thousands, under which the Ministry of Defense made its "unprecedented" housing two-year program). “It’s clear from here,” stressed the head of the military trade union, “that the efforts undertaken by the state are clearly not enough, especially given the fact that reforms are being accelerated in the army and massive reductions in officer positions related to them”.
In his opinion, the attempts of some military leaders to "bravuratiously" report on the fulfillment of the assigned housing task often lead to the violation of the rights of dismissed servicemen: "In order to reduce the number of waiting lists, many commanders and chiefs go to various tricks, trying to deprive people of their housing. soldiers are sometimes left to live in service apartments in abandoned garrisons where there is no work. " He also cited the case when "in one of the garrisons of the Navy, as it turns out, 30 officers and warrant officers were unreasonably dismissed without queuing for housing." But in general, according to his data, from 67 thousand soldiers who applied to 2009 year (in the first year of the aforementioned “two-year-olds”) to the military prosecutor’s office complaining about the actions of the commanders, one-third brought up the housing issue for trial.
And in April, the Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Defense, Mikhail Babich, within the framework of the exhibition “Army and Society”, stated that allocations for the construction of permanent and official housing for military personnel provided by the 2010 budget of the year are insufficient: “To the Ministry of Defense to solve the problem of permanent and official housing there is not enough money in the budget exactly twice. " The parliamentarian clarified that these goals require up to 90 – 95 billion, and there are only 52 – 54 billion rubles.
“As you know,” he noted, “in 2009, the military allocated 45 thousand apartments, but it turns out that at the beginning of 2010, there were again 93 thousand people in the housing queue. To this number of officers, you need to add people in need of service housing in new locations dislocations. "
Attempts to "bravuraly" report on the implementation of the housing program often lead to the violation of the rights of the military
Finally, in September, the Chief Military Prosecutor of Russia, Sergei Fridinsky, in the Federation Council, said that over 150 thousands of Russian servicemen and their family members needed housing. True, at the same time he made a reservation that out of this number more than 90, thousands of people need permanent housing (that is, they operated on with a long-obsolete indicator of everything from the same failed housing program). Fridinsky noted that, in addition to providing the state housing certificate to servicemen, other means of housing provision proved to be ineffective, as the rate of housing purchase for servicemen does not meet the needs of the military department. However, he noted, and in housing certificates there are problems, the main of which is related to the discrepancy between the actual price per square meter of housing and the price stipulated in the certificate.
And he cited the following calculation: "In total, over 8 in Russia, thousands of military families residing in closed campuses are waiting to receive certificates. Every year 700 – 800 families are resettled from all over Russia. Taking into account the number of people in need, this process will take at least 20 years old".
And now the Ministry of Defense itself, through the mouth of the housing department director Olga Lirshaft, has recognized the failure of the program to provide permanent housing for servicemen. Speaking about this at a meeting of the Defense Committee of the Federation Council, the official explained that initially the task set by the country's leadership was designed to provide 67 with thousands of servicemen with permanent housing. Then it was increased to 91 thousand people. "The sharp increase in the number of homeless officers is associated with a significant dismissal of officers for organizational measures, which is still ongoing," said quartermaster of the Ministry of Defense.
In this regard, it is surprising that the military department just now calculated how many officers who fit in and do not fit into the “new look” of the Armed Forces need a roof over their heads. Although large-scale reforms Serdyukov announced in the fall of 2007 of the year.
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