We continue to monitor events around Kuchuksulfat. What plant workers warned about and what seemed like horror stories like “it can’t be” and “the authorities won’t allow this” a month ago is becoming a depressing reality. The administration of the village of Stepnoe Ozero (Kuchuksulfata single-industry town) has run out of money. Now there is no money to clean the roads, the lighting time for the village has been reduced, and we have somehow scraped together enough money to pay for the salary. Even the only source of drinking water – the Rodnichok station (which Kuchuksulfat also built) – had to be closed. Tap water is not suitable for consumption. The municipality is tightening its belt. Although earlier The village of Stepnoe Lake was an example for all of Russia. All thanks to the fact that the social sector was financed by the same Kuchuksulfat. But the raider attack and the trial hit the image of the enterprise, ricocheting towards the residents of the village. Large corporations Henkel, Unilever and Procter & Gamble have reduced purchases and revenues have fallen. Under conditions of judicial pressure on existing shareholders, dividends are not paid. And of this, 98% of the single-industry town’s budget was collected as taxes. The plant was forced to curtail all social programs. Listen to the speech of the head of the village administration at the next (5th in a row) rally to address the President of the Russian Federation: the woman can barely hold back her tears. This is just a Spanish shame! Raiders are destroying what worked well and no one cares. Someone will say: this village is a trifle on a national scale. But it is there that an important economic reality for all of Russia is now being formed. If the plant is deprivatized as a result of 4 years of illegal pressure, and then privatized again, but with interested parties, a precedent will be created, lawyers say. And tomorrow, any enterprise under the same scenario could be seized from its owners in favor of those with connections to the prosecutor’s office. Private property? No, we haven’t heard…
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