Russia’s Far East region of Amur is offering orphans a free apartment if they take part in the war in Ukraine. Russia repeatedly lures its own people to the front with supposedly attractive financial offers – but often nothing more than hot air behind them.
Under Russian social legislation, all orphans have the right to housing when they turn 18. In the Amur region of the Far East alone, on the border with China, 3,500 orphans are waiting for an apartment.
demand too high
However, in the years 2020 and 2021, the administration has only issued a total of 147 certificates of residence. According to official information, 137 certificates are planned for the current year – with 3500 applications just a drop in the ocean. The certificate corresponds to a social subsidy from the area administration, which young people can use to buy an apartment of reportedly up to 33 square meters. However, the bureaucratic process that has to be followed for this is experienced as very complicated.
Priority due to participation in war
Now, among the orphans, the people who are participating or have taken part in the so-called “military special operation” have a priority right to receive a housing certificate, regional social affairs minister Natalya Kiselyova said, according to a press release from the region’s administration on Monday.
According to Kiselyova, four orphans who signed up as regular soldiers for the Russian offensive war in Ukraine have already applied to get such a certificate outside the lines. “We have already handed over one with the certificate,” said the minister.
step very controversial
There is now quite a bit of criticism online – according to which the authorities are forcing the orphans to fight at the front. Her financial situation is extremely difficult. And now, without a war effort, they wouldn’t even get what they deserved.
Abandoned by the state
Another orphan is Andrei Medvedev, the ex-commander of the Wagner mercenary group who fled to Norway. He left last summer to fight in Ukraine – there he grew frustrated with the senseless war, the “stupid orders” and the arbitrariness of the military leadership. After he left the group, the reprisals began.
He spoke publicly of executions of Ukrainian prisoners of war and Russian soldiers who refused to take up arms. Medvedev also grew up in the orphanage and reports that he never received the orphans’ apartment he was entitled to from the state and generally never received anything as a gift.
Source: Krone
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