On September 29 YABLOKO’s leader Sergei Mitrokhin visited Chelyabinsk
where he met with students of the Urals Academy of State Service
and workers of the Polyot plant, as well as participated in
the mourning action held in commemoration of nuclear explosion
at the Mayak plant.
At the meeting with the students Mitrokhin spoke about the
need to transfer to professional army and abolishment of military
conscription. He also criticized the intentions of the military
to increase the age for conscription from 27 to 30 years of
age, and YABLOKO is going to resist these plans.
Then YABLOKO’s leader met with the workers of Polyot plant.
According to Mitrokhin, this hi-tech production is in a deplorable
state.
“Our President speaks about innovations, billions are transferred
for nanotechnologies, Skolokovo (Ed. A Russian Silicon Valley)
headed by oligarchs is created, meanwhile such hi-tech productions
as your plant are left without support,” Mitrokhin said. According
to Mitrokhin, hi-tech productions in the military industrial
complex need state support in the first hand, as they have
a “good basis left from the Soviet period” and “continue keeping
their high intellectual potential”.
Also Sergei Mitrokhin participated in the mourning ceremony
devoted to the anniversary of explosion at the Mayak nuclear
plant. The participants of the action floated candles on the
river Miass contaminated with radioactive waste.
“This event reminds us of our present problems: people are
still living in contaminated territories and only recently
the authorities have begun resettling people from there,”
Mitrokhin said. He also noted that different violations take
place at such resettlements and YABLOKO would strive so that
all the victims of the nuclear explosion would get compensations.
See also:
Nuclear
Safety
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