We will be able to return peaceful life to Lugansk in a short space of time!

The candidate for LNR head, the chairman of public organization of LNR «Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs» Victor Grigoryevich Penner told in the interview to Internet portal «The world and we» about what he sees the future of the Lugansk People’s Republic in case of his victory.
Victor Grigoryevich what roused you to run as a candidate of LNR head? How do you see the prospects of the republic development?
- I worked a lot of time in business, not badly know the economy of our Luhansk region. It was painful to observe as in more than 20 years, after disorder of the USSR, so powerful industrial capacity of the region was destroyed by group of dull heads in the person of Efremov and Tikhonov.
Having held the key positions in area (posts of the regional council chairman and governor), they used it in the mercenary purposes: with the help of JSC Fund created by them monopolized the supply of natural gas to the enterprises of the Lugansk region, forcing their heads to get this resource on triple overprice. They dismissed those who were disagreed, replacing them on people who resignedly carried out the orders. For the short period they laundered the current assets at state enterprises and tightened a stranglehold of debts on their neck. Then through under control courts took away the assets to themselves. But instead of further developing productions, they went on the way of destruction of an industrial complex of area.
Having picked up the obedient performers among whom there was also well-known Natalya Korolevskaya in Ukraine who became in the future from an easy hand of Efremov the ally of Yu. Tymoshenko, the deputy of the Verkhovna Rada from the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc, they began to cut the equipment of plants and factories and to hand over it in metal scrap. Thus they destroyed a lot of things that was created by work of our parents for years of the Soviet power.
After that their interests addressed to coal. The epic of coal mining began a career way: strategic reserves of coal which weren’t developed since were intended for production in a wartime, were given on a robbery to the people without any special licenses. And again there were the structures of Korolevskaya among them. On this subject multimillion dollar profits are got.
Well, after obtaining the deputy mandate of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Efremov began to conduct game largely: the tender public funds for acquisition of the mining equipment for coal branch of area were sent through him and structures of Korolevskaya. And it is already the multi-billion sums.
Because of these schemes there was a conclusion about unprofitability of coal branch. And because of all coal associations were illegally transferred to private structures management of oligarchs which all taxes paid in Kiev, there was a myth about dependence on subsidy of Donbass which the Kiev junta actively extends among other population of Ukraine. However, recently even more often the facts disproving this lie sound from Yatsenyuk’s lips: Donetsk and Lugansk areas, it appears, gave to 25% of currency receipts in the budget of Ukraine; for 23% filled its treasury; for 40% gave the profit to the Ukrainian railroad, etc. And if we such subsidized why these participants of putsch seized us and don’t want to release? Do they really so anxious about our destiny, being afraid, that we will starve to death without them?
Now there was a unique opportunity, having changed rules of the game, to force to work all means earned in the region to the profit of LNR.
My professional experience will allow me to lift of LNR economy together with inhabitants, at least to the Soviet level. That will form the base for increase of standard of living to people, creation of the social protected society.
Our region has the long-term, time-proved communications with the enterprises of the Russian Federation. Thanks to this cooperation our enterprises had the guaranteed orders for many millions dollars that allowed to create new workplaces, to fill the budget, to solve social programs. Because of the power operation started by the Kiev authorities on Donbass and the policy pursued by them on a rupture of all relations with the Russian Federation the economy of krai suffered huge losses. But I believe that we will be able to renew the former cooperation communications with our partners and only in the close union with Russia and the countries of the Customs Union we will manage to restore industrial capacity of the Lugansk region. For this purpose we already took the first step: created the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of LNR.
What priorities do you intend to solve on this post?
- We should end urgently with «Makhnovism» which assumed the menacing scale. For this purpose it is necessary to create and build a rigid power vertical. As I understand, this problem is peculiar to all new formed state formations. It is sure that we will be able to overcome it too. And though we have no experience of construction, we hope for the help from the brotherly country in this question of colleagues.
The main thing is that we have people who proved the affairs that are ready to put even the lives to defend independence of the young state and to construct it on the new principles guaranteeing the rights and freedoms of citizens of the Lugansk region.
Besides, now I make efforts to return home the representatives of large business of the region. With arrival of these people the capital will return here that allow to renew the work of industry leaders of the region in the shortest possible time, to create workplaces and to fill the budget of the republic with much-needed means for the solution of social tasks. After all Kiev completely refused implementation of all obligations to socially unprotected segments of the population. It stopped payments of pensions though these people gave all life to creation of the state and paid pension contributions. It stopped financing of the budgetary sphere: the public servants, doctors, teachers remained out-of-pocket existence. Besides, he blackmail of nonpayment of salaries and threats of deprivation of academic degrees and ranks compelled to leave Lugansk the employees of higher educational institutions, having transferred them to the cities of the Lugansk region controlled by its troops for the present. I consider that one of priorities is urgent creation necessary conditions for return of scientific elite of the republic to their native higher education institutions.
I understand that we won’t manage to start work of our enterprises and establishments without restoration of a banking system therefore the certain steps in this direction are already taken giving hope for success.
Please God we will be able to return peaceful life to the region in a short space of time. Our armed forces won’t allow establishment of the fascist junta power here.