Well you hold on there good. Dmitry Medvedev to Crimean pensioners: No money, but you hold on. "Bastards without brains and conscience"

frank confession made Prime Minister during a visit to Crimea. Somewhere, a pensioner managed to get through to Dmitry Medvedev - a heart-rending cry is heard on a video that has scattered on the network: “It’s impossible to live, the prices are crazy, they expect us to index incorrectly! , where is she?!"

The prime minister, it must be said, did not flinch. Indexing, he did not play up, really is nowhere, because the government did not do it. "There's just no money now. We'll find the money - we'll index it. You stay here, all the best, good mood and health to you," Dmitry Medvedev said cheerfully, putting his hand in his pocket, and on this optimistic note, he hastened to end his communication with the people.

The self-control of the head of government can be envied. Not every politician is able to respond to the cries of the soul of voters with the directness and frankness of Ostap Bender. What money, granny, there is no money. I kiss your hands, happy to stay. On the positive, the old one, you have to be on the positive.

Claims against Dmitry Medvedev there can be none. He just honestly warned that the whole country would have to pay for the annexation of Crimea and. "It was a conscious choice, a choice at the request of the people who asked for help," he said. At the very beginning, however, the ministers and the president rashly declared that no one would suffer, but it quickly became clear to everyone that this would not work out.

Truly knows no limits human ingratitude for salvation from the Nazis. Let grandma say thank you in general that times are now vegetarian. Otherwise, they would have caulked her where they should for such words (does she want to say that she is dissatisfied with the release?). For the sake of Crimea, all Russians' pension savings have been frozen for several years, but it's not enough for her.

But the point here is not so much in the Crimea. And Dmitry Medvedev himself notes after all that there is no indexation throughout the country. It is important that the Prime Minister finally briefly summarized the economic situation in the country, summed up all the anti-crisis meetings over the past 2 years. At meetings in the White House, other phrases are heard, more ornate and impressive, about stimulating the economy, adapting to the sanctions regime, and indispensably fulfilling all social obligations. How many scenarios for the development of events have been written! Soon, the ex-minister of finance will also present two more scenarios to the president, to choose from: either distribute money from the budget to support industries, or not distribute it. Dmitry Medvedev did not tell the pensioner about any scenario, any state program or anti-crisis plan.

We have many scenarios and decrees. We have no money, as it turns out. There would be money, and scenarios would probably not have to be written.

What can the head of government do? Is he printing this money or something, or can he launch some kind of reforms? He is, after all, already. And back in 2013, . We will find money - there will be indexation. The Prime Minister speaks as if he just had the money in another jacket.

It remains to hold on. Gotta hold on pensioners, workers at Uralvagonzavod, which is under the threat of bankruptcy, entrepreneurs who are being squeezed out of business and intimidated by raising taxes, state employees who are offered to freeze salaries, metallurgists and truckers, importers and exporters. The slogan "Hold on!" - it's like "Save yourself who can." That is, taxi as you know, until the scripts arrive in time.

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The Crimean authorities called the problem with pensions in the region "far-fetched." According to Dmitry Polonsky, deputy chairman of the local government, money is paid on the peninsula in the same way as in other parts of Russia - there is no particular Crimean problem. Meanwhile, at the request of a resident of the region, an inspection will be carried out.

During the visit of Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev to Crimea, residents of the region complained to the head of government about the amount of pensions. The Prime Minister acknowledged that there are problems with pensions throughout the country, but his answer was laconic: "there is no money." A short video of Medvedev's meeting with citizens is posted on YouTube.

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During the prime minister's meeting with residents of Crimea, one of the women complained to Medvedev that the pension in Crimea is so low that it is "impossible to live on it."

“Pension is impossible to live. The prices are crazy, there is no strength anymore, they are counting on incorrect indexation. Offend us, do not give 4% even! What is 8 thousand - this is a minuscule! They wipe their feet on us, ”one of the women was indignant.

The Prime Minister acknowledged that there are problems in all regions, but the authorities cannot take and raise pensions in only one subject of the country.

“There is no money now, we will find money - we will do indexation. You stay here, all the best, good mood and health to you!” - answered the prime minister to the inhabitants of the Crimea.

The public liked the prime minister's honest answer, for which they said "thank you".

Earlier it was reported that the Ministry of Labor is ready to replace the increase in the retirement age with a freeze on pension savings.

Dedicated to the new premier term

Two years ago, on May 23, 2016, the Russian segment of the Internet was replenished with a new meme. Its author was Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.

During the Prime Minister's visit to Feodosia, an elderly woman approached him. She did not introduce herself, but immediately asked the second person of the state a question about the sore point: “You said there would be indexation [of pensions], where is it in Crimea? What is 8 thousand? This is minuscule. Feet about us wipe here! It is impossible to live in retirement, the prices are crazy.” The prime minister did not find anything better than to answer: “It [indexation] is nowhere to be found, we didn’t accept it at all ... it’s just that there is no money now. We'll find the money, we'll index it. You stay here, all the best, good mood and health to you.

***

The idea of ​​the editorial board to find that same pensioner, which arose after the new appointment of Dmitry Medvedev to the post of prime minister, seemed crazy. First, we didn't even know her name. Secondly, the population of Feodosia with its suburbs is about one hundred thousand people. Looking for a nameless pensioner among a hundred thousand is unthinkable. All we had was a blurry screenshot from the video where the grandmother is talking to Medvedev.

First of all, I interviewed my Feodosia acquaintances. None of them knew their grandmother. A topic created at a local forum with a request to identify the grandmother turned into a political debate.

The photo with which I walked around Feodosia to look for a pensioner from the video with Medvedev

After going around two churches, fourteen shops, a clinic, a department of the Communist Party, interviewing a dozen people on the streets, and even frightening a woman who looked like the grandmother I needed (having approached her in an empty lane with the question: “Are you in the photo?”), I already thought report to the editor: "Empty lesson."

And suddenly I found a message on VKontakte: “It seems that this woman sells milk in the market.”

In the dairy pavilion of the Central Market, they really confirmed to me: “Yes, this is our Anya. And yes, she was talking to Medvedev.”

That's how I found out that the pensioner's name is Anna Buyanova, and that she lives 20 kilometers from Feodosia, in the village of Novopokrovka. “You will reach the village, and then ask - any house will show you,” they told me in the dairy pavilion. And so it happened.

***

Anna Buyanova lives on the outskirts of the village in a squat hut. I find her plucking a chicken.

For the first five minutes, she simply sighs: “From a Moscow newspaper? Here? But how is it? ..” Then he invites him into the house and apologizes many times: “We are repairing it here. Just started..”

Having brewed mint, he begins to remember.

- Well, I didn’t just go from myself [to Medvedev]. We have people in the market ... a team. They asked me: when the prime minister arrives, I need to tell him about pensions. I'm not the only one with a problem.

I replied: “Well, let's go. I can solve this issue."

“When Medvedev arrived, people were not allowed to see him. But I know Feodosia well, and I went through the yards on Aivazovsky. And went straight to where his car stopped. He saw that I was breaking through so brazenly, and told the guards to disperse.

And you asked him the same question...

- Well, yes, about pensions. You understand correctly: I have 30 years of experience, I worked as a cook in a canteen, then as a manager in a canteen, then as a teacher in a kindergarten, then as a supply manager at a school. The minimum length of service required for a labor pension is 20 years, and I have 30 years of experience. But in the end, I get not a labor, but a social pension - 8,000 rubles.

- Why?

- I do not know. The district pension fund does not give an extract for the second year. And without this, you can not complain to Simferopol.

- After the Prime Minister's question, was your pension indexed after all?

— No. First they promised. They said that 11000 will be. But in the end, in April last year, they made only an allowance for the subsistence minimum. And now, instead of 8,058 rubles, I get 8,500. But this is not indexation.

"And how are you holding up?"

- But only thanks to the economy. 53 chickens, 4 turkeys, 2 ducks. The cow was removed last year. Plus a garden: potatoes, tomatoes, cucumbers. Plus, their fruits grow. If I need to pay for electricity or gas, but I don’t have money, then I sell something: sometimes chicken, sometimes vegetables.

Selling, by the way, is also not easy - they came up with a whole scheme. First, a deputy from the village council should come to me to see that I really have my own garden. Then he draws up an act of inspection, with which I go to the head of the village council. The head of the village council, in the presence of two witnesses, neighbors, checks the act: he asks them whether beets really grow on my site, whether there are chickens. And when witnesses confirm, he gives me a certificate that I can sell.

In the market in Feodosia, I have my own place - 55th. It costs 50 rubles a day. And another 100 rubles I spend on the road from Novopokrovka and back. In July and August, when I sell cucumbers and tomatoes, things are going well: I can earn 600, I can earn 800, I can even earn 1,000 rubles a day. And in winter it happens that I sell some potatoes for only 200 rubles. And it turns out: 200 rubles minus 100 for the road, minus 50 for a place ... 50 rubles a day, sometimes I earn.

Was it always this hard?

“I must say, life was easier under Ukraine. The hryvnia was solid, but the ruble ... turned out to be some kind of empty one.

You get more money, but you go to the store: you spent everything - you didn’t buy anything. But from January 1, 2019, as they promise, there will be a revision of the subsistence minimum again: the smallest pension will be 12,000 rubles. So the Sobes said. Here we are waiting...

- So this time they promise seriously?

— They say yes.

- Dmitry Medvedev was again appointed prime minister ...

“You know, my heart skipped a beat the other day. On TV they showed Putin shaking his hand. And I realized: "It will happen again." Since Putin shook his hand, it means that they will continue to be friends.

- And how do you like this fact?

— It seems to me that this has been done in vain. Medvedev will not give us anything. But, on the other hand, for some reason I think that this time Putin will tighten the screws on him. Putin also read about his billions ( refers to the scandal provoked by the investigation of the Navalny team. — I. Zh.). So maybe now Medvedev will be more responsible.

***

Saying goodbye, Anna asks if I have money for the return trip.

- It is strange to hear such a question from a person who barely makes ends meet.

- Well, anything can happen. she smiles. “Maybe we need help. Good deeds must also be done.

And pensioner Anna Buyanova is hiding behind the fence of her house. She goes on to pluck a chicken in the garden, which grows potatoes, cucumbers and beets, and which feeds her along with a poor pension, which has not changed much after a conversation with the country's prime minister.

Novopokrovka village, Feodosiya, Crimea

During Dmitry Medvedev's working trip to Crimea, a pensioner asked him a question about the indexation of pensions. Video of prime minister's response leaked online

Dmitry Medvedev on one of the streets of Feodosia after visiting the Ivan Aivazovsky Art Gallery as part of a working trip to Crimea. Photo: Dmitry Astakhov/TASS

The decision on additional indexation of pensions in 2016 will be made after July 1 following the results of the first half of the year, Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets told RIA Novosti. She stressed that the government's social bloc will insist on indexing to actual inflation.

Earlier, a video appeared on the Internet where Dmitry Medvedev, speaking about a pension with a resident of Feodosia, states that the state has no money. The prime minister, surrounded by guards, is handed papers by an aide. Suddenly, a question is heard from the crowd surrounding the security ring. A woman, who is behind the scenes, asks the head of government about when pensions will be indexed in Crimea. "No money. You stay here, all the best to you,” Dmitry Medvedev concluded his reply.

Netizens reacted strongly to the video. “Have you seen pensions in Belgorod?” — wrote one of them in the comments.

The minimum pension in Russia is 6 thousand rubles. This year, Russians' pensions were increased by only 4%. The government's social bloc insisted on additional indexation. The day before, Andrei Makarov, chairman of the State Duma Budget Committee, told RBC that the issue of additional indexation of pensions would be considered in October by the new composition of the lower house. The decision on it will be made even later, other sources noted.

Is it true that the situation with pensions is special on the peninsula? Crimean blogger Alexander Gorny answered this question of Business FM:

Alexander Gorny blogger “As for pensioners in Crimea, indeed, their situation has worsened a little. This is due to the devaluation of the ruble, and the equivalent, if we take it in dollars, of course, has decreased. Food prices in Crimea are higher than the mainland ones by about 10%, somewhere by 20%, somewhere by 30%. In the Ukrainian years, of course, the level of pension provision was much lower: if we take the dollar recalculation, maybe about $100, maybe $150. When Crimea was transferred to Russia, both pensioners and civil servants benefited from this situation, the level of salaries of which increased several times. But taking into account the devaluation that is taking place in the country, inflation, the standard of living is falling not only in Crimea, but throughout Russia. And here is a remark to Dmitry Medvedev - this is really some kind of cry from the heart not only of the Crimean, but of all Russian pensioners. Of course, pensioners do not fully understand that the situation is similar throughout Russia. Pensioners, like civil servants, benefited financially from this, but when they go to the market and realize that this money is also not enough, they hoped that life would still become a little better when they returned to Russia.”

Deputy Chairman of the Crimean Council of Ministers Dmitry Polonsky, in an interview with radio "Moscow speaking" said that there are no problems with pensions in the republic. “We are no different from other regions. There is always dissatisfaction among citizens, they always want wages and pensions to be higher, prices to be lower. There are some objective difficulties. But there is no special Crimean problem regarding especially low Crimean pensions,” Polonsky said. The former speaker of the Supreme Council of Crimea, the first secretary of the Crimean republican branch of the Communists of Russia party, Leonid Grach, does not agree with the position of the official:

Leonid Grach First Secretary of the Crimean Republican Branch of the Party "Communists of Russia"“Tariffs for everything have also increased, they have introduced a tax nature of all these re-registrations of their property, renegotiations of contracts with the gas industry. Even to this day, a lot of Crimeans stand in queues, and they pay for this re-registration of meters or any other indicators. Today, we are not inferior to Moscow in terms of food pricing, and everything that has already accumulated is socially very significant, because a person is in a good mood when there is bread, when there is some penny. Yesterday, Dmitry Medvedev visited the Aivazovsky Art Gallery, walked about 300 meters to the Green Museum, and people stood, this was not a meeting, and people immediately went on the attack, which is impossible to live on 8 thousand rubles. I would say that such a “shot” of a social nature has already taken place. I think that Dmitry Medvedev's answer is rather clumsy, disdainful. It was necessary to change the tone of the conversation, and not get off with a replica, all the more he didn’t see the people, he walked surrounded by a retinue consisting of guards and officials. And this added to the heat in Feodosia, because in the city there is still a dead industrial production, the factories do not work. Everyone was waiting for Medvedev's visit to Feodosia to be devoted to this topic as well.”

The Kremlin declined to comment on Medvedev's remarks. Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the issue of pensions belongs to the government, which has the broadest powers, so it is incorrect to comment on the work of the head of the cabinet of ministers.

Residents of Buryatia in social networks ridiculed the new "winged" phrase of Dmitry Medvedev

About the meeting of the Russian Prime Minister with the Crimean pensioners, which took place at the beginning of this week, was written, perhaps, only by the lazy one. Residents of the peninsula complained to the head of the Cabinet of small pensions and lack of indexation. He, in turn, said that there was no money in the country and advised the Crimeans to “hold on”.

We will deal with pensions across the country,” Dmitry Medvedev promised. - We can't do just one place to retire. Her ( indexing - approx. ed.) is nowhere to be found. We weren't accepted at all. There's just no money right now. We will find money - we will make indexation. You stay here, all the best, good mood, health to you.

In response to such an "explanation" of the prime minister, those present buzzed approvingly: "Ah, well, that's understandable" and even greeted him with an approving "thank you," Gazeta.ru reports. In an abbreviated version (“No money, but you hold on”), this remark quickly became an Internet meme and caused a wide resonance in the media. The public even offers to make it the election slogan of the party in power, headed by Medvedev, the newspaper notes.

The residents of Buryatia did not stand aside either: another “stealing” phrase of the head of the Cabinet became an occasion for jokes in social networks. The most popular today, perhaps, is the "decree" signed by Dmitry Medvedev dated May 23, 2016 "On supporting the poor."

“In accordance with the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the government decides: 1) There is no money. 2) You stay here. 3) All the best to you, good mood, health,” the “document” says.

In the popular publics of Buryatia, “walks” and “instructions”, which indicate how to properly handle collectors. The problem, it must be said, is “painful” for the inhabitants of the republic.

Hello, you owe us money!

No money. But hang in there! All the best to you, good mood, health.

On another meme posted in the community “News online. Buryatia, Medvedev "refuses" to help the drowning man, instead wishing him "good mood and health."

By the way, President Vladimir Putin commented on Dmitry Medvedev's sensational statement last Friday. In particular, he noted that "the government pays great attention to the fulfillment of all social obligations" and "is looking for various options to support the population, including those related to the payment of pensions." This is reported by the NTV channel.

The government is aimed at the fulfillment of all social obligations. This I can tell you for sure. I did not see Dmitry Anatolyevich speak about this. You can always either take a phrase from the context as such, or take it from that general conversation. According to the words, everything can coincide, but in spirit, the meaning can look somehow different, the head of state said.