To give or not to give to the poor - everyone decides this question on their own. And in each specific case the solution may be different. Let's look at the situation in more detail: a woman with a child enters a subway car and asks for your help. How to help? Depends on you. And often it also depends on whether you want to save the child or financially support his “owners”
The case of Natasha
For three hours now we had been sitting with Natasha at the Kievsky station. In her arms, two-month-old Vanya squeaked from time to time. Natasha said that she really wanted to return to her parents in Ukraine. She gave birth to Vanya in Moscow and soon realized that she couldn’t last here with him. But there was no money for a return ticket. Then she wrote a sign: “Help raise money” - and with the child in her arms she walked through the subway cars.
I approached her right in the carriage and offered to buy a ticket. She agreed. “What a poor fellow! - I thought. “So exhausted that she doesn’t have the strength to somehow show joy!” But just in case, I still decided to check the documents. Seems okay: Natalya Ivanovna Kovach, 16 years old, place of registration is the city of Rakhiv, Transcarpathian region. (I asked the police officers on duty at the station to check Natasha’s Ukrainian passport and the certificate from the hospital about the birth of the child. Two paper icons were also included in the passport.) One thing is strange: according to the papers, it turned out that Natasha arrived in Moscow in the eighth month of pregnancy. But what doesn't happen in this world.
We are waiting for the train. To clear my conscience, I decided to put her on the train myself. But for now I kept the ticket with me - you never know. Suddenly Natasha gets up: “I’m going to the toilet.” - “Where are you going with the child? Leave it to me." - “Nothing, I’m already used to it.” After half an hour of waiting, I realized that Natasha would not return.
Then, in a conversation with Tatyana Kuznetsova, the head of the public organization “Territory of Childhood,” which helps orphans, I remembered one more detail: during all these three hours, Natasha did not part with her “Help!” sign for a second.
“These are professional beggars. Most likely, Natasha was specially invited to “work” in Moscow as a beggar while she was pregnant. With an eye to the fact that she will give birth here and will beg,” Tatyana comments on my story. The fact is that “mothers” with babies are served more readily. According to operational data, such a woman earns from one and a half to three thousand rubles a day.
How to help your child
A woman with a child in her arms asking for help is an appeal to the mind and heart. To submit or not to submit? The problem is not even that most of these beggars are not real, but that their children are destined for the same future. They have been working, as can be seen from the story with Natasha and her son, since infancy... But even if it is obvious that this beggar woman is a professional, the child may be better off with his own mother, even if she makes her living by deception.
Another question is that, according to Tatyana Kuznetsova, many of these children do not belong to those “mothers” who beg with them on the subway. Police officers had to deal with the fact that pseudo-beggars mix diphenhydramine into the milk of infants so that they do not interfere with their “work.” The babies also sleep because of exhaustion: “mothers” do not have time to feed them or walk with them. As a result, children develop pathologies. Here are some real life examples.
This spring one of the project volunteers saw a woman on the subway with a four-month-old baby in her arms. The baby didn't even blink. When she called the police, the beggar woman did not have documents for the child. They were both escorted to the department. Soon the child’s “mother” asked to smoke, went out and disappeared into the water. The baby developed a cleft palate and could hardly feed himself. Activists found people who wanted to adopt a child.
Another case - about a pseudo-widower. He stood at the VDNH metro station with a two-year-old child in a kangaroo. The baby squirmed and cried. A participant in the “Childhood Territory” project (different this time) called the police. About half an hour later, while the identity of the activist and the “widower” was being clarified at the department, the “deceased” mother appeared. The boy had to be sent to the hospital for health reasons. According to the police, within a short time they caught three beggar women with the same baby. Another beggar was detained for child abuse - subway passengers noticed that the boy was beaten. There was also such a case: a beggar woman was caught with a dead baby in her arms.
Recommendations for those who care
What to do if it is obvious that the child needs your help? Is there a legal way to prosecute beggars for child exploitation?
There is Article 151 of the Criminal Code, which provides for imprisonment for up to six years for involving children in begging. But there is no penalty for USING children. And it is possible to INVOLVE a child in begging only if he independently evaluates what is happening. That is, the baby cannot be involved in anything. In addition, proof of systematicity is required. To do this, the same beggar must be detained three times during the calendar year. As a result, Article 151 turns out to be ineffective. In 2001, 29 criminal cases were initiated and brought to court in Moscow, in 2002 - 27 cases, in 2003 - 24, and in 2004 - only 6 cases.
Several years ago, a Department for Minors was created on the Moscow Metro, which also deals with the detention of beggars with children. As of June 13, 263 such arrests had been made since the beginning of the year. The head of the department, Sergei Kuguk, complained that passengers almost never call the police if they encounter beggars. At the same time, begging in the subway is considered an offense, and police officers have the right and even the obligation to detain beggars. True, practice shows that they do this with great reluctance. But if you want to help your child, don't let this bother you. This is what Tatyana Kuznetsova advises to do in such cases.
No need to approach beggars - you will scare them away. And immediately go to the police room and demand the arrest of the suspicious beggar. Don’t rush to leave yourself: you will need a witness! If a police officer refuses to help you, say that you will complain to the head of the department, Colonel Sergei Kuguk. Show knowledge of the law: mention Article 151 of the Criminal Code and Article 5.35 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (“failure to fulfill obligations for the maintenance and upbringing of minors”), under which beggars can be held accountable.
The police will check your documents and take written explanations. It is important here to indicate that the beggar woman had a sign or that you saw her being served. Then the beggar must be taken to the police department on the metro. If there are no documents for the child, he is sent to the hospital. Until the mother arrives there with documents (and if not the mother, then she will not arrive), he is registered in an orphanage or a baby home. By the way, the police must call an ambulance in any case so that a doctor can examine the child.
If it turns out that the suspect has been detained twice before, prosecution under Art. 151 of the Criminal Code. In addition, a beggar can immediately be brought to administrative responsibility under Art. 5.35 Code of Administrative Offences.
If you see a beggar woman not at the station, but in the carriage, you can use emergency communication with the driver or call the control telephone number or the police duty station (you will find telephone numbers at the end of the article). You will need to provide the train route and carriage number.
Where to contact
Before 19.00 you need to call 921-93-50 to the Department of Juvenile Affairs of the Internal Affairs Directorate on the Moscow Metro. In addition, each line has 24-hour emergency telephone numbers:
222-17-63 -- Sokolnicheskaya;
158-78-84 – Zamoskvoretskaya;
222-11-43 – Filevskaya;
222-26-48 -- Ring and Kalininskaya;
222-78-10 – Taganskaya;
222-75-78 -- Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya;
684-99-49 -- Kaluga-Rizhskaya;
222-11-83 -- Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya;
351-80-91 -- Maryinsko-Chkalovskaya.
Anna PALCHEVA
The topic “Should I give to the poor in the subway” caused a large number of responses to website Mercy.ru: Opinions on “serve” and “don’t serve” are divided. But the Gospel says simply: “Give to him who asks you,” without specifying to whom or why. We asked the confessor of our magazine, Archpriest Arkady SHATOV, to comment on this difficult issue:Every person must decide this question by listening to the voice of his conscience. There is a known case with one saint who gave his clothes to a beggar, and then saw that they were being sold at the market. He was very upset, but not because the beggar had deceived him, but because he thought that the Lord had not accepted his alms. But then Christ appeared to him in the very clothes that he had given to the beggar. After all, these are the words of the Lord: “... I was naked, and you clothed Me” (Matthew 25:36). Usually they ask for Christ’s sake and give for Christ’s sake. And if a person gives alms for the sake of Christ, out of compassion, without trying to evaluate the situation, the Lord will accept this alms. And he won’t ask us how or what the beggar will spend the money on.
Some people do not give alms to drunks, some do not give to anyone, but help people in some other way. For example, a large family, a family without a father - that is, people about whom it is known for sure that they need help. After all, there really are “professionals” among the beggars.
The words of the Gospel, “Give to him who asks you” (Matthew 5:42), should probably be understood in the sense that you need to give to those who really need help. This does not mean giving alcoholics a bottle, drug addicts drugs, or suicides poison. On the other hand, if a person is suspicious of everyone, he will eventually harden his heart and stop helping anyone. There are people who do not help anyone on the basis that “beggars are all deceivers.” But this is how they cover up their reluctance to share.
As for the exploitation of children - if there really is such a mafia in Moscow - you need to be very careful here. It seems to me that this is not a question like: to be or not to be? Each time you need to solve the problem anew, proceed from the real state of affairs and pray to God. You just don’t need to judge those people who beg for alms. What is important here is not some kind of legalistic position, but sympathy, compassion, love.
To give or not to give to the poor - everyone decides this question independently. And in each specific case the solution may be different. Let's look at the situation in more detail: a woman with a child enters a subway car and asks for your help. How to help? Depends on you. And often it also depends on whether you want to save the child or financially support his “owners”
The case of Natasha
For three hours now we had been sitting with Natasha at the Kievsky station. In her arms, two-month-old Vanya squeaked from time to time. Natasha said that she really wanted to return to her parents in Ukraine. She gave birth to Vanya in Moscow and soon realized that she couldn’t last here with him. But there was no money for a return ticket. Then she wrote a sign: “Help raise money” - and with the child in her arms she walked through the subway cars.
I approached her right in the carriage and offered to buy a ticket. She agreed. “What a poor thing!” I thought. “She’s so exhausted that she doesn’t have the strength to somehow show joy!” But just in case, I still decided to check the documents. Seems okay: Natalya Ivanovna Kovach, 16 years old, place of registration is the city of Rakhiv, Transcarpathian region. (I asked the police officers on duty at the station to check Natasha’s Ukrainian passport and the certificate from the hospital about the birth of the child. Two paper icons were also included in the passport.) One thing is strange: according to the papers, it turned out that Natasha arrived in Moscow in the eighth month of pregnancy. But what doesn't happen in this world.
We are waiting for the train. To clear my conscience, I decided to put her on the train myself. But for now I kept the ticket with me - you never know. Suddenly Natasha gets up: “I’m going to the toilet.” - “Where are you going with the child? Leave him to me.” - “Nothing, I’m already used to it.” After half an hour of waiting, I realized that Natasha would not return.
Then, in a conversation with Tatyana Kuznetsova, the head of the public organization “Territory of Childhood,” which helps orphans, I remembered one more detail: during all these three hours, Natasha did not part with her “Help!” sign for a second.
“These are professional beggars. Most likely, Natasha was specially invited to “work” in Moscow as a beggar while she was pregnant, with the expectation that she would give birth here and beg,” Tatyana comments on my story. The fact is that “mothers” with babies are served more readily. According to operational data, such a woman earns from one and a half to three thousand rubles a day.
How to help your child
A woman with a child in her arms asking for help is an appeal to the mind and heart. To submit or not to submit? The problem is not even that most of these beggars are not real, but that their children are destined for the same future. They have been working, as can be seen from the story with Natasha and her son, since infancy... But even if it is obvious that this beggar woman is a professional, the child may be better off with his own mother, even if she makes a living by deception.
Another question is that, according to Tatyana Kuznetsova, many of these children do not belong to those “mothers” who beg with them on the subway. Police officers had to deal with the fact that pseudo-beggars mix diphenhydramine into the milk of infants so that they do not interfere with their “work.” The babies also sleep because of exhaustion: “mothers” do not have time to feed them or walk with them. As a result, children develop pathologies. Here are some real life examples.
This spring, one of the project volunteers saw a woman on the subway with a four-month-old baby in her arms. The baby didn't even blink. When she called the police, the beggar woman did not have documents for the child. They were both escorted to the department. Soon the child’s “mother” asked to smoke, went out and disappeared into the water. The baby developed a cleft palate and could hardly feed himself. Activists found people who wanted to adopt a child.
Another case is about a pseudo-widower. He stood at the VDNH metro station with a two-year-old child in a kangaroo. The baby squirmed and cried. A participant in the “Childhood Territory” project (this time a different one) called the police. About half an hour later, while the identity of the activist and the “widower” was being clarified at the department, the “deceased” mother appeared. The boy had to be sent to the hospital for health reasons. According to the police, within a short time they caught three beggar women with the same baby. Another beggar was detained for child abuse - subway passengers noticed that the boy was beaten. There was also such a case: a beggar woman was caught with a dead baby in her arms.
What to do if it is obvious that the child needs your help? Is there a legal way to prosecute beggars for child exploitation?
There is Article 151 of the Criminal Code, which provides for imprisonment for up to six years for involving children in begging. But there is no penalty for USING children. And it is possible to INVOLVE a child in begging only if he independently evaluates what is happening. That is, the baby cannot be involved in anything. In addition, proof of systematicity is required. To do this, the same beggar must be detained three times during the calendar year. As a result, Article 151 turns out to be ineffective. In 2001, 29 criminal cases were initiated and brought to court in Moscow, in 2002 - 27 cases, in 2003 - 24, and in 2004 - only 6 cases.
Several years ago, a Department for Minors was created on the Moscow Metro, which also deals with the detention of beggars with children. As of June 13, 263 such arrests had been made since the beginning of the year. The head of the department, Sergei Kuguk, complained that passengers almost never call the police if they encounter beggars. At the same time, begging in the subway is considered an offense, and police officers have the right and even the obligation to detain beggars. True, practice shows that they do this with great reluctance. But if you want to help your child, don't let this bother you. This is what Tatyana Kuznetsova advises to do in such cases.
No need to approach beggars - you will scare them away. And immediately go to the police room and demand the arrest of the suspicious beggar. Don’t rush to leave yourself: you will need a witness! If a police officer refuses to help you, say that you will complain to the head of the department, Colonel Sergei Kuguk. Show knowledge of the law: mention Article 151 of the Criminal Code and Article 5.35 of the Code of Administrative Offenses ("failure to fulfill obligations for the maintenance and upbringing of minors"), under which beggars can be held accountable.
The police will check your documents and take written explanations. It is important here to indicate that the beggar woman had a sign or that you saw her being served. Then the beggar must be taken to the police department on the metro. If there are no documents for the child, he is sent to the hospital. Until the mother arrives there with documents (and if not the mother, then she will not arrive), he is registered in an orphanage or a baby home. By the way, the police must call an ambulance in any case so that a doctor can examine the child.
If it turns out that the suspect has been detained twice before, prosecution under Art. 151 of the Criminal Code. In addition, a beggar can immediately be brought to administrative responsibility under Art. 5.35 Code of Administrative Offences.
If you see a beggar woman not at the station, but in the carriage, you can use emergency communication with the driver or call the control telephone number or the police duty station (you will find telephone numbers at the end of the article). You will need to provide the train route and carriage number.
Where to contact
Before 19.00 you need to call 921-93-50 to the Department of Juvenile Affairs of the Internal Affairs Directorate on the Moscow Metro. In addition, each line has 24-hour emergency telephone numbers:
222-17-63 - Sokolnicheskaya;
158-78-84 - Zamoskvoretskaya;
222-11-43 - Filevskaya;
222-26-48 - Ring and Kalininskaya;
222-78-10 - Taganskaya;
222-75-78 - Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya;
684-99-49 - Kaluga-Rizhskaya;
222-11-83 - Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya;
351-80-91 - Maryinsko-Chkalovskaya.
The topic “Should I give to the beggars in the subway” caused a large number of responses on the website Miloserdie.ru: opinions about “giving” and “not giving” were divided. But the Gospel simply says: “Give to him who asks you,” without specifying to whom or why. We will comment on this difficult issue asked the confessor of our magazine, Archpriest Arkady SHATOV:
Every person must decide this question by listening to the voice of his conscience. There is a known case with one saint who gave his clothes to a beggar, and then saw that they were being sold at the market. He was very upset, but not because the beggar had deceived him, but because he thought that the Lord had not accepted his alms. But then Christ appeared to him in the very clothes that he had given to the beggar. After all, these are the words of the Lord: “...I was naked, and you clothed Me” (Matthew 25:36). Usually they ask for Christ’s sake and give for Christ’s sake. And if a person gives alms for the sake of Christ, out of compassion, without trying to evaluate the situation, the Lord will accept this alms. And he won’t ask us how or what the beggar will spend the money on.
Some people do not give alms to drunks, some do not give to anyone, but help people in some other way. For example, a large family, a family without a father - that is, people about whom it is known for sure that they need help. After all, among the beggars there really are “professionals”.
The words of the Gospel, “Give to him who asks you” (Matthew 5:42), should probably be understood in the sense that you need to give to those who really need help. This does not mean giving alcoholics a bottle, drug addicts drugs, or suicides poison. On the other hand, if a person is suspicious of everyone, he will eventually harden his heart and stop helping anyone. There are people who do not help anyone on the basis that “beggars are all deceivers.” But this is how they cover up their reluctance to share.
As for the exploitation of children - if there really is such a mafia in Moscow - you need to be very careful here. It seems to me that this is not a question like: to be or not to be? Each time you need to solve the problem anew, proceed from the real state of affairs and pray to God. You just don’t need to judge those people who beg for alms. What is important here is not some kind of legalistic position, but sympathy, compassion, love.
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For three hours now we had been sitting with Natasha at the Kievsky station. In her arms, two-month-old Vanya squeaked from time to time. Natasha said that she really wanted to return to her parents in Ukraine. She gave birth to Vanya in Moscow and soon realized that she couldn’t last here with him. But there was no money for a return ticket. Then she wrote a sign: “Help raise money” - and with the child in her arms she walked through the subway cars. I approached her right in the carriage and offered to buy a ticket. She agreed. “What a poor fellow! - I thought. “So exhausted that she doesn’t have the strength to somehow show joy!” But just in case, I still decided to check the documents. Seems okay: Natalya Ivanovna Kovach, 16 years old, place of registration is the city of Rakhiv, Transcarpathian region. (I asked the police officers on duty at the station to check Natasha’s Ukrainian passport and the certificate from the hospital about the birth of the child. Two paper icons were also included in the passport.) One thing is strange: according to the papers, it turned out that Natasha arrived in Moscow in the eighth month of pregnancy. But what doesn't happen in this world.
We are waiting for the train. To clear my conscience, I decided to put her on the train myself. But for now I kept the ticket with me - you never know. Suddenly Natasha gets up: “I’m going to the toilet.” - “Where are you going with the child? Leave it to me." - “Nothing, I’m already used to it.” After half an hour of waiting, I realized that Natasha would not return.
Then, in a conversation with Tatyana Kuznetsova, the head of the public organization “Territory of Childhood”, which helps orphans, I remembered one more detail: during all these three hours, Natasha did not part with her “Help!” sign for a second. “These are professional beggars. Most likely, Natasha was specially invited to “work” in Moscow as a beggar while she was pregnant. With an eye to the fact that she will give birth here and will beg,” Tatyana comments on my story. The fact is that “mothers” with babies are served more readily. According to operational data, such a woman earns from one and a half to three thousand rubles a day.
How to help your child
A woman with a child in her arms asking for help is an appeal to the mind and heart. To submit or not to submit? The problem is not even that most of these beggars are not real, but that their children are destined for the same future. They work, as can be seen from the story with Natasha and her son, already from infancy... But even if it is obvious that this beggar woman is a professional, the child may be better off with his own mother, even if she makes a living by deception.
Another question is that, according to Tatyana Kuznetsova, many of these children do not belong to those “mothers” who beg with them on the subway. Police officers had to deal with the fact that pseudo-beggars mix diphenhydramine into the milk of infants so that they do not interfere with their “work.” The babies also sleep because of exhaustion: “mothers” do not have time to feed them or walk with them. As a result, children develop pathologies. Here are some real life examples.
This spring, one of the project volunteers saw a woman on the subway with a four-month-old baby in her arms. The baby didn't even blink. When she called the police, the beggar woman did not have documents for the child. They were both escorted to the department. Soon the child’s “mother” asked to smoke, went out and disappeared into the water. The baby developed a cleft palate and could hardly feed himself. Activists found people who wanted to adopt a child.
Another case is about a pseudo-widower. He stood at the VDNH metro station with a two-year-old child in a kangaroo. The baby squirmed and cried. A participant in the “Childhood Territory” project (different this time) called the police. About half an hour later, while the identity of the activist and the “widower” was being clarified at the department, the “deceased” mother appeared. The boy had to be sent to the hospital for health reasons. According to the police, within a short time they caught three beggar women with the same baby. Another beggar was detained for child abuse - subway passengers noticed that the boy was beaten. There was also such a case: a beggar woman was caught with a dead baby in her arms.
What to do if it is obvious that the child needs your help? Is there a legal way to prosecute beggars for child exploitation?
There is Article 151 of the Criminal Code, which provides for imprisonment for up to six years for involving children in begging. But there is no penalty for USING children. And it is possible to INVOLVE a child in begging only if he independently evaluates what is happening. That is, the baby cannot be involved in anything. In addition, proof of systematicity is required. To do this, the same beggar must be detained three times during the calendar year. As a result, Article 151 turns out to be ineffective. In 2001, 29 criminal cases were initiated and brought to court in Moscow, in 2002 - 27 cases, in 2003 - 24, and in 2004 - only 6 cases.
Several years ago, a Department for Minors was created on the Moscow Metro, which also deals with the detention of beggars with children. As of June 13, 263 such arrests had been made since the beginning of the year. The head of the department, Sergei Kuguk, complained that passengers almost never call the police if they encounter beggars. At the same time, begging in the subway is considered an offense, and police officers have the right and even the obligation to detain beggars. True, practice shows that they do this with great reluctance. But if you want to help your child, don't let this bother you. This is what Tatyana Kuznetsova advises to do in such cases.
No need to approach beggars - you will scare them away. And immediately go to the police room and demand the arrest of the suspicious beggar. Don’t rush to leave yourself: you will need a witness! If a police officer refuses to help you, say that you will complain to the head of the department, Colonel Sergei Kuguk. Show knowledge of the law: mention Article 151 of the Criminal Code and Article 5.35 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (“failure to fulfill obligations for the maintenance and upbringing of minors”), under which beggars can be held accountable. The police will check your documents and take written explanations. It is important here to indicate that the beggar woman had a sign or that you saw her being served. Then the beggar must be taken to the police department on the metro. If there are no documents for the child, he is sent to the hospital. Until the mother arrives there with documents (and if not the mother, then she will not arrive), he is registered in an orphanage or a baby home. By the way, the police must call an ambulance in any case so that a doctor can examine the child. If it turns out that the suspect has been detained twice before, prosecution under Art. 151 of the Criminal Code. In addition, a beggar can immediately be brought to administrative responsibility under Art. 5.35 Code of Administrative Offences.
If you see a beggar woman not at the station, but in the carriage, you can use emergency communication with the driver or call the control telephone number or the police duty station (you will find telephone numbers at the end of the article). You will need to provide the train route and carriage number.
Where to contact
Before 19.00 you need to call 921-93-50 to the Department of Juvenile Affairs of the Internal Affairs Directorate on the Moscow Metro. In addition, each line has 24-hour emergency telephone numbers:
222-17-63 - Sokolnicheskaya;
158-78-84 – Zamoskvoretskaya;
222-11-43 – Filevskaya;
222-26-48 - Koltsevaya and Kalininskaya;
222-78-10 – Taganskaya;
222-75-78 - Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya;
684-99-49 - Kaluga-Rizhskaya;
222-11-83 - Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya;
351-80-91 - Maryinsko-Chkalovskaya.
Every person must decide this question by listening to the voice of his conscience. There is a known case with one saint who gave his clothes to a beggar, and then saw that they were being sold at the market. He was very upset, but not because the beggar had deceived him, but because he thought that the Lord had not accepted his alms. But then Christ appeared to him in the very clothes that he had given to the beggar. After all, these are the words of the Lord: “... I was naked, and you clothed Me” (Matthew 25:36). Usually they ask for Christ’s sake and give for Christ’s sake. And if a person gives alms for the sake of Christ, out of compassion, without trying to evaluate the situation, the Lord will accept this alms. And he won’t ask us how or what the beggar will spend the money on.
Some people do not give alms to drunks, some do not give to anyone, but help people in some other way. For example, a large family, a family without a father - that is, people about whom it is known for sure that they need help. After all, there really are “professionals” among the beggars.
The words of the Gospel, “Give to him who asks you” (Matthew 5:42), should probably be understood in the sense that you need to give to those who really need help. This does not mean giving alcoholics a bottle, drug addicts drugs, or suicidal people poison. On the other hand, if a person is suspicious of everyone, he will eventually harden his heart and stop helping anyone. There are people who do not help anyone on the basis that “beggars are all deceivers.” But this is how they cover up their reluctance to share. As for the exploitation of children - if there really is such a mafia in Moscow - you need to be very careful here. It seems to me that this is not a question like: to be or not to be? Each time you need to solve the problem anew, proceed from the real state of affairs and pray to God. You just don’t need to judge those people who beg for alms. What is important here is not some kind of legalistic position, but sympathy, compassion, love.
"To Petya the Shepherd
It's hard to live in the world:
Thin twig
Manage livestock."
S. Yesenin
"The Tale of the Shepherd Petya"
Ukrainian officials at all levels continue to amaze with the breadth of their thoughts, the flight of ideas and completely unexpected decisions. And in everything. From new loans (which they don’t even think about repaying) to old Humvees, which for some reason are most happy with social network users aged 16 to 25 years.
So, in order. Although the word “order” is not applicable to Ukraine at this time. Therefore, take turns.
“My buddy from the seventeenth once had to clean a Hummer that had been shot down by an RPG. He says he found the driver's fingers in the engine compartment.
Where did he get the idea that these were the driver’s fingers?
They were squeezing the steering wheel, you fool!”
("Generation Killers")
Soon every self-respecting member of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, dashingly driving a donated armored car, raising a pillar of dust or kneading Ukrainian black soil, will be able to feel like a hero in action films filmed in Hollywood in the 80s. It remains to solve a small problem: where to get fuel and lubricants, repair where and with what, and other household little things. And the fact that the Humvees are old doesn’t matter. Poroshenko also said that the United States, as part of the agreements, will supply night vision systems, communication systems, etc. This is apparently in order to make sure that the Humvee is not sold or that it does not go to private garages.
The employees of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will, apparently, be starving to drive those machines that were discussed a little higher. Because the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense announced a lack of money for food for the military
“This year there is a shortage of about 677 million hryvnia (about $29 million) to feed Ukrainian military personnel,” this figure was announced by the director of the department of public procurement and supply of material resources of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Nelly Stelmakh.
A reasonable question arises: if there is nothing to eat for those who are serving now, why does Poroshenko sign a decree stating that there will be a new mobilization? Are there really so many people who want to go on a diet according to Poroshenko’s system: “we serve 24 hours a day: of which we sleep for 8 hours, and fast for the remaining 16 hours.”? One thing is good: the steering on armored vehicles is power-assisted. Otherwise you would have to drive strictly in a straight line.
“If I had a nickel for every time they put a stinking gun to my head, I’d be rich a long time ago.” (Harley Davidson)
Surely a traffic police officer remembered these words from the film when meeting with a judge in one of the districts of the Kyiv region.
On March 25, the Supreme College of Judges suspended Vladislav Oberemko, judge of the Makarovsky District Court of the Kyiv Region, from office for two months. For what? Pure trifles: he violated traffic rules, for which he was stopped by a traffic police officer. The fiery heart of the servant of the law could not withstand such shame, and while the protocol was being drawn up, the drunk (!) judge amused himself by threatening the inspector with a pistol, as well as the journalist who was filming the incident on camera.
“Now he hit me in the face, and then he will take your place too.
Well, what did you want? Career growth" (TV series "Capercaillie")
Zoryan Shkiryak was appointed head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Ukraine instead of the previous one (the reason is banal and unchanged for Ukraine in 2014-2015 - theft and embezzlement).
Why is this interesting? To understand who Shkiryak is and what he did:
1988 - nurse at the Central District Hospital of the city of Lyuboml, Volyn region.
from 1991 to 2013 – manager, deputy general director, again deputy general director.
This expression perfectly suits the situation that I wanted to describe..
No matter how funny it may sound, living in Greece, we don’t swim in the sea every day. Once a year my mother and her nephew come, we rent an apartment and take the children out to sunbathe. We have a noisy and cheerful company of mom, me, my two daughters and nephew.
We have been coming to the same apartment for several years now, the owner knows us well and books us our favorite room: the pool is just a stone's throw away and the sea is nearby. This hotel has 30 rooms, the area is quite large and is mainly visited by families with children. This year there were especially many children, so our tomboys quickly found company.
Most of all they spent time with the girl, let's call her Dasha. The new friend very quickly organized various games, our children looked into her mouth and walked with their tails, which is no wonder, because Dasha was eight, and ours were six and four, respectively.
The girl’s parents looked quite adequate and gave the impression of a quite prosperous family: they always said hello, smiling, pleasant people. Dasha had a two-year-old sister who was very difficult to put to sleep during the day. At this time, and throughout her sister’s sleep, Dasha was supposed to be absent from the room and be quieter than water.
The children played outside all day, occasionally stopping in for a snack or drink. Dasha always ran in with our children and asked for water, explaining that her sister and mom were sleeping, dad was resting on the balcony and she couldn’t go into the room (we, naturally, didn’t ask, the girl blurted out everything herself, as if making excuses). Of course, I don’t mind pouring a glass of water for my child, but the explanation seemed a little wild to me. Then Dasha came running and asked to go to the toilet, giving the same reasoning. My mother and I were, of course, surprised, but they let us go to the toilet. (And if we weren’t there, where would she have gone to the toilet, I wonder?) The next day the same thing happened again. most, but at that time my one and a half year old daughter was sleeping with us and a visit to the toilet was politely refused.
On the street, the girl told all the kids not to make noise, because my sister was sleeping, and if she woke up, they would kill her, and when my child was sleeping and I asked the children to play quietly, she bawled louder than anyone else.
I was tormented by one question: how can you intimidate and train a child so that he is afraid to come home if his sister is sleeping? Do not allow him to go into the room to drink water or go to the toilet!! Moreover, it was the first floor with a large veranda, where you could leave a bottle of water for your child on the table... My four-year-old daughter knows that she needs to be quiet when her sister is sleeping, but I can’t imagine my child going to for strangers to drink water or pee.
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