Dear Readers:
Today I have this short piece from Komsomolskaya Pravda. Reporter Alexander Gamov interviews Marat Husnullin, who is the Deputy Chairman of the government of the Russian Federation, in charge of major Construction projects.
Marat Shakirzyanovich Husnullin was born in 1966, in Kazan, and is an ethnic Tatar. He graduated in 1990 from the Kazan State Economics Institute, with a degree in Economics. Husnullin has served in local and federal governments for many years, and received his current post in 2020. One of his major assignments is to rebuild the Donbass region, devastated by 9 years of continuous war.
Husnullin: During the past year, I have spent a month in the new territories. All the structures of government are functioning. All the government procurement systems are working normally. We have mobilized 45,000 construction workers. We are rebuilding Mariupol very quickly, all of the damaged population centers, the engineering networks and roads. We are working in an intensive [speeded-up] regimen. We have the money that we need, our leadership team functions in a systematic way, everything is going smoothly.
Reporter: Marat Shakirzyanovich, I understand that the Development Fund has been brought into play.
[KP editor’s note: The Territorial Development Fund was established for the purpose of creating comfortable living conditions for Russian citizens. For example, resettling people out of older run-down housing; building pleasant infrastructure; protecting the rights of equity holders.]
Husnullin: The Development Fund has many important tasks to fulfill. I myself directly head the Observatory Council of the Fund. And its Trusteeship Council is headed by ex-Premier Sergei Stephashin. Sergei Vadimovich is a very experienced person. His experience is highly useful to us. The Trusteeship Council is an organ that is at once social and political in nature, it plays an important role in planning a correct strategy for the development of the Regions.
Which Regions now include our new ones, which recently in the past year joined the Russian Federation. And which, as you know, are in need of an almost infinite amount of work.
Here is the important thing: Not just to build new homes, but to create for people all the prerequisites of a comfortable life. And this is why the Fund needs to observe and follow all of this work very closely.
Awful Avalanche 
They are going to have problems, so it seems the population of the Dombass does not qualify for a dignified life, in reality they are not white even if they do not have dark skin. They are considered to be descendants of the Mongol invaders in the Middle Ages.
Let us remember that the countries of southern Europe are not considered very European due to the Arab and North African blood heritage of the Mediterranean countries.
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The sociopaths that rule DC/London have created a monstrous tar-baby in yet another failed attempt to divide & subjugate a peoples.
“They’re careless people, DC and London – they smash up things and creatures and then retreat back to their caviar & cocktails or their vast carelessness, or whatever it is that keeps them together, they’ll let other people clean up the mess they make” – with apologies to F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Russia is left to clean-up the mess but, as JFK said, before the aforementioned “careless people” shot him:
“We choose to do…these things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one we intend to win”. Societies that challenge themselves are ascendant, those that coerce others proxy for them are decadent, in decline, if the US continues down this path to perdition, it will shrivel itself into the hog-slop-bucket of history.
It may seem like small consolation but, if it “serves to organize and measure the best of [Russia’s] energies and skills” then this ugly tar-baby will heal, prosper and grow into being of great strength and beauty. Lord knows, these people deserve peace, prosperity and justice.
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I don’t write this to criticise you, Yalensis, because droL knows I could never find and translate such an article from the Russian media. But tidbits like this, which say almost nothing specific, I wonder why they get published? It sounds like something that would have been in Soviet Pravda back in the day, say 1973. “We have mobilised 45,000 workers; we are rapidly meeting the objectives of the 11th 5-Year Plan, under the wise leadership of our People’s Commissar for Reconstruction.” Not to rag on Husnullin, who has a marvelous potato-shaped head, indicating he’s a natural commander of men. I didn’t know Tatars had noggins like that. But Jeez, how about some details like “We have to go in with sappers before we rebuild anything so we can find the unexploded mines” or “Do you know what it’s like to rebuild an apartment block when the top two storeys have been blasted apart by artillery and ruined by rain, but the bottom three are still intact, and the former residents are living in tents in the courtyard?” Not every reporter is going to be sharp enough to ask good questions and write up a scintillating story.
I hope the Russian rebuilding will go better than what the U.S. left behind in Afghiraq. Lots of money allocated for them, but what percentage do you reckon was skimmed by grifters (American and local)? My bet’s on at least 66.6% Let’s hope the Territorial Development Fund is not run by sociopaths like the American reconstruction programmes were. Didja ever read any news stories about audits by the SIGTARP inspector, the one who looked spending on Afghan projects? Shocking. Amerika can’t even put Puerto Rico right after the recent hurricanes, so Russia has a low bar to clear on the “we’re better than you” scorecard. At least Russia has the advantage of wanting to own the territory they’re repairing, not just occupy it for a while until the angry natives kill too many of the construction crews. Ukie sabotage teams won’t be able to do one tenth of what the Taliban or Sunni militias could.
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Hey, Bukko. I think articles like this are meant to reassure the Russian public that reconstruction efforts are taking place, so there is some hope for the future. And actually, Russia has a pretty good record here, look how they rebuilt Grozny (Chechnya) from scratch. That city was a hellhole after the Chechen wars, and now it’s almost like a Wonder of the World.
As for Husnullin, I have read about him before, and he seems like a solid bureaucrat. Someone you can count on to fulfill a standard project with recognized goals and parameters. The spud shape of his head is possibly due to racial interbreeding between Tatars and Russians, apparently a lot of that was going on in the woodpile, according to Ukrainian fascists.
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