Volgodonsk. 1999.

...they did not register it, thereby violating the law on charitable activities. Moreover, by law, a city duma cannot be the founder of a charitable organization.

We spoke out against this fund. In May 2000, we organized a hunger strike because the money intended for the people did not reach us, and if it was given to anyone, they were asked to share 'fifty-fifty' (people who had nothing at all agreed to this).

When we started fighting against the fund, there was still money there. Many complaints were written to the prosecutor's office. In 2000, we even turned to the control and auditing department under the president. We were received by the deputy head of the department.

After that, they started trying to drive us out of existence altogether: officials received enough to build themselves cottages, open pharmacies (aid also came in the form of medicines), and open stores ('KAMAZ' trucks with clothes came from Moscow). Everyone involved in our rehabilitation improved their well-being. The city duma and the city health department underwent European-style renovations.

An unidentified official from the Volgodonsk city health department commented on this as follows:
— Funds did not pass through the health department. We received an ultrasound machine from the Soros Foundation — it's impossible to misappropriate it. The medicines that arrived were not processed through the city health department — they passed through state pharmacies with invoices. Then they went to medical institutions. We were repeatedly checked by commissions and they found nothing reprehensible...

The same will be said in the mayor's office, in the city duma, and in the prosecutor's office... This is all, of course, wonderful. But where is the money for the victims?

Lyudmila Dubinskaya: 'In the end, the court did recognize the illegality of the fund's creation. Now it is being liquidated, but where is the money? And we started having serious problems when we turned to the Prosecutor General's Office...'

The state from... to the victims from...

Let's compare the experience of our country (which, as the government boasts, has a giant gold and foreign exchange reserve and a constantly replenished stabilization fund of billions of dollars) with what is happening in the West.

Firstly, in many countries that have experienced terrorist acts, special insurance funds with state participation operate. Such a fund in France, for example, appeared in the 80s of the last century. And in 1990, the French parliament passed a law equating victims of terrorist attacks with victims of war. Such funds also exist in Spain and the United Kingdom.

...this cannot compensate for or repair the damage.' How to evaluate this? The accents were placed by the Moscow City [Court], and then...

...openly mocking people who lost their health, relatives, and loved ones.

To all this already...

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