Defense Committee of the State Duma of the Russian Federation. Military pensioners for Russia and its armed forces

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Chairman of the Committee
State Duma for Defense
Shamanov V.A.

On February 17, 2017, the State Duma of the Russian Federation will consider the draft federal law No. 631118-6 "On recognizing the second part of Article 43 of the Law Russian Federation dated February 12, 1993 No. 4468-1 "On pensions for persons who have served in the military, served in the internal affairs bodies, the State Fire Service, bodies for controlling the circulation of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, institutions and bodies of the penitentiary system, and their families", introduced by the deputy V.N. Tetekin.
In this draft law, deputy VN Tetekin proposes to abolish the reduction factor of 0.54, taken into account when calculating the pension for long service, applied only to military pensioners and persons equated to them.

The author of the bill believes that the establishment of the so-called. The "reducing factor" leads to an increase in social tension among military pensioners due to the underestimation of their merits by the state, and the abolition of the reducing factor will restore social justice and the force of the letter of the law.

Moreover, since 2012, the introduction of a reduction factor taken into account when calculating military pensions, and the further "freezing" of the indexation of the monetary maintenance of military personnel and military pensions, did not apply to the following categories of pensioners, their members of their families (clause 6, article 12 of the Federal Law of 08.11. 2011 No. 309-FZ):
- judges of the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation and military courts;
- prosecutors (including military personnel of the military prosecutor's office);
- employees of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation (including military investigative bodies of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation);
- federal government civil servants.

Therefore, Deputy V.N. Tetekin and hundreds of thousands of military pensioners and persons equated to them believed and still believe that the application of these restrictions only to them really leads to an increase in social tension among military pensioners and is contrary to the Constitution of the Russian Federation and Russian legislation.
Such selectivity of legislators, in relation to military pensioners and persons equated to them, to restrict their rights, violates the principle of equality established by Article 19 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation and Resolution of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation dated June 16, 2007 No. 12-P, which says - "In the field of pension ensuring respect for the principle of equality means, among other things, the prohibition of introducing differences in the pension rights of persons belonging to the same category that do not have an objective and reasonable justification (prohibition of different treatment of persons in the same or similar situations).

Which is confirmed by Articles 2 and 6 of the Federal Law of May 27, 2003 No. 58-FZ (as amended on July 23, 2016) "On the System public service Russian Federation", where it is said - "military service is included in the system of federal public service and is a type of public service. The system of the federal public service includes: the state civil service, military service and other types of public service.

You, your Defense Committee of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, legislators and the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation know all this very well, but you continue to dissuade us of the opposite.

We, pensioners of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation and persons equated to them from various regions of the Russian Federation, read with great indignation the Conclusion of the Defense Committee of the State Duma of the Russian Federation of February 9, 2017 on this project law, signed by the first deputy chairman of the committee A.L. Krasov, which "does not support the concept of the draft law by V.N. Tetekin for the following reasons":

"1) When establishing the above mechanism for calculating pensions, the legislator took into account that the calculation of pensions from January 1, 2012 is carried out on the basis of a new (higher) allowance. At the same time, even taking into account the established so-called. "reducing factor" the size of "military pensions" increased by an average of 60%."

The reduction factor of 0.54 was applied to military pensioners and persons equivalent to them in January 2012 and five years have passed since its application. Over the past five years, regulatory legal acts From January 1, 2013 to January 1, 2018, the Russian Federation suspended the following rules for providing pensions to persons who served in military service, service in the internal affairs department, the State Border Service, in drug control bodies, in institutions and bodies of the penal system, in the National Guard, and their families:
- indexation of monetary allowances and military pensions in accordance with rising prices for consumer goods and services.
- monetary allowance is taken into account when calculating pensions from January 1, 2012 in the amount of 54% and from January 1, 2013 it increases annually by 2% until it reaches 100% of its amount (indexation);
- taking into account the level of inflation (consumer prices), the Law on the federal budget may set the said annual increase for the next financial year in excess of 2%.

As a result of the suspension of the above actions, the state guarantee to protect the monetary allowance of military personnel and pensions of military pensioners from depreciation has not been fulfilled for the past five years (2012-2017). This led to the fact that as of January 1, 2017, the monetary allowance of military personnel and military pensions depreciated by more than 44%. The purchasing power of salaries has fallen by more than a third in five years. To return to the situation that was on January 1, 2012, they must now be increased by almost 50%.

So to say in February 2017 that "the size of military pensions in 2012 increased by an average of 60%" is not entirely correct and out of place.

"At the same time, after the increase in military pensions in 2012, the ratio between the average "military" pension and the average "civilian" pension returned to the level of 2002, and today this gap has increased even more in favor of the military pension (1.8 times)."
And why do government officials compare the average military pensions and persons equivalent to them with the average "civilian" pension? It was during the Soviet era that the army was multi-million and there were also many military pensioners. Now there are fewer military pensioners than there are federal civil servants and their pensioners. According to Rosstat, now there are more federal civil servants than there were in the USSR. According to him, at the end of June 2016, the number of employees who filled the positions of civil and municipal employees amounted to over 850 thousand people (excluding pensioners and their families).

At the same time, the average monthly wage civil servants in the first half of 2016 amounted to 39.1 thousand rubles, municipal employees - 37.1 thousand rubles. While the average military pension only from February 1, 2017 amounted to 23663 rubles, and the average insurance "civilian" - 13100 rubles.

For federal civil servants, separate laws were developed on the state civil service, on the system of public service of the Russian Federation, which was not the case in the USSR. For some of them, the allowance was increased and equated to the pay of military personnel, but the reduction factor for calculating their pensions was never applied to them, although we belong to one type of federal civil service.

So the question is where is justice, where is the observance of the letter of the law?
If the people "contain" Armed forces and the "army" of federal state civil officials, then why are they not covered by the ratio of their average seniority pension to the average insurance "civilian" pension (1.7)?

Why did legislators establish high salaries for federal civil servants, calculated from their entire income, and hence the ensuing big sizes pensions many times greater than the size of military and insurance pensions?
This is especially true for officials of the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation, the Government of the Russian Federation, the Federation Council Federal Assembly Russian Federation, the State Duma of the Russian Federation and a number of state corporations.

It turns out that privileged pensioners are civil servants and they are fighting terrorists in Syria and other regions of the world, defending the integrity and independence of our state, risking their lives and health.

Maybe it's time to change this procedure for determining the ratio of pensions and apply the ratio of 1.7 to federal civil servants? They, like us, belong to the unified system of the federal civil service. Or should average military and insurance pensions be calculated on the basis of a ratio of 1.7 to the average pension of federal civil servants?

Lord legislators!

Why is the growing geopolitical tension in the world, the imposition of sanctions against our country, the slowdown in world economic growth only having an extremely negative effect on the salaries of military personnel, persons equated to them and military pensioners?

Why are suspensions, restrictions, freezes, cancellations, downgrades, belt-tightening, no money, etc. - does all this apply and apply mainly only to ordinary citizens of Russia, military personnel and military pensioners?

We think it's high time we rallied, tightened our belts, lowered our salaries and seniority pensions, reduced the number of social benefits and federal civil servants. It is time to introduce a progressive scale of tax on excess profits, to introduce confiscation of property from corrupt officials and embezzlers of public funds, to abandon the abolition of the death penalty.

Why is there always money in the budget for numerous mass sports and international political events - winter Olympic Games in Sochi, international championships, student festivals, the World Cup, various international forums, summits, etc., but there is no money for the defenders of the Motherland and the workers of the country?

"The increase in "military" pensions proposed by the author of the bill will lead to an even greater gap between "military" and "civilian" pensions and will not only not relieve social tension, but will also lead to its greater growth."

And here you are wrong again. The further preservation of the reduction factor, the division of federal state civil servants into friends and foes, the enrichment of some at the expense of discrimination against others, the growth of the poor in the country, the introduction of food cards and the failure to take the measures we have indicated above - this is what will really increase social tension and can lead to mass protests in the country.

The question is: why those who, with weapons in their hands, defend the freedom, independence and territorial integrity of our Motherland, are on combat duty underground, in the sky and under water, die in various hot spots, had to wait 23 years (and now they continue to wait), to receive your well-deserved full pension?

Why judges, prosecutors and investigators, federal civil servants of the Office of the President of the Russian Federation, the Government of the Russian Federation, the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, the State Duma of the Russian Federation and other regional and municipal officials cannot wait for their full pension for 23 years? Why did they immediately receive a 100% seniority pension from January 1, 2012?

What objectively justifies such differences in the field of pension provision? What constitutionally significant goals do they correspond to? The answer is simple - there are no such differences and constitutionally significant goals!

We fully understand the importance of justice in the State, but at the same time we believe that the introduction of such differences for the same category of federal civil servants has no legal, economic and moral grounds.
Persons performing military service perform constitutionally significant functions, which determines their legal status, as well as the content and nature of the obligations of the state in relation to them. The need for military personnel to fulfill their assigned tasks in any conditions, including those associated with a significant risk to life and health, entails the obligation of the state to guarantee these persons social protection corresponding to their special status.
"Checking the constitutionality of the second part of Article 43 of Federal Law No. 4468-1, the Constitutional Court came to the conclusion that, by establishing the so-called "reducing factor", the federal legislator provided for an appropriate mechanism for appropriate compensation and recognized the norm in question as corresponding to the Constitution of the Russian Federation (for example, definitions dated July 17, 2012 No. 1433-O, dated September 24, 2012 No. 1800-O)."

We agree with the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation that "by establishing the so-called 'reducing factor', the federal legislator provided for an appropriate mechanism for appropriate compensation." But he provided for something, but the executive branch refused to comply with this norm of the law.

The Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation and you know perfectly well that "an appropriate mechanism for appropriate compensation" has not been working for five years now.
So why then refer in the Conclusion to those norms of the law that do not work in real life!?

Why does no one, including the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, disclose the essence of the introduction of a reduction factor of 0.54 on military pensions. After all, this is a slyly veiled, using the possibilities of elementary mathematics, not provided for by any laws, a tax on military pensions in the amount of 46%. Even a 5th grade student knows that the number 0.54 corresponds to the percentage figure 54%.

Such lawmaking and interpretation of Russian laws in the direction of the interests of the oligarchs and those close to power radically undermine the people, military personnel and veterans' faith in the rule of law and discredit the authorities state power.

"In modern socio-economic conditions, the possibility of such a sharp increase in federal budget expenditures for these purposes seems, at least, disputable."

But there is money in Russia, and you know it very well.
Lord legislators!

As shown by the latest arrests of corrupt officials and embezzlers of mayors, governors, ministers, colonels of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation and the continuing sale of the remnants of state property, etc. - there are a lot of banknotes in Russia, but for some reason the authorities do not want to use them to improve the welfare of the people, to develop the real sectors of the economy, but invest them in the purchase valuable papers USA and for holding a wide variety of mass, sports and other international events.

And did the authorities ask the people whether or not, in the midst of the economic crisis, to invest billions in sports infrastructure in order to raise prestige? Maybe this money should have been directed to the economy, to fight poverty (there are more than 24 million poor people in Russia), to increase pensions for citizens and the combat effectiveness of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation?

Thus, taxpayers developed countries, such as Spain, Germany, Sweden, Poland refused to host the 2022 International Games for economic reasons, recognizing them as a senseless and expensive whim, for which you have to pay not only with money, but with disfigured landscapes, cut down forests, ruined water bodies.
Here is a worthy example for the authorities of the Russian Federation.

Well, if there really is no money in the budget to abolish the reduction factor of 0.54, then it would be quite fair to introduce this factor into the calculation of seniority pensions for judges, prosecutors and investigators, federal state civil servants of the Office of the President of the Russian Federation, the Government Russian Federation, the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, the State Duma of the Russian Federation and other regional and municipal officials.

Dear Vladimir Anatolyevich!

I would like to remind you and other representatives of the authorities the words of Emperor Peter I, who punished his descendants in terms of providing for veterans of the "state service": best of summer dedicated his to me in the service. Give him a full salary and do not force him to serve ... ".
We see that many in power have forgotten or simply ignore this order of Peter I, which, given the current military-political situation, may well lead to the fact that "if the government does not want to feed its own army, then it will feed someone else's."

In view of the foregoing, guided by the provision of the Constitution of the Russian Federation (Chapter 1, Article 3, Clause 2), which states that "the people exercise their power directly, as well as through state authorities and bodies local government", in order to further prevent violations of the provisions of the Constitution of the Russian Federation and eliminate the admitted legal conflicts, we DEMAND:

Draft federal law No. 631118-6 "On recognizing part two of Article 43 of the Law of the Russian Federation of February 12, 1993 No. 4468-1 as invalid "On pensions for persons who have served in the military, served in the internal affairs bodies, the State Fire Service, control bodies for the circulation of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, institutions and bodies of the penitentiary system, and their families" to support and, thereby, cancel the application of a reduction factor of 0.54 for military personnel and persons equated to them.

Sincerely,

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"Military pensioners for Russia and its
Armed forces"
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In 1978 he graduated from the Ryazan Higher Airborne Command School, in 1989 - from the Military Academy. Frunze, in

1998 - Academy General Staff. Candidate of Sociological Sciences (he defended his Ph.D. thesis in 1997 at the Academy of Instrument Engineering and Informatics).

In 1978, he began his officer service as commander of a self-propelled artillery platoon of the parachute regiment of the Pskov Airborne Division; later served in various command positions in the airborne troops in Moldova, Azerbaijan; participated in a peacekeeping operation in the conflict zone in Nagorno-Karabakh (1990). Since 1994 he was the chief of staff of the 7th Novorossiysk division of the Airborne Forces, since March 1995 he headed the task force of this division in Chechnya, was seriously wounded.

Since October 1995, he served as deputy commander, in April-July 1996 he commanded a group of troops of the Ministry of Defense in Chechnya.

In 1998-1999 was chief of staff of the 20th combined arms army (Voronezh); since July 1999 - commander of the 58th army of the North Caucasian military district. Participated in the antiterrorist operation in Dagestan.

From September 1999 to March 2000 he commanded the Western grouping of federal forces in the North Caucasus during the antiterrorist operation in Chechnya; from March 2000 he continued to serve as commander of the 58th Army.

December 24, 2000 won the gubernatorial election in Ulyanovsk region.
At the end of November 2004, Shamanov resigned as governor of the Ulyanovsk region.

May 25, 2009 official representative Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Colonel Alexander Drobyshevsky confirmed that Vladimir Shamanov was appointed commander Airborne troops RF.

On September 18, 2016, he was elected to the State Duma of the Russian Federation on party lists from the Ulyanovsk Region.

Shamanov - lieutenant general, Hero of Russia (2000).

Honored state awards.

In 2001, he was awarded the highest award of the International Prizes Fund - the Order of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker "For the increase of goodness on Earth."

— The most actual topic for us now it is a military campaign in Syria. Do we still have chances for a joint settlement of the conflict together with the United States?

- Speaking not as a parliamentarian, but as a military man, the current situation in Syria is more than difficult. And the whole burden lies in the unpredictability of American policy and in the passive behavior of the world community, which I do not understand.

The world does not realize that further escalation of events in Syria can lead to dire consequences.

At the same time, no matter how difficult it may be for us, we must continue to look for sane negotiators both in the Trump administration and in the leadership of leading states. In addition, to make wider use, in addition to diplomatic channels of interaction, of professional military personnel, as well as to expand the range of parliamentary efforts and, above all, try to establish a dialogue with the US Congress.

As you can see, these are not easy tasks, but they cannot be put off, they must be addressed today.

— Do you continue to follow your native Airborne Forces? What tasks are currently relevant for the Airborne Forces?

- The word "follow" probably does not quite fit in this situation. I still keep in touch with the command of the Airborne Forces, and with my colleagues - generals and officers, veteran paratroopers. I am interested in their problems, both official and personal. After all, most of my life is connected with the service in the "winged infantry", and this cannot be crossed out by being transferred to the reserve or moving to another job.

It does not seem correct to me now to talk about the urgent tasks of the Airborne Forces. This is the prerogative of the new commander and the Military Council of the Airborne Forces. But I would like to note that the troops are constantly working to improve the quality of selection and training of personnel, social protection military personnel and members of their families; development, adoption of new equipment and weapons, bringing the ratio of new and obsolete equipment to the level determined by the supreme commander.

- They say that the deputies of the Duma of the current convocation complain about the harsh measures to increase discipline in parliament. You, as a military man, probably, on the contrary, welcome this process?

- Firstly, I want to say right away that the deputies of the State Duma of the seventh convocation do not express any complaints. The decision to strengthen discipline, primarily by attending the meetings of the chamber, was approved by all factions.

Now a comradely atmosphere reigns in the State Duma, and the entire deputies are focused on the working process.

The active improvement of legislation in all areas continues, so there is no time for demagogy. The deputies of the Defense Committee fully support all the changes made to the regulations.

- How is the committee interacting with the Ministry of Defense and the General Staff now? What are the significant changes compared to the previous composition of the committee?

- The Committee is working with all law enforcement agencies. We have the closest ties and relations with the Ministry of Defense. Behind Lately we held a number of thematic meetings of the committee with the first deputies of the Minister of Defense, on February 22, 2017 we held a "government hour" with the Minister of Defense Sergei Kuzhegetovich Shoigu.

In addition, I personally participate in the military board of the Russian Ministry of Defense and in a single day of acceptance of military products. Almost every meeting of the committee is attended by representatives of the ministry. Therefore, as you can see, we have close and fruitful cooperation with the ministry and its structural divisions.

By the way, thanks to our joint actions, justice was restored to the "military" pensioners in terms of receiving a lump sum cash payment in the amount of 5 thousand rubles.

In the work of the Defense Committee, we ensured continuity in legislative activities with previous convocations. In the winter session, we completed work on six bills proposed by our predecessors, deputies of the State Duma of the VI convocation. Our committee implemented three bills from scratch.

Currently, 14 bills submitted in the VI convocation and eight bills of the current convocation still remain in work. They affect issues of defense, protection of the rights of servicemen, military pensioners and members of their families, the activities of the Armed Forces, as well as other troops and military formations, mobilization training and mobilization.

- At the end of last year, amendments were adopted on short-term contracts (from six months) with military personnel to participate in foreign operations to combat international terrorism. Explain their purpose?

“This is a very important law, since its implementation makes it possible to prevent a decrease in the combat readiness, combat capability of the Armed Forces and, most importantly, warships. The essence of the changes made is that earlier at the legislative level the term for concluding a contract was two years, and this law allowed concluding a contract for the positions of privates and non-commissioned officers for up to a year.

These changes provide required level combat readiness, combat readiness of the troops and forces that will be involved in carrying out missions abroad to combat terrorism, fight against pirates and to participate in sea voyages. From the events in Syria, we see more than ever that we need to promptly and quickly respond to terrorist threats: the faster we respond to emerging threats, the more lives will be saved.

- What legislative initiatives are being worked out in the committee in connection with the work on the construction of the National Guard?

- The profile committee of legislative activity on the troops of the National Guard is the State Duma Committee on Security and Anti-Corruption, while our committee acts, as a rule, as a co-executing committee. But with regards to the social block for the protection of the rights of military personnel, pensions, these are the bills of our committee. They apply to all law enforcement agencies, including the National Guard.

So, on March 22, the State Duma adopted and sent to the Federation Council a bill that proposes, in the event of an error in assigning a pension to a “military” pensioner for long service, revealed after three years from the date of granting the pension, to pay such a pensioner an amount equal to the amount of the pension paid the date the error was discovered.

Now the committee is working on another bill from the social block - on pensions for people who have lost two or more breadwinners.

This bill was adopted by the State Duma in the first reading and work on it continues.

- Pensions of veterans of the Armed Forces are significantly inferior to the pensions of retired employees of other law enforcement agencies. What is being done in this area by the Defense Committee?

- To be honest, it is difficult to understand what “significantly” means and what kind of law enforcement agencies we are talking about. The Law of the Russian Federation "On Pension Provision" regulates pension provision in the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Federal Service troops of the National Guard, the Federal Penitentiary Service, the Federal Security Service and the Federal Protective Service, as well as against military judges, prosecutors and employees of military investigative bodies.

So, pensions in all departments are calculated in the same way, namely from the monetary allowance of military personnel or employees. To calculate a pension, the following are taken into account: salary for a military position or official salary, salary for a military rank or salary for a special rank and an allowance for length of service (length of service).

Salaries of military judges, prosecutors and investigators are established in relation to the salary of the first person of the corresponding department.

Salaries in other departments are established by a decree of the government of the Russian Federation. At the same time, salaries by rank are the same for everyone, and salaries for standard positions in the Foreign Intelligence Service, the Federal Security Service, the Federal Security Service and the Presidential Special Objects Service are approximately 20% higher than in the Armed Forces and other troops and military formations. This is due to the specifics of the tasks performed by these bodies and more stringent selection.

According to the Ministry of Finance, the average pension in 2016 was: for military service pensioners - about 23 thousand rubles, for law enforcement service pensioners - 17 thousand rubles, for security agencies - 30 thousand rubles.

In any case, the size of the pension for all people in uniform depends on the position, rank and length of service. These are the main criteria that determine the amount of the pension, regardless of the department.

- Indexation of monetary allowance has not happened for more than five years. How does the Defense Committee intend to solve this problem?

“Indeed, taking into account the fact that the indexation of the monetary allowance of military personnel was not carried out in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017, the guarantee of protection of the monetary allowance of military personnel from depreciation has not been fulfilled for the past five years, that is, in fact, for the entire time the federal law has been in effect.” On the monetary allowance of military personnel and the provision of separate payments to them.

The provisions of this law, which provide that the rates of salaries for military posts and salaries for military ranks are annually indexed taking into account the level of inflation starting from 2013, and are suspended annually by a separate federal law.

The Defense Committee has repeatedly noted in its conclusions that, given the importance of the tasks performed by military personnel and the role of this social category of citizens in the life of society and the state, a decrease in the level of social protection of military personnel is unacceptable.

In order to maintain social guarantees, the military committee proposed to the government to return to the issue of indexing the monetary allowance of military personnel based on the results of the execution of the federal budget in 2017.

At the same time, I want to note (this also applies to your previous question) that, despite the difficult economic situation and a significant reduction in the total volume of federal budget revenues, the indexation of the “military pension” took place annually by increasing the so-called reduction coefficient, which, in accordance with Art. 43 of the law "On pensions for persons who have completed military service ..." in 2012 was 54%, and from February 1, 2017 it was 72.23%.

Its real increase was: in 2013 - by 8.2%, in 2014 - by 6.2%, in 2015 - by 7.5%, in 2016 - by 4%, and from February 1, 2017 - by 4%.

Thus, over the past five years - from 2013 to 2017 - the "military pension" has increased by 30%. And from 2011 to 2017, the "military pension" increased by 90%.

- Now the government is discussing reforms in the field of pension payments. Will it not turn out that working military pensioners will be subject to an additional tax? Is this issue currently being discussed?

- Here I do not agree with you. Let me explain. Yes, the Ministry of Defense pays pensions to "military" pensioners. But at the same time, in accordance with our legislation, "military pensioners" who, after entering the reserve (retirement) continue to work in positions not related to military service, are entitled to a second, "civilian" pension through pension fund Russia upon reaching the state-established retirement age (for women - 55 years, for men - 60 years) and the minimum required length of service (in 2017 it is 8 years and will increase by 1 year to 15 years by 2024).

As far as I know, there were no initiatives that you are asking about at the legislative level.

Any legislative initiatives relating to pensions for military personnel will be coordinated with the Defense Committee. No one can deprive a “military pensioner” of an insurance pension if he has the appropriate age and insurance experience.

- If we talk about social guarantees, how do you follow the program for the construction of housing for military personnel?

— I want to return to the history of the issue. In the period from 2009 to 2012, in the course of numerous organizational changes, 115 thousand officers were subject to reduction, and the entire institution of ensigns and midshipmen was liquidated, this is 140 thousand people.

As of the end of 2012, that is, when Sergei Shoigu came to the post of Defense Minister, the queue was more than 82,400 people. Now it has 29,800 people. That is, the queue has decreased by almost 3 times.

Specifically, from 2012 to 2016, 342,300 military personnel exercised their right to housing.

Of these, 175 thousand received apartments in in kind, 88.9 thousand received permanent housing, 64.5 thousand received housing under the accumulative mortgage system. 4.1 thousand received housing through state housing certificates, 17.6 thousand military personnel received housing through the implementation of housing subsidies.

In general, I want to draw attention to the fact that thanks to this new form providing housing - a housing subsidy, as well as the savings and mortgage system in the future, the Ministry of Defense will not build housing. With the exception of point office housing.

Practice has shown that over the past three years, more than 17,000 servicemen have taken advantage of housing subsidies.

By the way, the maximum housing subsidy amounted to 19.5 million rubles. It was received by a midshipman from the Pacific Fleet.

This form performed very well.

In 2015, compensation for renting housing was significantly increased. Currently, servicemen are compensated throughout the country, with the exception of Moscow, 100% of the amount they spend on rent. But even in Moscow, this amount is significantly increased and depends on the composition of the family. For example, for three people this amount is more than 34 thousand rubles.

- Now the next state program for the development of weapons is being formed. Are her priorities clear now? How much will it be funded?

- I think that it is impossible to save on defense and security. At the same time, I would like to clarify that when forming the SAP, not only challenges and threats to the security of the state are taken into account, but also its resource potential. The Defense Committee takes part here in accordance with its sphere of competence. After all, it is in charge of financing defense spending.

Considering that we are talking not only about the security of the state, but also about people's money, the issues of optimizing military spending, their careful planning and efficient spending of budget funds are also under our special control. Therefore, I am confident that the new state armament program for 2018-2025 will be balanced and fully funded.

The priorities of the future SAP have already been outlined by the military leadership of our country. The program provides for the complete preservation of the "nuclear triad" as the main guarantor of the country's security, while further development samples of general-purpose weapons systems and systems.

More specifically, we will talk about the modernization and development of nuclear deterrence forces, aerospace defense, communications, command and control, reconnaissance and electronic warfare, robotic strike systems, unmanned systems aircraft, modern transport aviation And Navy, especially in Arctic zone and in the Far East.

- Today, for defense industry enterprises, work on the state defense order is practically unprofitable. Well, if not unprofitable. The first persons of the state warn defense industry enterprises: get ready to survive without state defense orders in the near future. The experience of conversion under Mikhail Gorbachev, we recall, was simply terrible. However, given the practically zero profitability of the State Defense Order, enterprises have no opportunity to accumulate funds for investments in order to switch to the production of high-tech civilian products. It is necessary to invest in research, development, organization of production. Where to get funds?

- Profitable? I wouldn't say so. Contracts under the state defense order allow enterprises to receive guaranteed funds for the supplied products. This is especially true for enterprises that manufacture products with a long technological production cycle, which gives them the opportunity to effectively plan their activities.

In the contracts concluded, first of all, it concerns the sole executors, the agreed profit is laid down, which is transferred to the enterprises during the implementation of the State Defense Order. The amount of profit is determined by the formula "one plus twenty". Here, 1% of the profit is added to the costs incurred, that is, the purchase of components, semi-finished products, works and services, etc., and 20% to the remaining cost items, that is, to the products of their production.

If we talk about modernization, then both the own funds of enterprises and state funds were allocated for its implementation.

Thus, the state has already allocated about 3 trillion rubles for the modernization and re-equipment of defense industry enterprises.

Currently under development new program development of defense industrial complex for the period up to 2025, which is projected to ensure the SAP for 2018-2025.

We can safely say that the enterprises of the military-industrial complex are leaders in the implementation and use of new technologies. The re-equipment that has taken place at many defense industry enterprises already makes it possible to produce high-tech products not only in the interests of defense and security, but also for many sectors of the national economy.

- The transition from the military sphere of production to the civilian sphere is characterized by the fact that in the civilian sphere there are more high level competition. However, the creation of large holdings practically killed internal competition within the defense industry. The functions of the struggle for the market and the competencies necessary in this regard in such conditions simply die off. And suddenly defense industry enterprises find themselves in an atmosphere of fierce competition. What to do with it?

— As practice shows, in recent years the share of modern weapons sold abroad. Uncompetitive products, believe me, no one would have purchased. It was competition that made it possible to accumulate financial resources, scientific and technical potential and make a breakthrough in the creation of new, one of the best in the world, models of military equipment and military equipment.

To resolve the issue of the transition of defense industry enterprises to the production of high-tech civilian products, a lot of painstaking work will have to be done as bodies executive power, and the deputy corps. Legislators determine the rules of the game by which the country's economy must live. The development of the civilian market sector of the defense industry should be carried out in a balanced way in accordance with the strategy for the development of the industrial complex of the state. The main task is to prevent any distortions in the development of some sectors to the detriment of others.

Work in this direction has begun. Already, issues are being worked out aimed at improving the activities of the integrated structures of the defense industry, the development and implementation of measures to diversify production, primarily with the use of dual-use technologies.

As for competition, I think it should start at the level of ideas and design bureaus.

- Now the system of orders for weapons involves the announcement of tenders and all sorts of competitions. However, in 95% of cases we are talking about a single performer. And instead of the required weapons, he does what he can do, and not what the troops need. Are any measures being taken in this regard?

— I don't agree with you. Where did you get these numbers from? Let me remind you that, in accordance with the federal law on the federal contract system, when making purchases, customers use competitive methods to determine contractors, including those you are talking about, or purchase from a single supplier. Depending on the needs, the customer determines one or another method. But all options are aimed at improving the efficiency and effectiveness of the procurement of goods, works, services for state and municipal needs.

As a rule, mass-produced weapons, military and special equipment are purchased from the only contractors.

Here the performers have already passed natural selection compliance with deadlines, price and product quality.

I would like to draw your attention to the fact that in the interests of defense and security, only equipment that meets the specified stringent requirements is purchased, and military representatives of the Ministry of Defense monitor its quality.

- IN new Duma a course is also declared to increase the role and quality of the expert community, and new expert councils are being formed. Can such councils become a civilized institution for lobbying the interests of, for example, various defense industry enterprises?

— I can speak for the Defense Committee. An expert council will be formed in the near future. It will include experts and specialists from various structures, including military academies.

There are problems in our area, and they must be solved by all together, comprehensively. I think that only a comprehensive consideration problematic issues all stakeholders will allow us to confidently make sound decisions.

— What bills in the sphere of defense and security are going to be proposed in the near future by the Defense Committee?

I have already spoken about some of the bills that the committee worked on. The legislative support of the country's defense is a process that, as a rule, is aimed at finding compromises between the financial and economic capabilities of the state and the needs for material and human resources necessary for the defense of the country.

Since the main thing in military affairs was and remains a person, the committee pays special attention to the social block of legislative initiatives in the field of defense.

— The first meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Patriot Military-Patriotic Park of Culture and Recreation of the Armed Forces was held. You are a board member. What exactly was discussed at this event?

- First of all, the election of the chairman of the board of trustees was held, where the well-known military leader, Hero of the USSR, Colonel General Valery Aleksandrovich Vostrotin was unanimously elected. The immediate plans were discussed both for the development of the infrastructure of the Patriot Military Patriotic Park of Culture and Recreation of the Armed Forces, and the creation in all four military districts and the Northern Fleet, as well as the creation of a naval cluster in Sevastopol and Kronstadt. All this will make it possible to systematically conduct military-patriotic events throughout the country.

- By the way, about patriotic education: you headed the Moscow branch of the Yunarmiya. Tell us about your work in creating this organization.

- By the decision of the Moscow government and the conference of youth organizations, I was approved by the chief of staff of the Moscow Yunarmiya. On April 4, the second meeting of our movement took place, where the leaders of the headquarters, as well as five delegates led by me, were elected to the first All-Russian conference of the organization, which will be held on May 27, 2017.

We work with educational institutions and public organizations, we are in close cooperation with the Ministry of Defense and other law enforcement agencies, such as investigative committee, National Guard, Ministry of Emergency Situations.

To the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation (to the State Duma Defense Committee)

Dear Vladimir Anatolyevich,

Your predecessors at the end of 2011 adopted two laws that reduce the military pension. Federal Law No. 306, Article 13, which reduced the seniority bonus from 70% to 40%, and Federal Law No. 4468-1, Article 43, Clause 2, which established the amount of monetary allowance for calculating a pension of 54%.

There was a lot of discontent, letters, complaints, petitions and lawsuits. constitutional Court The Russian Federation put an end to this issue by definitions No. 1433 of 07/17/2012. and No. 1800 dated 09/24/2012. Thus, he recognized paragraph 2 as not contradicting the Constitution of the Russian Federation, because in paragraph 2 there is a mechanism for bringing the monetary allowance for calculating military pensions to 100%. In 2013 and 2014, it was not clear how this mechanism worked, but still it worked. For 2015 and until the beginning of 2018, everything became clear. you three federal laws suspended the action of paragraph 2 of article 43 of Federal Law No. 4468-1 and introduced the coefficient of monetary allowance for calculating pensions.

In all the media, this was again presented as an increase in the military pension, and not bringing the monetary allowance for calculating the military pension to the prescribed 100%. Okay, at the very least, you brought this ratio from 54% to 72.23%. Thus, they reduced the difference of 46% between the full pension and the cut off pension. The media inflated this reduction in the gap to 27.77%, like a 33.7% increase in pensions.

In February 2017, you did not adopt draft law No. 631118-6 on repealing clause 2 of article 43 of Federal Law No. 4468-1. Okay, there are economic reasons. But for 2018, you passed Law No. 365 and left the coefficient the same 72.23%. Apparently you have decided that I will index the salaries of military personnel for 2018 by 4%, and the pension will also increase by 4%. It really is. But this is an automatic increase in accordance with Article 49 of the Federal Law No. 4468-1. It has nothing to do with bringing the coefficient to 100%.

And everywhere they say that the pensions of military personnel have been increased by 39.1% since 2012. In 2020, this figure will increase to 50%. This is also true, but this is from the evil one, because the pension is paid to us not in absolute terms, but in relative terms. Not in rubles, but as a percentage. So the actual monetary allowance for calculating pensions was increased from 54% to 72.23%, which means that the actual increase is 18.23%.

Initially, the task was to bring 54% of the monetary allowance for calculating pensions to the prescribed 100%. You have been doing this for five years. Slowly but surely, the coefficient increased, the difference between the full prescribed pension and the cut off decreased, and the period for receiving a full pension was reduced from the age of 23. From 01/01/2018, you did not easily stop the process of bringing the monetary allowance for calculating military pensions to 100%, you launched it in the opposite direction. Your law violates decisions of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation No. 1433 and No. 1800. The difference between the full pension was 27.77%, now it is 28.88%. This difference will continue to increase if we do not increase the percentage of monetary allowance for calculating pensions. In 2020, it will be already 31.25%. And then a stone's throw to the situation in 2012, when the difference was 46%.

The prospect of receiving a full pension is postponed indefinitely. For this difference to decrease by at least 2% in 2018, the coefficient should be 78.23%. If you add an inflation rate of only 1.77%, it will be 80%. Then your work will be visible, to bring the military pension to the full well-deserved one. And please, do not make statements in the media that you are raising military pensions. Be honest that you are trying to bring them up to the amount due, by increasing the allowance for calculating military pensions up to 100%. Military pensioners hope that before the holidays you will adopt some kind of intelligible law and launch a mechanism to increase the monetary allowance for calculating military pensions to 100%, in the direction of increasing the coefficient.