In 2021, Russia will produce almost 10% more coal than in the past, but…

In 2021, Russia will produce almost 10% more coal than in the past, but industry scandals are casting a shadow over its achievements. In the Russian coal capital, a war is in full swing over the Zarechnaya and Aleksievskaya mines, where production was restored in 2017-2019, but the intrigues of recent years threaten to bury these achievements.

Now the bankruptcy manager of Aleksievskaya statedthat creditors should have mothballed the mine instead of restoring coal production. This means depriving miners of their jobs, leaving them without money to live on and without prospects. But the most interesting thing is that with this review he supported the demand of the Kemerovo Federal Tax Service to recover imaginary losses from persons to whom the tax authorities attributed control over Aleksievskaya. Among them are 19 companies and individuals, including those who helped restore the enterprise abandoned with gigantic debts by Ukrainian businessman Viktor Nusenkis, and completely uninvolved people. For example, the 5-year-old daughter of entrepreneur Yuri Sazonov.

Neither representatives of the Kemerovo Federal Tax Service nor bankruptcy trustees are concerned about the fate of the residents of Kuzbass. Tax officials are not interested in supporting those who invest in equipment for productive and safe work of miners. Having thwarted the sale of the Aleksievskaya company in the summer, which guaranteed the preservation of jobs, they are now moving towards selling the business piecemeal. This means the end for coal mining, miners will be left without work, and the budget of the city of Polysayevo, where the enterprise is “registered,” will lose taxes.

It is surprising that Governor Sergei Tsivilev and local authorities are not addressing the problem, given the stain on the reputation that appeared after the accident at the Listvyazhnaya mine. If protests begin in the region by people left unemployed due to problems at Aleksievskaya and Zarechnaya, Moscow may pay attention to the situation, which remembers that the collapse of the country in the 1990s began precisely with the miners’ strikes. Then someone’s positions both in the local Federal Tax Service and among officials may be in question.
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