Why Putin was faced with the question of revising the Forest Code of the Russian Federation

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The situation with natural disasters in our country has reached an unprecedented level, which President Vladimir Putin was forced to admit at the highest level. The South of Russia is exposed to the most powerful flooding, while the North, on the contrary, is dry and ablaze with a bright flame. The head of state, who flew to the Chelyabinsk region, spoke about the long-term climate agenda as a way to resolve the problem, but is it one thing? Isn't it time, finally, to heed the calls to revise the current forest legislation, which has now been echoed personally by the Minister of Emergency Situations?

The question of the causes and scale of natural disasters that befell Russia is complex and multifaceted. Let's try to separate "flies from cutlets" and bring some clarity to it.



On the one hand, President Putin is certainly right, and global climate change is making a devastating contribution. The blocking anticyclone, which settled for a long time over the central part of Russia, prevented the west-east transport of air and caused an abnormal heat to the entire Moscow region. More about this we told previously. Similar problems are observed in the North-Eastern part of the country. The prolonged heat in Yakutia dried up forests and lowered the water level in reservoirs. The situation was aggravated by the invasion of the silkworm, due to which the conifers were left without needles and dried out. A "dry" thunderstorm was enough for all this to flare up, and the fire was able to spread rapidly, and giant forest fires continue to this day. In the South of Russia, on the contrary, everything is flooded with water, for which experts blame cyclones and a general rise in the temperature of the Black Sea. River floods and sudden floods have also become a real scourge of the Old World. Drowns prosperous Germany, Poland and other neighboring European countries, about which we have also already told... Thus, the climatic factor is really present, and there is nothing you can do about it, you have to somehow adapt.

On the other hand, the human factor is very strong in the problem of forest fires in our taiga. Let's dwell on this point in more detail:

At firstas we have repeatedly complained, colossal damage to our forests was caused by the adoption in 2007 of the new Forest Code. What happened then? By the will of the legislators, the unified federal service of the Forest Guard was destroyed, the concept of forestry enterprises was eliminated and the institution of foresters, who must keep order in the economy entrusted to them, and drive poachers and "black lumberjacks", was abolished. The authority to control forests from a single center was transferred to the regions, but without proper funding and materialtechnical base. On the other hand, “effective private business” received the right to lease forests, but what exactly these entrepreneurs are doing there is not easy to establish because of the artificially created staff shortage. And then we still wonder why the taiga is being cut down and the "round timber" is taken out to China without hindrance, and then the forests burn. From year to year, the scale of fires, natural and man-made, designed to hide the sites of illegal logging, only increases. We have sunk to the point that the regional authorities are allowed not to put out forest fires at all, if they do not directly threaten populated areas.

While journalists and people in the industry have been talking about this to everyone for almost 14 years, they were only laughed at. But now the head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations Vladimir Zinichev has already raised the issue with the president. The minister asked to "allow" rescuers to extinguish the forests, even if the fires do not threaten the settlements:

We ask you to consider the issue - this will require amending the legal framework - about the possibility of attracting the forces and means of the Ministry of Emergency Situations to work in forests when the federal level of response is announced. Now we can do this only in the event of a threat to populated areas.

Asked for permission, Karl! Well this is just some kind of savagery! And then the head of the Emergencies Ministry asked President Putin to do what we have been writing about for many years:

In our opinion, in order to stabilize the situation with wildfires, it is necessary ... to return to the federal level control and oversight functions for the protection and reproduction of forests.

Finally...

Secondly, it is necessary to change the very attitude towards forest resources in Russia. I really do not want to arrange "dancing on the bones of the dead", but without this, alas, the picture will not be complete. Recently, we wondered why Russian amphibious planes extinguish fires in distant Turkey, when our native taiga is burning with a blue flame? It seems like the federal authorities are thus trying to demonstrate our ardent friendship with the Turkish "Sultan" Erdogan. And God be with him, if everyone returned home safe and sound. But yesterday, while extinguishing fires in Turkey, a Be-200 with Russian and Turkish specialists fell. Everyone on board the aircraft was killed. Our sincere condolences to their families.

But what did they die for? For the safety of the forestry of unfriendly Turkey, when our Yakutia is on fire, and firefighters and volunteers fall off their feet from fatigue, trying to extinguish it? Perhaps if they had stayed at home, everyone would have been alive? Probably, it is worthwhile to build priorities differently, first extinguishing the home, and then helping the not most pleasant neighbor, isn't it?
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  1. +9
    15 August 2021 14: 10
    By the will of the legislators the unified federal service of the Forest Guard was destroyed, the concept of forestry enterprises was eliminated and the institution of foresters, who must keep order in the economy entrusted to them and drive poachers and "black lumberjacks"

    First of all, it is necessary to return the responsibility of the legislators for the decisions taken. The immunity of the deputies is just a mockery of common sense. If a pickpocket has stolen a wallet, a time will shine for him. If the deputies have caused damage to the country in the millions (or billions), then nothing will happen to them.
    Of course these are just words. Who will go for it? But it may make sense to change the approaches to the RESPONSIBILITY of deputies. And now they have rights without responsibility for their actions. In the legislation, only mentally abnormal people are exempted from liability.
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    -2
    15 August 2021 14: 46
    The South of Russia is exposed to the most powerful flooding, while the North, on the contrary, is dry and ablaze with a bright flame.

    Thus, the climatic factor is really present, and there is nothing you can do about it, you have to somehow adapt.

    While journalists and people in the industry have been talking about this to everyone for almost 14 years, they were only laughed at.

    Why not? Is everything okay with the water? But for some reason the indefatigable journalists are silent about the Water Code for some reason, there they seem to be happy with everything.

    The authority to control forests from a single center was transferred to the regions, but without proper funding and material and technical base. But "Efficient private business" got the right to lease forests, but what exactly these entrepreneurs are doing there is not easy to establish because of the artificially created personnel shortage. And then we still wonder why the taiga is being cut down and the "round timber" is taken out to China without hindrance, and then the forests burn.

    What changes are planned in the Forestry Code? What do we expect from this? The proposals are all different. Some remind you? For example, here is an example of the creativity of academicians of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences:
    Concept of the draft federal law "Forest Code of the Russian Federation" ...

    For the purpose of forestry in protective forests The concept provides for the possibility of providing land plots as part of
    forest land to individuals and legal entities in trust management. Objectives such management should be the preservation and the development of regulatory, environmental, water protection, sanitary and other functions of protective forests with their simultaneous use provided that this use is compatible with the intended purpose of the protective scaffolding and the protective functions they perform.

    Trust management of the forest fund by individuals and legal entities is not at all like the lease of the forest fund by an efficient private business, right? Does this fundamentally change the case? Legal entities and individuals are not some kind of private business for you, they will not spoil it No. Everything will magically change overnight. Yes
    Don't you think that these are the same "Faberge", only in profile? sad

    But now the head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations Vladimir Zinichev has already raised the issue with the president. The minister asked to "allow" rescuers to extinguish the forests, even if the fires do not threaten the settlements.
    Asked for permission, Karl! Well this is just some kind of savagery! And then the head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations asked President Putin to do what we have been writing about for many years

    No matter how wild it sounds at first glance, there is a certain logic in this, the Ministry of Emergency Situations works within the framework of powers defined for it. I will give an example (perhaps not the most successful, but in my opinion the essence of the problem reflects), firefighters will not come to you until the house or shed is on fire, although probably if they were on duty there while you burned a fire in the garden or would have watered everything around in advance, such prevention would surely have prevented a fire. But this is not their responsibility. The management does not have the authority to direct them to such events and, incidentally, to pay the associated costs.
    They are neither Chip and Dale hurrying to the rescue, nor are they Timurovites, they act not at the call of their hearts and their own discretion, but within the framework of their powers. Changing the terms of reference and authority is a debatable issue, but it is simple only at first glance. What should the local leadership of the Ministry of Emergency Situations do when a serious fire breaks out, and all employees are "on prophylaxis" and gasoline have rolled out helping people in the gardens. He will be asked precisely for the fire, the extinguishing of which is part of his immediate duties and for the use of technology, they will ask where is Zin's money? And not only.

    I really do not want to arrange "dancing on the bones of the dead", but without this, alas, the picture will not be complete.

    That's right, you really shouldn't have done it Yes

    But what did they die for? For the safety of the forestry of unfriendly Turkey, when our Yakutia is on fire, and firefighters and volunteers fall off their feet from fatigue, trying to extinguish it? Perhaps if they had stayed at home, everyone would have been alive? Probably, it is worthwhile to build priorities differently, first extinguishing the home, and then helping the not most pleasant neighbor, isn't it?

    They died saving people. Including fearless Russian tourists, many of whom were sitting on the shore awaiting evacuation by sea. Judging by the amount of belly warming under the hot Turkish sun, many do not consider the Turkish neighbor so unpleasant. Otherwise, what are they doing there?

    Surely, if they had stayed at home, they would have remained alive, even more chances to stay alive if they did not rise into the air at all. Probably if "all sorts of tourists" did not fly over Kamchatka, they would not have died in the crash and the helicopter would not have had to be lifted from the bottom of the lake. The Superjet crew in 2012 could have survived if they had not performed a demonstration flight in the skies of Indonesia, and the Su-27 fighter pilots would not have died in Vietnam in 1995.
    But this is how life works, unfortunately catastrophes happen. In my opinion, you should not touch this topic, using it for your own purposes.
    1. 0
      16 August 2021 05: 46
      They died saving people. Including fearless Russian tourists, many of whom were sitting on the shore awaiting evacuation by sea. Judging by the amount of belly warming under the hot Turkish sun, many do not consider the Turkish neighbor so unpleasant. Otherwise, what are they doing there?

      Where our tourists sit there, we have already analyzed in detail. We would like to save them, we should have just evacuated

      But this is how life works, unfortunately catastrophes happen. In my opinion, you should not touch this topic, using it for your own purposes.

      My goal in this matter is one - to revise the Russophobic Forest Code of 2007, restore the federal forest protection system and stop burning out the forests of my country. What's your goal?

      You always react specifically to this topic. Do you have your own private forest there?
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        +1
        16 August 2021 09: 43
        How and whom to sleep and evacuate tourists, experts will figure it out without you. But they are present there, and in a fair amount, and this is a fact. It seems they don't think Erdogan is so nasty to give up on the beach. Otherwise they would be sitting at home or vacationing in another country.
        But only the Kremlin should cut off all relations. Let me be curious, can you voice a list of "worthy" countries that are "not nasty"? With whom we can maintain a relationship, do not tell? Or just lock the border and stay at home?

        My goal in this matter is one - to revise the Russophobic Forest Code of 2007, restore the federal forest protection system and stop burning out the forests of my country. What's your goal?

        Russophobic code? Sorry, a quote from the damned Wiki ...

        Russophobia is a biased, suspicious, hostile, hostile attitude towards the Russian people, Russia, the Russian language, Russian, a specific trend in ethnophobia.

        If the Yakuts have nothing to do with this forest? And the Evenki ?, Khanty? Bashkirs? Buryats? Does the code enshrine discrimination against the Russian forest?
        I'll tell you a secret. You can write at least 300 codes, supplement them with 1000 decrees, the forest will not stop burning from this. Nature doesn't care about your instructions. Do you think you are the "mistress of the sea"?
        Listen to the Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Kozlov, it looks like the issue is being resolved without any code, it has nothing to do with it.

        https://youtu.be/yDzYYWz9Mew?list=LL&t=2230

        Read the code itself at your leisure, old and "new", understand what are going to change and how appropriate it is.
        So how do you think "effective private business" differs from "individuals and legal entities"?
        How is rent "different" from "trust management"? These are the same people and they will do the same. They are simply called in other words. The cover seems to be important to you. The code is one piece, new, so we will write it down, everything is fine. What is your goal and what you want to achieve, I do not know, but that you will not achieve anything good for sure. You just breed panic without delving into the essence of the problem.

        You always react specifically to this topic. Do you have your own private forest there?

        In my opinion, your reaction to this topic is no less specific. Personal interest? Do the statues pay well? winked
        1. 0
          16 August 2021 10: 25
          It seems they don't think Erdogan is so nasty to give up on the beach. Otherwise they would be sitting at home or vacationing in another country.

          Some think, others do not ... You, Ivanovs, make up your mind! - as the joke says.
          The Russian media constantly write that such and such Erdogan does not recognize Crimea as Russian, helps the Ukrainian Armed Forces to bomb the LPNR, set his sights on rejecting the Central Asian republics from the Russian Federation, almost pocketed Azerbaijan, etc. The head of the people is spinning - who is Erdogan to be considered? And the fact that all sorts of Russian "Chumaks" who bring the infection from abroad go on vacation abroad, so how many% of these Russians are there? And probably many of them live on unearned income, because the average official salary of 20-25 thousand rubles a month cannot be found abroad.
          1. 123
            +2
            16 August 2021 10: 47
            Some think, others do not ... You, Ivanovs, make up your mind! - as the joke says.

            In principle, I propose to be determined. Ask...

            voice the list of "worthy" countries that are "not nasty"

            The Turks shot down a fighter plane, the Azerbaijanis shot down a helicopter, the Georgians introduced the peacekeepers, the Kazakhs introduced the Latin alphabet and taught the Kazakh language to sellers, the Tajiks were driving drugs, the Chinese could remember Damansky and the forest was taken out, you shouldn't look in the direction of Europe, otherwise you can reach the Teutonic knights. This is how the gadyushnik is arranged on our planet, each one clings to the throat of each other strives. So with whom can you maintain a relationship? Someone will announce the list and by what criteria will it be drawn up?
            Judging by the recognition of Crimea, it is time to close the embassy in Minsk. And if you read out the whole list, then you can save a lot at the Foreign Ministry ...

            1. 0
              16 August 2021 10: 52
              So with whom can you maintain a relationship?

              Probably with those from whom the Russian Federation and its people receive more benefits than losses at the moment and in the near future. So that you don't have to again forgive multibillion-dollar debts to other countries.
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                -1
                16 August 2021 11: 04
                Probably with those from whom the Russian Federation and its people receive more benefits than losses at the moment and in the near future. So that you don't have to again forgive multibillion-dollar debts to other countries.

                So who are these wonderful countries? Benefit with the voiced "moral principles" is poorly combined. The benefit should be mutual and the business partner was afraid to lose no less in the event of a break. He must be sane enough to understand this and act in his own interests and have a Faberge of sufficient size to defend his interests, and not act like Bulgaria. There are not many such on the horizon, the only "man" in Europe is Merkel, well, there are descending, depending on the "caliber" of the Hungarians, Austrians, here you can also include Erdogan. This is natural selection, they can afford to build a pipeline and defend their position as Germany, or the same pipe and S-400 as Turkey, the turnover is growing. Bulgaria, Italy, Poland are blown away. In my opinion, everything is logical. The likelihood that Germany or Turkey will go bankrupt in my opinion is much lower than Italy or Poland.
    2. 0
      16 August 2021 09: 43
      .. the firefighters will not come to you until the house or shed is on fire, although probably if they were on duty there ...

      Well, it depends on which side you look at, otherwise it can happen that there will be no end to the fire safety inspector. wink laughing
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        +1
        16 August 2021 11: 05
        Well, it depends on which side you look at, otherwise it may happen that there will be no end to the fire safety inspector

        It may happen this way Yes Only this is an inspector, and I'm talking about a fire brigade in a big red car. These are slightly different things.
        1. 0
          17 August 2021 01: 00
          The same people, also a department. Nothing different.
          1. 123
            +1
            17 August 2021 01: 43
            The same people, also a department. Nothing different.

            Their responsibilities are different. The inspector exercises supervision, other people are engaged in extinguishing fires.
            https://39.mchs.gov.ru/deyatelnost/poleznaya-informaciya/dopolnitelnye-stranicy/staticheskie-stranicy/poleznaya-informaciya/prava-i-obyazannosti-gosudarstvennogo-inspektora-po-pozharnomu-nadzoru
            1. 0
              17 August 2021 08: 24
              And what? The goal is one, the fight against fire.
              1. 123
                +1
                17 August 2021 10: 44
                And what? The goal is one, the fight against fire.

                Proctologist and stamatologist, surgeon and homeopath, all in white coats and their goal is the same, caring for your health. You do not see the difference, or will you still go to the dentist to treat your teeth, and entrust the surgeon to cut the appendicitis?
                1. 0
                  18 August 2021 00: 20
                  That's right, one way or another, you have to go to a medical institution.
                  And then they will figure out whether your tooth root is inflamed or your ear hurts.
                  The dentist does not make home rounds, does not draw up prescriptions and acts, and does not establish deadlines for eliminating deficiencies. Health is an individual's personal problem. If, for objective reasons, he is not able to seek help from a doctor himself, he also calls an ambulance.
                  In this case, there should be a whole range of measures for prevention, prevention, control and, in the last (extreme case) queue (the most expensive act), measures to eliminate fires.
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                    0
                    18 August 2021 12: 51
                    The dentist does not make home rounds, does not draw up prescriptions and acts, and does not establish deadlines for eliminating deficiencies.

                    You see, everyone is busy with their own business, and you want the firefighters to go home.

                    In this case, there should be a whole range of measures for prevention, prevention, control and, in the last (extreme case) queue (the most expensive act), measures to eliminate fires.

                    And who told you that this is not? Or do you still insist that our surgeons go home?
                    In general, this European manner of teaching everyone how to live correctly is so touching. smile Maybe start with the next door neighbor? To begin with, teach the French, they keep on burning and speak from their southern neighbors is getting worse.
                    It seems that the European scale is smaller and you all know "how it should be", but it burns and that's it, despite the prevention. winked

                    https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20210817-thousands-evacuated-in-southern-france-as-wildfire-spreads
                    https://www.france24.com/en/france/20210816-hundreds-of-firefighters-tackle-wildfire-in-southern-france
  3. +1
    15 August 2021 16: 19
    It's funny!

    After all, it was the authorities who recently introduced the law that it is not necessary to extinguish the forest. Let it burn if it is far away.

    And suddenly give money for the forest? Are you out of your mind?
    As it was said at the top, let the activists watch the forest themselves and react on their own.
    1. 0
      16 August 2021 09: 35
      ... there is no need to extinguish the forest. Let it burn if it's far away.

      Probably, they are preparing sites for future million-plus cities, a strategic decision. And the main thing is not expensive and you don't need to do anything. At first glance, this grandmaster's move is unrecognizable.
  4. +2
    15 August 2021 20: 01
    colossal damage to our forests was caused by the adoption in 2007 of the new Forest Code. What happened then? By the will of the legislators, the unified federal service of the Forest Guard was destroyed, the concept of forestry enterprises was eliminated and the institution of foresters, who must keep order in the economy entrusted to them, and chase poachers and "black lumberjacks", was abolished.

    April 17, 1991 - by the decree of the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR 207, Deputy Chairman of the Gosstroy of the RSFSR Sergei Shoigu was appointed chairman of the Russian Rescue Corps.

    https://www.mchs.gov.ru/deyatelnost/press-centr/vse-novosti/1442723

    On November 6, 2012, he was appointed Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation to replace the resigned Anatoly Serdyukov.

    Dear author, you recently praised the Emergencies Ministry under the leadership of Shoigu. Now prove that he was not involved in the adoption of the Forestry Code in 2007. He has no education at all? Since 1991 to head the Ministry of Emergency Situations and not understand what this law will lead to?
    1. +1
      16 August 2021 07: 55
      I don’t have to prove anything to anyone here, but as a basic lawyer, I’ll explain. Laws are adopted as follows: first, the State Duma deputies vote, then the Federation Council senators, and then the president signs them all.
      The question is: where is the head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations or the Ministry of Defense in this scheme?
      My claims have always been addressed to the head of state, who himself seems to be a lawyer, signed the RF LC, and then watched the taiga burn for 13 years. Is it really so difficult for him to see the causal relationship between the adoption of the LC and the aggravation of the problem with forest fires? Everyone talks about this every summer. If he himself has no time, then where are all his advisers, analysts, and so on?
      1. +1
        16 August 2021 13: 36
        I don't have to prove anything to anyone here

        Well, if you shouldn't, then don't refute the point of view of others and not in sports.

        then where are all his advisors, analysts, etc.

        And with Shoigu he catches fish and walks in the forest in silence? Like, he doesn't consult with Shoigu about anything? And you do not refer to Shoigu as an advisor? 1991 - 2007 to be at the head of the Ministry of Emergencies and not have the right to vote? And why do we need such mediocrities in power?
  5. +1
    15 August 2021 20: 07
    And who is there to express concern? We can't do anything else!
  6. 0
    16 August 2021 18: 24
    And without Putin already (still) something can be solved in our country, which is not included in the powers of the president?
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  8. 0
    17 August 2021 11: 06
    Well done Dimon! "We woe to all the bourgeoisie will fan the World Fire":
    Rather, carry a gold toilet bowl and a gold brush.
    You dunk the brush and shake it off.
    Yes, not at me, on the fire!
  9. 0
    17 August 2021 11: 21
    This is the fault of the Polovtsy and Pechenegs, as well as the communists.
  10. +1
    18 August 2021 15: 00
    Forest management in the Russian Federation today is in a terrible state and it is everywhere, from forests to parks and plantings. There is a lot of dry forest, which is not cut down in a timely manner, being a source of tree diseases and forest fires. The forest, garden and park area is barbarously cut down to please the construction magnates, leaving the townspeople without oxygen and places of rest