Mikhail Novikov — The State Duma (Parliament) of the Russian Federation is preparing the law which will officially allow killing of stray
dogs by any methods the officials want. In article 21 of this law, it is written: “Federal governmental authorities have powers to establish methods and regime of killing of animals (including stray dogs)”.
dogs by any methods the officials want. In article 21 of this law, it is written: “Federal governmental authorities have powers to establish methods and regime of killing of animals (including stray dogs)”.
This law has the hypocritical name: «Закон об ответственном обращении с животными».
The State Duma (Parliament) of the Russian Federation ignores the opinion of representatives of societies for the protection of animals. According to this law, the public won't have the right to inspect the ways of killing of animals in the state points for homeless animals, and in butcheries and in state stockyards. Only officials will have this right (according to this new law). Here lies a bright example of the pseudo-democracy in the Russian Federation. It lives in the Russian Federation as dictatorship was in the USSR. The new law will approve this lawlessness!
Now in the Russian Federation, lawlessness reigns in this area of the right and in many other areas of the right. But this law will absolutely legalize death camps for homeless animals and will turn the entire Russian Federation into a huge camp of death for animals as it was in the USSR. This law offends the highest human feelings – the sense of morality, which is above religious and even national feelings. This law throws the Russian populace below the level of barbarity assigned to an animal (because even barbarians and animals have a level of compassion toward other species). This unmoral law throws the populace down to the level of Neanderthal double morals and a species-specific egocentrism. Similar laws satisfy only the lowest, and most morally retarded segments of the population and provoke the best representatives of society, ethical, civilized people to challenge and violate such pseudo-laws. Similar pseudo-laws force people not to develop, but to degrade. They push the population down to an abyss of immorality and insensitivity.
Killing camps for homeless animals are in many cities of Russia (except St. Petersburg and Moscow). They are still being constructed in the USSR today. In spite of the fact that such camps of death are preset in many cities of the Russian Federation, it is very difficult to take a photo of these sites. Defenders of animals are denied any right to enter these camps of death and to supervise their work. Still, young courageous guys and girls recently broke into one such camp of death in the Russian-Zyryan’s city Syktyvkar at night. They photographed this camp of death by means of a video camera showing the fire in the furnace in which workers of camp of death burn corpses of dogs. But they can burn live animals too. Reports of the biggest Russian mass media tell about such cases.
As photographed by the group of activists, dead dogs with a slit throat were lying near the furnace. The working day had ended. Workers left without having managed to burn a few corpses of dogs. One dog was cut in its stomach. Obviously, she died a painful death. And about fifty dogs expected the death penalty in the morning. The activist guys and girls broke cages and let the dogs out.
Every year, officials of the Russian Federation kill more than 700 thousand homeless animals by cruel methods. But the majority of such cases remain unknown because journalists and defenders of animals have no right to witness or report it. Officials take budget's money for the solution of problems of stray dogs. But they kill dogs by the cheapest, cruelest methods. They steal the remaining money, filling their pockets thus.
The president, the Government, and deputies of the Russian Federation look at this situation with absolute indifference, despite all protests of activists for the rights of animals.
Thus, in modern Russian Federation, there is a peculiar structure which consists of the corrupt officials, deputies, employees of camps of death for homeless animals, and hitmen of stray dogs. And the government of the Russian Federation allows them to do it.
About the Author
Mikhail Novikov is a teacher of mathematics, the President of Noble Assembly of Saint-Petersburg, and the President of the Russian society of protection of animals. He lives in St. Petersburg, Russia.