Bad roads, dirt, destroyed houses, terrible infrastructure, lack of work, alcoholism and indifference to what is happening - how people live in the villages and small towns of Russia.
"Having moved down from the M2 Federal highway, I got a completely different Russia, a Russia of the time. I suggest you look at how in our days life is not in a distant village or hamlet, and in the villages most of the Central region. The impression is that it's just another world where time stopped," says Lezhnev.
The blogger notes that Russia has always been strong in their village at all times exactly what the village gave the bread and the forces of the country. Now the Russian government prefers to import petrodollars food, raw food, than to strengthen and develop the rural sector".
Together with villages and villages, according to the blogger, die so-called small towns with town-forming enterprises, which are closed and cease to give the city a jobs, at the same time destroying the infrastructure and social sphere.
The author of the blog arrived in the village of Krapivna (Tula oblast). Previously it was a city. The population - about 3 thousand people.
At the very entrance to the village is an abandoned farm. It occupies about 10 Hectares of land.
"I went through the centre of the village. Here all sad. Center, and the village itself is 90% of these houses".
It's the Central street where are located the administration, a Bank, hospital, post office
"Here you can see the overgrown weeds to the roofs of houses. Some of them in the Windows of inserted pieces of plywood, cardboard or film - simply because there are no shops where you can buy glass. But there is also a two-storey (apartment) homes," says Lezhnev.
"Previously, there was a temple, then the fire service, now there are mice and rats". According to him, the sharply decreased population, not only villages, which are simply wiped off the map, but also small towns and villages. And it's not just the Far East, and literally region, located 200 km from Moscow: "it is Enough to go far outside this zone and you will see what is happening there".
"Now there is a local "Gazprom". Previously, there was the school, in the school Board consisted of L. N. Tolstoy," he writes
"Then I landed in some kind of HELL, well, God.
See for yourself.
Fedorovka, a population of about 400-500 people," says Lezhnev..
"This building used to be sitting the local administration, now there is practically no one. Next to the building also the ubiquitous phone booth, there are three pieces. Who is going to call him? Yes, and had called once? It is unlikely," he writes
"As it turned out there is a "Mail of Russia". Hellish conditions".
"In this building every day from morning to evening drinking, drinking everything: guys and girls. To the question why they drink, I said, "And what to do, no work. Here, take us with you right now. We are ready to work as security guards, drivers. Us a lot of money is not necessary", - says the blogger.