Our interviewee is Nikolai Denisov, deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Krasnodar region, chairman of the Committee for Industry, Construction and Housing and Communal Services.
Q.: You began your political activity in the time of Governor Kondratenko, and you took part in all his projects. What can you say about each of the Kuban Governors?
A.: I can’t say of all of them, for I was lucky enough to be part of Nikolai Kondratenko’s team only.
Kondratenko’s uniqueness was that for Kuban he was a ‘statist’ rather than merely an anti-crisis manager. He was sort of prophet when he argued against the ideology that claimed that ‘the West shall feed us’ peculiar for the 1990s. We are still reaping the fruits of that policy in the form of imported products and seeds. And Veniamin Kondratiev now fights against this problem of dependence, like Kondratiev did in the past – for the main thing today is our food security.
By the way, it was in Kondratenko’s team that I was working together with Kondratiev who gained his first managerial experience working with Kondratenko. In my opinion, it is not a mere coincidence that both Kondratenko and Kkondratiev have a similar style of working with people.
Q.: During the past two years, the residents of Kuban have had serious complaints about the work of the foundation Capital Repairs of the Housing and Communal Services. Has the situation changed?
A.: Indeed, the regional foundation proved so much inefficient that the regional authorities really had to take a series of tough decisions. It’s premature to judge how efficient they were, but I can say that it was much thankful to the Popular Front that the regional administration noted the problem.
Before the Popular Front’s interference, the money meant for the capital repairs of the flats had been accumulated in the foundation’s accounts.
Q.: You are also involved in the control of the activities of flat management companies. What are the violations you are come across most frequently?
A.: Our activists from the team “Quality of Everyday Life” are revealing a great many of outrageous facts. Here is one example: the dwellers of a dilapidated shared apartment are paying for the communal services as if they were living in a chic penthouse: the owners of 17 square metres pay around 7,000–8,000 rubles a month for the communal services.
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