Retired Major is on hunger strike for third day in Stavropol

Gennady Vorabyev, who went on hunger strike demanding to provide housing to his family, continues his protest for the third day. According to the protester, he is day-and-night in his car in the centre of the city and drinks only water. So far, he has no health complaints. His former colleagues confirm the difficulties in providing regional policemen with housing.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that the retired Police Major Vorabyev had been on the housing waiting list since 1996; in 2013, he was transferred into the reserve. Now, he, his wife and two small children live in a two-room basement, which he bought against a credit.

The police of the Stavropol Territory assert that Vorabyev had been paid a lump-sum social payment for purchase of housing in order of queue priority.

According to the hunger-striker, yesterday policemen and person in civilian clothes, who came with them, demanded from him to stop the hunger strike, or "get out to hell," otherwise, they promised troubles to their former colleague.

"The conditions, in which Gennady lives with his family, can't be called normal for a human: his flat is in the damp basement; the rooms are tiny; there's no kitchen," said an ex-policeman Isa, who worked for ten years with Vorabyev.

Another Vorabyev's former colleague named Sergey noted that during his service there was not a single case, when someone of his colleagues got an apartment or a land plot.

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.