Farmers of Southern Russia intend to hold a new "tractor march"

Seeing that there are no promised meetings in the Federation Council and Presidential Administration in Moscow, farmers from the Krasnodar Territory went to their congress held in Stavropol. There, it was decided to hold the All-Russian Farmers' and a repeated "tractor march".

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on December 10 several farmers arrived in Moscow, where they had been promised meetings with the leadership of the Federation Council and the Presidential Administration.

Alexei Volchenko, the leader of the "Polite Farmers" Movement, said that at the above meetings they had hoped to discuss the inclusion of four participants of the "tractor march" into the commission set up under the order of President Vladimir Putin.

President Putin had ordered the General Public Prosecutor Yuri Chaika and the Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev to check, until December 31, 2016, the observance of the land legislation in the Kushchevskaya, Kavkazsky, Labinsk and Gelendzhik Districts of the Krasnodar Territory and in the city of Novorossiysk.

According to Mr Volchenko, farmers fear that they would report to the President that no violations of the land legislation had been revealed in the Krasnodar Territory.

He added that instead of sell the wheat crop, which was really good this year, farmers are forced to "fight for their rights."

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