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FARMING IN RUSSIA 

 FIIM FOOTAGE TRANSCRIPT 



Shot of snow-covered field and panorama 

 Shot of Victor Simutin CG: "Victor Siinutin" 



My name is Victor. We are in agriculture. These days we've 

 gone over to breeding horned cattle and producing milk. I 

 started this activity in 1991 and during the period from 1991 to 

 1993, I built the farm, built the storehouse and bought the 

 cattle. I started everything from zero. I didn't have any 

 money. I took the credit in the Moscow Peasants' Union, and 

 little by little I got the equipment. I was also given some 

 equipment, and so I built the farm and bought the cattle. 



Shot of Vladimir Zamaratskii CG: "Vladimir Zamaratskii" 



Zamaratskii Vladimir Veniaminovich, born in the town of 

 Klim, head of peasants' farm "Prima." I graduated from the 

 Polytechnic Institute with the diploma of an electrical engineer, 

 then worked in the State farm as an electrical engineer. And 

 afterwards I decided to open my own business and become a farmer. 

 Collective economy on the collective and state farms, their 

 relationship toward land is a little different than a private 

 owner. I mean, if you compare how an owner treats his land and 

 how the administration treats its collective property and its 

 land, as they say in Odessa, "It's a big difference." Now I have 

 my own land. Of course our laws haven't yet determined how we 

 can buy or sell it. There are some proposals for this. But 

 private ownership — we don't have this law yet, as far as we 

 know. We were informed we don't have it yet. 



Pause 



I don't have enough tools now. I'm also finishing up my 

 house. Prices on construction materials are very high these 

 days. And people want big salaries. And the government is not 

 helping us any more, they are just talking. 



Victor Simutin 



We don't have enough land. It's not enough. For example, I 

 would want to have 20 cattle heads, well, maybe 25. And then you 

 can come up with 50 heads, if they in their turn give you more 

 land. But they don't give us land. We wrote letters and want to 

 appeal to the state farm "Druzhba." They refused us all the 

 time, they won't rent us land, they won't give us equipment, 

 nothing. 



