About 10 thousand residents of Donetsk people's Republic staged a protest against the actions of the Ukrainian oligarch Sergei Kurchenko, who decided to close the Khartsyzsk pipe plant.
According to local citizens, the actions of Kurchenko demonstrate about the fact that he wants to dismantle the equipment and sell the company for scrap. However, this enterprise, from which depend the vast number of families of Khartsyzsk and nearby communities, reports the news Agency.
"I worked at KHTZ 10 years, immediately employs my wife. The closure will mean the fact of death by starvation for my family, and I need to feed and clothe 2 children. I dream that our voice will be heard and the leadership of the Republic will take all necessary measures to stop snickering oligarchs and give us the opportunity to live and work, "said local citizen" Donetsk news Agency ". The action was attended by Both young people and citizens of middle age and pensioners. Protesters unfurled a banner " Down with oligarchs!", "No oligarchs ". The main requirement of the protesters - not to close the enterprise, to return people to work, to stop numerous resignation to return to residents a means of livelihood. As reported by the print edition OPINION, in mid-October, the residents of DNR and LNR in fact declared a boycott of billionaire Serhiy Kurchenko, which were obliged to deliver to the Republic of petrol and gas. The businessman suspect not only in the disruption of gas supplies, and in financing hostilities against the Donbass. While in Kiev, where the tycoon once dubbed "the purse Yanukovych," Kurchenko want to put in jail. In Ukraine, against him prosecuted under the criminal code on suspicion of fraud by 5 billion hryvnia (About 390 million dollars).

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