According to Shubin this order is designed to help forest procesing companies to make quick money and to share it with state bodies. Director of Regional Forest Department of Nizhniy Novgorod Vladimir Parakhin complained at the first work session of the Department that people of the region keep loosing their jobs because of nature conservation. Social programs getting more expensive. But at the same time the export of raw wood last year brought 175 millions of dollars of income to the region, - he mentioned. If the situation doesn t change soon, it will be not enough to get profit and cover all costs including social expenses.
Local greens see the problem of high poverty level in a different way.
Regional Governor have always wanted to intoroduce wood processing in Nizhniy Novgorod but regional forest department does nothing for it. And as a result in some places there has been no wood left to log but protected areas. People getting very poor. Local community members can t take jobs outside the community. The loggers' settlements are usually isolated from the other world.