The other day, the aggressor-controlled “Crimean media” published an interview with the so-called “Chairman of the committee of the Crimean chamber of commerce and industry for the development of the agro-industrial complex” Roman Buliyenov. They were talking about an allegedly new “food crisis” that had overtaken the aggressor: now, after last year’s “miracles on bends” with eggs and chicken, the occupiers decided to talk about apples.
In this regard, the very personality of the “apple king” Buliyenov, proposed to the public, is quite characteristic: this occupier is a lawyer originally from Vologda, who moved to Murmansk in 2013. In 2017, he “registered” two “agricultural holdings”, “Dary Zolotoho Polya” (“Gifts of the Golden Field”) and “Novyi Krym” (“New Crimea”), in the Crimean Zolotoe Pole (Jailav Sarai) village, together with Murmansk residents Natalia Biryukova, Alexey and Nikolai Gusev, who had previously carried out fishing and fish trade scams in the Arctic, and now “settled” in Feodosia.
These “hereditary Arctic gardeners” are now announcing a sharp rise in apple prices, talking about “the loss of the crop in Crimea after the May frosts” and that the season “began with critical factors.” At the same time, Buliyenov announced the threat of “import growth,” which is “undermining our entire economy,” while simultaneously demanding that “apples be made an excisable product,” “that there should be an excise tax on imported apples, but for us it was actually two rubles,” and then, supposedly, “we will become much more competitive.”
How such a fight “against imported products in chains” in the form of an “excise tax” can “prevent” the rise in price of apples – the question is clearly beyond logic. However, for the “apple tycoon” this is not enough, because Buliyenov asks for “reimbursement of part of the lost harvest” at “40 rubles per kilogram,” that is, even more than the wholesale price of the actual harvest.
Also, against the backdrop of these obvious “commercial interests,” Buliyenov at the same time lets slip that those “five or six billion in recent years” that were allegedly “invested directly in gardening in the Crimea” actually disappeared into the pockets of officials very far from the apple gardens, sarcastically adding that “if at some stage circumstances arise beyond the control of the parties, this must be treated with understanding.”
Buliyenov also admits that the now available “loan at a rate of 19%,” and not “3-5% per annum, as it was before,” is destroying the aggressor-controlled economy, saying that “with such a rate, no enterprise can develop, especially in the agricultural direction, can not”. Also, the “apple tycoon” predictably complains about “logistical problems” when “the cost of products for the end consumer increases if we transport products to the mainland,” demanding “to compensate for part of the costs.”
At the same time, Buliyenov states that “even today the state reimburses part of the transport costs, but only in the case of export of products”; however, for “certain reasons”, no one needs Crimean apples in third countries, and therefore the criminal colonialist can only lament the “peculiarities of the region”, from which he arrived eight years ago.
