75% of electorate backed up Sergei Vorobchukov, the Council leader of Omsk Agriculture Movement
during the RF State Duma elections (thete are 240 thousand people from27 rural districts of Omsk region). He is proud of such trust and realises thet he must justify it. It is his civic and human duty.
- I happened to be at the State Duma Agriculture Committee not accidentally. I am a country man as I was born and brought up in Astyrovka village. After graduating from the machine-buiding faculty of Omsk Politechnic Institute I have worked at the sphere. So I knew the country problem not by hearsay. And I hope that we can change the situation in agriculture radically. What can we do? We can find out the situation existing and help financially or organizationally or with legislation to give the industry an opportunity to develop of full value, to make it competitive and attractive for investors. Now we are working out " the Law on Agriculture". Its aim is to create principles for those who work there and who invest.
- Why is it necessary to set up rules again? Agriculture was not born yesterdayyesyerday?
- The point is that there are no rules! The situation in the country is constantly changning and it's necessary to adopt to new conditions. I'ts an endless process. Working at the State Duma I like to have an opportunity to plan some problem solution, carry it out and observe the result. Now it's necessary to use some leverages for import production not to oppress us. Law-making activity will always be necessary and acute.
- What factors used you to make change your job?
- Interest is.. There is such a rule that a person achieve much when he likes his work and not when he goes to work as a deed. I was happy because I always did what I liked. Since childhood I've known and liked machinery - and has handled with it for the whole life.
I like to communicate with people, do something for them - I had such an opportunity being the head of the company and have it now having become a deputy.
- What are the events in your life when you could say ; who if not me?
- When I went to enter the institute I had feeling that I must enter by all means not to let my parents down.
In panic I've taken all the exams and entered! Similar feelings I had when years later they offered me to be head of the enterprise which I agreed to have a test of my professionalism. Now at the State Duma I must justify my voters confidence.
- Didn't your sense of duty disturb you?
- Never. The word "necessary" is the main for me. If the thing, I must do, deals with the enterprise, society, I'll carry it out by all means even if I have to waive my feelings. As for me personally, I can wait.
- We are talking about civic duty and don't remember about human one Are you a good son?
- Yes, because these notions are inseparable for me... But as a son, because of different circumstances I am not attentive to parents. I don't have enough time. I repent it that a civic duty is more important for me than a human one.
- Do you have debts?
- No debts. When together with my wife after graduation from the institute we were poor, I used to borrow the little nothings of life from neighbours before I got salary. But more often I lent money. And not always people didn't give it back. Frankly speaking, I didn't offend, try to forget about it - it's an easier way of life.
- What do you put to the back burner?
- Nothing. I have a principle not to accumulate problems, but to solve them as soon as possible. I try to rate my strength and possibilities to do something, not to drag it out. It's unacceptable neither for me nor for other people.
Elena Tsygankova
"The faces of the year", November, 2004