The first article of the Federal Law "On the Status of Military Personnel" states that state authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, local self-government bodies and organizations have the right to establish, within the limits of their powers, additional benefits, guarantees and compensations for military personnel, citizens dismissed from military service, and members of their families. There is a similar example in the Urals, where a local law on additional measures for social protection of war veterans was adopted. However, the attitude to people of military destiny, the army, and the problems of national defense in the region-the forge of Russian weapons-is not limited to legal acts. Among the unwritten laws of life in the Urals is a constant concern for the military-patriotic education of young people. This is told by the Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Sverdlovsk region Semyon SPEKTOR. - Semyon Isaakovich, for the third year in the Sverdlovsk region, a month of mass defense work is being held-the month of defenders of the Fatherland. What is the reason for such close attention from the governor and the regional government to people in uniform? - I would like to emphasize right away that attention has been paid not only to people who are directly related to the Armed Forces today, but also to everyone who has ever been in the army or is still preparing to join it in the future, as well as to everyone who cares about the fate of the defenders of the Fatherland. As for the idea of the month itself, this is a direct initiative of our governor. He has a special intuition for the progressive. She, in fact, suggested to him that it is urgently necessary to do something effective to raise the authority of the military, to give the army due attention. Eduard Ergartovich Rossel, by the way, is not afraid to publicly admit that we once offended the military. The country seems to have forgotten for a while about what the army did an ... Читать далее