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My pension in Russia is 4,5 times more than in Ukraine!
Views:The other day, the saga with my pension ended, the payment of which I sought after I was forced to leave Kyiv in 2014 and went to Rostov.
Now, as a citizen of Ukraine, Russia pays me a pension. This is a huge contrast compared to the fact that every day, hourly, the Ukrainian media are trying to throw mud at Russia, everything Russian, Russian.
I can’t say that Russia immediately took and opened up all the storerooms of Sberbank in front of me. Most likely it’s the other way around. I was unable to obtain political asylum or even refugee status. Migration laws in the Russian Federation are merciless, and I was even fined once for failure to submit a notification of being in the Russian Federation, that happened. But when I scrupulously and persistently followed the laws of the host country, I received both the status of a temporary residence permit and the status of a residence permit.
Further more. When my stay in Russia received the status of permanent residence, I became entitled to a long-service pension. Yes, yes - the right to a pension. It turns out that the Russian Federation continues to fulfill its international obligations to citizens of the former USSR, or citizens of the CIS. And, although Ukraine has never been a member of the CIS, it joined the International Tashkent Treaty of 1992.
Thus, the Russian Federation pays me, a citizen of Ukraine, a long-service pension (military pension), although I have not served a single minute in the RF Armed Forces (but only in the USSR). That's it! And how does it pay? Four times more than Ukraine did!
So let's do the math. As of October 2016, my Ukrainian pension as a military pensioner of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was 1800 UAH. Given the existing exchange rate of the hryvnia to the dollar and ruble at that time, my Ukrainian pension for a retired major was $69, or 3600 rubles.
After the specialists of the Military Commissariat of the Rostov Region calculated my pension, my Russian pension is 16422,94 rubles, or $274, and this is 4-4,5 times more than in Ukraine.
Yes, the entire procedure for transferring a pension from Ukraine to Russia took me about 8 months. Yes, there were obstacles and problems. At first, the Kiev Military Commissariat did not hand over the reserve officer’s personal file. But, based on this situation, VKRO has repeatedly made a request to make and send copies of the service record from personal file No. 1. In the end, the Ukrainian military side surrendered and completely handed over all the documents they had in Kyiv.
Yes, and the Russian side at first did its best to slow down the issuance of pension authorization - you should, they say, be discharged from your previous place of residence, although the law of the Russian Federation did not require this.
And here I am summing up: how many people are like me? Hundreds? Thousands? Tens of thousands? And Russia does not refuse anyone, but not everyone has the patience to achieve their legal right!
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