PREVENTION OF HOMELESSNESS ON ADULTS ARE CHRONICALLY EXCLUDED BUT THE ACE PROJECT THAT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE.

The UN's commitment to change aims to improve the world's cities and so change people's lives. The top 25 cities in the world account for more than half of the world’s wealth, according to a UN report.














Manager Garry Bryson of the Cyrenians were in attendance to make a slide presentation on the ACE Project there were twelve pilots across England, each with different approaches. Head of Strategic Housing, Regeneration Directorate wish to submit on a new initiative (ACE) to address the needs of Adults Facing Chronic Exclusion and providing a progress report on the current trends and management of homelessness in Newcastle upon Tyne. The ACE team won the Housing Heroes Support Team of the Year Award.

Last year, the Tyneside Cyrenians marked its 40th anniversary with a number of celebratory events and was named UK charity of the year. The Cyrenians were in the list of best companies to work for in 2010. Based on the feedback from staff, the review has shown effective communication between staff, the organization and throughout the structure of the management.

















The head of strategic housing of the regeneration directorate want to submit a new initiative to address the needs of adults facing chronic exclusion and providing a progress report on the current trends and management of homelessness in Newcastle upon Tyne. The ACE team won the Housing Heroes Support Team of the Year Award.

Now homeless adults who have problems like low self-esteem, depression, alcoholism or drug dependency, have the chance to take part in creative activities with professional artistes.

A new project, Creative Progression has invited the homeless to meet workers from the theatres of the North East to learn acting, drama activities, training and other opportunities accessible in Newcastle upon Tyne. The project has been organised by the Tyneside Cyrenians in conjunction with Newcastle City Council, Crisis, Helix Arts and the Arts Council of Great Britain.

With the support of the John Lewis Partnership, the Cyrenians opened their first charity shop in March 2010. Income from the sales will cover operating costs with any profit going towards the work of the charity.

The UK's first coalition government vow to reduce the country's deficit as quickly as possible over the next five years will have an impact on the Cyrenian's work.

The Ron Eager house operates at the sharp end, providing 'drop' support for the homeless close to Newcastle city centre. A range of home comforts, often taken for granted, such as food, warmth, clothing, washing facilities and companionship are available. And it operates an 'open door' policy where anyone over the age of 16 can access the centre.

The Drug Interventions Programme (DIP) works to reduce the damage done to communities as a result of drug -related crime and anti-social behaviour by getting users into treatment and keeping them there.

By Victor Yanulevich

ECONOMY GROWS LED UP IN BRITAIN’S REGIONS.

GATESHEAD, as part of the fast developing North East region, is preparing itself for a bid for city status. From the coal which powered the country, to the Angel which inspires it, Gateshead is advertising its successes. The council have been preparing their case, as one of the thirteen candidates for city status due to be awarded as part of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee celebration. The Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, will make the decision as soon as all the final documents have been received.

Gateshead council has at last approved a plan, subordinate to legal agreement, for the development of Trinity Square. Millions of pounds will be invested in the regeneration of Gateshead town centre, as well as an agreement to finance improvements to more than 1,800 houses; all as part of an £18.5 million development for the borough.














A year ago on March 5, 2010 the Labour party announced that Ian Mearns had been selected as their prospective parliamentary candidate for the Gateshead. Mr. Mearns was chosen after a postal ballot of Labour party members in the Gateshead constituency and after his selection said "I really felt it was important that the Constituency Labour Party had the chance to select a local person who cared passionately about the place and had a fundamental understanding of the needs and aspirations of local people. I give a promise and a commitment of tireless work for Gateshead and for everyone that lives here". He has encouraged his constituents to take advantage of free health check-ups, and supports the campaign of the British Lung Foundation to ban smoking in cars carrying children.

Ian Mearns MP for Gateshead and his professional team, Cllr Angela Douglas (Housing and Regeneration) and Cllr Martin Gannon (Environment), want to provide an infrastructure for Gateshead ensuring greater successes in encouraging residents. They intend to keep operational costs low without jeopardizing present standards or the environment.

The communities of Gateshead have benefitted from local residents who have made massive contributions to their area and have recently been honoured at a ceremony given by the borough council, which recognizes the hard work and dedication of those who go out of their way to make Gateshead a good place to live, work and visit. An award made even more special by the winners having been chosen by their own communities.

The risk of being a victim of crime in Gateshead has fallen to its lowest ever level, making it one of the safest places to live in Tyne and Wear. There were reductions in almost all the main categories of crime, registering fewer than 62 crimes per 1.000 populations within the last year, according to the council's source. On a regular basis, residents in Sunniside and Whickham and other surrounding areas of Gateshead are invited to online meetings with Northumbria Police.

Gateshead authority will be developing a 7.5 hectare site over the next few years to offer some of the most advanced housing in the borough. It will include safe public areas, hi-speed internet communication and places for the relaxation and leisure for the residents. But there are still a few problems to be dealt with, such as the roads. Accommodating strategic highway infrastructure has taken precedence over the wider needs of Gateshead town centre.

The area produces more than 110,000 tonnes of household waste every year, enough to leave the town waist deep in rubbish and equivalent to the combined weight of 550 Angels of the North. Currently, 75% of this waste goes to landfill. On average, each person in Britain throws away their own body weight in rubbish every seven weeks. The average Gateshead household produces about 1 tonne of waste per year, the same weight as a family car or around 509kg per person. The community needs as much involvement as possible from the people to reduce waste.


By Victor Yanulevich

CALAMITY’S LEGACY OF CHERNOBYL CONTAINING A RUNAWAY NICLEAR

The Fukushima nuclear accident has served as a reminder to us of the similar disaster at Chernobyl. The official estimation of the gravity of the Fukushima accident has been raised from level 5 to level 7, giving it equal severity as the Chernobyl disaster. The Japanese nuclear agency has reported that the radiation release could finally exceed the radiation release from the Chernobyl reactor.

Reactor No.4 at Chernobyl exploded on the 26th April, 1986. It caused a cloud of radiation that covered most of the northern hemisphere, carrying 5.2 million terabequerels of radioactive substances. On the first day of the reactor's failure, the radiation dose was estimated by experts at 20 million millisieverts.

















Designed in the Soviet Union in 1960, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant grew to become the biggest atomic power station. As a result of the explosion, an area of approximately 30 km. has been declared unfit for human habitation. The costs for the resettlement of the inhabitants from the affected area and the payments for medical treatment have been estimated at hundreds of billions of dollars.

The workers that participated in the shut down of the reactor and the decontamination of the immediate area were promised generous benefits for their highly dangerous work. The Chernobyl Union of Ukraine has estimated and published a list of victims of the disaster, amounting to almost 734,000 people. Livestock was also affected, and radiation traces have been found as far away as Scandinavia and Great Britain.

On the eve of the 25th anniversary of the disaster; Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, has hosted mass protests. Amongst these were 600,000 people who were the so-called "liquidators" from all over the former Soviet Union, sent to Chernobyl to shut down the reactor and clean up the area.

Approximately 2,000 people were involved in the shutting down of the Chernobyl reactor, previously regarded as the worst nuclear catastrophe in the world. The Soviet authorities were accused by the western media of concealment, deliberately blocking the free distribution of information on the accident.

Some of these protesters have seen their monthly pensions reduced from the equivalent of 200$ to 150$. This is just sufficient to buy the necessary medicines and food. The Ukrainian government has declared that it hasn't the money to pay the original sums promised to the tens of thousands involved in the aftermath of the accident. In Ukraine, about 4 million people have been affected by radiation, and more than 150.000 have had to be resettled. Approximately 5 million people have been affected by radiation in Ukraine, Belarus and Russia.

















Those who were caught in the fallout from Chernobyl have really suffered, and are now having their income from the certificates of liquidators cut. However, Alla Pugacheva, the Soviet and Russian singer and composer, visited the Chernobyl district once, avoiding the vicinity of the reactor, and was given a certificate of the liquidator and the financial support the genuine victims had.

Mikhail Gorbachev, the former president of the Soviet Union during the Chernobyl crisis, now heads the International Green Cross. He has used the 25th anniversary of the disaster to declare that the nuclear power industry is still not ready to deal with accidents or to work against climate change. The Soviet Authorities were afraid of panic, so did not cancel the mass demonstrations of May 1st. 1986. an action they later regretted, but by May 1st there was still no clear picture of what had happened. The facts were probably being concealed by officials afraid of being held responsible for any negative outcome by their superiors. The situation gradually became clearer through the scientists, engineers, military, helicopter pilots, miners and the personnel of the Chernobyl station.

The shell that Soviet workers hastily erected to enclose the reactor has since cracked, releasing traces of radiation, and an international effort to build and place a new containment structure may soon begin construction. The $2 billion - plus shield will include systems that remove heat from the damaged reactor and sensors that measure the new structure's integrity. The design is finished, but the project remains under funded. European Union nations so far have promised to cover half the cost: Russia, which controlled the Ukraine as part of the Soviet Union at the time of the disaster, has pledged just 1 percent.


By Victor Yanulevich

RUSSIAN AUTHORITIES ALLOW THE LAKE BAIKAL POLLUTION

"The Lake Baikal rift system is a modern analogue for formation of ancient Atlantic-type continental margins. It tells us the first chapter in the story of how continents separate and ultimately develop into ocean basins like the Atlantic Ocean."
Dr. Deborah Hutchinson
U.S. Geological Survey

"Lake Baikal is a unique, nearly pristine environment for the study of global change. Nowhere else in the world can we go to study so long a record of such an important, but little known, part of the global climate system."
Dr. Steve Colman
U.S. Geological Survey

THE MASS MEDIA have been reported that the unique ecosystem of Lake Baikal is under threat of destruction. The demands from scientists, ecological experts and environmental activists for the closure of production at the Baikal Pulp and Paper Mill, the main culprit for the pollution of the lake, have been ignored by the Russian authorities.

On the 26th October 2010, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed the order for the Baikal Pulp and Paper Mill to change to a closed-loop water circulation system, to end the pollution of Lake Baikal. This was tried before in September 2008, but the production of unbleached cellulose was stopped the next month and the mill closed as the system made production unprofitable.

The Baikal Pulp and Paper Mill, until the Autumn of 2008, was the main producer of pollution in the lake. The annual amounts of pollutants in the form of sewage were nearly 100,000 cubic metres. The volume of the annual emissions of atmospheric pollutants exceeded 30,000 tons. Production wastes contained significant concentrations of chlorines, phosphates, sulphates, nitrates, sulphur substances, phenols, heavy metals and other toxic substances.

The Baikal Pulp and Paper Mill was founded in 1966. From the start, the operation has changed its orientation from its strategic purpose to full industrialisation. The actions of the authorities led some to regard the factory and its purpose with irony and occasionally sarcasm.

Prime Minister Putin visited the mill in the summer of 2009. He has not said anything certain about the future of the mill, but has admitted the possibility of re-opening the plant. This will undoubtedly have a negative effect on the flora and fauna of the Baikal region.














There have been numerous protests by the inhabitants of the region demanding the closure of factories harmful to the environment. Approximately 2,000 people from the city of Baikalsk (population 15,000) work at the pulp and paper mill. As yet, the problem of unemployment has no answer, but the closure of the mill is a necessity understood by everyone. The serious effect on the ecosystem of Lake Baikal and its environs is one of the principle arguments of the opposition to this enterprise.

To draw attention to the serious environmental problems, the all-Russia movement "The Coalition for Baikal" was formed. This has the support of almost fifty non-governmental and ecological associations in Russia. The Coalition gave the Russian government an expert analysis of the projected federal target programme for the protection of the lake and the social and ecomonic development of the region. They specified a number of essential defects which, in the opinion of the ecologists will negate all the positive concepts contained in this very important document.

The proprietors of the Baikal Pulp and Paper Mill are the Federal Agency for State Property Management (Rosimushchestvo), 49%; and holding 51% is Oleg Deripaska. The media were informed at the beginning of 2010 that Mr Deripaska had offered to transfer 25.2% of his share holdings to the administration of the city of Baikalsk.

Lake Baikal is in the southern part of Eastern Siberia. It is the largest and deepest fresh water lake on the planet with a unique flora and fauna.














The network mass-media have reported that, on the 17th June 2010, Judge Vladimir Zajtsev of the Russian Supreme Court, after a few minutes deliberation, passed the governmental order of Russia of 13th January 2010. According to this document the Baikal Pulp and Paper Mill can dump industrial waste into Lake Bailkal. It is business as usual and confirms that the fate of the mill was decided in advance between Mr. Putin and Mr. Deripaska. But the case of the mill is not closed. The Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service was satisfied by the petition of the Cypriot company "Galibi Limited" for the purchase of 49.9% of the holdings of the Baikal Pulp and Paper Mill.

NATIONAL DISASTER OF VAGRANT DOGS AND CATS IN RUSSIA.

Picture and text by Victor Yanulevich

An old woman has died from rabies, two months after having been bitten by a stray cat in 2007. It is the first fatal case in the Voronezh area in the last thirteen years, a journalist from ROSPOTREBNADZOR reported to RIA News.

In the town of Verkhnyaya Salda in the Sverdlovsk area, there has been an outbreak of dogs attacking people. For the month of July 2006, twelve people were bitten, and for the first six months more than one hundred people were attacked. The last being a three month old baby.

In Vladivostok, guard dogs attacked passers-by, and in Tomsk a man lost both legs after being savaged by four dogs on the evening of the 6th April 2006. In Chelyabinsk a six year old girl died of rabies after a dog bite. In the capital during 2004, twenty-seven thousand, three hundred and sixty-eight people were bitten by dogs, the Association of Veterinary Science in Moscow told the media in 2006.

During one week in September 2005 in Kazan, stray dogs killed three people. Four deaths have been reported in the Astrakhan area. The statistics of guard dogs attacking people are supplemented by attacks by rabid strays roaming the cities.

The Russian mass-media are constantly publishing stories of shoppers carrying bags of provisions being attacked by dog packs. These packs tend to pick out women, children and the elderly and other more vulnerable members of society. According to Dr. Boris Samoilov, editor-in-chief of the Red Book of Moscow, stray dogs have destroyed nearly all the wildlife in the capital and the situation is close to critical.

These stray dogs carry a variety of infections. Even a small bite can transmit rabies and mutilation, loss of limbs and even death can occur from infected animals. The dogs are cross-breeds. The result of domestic animals abandoned by their owners that have developed into feral animals with the cunning, aggression and pack instinct to survive in the city.

In the autumn of 2006, the Moscow City Duma (Moscow's parliament) presented a bill titled "The Maintenance of Pets in the City", which should provide a grading system for breeds of dog considered "dangerous to human life in Moscow". This would mean restrictions on breeds such as fight rottweilers and other dogs used mainly as guard dogs as they have become the most common dogs responsible for the frequent attacks on people.

The statistics quote that 80-90% of attacks on people are from guard dogs or strays. And the number of feral cats and dogs in the city grows steadily. According to the Department of Housing and Communal Services, a shelter with places for twenty-two thousand animals will be opened. There are plans to open twelve more such pounds. Five thousand strays are already in shelters.

Already there are upwards of twenty-five thousand stray animals roaming Moscow and every year the figure grows by about five thousand. If caught, these animals are sterilized. A moratorium was called on the shooting of strays in Moscow more than eight years ago, but the problem of the strays was still a concern. Deputies of Moscow City Council have been told that, over the past two years, the number of complaints regarding dog packs terrorizing streets and public areas has grown sharply.

In early summer 2005, state health officer Gennady Onishchenko, signed a bill "to strengthen legislation to restrict the spread of rabies in Russia". The document admitted that in certain regions in Russia, rabies had reached epidemic proportions during 2005.

The result of the government's ill-informed programme of sterilization has not justified itself. It is estimated that there are one hundred thousand stray dogs on the Moscow streets. The workload of the dog catchers has become simply intolerable.

Thousands of Muscovites have repeatedly contacted the authorities and the mayor of Moscow, Yury Luzhkov, with complaints about the cruel treatment of, and requests for help with, these animals. But if a reply was received it was usually a refusal or an official letter outlining the Department of City Wildlife (Department of Housing and Communal Services) "Humane Policy of Sterilization of Stray Animals". Nothing has been done.

In the Russian media, the Department of City Wildlife have conducted a "disinformation" campaign regarding the success of the sterilization programme and the presence in Moscow of normally functioning animal pounds.

In the capital alone, it is estimated that tens of millions of roubles of budgetary money is spent on the treatment of those who have been attacked by the animals. Approximately thirty-five million roubles are allocated from the Moscow budget to deal with the problem of strays, but the utilization of these means cannot be checked. The harm done to the community when so many people have been injured and killed by feral animals is measureless.

Video monitoring has also shown that the number of stray cats is as great as the number of stray dogs. They suffer from the usual injuries of feral living as well as being victims of human cruelty resulting in torture and death. In 2004, it was revealed in Moscow that the captured strays were killed rather than sterilized.

On the 6th April 2004, in the Moscow City Duma, the results of the Commission on Municipal Economy were subject to checks by the Control and Accounts Chamber of Moscow. The effective utilization of funds directed to the regulation and maintenance of strays, were to be considered.

As the press centre of the Moscow City Government has reported; the City Management Department, the Prefectures of the Eastern, Western and Southern Administrative Districts, the State Unitary Enterprise for the "catching of wild animals", the company Zoo Service Ltd., and the city's animal sanctuaries; have all come under the financial scrutiny of the auditors of the Control and Accounts Chamber of the Moscow government.

In June 2005, the All-Russia Centre for the Study of Public Opinion (VCIOM) (www.wciom.com) led the questioning of experts from the trustees of Moscow's stray cat population, regarding the position of these animals. The results showed that the main cause of death amongst the cats was attack from stray dogs.

Under the European Convention on the Protection of Animals wrote, few russian non government organizations in 2004 sent a letters to former President Vladimir Putin, former Chairman of the Government of Russia Michael Fradkov, Yury Luzhkov the Mayor of Moscow and the Commission of Human Rights: "the reduction of the number of neglected dogs and cats by their sterilization is not humane to animals and does not allow reduction of numbers. Thereby contradicting the purposes of the application and is one of the bases for cancelling the programme".

The European Convention on the Protection of Animals states; "If the state considers that the number of stray animals represents a problem it should take the legislative and/or administrative measures necessary to decrease their number in ways that will not cause pain or suffering".

BANDIT CAPITALISM IN RUSSIA

Picture kremlin.ru

BY VICTOR YANULEVICH 03 Nov 2007

Banditos (from Italian. bandito - the robber, the gangster) - in Criminal Law one of the most dangerous crimes against bases of the government and a Society. According to the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation of item 209, banditos consists in the organization of the armed gangs with the purpose of an attack on State, public institutions or the enterprises or on separate persons, and is equal participation in such gangs and attacks made by them. The gang in Criminal Law is understood as the steady armed group of the people closely connected among themselves by the purposes of criminal activity and specially united for fulfillment of one or several attacks on State, the public institutions or the enterprises or on separate persons.

Capitalism generally refers to an economic system in which the means of production are all or mostly privately owned and operated for profit, and in which investments, distribution, income, production and pricing of goods and services are determined through the operation of a market economy. It is usually considered to involve the right of individuals and groups of individuals acting as "legal persons" or corporations to trade capital goods, labor, land and money (see finance and credit). Capitalism has been dominant in the Western world since the break up of feudalism, but some feel that the term "mixed economies" more precisely describes most contemporary economies, due to these economies containing both private-owned and state-owned enterprises, or that combines elements of capitalism and socialism, or a mix of market economy and planned economy characteristics. By Wikipedia.org


THE WORLD has been observed of events in Russia since that moment when Vladimir Putin became the president of Russia. Expected reforms in a political life have not occurred. With Mr. Putin Russia did not become the free and open country, the demography in Russia became the big problem. In Russia there people who have already in thousands begun to go missing. Today one of the main Russian problems is an arbitrariness of militia in Russia.

The majority of oligarchs of the first wave are now in prison or in exile, including Mr. Berezovsky who lives in the Great Britain since 2001. After the conflict with Mr. Putin he has been compelled to run abroad and is now in the Great Britain in safety, having found refuge status in 2003. Charges against Mr. Berezovsky have begun with 90-s' when the small, good-organized group of businessmen has made big business on extortionate privatization of the state activities of Russia.

The part of oligarchs has remained in Russia and as they successfully operate the business we see rather intriguing and stunning picture. Only the small handful, led by Roman Abramovich, the richest men of Russia, has managed to succeed both at Boris Yeltsin and at Vladimir Putin, its successor. A some Russians feel greater sympathy to the run away oligarchs. About 50 billionaires of the country, alive and their lives it is have more than made their money.

In Russia still anti-Semitism is still widespread and openly nationalist slogans express. The Most part of the capital is actually made by seven oligarchs who operate 50 percent of economy of this Russia. During 1990, six oligarchs were Jews: Vladimir Gusinsky, Boris Berezovsky, Michael Khodorkovsky, Alexander Smolensky, Michael Fridman and Valery Malkin. This fact is indisputable certainly, but it is result not small great plot by small group, and system which Soviet Union has created and the limited ability of Jews to assimilate and receive success in a society.

In Soviet Union ethnic Slavs dominated all the best posts and this in very bureaucratic an official Society, Jews who wished to be a success, have been compelled to leave in economy of the "black market". When communism has been destroyed, and the black market has been legalized as capitalism of the free market, Jews are businessmen had the primary beginning. But all this has changed, when Mr. Putin became the president of Russia in 2000. Vladimir Putin's previous work was KGB.

It is a notorious structure in the countries of socialist camps. When Mr. Putin came to power, the majority of the present Jews of oligarchs simply ran away. It concerns their refusal to observe Putin's new rules in Russia, rather than their culture and religion possibly more. During time execution of official duties Mr. Putin before the termination of its presidential term as Kremlin is "privatising politics".

THE END OF POWERFUL RUSSIA

ANARCHY OF THE RUSSIAN AUTHORITIES AND SOCIAL, NOT JUST ECONOMIC

“Irina Abramovich is one of Europe`s richest women after her 15-year marriage to the Russian tycoon ended in an estimated £1 billion payout." by Daily Express.

"Writes is necessary to note, that the Russian citizens not citizens of the Arabian sheikh and do not possess sufficient means for a worthy life. Someone has stolen the right to a life of Russians.

So “excellent health of the population, according to Department of public health services of Moscow, any Moscow's area cannot brag. " The facts an obstinate thing " More than three million Muscovites live in conditions of ecological discomfort, about one million - in areas of limiting discomfort " According to the professor of the Higher school of economy Alexander Golub, because of strong pollution of capital air in City of Moscow annually die about eleven thousand people.

" Russian people are haven't not yachts, not private villas - by Egor Gaydar foretell "crash of the Russian economy by 2015. Gradual reduction of the basic source of incomes of the budget from energy - on a background of prompt growth of social obligations of the state will turn back disorder of economy.

To leave crisis, in opinion of the economist, it is necessary to privatize the state monopolies, and on the basis of state fund to change a pension fund. “ “Catastrophe on a threshold by 2016 the population of Russia person will be reduced up to 135 million. Experts consider as principal causes of reduction of a population social shocks, low birth rate, large number of the families having one child, man's death rate, basically from accidents, and also reduction of an internal migration. "

“Moscow, 5 March, 2007, Russian Information Agency of News. By 2016 the population in Russia will be made about 135 million by person, deputy head of Federal agency on public health services and social development has informed Nikolay Volodin on Monday during “a round table “in Council of Federation.”

“A difference in incomes between highly remunerative and low profitable categories of citizens in 2006 has increased with 14, 9 up to 15, 3 times. The Head Minekonomrazvitija Herman Graf has declared it during performance in the government.

" Today In Moscow people protest on the street against oligarchs and the officials living on transformation of Moscow in the huge commercial market.

“Vladimir Putin: Dear citizens of Russia! Dear friends! Just according to the Constitution I had been said words of the presidential oath. Now I once again wish to return to its main sense and to tell: duties of the President to store the state and truly to serve people and henceforth will be for me piously, and henceforth will be for me above all.”