"Sowing Campaign Is Long Over, But He's Forcing People To Work 12 Hours"
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A Kobryn vampire-official is terrorizing his subordinates.
Kobryn official Dzmitry Misiuk has been in the limelight of the Belarusian mass media for his abuses for several years. But all this is not the obstacle for him to hold managerial positions and continue violating the rights of workers, reports Belsat.
From Veterinarian To "Deputy"
Dzmitry Misiuk worked as chief veterinarian of Kobryn district until he was appointed director of the Kobryn poultry farm in December 2011.
In 2012, Misiuk was already running for parliament as a candidate of the pro-government Republican Party of Labor and Justice. However, he primarily played the role of a spoiler candidate for incumbent MP Aliaksandr Zazulia, in favour of whom he withdrew from the "elections". Two years later Misiuk was made a "deputy" of the Kobryn district council, where before that Tatsiana Misiuk was the chairman. It is unclear whether these Misiuks are related to each other.
In early 2016, the Kobryn "deputy" was promoted to the neighbouring Drahichyn district, where he took up the post of deputy chairman of the executive committee responsible for agriculture.
"Tell me, what other European country can boast that it has all the agricultural products it produces highly-demanded? Just give the quality and volume. And after that, you have to think and reduce costs," the official said in December 2016.
However, the results of his work were far from even the ones of the previous years: either the spring was too wet, or the summer was too dry.
Threats, Blackmail And Gratitude
Misiuk soon returned from Drahichyn district to his native Kobryn district. From the position of deputy chairman of the Drahichyn district executive committee to the position of deputy chairman of the Batchy collective farm, where Belsat correspondents first met him in December 2017. According to human rights activists, despite his post as deputy chairman, the former deputy was "running things even harder than the executive who is in charge of the collective farm". No reason could be found for downgrading the official so drastically.
In his interview to Drahichyn journalists, Misiuk thanked the villagers "for their hard, selfless work, for their devotion to the land and the farming", bowed low "to industry veterans for their contribution to today's achievements" and wished "good health and well-being to you and your families". But the reality was different.
The working hours of the collective farmers in "Batchy" were increased without adequate pay, and one woman - a mother of eight children with 23 years of experience - after a heart attack and clinical death was so loaded with extra work that she ended up back in the hospital.
It's curious that even the state-run Sovetskaya Belorussiya wrote about the abuses of the functionary in January 2018. At that time, a young zootechnician from the collective farm described how Misiuk and the director were forcing her to resign, depriving her of allowances and so on. And even the collective farmer's husband became a victim of the pressure:
"Dzmitry (Misiuk) called and said: For your wife's antics [an appeal to the newspaper. - Ed.] you must look for a job. We will put up with your wife, but you can write a resignation letter starting from tomorrow".
However, the officials from the Ministry of Education and the Brest Regional Executive Committee made the zootechnician to blame, attributing everything to the conflict of generations and the fact that "not all university applicants realize the difficulties they will have to face after graduation".
The official left the Batchy collective farm but soon reappeared in a new one. In November 2019, he, then already a deputy of the JSC "Stryhava", was awarded an honorary certificate by the Kobryn district executive committee.
From "Stryhava", Misiuk was taken to Kamianets district. There he was in charge of the Aleksandryja-Ahra farm in 2020 and 2021. Back then, the acting director attributed the slow pace of harvesting to the fact that "some of the grain and leguminous crops were beaten to the ground by heavy rains".
"Makes Us Work 12 Hours A Day"
And this year, having changed half a dozen places of work in three districts of Brest region for less than 6 years, Dzmitry Misiuk became deputy director of "Haradzets-Ahra" in Kobryn district.
According to the local residents, the "experienced manager" not only continues to put pressure on his subordinates, but in general treats the entrusted enterprise carelessly.
"People are constantly complaining about him", the locals say.
For instance, the cows in the stables are not given enough fodder. And when sick animals are taken out of the complex, they are simply thrown on the ground without even an effort to cure them. Cereal fields have been treated with poisons to such an extent that the grain is burnt.
The manure from the stables is dumped on the concrete and glass, and afterwards it is thrown all together on the piles, which results in the deterioration of machinery.
In some places, the manure has been dumped directly on the tall grass, although it could have been mown for fodder for the cattle.
Workers who express their disagreement with management's actions get under pressure and are even physically abused, they try to hide it. They do not want to pay for sick leaves. Claims for alleged absence from the workplace are made against people, even if they are on their lunch break.
And the potato plots are given to the collective farmers without taking into consideration their wishes or the length of service. It happens that the manure is not brought to the fields, but money is charged for it.
"With wages, with overtime... nothing is paid. The sowing season is long over and he makes people work 12 hours a day. He does not write orders about this, which people have to sign," locals say.
According to rumors, the reason that Misiuk, despite all his "merits" is still holding high positions, may be his "classmate" in one of the ministries in Minsk. It is interesting that the rise of the former veterinarian's official career comes at the time when Ivan Bryla, the current head of the department of agriculture and a peer of Misiuk, who had also studied to be a veterinarian, became deputy minister of agriculture. We do not know where the Dobryn official studied, but given the fact that the "main and only" veterinary college in Belarus is the Vitsebsk State Academy of Veterinary Medicine, from which Minister Bryla graduated, we cannot exclude that it is him who is the mysterious guardian of Dzmitry Misiuk.
A Drunk Driver or the First Guy in the Village?
With the help of the cyber-partisans who gained access to various databases of the Belarusian authorities, the newspaper correspondents have learned that untimely payment of salaries is one of the most characteristic features of Dzmitry Misiuk. Over the past 20 years, dozens of administrative reports have been drawn up against him, half of which are related to this very fact.
For instance, he didn't pay the salaries to his employees for March 2014 - apparently, he was too busy with the election campaign to the Kobryn district council. As a result, 712.2 million non-denominated rubles, or approximately $72 thousand, was owed. In 2013, he was again late in paying salaries to his 338 employees for July.
At the same time, the official and businessman does not deny himself salaries. Thus, in 2020 he earned $ 692 in dollars at Stryhava and $ 19,112 at Aleksandryja Ahra. Not bad monthly salaries of over $1,500 for a deputy chairman of a collective farm. He earned over $12,000 in 2018 and over $10,000 in 2017. And that was at a time when collective farm workers were complaining that they were getting as much as a quarter of his monthly income.
Dzmitry Misiuk also likes to travel abroad. Especially to Poland and Ukraine. And the "experienced manager" likes to rest at Bulgarian resorts.
The police protocols reveal the possible reason for Misiuk's dismissal from the post of deputy chairman of the Drahichyn district executive committee. On January 21, 2017, traffic police officers stopped him while he was driving being drunk. Not the best trait for an official who has not even been in office for a year.