In early January, a human rights activist Peter Ivanov addressed to the head of the country to help the caretaker of the village brawlers Vitebsk region Leonid Zdrestov (pictured), which literally froze in his house.

Back in November 2013, exactly to the beginning of the heating season, the district State Fire Department forbade to Zdrestov use the oven because the chimney is made of asbestos-cement pipe. It was twenty years later, after the chimney was used by Zdrestov for its intended purpose - fume. For greater frighten Mr. Leonid firefighters warned that in case of violation of the requirements of its firefighters fined four million rubles.

Representatives of the executive and the prosecutor's office supported the decision to fire fighters. And no wonder: the previously Zdrestov often wrote in Minsk complaints about the indifferent attitude of local officials to the needs of a simple rural workers.

Living in cold wet apartment eventually adversely affected the health of 60-year-old single person . A few weeks after the onset of cold weather Zdrestov took to hospital with acute bronchitis .

Disease and bitter cold in the apartment prompted Mr. Leonid appeal to human rights activist Peter Ivanov to help him - to protect him from bullying sophisticated by the authorities.

The human rights activist in a short time to understand all the circumstances of the case and decided to write an open letter to President Alexander Lukashenko. He also sent a copy of the letter in the newspaper of the presidential administration "Sovetskaya Belorussia" state and local regional newspaper "Vitebsk news".

And although it has not reached the president a letter, along with copies sent to the newspapers, returned to Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee, it has had a positive effect. Local leaders of MOE smartly reversed their decision and again over the asbestos pipe smoke swirled awaited.

This special case only reinforces the feeling that in our kingdom-state something wrong. It is not the same thing royal climb on roofs and chimneys look in order to in the winter cold in the house rural janitor was warm and dry.