Penza, 30 January 2018. PenzaNews. The former deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Penza region Dmitry Semin, who is currently concentrating on business development, suggested that a department on human recourses and youth relations should be established.

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"I think and I have already suggested our governor [Ivan Belozertsev] that a body responsible for youth relations and human resources should be established in the region and in Russia. Youth must be busy completely with what they are good at and what they like to do. Then, we should use the boundless energy, ambitions, brain, and talent to develop the region and the country," he wrote on his Facebook profile.

Dmitry Semin suggested that officials "do not care about such long-term issues" because many representatives of the authorities "will not live that long to see results of the horror created by the modern system" due to their age.

"That is why it is easier and more profitable to purchase carved front doors made of oak for the cathedral under construction, which cost 90 million roubles, and to sell ZIF factory, from where trucks have been leaving the whole year without a break," the former deputy noted.

Speaking about his political career, which had been interrupted after elections to the regional parliament in 2017, Dmitry Semin shared the events that preceded the election campaign.

"It is very funny to learn from different people that those who you had considered your teachers – V.I. Trokhin (deputy chairman of the Penza region government) and V.K. Lidin (chairman of the Legislative Assembly of the Penza region) – betrayed you saying that I was a young rebel who did not want to participate in the elections to the Legislative Assembly, that is why it was not worth supporting me. But you know when Lidin said that I am young and must be "pulled" while there are a lot of well-to-do candidates I understood that it was a betrayal and I would not get support of any kind. He has always promised a lot but in fact he is just a windbag," Dmitry Semin wrote.

He also called a lie the information that appeared in the mass media that Ivan Belozertsev allegedly offered him to take office as a deputy head of the Bekovsky area.

"All my friends were laughing out loud while reading the article of an allegedly reliable source of the government that the governor offered me the position of deputy head of the Bekovsky area. This is a lie as the governor has never offered anything to me and I have not met with him," the ex-deputy claimed.

According to Dmitry Semin, the issues faced by Penza youth nowadays are typical for the whole country.

"Things that are happening in our region are happening in the whole country. Unfortunately, this is the system we have. The future and long-term plans are not taken into consideration at all. As Machiavelli wrote, if personal benefits are above public ones, the state will collapse," he summed up.

As it was reported before, in November 2017 the ex-deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Penza region Dmitry Semin made the resounding statement that the authorities do not need the youth and urged officials to think about resources potential of the region.

Almost three weeks later the governor Ivan Belozertsev commented on his words admitting that such a problem does exist.