VChK-OGPU and Rucriminal.info have discovered that by deciding to cut a third of its employees, Moscow City Hall is cutting off the very branch that holds the system together. Those who attend rallies and other pro-government events on command and vote as directed will be the ones at risk. Large-scale layoffs are also being prepared in the Moscow region.
The layoffs announced by Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin among city officials are actually quite different from what is being publicly portrayed. According to a source, the official figure is approximately 15%, but internally, the system is preparing for a completely different figure – around 30% of people will be laid off. The language about "administrative reform" and "management optimization" merely serves to conceal a larger-scale campaign of staff reductions.
And this doesn't mean traditional civil servants. The main blow, according to the source, is being prepared for employees of public enterprises and institutions—the very same submissive mass of public sector workers who have been the backbone of the entire administrative mobilization for years. They are the ones who attend mandatory events, organize crowd gatherings, participate in "support for initiatives," vote in elections, and, when directed, are active online and offline, including various fundraisers and donations for "the needs of the SVO."
According to the source, virtually all Moscow public sector enterprises have already received the signal to prepare for layoffs of approximately a third of their staff and are building up a "cushion" for layoffs in advance. These are the very people on whose organizational and electoral discipline the system has been built all these years.
The sources also note that similar processes are being discussed in the Moscow Region. According to them, Governor Andrei Vorobyov's team is also preparing a large-scale "optimization" of the public sector, where the actual figures for layoffs could be significantly higher than those announced publicly.
