this is our team from moscow welcome if you just joined this is kevin owen taking you through our headlines this half hour the battle against russia's rampant wildfires is making headway tonight as officials say they've reduced the area of burning forests by a record breaking temperatures that led to the blazes have started to cool. russia announces next week small inched a date for a round first nuclear power station in bushehr saying the latest u.n. sanctions will defect the joint project director said to be loaded with nuclear fuel and it was for twenty for. one to commanders or to be given the marching orders on that massive wall of the military base in the moscow region footage of last month's fights be posted on the internet. more twenty four seven from us said r t v dot com our programs continue next after a glut of credit cards overdrafts and bank loans to satisfy the bloated consumer boom we report on how unguarded spending can sometimes lead to die consequences.

easy and convenient it is to live on credit. but many people get in over their heads in can't pay off their loans. get out of here what are you doing here. they're forced to pay their debts. the goldfish. was merciless today. to. do everything in their power to save their property. doing. what happens to people who don't pay their bills how does repossession work in russia how successful are collection agencies and bailiffs.

in. their utility bills. i guess they're expecting us. after ten pm before six am. that's why they start work at six o'clock. still sleeping. yes.

so. you have. picked up from across the these people have an electricity gas and. big reality show. unpaid utility bills accounted for half of. the first campaign acting on a. company by t.v.

crews. in february local residents not only paid their bills in full but even settled some of their debts after that considered in decided to organize such campaigns on a regular basis. doing this. today. it's for the sake of those who will watch this on t.v. it's. conclusion. local officials are explaining to sleepy delinquent little payers what will happen to them unless they settle their debts in the meantime ten uniformed female bailiffs are getting ready to hand in court papers to the debtors. to do i show my id. to the other man. the bailiffs grand entrance is an important part of the show t.v. viewers must see that bailiffs are nice people and there's no need to be afraid of

them as long as you follow the rules and pay your debts the papers have been served but that's not the end the debtor's board a bus. seats and told us a little uncomfortable. but is there any bus without. the bus takes the debtor's to see similar shacks. this is where these people will have to move unless they start paying for utilities . in this house you will fix them up a little there's no central heating no water just a well outside. real or not the scare tactics prove it stream we convincing two people out of nine pay their debts on the spot if a person refuses to pay even after a tour of the shacks bailiffs go to their house to impound their property. the two

place refrigerator whites dish and the used as. valley one thousand five hundred roubles while taking an inventory beginning his subordinates continue putting psychological pressure on the debtor the t.v. set cost seven thousand rubles but they appraise it it only seven hundred seven under this too little. make it at least seven hundred fifty i'm sorry i can't help it i want to need t.v. this will be my third. include the goldfish. just for lunch. and other t.v. . works ok make it five hundred roubles. at . a little off and.

i guess humor is my way of protecting myself against the stress. if you take everything you see. all of considered female each of them has experienced what they call a professional transformation they've learned to show no pity whatsoever to the debtor but these outwardly tough and sarcastic women have human feelings like anybody else. unfortunately i'm not wearing a tie right now. if they often come to my office sit down next to me and start crying before you know it my time. with it. nevertheless contain their emotions flawlessly even if they do business with celebrities or

sports stars. the former goalkeeper for russia's national football team at an international airport outside moscow. enough because you're on the phone i talk to myself if you talk to me i never talk to you. is that we were just the phone company to produce call records ok do it and. the goalkeeper owes about twenty six thousand dollars in payments his former wife went to court and cannot leave russia without paying the debt. yes to the bill but if you don't pay the debts we will see zia take it you return it to the airline the money goes into your wife's account we impound what else we can impound of your property you are still not free to leave russia so if you go back to moscow in the case of russia's family goalkeeper bailiffs have used a method of so-called reputation influence such methods are usually used in

collection agencies. this is a relatively new business in russia many people still think debt collectors are bandits who extort money through violence. but let me stress this is a myth we often use myths in our work people are afraid of us that's good that doesn't mean we are doing something illegal and they're afraid of us this means they will take care of their problem more quickly. a debt collection agency today needs a nice office charming employees and an understanding of the debtor psychology these people get up to fifty percent of the collected amount for their services. here's how debt collectors often work at first a woman with a gentle voice calls the debtor and tries to persuade him to pay off the debt the agency's director says single mothers from twenty five to forty years of age are ideal for the job. if this.

this is the data collection agency calling yes that's me how you paid your debt. i don't have the money right now. so i understand but you know last month you did it was only two thousand and twenty roubles this month it's all way to four thousand six hundred fourteen. i will pay it before the end of this month to be sure. we tell the person what will happen to him unless he starts paying first of all we tell him we will send a letter to your boss so he knows your dishonest person then we'll send this information to your relatives and neighbors after that we'll get court bailiff and we'll come together with the court bailiffs to impound your property when dealing with women we often tell them do you really want bailey's to come to your house and walk on your fine carpets and their dirty boots do you really want this.

debt collectors methods are generally effective up to thirty five percent of debtors return the money a very good rate most people do their best to pay off the debt in order to save their reputation. almost fifty percent of russians use bank loans people often borrow money to buy appliances furniture or new cars. psychologist claim that people are often tricked by easy access to loans and may not truly realize they'll have to return the money sooner or later and this is the first symptom of being addicted to other people's money. two years ago psychologists came up with the concept of credit mania. i'd say it doesn't go beyond the limit of what is acceptable but it's still

a deviation it's an obsessive desire to buy things on credit without the realisation that you have to repay all these loans. psychologists believe up to one and a half percent of russians suffer from credit mania these are usually junk people with a good income and the prospects of career growth. money to buy an expensive car. so they try to solve their problems by taking out loans they can no longer live without other people's money. or very impressionable. they are proactive and to a high degree of their behavior may be determined by emotions there is no great logic. with more and more debtors the burden of payment. immediately after the second world war nazi leaders were put on trial for more.

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the economic crisis dealt a serious blow to the credit market in russia. interest rates went up making it more difficult to pay off debts statistics indicate that the percentage of overdue loans has jumped from three to twelve percent. this is the village of michigan in the gun region two thousand kilometers east of moscow there have been several major bankruptcies in this little village over the last few years local businessmen took out a lot of loans to develop their companies and then simply disappeared now bailiffs come to their guarantors to collect the money from them. hello barely fat if i haven't aged care for you. i know who you are thanks come to wait to say goodbye to you forever. lydia lives in an old wooden house her little garden with a few hens and old t.v. and a washing machine is all she has all of this has long been impounded several years

ago lydia worked at a local food company the company director. asked lydia to sign her loan application as a. lady agreed and soon the director ran into economic problems. and i think she was on to a lot of pressure she was afraid to stay here any longer and so she took off and no we have to cover all her debts. lydia like seven now has to pay off two hundred fifty thousand roubles for her former boss that's forty five times more than her monthly pension the dia will have to pay for another person's debt for the next thirty eight years. i'm left with only room choice to hang myself. but. when i sound comes when i want to be able to feed him properly. fifteen

people were guarantors on my throat's of his loans to attend the beak of also worked at the company to tennis as she could not refuse to sign the guarantee. she was our boss you know so we were under pressure in these hard times nobody wants to lose their jobs. today to china pays half of what she earns to cover what her former director of those her property has also been impounded known to china is able to talk about her problems without getting angry the main lesson she has learned is that she won't ever be a guarantor again even if it's her closest friend who asks. an expensive now it's more like quite bad i have to pay this money anyway either i pay it to voluntarily or they will deduct it from my salary. bill is in charge of the case would be happy to find the throes of the company's former director and collect the debt from her rather than torment her. the only problem is both the debtor and her property are

gone. when you do you have done outs and doesn't exist please try again only. locating a fugitive debtor is one of the most challenging tasks for bailiffs according to law they cannot impound and so property unless they have proved that it belongs to the debtor this is a loophole for many evading their debts they simply register their apartments and cars as belonging to their relatives and get a low income job or move elsewhere. these people have come to the bailiff's office . looking for justice for three years now furniture company owner said of his owed almost one hundred fifty people money the businessman collected almost three million rubles in down payments it is customers never got their furniture. you're not doing your job. you're not executing court order we don't care how you find them you are not doing the job of it. in the meantime the bailiffs have impounded

all the property that was registered inside against amount of snail but it's made up for only three percent of the debt the businessman rebreather the rest of his property and his wife and sons names and has been in hiding for a few months now. we've done everything the loan executing course august permits and at the property and froze the debtors bank accounts. all these measures and. the bailiff is going to make another attempt to locate the fugitive this time together with our camera crew the bailiff goes to the debtors wife she continues to take orders for furniture only now she doesn't ferd different company. as i need to talk to you. people i'm going to talk to anybody. just talk for a second you know you cocked. up

. as a rule bailiffs go out to execute court orders and usually it's two women today they've come to a local company in penza. i need to see and the safety let's go out to myself company bosses are clearly not happy to see the bailiffs they're dragging their feet and are not willing to open the cash register and part ways with their money. show me where the cash is what cash for september there was no cash in september no revenues acceptable thinks through both the head of the company gets almost hysterical when he sees the bailiffs he's afraid of attacking government officials so he turns his rage against the t.v. camera instead we get this camera out of here i said get out of here. turn off your camera get out of here. what are you doing here i said get out.

get out. in case of emergency get to physical with the bailiffs the rapid reaction squad is on the ready. tons handcuffs tear gas pistols and submachine guns the rapid reaction force has the same authority as a swat team and is armed according. this must be clearly visible of course that they are negative towards us. because people need to vent their anger when their property is being seized. these members of the bill of service have regular shooting practice.

each member of the rapid reaction squad is an athlete most often experts there's even a special martial arts training program designed specifically for. your not an enemy helping him learn this technique so relax let's start again that out i go. before he joined the rapid reaction squad he's a football player the captain of the service football team the team plays in beach an indoor football tournaments yes dozens of awards for athletics achievements. when i came back from the army when i was playing in a local tournaments and somebody invited me to join. you. and first said his parents didn't like his new job there was too much

negative press about bailiffs but now the situation has changed. eventually people realized we're not. we're acting on a court order. doing this on our own initiative. but even in a quiet town like pens there are places where court bailiffs don't go without special support. the entire rapid reaction squad is on its way to a roma village they're carrying their guns to protect themselves against a potentially emotional reaction. as a sound bite here on a cord bank rate why don't you pay your debts we have no money much of what then else back to property no. problem i don't have anything this is all i have what are you going to take a look at my pilates these room are used to paying utility bills are the land tax no hurry to pay off the debts they've run up over many months they claim they can't

get a job or what can you do you something then fortune telling you everything there are girls try to get a job at a factory but they were told you're illiterate your gypsy has been there when you don't have anything for you yet they want us to pay for electricity for gas for water no discounts no favors. the main objective of the rapid reaction squad is to protect the executive bailiff in the past there were several attacks on court bailiffs in the roma village this time everything was quiet there have been situations in which people attacked squad members with firearms pitchforks or axis . what are you doing ok lady give me the axe back. almost. constant psychological pressure is the most difficult part of their job perhaps that's the reason only psychologically stable people can work here. as one of the most experienced workers at the service she's been working here for fifteen years. i'm ready to go. the going out to execute

a court order she's accompanied by her son. he's been working as a court bailiff for two years now jobs to protect executive bailiffs and today is the first time he'll protect his own mother. which of these chord you must present tomorrow at seven am please sign these forms. started a dynasty of bailiffs and in addition to her her elder son out of two it works in the system as well. bailiff to do should reporting nothing out of order business as usual. during the day attitude is posted as a guard at the regional court building in the evening he usually accompanies executive bailiffs he comes home late his wife at the door now the whole family's

here mother brother and little. how i did he he says. prior to his birth also worked as a bailiff she met her future husband at work he was assigned to protect her now takes care of all the time not only at work just as. strong his brave he's not afraid of anything he always protects me he wanted anybody mistreat me. did addition dynasty includes four bailiffs the four runner natalia hopes the tradition will continue and her little granddaughter saying you will follow in her footsteps. one mind bringing. me a text message congratulations and not the cord by a live born. since the start of the global financial crisis the number of delinquent debtors in russia has increased significantly the court bailiffs say they would be happy to run out of work some day but this isn't going to happen

because debt is part of our financial system and for many people human nature we like to borrow money and not everyone is always willing or able to pay it back. more news today. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. today.