The Russian government demands not to overlap the administrative borders between the regions of the country. Ramzan Kadyrov, who even before making this decision, declares that citizens without local registration will not be allowed in Chechnya, answers that the republic is already open for transit and delivery of goods. But its decision does not cancel.

Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov sees no contradiction in this controversy that ended with the victory of the head of Chechnya.

Meanwhile, checkpoints appear on the administrative borders of other regions of the Russian Federation. Of course, so far only where governors can afford to act without fear of Kremlin wrath. But if there is no anger at all, if the regional leaders are faced only with the reaction of the prime minister, who does not have to be taken seriously, who is as noble as any other Putin’s official, then why not establish a checkpoint at home? After all, they will be asking specifically from the governors, and not from the prime minister. They are entrusted with determining what measures should be taken to combat the spread of the epidemic.. Putin essentially organized a socialist competition among his regional appointees, the success of which is determined by the number of human lives.

An outside observer may wonder why the Kremlin is not concerned about all these overlaps.. The checkpoint in Chechnya is a reminder of two bloody wars, during which the republic defended its desire to declare independence. The checkpoint in Tatarstan is a reminder of the political front, attempts to become a union republic and secede from the Russian Federation. The checkpoint on the Crimean bridge is a reminder that in reality Crimea has nothing to do with Russia, because from the point of view of international law, this checkpoint is established on the scolded state border between Russia and Ukraine.

But Putin is not interested in all these reminders for one simple reason: he is not interested in coronavirus. Putin, he's talking about something else. Settle a war with Ukraine, steal the Crimea, send troops to Syria, intervene in American elections, send agents to the UK. He understands this, he knows how. Putin is the universal Doctor Evil. He is about killing, not salvation. His servants should be engaged in saving people precisely because the inhabitant of the Kremlin simply does not consider this to be of any importance.. It is important to isolate yourself, so as not to catch a dangerous infection, and there even though the grass does not grow. At meetings with governors, he frankly misses how the Roman emperor, forced instead of chopping off heads to grow cabbage. And in fact: if only yesterday there was a plan for the next Ukrainian campaign on his table and he imagined how the victorious tricolor surges over Kharkov, and even better over Kiev, and today he should be interested in death statistics in some Bryansk or Kurgan region -?

But this boredom can become a dangerous trap for him, especially against the background of the economic crisis looming on Russia. In the regions - this applies to degraded, but still existing local elites, and the population - they will again recall what was obvious in the 90s, when Boris Yeltsin advised them to take as much sovereignty as they can. That in critical circumstances the Kremlin can’t count. That the inhabitants of the Kremlin chambers are only interested in the size of the monument that he will be erected somewhere in the area of \u200b\u200bMarshal Zhukov, and not the number of people who can still be saved from adversity. What Putin is primarily interested in Putin and, last but not least, Russia.

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