In certain regions, certain people without a golden gun are somehow even uncomfortable to live. It is somehow uncomfortable. Someone imagines a golden parachute, and someone needs a gold pistol. But the case, of course, is not in the pistol and the arsenal of other weapons and ammunition found in the dagestan premiere. I think in Dagestan in almost any home you can find everything the same - only the pistols will not be gold, but the most common. What we are now witnessing is an attempt to take control of part of the territory of Russia.
It is Dagestan, and not Chechnya, as people in the habit of thinking - the most troubled place in Russia. It is here that the main cells of the Islamists, it is from here that the largest flow of people to Igil. It is here that the greatest corruption and the most criminal power. It is here that the distribution of roles between different clans depends as much nowhere. It is Dagestan in fact - the most uncontrolled place in the country.
Prime Minister Hamidov has been in various positions in the top of Dagestan since the mid-1990s. In 30 years he became Minister of Finance. Can you imagine the finances in Dagestan in 1996? And since then the man has been spinning there for 22 years. And not he alone. When Putin appointed the ally-governor of Dagestan, stranger Vasilyev, many twisted a finger at his temple. Stranger - he is a stranger. Does not know the local specifics, traditions, all interlacing and moves. But Putin, anyone, not a fool.
He in Dagestan needed a man like Kadyrov. Let there be anything happening there - the main thing is that under control. Kadyrov provided control, having received Chechnya at its full disposal. And in Dagestan, Putin therefore sent an outsider that the local could not cope in any way, and the republic became more and more tied up in crime and Islamism.
For several months, Vasiliev was eyeing, and now a power operation to change power. How this will end and what will be the resistance - we do not know. We do not know which people will be put in the place of those who are being isolated. We do not know if it will be possible to create an illusion of order in Dagestan, as in Chechnya. But the plan is clear. Another question is that this same treatment is not a disease but a symptom. Shake off the temperature, remove the swelling, rinse throat.
And if it's a virus, then its aspirin can not be cured. What does power need: a real order or an illusion of order? Do you need a real victory over extremism and crime or do you just need strong people who will crush crime and make it quietly work for yourself? Sooner or later we will have to solve these problems. And this will not only be the problem of Dagestan.
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