Last week, the Kremlin announced April Fool's Day and named it "Udugov." Approximately once a quarter, the Kremlin undertakes to make us laugh in connection with Chechnya - this is difficult, the topic is a sad one. But it happens. Usually when the authorities are in dire need of undercover ...

Last week, the Kremlin declared April Fool's Day and named it "Udugov"

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Approximately once a quarter, the Kremlin undertakes to make us laugh in connection with Chechnya - this is difficult, the topic is a sad one. But it happens. Usually when the government is experiencing an acute undercover need to publicly report on the successful fight against terrorism.

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and this time they chose Udugov. And for a whole day, with the first news on all channels and programs, colleagues diligently “inflated” the long-deflated figure of a person who does not play any real role in the second Chechen war. However, they agreed to go to hell, proving: Udugov is almost a genius, and the “Chechen Goebbels”, and the main ideologist of terrorism, and Turkey, which previously did not want to do something bad to him ...

The apogee of the show was the press conference of the administration (!) of our president, dedicated to Udugov - of course, there are no other problems in the state. A member of the presidential administration, responsible for ideology, added to the development of the plot a fraction of the detective loved by the people. It turned out that "there" they know that "Udugov is located in one of the small states of the Persian Gulf, and ...".

It's funny, friends. Who does not know that Udugov is in Qatar. He himself did not hide this - since a long time ago he fled from Chechnya, from the war and the misfortune of his people. In these days of “laughter”, people from Chechnya called and said one thing: “Are you again representing us as idiots in front of the whole world? For what? Udugov represents only himself. And because Berezovsky tells everyone that they talk with Udugov from time to time, Udugov does not become more than he really is.

Sheer truth. Udugov is just a mask for our military-political theatre, he is always in the “whatever you want” pose, on the hook. And in itself - nobody, a cowardly person with perpetually sweaty hands. He did not win any information war. Because there was nothing to win. And if he could do anything then, it was to meet and accommodate journalists, arrange for them to have lunch and a car, and fill in the fog about the possibility of interviewing the Basaev brothers. The managing minister - that's the whole Udugov of the mid-90s. And later he completely shredded: he fled to Qatar and ideologically led from there an Internet site that could not be used in work, because there was no information there, and the one that appeared was always not confirmed.

So, laughter was announced on a different occasion? What happened to drag Udugov out of naphthalene?

Firstly, there are no others: they played a performance with Raduev in full, the time has come to report on the capture of the "terrorist leaders", but Basayev and Khattab are still not there. Secondly, now is the time to inflate the war, to reinforce the cleansing operations in Argun, the Kurchaloevsky district and Shali, where there are big problems with capturing real figures of the Chechen resistance. Well, a better candidate than "an irreconcilable ideologist of terrorism" is simply not to be found. In addition, it is not more convenient to find Udugov - he is harmless and timid, no matter how shallow, he will not answer. That's what came together. They made me laugh. Which time. True, not much: as before, everything that is presented to us under the guise of fighting terrorism is just one report on the fight against terrorism. None of the tasks of the “anti-terrorist operation” was completed in the third year of the war: people do not even feel relatively safe, Basayev still controls the Argun Gorge, the number of resistance is growing due to those who want to avenge their relatives.

But? But we have been shown eternal PR. Udugov is also part of it. PR in favor of the war. Not in favor of ending it. Chechnya continues to play the role of an on-duty “war zone” with a skillfully managed conflict, which is exploited with might and main ideologically.