WHO WILL LEAD DAGESTAN

INSTEAD OF ELECTIONS

The long-term and permanent head of the State Council of the Republic, 75-year-old Magomedali Magomedov, submitted his resignation. However, his term and so expired in June of this year. Apparently, in the Kremlin, with the mediation of an plenipotentiary who understands the situation ...

The long-term and permanent head of the State Council of the Republic, 75-year-old Magomedali Magomedov, submitted his resignation. However, his term and so expired in June of this year. Apparently, in the Kremlin, with the mediation of Dmitry Kozak, the presidential envoy to the Southern Federal District, who understands the situation, they decided that it was not worth allowing the unbridled passions of some local politicians in an already troubled republic torn apart by clan wars to boil to the limit. The process has been sped up.

But for the people they played a performance. Putin said to “grandfather” (as Magomedali Magomedov is popularly called): they say, stay at least for a while (up to 80 years). And he allegedly answered: thanks for the high trust, but I can’t - for many years, I will make way for the young. Last Friday, two days after this performance, Dmitry Kozak arrived in Dagestan to consult on a successor.

Gathered, as they say, the entire hozpartiktiv together with the opposition. And the latter, it seems, were not called. "Grandfather" nominated 65-year-old Mukhu Aliev, the chairman of the People's Assembly of Dagestan, as a successor, a politician of the old Komsomol-party temper, but who kept his name clean. One of his revelations was a phrase uttered after the tragic events of May 9, 2002, when 43 people died as a result of an explosion during a demonstration in Kaspiysk: “They get jobs in the police for two thousand dollars, and in the prosecutor’s office for five thousand dollars.”

It is also noteworthy that the Darginite Magomedali Magomedov proposed the Avar Mukhu Aliyev instead (which, let's say, is not very accepted). They have in common: in the most difficult situations, Magomedali could take - and took - situations under control with frantic pressure and Napoleonic dedication, as was the case in May 1998 - during the seizure of the State Council of the Republic by the Khachilaev brothers. And in the period between battles, "grandfather" worked for the material support of his children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren and future great-great-great-grandchildren. Muhu Aliyev also knows how to convince.

Aliyev's rival is 52-year-old Dargin Said Amirov, the current all-powerful mayor of Makhachkala, a graduate of a fur technical school. Whose talent and material well-being developed much more successfully than the heroes of Ilf and Petrov. Dozens of Amirov's opponents left for another world, and he himself survived 15 assassination attempts. As a result, he became disabled and moves in a wheelchair, but is still courageous and ready to fight.

The third candidate named is Saigidgusein Magomedov, 45, head of the Dagestan Treasury. He was born in the homeland of two great imams, Shamil and Gazi-Magomed, in the village of Gimry, Untsukulsky district. He married the sister of Gazimagomed Gimrinsky, who has a serious authority in the criminal world of Dagestan, Chechnya and beyond, whose people were involved in more than one dirty story, including kidnappings and murders. He is also supported by the semi-criminal fraternity from the opposition called the Northern Alliance, which yearns for change and redistribution. This is a minus. And a plus for the republic is that Saygidhuseyn studied in St. Petersburg, he is familiar with Gref and Kudrin.

But Putin also has his own NZ for the post of leader of the republic: 60-year-old Ramazan Abdulatipov, Doctor of Philosophy, professor, who for several years headed the Ministry of Nationalities of Russia, is now ambassador to Tajikistan. Our president has experience of unexpectedly returning ambassadors, appointing them to the highest positions, especially since Abdulatipov coped with his mission in Tajikistan. True, Abdulatipov has one minus. In his native republic, he often visits: it will not be easy for him to assemble a team. However, this may be a plus. He will gather just honest and knowledgeable people, and not “his own”.