Governor of the Stavropol Territory Valery Zerenkov reacted extremely sharply last week to the statements of his colleague from the Krasnodar Territory, Alexander Tkachev. Speaking at the board of the regional Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs on August 3, Tkachev complained that in the neighboring Stavropol Territory, in his opinion, lands are “very easily” occupied by people from the Caucasus and “the Russian part of the population feels uncomfortable.” “I thought and reflected that we would still have time, that there was a filter between the Caucasus and Kuban, the Stavropol region, but now I see that there is none,” the Kuban governor said then.

“I am a motorist, and I know what a filter is. This is a spare part. We have never been and will not be a spare part for anyone. I would not advise any governor to speak out whether we are a filter or not,” Zerenkov said at a press conference based on the results of the first 100 days of my work. “I realized that we filtered, but they remained clean.” The governor of Stavropol also did not agree with his colleague’s thesis that it is necessary to “squeeze out” migrants from the south of Russia. “We will not push anyone out, we will work with everyone. If you come, it’s good, but don’t break the order that has been established for years,” Zerenkov said. However, the governors of Stavropol and Kuban agreed on one thing - the need to support the local Cossacks.

Stavropol region does not filter