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As bloggers with Kadyrov met
Last week, Ternovskiy and I flew to Grozny. To meet with Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of the Chechen Republic. When I was invited, I did not hesitate for a second and agreed. Kadyrov can be treated differently, but this personality is very interesting and ambiguous. I wanted to make my own impression, and I did it. In addition, I was already in Chechnya three years ago, I liked the city of Grozny: it is actually very different from other Russian capitals, and for the better.
Ramzan is also different from other regional leaders. First of all, in communication, it seemed to me not as officially-produced as the practical majority of our officials. Even at a large official event that took place in his pompous residence, Kadyrov constantly joked and smiled.
The topics of the conversation were very different, I chose a few to share with you. To agree or not is everyone’s business, but to read is worth it.
1. In this hall there was a meeting of Kadyrov with Russian bloggers. Most of them were invited from Chechnya and neighboring Caucasian republics, several people came from Kazan, Yekaterinburg, Ufa. And we are with Ternovsky as representatives of the Moscow Blogosphere. Then I will quote the most interesting moments of the meeting, the transcript of which was recorded by the Chechen blogger Leko Gudaev Leko007 .
2. On the development of tourism in Chechnya: earlier we could not even talk about the development of tourism. It was simply not before that, despite the fact that even a whole committee at the ministry worked for us. Now we have created a separate committee on tourism in the government. They actively work in it, agree on investments. We will actively develop this direction. Soon we will build in a formidable observation deck, from where it will be possible to see the whole city and the surroundings. We are just starting to engage in tourism, but we start seriously.
3. On social networks: I used to think that people do not believe everything that they write on the Internet. It turns out they believe and believe everyone. For example, I wrote about our sparring with the Minister of Sports in a joking uniform, and then it turns out that even in England people say that Ramzan brings up his ministers so. And no one says that this minister is my friend, an eminent athlete and boxer. That we fought with him, that he and his brother are boxing coaches. That it was just a joke. It turns out that if I am the head of the republic, I can’t joke. I am a man, after all. No one is just interested in anyone, and they say only “beat”.
They write about me in the networks that I am so bad. In fact, I'm not like that. I never killed, I can’t even cut the chicken. In fact, in social networks, not all are so smart and competent. They sometimes ask such questions that a normal person simply cannot ask. What they don’t write!
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5. About the Russian opposition: there is no opposition in Russia, these are just loners that no one is behind. Why today initiate a criminal case against Navalny, even if he committed a crime, and make a hero out of him. Nemtsov, Kasyanov - they worked in this structure, why did they then put things in order? For example, I would love to accept those who say that I work incorrectly. I would give them a section of work so that they show how to work. Navalny talker, reads and writes a lot. Writes anything. Yes. Sometimes he writes the right things. If someone has a thousand subscribers on the Internet, this does not mean that they support him all, many are simply interested in reading. I am waiting for professional criticism, and some like to just chat. One wrote to me that everything is bad with us through the line of education. And what? He has ideas, how to improve the situation in the field of education? I call him: "Come on ideas." He studied poorly on full -time, he was transferred to correspondence. So he says that our education is bad! He does not walk, does not study, does not attend lectures, and he explains to me how to build education.
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7. On terrorism: a real Chechen will never be in the ranks of terrorists, will not support those currents as Habashism, Wahhabism, Terrorism. A real Chechen, on the contrary, must protect the weak. Europe always reproached us for violating human rights, and last year they said that human rights are not violated in Chechnya - this is a good result. America appropriated the Terrible reward as the most dynamically developing city in the world. By the will of the Almighty, I got this position, I try not to bring the team that our first President Akhmat Haji Kadyrov gathered. First of all, I am a Muslim, and therefore I am afraid of the Almighty. I know that in this world I can find a loophole, and there lawyers will not help. There, in front of him, you must report.
Some present everything as if Kadyrov can only kill. Why do I need it? This is my people, I, Ramzan Akhmatovich, fought for him against terrorists and fought with those who violated the rights of people. I stopped the flow of stolen cars without documents, removed tinting from cars, removed all the checkpoints. I organized all this, why should I break human rights after this? This is my homeland, I was born here, lived and I will live.
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9. About the morals of Chechens.
Dima Ternovskiy : What do you answer others when they ask, “here, you bought piston cages, gold toilets, phones, and all this for the money of Russian taxpayers? Whose money is this happening?”
Ramzan Kadyrov: If you think that everything in the republic is done at the expense of the Russian budget, you are mistaken. I used to do business. He even invested fatherly money. We have my own cars, I buy them with my own money. Why should we drive bad cars?
Not a penny from the budget was used to build this building in which we are. There are agreements, with private investors, with Chechen investors. As a result, they received a beautiful center of the city. And people who should rejoice that people who defended the integrity of the Russian Federation have lost property, the republic, hundreds of thousands of dead and missing people began to live better, are indignant. The Chechens, dying, defended the Russian, sovereign state of Russia. The republic was destroyed to the ground, and no one cares about this. We had Kayena, and everyone wondered where they came from. Ask if there is a piston-kaine, Ferarry on the balance sheet of ministries. You simply will not find them, but you can write anything.
I assure you, we will be even better. We are hard workers. Our ancestors lived in 5-story stone towers, when others lived in dugouts. We lived proudly and proudly died. We have such a feature: as soon as we have money, we first build a house and buy a car. We will deny ourselves everything, but we will do it. People who do not know how to live, receive unemployment benefits - let them be indignant. Why should they answer? I suggest that Chechens study, work and live peacefully. This is me and you suggest that you live with us peacefully. Who wants to understand the Chechen, he must study our rules of life, the mentality of the Chechen. The Russians have the same.
10. And what would you ask Kadyrov, be such an opportunity?
