"Classical post -Soviet official"

Sergey Aksenov was elected head of the Republic of Crimea, formed on March 18, 2014 after the annexation of the peninsula by Russia

On Thursday, the State Council of Russia annexed by Russia elected the head of the republic Sergei Aksenov. The deputies formally chose from three candidates: together with Aksenov, Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed to the heads of the newly -made Republic of Crimea of the Minister of Ecology, one of the leaders of the regional branch of the Communist Party of the Communist Party Sergey Naraev and the State Duma deputy Alexei Terentyev. However, the fact that parliamentarians would approve Aksenov, almost no one doubted.

Sergei Aksenov served as chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea from February 27 to March 17 this year, then, immediately after the annexation of the peninsula ( on March 16, a referendum was held on the accession of Crimea to Russia ), was appointed Prime Minister. On April 11, the State Council of Crimea invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to appoint Aksenov the acting head of the Republics of Crimea.

From 2010 to 2014, Sergei Aksenov was a deputy of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Crimea, headed the Russian Unity party. According to the media, in the 90s Aksenov was a foreman of one of the organized criminal groups, known in criminal circles and police reports under the nickname "Goblin".

About why the Russian government chose Sergei Aksenov as his protege in Crimea, says Pavel Kazarin , journalist of the Crimea. Realii project:

- In general, after the March events, the so -called "Crimean spring", an amazing situation has developed. We see that in Sevastopol and in Crimea those people who were, let's say, Crimean contractors of the Kremlin architects of the Crimean Spring, and in Sevastopol it is the People’s mayor Alexei Chaly , in the Crimea it is Sergey Aksenov and Vladimir Konstantinov, these are people who, if pleased, are anthologically different. Because Alexei Chaly is a businessman, and for the past 10-15 years he did not monetize his pro-Russian, but on the contrary, he invested unnecessary funds in it. He built the memorial complex "35th coastal battery", making a free entrance there. He produced and removed the cycle of historical programs about Sevastopol with his own money, he was always such an ideological supporter of the "Russian world", an ideological idealist, if you like.

People like Sergei Aksenov are classic post -Soviet officials

And people like Sergei Aksenov are classic post -Soviet officials. He perfectly learned all the lessons and today approves of any decision of Moscow on a preliminary, no matter how ridiculous it may be. He perfectly understands that it is loyalty that guarantees political survival. That is why nothing unexpected of his lips will never sound. He will be a wonderful screw in this extremely hierarchical and strict Russian power vertical, ”says Pavel Kazarin .

Sergei Aksenov actually heads Crimea for about 8 months. During this time, Crimean Tatars, as well as representatives of the peninsula, have repeatedly been announced about violations of their rights. The chief editor of the Ukrainian publication Blackseanews Andrei Klimenko is sure that the methods of the Russian authorities, who came to the Crimea, are well familiar and close:

- The educational institution that this gentleman graduated from was preparing the Zapoliths in the construction troops in the Soviet Union. That is, these were typical such "trigger". His dad was an uninhabited retired captain of the Soviet Army in Moldova, in Transnistria. This is the genesis of Aksenov. Then this kid became the foreman of the gangster group. At the same time, not some big leader. The gangster group just went, and she had a route from the street to the street such and such-to go along the stalls and sew 100 hryvnias from all. This is his level of thinking.

Everything is decided by them in a different format: he went to the stall, he said: "From you 100 bucks! Has it? Live further, until tomorrow!"

Attribute to these people some legislative, state activity? We cannot take it seriously. They understand that politics is not solved as we are used to counting, in the format of legislation. Everything is decided by them in a different format: he went to the stall, he said: "From you 100 bucks! Has it? Live further, until tomorrow!" - believes Andrei Klimenko.

Immediately after the referendum on the accession of Crimea to Russia, the ruble became the monetary unit of the peninsula, which caused a sharp increase in prices for many types of products and their disappearance from a number of stores. About what is happening today with products for products in annexed Crimea stores, Radio Liberty was told by local entrepreneur Igor Brudny :

- The assortment has decreased, without question. How many times - it is difficult to measure. But that assortment that was, of course, it is not simply in supermarkets. There are all, of course, the same fruits, vegetables in the markets, there is no particular problem. There are striking jumps regarding prices. I think that it will rightly say that everything at least has risen in price by 40-50, this is a starting position, and different things have risen in different ways, something by 70, something by 80, and something twice, something three times. There are absolute record holders, well, conditionally, say, large nuts - I saw this with my own eyes. Last year, I bought them 25 hryvnias of a kilogram, this year I saw the same nuts on the market for 350 rubles, that is, at the current course it is about 110 hryvnias. Here you have a contrast, 4 times. The fish has risen significantly, meat. A friend told me that he bought a pork clipper of 650 rubles, this is 220 hryvnias somewhere. Pork clipping above 100 hryvnias never cost.

The journalist of the project "Crimea. Realia" Pavel Kazarin reasoned about who in Crimea has become better, and to whom - worse after the annexation.

- It all depends on what social group we will talk about. For example, the state employees for the most part, perhaps, have even acquired, because salaries in schools, hospitals and power structures have grown, and increased by inflation, rise in the cost of products, therefore, in general, they are satisfied with a new reality. Entrepreneurs are rather unhappy, because all this new reality has broken the former logistics, established business contacts. Speaking with a pensioner, teacher or doctor, you will hear from them the words of approval of a new reality. If you speak with the entrepreneur, you will hear the words of the skepticism. If you talk with the Russian Crimeans, they will support the accession. You will speak with the Crimean Tatars - you will probably hear a lot of skepticism addressed to what happened.

As for the real picture, for Crimeans today, the issues of increasing products, growth or reduction of real incomes are secondary to the bulk, because there is a feeling that if the citizenship of the peninsula had not occurred in the Crimea, the fate of Donbass would have awaited Crimea. At the same time, none of the Crimeans wants to understand that the Donbass was possible only as the second act of the Crimean play, that there would be no war in the east of Ukraine without Crimea. No one wants to agree with this thought.

In Crimea there is a feeling that if the Citizenship of the Peninsula had not occurred, the Crimea would have been waiting for the fate of Donbass

Therefore, the real incomes of a large number of Crimeans have decreased, but they say: but we have no war! And this argument is difficult to kill anything, it is a myth, and the myth cannot be defeated by arguments, it can only be defeated by other myths. As for household history, we understand that Crimea today is a territory with extremely controversial legal status, and people who were focused on some European projects in the Crimea, on urbanism, on the convergent economy, and, of course, lost, and many of them left the peninsula, which will actually affect the development of the Crimea in the coming years. And those people who did not go abroad did not fly by airplanes who lived with the “defense” consciousness and dreamed of the return of the Soviet Union, they are certainly happy, ”says Pavel Kazarin, journalist of the Crimea. Realii project.