Patriot of all Rus'

The show “First persons of Chechnya against the leaders of the Russian opposition and the liberal media” was the main entertainment of January. The head of Chechnya introduced into everyday life the term “enemies of the people”, his retinue was allegedly listed “jackals”, “dreaming of the destruction of the Russian state”, and in Grozny a millionth rally in support of Ramzan Kadyrov and Vladimir Putin was held. Obviously, while we witnessed the first episodes - it is worth waiting for new episodes. Mindful of the fate of Anna Politkovskaya, Natalia Estemirova, Boris Nemtsov, I would like to hope that the melodrama will not turn into tragedy and blood - as has happened more than once. Who are customers, producers and screenwriters of this show, what goals play the players and what to wait at the exit - learned The New Times

Customers

On this score , the New Times in uniform and without diverging in the testimony, and very fundamentally.

Some argue that the initiative of the Ramzan Kadyrov campaign against the liberal opposition and the media belongs directly to the Kremlin and conceived it in the fall of last year, but somehow everything did not work out, and the battles around the investigation in the case of the murder of the politician Boris Nemtsov made such a campaign somewhat ambiguous. Now, after the head of the IC of the Russian Federation, General Bastrykin announced that the investigation was completed, and it became clear that Putin had not allowed the FSB to even interrogate people from Kadyrov’s near Circle (for example, the Major of the North of the Russian Federation of the Russian Federation, Ruslan Geremeyev, who was suspected of organizing the murder), the head of Chechnya may celebrate the victory. “Putin needs to have a counterweight to the FSB, and in this sense Kadyrov is very useful to him,” one of the interlocutors believes, who preferred to speak on the terms of anonymity. Political scientist Dmitry Oreshkin is quite straightforward: “Kadyrov, of course, annoys the Moscow security forces in that he invades their affairs, but he does not violate the rules of the game at all. On the contrary, he helps Putin, who wants to look like nothing - as it was with (murder) Litvinenko. This is such a hybrid Stalinism-someone is killed, but the state in white gloves-it is investigating the murder. This is similar to the Latin American “death squadrons”, which kill at night, and then the power of these countries is trying very much, but cannot find killers, ”the expert concludes. Less radical interlocutors believe that the Kremlin jumped onto the bandwagon of an already moving train: he did not (couldn’t?) Introducing Kadyrov, but out of habit tries to control the development of events: “The appearance of Kadyrov’s column in the loyal Izvestia is the result of a friendly council and the help of people (chief Kremlin ideologist) Volodin,” a familiar political strategist suggests.

The second - and, admittedly, a much larger group of experts adheres to directly against the lifting point of view. Namely: Ramzan Kadyrov is a smart, cunning and insidious player who took advantage of the moment and decided, having felt the weakness of the Kremlin (the collapse of oil prices, the crisis, the decision not to bring to the end of Nemtsov’s work) to consolidate success and offer their services as a second power of power, the ready -made forehead to fight with the opposition, the famous polytechnologist Gleb Pavlovsky believes: “All pronounced They (Kadyrov) and his associates of the formula (in relation to the opposition) were somehow present in the official discourse - Kadyrov simply vulgarized him. ” However, if Pavlovsky believes that Kadyrov’s success is very relative: “Despite the humiliating swans of Peskov, Kadyrov has not yet become his own for the Kremlin or the establishment,” then the journalist and member of the Presidential Council of Human Rights, Nikolai Svanidze believes that the head of Chechnya performs from the standpoint of strength: “He shows Putin that he is no longer his vassal - more precise When it is beneficial to him. Putin cannot build or remove Kadyrov - he will immediately receive destabilization in the region, ”Svanidze is sure,“ and Kadyrov understands this very well. ” And Dmitry Oreshkin suggests looking a little further: “Kadyrov is a young and ambitious politician, he has long stepped over the level of the regional boss and became a federal level politician. And he wants to spread his power to the adjacent territories of the North Caucasus. ”

Finally, the third group of interlocutors, agreeing that Kadyrov himself ordered the show, is nevertheless sure that the cause of the injected hysteria is not in force, but rather in the weakness of the head of Chechnya.

“This is such a hybrid Stalinism-someone is killed, but the state in white gloves-it is investigating the murder”

The editor -in -chief of Echo of Moscow, Alexei Venediktov, draws attention to the fact that this is far from the first case when Kadyrov allows himself statements that emphasize his role as one of the pillars of Putin's regime. The President of Russia, in turn, considers the eccentricity of his vassal as an inevitable payment for peace in the Caucasus. Moreover, Kadyrov, the subject of Putin’s pride, says Venediktov: he managed to turn his father, Akhmat Haji Kadyrov, who was the Imam of Chechnya, who called for jihad against the infidels and who eventually switched to the side of the federals, and after the imam Putin turned over his son and many others, and he was proud of it. However, Venediktov says, the unusualness of the current history - in the hysterical reaction of the environment of Kadyrov, which had never previously expressed publicly. Recall that after Kadyrov, the speaker of the Chechnya parliament, the Minister of Information, the deputy of the State Duma from Chechnya, and the senator of the upper house of the Russian parliament spoke with extremely sharp statements. “What threatens Kadyrov? What do people go to the square? Who threatens him? Navalny? "Rain"? "Echo"?" - Asks a question of Venediktov. “Throw it, well, it’s not serious, forty thousand bayonets, well, not serious, just not serious.” Venediktov, like another knowledgeable interlocutor, who spoke on the terms of anonymity, offers the following version: Kadyrov’s positions after the murder of Boris Nemtsov were very weakened, the owner cooled to him, and his named brother, now Putin’s assistant, Vladislav Surkov in weight and functions: “Kadyrov was already trying to appoint vice-premier, which is now being prepared that they are now being prepared now. Some kind of movement, ”says the interlocutor. Hence the understandable hysteria of the environment, the well -being and survival of which depends entirely on the status of Ramzan Kadyrov.

Alexei Makarkin from the Center for Political Technology and Mikhail Vinogradov from the St. Petersburg Politics Foundation recall that in the next two months the process of murder performers Nemtsov will begin, during which the names of those whom Kadyrov called the heroes of Russia and real warriors will be voiced. “It is important for Kadyrov to demonstrate an offensive style, and not take blows,” says Vinogradov. At the same time, he signals the Kremlin that his devotion knows no boundaries, Makarkin emphasizes. Finally, Kadyrov also has problems inside Chechnya - “Historically, Polycentrism is characteristic of Chechnya: Kadyrov’s regime is more exception,” said Makarkin, any weakness, failure is a problem outside the centeroena (generic nest), and Zaura Dadaev (employee of the North Regiment of the Russian Federation at the time of the crime and one of the main suspects at the execution of the murder of Boris Boris Nemtsov) He never managed to get out of prison, concludes a political scientist.

Finally, it’s still a reason: on March 5, 2016 (yes, on the 63rd anniversary of Stalin’s death), Ramzan Kadyrov’s stay is expired as the head of Chechnya, while the elections are only September 18. In 2015, more than 61 billion rubles were transferred from the federal budget to Chechnya, which amounted to 83 % of the republic’s budget. In the same year, Moscow reduced the regions by 3 %transfers, but was added to Chechnya 8 %, says Natalya Zubarevich, professor, economic-geographer, and director of the regional program of the independent Institute of Social Policy Natalya Zubarevich in an interview with MK (January 22, 2016). The demonstration of the muscles - both Moscow and Grozny in the electoral year - not the most stupid undertaking.

Performers

“I do not know a single image agency in Russia, which will refuse a contract with such a profitable customer,” Gleb Pavlovsky comments on the agency, which is engaged in the current PR company Ramzan Kadyrov. Judging by the rally in Grozny on January 22, then, Moscow, without a doubt, had a hand in preparation, at least for the creation of visual materials and slogans. However, all our interlocutors claimed that the Apostol company Tina Kandelaki was no longer engaged in this client. Portraits of politicians and journalists, who under the heading of “traitors” carried grandmothers, were a 100 percent copy of portraits, which a certain Prochremevsky desk called Glavpla.mo sent to liberal journalists and oppositions a couple of years ago. The media wrote that this Glavplakat is the brainchild of the Moscow Center for Actual Policy, led by a former member of the “Young Guard” “United Russia” Andrei Tatarinov, one of the chicks of Vladislav Yuryevich Surkov in his former incarnation. Typographic posters, slogans and slogans in rhyme - all this makes us think that at least this part of the company (as well as, possibly, and some texts of Kadyrov in the federal media. - see p. 25) were made to the best of experienced PR managers, for whom the Russian language is their native. If the PR managers were not brought from Moscow, then their likely author could be Ekaterina Kurasheva, who has been working in Chechnya since 2013 as deputy minister of the Chechen Republic for National Policy, Foreign Relations, Press and Information. Kurasheva has a diploma of a journalist and advertiser, as well as rich experience in commercial structures such as Uralsib, VTB24, the first Republican Bank, etc. Kurasheva managed to work hard on the hated by the West Kadyrov in the PR-director of the Swiss investment boutique, Herculis Partners. However, Kurasheva denies participation in the current campaign: “To begin with, I am currently in the hospital because of illness,” she said in a telephone conversation with The New Times correspondent. -Secondly, believe me, Chechens speak Russian much better than all other nations in the Caucasus. I smoke issues of national policy. And I have nothing to do with this PR campaign. ”

“He shows Putin that he is no longer his vassal - more precisely, he is a vassal only when it is beneficial to him”

The Chechen, who speaks perfectly in Russian, with complete confidence, can be called the head of the information and analytical department of the Government of the Czech Republic, press secretary Ramzan Kadyrov Alvi Karimov-a former teacher of the Russian language and literature, as well as the correspondent of RIA Novosti and the Interfax agency. NT tried to get his comment, but referring to employment, he refused to answer questions, and later completely turned off the mobile phone.

As we managed to find out, the former Sobkor of the First Channel Ilman Vakhidov, who is today occupying the chair of the Department of National Policy of the Ministry of the Chechen Republic on National Policy, foreign relations, press and information, is responsible for the active maintenance of blogs on behalf of Kadyrov on social networks.

That the day is coming and so on.

Ramzan Kadyrov, like his closest associates, people of action, whose adolescence had to be in war, and the “war and peace” with his humanism did not come to the defeated enemy: they do not consider the murder of a person that is not understood in politics by a tool. Especially in the eve of the elections of the head of Chechnya scheduled for September 18. It is no secret that the “Lord” - Magomed Daudov, now the head of the Parliament of the Chechen Republic, 15 years ago a militant - went down from the mountains only at the beginning of the two thousand years. The head of the Dubai police, the head of the Dubai police, directly accused the other head of the State Duma of the State Duma of the State Duma of the murder of Sulim Yamadayev. According to the Dubai police, a gun from which the former commander of the GRU battalion of the East, Hero of Russia Yamadaev, was shot, one of the guards of the people's chosen one handed over to the killer. Delimkhanov also became famous for the fact that during a brawl with another parliamentarian Alexei Zhuravlev, a gold pistol fell out of his belt. If these people think that only threats and high -profile statements are not enough, they may well arrange an intimidation shares and use violence as a means of belief. Moreover, this has already happened.

Chronicle of events

January 12, Grozny

Ramzan Kadyrov at a meeting with journalists in Grozny on the eve of the Day of the Russian press: “Representatives of the so -called non -systemic opposition are trying to cash in on a difficult economic situation. Such people should be treated as enemies of the people, as traitors. ”

January 13, Moscow

The Commissioner for Human Rights Ella Pamfilova - about the statement of Ramzan Kadyrov:

“Such statements are not only meaningless, but also harmful, because they provide the President of the country with a bear’s service, and a shadow is thrown to the country itself.”

January 14, Krasnoyarsk

Deputy of the Krasnoyarsk City Council Konstantin Senchenko - on my page on Facebook: “I want to say to this academician and hero. Ramzan, you are a shame on Russia. You have discredited everything you can. ”

January 15, Grozny

Ramzan Kadyrov on his Instagram (Kadyrov_95) publishes a video in which Konstantin Senchenko apologizes. In response to this, the Flashmob “Kadyrov - shame of Russia” begins on the Internet. The Congress of the Russian intelligentsia begins the collection of signatures for the resignation of Ramzan Kadyrov.

The Minister of the Chechen Republic on National Policy, Foreign Relations, Press and Information Dzhambulat Umarov makes a statement on the portal of the Chechen Republic today:

“All these“ Yashins ”,“ Volkov ”,“ Shaburovs ”,“ Venediktov ”and other representatives of the fifth column who work today for the Euro-Atlantic camp do not miss the moment to somehow try to discredit one of the symbols of modern Russia-Ramzan Kadyrov, a symbol of fidelity of Russia, its interests, its citizens.”

January 16, Moscow

On the Internet, the response flash mob “Kadyrov -Patriot of Russia” begins: director Fedor Bondarchuk, singer Nikolai Baskov, actor and showman Igor Vernik post photos in support of the head of Chechnya, later members of the United Russia faction in the State Duma - Vladimir Vasiliev, Sergey Nevarov, Irina Yarovaya, Irina Yarovaya, Irina Yarovaya, Irina Yarovaya, Irina Yarovaya, Irina Yarov

The chairman of the Chechen Republic, Magomed Daudov, and the State Duma deputy Adam Delimkhan, made sharp statements: “It is not clear to us why the experimental of the fifth column, like“ Echo of Moscow ”and“ rain ”, are conducting monstrous in their cynicism and hatred of Russia over the consciousness of Russian citizens. We do not fit in our heads, why the corrupt “figures of modern culture, politics and journalism” of the Schenderovichi, Venediktovs, Ponomarev, Kalyapins, Merzlikins or Jashn can mock the customs and traditions of different peoples of Russia, calling them wild or medieval? ” (Dauds)

“On behalf of the deputies of the State Duma and members of the Council of the Federation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation from the Chechen Republic, I say with all responsibility that we will ask such a shain figures in all strictness of federal laws ...” (Delimkhanov)

January 18, Grozny - Moscow

Ramzan Kadyrov acts as a columnist of the newspaper Izvestia: he calls the opposition “jackals”, which “will be punished”.

“We have the village of Brahongs, where there is a very good psychiatric hospital. The seething reaction of the non -systemic opposition and the sympathetic can be regarded as mass psychosis. I can help them cope with this clinical problem and promise that we will not regret the injections. Where one injection will be spelled out, we can do two. ” He is supported by the parliamentarian Magomed Daudov (also known by the name of the Lord), who calls representatives of the opposition “prodigal bitch” supports him on his Instagram.

January 18, Moscow

The speaker of the State Duma Sergey Naryshkin - in the commentary for the news agency Interfax calls the “unpleasant” conflict between human rights activists, opposition politicians and a number of media, on the one hand, and representatives of the Chechen leadership on the other. He offers to take an example from the State Duma as a sample of the institute, where representatives of various political forces conduct dialogue.

January 20, Grozny

On the Internet, the order of Dzhambulat Umarov, in which all employees subordinate to the Ministry of Institutions were ordered to appear at the rally in the center of Grozny in support of Ramzan Kadyrov. A set of 60 recommended slogans, which mentioned the leaders of the Russian non -systemic opposition, as well as the editor -in -chief of Echo of Moscow, Alexei Venediktov and musician Andrei Makarevich, are attached to it.

Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov asks not to “be overstated” about Ramzan Kadyrov’s statements:

“Let's pay attention if you carefully read that it is about an unsystematic opposition. What is an unsystematic opposition? These are those who are outside the legitimate political field of the country. These are those who do not remain in their activities within the law and are ready to violate it, including to the detriment of the country. ”

January 22, Grozny

In the capital of Chechnya, a rally is held in support of Ramzan Kadyrov: to the streets of the city, agencies report, up to one million people, including representatives of neighboring Caucasian republics.

Opponents of Ramzan Kadyrov

Anna Politkovskaya, journalist,
Killed on October 7, 2006, Moscow

Movladi Baysarov , commander of the Highlander detachment, FSB lieutenant colonel , killed on November 18, 2006, Moscow

Ruslan Yamadaev, State Duma deputy, Hero of Russia , killed on September 24, 2008, Moscow

Umar Israilov , guard of Kadyrov, was killed on January 13, 2009, Vienna

Sulim Yamadaev, commander of the Vostok battalion, Hero of Russia , killed on March 28, 2009, Dubai (UAE).

Наталья Эстемирова, журналист, правозащитник , убита 15 июля 2009 года вблизи села Гази-Юрт Назрановского района Ингушетии

Борис Немцов , политик, убит 27 февраля 2015 года, Москва