Submissive village protesting city

On September 18, United Russia received the highest percentage of support in the country in the Nurlat district of Tatarstan - 99.53%. In the city of Dimitrovgrad, the Party of Government expressed the trust of the party of the party only 29.99% of voters. 120 kilometers between a leader and an outsider due to national, economic and mental differences turned into an abyss. The reasons for the electoral rupture on the spot were versed in The New Times

The village of Butaikha distinguished himself in the past elections even in the active Nurlat district: the turnout is 100%, and all 109 voters cast their votes to United Russia. A hundred percent turnout was in the past elections to the State Duma in 2011, but such an electoral unanimous was formed for the first time. The village of Lespromkhoz used to be three times more, three shifts worked on a large sawmill, a regular bus went from Nurlat from Nurlat, and had its own school, a first -aid post. The sawmill gradually became unusable, and then completely burned down, the youth parted, and in order to optimize the school closed and the buses were canceled. Mobile communications disappears three kilometers to the village, and an ambulance is called on a regular phone from Nurlat, which is 40 kilometers. Now, in order to go to the district center, you need to get 4.5 kilometers on foot to the highway, where regular buses from Kazan to Nurlat stop.

"They stole"

In the morning, the whole life of Butaiki is concentrated at the store: only there you can meet residents who come for bread, matches, sugar and salt - perhaps the only running products that they do not produce themselves. Two elderly women are discussing a cow peacefully grazing at the store: “Look, again Ninkina came here, then she will look for, you have to drive her away.” They are reluctant to talk about the elections. “Everyone walked, voted, of course, for United Russia,” Olga Petrovna shared more talkative, who had worked on a sawmill all her life and retired 20 years ago. - Before, when Putin had just come, I voted for the Communists, and then they told us on TV that Zyuganov gave all his voices to Putin, I was offended, why would I vote for such. And Putin is well done, he raised us a pension. Now, if the Communists came to us before the elections, they would give a bag of sugar, then I would, maybe, voted for them. And so nobody needs. You go to Sarainov, private traders, they have held elections and will tell you everything. ”

“We see on TV that they are doing something. And then this is Putin’s party, although he seemed to have left there, and why jump against the dad? It will still be, as he will say "

The "private traders" of the Sarainovs are the owners of a small farm and a small sawmill. They at fifty, both were born in Butaikh, received a higher education, returned to the village and worked at the school, Eugene - the director, Irina - the teacher. Six years ago, the school was closed, and they decided to open their own business - at first they took up farming, and then opened the sawmill, now they finish the greenhouse. One hundred percent turnout is considered logical: “For the village, the elections have always been a holiday, accordion, dancing, gathered the whole village. These traditions remained, and the local leadership to attract turnouts, so that they would not be put on a hat later, organize barbecue, tea with pancakes. We usually call a harmonist, now we don’t have our own, so they brought from the area. ” The results of the vote are also, according to Eugene, explainable: the village council played a large role, they came from the district and went around the village, campaigned for EP, no one saw representatives of other parties. Eugene is pleased with the work of United Russia: “We see on TV that they are doing something. And then - this is Putin’s party, although he seems to have left there, and why jump against the dad? It will still be as he will say. ” Irina, by his own example, explains the pros and cons of the current government: “We are people with higher education, but turned out to be unemployed, because the school was closed, we would just be outraged. But we are grateful to United Russia that when they closed the school, we were put on the labor exchange, everything was paid, and when we decided to open their own business, we immediately paid 58 thousand 800 rubles. on the development of personal subsidiary plots. When we bought cows, we were given a loan for preferential interest in the Rosselkhozbank. In Tatarstan, 24 program support programs, everyone has many opportunities, only everyone uses them differently. ”

It is enough for Sarainov not only for bread, they provide jobs for the remaining in Butaikha, even from other areas they come. For example, Alexander, an employee of a sawmill. True, the reason for his arrival is quite prosaic - he met a girl from Butaiha, decided that it was time to marry, he liked the new place and not far from his native village. He registered on the eve of the elections and immediately went to vote: “My voice will benefit people, someone will choose someone-again-plus, Yo-Mo ... I voted for United Russia, and so many people were possible, and Zhirinovsky is also great ... And EP makes a lot of benefits to people.” Alexander sees another plus in the victory of the party in power: “But you understand, they stole, for example, 10 years and, in theory, have stole, and if we put others now, they will steal for 10 years. And “United Russia” is no longer necessary that they on the mountains of money or something to sit, they have already stole their own and further, most likely, they will do everything for the benefit. ”

"Putin pays pensions"

Chuvash village Elaur was once a large district center with a population of 1000 people. Everyone worked on the advanced collective farm. A club was built in the village, and in the early 1980s-a three-story school, the training program was conducted in two languages-Russian and Chuvash. Once a week, dancing was held in the club, sometimes cinema was brought or theatrical groups came, and for special occasions they held partyets. Today the collective farm is no longer there, there is a two -story church on the club’s place, there is no one to dance, and the remaining residents, mostly pensioners, are watching the cinema on TV. In the elections to the State Duma in 2011, and in 2016, the turnout exceeded 99%. 5 years ago, 98.85%voted for the EP, in the last elections in September the result of EP - 99.47%, and only 2 votes remained the Communist Party.

The newcomer is calculated instantly, the elderly man walking towards, striking, good -naturedly asks: "Who are you looking for?" And, without listening, he talks about his life. Pimen was born in Elaure and for 75 years went outside the Nurlatsky district once in his life - in the Naberezhnye Chelny, to visit the children. He graduated in the neighboring village of Seven -Stathy, went to work on a collective farm. In 1996, before the collective farm was finally closed, all collective farmers were allocated in the form of land, it turned out 5 hectares per family. Some immediately drank this gift, but most peasants, having finally received the promised land after 80 years, decided to preserve it. And now they rent to various farms. They go to the elections in order to “respect power”, which “gives us to live more”: “they do a lot, we live well, they gave wheat and flour for workdays on the collective farm, and Putin pays pensions on time.”

Loginova Natalya is an exception to the 60s lost to the village of generation, having graduated from the institute, she returned to her native village, married and stayed. In the election, Natalya was the chairman of the election commission and herself went with the portable urny home of those old people who can no longer go: “Every year, unfortunately, there are more and more, and I remember them still young and healthy, so I come not so much to vote, how much to talk and pay attention. But they themselves, through the neighbors, remind that they do not forget about them, all disciplined. Almost everyone comes to the elections, communicate, listen to the accordion. ” The confidence in the party of the authorities simply explains: the village did not live worse, in Tatarstan, on the contrary, many programs for support for utility farms appeared: “We never had apartments, cars, roads, gas stove or hot water from the tap, as we lived and live. Moreover, some benefits of civilization still reach: TV, the phone is now not only in the village council, they even conducted the Internet. Previously, we kept the cow just like that, and now also for each cow of 3 thousand per year they are paid for food. Many rent milk to plants, from 5 cows you can for 30 thousand rubles. take it a month. So we have nothing to complain about, so we choose EP. ” According to Natalia, directives came from the district only to bring the turnout to the Absolute. In the rural electorate, the authorities of Tatarstan are absolutely sure.

Opposition city

As soon as you enter the Tatarstan to the Ulyanovsk region, you feel all the charms of the depressive region: the roads are made of holes, the fields are abandoned, it seems that they simply waved their hand to the region. The city of Dimitrovgrad by order of the government is included in the category of single-industry towns with the most difficult socio-economic position. Three city -forming enterprises - the research institute of nuclear reactors, the auto -aggregate plant and Khimmash - the last three years in a state of periodic reduction of jobs. And the city in the elections gave “feedback”: the Communists won. A single-mandate communist, now a deputy of the State Duma, Alexei Kurinni admits that a large percentage of votes for him is a kind of protest against the governor. And the Communists took advantage of the mood of society, and the regional and city power, as usual, helped them in this. At first they tried to ban the spread of agitation with the slogans "Stop lying and stealing!" And “It's time to change power!”, After which everyone remembered them, then the Communist Party refused to accommodate agitation on billboards, did not let them on the radio and TV, practically forcing to go to the yards. As a result, Kurinn went around all the yards in the small Dimitrovgrad and turned out to be the only candidate of “walking distance”. The deputy of the City Duma from EP Sergey Korolev explained in detail the reasons for the failure of his party: “In the city, fatigue from the current government has accumulated, irremovability is tiring. Since 2000, Sergey Morozov was the head of Dimitrovgrad, then he became the governor, now he was re -elected for one more period, that is, in the future there will be 23 years - even Brezhnev did not dream of. For all this time there were many mythical projects-string transport, airships ... But he did not fulfill his promises on the construction of the Sports Palace and the Nuclear-Innovation Center. It is very non -standard with us: we just moved away from the monument to the letter “Yo”, as he announced Ulyanovsk by the birthplace of Kolobok. People understand that this fun in the pocket will not increase. I’m not talking about the action of the Patriot on the Day of Russia: on September 12, all employees of municipal institutions, and state -owned organizations are released from work early so that they will conceive a child, on this day the sale of alcohol is prohibited. And after 9 months for the birth of a child - a one -time payment and lottery with the main prize - a UAZ car. In rural areas, women begin to simulate childbirth, which often leads to complications. ” According to Korolev, dissatisfaction with regional authorities exists throughout the region, simply in the intellectual Dimitrovgrad, where the percentage of people with higher education is the highest, the reaction is faster.

“I'm not talking about the action of the Patriot on the Day of Russia: on September 12, all employees of municipal institutions, government organizations are released from work early so that they conceive a child”

The “answer” from the governor flew by the city quite promptly: on September 19 they summed up the results, the very next day the head of Dimitrovgrad, Nikolai Gorshenin, filed an application for care. Governor Sergei Morozov was not satisfied with the results of the governor’s election according to his native Dimitrovgrad: no one doubted that the “voluntary” resignation of the head of the city was his initiative. The loss was perceived as the inability of Gorshenin to control the entrusted territory. The situation was aggravated by a rather independent city Duma, in which not all regional initiatives are unconditionally accepted. The deputies called on Gorshenin not to succumb to political pressure and demanded to think again, insisting that the party simply decided to find a “scapegoat” in his face. After his refusal, the deputies nevertheless approved the resignation of the head of the city after his refusal. However, it was, rather, the result of a firm decision of Gorshenin itself than the result of pressure from above. And not at all because of the moral qualities of individual deputies, but because the vertical of power in the distance from Moscow becomes an extremely unstable design. The main thing here is the horizontal ties of the local elite, which does not want to give everything to the center. The vertical and horizontal have a different movement vector and final goals. That is why control over remote urban areas in the future is unlikely, everything will continue to be resolved in manual mode with an unpredictable result. And only rural areas with generous state financing, following the example of Tatarstan, are still given by the authorities of the Leaned Stability. However, they are just for the one who pays. No preferences are only instincts.