The Kremlin is continuing its policy of re-colonizing Dagestan, which began with the appointment of General Vasilyev as governor, who brought with him a team of Russian «Varangians» to purge the indigenous elite.
Now, after the republican level, it is the turn of the municipal level, which, in essence, and according to the legislation of the Russian Federation itself, should represent nothing but local self-government.
So, who was appointed as the head of the main local government of Dagestan — its capital Makhachkala? Its new mayor is Suleiman Dadaev (pictured). Here is his employment biography from the official Russian media:
«For six years, until March 2010, Salman Dadaev worked as a lawyer in the administration of Moscow’s largest district — Metrogordok. Then he became the deputy head of the Metrogordok district administration, responsible for housing policy and housing and communal services. From 2012 to 2014, the official became the deputy head of the Sokolniki district administration in Moscow, responsible for economics, construction, housing and communal services and landscaping, and then the deputy head of the Khoroshyovo-Mnevniki district administration, responsible for construction. Since May 2017, Salman Dadaev has headed the administration of Moscow’s Basmanny district.»
Wait, what does Makhachkala have to do with it if Dadaev is a Moscow city official? The media quote the words of the mayor of Moscow, Sergei Sobyanin, who was very reluctant to let him go, so why was this necessary?
Municipalities should not have to give or take anyone — again, this is local self-government, which is formed by the residents themselves.
So if Dadaev is a municipal official from Moscow, he should work in Moscow, especially since he is highly respected there. But not in Makhachkala, where he does not know the city administration and has no experience of working there.
But this is only true within the framework of formal logic. In Putin’s hybrid Russia, as we know, neither the logic nor the formalities declared in the Constitution and laws have been valid for a long time. That is why such concepts as federalism, local self-government, separation of powers, independence of the judiciary, separation of religion from the state and equal distance of religious organizations from the authorities, etc., have long become fictions.
Therefore, it is high time to rename the Russian Federation into the Russian Khanate, and its regional leaders, and now also «local self-government,» to be officially called supervisors.