With great surprise, bewilderment, and disappointment, I am watching as highly sensational public accusations of terrorist activity made by one official against another official have failed to interest a single person in authority.
What’s the big deal, right? It’s only the head of one republic saying about the mayor of another republic: he is a terrorist, he kills and blows people up, and he collaborates with the internationally wanted terrorist Rappani.
Yes - a hundred police officers and FSB agents listening to this nod their heads - that’s right, such a thing exists: a terrorist mayor. He runs a city just a few kilometers away from us.
So what? Why aren’t helicopters taking off from their bases? Why isn’t "Alpha" (Russia’s elite counterterrorism unit) being deployed to the scene? A terrorist is killing Russian citizens, and there is no reaction.
Where is all that stuff we see in the pictures and on the zombie box (slang for television)?
And yet yesterday, as part of the "fight against terrorists," the Federation Council passed another law against the internet.
In our country there are special services, parties, public chambers, veterans’ councils, prosecutors’ offices, courts, deputies Yarovaya and Mizulina, TV host Kiselyov with a nuclear bomb, and every third person wrapped in St. George ribbons (a Russian military-patriotic symbol). And still there is no one to pay attention to a public official statement about a terrorist threat.
It’s a good thing there is the Progress Party. We hereby announce that we are officially demanding that the Investigative Committee, the Prosecutor’s Office, and the FSB investigate the facts stated in Kadyrov’s public remarks at the board meeting of the Chechen Republic’s Interior Ministry.
The statements submitted to the Prosecutor’s Office and the FSB are identical.
We await an investigation and a decision: either the mayor of Khasavyurt is prosecuted as a terrorist, or Kadyrov is prosecuted for slander and for accusing a public official of a crime.
P.S. I wonder whether the mayor of Khasavyurt could bring to court a certificate saying "I am not a terrorist"?
And who would even issue such a certificate?