Congratulations to the residents of the Samara Region on the resignation of their crazy governor, Merkushkin. We probably made a small contribution to this too. Thanks to the ACF, many people learned how this wonderful patriot and fighter against the “Dulles Plan” built himself a nest on Rublyovka (an elite, ultra-expensive area outside Moscow).
Congratulations to the residents of the Nizhny Novgorod Region on Shantsev’s resignation. I wrote about it just this morning. A completely useless guy. He spent years warming a chair and turned one of the country’s most promising regions into a deeply depressed one.
The Kremlin has clearly decided to throw overboard those governors who would be dead weight in the 2018 elections. They’re unpopular, people dislike them, and they would get in the way of the campaign.
Will this help?
No. We’ve opened 80 campaign offices across the country, and I can say for sure: there is no popular regional government anywhere in Russia. The choice is simple:
- this one is a thief and insane. - this one is just a thief. - this one is a thief and a chronic drunk. - this one drinks so heavily that he can’t even steal properly.
So which of these options are you supposed to choose? Most likely, “just a thief” ends up being the best staffing decision. That’s how it works across the whole country. Negative selection.
And we can all see the results of that system.
They all need to go, and we need to move to normal, honest direct elections for governors and mayors. That is the only way to improve the quality of regional government and breathe life back into Russia’s cities and regions.