Well then, Amangeldy Tuleyev was elected speaker of the regional parliament almost unanimously.
To be honest, even I didn’t expect this level of brazenness. On the eve of the vote, even one of the leaders of United Russia said that “the people would not understand this.”
Once again, we’ve seen that the authorities couldn’t care less about all those people (literally, in Russian, “they’ve seen them in a coffin wearing white slippers,” meaning total contempt).
This is what a Putin-style official resignation looks like.
You stay in power for 28 years.
You fail at everything possible. Your region ranks 56th in quality of life, and it is facing an outright environmental catastrophe.
A tragedy involving mass loss of life happens in your region, and you bear responsibility for it.
You publicly insult the relatives of the dead.
You are forced to resign, but you still keep EVERYTHING.
power, the boss’s office, a bunch of idiotic titles like “Honorary Citizen” and “People’s Governor,” for which you are paid from the state budget, a state dacha with an absurdly विशाल forest estate.
That is what the new video is about, featuring aerial footage around that very state dacha:
