This Saturday, October 22, a rally will take place as part of the civic campaign "Stop Feeding the Caucasus." The rally has been officially authorized and approved.
Details here. I urge everyone to attend this event, which is especially timely against the backdrop of the obvious plundering of all regions for the benefit of a couple of North Caucasus republics, Chechnya above all. Or rather, it would be more accurate to say that this plunder is not for the benefit of the republics and their populations, but for specific families and clans that control territory in the Caucasus.
http://youtu.be/Ws7wivahqg4 I have absolutely no desire to buy these bandits new Porsche Cayennes or finance Hilary Swank's visits to Grozny. What is more, I am completely convinced that money allocated with no oversight whatsoever to bandits carrying police IDs does nothing but harm the North Caucasus. The ostentatious luxury of some and the poverty and envy of others—what better breeding ground could there be for terrorism? Read this; it is very informative: People in the Kremlin believe that Kadyrov is the only alternative to war. He is a thug and a monster, but he keeps terrorists and Wahhabis in check, and if Kadyrov were put on trial, chaos would begin. None of this is true. I know for certain that it is precisely because of threats from Kadyrov's people, because it is impossible to find justice anywhere closer than Strasbourg (the seat of the European Court of Human Rights), that many young men head for the mountains. They simply grow tired of being afraid. And if the people responsible for security policy in the North Caucasus really think they can gradually normalize the situation with Kadyrov's help, they are mistaken. The situation is not stabilizing; it is spreading, and not linearly but exponentially. These Daudovs, Tsakayevs, Delimkhanovs, and other "Chechen colonels," regarded as Kadyrov's inner circle and given full carte blanche in Chechnya, have grown accustomed to absolute power. They have personal troops that are not subject to Russian law. And they enjoy total impunity. Chechen groups made up of members of the security services and operating under high-level protection have long been engaged in racketeering in neighboring republics and all along the Don highway all the way to Moscow. They are actively buying up land and real estate in the Stavropol and Krasnodar regions, imposing their own rules there. And they have no intention of stopping. They command enormous sums of money, and not only from the budget, although the budget flowing to Chechnya is substantial too: dozens of times larger than in the regions of Central Russia on a per capita basis. At the same time, they are effectively independent of Russia—its laws, its oversight bodies, the prosecutor's office, the FSB (Federal Security Service), the Investigative Committee, the courts—complete immunity. Compared with these people, Dudayev's government was a bunch of dreamers. http://esquire.ru/kavkazskie-borzye This is not some right-wing newspaper; it is the liberal magazine "Esquire." The demands for budgetary equality, justification and oversight of spending in the North Caucasus republics, and f**air distribution of funds within the republics **seem reasonable and obvious to me. I urge you to support them as well.