That’s why our governors do such a terrible job. Complete, total, absolute impunity—as long as they show the same total political loyalty (read: “a willingness to rig elections”) to the Kremlin crooks’ corporation. Falsify your percentages for the Party of Crooks and Thieves, and success awaits you in life, with all your problems taken care of. No matter how outrageous or criminal your behavior is. Remember Governor Bozhenov?
He flew by charter plane to Italy to celebrate his birthday at a five-star hotel where then–first lady Svetlana Medvedeva had previously vacationed. In his modest little party were another 46 people: deputies, regional ministers, and members of their families.
http://youtu.be/Wi02npNJdg4 All of this was officially described as “The Volgograd Region Will Present the Economic Development Potential of the Region in Italy.” In response to the public outrage, those brazen United Russia sows declared right at a session of the Volgograd regional duma: “This is the work of foreign intelligence services seeking to destroy Russian statehood.”
http://youtu.be/Os7lfhLD6lM As promised, we filed complaints with both the prosecutor’s office and the Investigative Committee. The Investigative Committee did not want to examine anything, because the materials were with the prosecutor’s office.
And the prosecutor’s office really got to the bottom of it. Rafik is completely not guilty (a sarcastic Russian meme phrase meaning “the guy is totally innocent”).
As it turns out, absolutely every passenger on that charter flight to Italy had conveniently gone on synchronized vacation in advance. Scheduled vacation, no less. Well, that’s just how they planned it. And there was no official delegation at all. They paid for the plane themselves too (I can just imagine the panic at the airline when they were rewriting the paperwork retroactively). And the official statements are lies. And that United Russia pig is lying too.
http://youtu.be/nf9i_bdJMUA Well, I mean, the pig isn’t lying. United Russia members never lie; it’s just that his throat was squeezed by a fashionable scarf, so in a state of distress he said a few things he shouldn’t have. So everything is fine. The residents of the Volgograd region, with the lowest salaries among Russia’s cities of over one million people, can just wipe themselves off. And us along with them.
The chief crooks like how sharply the “voting” results for United Russia and Putin rose in the Volgograd region after Bozhenov arrived. He could eat children for all they care, and the prosecutor’s office still wouldn’t let anyone touch him.