Since yesterday, everyone has been outraged by yet another idiotic bill from our "rabid printer"—the sixth convocation of the State Duma (the lower house of Russia’s parliament), which will undoubtedly go down in history as a shameful chapter in Russian parliamentarianism. And there is plenty to be outraged about: these idiot deputies want to punish a person with five years in prison for violating the "procedure for holding a public event" twice. And you and I know very well how these "violations" are manufactured: even if you bring video to court that completely disproves the police officers’ false reports, you still end up under arrest. But right now I’m not even talking about the bill itself, but about its author. Formally, it was introduced by three people, but the main author is, of course, a well-known idiot and loafer with a salary of 250,000 rubles per month.
http://www.duma.gov.ru/structure/deputies/131182/ The wonderful State Duma deputy from the Party of Crooks and Thieves (a derogatory nickname for United Russia), Aleksandr Gennadyevich Sidyakin, is known to many people. And not only because he is a political prostitute—having successively belonged to the "Party of Pensioners," "Rodina," "A Just Russia," and "United Russia." He is also known for having the same psycho-sexual disorder as deputy Mizulina. He simply cannot live in peace unless, once a week, an article comes out saying, "Deputy Sidyakin has come forward with yet another scandalous initiative."
Sidyakin specializes—like most defectors from the "opposition" to "UR" (United Russia)—in fighting foreign agents, enemies of Russia, shutting down VKontakte groups, and sending heartrending letters to FIFA. Meanwhile, you will probably be surprised to learn that in the State Duma, Sidyakin is not listed as an ordinary deputy, but as deputy chairman of the committee on housing policy and public utilities. Our hero’s biography has absolutely nothing to do with housing and utilities—unless, despite its name, "Tuymazyglass" was actually a major public utilities enterprise? Well, all right, maybe he’s just a good lawyer who writes housing legislation? So what exactly was deputy Sidyakin doing in this responsible post? He is a deputy paid large sums of our money to work on problems that genuinely concern the whole country. Russians are concerned about housing and utilities—which have turned into a black hole—not rallies. Here are the bills he has introduced. Over two and a half years, there were 52 of them in total. Quite a lot. How many of them concern housing and utilities? 50? 40? 30? No—in fact, only 19. Sidyakin devoted just over a third of his working time to what he was actually supposed to be doing: housing and utilities issues. Everything else was spent on anything but that. For example, he clarified the legal status of wine products. At the same time, a close look at the housing and utilities bills where Sidyakin is listed as a co-author shows that almost all of them are committee work, and his name was added just for good measure. The only truly independent initiatives Sidyakin can claim are amendments under which all management companies would be required to become members of self-regulating organizations: "If the bill is adopted, self-regulating organizations in the field of apartment building management will be recognized as non-profit organizations based on membership of no fewer than one hundred management companies and/or homeowners’ associations, housing cooperatives, and other specialized consumer cooperatives". The bill has safely gotten stuck at the second reading stage, apparently forever. The crowning achievement of Sidyakin’s lawmaking in the housing and utilities sphere is, of course, the idea of licensing management companies: "There are no other means of influencing management companies on the market." "This will become a tool for influencing management companies. Previously, there was no such tool; directors of management companies providing poor-quality services were not punished in any way". Without a doubt, Sidyakin’s lawmaking will help utilities monopolists finally finish off the half-dead independent management companies and dictate whatever rates they want. For bills like that, he deserves to be smacked in the face with a rusty water pipe—which, thanks to Sidyakin, will stay rusty for many years to come. And that’s it. Sidyakin has done nothing else in the field of housing and utilities. He’s not interested. His imagination has been captured by rallies, Maidans, foreign agents, and FIFA. Any of us can judge the consequences of this simply by looking at our utility bill. Since his election, rates have risen by 20–30%, a "social norm" for electricity consumption has appeared (still only in pilot form), and already this year there will be a charge for major building repairs. Inefficient monopolies in the management market continue to exist just as they always have. Take a look at this electricity price chart
Was all this the work of foreign agents? Or Bandera supporters from the Maidan (a reference to pro-Ukrainian protesters)? No, this is the handiwork of Sidyakin and his boss Putin. This idiot Sidyakin is also demanding that this blog and all resources belonging to "persons associated with citizen Navalny" be blocked. I’d just like to know why it was us, and not those dogs in "United Russia," who created and maintain the RosZhKH service. The same Sidyakin cites shocking figures: prosecutors identified 320,000 violations in 2013. Let us inform Sidyakin that through RosZhKH alone, about 150,000 complaints about housing law violations were sent to prosecutors in 2013–2014. And users marked nearly 60,000 problems as resolved. And was it Sidyakin or the ACF (Anti-Corruption Foundation) that introduced this bill on mandatory auditing of housing and utilities rates? The one that his party blocked. Interesting, isn’t it? What the hell is happening in this country when a group of people who, receiving funding from tens of thousands of fellow citizens, do the right things in the housing and utilities sphere are blocked on the internet and declared extremists, while the idiot Sidyakin—receiving millions of our rubles from the budget to work on housing and utilities—is preoccupied with putting someone in prison for taking part in rallies? That was a rhetorical question, just to heighten the drama. It’s obvious what is happening. The moral of this post: Sidyakin is not just a bootlicker and a lackey. He is an enemy; because of him and people like him, housing and utility rates keep rising. That is what we should be explaining to ordinary citizens, rather than just wringing our hands over the new law on rallies. PS If you want acquaintances whose access to this blog has been blocked to read this post, here is a mirror link: http://6iflp.fuckrkn.me/919993.html During Alexei Navalny’s house arrest, his blog is being run by Yulia Navalnaya and ACF staff.