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2024-03-13 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
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The rally for Putin in Chechnya is the beginning of the rigging of the presidential elections
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[KavkazUzel] It is impossible to verify the number of participants in the rally in support of Putin in Grozny, but those who attended came under duress, Caucasus experts noted.
| Under duress, you say? How very odd. |
The strong result of the current president in the elections in Chechnya will, as before, be ensured by fraud, a representative of the monitoring organization is sure.
As the " Caucasian Knot " wrote, on March 2, delegates to the congress of the people of Chechnya that began in Grozny paid special attention to the upcoming presidential elections. Ramzan Kadyrov said that voter turnout in the elections in Chechnya will be “incredibly high.” On March 10, Chechen authorities reported that 150 thousand people took part in the rally in support of Putin. Residents of Chechnya reported that state employees were forced to participate in the action.
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On October 7, 2023, at a rally on the occasion of the president’s birthday, Kadyrov said that presidential elections should be canceled for the duration of the military operation in Ukraine or held with the participation of only Putin.
The authorities of Chechnya have long exalted Putin, said the President of the Assembly of Peoples of the Caucasus Ruslan Kutaev. “The cult of personality began to manifest itself since 2003. The pro-Moscow authorities in Grozny are trying to instill, first of all, in the younger generation that Putin is a liberator,” he noted. At the same time, in his opinion, there is no need to look for a direct connection between the rally and the formation of the cult of Putin. “Mostly state employees, those people who owe something to the current government or are related to it, were brought to the rally. This was done by order of the presidential administration in order to show Putin that the people continue to love him. But this action was supposed to once again not to glorify Putin, but to create the desired picture before the elections,” Kutaev explained.
According to him, this rally also shows that the Kremlin trusts Kadyrov. “This is an indicator that it was not in vain that they relied on Kadyrov. He controls the situation in the republic, controls the mood of the people,” Kutaev concluded.
It is extremely difficult to verify the accuracy of data on the number of rally participants, noted Chechen human rights activist Oyub Titiev. “If necessary, they will declare a larger number of people who came. But it’s unlikely that anyone counted the number of people. The numbers are taken out of thin air. This in itself does not mean anything. Moreover, we know how the contingent is drawn to such events ", he told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
On January 22, 2016, a rally “In Unity is Our Strength” was held in Grozny in support of Ramzan Kadyrov. The Republic's Ministry of Internal Affairs announced the participation of at least 800 thousand people in the action. The authorities ordered state employees and schoolchildren to attend the rally, residents of Chechnya claimed. Those present at the rally considered the official number of rally participants to be too high. The rally was announced shortly after human rights activists, oppositionists and representatives of the intelligentsia criticized the attacks of the head of Chechnya on the non-systemic opposition. Ramzan Kadyrov is afraid of negative scenarios for the development of relations with Putin and is demonstrating his importance, journalist Ksenia Sobchak said then, commenting on the rally.
He doubts the real support of Putin by those who are not gathered for rallies on a voluntary basis. “What kind of support can there be for the one who started the war in Chechnya ( the beginning of the second Chechen campaign coincided with the beginning of Vladimir Putin’s presidency, says the Caucasian Knot report “ 20 years later: the main thing about the second Chechen war,” - note from the “Caucasian Knot” ), as a result of which many residents of Chechnya were killed,” Titiev said.
In his opinion, Putin’s cult of personality is currently being formed to the same extent throughout Russia. “Everywhere, throughout the country, a cult of personality has been formed. Although in Chechnya there is a special worship of the authorities for this person,” Titiev noted.
A district named after Vladimir Putin will appear in Grozny, the head of Chechnya reported in his Telegram channel on February 16, four days later he announced that the Russian Special Forces University in Gudermes was also named after the Russian President. As follows from the information on the Yandex.Maps website, in addition to Putin Avenue in Grozny, Chechnya also has a street in honor of the Russian President in the village of Tsentora-Yurt. Also named after Putin is the Olympic Judo Training Center in Grozny, as indicated on the center’s website.
Russia is divided electorally into three categories of regions, noted David Kankia, a member of the board of the Voice movement. "The first is the regions where votes are counted more or less accurately. These are the north-west, large regions in the Urals, in Siberia with opposition sentiments such as the Sverdlovsk region. There are regions of a mixed type. For example, the Krasnodar Territory, where in the regional capital they count more honestly, and in rural areas they “draw”. And there are so-called “electoral sultanates”. This is a third of the regions of the Russian Federation. This includes Chechnya, Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachay-Cherkessia, as well as Tuva, the Kemerovo region and others. In them, the voting results are absolute do not correspond to the way people vote and come to the polling stations," he said.
Therefore, in his opinion, the results of elections in the third category of regions are born in local administrations and election commissions. “We were convinced of this more than once. When we analyzed video recordings, counting how many people came, for example, in the last presidential elections in 2018 in Kabardino-Balkaria, where the turnout was declared to be 90%. 91% of the votes were for Putin. We looked at 85 polling stations out of 254, and it turned out "that the real turnout is 25-30%. Anything beyond this is falsification. The same thing happened in Chechnya when there were observers there in 2018. The turnout was 25-30%," Kankiya explained.
In his opinion, in reality in Chechnya, as in a number of regions, there is no anomalous voting. “And the actual vote is even lower than the national average. People know that their votes are not taken into account. And the numbers that are drawn are false,” says Kankiya.
The same is with statements about mass rallies in support of Putin, he noted. “It is clear that these rallies are organized. It is clear that the mechanism of fear, coercion, threats, and perhaps bribery somewhere is used. But the number of people allegedly coming to the rally is falsified. In a region with such a population, it is impossible to bring a million people to a rally "Yes, even 150 thousand is a dubious figure. All such figures are not true, and there is no reason to trust them," Kankiya said.
At the same time, he also believes that there was no order from Moscow to hold a mass rally in Grozny. “Most likely, Ramzan Kadyrov himself, the Chechen authorities want to show their commitment and loyalty to one of the candidates for the presidency of the Russian Federation,” Kankiya concluded.
Let us recall that in March 2018, before the presidential elections, the Chechen authorities called on residents to publish posts on social networks about their readiness to go to the polls. Employees of budgetary institutions then spoke about the compulsory nature of participation in the action.
Employees of budgetary organizations in Chechnya have repeatedly complained about being forced to participate in other events. In particular, in July 2020, it became known that the management of budgetary institutions, under pain of dismissal, forces employees to register on social networks and participate in a pro-government flash mob.
Students and state employees in Chechnya also reported being forced to attend Akhmat football matches and participate in cleanup days. Thus, in September 2020, public sector employees of the Urus-Martan district reported that they were forced to participate in a cleanup organized by local authorities, and in addition to the territories of their organizations, they cleaned additional areas assigned to them. In October of the same year, employees of budgetary organizations of the Nadterechny district and schoolchildren complained that they had to deal with the cleanup of the banks of the Terek, organized by the Chechen authorities.
In the spring of 2021, it became known that employees of Grozny kindergartens and schools received orders from officials to participate in cleanup days in Grozny. Residents of the republic’s districts also have to restore order in the capital of Chechnya, a resident of Urus-Martan said then.
On March 25, 2022, Ramzan Kadyrov reported on mass prayers in support of participants in the military operation in Ukraine. Participants in collective prayers are being forced to participate in them, the author of the blog on the "Caucasian Knot" "Chechnya Inside" suggested then. The authors of the comments confirmed that state employees are gathered in mosques under the threat of dismissal.
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