Recently, a seemingly “passable” meeting of the criminal “leadership” of the Russian-occupied regions of Ukraine took place in occupied Simferopol. It included Russian senators, State Duma deputies, and members of the aggressor government. At this show, integration processes were once again allegedly “discussed.”
The event was preceded by “site visits” and “meetings with teams” of the aforementioned senators, in the “best traditions” of the Soviet authorities.
At the same time, the occupiers’ Crimean propaganda found it quite difficult to describe not only the reason for the “integration meeting,” but even the specific goals of the event, beyond quoting praise for the “wisdom and leadership” of the Kremlin dictator from all those present.
The show’s tragicomic quality was predictably underscored by “Crimean speaker” Vladimir Konstantinov, who, in addition to ranting about “Indians and reservations”, declared “the need to restore the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Station and create a direct road link across the Arabat Spit from Henichesk to Feodosia.”
Let us recall that just a month ago, the same Konstantinov was excitedly declaring that the occupied peninsula “no longer needs” the Kakhovka Reservoir and the North Crimean Canal, and the occupiers have been talking about a road along the Arabat Spit for four years now, without any basis for these plans.
It’s noteworthy that the “fresh” “Azov region development strategy” from the aggressor government, which we recently described, does not envisage any such “projects of the century,” and at the current “senators’ meeting,” the only relevant “measures for implementing the strategy” that could be proposed was “holding regional days in the Federation Council.” However, the real reasons for the senators’ current “heart-wrenching pathos” against the backdrop of the crowd of collaborators gathered in Simferopol were far removed from both Kakhovka and Feodosia.
The fact is that “personnel clouds” have begun to gather over the permanent head of the Russia’s Federation Council, Valentina Matviyenko, aptly nicknamed “Valka-Stakan,” with persistent rumors of her replacement by the Moscow Region Governor, “mid-level oligarch” Andrei Vorobyov, whose clan also plays a significant role in the international fishing mafia.
And so, in recent months, Matviyenko has been virtually “inseparable” from anti-Ukrainian initiatives so close to the Kremlin dictator’s heart, proving her “indispensability on the legislative front,” including the so-called “Council for the integration.”
It’s noteworthy that the current “senatorial landing party,” which also visited “Matviyenko’s brainchild” in the form of the long-term construction of the “new federal health resort” near Lake Moinaki in Yevpatoria, where considerable land was given to “Valka-Stakan” itself, included some of Vorobyov’s protégés.
These senators demonstratively played the role of “bad cop,” including on “thousands of long-term Crimean construction projects” and spoke with the current Senate Speaker’s “Crimean business partners” in a “hushed voice”; however, whether the “change of direction” in the Federation Council, as yet undisputed by the Kremlin, will actually take place remains to be seen.
