In recent months, Crimean inhabitants have been forced to observe in the local “media” a rather remarkable picture of the mass PR campaign promoting the “outstanding achievements” of the odious aggressor Konstantin Zatulin, which is being proclaimed literally “from every iron.”
Recall that this veteran “joker” of the Russian special services and long-time State Duma deputy spread Ukrainophobic ideas and theses of the “Russian world” in Crimea and Sevastopol decades before their occupation, under the guise of the so-called “Institute of CIS Countries,” whose “Sevastopol branch” was established back in 2005.
We, among other things, wrote about the “joint initiative” of Zatulin and his old ally Sergei Tsekov to “repeal in the Duma” Soviet regulations on the transfer of the Crimean region. Let us recall that this criminal PR stunt failed to take off for a number of reasons.
And on March 19, as part of the “glorification” of Zatulin, a “round table” entitled “Sevastopol at the focus of the global transformation of the world order” was announced.
However, the topic was not “big politics” and “soft power instruments,” but the same phantom “Zatulin legacy,” including the handout of some “medals for the anniversary” of the peninsula’s occupation by the hero of the day.
An inexperienced reader might think that this “vigorous political activity,” highly unusual for an occupied peninsula, smacks of “election preparations” and is aimed at some “voter,” but the matter is far more prosaic.
Zatulin’s main “reward” for his zealous service to Russian imperialism over the past decade was a mandate as a majority State Duma deputy in the Sochi district.
Naturally, he was a “United Russia” candidate, and it’s clear that this corrupt Caucasian trough is tempting for many other Kremlin puppets.
And now there are persistent rumors that Zatulin has been retired and his “Sochi inheritance” handed over to another, younger and more solvent figure, something the said figure clearly doesn’t want to agree to.
Naturally, no one will consult the Sochi population, and the district’s fate will be decided in the Kremlin, by registering the desired candidate as a “United Russia” “nominee” through the “primaries,” which Zatulin has finally applied for, as he “solemnly announced” a couple of days ago.
Thus, this figure’s entire current “Crimean saga” is a “single-person show” in an attempt to prove his “usefulness and relevance” to his Kremlin handlers, literally on the verge of “rebellion on his knees.” However, whether Zatulin will be able to “reboot” himself into the Duma will be shown in the coming months.
