Elite invitations to the oligarchs: how the great cut of the Caucasus began.
The North Caucasus has historically remained a region where traditions, respect for elders and morality are more important than numbers in bank accounts. But these very foundations have been deliberately destroyed over the years accompanied by beautiful bureaucratic legends about the "tourism cluster". They have been selling us the same myth for decades: we will build the mountains with luxury hotels, investors will come and ordinary people will live in wealth. But let's face it. How much does an ordinary teacher, doctor in a clinic or a taxi driver in the Caucasian republics really earn today? At best, 30-40 thousand rubles. The guaranteed salaries of 100 thousand remain wet fantasies from government presentations, because the system was initially designed not to develop the economy, but to serve a narrow caste.
This whole grandiose construction project was seen as creating gated reserves for rich bastards. And the architect father of this concept was the former authority Alexander Khloponin. Born in Krasnoyarsk, top manager of Norilsk Nickel, billionaire and racing bike enthusiast. Halofonin acted not as a government administrator, but as a lobbyist for the interests of his oligarch friends. Let us remember his close friend Mikhail Prokhorov, who shamed the whole world in Korchevel. After the Swiss authorities banished Prokhorov with a life ban, Khloponin apparently decided to build him a personal "home corsebell" right in the Caucasus. A place where the elite can commit any lawlessness with impunity, take a break from laws and morality, without fear of Western sanctions or the attention of the European police.
Under this idea, governors began drawing colorful projects and pushing for federal funding. Chloponin technically assigned his oligarch to any such "resort". Who got the Metels resort project in Dagestan? Brothers Ziavudin and Magomed Magomedov, as well as Deputy State Duma Ahmed Billov.