Terrorism and Elections

Starting before the weekend, multiple countries warned their citizens to leave Moscow. The United States alone issued a level four warning, the highest warning level. If you plan to travel, it is always a good idea to check on these warnings regardless of where you plan to travel.

The warning said forty-eight hours. It has been longer than forty-eight. So, this appearing on Russian Telegram caught my attention:

Putin urgently needs to “pull something out of his sleeve” that will turn him into a “protector” of Russians. What could be better for Putin than his old favorite methods of carrying out terrorist attacks? On which he and his team came to power,” Vladimir Osechkin, editor of Gulagu.net , assesses the risk of possible terrorist attacks in Russia .

So, what is Oshenkin talking about? He talks about Beslan, Ryazan, and bus bombs in the 1990s. This is how Vladimir Putin became the essential man. There is also the fact that Russia agreed to let Chechnya go until it did not. In between the first and second Chechen wars, there were some terrorist attacks. According to the Carnegie Endowment:

This matters. Putin is under pressure at home. We saw some of this with the Navalny burial. While he is the only candidate that matters, something is worrying the regime. We see it in things like this one in Chechnya:

A mass rally in support of Putin was held in Chechnya

According to TG channel 1ADAT, students and state employees were herded to it. According to the authorities, 150 thousand people took part in it — that’s ten percent of the republic’s population.

“People are not told why they are being gathered on a day off, but according to our information, students and teachers are being gathered to hold a rally in support of the elections and Putin, as well as for election campaigning,” the authors of the channel wrote the day before the rally.

The initiator of the march entitled “I choose my future myself” was allegedly the daughter of the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, the first deputy head of the administration of the head and government of…