Makhackala/Agency
Caucasus
– As the Dagestani administration fails to tackle power cuts as well as cuts in water supply in the midst of winter to its capital Makhackala, the public is now thinking of a resort to staging nationwide, and possibly violent, protests.
The Dagestani people have to spend the nights at a temperature of up to
Kavkazki Uzel listened to complaints by the public protesters of Makhackala. Vladimir, one of the protesters, is living on the Timiryazev street, said that he and his family had to spend the nights at a temperature of
A security officer in Makhackala spoke anonymously when he said that it was now the time to be on alert against possible outbreaks of public revolts: "Thousands are ready to follow a leader that they can trust and do anything we cannot even imagine. Public fury is something for us to be really afraid of."
"Residents on the
expressed their frustration with the ongoing administrative failures and they said that they could do anything to improve the situation after they can get rid of the current administration.
Someone else who joined the public protests accused anonymously President Aliyev of remaining silent and avoiding making statements. He also said that the mayor accused the public of provoking a storm of protests. "We don’t want to have an administration of this kind," he added.
The protesters decided unanimously to send a letter to ‘s President Vladimir Putin and to ask him to fire both Amirov and Tkachev.
The Dagestani people are also furious that the federal television stations are not treating power cuts and related protests as news items to broadcast. "There was a large, coordinated media response to one, single day of power cut in Yakutia. We are suffering from power cuts from the early winter, though. Why did the federal television stations like RTR and NTV not cover the current situation in Makhackala and the public response to it? It is because they were simply told to remain silent!," the protesters said. ÖZ/FT
