The most profitable business in Chechnya. For a Chechen it is not a shame to make money, it is a shame not to have it

Chechen businessmen will develop Russian Crimea. The plans of Ruslan Baysarov (who is considered Kadyrov’s pocket oligarch) to build a large resort at a cost of 12 billion rubles were announced by the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov himself. It is no coincidence that he was one of the first to congratulate the leadership of the peninsula on their return to Russia and offer economic cooperation. Meanwhile, Chechen business appeared in Crimea several years ago in the form of criminal showdowns between terrorists who fled from the North Caucasus and the owners of the coast.

A lot of Chechen fighters were licking their wounds in Crimea after Chechen clashes with Russian troops. Due to the very friendly relations between the Ukrainian leadership, which was at the helm in the early 2000s, and the Georgian leadership, they went directly from Georgian territory to Crimea, bypassing Russian cordons.
Such a tasty morsel as Crimea, if Chechen business enters it closely, can fully experience the delights of doing business in Chechen style. I would very much like the new authorities of the republic, and now of the new federal district, to carefully study the previous history of relations between Russia and Chechnya and carefully filter proposals for investments in their fertile land. Because they do not know what former militants, and now respectable citizens of Russia, are capable of.

Militants and bandits from Chechnya, who were treated in the Saki mud baths during the first and second Chechen wars, now control almost all the sanatoriums around the mud estuaries and the sea coast of the Saki region. Below them are petroleum products and vegetable trade. Before Crimea was annexed into the Russian Federation, local traffic cops preferred not to stop Chechen Porsche Cayennes. A very familiar situation, isn't it? Only in our country, former militants now travel with the "ksivs" of the special services and they are also not stopped, except by very brave traffic cops who have fought in Chechnya. In Crimea, they are sure that it was the Chechens who shot the mayor of Novofedorovka, who tried to take away the unauthorized beach and the only road to the sea from immigrants from the North Caucasus. Meanwhile, the Ukrainian police left the murder uninvestigated. The Chechen, found not guilty of murder (apparently, he has his own lawyer, Musaev), was given only a suspended sentence - for threatening law enforcement officers. Let us remind you that the ex-mayor of Novofedorovka Oleg Kolodyazhny was killed on June 29, 2011. An unknown person shot him with a machine gun as he was leaving the entrance of his house in Saki. 14 bullets were removed from the dead man’s body, and a total of 20 cartridges were found on the ground. Kolodyazhny was elected mayor of Novofedorovka in July 2008. His predecessor Anna Chabanova was dismissed after the Crimean prosecutor's office opened a criminal case for extortion and taking a bribe. Kolodyazhny was called a man of honor. With four kilometers of golden sand and pebble beaches in his hands, he drove a simple Lada and lived in a modest five-story garrison building. But roads were paved, playgrounds and street lighting were restored. The whole world erected a temple in honor of Fyodor Ushakov. The ataman of the registered Cossacks, Kolodyazhny, survived two assassination attempts in a year and a half and himself sued the land invaders.
It is no coincidence that Kadyrov and the company declared their intentions to defend Crimea and the Chechens living there. Very close ties can be found between him and the former terrorists who are taking away sweet pieces of Russian Crimea by force and murder.

It is unacceptable for the Russian leadership of Crimea to underestimate the consequences of Kadyrov’s entry into the territory of the republic with his henchmen businessmen, since it is not yet known how this could turn out. National disagreements on the territory of Russia can more than spread to new territories. And I will not be surprised that, promising the Crimean Tatars a mosque named after Akhmat Kadyrov, Ramzan will build it in the center of Sevastopol or, at worst, Simferopol. This will be the highest manifestation of tolerance on the territory of the new Russia. Will the Russian leadership really allow Chechen “Russian soldiers” and business to seize territories liberated under the slogan of “Russian Spring”? We must not forget that Tatars live on the territory of Crimea, deported for treason against their Motherland. And when the descendants of the deported Chechens, if this is allowed, join forces with them in certain directions, then we will get a very interesting situation...

The Chechen “authority” spoke quite openly about past affairs, and these revelations of his have no price, because usually people like him are presented as poor victims of Russian tyranny - Stalin’s or Putin’s. This, of course, does not reveal the whole truth, but what has been said is enough for a true understanding of the Chechen criminal and political mafia. Here you are:

The founders of capital firms “could choose any Chechen themselves, if not, then we offered our own Chechens. If he had a Chechen in his place, we could trust him and give him interest-free money in order to get ahead and support him against the criminals when they attacked him. If we had the opportunity to manage, we did that too.” Let's note the word “manage” here. Those Chechens did not move stones on new buildings, they did not toil behind the counter, but they imposed a bandit tax on defenseless Russian “businessmen”, that’s all the “work”. And the mentioned “criminals” are bandits? competitors, they were “killed”, and with impunity, because law enforcement agencies under Yeltsin were paralyzed or themselves turned into criminal communities.

Taking advantage of impunity and using bloody cruelty, unthinkable among other such gangster groups, the small Chechens in the 90s seized primacy in the criminal world, and not only in the Russian capital. A word from an authoritative witness: “When we started to start this car so that everyone would take Chechens into business, and when in several cases we managed to break some thieves’ moments (Lyubertsy - broken, several groups in Zamoskvorechye - broken), after that everything they started recruiting Chechens... And you don’t need to maintain an army. It’s enough to have one Chechen, and together with him, if necessary, they can also drive up and help.” Isn't it like victorious reports from military operations! And this chaos was happening covertly in Yeltsin’s Moscow!

As you can see, Pavel Klebnikov’s interlocutor, Chechen Akhmed Nukhaev, talks about all this not without pride. But let us note that this is not only vulgar criminality, no, there is also politics behind this, and it is quite anti-Russian.” Khlebnikov, with his characteristic fearlessness, added an eloquent addition to these bandit rantings: “In Nukhaev’s stories, everything is so heroic, like an epic poem... And how many Russian guys the Chechens slaughtered to assert their superiority! How many Russian girls they beat and raped in order to drag them into the slavery of prostitution! How many Russian boys and girls have been put on needles to earn money!..

The Chechens played a vital role in the destruction of statehood and citizenship in Russian society, and the Russian people are still suffering from the consequences.”

For the development of small business and entrepreneurship in Chechnya, the most comfortable conditions are created. The republic's leadership is making every possible effort to improve the investment attractiveness of the region by supporting Chechen entrepreneurs. One of the most common problems that businessmen face is the lack of financial support. The information agency “Chechen Republic Today” tried to understand the issues of lending and support for Chechen entrepreneurs.

For Chechnya the conditions are different

At a recent meeting, the Head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, discussed with representatives of the Government, Parliament and the Accounts Chamber of the Republic the issues of developing small businesses and entrepreneurship in the Gudermes region. During the meeting, problems of interaction between banks and entrepreneurs were voiced.

The Chairman of the Government of the Chechen Republic Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, Shaarani Shuaipov, said at the meeting that the main problem that entrepreneurs have to face is the unsatisfactory performance of banks. In order to get a loan, residents of the region have to collect a large number of certificates, which are not required in other regions, because banks there operate according to a simplified system.

R. Kadyrov ordered to analyze the work of the banking system in the region and bring it into line with all-Russian practice. Just a couple of days later, the Chechen branch of Rosselkhozbank reported that the loan portfolio in the small business segment exceeded 1.9 billion rubles. Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Chechen Republic Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship Avkhan Dzhamukhanov believes that this is the first step taken towards Chechen entrepreneurs.

Today we cooperate very closely with Rosselkhozbank,” says Dzhamukhanov. - This bank quickly and profitably resolves all issues related to Chechen entrepreneurship. Although until recently their work caused criticism on our part. Today it turns out that the Chechen branch of Rosselkhozbank is the best in the region. Now we are negotiating with representatives of Svyazbank, trying to agree with them on lending to small businesses in Chechnya.

The Chechen Government Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship is engaged in government support for businessmen.

Among the services they provide: financial, constitutional and legal support, provision of office space and production workshops for entrepreneurs. There are 11 business centers, 3 micro-funds and 1 guarantee fund in the republic. The committee conducts seminars, round tables, conferences and off-site meetings for entrepreneurs, provides office space with everything necessary, and also provides financial support.

There are microfinance organizations that issue microloans of up to 3 million rubles,” says the deputy chairman. - If a person is engaged in agriculture - at 5% per annum, if in trade or the service sector - 7%. The Central Bank gives a loan at 10.5-11%, and we at 5-7%. This is government support for entrepreneurs. Financial organizations are created to help entrepreneurs in their business. Previously, we provided financial support in the form of grants, but we have abandoned this practice. As a rule, entrepreneurs used these grants irrationally and, as a result, could neither recoup the money nor return it.

It takes Chechen branches of banks two to three months to consider a borrower’s application. In addition, the borrower has to collect additional certificates that are not needed in other regions. Dzhamukhanov believes that Chechnya is the most stable region in terms of economic and political, so banks are obliged to switch to a simplified scheme of work in the region.

The issue of issuing loans has been resolved for a long time, but branches cannot challenge these issues at the federal level, the official explains. - We have to wait until the head office in Moscow considers the application of a potential borrower. Two years ago, Sberbank pledged the risks of the regions. Our region was subject to a 2% higher risk than the rest. Moreover, these risks are not returned after repayment of the loan. At one of the meetings, a representative of the North Caucasus branch of Sberbank said: “For the Chechen Republic, we have set the bar for issuing loans of 1 million rubles.” After discussing this issue with the management of Sberbank, the lending situation began to gradually change. It's time for banks to change their policies towards our region, otherwise they will lose customers. Of course, there is a crisis in Starna, as well as throughout the world. If in previous years we received more than 20 billion for the whole of Russia for the development of entrepreneurship, today this amount has decreased significantly. Therefore, the Head of the Republic, through negotiations, attracts foreign funds to the region, which will significantly change the situation.

Arabs will support Chechen entrepreneurs

If an entrepreneur needs a large sum of 20-30 million rubles to sell his business, the guarantee fund of the CR Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship acts as the borrower’s guarantor. It issues 70% of the guarantee in cash and the borrower covers the remaining 30%.

We also subsidize the costs of borrowed loans,” says Avkhan Dzhamukhanov. - The entrepreneur took out a loan from the bank, paid interest on this loan for a year, and we return part of the interest to him. In addition, we return subsidies to the costs of the leasing agreement and part of the leasing costs. But we provide such significant assistance in lending to those who have already proven themselves to be responsible and enterprising leaders of small businesses. This direction is a priority in our work.

The Committee cannot always and cannot provide lending support to everyone, and since there is no guarantee support from the Chechen branches of the bank, the leadership of the Chechen Republic attracts funds from Arab countries.

In the second quarter of this year, the Khalifa Foundation will begin to function in Chechnya,” says the deputy chairman of the Committee. - It will finance projects in the field of small, medium-sized businesses and entrepreneurship, including according to Islamic principles. The foundation will provide training for those wishing to start their own business. Entrepreneurs receive the opportunity to borrow up to 100 thousand dollars. The opening of such a fund will significantly change the situation. The interest rate on loans is expected to be 10-11%.

A cooperation agreement between the Government of the Chechen Republic and the Khalifa Foundation to support small and medium-sized businesses was signed in May last year in Abu Dhabi. The document was signed by Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Chechen Republic Khasan Khakimov and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Foundation Hussein Al Novais. It is planned that the authorized capital of the Chechen branch of the fund will amount to $300 million over 10 years. During this time, it is planned to create 67 thousand new jobs in Chechnya based on 2,825 new companies.

40% of the projects that we will finance are new projects. And 60% of the funding will go to existing projects that take place in the life of the republic,” said the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Khalifa Foundation, Hussein Al Novais, during the signing of the agreement.

Now the prospects for Islamic banking are being discussed between the leadership of Chechnya and the state of Qatar. At the beginning of last year, during a working visit to Chechnya, guests from Qatar emphasized that they were ready to provide assistance and assistance in creating an Islamic economic model in Chechnya. For this purpose, specialists from the Czech Republic will be able to undergo an internship program in the state of Qatar.

It is expected that the search for alternative ways of lending to Chechen entrepreneurs will lead to the creation of new jobs and an increase in the republic’s budget. If Islamic banking is successfully implemented, regional departments of federal banks will have to reconsider the policies of their work in the region, otherwise this will lead to the loss of their client base.

Seda Magomadova

A significant part of the Moscow market is occupied by immigrants from the Caucasus and Central Asia

Chechens

According to official data, the number of diaspora is 80,000 people.

According to the Central Internal Affairs Directorate and independent experts, about 150,000. The latter is more likely to be true, as confirmed by the Vavilov Institute of General Genetics. According to experts, by 2025 the number of the Moscow Chechen diaspora will be 643,000 people.

Multidisciplinary. Concern "Milan".

The most famous brainchild of the concern is the Russian Lotto group of companies.

The Russian Lotto lottery is an all-Russian company operating in 85 regions of the country. In addition to Russian Lotto, the Milan “empire” includes the beauty salon “Milan”, the restaurant “Horse and Dog”, the scientific and production company “Goodwill”, the center of construction technologies of JSC “Lan”, the scientific and technical company “Geniy” -M." Co-owner - Malik Saidulaev.

"Alliance Group"

Anti-crisis management, comprehensive provision of rehabilitation and restructuring of enterprises in Russia and the CIS, provision of financial and legal consulting services. The shareholders of the Alliance Group include state property funds and state property management committees of 15 constituent entities of the Federation, as well as OJSC Kirov Plant and OJSC Izhmash. Another area of ​​activity is oil refining. Owner - Musa Bazhaev.

Hotel business

Plaza Group, Radisson Slavyanskaya Hotel - Umar Dzhabrailov.

Gambling business

Organization of casinos, slot machine halls, leasing of premises for offices, office and hotel center "Sovinform" - Ruslan Baysarov (since 2000 - vice-president of the Moscow Fuel Company, which owns about 100 gas stations in the capital).

Banking business

Bank "IRS" - President Ibragim Bashaev.

Trade

Group of companies "Idigov Product" - trade in tobacco products. Owner: Musa Idigov.

Food industry

The director of the Russian branch of the Moscow-McDonald's company is Khamzat Khasbulatov.

Crime

Today there are about 20 organized criminal groups operating in Moscow. The scope of activity is standard. Firstly, “protection protection”. About a year ago, information about companies under the criminal control of representatives of the Chechen diaspora was deliberately leaked to the electronic media. The list, which contains almost a hundred Moscow banks, shops, restaurants and other “LLCs” and “OJSCs”, is quite detailed, with addresses of enterprises, names of founders, and so on. There is no point in citing it here.

Small criminal groups, sometimes consisting of people of different nationalities, traditionally trade in drugs, arms trafficking, and the theft and resale of expensive cars.

Azerbaijanis

The number of diaspora is 33,300 people. According to the Moscow City Internal Affairs Directorate (August 2003) - 1,500,000 people.

Types of business

Trade and purchasing:

Fruit and vegetable products (wholesale and retail) are monopolists.

Small retail trade in Chinese and Turkish consumer goods (wholesale and retail).

Alcohol, cigarettes - 24-hour tents and shops.

"Flower business" - wholesale, retail.

Large wholesale trade in clothing, shoes, etc. - “Snow Queen”, owner - Vugar Isaev.

Shopping centers “Crocus Mall”, “Crocus City”, “Your House” - owner Aras Agalarov.

Trade pavilions of the All-Russian Exhibition Center - First Deputy General Director Magomed Musaev.

Production

Food industry - JSC Derbenevka (formerly Moscow Yeast Factory), owner - Agaragim Jafarov. The company is the main supplier of yeast for the entire baking and beer industry in the region.

"Moscow-Efes Brewery" - joint Turkish-Azerbaijani control over business.

"LUKOIL-Market" - agricultural production and trade in sugar, flour, grain.

Oil industry - LUKOIL company. President - Vagit Alekperov.

Crime

Counterfeiting of alcoholic products.

Sale of drugs of plant origin (opiates and hemp), maintenance of drug dens - the “Mingachevir” brigade and the Azerbaijani-Dagestan “Zagatala” brigade. According to intelligence services, they control 35% of the entire drug market in Moscow.

Control over small wholesale markets. Cheryomushkinsky, Usachevsky, Rogozhsky and Velozavodsky, Northern markets - the “Lenkoran” group.

Fraudulent transactions with currency - the “Evlakh” group.

Theft of expensive cars “to order”.

Sex services, illegal export of sturgeon and caviar are small groups.

According to the Azerbaijani magazine Monitor, the annual income of the Russian Azerbaijani diaspora is $25 billion. Of this, 12% is money earned in industry, 20% from trade, purchasing and intermediary operations, 23% from banking business, and 38% from criminal business.

Armenians

They have lived in Moscow for six centuries. According to the 1989 census, there were 43 thousand Armenians in the capital. Now, according to the Institute of General Genetics. Vavilov, there are 82.2 thousand of them.

Production, service and repair.

According to the Embassy of the Republic of Armenia in Russia, “large Armenian business in Russia is of a criminal nature...”. At the same time, the Armenian community in Moscow has a very strong position in medium and small businesses, which by definition cannot be criminal. These are restaurants and cafes, shops and stalls, small car services. In 90 cases out of 100, a Muscovite’s shoes are repaired by an Armenian. An Armenian master will change a watch battery or clean a dusty clock mechanism. Armenian entrepreneurs own bakeries, sewing workshops and household appliance repair shops. Another area of ​​business is cargo transportation of fruits and vegetables from the south of Russia and the CIS. In this business, oddly enough, Armenians work together with the final distributors of goods - Azerbaijanis.

Medicine

“Republican Center for Human Reproduction and Family Planning” is world famous. Here, for the first time in Russia, gender reassignment surgery was performed. Every year, 1,600 genital plastic surgeries are performed in the world, of which 350 are de

Moscow center barks. Director - Andrey Akopyan.

Food industry

Moscow cognac factory "Ararat" - director Roman Akopyan.

Industry

JSC Moskvich (now under external management). The latest CEO is Ruben Asatryan.

Financial business

Investment company Troika-Dialogue, one of the largest players in the country's stock market. By the way, the company owns 40% of the shares of the Arbat-Prestige company, the executive director is Ruben Vardanyan.

Criminal business

Traditionally, the purchase of gold scrap and gold-containing radio components;

Trade in precious and semi-precious stones, illegal financial transactions, counterfeiting of tobacco, wine and vodka products. Now there are six criminal groups in the capital, with about 500 active members. Bandits specialize in car theft, arms trafficking, racketeering, and debt collection. According to rumors, Armenians are not involved in the drug trade as a matter of principle.

Georgians

One of the oldest diasporas in Moscow. According to some sources, its number is 34,800 people, according to others - at least 300 thousand (according to the representatives of the diaspora themselves, half of all Russian Georgians live in the capital). According to the census, there are 634,000 Georgians in Russia.

Food industry

The Wimm-Bill-Dann company (Lianozovsky, Tsaritsynsky, Ramensky dairy plants) provides a third of the Moscow dairy market - Chairman of the Board of Directors David Yakobashvili.

Confectionery holding "Sladko" - president Valeryan Khabulava.

The Khamovniki brewery is owned by Naskid Kharishvili.

Banking business

Russian Credit Bank is one of the co-owners Boris Ivanishvili.

Multidisciplinary business

“Association XXI” unites a dozen enterprises, organizations and firms. The Association is focused on foreign economic activity. President - Anzori Kikalishvili.

Production

The Italian corporation "Merloni" produces and sells annually. There are 1,500,000 Stinol refrigerators on the Russian market. Manufacturer and supplier of household appliances of the Indesit brands. and "Ariston". Managing Director of the Russian representative office Kakha Kobakhidze.

Freight transportation

Air - Amiran Kurtanidze.

"Sovtransavto" (international cargo transportation) - General Director Tengiz Tatishvili.

Oil business

The Moscow Oil and Gas Company is the main supplier and processor of petroleum products on the Moscow fuel market. Annual oil production is about 3 million tons. President - Shalva Chigirinsky.

Crime

In recent years, Georgia has been the main supplier of thieves in law. Moscow alone is controlled by 16 Kutaisi thieves, ten Tbilisi thieves, four Megrelian thieves and sixteen Sukhumi thieves. The main activity of Georgian bandits is solving problems within the diaspora, controlling car dealerships, banks, and cafes. His specialty is stealing expensive cars, drug trafficking, and burglary. Georgian “handbag workers” work in the capital on a “shift” basis.

People from Central Asia

The majority of representatives of the Central Asian diaspora (especially those who have arrived in recent years) are employed in the cheapest, dirtiest and lowest paid jobs: janitors (especially the South-Western district of Moscow), builders of the lowest qualifications. Small shuttle business, supplies of cheap Chinese consumer goods. They run small “fast food” outlets where they serve dishes with a “national flavor”. At the same time, representatives of the Kazakh diaspora are engaged in “high technology” - programming, trading and assembling computers. In the nearest suburbs of Moscow there are several “Kazakh” and “Uzbek” printing houses that do not complain about the lack of customers. Prices are significantly lower than the capital average, and the print quality is excellent.

Building bussiness

Financial and construction corporation "Conti" is a leader in the capital's housing market. The president of the corporation is Timur Timerbulatov.

Oil and gas industry

Crime

Begging and heroin trafficking. According to the Moscow City Internal Affairs Directorate, 90% of heroin is brought to the capital by Tajik drug couriers. Another area of ​​activity is the production and sale of counterfeit products (clothing, perfumes, auto parts, alcohol, etc.). Hand selling expired products. Also, representatives of Central Asian diasporas are part of criminal groups with a mixed ethnic composition.

The leadership of Chechnya constantly declares great successes in all sectors of the republic's economy. Often in various Internet resources and some television channels one hears laudatory reports from responsible employees about the successes achieved in the development of entrepreneurial activity.

In this regard, I wanted to study this issue in more detail and understand all the intricacies. Is everything as good as Chechen officials claim?

After a more thorough study of this topic, I admit that I was a little puzzled, since the results of my own investigation, to put it mildly, did not at all coincide with the reassuring and optimistic messages from the official Chechen authorities that they gave on this topic. In reality, everything turned out to be not so rosy; it turned out that not everything was as good as Chechen officials reported. It turned out that businessmen and entrepreneurs in Chechnya suffer from bureaucratic arbitrariness no less than their colleagues in Russia. Moreover, their activities are subjected to even more severe tests.

In order not to be considered unfounded, I would like to give several typical examples that eloquently show us how difficult the life of an enterprising, law-abiding citizen is in the Chechen Republic. What unexpected “adventures” does he often encounter as a result of his business activities?

As a Chechen entrepreneur told me, he, of course, started his business in his homeland, in Chechnya. The plans were grandiose, and so were the ideas. But as it turned out later, everything did not go as the novice entrepreneur expected from the very beginning. He had to face such unexpected problems and obstacles that few entrepreneurs had to face in any other region of the country. In order to obtain permission to open his own business, Imran was immediately demanded 300 thousand rubles. Many readers probably understand that for a beginning entrepreneur, 300 thousand is not small money at all. “But what can you do, you’ll have to get out somehow,” Imran decided and after some thought he decided to borrow the amount required by the officials from one of his relatives, in the hope that over time, by engaging in trade, he would be able to pay him off in full. Having paid these 300 thousand to the extortionists in uniform, Abubakarov began trading with particular enthusiasm. It seemed that all the problems were behind us, now all that remained was to work with dignity, pay legal taxes to the state, and, of course, receive a well-deserved profit.

And there are many such sad examples. Moreover, there are more egregious examples. So recently, on the website pasmi.ru, which belongs to the anti-corruption resource "First Anti-Corruption Media", a journalistic investigation was posted, during which some features of the life of Chechen entrepreneurs, or rather taxi drivers, were revealed.

After talking with entrepreneurs in Grozny, journalists found out that “legal” taxis in the republic operate under a shadow scheme, i.e. all fleets are licensed, but at the same time regularly pay monthly fees. Moreover, according to one of the owners of a taxi fleet, who was forced to sell the business at a reduced price, certain officials collect money from entrepreneurs with enviable regularity.

“Companies that provide taxi services to the population can employ either drivers with their own vehicles or have a fleet of cars and hired drivers. In both cases, business owners were imposed with payments that must be given to officials, otherwise you will lose your business,” says one of the owners of a vehicle fleet in Grozny.

The journalists also talked to ordinary Chechen taxi drivers, and the answers were the same: they can’t make money, they work for almost nothing. A Grozny taxi driver named Ramzan said that he has to pay even if he doesn’t accept applications, and there is nowhere else to work, because there is unemployment in the republic.

“I signed the contract, they gave me a car. Now I have to give my boss 1,200 rubles every day, regardless of my earnings. There's barely enough for food. I also pay for gas and car repairs myself. It’s good that at least I’ll still have the car,” Ramzan complains.

According to entrepreneurs, they are required to pay a monthly “bandit tax” - from one hundred thousand rubles, depending on the number of cars and licenses. This unenviable situation forces many entrepreneurs to leave their republic.

All this leads to the fact that some residents of Chechnya, driven to despair by these extortions and not having the opportunity to establish a business in their republic, go to neighboring regions, where they are not required in an obsessively “polite” form to have special respect for the dubious funds named in honor of the ancestors of the first persons of these subjects of the Russian Federation.

Some experts also note that recently the number of Chechens who have decided to move for permanent residence to Western European countries has sharply increased.

Thus, correspondents of the socio-political publication “Russian Planet” conducted their own investigation, the purpose of which was to find out the reason for the sharp increase in the flow of refugees from Chechnya to Europe. It turned out that the residents of Chechnya, according to the refugees themselves, are fleeing the republic due to the unbearable moral and psychological situation in Chechnya, primarily in the labor sector of the economy.

According to one of the refugees, Chechen Ruslan, people are fleeing Chechnya mainly because they are not satisfied with the favorable regime created in the republic by its head Ramzan Kadyrov, primarily for his clan.

“Today in Chechnya, only those who are in any way connected with Ramzan Kadyrov have a future. Relatives, people of his teip, or someone who works for him, who is part of his circle. And if you are from another teip who is not friends with him, then you have no future. If you open a business and it turns out to be profitable, it will be easily taken away. There is no future there and neither do our children. “We in the family decided that they should grow up in Europe, at least no one will squeeze them there,” says the refugee.

Human rights activist Igor Kalyapin told the Russian Planet publication that many Chechens are indeed fleeing because they crossed the path of Kadyrov’s officials.

“Some people put up with this, either quit their business or are engaged in it, realizing that they cannot rise above a certain level, because conflicts will begin with these Kadyrov’s guys. But someone cannot put up with this and aggravates relations, and as a result, this person is forced to flee abroad, or preemptively leaves the country, realizing that this will not end well,” says Kalyapin.

All the above examples indicate that, despite the loud statements of the Chechen authorities about successful socio-economic transformations in the Chechen Republic, the real picture of the events taking place in this subject of the Russian Federation looks much more deplorable, indicating the distance of the Chechen leadership from the people's interests.