Residents of Chumli said their appeals to the authorities were ignored.

Complaints about the problems in the village of Chumli in the Kaitag district of Dagestan have been repeatedly sent to the authorities, but have gone unanswered. The village head personally visited the homes of disgruntled residents and argued with those who demanded a water supply, according to the co-author of the appeal to Putin.

As reported by "Caucasian Knot," residents of the village of Chumli in the Kaitag district, in an appeal to Putin, rebuked local officials for ineffectiveness and declared a vote of no confidence in the newly elected deputies, demanding that the election results be annulled.

Chumli residents have repeatedly filed complaints with the republican authorities, alleging unlawful actions by the village head and inaction by district authorities, but have received no responses, villager Magomed told a Caucasian Knot correspondent.

"There are problems with the water supply and broken roads. "The village school is old and has no gym, so children are forced to practice outside," he said.

The village's most pressing problems are roads and water supply, according to Zaira Suleimanova, co-author of the appeal. "There is no spring or well in the village, no drinking water at all, and you have to travel several kilometers to get it. There is a drilling rig at the beginning of the village, but the water there is of poor quality, so you have to travel to another village to get water. Residents have repeatedly asked for a water pipeline to be installed, especially since all the necessary conditions are in place, but to no avail. The roads are also in terrible condition," Zaira told a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Following the election results, according to her information, only relatives and trusted people of the village head became deputies of the Chumli village assembly. These deputies subsequently re-elected Anvar Magomedov as head of the village, who has held this position for over 20 years. Suleimanova emphasized that local residents are demanding the annulment of the election results.

"The village head isn't responding to people's complaints. When I started writing to various authorities, he came to my house and started yelling at me: 'You have a car,' he said, 'go and fetch water yourself,'" Zaira Suleimanova said.

There has been no response or reaction to the village residents' video message, she clarified. Suleimanova noted that a written statement of the problems had been sent to the Russian President, the head of the Investigative Committee, and the head of Dagestan.

Khasaybat Medzhidova, a member of the Union of Journalists of Russia and a native of Chumli, confirmed to a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that the village does indeed have many problems. She previously requested attention to the "catastrophic" state of the Chumli Village Community Center: Medzhidova's appeal to Dagestan's head, Sergei Melikov, acting head of the Kaitag District, Zapir Gasanov, and the republic's Minister of Culture, Zarema Butaeva, was published in the Dagestanskaya Pravda newspaper on September 7. There was no response, Medzhidova reported.

"It seems easier to demolish it than to try to fix it. Its decline is a complex problem of lack of funding, changes in leisure formats, and, possibly, local incompetence. But this doesn't make the situation any less tragic," the appeal states.

Chumli Village Head Anvar Magomedov was unavailable for comment regarding the villagers' complaints.