Paul Goble
Staunton,
November 26 – Ingush demonstrators joined by the Vesna Art Group today unfurled a banner on the Akhmat Kadyrov
Bridge in the Northern Capital declaring that it “belongs to Ingushetia.” The
action, the day before the Russian Constitutional Court is set to hear an
appeal on the September 26 border accord, was quickly suppressed by Russian
police.
But
it was not suppressed before it could attract more attention in the Russian
media to the Ingush cause than the protests in Ingushetia have up to now. (See,
with references to such stories, kavkazr.com/a/29622380.html kavkazr.com/a/29621778.html
, rosbalt.ru/piter/2018/11/26/1749025.html
and rosbalt.ru/piter/2018/11/26/1748962.html).
Another effort by someone, probably
the Chechen government of Ramzan Kadyrov, to control the news about the border
agreement came last night when Agora’s Irina Khrunova reported that there had
been anonymous threats against the head of the World Congress of the Ingush
People (graniru.org/Society/Law/m.273969.html
and inkazan.ru/news/society/26-11-2018/advokatu-agory-ugrozhali-pered-sudom-po-sporu-ingushetii-i-chechni).
Two other
developments in this dispute over the last 24 hours include:
·
The
initiative group for a referendum filed documents as promised to hold one about
the border accord (kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/328380/).
·
A
former policeman in Ingushetia was shot as part of a blood feud there, a
reminder of how many guns are in private hands and how close to the surface
violence can be (capost.media/news/mainhotnews/v-ingushetii-iz-za-krovnoy-mesti-rasstrelyali-eks-politseyskogo).
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