Monday, December 17, 2018

Only 10 of 30 Ingush Deputies Attend Shariat Court on Border with Chechnya


Paul Goble

            Staunton, December 16 – Only 10 of the 30 deputies of the Ingush parliament attended the shariat court session called to consider whether the September 26 border accord between Ingushetia’s Yunus-Bek Yevkurov and Chechnya’s Ramzan Kadyrov, fewer than reportedly voted against the accord in the first place and a clear defeat for the Ingush opposition.

            The organizers of the shariat court session said that they would query the deputies who did not attend as to how they would vote on the border accord and also ask them why they failed to attend a meeting that enjoyed the support of the Ingush religious leadership as well as the population of the republic (kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/329223/).

            Those deputies who did take part as well as the religious leaders who participated were unanimous in declaring that the parliament’s reported vote in favor of the Yevkurov-Kadyrov accord had been falsified and that in any case it was a violation of the republic’s constitution which requires a referendum on any shifts in the borders of Ingushetia.

                In another development affecting relations between Ingushetia and Chechnya and between the two and Moscow, it was reported that new research shows that Ingush and Chechens travel less often to other federal subjects than do the residents of any others, a reflection both of poverty and of their isolation from the Russian Federation (capost.media/news/tourism/zhiteli-ingushetii-i-chechni-puteshestvuyut-po-rossii-menshe-vsekh/).

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