Paul
Goble
Staunton, May 4 – The FSB has
announced restrictions on travel by Russian Federation citizens and foreigners
who want to travel in Ingushetia’s Dzherakh district. Citizens must have a passport and a pass;
non-citizens must get FSB permission (http://zamanho.com/?p=7259
and gazetaingush.ru/news/pogranichniki-napomnili-turistam-o-pravilah-vezda-v-gornyy-rayon-ingushetii).
Even
ethnic Ingush who come from elsewhere must now get permission to enter this
region, thus completing the transfer of a part of the republic that even
Yunus-Bek Yevkurov has called on Ingush to visit to promote tourism into
something like the restricted zone that the FSB has restored along Russian
borders much as the KGB did along Soviet ones before 1991.
Meanwhile,
the Ingush and Russian authorities continue to tighten the screws around Ingush
opposition figures. A court in the republic has now imposed a fine on a local
resident for posting critical comments on line (kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/335095/), and Moscow
police have arrested an Ingush family there for having taken part in protests
(fortanga.org/2019/05/tselaya-semya-iz-ingushetii-stala-obektom-vnimaniya-so-storony-silovikov-za-proyavlenie-svoej-grazhdanskoj-pozitsii/).
Nonetheless,
Ingush activists continue to call on officials to do justice and obey the law
rather than persecute citizens who are simply trying to express their opinions in
legal ways (zamanho.com/?p=7254),
actions that Ingush bloggers doubt will have any impact at all on the behavior
of the authorities (kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/335068/).
And Ingush opposition groups took
heart from the support they have received from Akhmed Zakayev, the head of the Chechen
government in exile in London, who backs his fellow Vainakhs against
Moscow-imposed officials like Yevkurov (fortanga.org/2019/05/ahmed-zakaev-podderzhal-ingushskij-miting-v-londone-video/).
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