Paul
Goble
Staunton, August 16 – At a brief
hearing today, the collegium of the Ingush Supreme Court rejected an appeal by
deputies of the republic’s Popular Assembly against a lower court that had
approved the law former republic head Yunus-Bek Yevkurov pushed through in
order to bypass the republic constitution and approve his border accord with Chechnya.
The Ingush jurists announced that they
had found neither procedural nor substantive grounds for overturning the Magas
district court decision (kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/339122/
and capost.media/news/society/verkhovnyy-sud-ingushetii-ostavil-v-sile-reshenie-o-granitse-s-chechney/).
The deputies had argued that Yevkurov
had falsified the vote in the Assembly to get the bill through and that any
decision about changing the borders of the republic must, according to the Ingush
constitution, be subject to a popular referendum, something the former republic
head did not want to take the risk of holding.
Meanwhile, Makhmud-Ali Kalimatov,
Yevkurov’s successor, continued his efforts to put his stamp on the republic administration,
this time appointing his relative, Mikhail Ilezov, as an advisor. Ilezov had worked
in various positions in the republic before, most recently as a senior official
in the postal service (kavkazr.com/a/30112738.html).
And Ingush opposition blogger,
Magomed Mutsolgov, who heads the republic section of the Yabloko Party, issued
his most sweeping assessment yet of the new republic head. “I am certain,” he writes, “that the change
of the head of the republic did not change the system of administration.”
Yevkurov’s people “continue to sit
in their chairs; and more than that, I consider that Kalimatov either does not control
what is taking place in the republic or is no different from his predecessor
who led the republic into the most serious social-political crisis” (kavkaz-uzel.eu/blogs/342/posts/39140).
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