Paul
Goble
Staunton, August 24 – Despite hopes
that Yunus-Bek Yevkurov’s replacement Makhmu-Ali Kalimatov would adopt a more
cooperative stance regarding the Spiritual Center of the Muslims of the
Republic of Ingushetia, especially after the retirement of its longtime mufti,
that has not happened, Semyon Tamantsev says.
Instead, the Fortanga portal editor says,
“the new old powers that be are trying to play the religious card and liquidate
the mufiate,” albeit not head on as Yevkurov did but rather by dragging out the
process of the re-registration of the Center (fortanga.org/2019/08/vlasti-ingushetii-prodolzhayut-kurs-evkurova-na-likvidatsiyu-muftiyata/).
The mufti has to re-register with the
authorities after its leadership was changed, Tamantsev says, and it has
applied to the administration of the Russian justice ministry for Ingushetia. “However,
this process is being dragged out. In essence, under the guise of bureaucratic
problems, Yevkurov’s course toward liquidating the muftiate is continuing.”
That administration has been headed
since 2017 by Alik Naurbiyev, “who for ten years headed the narcotics control
agency of the republic” during which he and his team “more than once figured in
criminal cases and corrupt scandals” but did little to bring the drug trade
under control.
The republic authorities have used
his agency to go after their opponents, most prominently in May 2019 when
Naurbiyev suspended the work of the Union of Teips of the Ingush People for
three months and dispatched Malsag Uzhakhov, its seriously ill leader, to a detention
center.
Meanwhile, the Ingush Supreme Court
overturned the conviction of Uzhakhov by the Magas district court, holding that
no evidence had been presented to the judges in that court of any administrative
violation of the Teip Council leader (kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/339422/).
The Supreme Court did not vacate an earlier conviction of Uzhakov, however.
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