Paul
Goble
Staunton, July 6 – A major objection
the Ingush people have to the current republic head, Makhmud-Ali Kalimatov, is
his propensity to appoint people with no connection ethnic or professional with
the republic, an arrangement that leaves ever more of them feeling that Moscow
is treating them as a colony.
The latest example of this came today
with Kalimatov’s appointment of Sergey Roldugin, an ethnic Russian who has been
in charge of a corrective labor colony in Stavropol Kray to head the Ingush
republic’s penal administration (fortanga.org/2020/07/novym-nachalnikom-ingushskogo-ufsin-snova-stal-priezzhij/).
(His predecessor in this position,
also an ethnic Russian, has now been shifted to the position of deputy head of
the Kaliningrad Oblast’s penal administration.)
Another Kalimatov appointee, ethnic Russian
minister for external relations, nationality policy, the press and information
Ruslan Volkov, who has angered many Ingush because of his anti-Ingush positions,
now finds himself embroiled in a scandal about moral training of young people (fortanga.org/2020/07/fantom-duhovno-nravstvennogo-vospitaniya-zhitelej-ingushetii/).
Instead of contracting with local
firms, Volkov has overseen a process which has involved only one bidder and
that one from Moscow in the first case and only one bidder and that one from
Yekaterinburg in the second. In neither case did the winning bidder have any
past experience in providing moral training to young people.
The independent Fortanga news
agency has sought official explanations for what has happened but without
success.
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