Paul Goble
Staunton,
November 10 – Even though the Russian Constitutional Court appears set to take
up the question of the legality of the border agreement reached between
Ingushetia’s Yunus-Bek Yevkurov and Chechnya’s Ramzan Kadyrov, the Chechen
parliament has now put up on its website and labelled official the border
changes the two agreed to on September 26.
That
accord touched off two weeks of public protests and the convention of an
international congress of the Ingush people, even though the Chechen parliament
ratified the measure on October 4 and declared that it would go into force as of October 16 (kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/327744/).
It
is likely that many Ingush opponents of the measure will see this latest
Chechen action as an effort by Kadyrov to create facts on the ground and to put
pressure on Moscow to agree to what he wants regardless of the laws and
constitutions of the republics and of the Russian Federation.
Three
other developments during the last 24 hours around the border accord dispute
include:
·
Ingush
activists say that someone is flooding
with republic with printed broadsides in support of the border agreement but
that “the population doesn’t like this” (facebook.com/ingmashr/posts/2161872090519232).
·
Lawyers for Oleg Kozlovsky, the Amnesty International
worker who was kidnaped and beaten in early October while trying to cover the
protests in Ingushetia and who many believe was the victim of official
overreach, say that the Ingush authorities are dragging their feet in opening any investigation of
the matter (kavkazr.com/a/29591583.html).
·
Vladimir
Yevseyev of Moscow’s Institute for the CIS says that any border changes in the
Caucasus are always troubling for some in the population but that the one
between Ingushetia and Chechnya is now being resolved. He adds that “perhaps, it isn’t necessary to talk
so much about this in the media” (echo.msk.ru/programs/bezkupur/2312550-echo/).
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