Paul
Goble
Staunton, November 15 – According to
today’s Kommersant, Yunus-Bek Yevkurov
wants the Russian Constitutional Court to rule not only on whether the
agreement he reached with Chechnya’s Ramzan Kadyrov on the border corresponds
to the country’s basic laws but also on whether Ingushetia’s ratification rules
do (kommersant.ru/doc/3799607).
The Moscow paper has seen his appeal
document, but people in Ingushetia have not; and as a result, they are seeking
access to the hearing on November 27 so that they can see just what their
republic head is up to. They have the
support of lawyers and of various human rights organizations.
According to Kommersant, Yevkurov’s goal is to get a ruling that will allow him
to ignore the decision of Ingushetia’s Constitutional Court because that court
considered only the process of ratification and not the agreement itself given that
it lacked standing to consider the latter.
The Ingush republic head said that
he will accept and implement whatever decision the Russian Constitutional Court
reaches (ria.ru/politics/20181115/1532867532.html). “There are no doubts,” he said, that “the decision
of the Constitutional Court of Russia will be just.”
There
were three other developments in the last 24 hours concerning the dispute over
the Ingush-Chechen border accord:
·
In what looks like a copy of Kadyrov’s
approach in Chechnya, masked men forced an Ingush villager to apologize for his
criticism of Yevkurov (kasparov.ru/material.php?id=5BED379B760BC).
·
Daghestani
analysts say that Chechnya’s Kadyrov having acquired territory from Ingushetia
will now try to take land from their republic, asserting that areas in which ethnic
Chechens live should be part of Chechnya (kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/327952/).
·
And
Kommersant reported that siloviki had
been behind the disruption of mobile Internet connections in Magas during the
protests against Yevkurov last month (kommersant.ru/doc/3799649).
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