Thursday, November 15, 2018

Yevkurov Wants Russian Constitutional Court to Rule on Both Border Accord and Its Ratification


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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