Paul
Goble
Staunton, December 16 – Only 10 of
the 30 deputies of the Ingush parliament attended the shariat court session
called to consider whether the September 26 border accord between Ingushetia’s
Yunus-Bek Yevkurov and Chechnya’s Ramzan Kadyrov, fewer than reportedly voted
against the accord in the first place and a clear defeat for the Ingush
opposition.
The organizers of the shariat court
session said that they would query the deputies who did not attend as to how
they would vote on the border accord and also ask them why they failed to attend
a meeting that enjoyed the support of the Ingush religious leadership as well
as the population of the republic (kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/329223/).
Those deputies who did take part as
well as the religious leaders who participated were unanimous in declaring that
the parliament’s reported vote in favor of the Yevkurov-Kadyrov accord had been
falsified and that in any case it was a violation of the republic’s constitution
which requires a referendum on any shifts in the borders of Ingushetia.
In
another development affecting relations between Ingushetia and Chechnya and between
the two and Moscow, it was reported that new research shows that Ingush and
Chechens travel less often to other federal subjects than do the residents of
any others, a reflection both of poverty and of their isolation from the Russian
Federation (capost.media/news/tourism/zhiteli-ingushetii-i-chechni-puteshestvuyut-po-rossii-menshe-vsekh/).
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