Paul
Goble
Staunton, March 20 – Having
triggered more than a month of massive public protests by his decision to transfer
26,000 hectares of land from Ingushetia to Chechnya last fall, Yunus-Bek Yevkurov
has tried to avoid a repetition by a combination of increasing repression and
occasional hints of compromise.
One of the latter happened today:
After introducing legislation that limiting any referenda that could be held in
the republic, something the Ingush constitution currently requires for such
things as land transfers and that the Ingush opposition wants, Yevkurov has
pulled it for from immediate consideration (kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/333192/, fortanga.org/2019/03/evkurov-otozval-zakonoproekt-iz-kotorogo-vypal-abzats/,
and kommersant.ru/doc/3917399?from=main_3).
It is not clear just how much of a
concession this is. On the one hand, Yevkurov has offered several different
explanations for why he pulled his proposal including the suggestion that a
paragraph had been dropped from the text. And on the other, he says he will reintroduce
in sometime in the next several months.
This may buy him some time, but the
opposition is still planning to resume protests calling not only for the annulment
of the September 26 border accord but also the ouster of Yevkurov himself. If anything, the divisions in Ingushetia appear
to be deepening (capost.media/special/obzory/politobzor_skfo_s_11_po_18_marta_raskol_v_obshchestve_skfo_vse_glubzhe/).
No comments:
Post a Comment