Paul
Goble
Staunton, July 21 – Some days, the powers
that be in Ingushetia appear to be sending the message that they will not
tolerate any dissent and are prepared to become ever more repressive. On
others, they appear to be suggesting that they want to calm the situation and find
some basis for reaching an agreement with the Ingush people.
But on a few, Magas is clearly
sending mixed messages, either an indication that the powers that be there and
behind them in the North Caucasus Federal District and Moscow are in the process
of making a change about which not all their subordinates have gotten the
message or are involved in a game intended to keep the opposition off balance.
Today appears to have been one of
those days. On the one hand, the Russian
government ended its blocking of the Fortanga portal, an action that had further
inflamed passions in the republic without being especially successful given
that those behind the portal simply shifted to social media (fortanga.org/2019/07/rkn-razblokiroval-fortangu/).
But on the other, the authorities called
attention to their own repressive intentions, first of all by suggesting that
Bagaudin Myakiyev, a member of the Union of Teips, had not been tortured but
rather had slipped in the toilet, something few if anyone believes and a claim
that calls attention to what jailors have been doing (kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/338111/).
In addition, the authorities presented
their case against Zarifa Zautiyeva, a curator and activist who is the first
woman to be arrested as a result of the protests. Her detention has already
sparked expressions of support for her; and the obvious false accusations
against her are certain to lead even more people to speak out (capost.media/news/obshchestvo/ingushskoy-aktivistke-zarife-sautievoy-predyavleno-okonchatelnoe-obvinenie-/).
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