Paul
Goble
Staunton, July 15 – Sources close to
Makhmud-Ali Kalimatov say that the new Ingush head is not willing to reopen the
issue of the border accord with Chechnya that sparked protests last fall or
interfere directly in the judicial process to free those arrested then and this
past spring (kavkazr.com/a/30056519.html).
If that Kavkazr portal report is
accurate, there almost certainly will be more protests in the future as those
are two of the three demands demonstrators have made. The third, that the republic
head be elected directly by the population, has already been rejected by
Moscow: Kalimatov will be approved by the republic parliament on September 8.
The September 8 date was chosen
because that is the day that Ingush vote on local councils and so one can
expect that the powers that be in Moscow and Magas will try to muddy the waters
about just who elected whom. But there is little likelihood that they will fool
anyone in Ingushetia even if they mislead some in the Russian capital and the
West.
Meanwhile, more details have
surfaced about the blocking of the Fortanga site over the weekend, with
staffers say that the site was put off the air with no warning or explanation,
unfortunately standard practice in this kind of thing according to SOVA
analysts (kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/337846/, mbk-news.appspot.com/region/v-ingushetii-davyat-fortanga/,
capost.media/news/society/sayt-fortanga-zakryli-posle-osveshcheniya-protestov-v-ingushetii/
and kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/337853/).
And more Ingush spoke out in support
of Zarifa Sautifyeva, the museum curator and opposition figure and the first
woman to be arrested by the Ingush powers that be. The Torshkhoy teip, for
example, called her arrest “an absurdity” (kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/337854/,
zamanho.com/?p=10623 and http://zamanho.com/?p=10587).
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