Paul
Goble
Staunton, September 28 – The Russian
media and the Russian opposition are now paying more attention to what is occurring
in Ingushetia, at least in part because of the obvious parallels between the way
in which the authorities in Moscow and St. Petersburg are treating
demonstrators in Magas.
Yesterday, Marina Ken, an activist
in St. Petersburg, staged a one-person demonstration in which she sought to
call attention to the 33 Ingush under detention since April for “’the Ingush Bolotnaya
affair’” and promised to organize more such protests in the future even as officials
in the North Caucasus continue to extend these detentions (kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/340643/
and kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/340630/).
Meanwhile, in Moscow, Aleksandr
Malkevich, chairman of the media commission of the Russian Social Chamber, said
that in his judgment, new Ingush head Makhmud-Ali Kalimatov has failed to build
authority within the old elites of the republic, will be constrained in his
activity and may ultimately be forced out (akcent.site/mneniya/5995).
And in yet another development,
Magomed Daudov, the speaker of the Chechen parliament, came up to the Ingush border
to meet with a challenge one of his Ingush critics. His approach to the border
attracted widespread attention and criticism in Ingushetia as something incompatible
with his official status and an action that has further exacerbated tensions
between the two republics (kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/340618/
and kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/340597/).
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