Paul
Goble
Staunton, November 5 – Ingushetia’s
main official newspaper cites the words of Aleksey Chesnakov to the effect that
“the expulsion of the Poles from the Kremlin is not the main thing” National
Unity Day is about but rather about the
ability of the population to rise up “when the Moscow boyar power had betrayed the country.”
The director of the Moscow Center
for Political Conjunctions offered that observation on his own telegram
channel. What is intriguing is that Ingushetia picked it up, especially as many
Ingush feel that those who occupy the Kremlin now have betrayed them on border
issues (gazetaingush.ru/obshchestvo/v-nazranovskom-rayone-otprazdnovali-den-narodnogo-edinstva-s-shirokim-razmahom).
Meanwhile, a lawyer for three of the
Ingush protesters now in detention whose trials will take place outside their
home republic, a violation of Russian law and their rights, says that the
procuracy which successfully appealed to the Russian Supreme Court on this
matter “doesn’t trust Ingush courts” (kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/342032/).
The
lawyer, Andrey Sabinin, says that the Russian Supreme Court also agreed to the
procuracy’s demand that the trials take place outside of Ingushetia “in order
to deprive those charged of the support which they would receive in Ingushetia
[because] this support in its turn could ‘influence the verdict of the court.’”
In a second move against an
Ingush protester, in this case, Malsag Uzhakhov, the head of the Union of Teips
of the Ingush People, a court in Yessentuki rejected a complaint by his
attorneys that investigators were dragging their feet while investigating him
in order to justify keeping him behind bars (kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/342019/).
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