Paul
Goble
Staunton, November 25 – Former Ingush
head Yunus-Bek Yevkurov a year ago explained that he had to act quickly in
reaching an agreement with Chechnya’s Ramzan Kadyrov on the border between the
two republics and in pushing through its approval by the republic’s Popular Assembly
because federal law required an agreement before the end of 2018.
That was a lie, Portal 6 commentator
Akhmed Buzurtanov says. In fact, the
November 2015 Russian government decree called for reaching agreements on the
borders of republics only “between 2020 and 2030.” That is, Moscow did not
require this action to begin until after Yevkurov said it had to end (6portal.ru/posts/вранье-евкурова-и-российский-закон/).
Why did Yevkurov do this? In Buzurtanov’s
view, the former republic head wanted to reach an agreement and push it through
in rapid fashion so that he could remain in control of the Ingush Republic’s
budgetary process. But his precipitous behavior sparked the protests that ultimately
forced him to resign.
Although Moscow supported Yevkurov
throughout this process, Buzurtanov’s article suggests that under the terms
of its own laws, it did not have to. And that suggests the decision to give
up 26,000 hectares of Ingush land to Chechnya was something Kadyrov wanted and
so Moscow went along even though it really didn’t need to.
Meanwhile, Bilan Dzugayev, lawyer
for detained Ingush activist Zarifa Sautiyeva, says that once again his client
was moved without adequate reason and without the defense being informed. This
time she has been transferred to Essentuki in Stavropol Kray. Dzugayev says he will appeal the move on both
grounds (kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/342770/).
And the Ingush police reported that
they have detained a local man on suspicion of perpetrating the murder in
Moscow of Ibragim Eldzharkiyev, head of the regional anti-extremist center, and
his brother (interfax.ru/russia/685550).
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