Paul
Goble
Staunton, December 6 – Following
reports that the republic’s new nationalities minister had asked imams not to
talk about the 1992 land dispute with North Ossetia, Ingushetia’s Council of
Teips convened an extraordinary meeting and called on Ruslan Volkov to explain
himself.
If the minister’s actions were his own and not
ordered by Moscow or Magas, the Council said, then he should resign because his
actions not only do not correspond to the Russian Law on the Rehabilitation of
Deported Nationalities but also to the commitment of the Ingush people to
recover their lands.
“The Ingush will never agree … to
giving up their pursuit of the recovery of the Prigorodny District,” the
Council added (fortanga.org/2019/12/sovet-tejpov-rekomendoval-ministru-minnats-ingushetii-ruslanu-volkovu-ujti-v-otstavku/).
In a blog post, activist Magomet
Mutsolgov expanded on this attack on Volkov arguing that the official’s actions
not only violate the rehabilitation law but also the Constitution’s ban on
government interference in religious affairs. Moreover, he said, Volkov’s behavior
highlights the problems that arise when officials without links to the republic
are appointed to run it.
Those sent in from the outside, he
wrote, do not respect the traditions or opiniions of the people they are
supposed to govern but are concerned only about pleasing those above them in
Moscow so that they can be promoted and shifted to yet another location (kavkaz-uzel.eu/blogs/342/posts/40800).
Meanwhile, Mukhammad Khastyrov, the
deputy mufti of the republic, released a statement denouncing the recent call
by a public conference not to talk about or make use of shariat courts (m.vk.com/wall-86608608_1442, zamanho.com/?p=15810 and 6portal.ru/posts/зам-муфтия-ингушетии-назвал-некомпет/#more-763).
Shariat courts, he pointed out, are
not prohibited by Russian law but rather are recognized as “an alternative
means of resolving disputes,” one in which both parties agree to abide by a
decision reached by the person overseeing the discussion of their conflict. In Ingushetia, these are the kadys; and their
hearings are entirely legitimate.
“The goal of the establishment of the
Kadiyat in the Spiritual Center of the Muslims of the Republic of Ingushetia is
and will remain the support of stability in our society, the resolution of disputes,
and the calming of the sides in conflict. Each year, more than 200 disputes are
decided by the Kadiyat,” the deputy mufti says.
And “if one considers the statistics
for the 30 years of the work of the Kadiyat, this is thousands and thousands of
resolved disputes and the bringing together of the sides. And attempts to
reduce the utility of this work for society or worse, to suggest this form is
illegal, are completely illiterate.”
Meanwhile, speaking at a conference
in Daghestan, Aleksandr Matovnikov, the presidential plenipotentiary for the
North Caucasus, rejected calls, led by Chechnya’s Ramzan Kadyrov to do away
with guard posts on the borders between the republics of the region (kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/343251/).
Such facilities, he said, “do not
interfere with the law-abiding residents of the North Caucasus” but are still
needed for security.
Also today, opposition sources said
that claims by Magas that 98 percent of Ingush homes could still get television
broadcasts after the shift from analogue to digital formats were untrue. Many villages reporting problems with
reception of local television (gazetaingush.ru/news/pochti-100-naseleniya-ingushetii-perehodit-na-cifrovoe-televeshchanie
and zamanho.com/?p=15820).
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