Staunton, April 9 – Chechen leader
Ramzan Kadyrov’s suggestion that those Ingush who oppose the border agreement
he signed with former Ingush head Yunus-Bek Yevkurov could “go to hell,”
despite his apology for those specific words, will only further enflame Ingush
anger about an arrangement that handed over 10 percent of their republic’s territory
to Chechnya.
Kadyrov’s initial outburst came
during a Grozny meeting about combatting the coronavirus and then were posted
on his Instagram account before being picked up and then in some cases dropped
from regional media outlets (doshdu.com/kadyrov-poslal-k-chertovoj-materi-ingushej-protestovavshih-protiv-pogranichnogo-soglashenija-s-chechnej/
and lenta.ru/news/2020/04/09/kadyrov/).
When he then apologized (rbc.ru/politics/10/04/2020/5e904c839a7947afcd18962e), Kadyrov may have made the situation
worse because he said that his words were directed not at “any true Ingush” who
necessarily views Chechens as “brothers” but only at the handful of
troublemakers he said were stirring up trouble among members of “a single
nation.”
Meanwhile, the Council of Teips of
Ingushetia called on the authorities to release from preliminary detention as a
result of the coronavirus threat Akhmed Barakhoyev and Malsag Uzhakov because
of their ages and Zarifa Sautiyeva because of her health problems (kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/348150/ and kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/348110/).
The Ingush supporters of the three
are encouraged both by recent Stavropol court decisions to release others
pending appeal and by the petition Moscow human rights groups are circulating
calling for the release of all non-violent detainees and prisoners in the face
of the pandemic (kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/348129/).
The backers of the Moscow petition
say that their call would not lead to the release of anyone convicted or
accused of terrorism, however. Given that all three of the Ingush whose release
is being sought are also accused of organizing a terrorist organization, it is
not clear that a Moscow amnesty of this kind would extend to them.
Ingush have other concerns as well.
Many are angry that Magas has appointed a former Cossack ataman who backs the
Moscow Patriarchate and the Russian empire to be its representative in the
Russian Social Chamber, violating the spirit if not the letter of procedures in
place to do so (6portal.ru/posts/православный-имперец-и-чадо-рпц/).
And other Ingush are expressing
concerns that the incompetence of their current republic leaders is so great
that Ingushetia faces “an Italian scenario” with large numbers of deaths as far
as the spread and consequences of the coronavirus pandemic is concerned (6portal.ru/posts/ингушетия-готова-к-итальянскому-сц/).
But there was one piece of apparently
good news: Ingushetia now has the lowest crime rate per capita among the
federal subjects in the Russian Federation except for Chechnya. In that
republic, there were 2.6 crimes per 1000 last year; in Ingushetia, 3.6. How
real as opposed to falsified these numbers are is unknown (capost.media/news/obshchestvo/in-chechnya-ingushetia-dagestan-and-kbr-are-committing-less-crimes/).
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