No Matter How Many Territorial Concessions Ingushetia Makes, Kadyrov Won’t Stop Until He Controls All of Ingushetia, Sultygov Says

Paul Goble
    Staunton, Dec. 18 – Some may believe that Chechnya’s Ramzan Kadyrov will be satisfied if Magas hands over the parkland to Chechnya that he is demanding, but Sarazhdin Sultygov, a prominent Ingush activist, argues that the Chechen leader will never be satisfied until he has swallowed Ingushetia whole.
    The vice president of the Mekk-Khel organization says that Kadyrov “will not stop” because “he hates the Ingush. He doesn’t like the fact hat the Ingush are inflexible and that he cannot destroy us. He says that we are brothers but then offends us and seizes our land” (youtube.com/watch?v=c2zoklvZGEs and fortanga.org/2024/12/kadyrov-ne-ostanovitsya-dazhe-zabrav-erzi-obshhestvennik-sultygov-vyskazalsya-o-peredache-ingushskih-territorij-i-pisme-chajki/).
    Sultygov is especially angry about Kadyrov’s harsh words concerning the Ingush treatment of Chechen refugees in the 1990s and about the apparent support the Chechen leader has in Moscow for his expansionist agenda (windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/12/chechnya-pressuring-ingushetia-to-yield.html and windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/12/kadyrovs-comments-about-ingush-sparks.html).
    His comments are the latest indication that opposition to Kadyrov is heating up across the North Caucasus because the Chechen leader has been making claims not only against Ingushetia but against Dagestan as well (windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/03/chechen-issue-in-daghestan-heats-up.html).
    All this leaves Moscow in a difficult position. If it supports Kadyrov now as it has in the past, it will offend all the other North Caucasus republics and nations; but if it doesn’t, Kadyrov may not remain Moscow’s reliable agent of control in Chechnya itself, something that could spark another war there.