When Russia leaves from the Caucasus

As is known, the leaders of the leading western countries condemned the operations of the mujahadeen in Beslan and Nalchik, and as answer to these censures, in Kabardino-Balkari continue the drama with charges and slaughters of all who more or less refers to Islam. However, the word of censure and sympathy in the mouths of rulers - this is not more than diplomatic formality.

The media are the real barometer of the moods of public opinion in the West. Here is absolutely another picture to us, and in order to judge the moods of western community after events in Nal'chik, let’s recall, about which wrote western publications after Beslan tragedy and earlier.

"In everything is guilty the imperial policy of Russia and personally President Vladimir Putin. The mujahadeen - champions against the Russian occupation, and it is possible and must be understood them. The only method to solve problem - Russia must leave from the Caucasus. Russian cruelty incites the attacks of "black widows", wrote the influential British newspaper “Independent”. By similar means entitled then British The Guardian it’s article.

"By these women move not ideology, but the related feelings" – such title of the material, which sympathetically tells about the fates of blown up Shakhidok. Article asserted that "under the conditions of the absence of political dialogue stimulating motive for the Chechen" black widows ", take revenge for deaths of their husbands, is the desperation".

"All this refers to two wars in Chechnya, to the loss of relatives, to the destroyed houses, upon the loss of values, hatred and to the tendency to take vengeance", - wrote German Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in unison British newspapers. American The Washington Post with the piety described the previous diversionary actions of the mujahadeen in Budenovsk, undertaken in response to the rigid occupational tactics.

British The Economist gave the same proposal in the soft form. The French newspaper Liberation asserted that to go to the peace does not make possible the swaggering of empire, and thus far in authority of Putin - no "positive changes will foresee".

Such was the essence of the majority of publications in the western publications, after tragedy in Beslan. This opinion remains in the West and after events in Nalchik. Conclusion remains entire the same: there is not place for Russia in the Caucasus, and it must leave from the region.

The basic reason for the growth of the zone of war shooting in the Caucasus is called the fact, that Russia did not find, yes in reality and it did not attempt to find the political solution in Chechnya. With this opinion are agreeable political scientists, which prevented, to what will lead the unwillingness of Moscow to solve status of Chechnya at the negotiating table.

The director of the museum Saxarov Yuri Samodurov, although later, but proposed as the output from the situation in the North Caucasus, negotiations with the leaders of Chechen resistance. But it is apparently already late, and problem in the North Caucasus does not solve exclusively the independence of Chechnya. To this conclusion came expressed his disagreement with Samodurov, well-known political scientist Andrey Piontovsky, who himself has come forward with this proposal long ago.

This is what he wrote to Samodurov: "Dear Yuri, you were late with your recommendation exactly for 7 months. The ritual murder of Aslan Maskadov became the zero shot in the so irritated authority idea of the talks about status of Chechnya.

After Maskadov no one writes to Lieutenant Colonel. The centuries-old war of Chechnya for the independence from Russia is finished. Forget. In it conquered that strolling along the Kremlin in the drawers Ramzan Kadyrov. In the Caucasus today goes on entirely another war... ".

Completely reasonable observation - violence will end only, when Russia leaves not only from Chechnya, but completely from the entire territory of the Caucasus.

Alkhazur Jalilov, IA DAYMOHK, 07.11.05