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By Alexei Limanov, independent journalist, exclusive for Caucasus Times

PRAGUE, 25 February, Caucasus Times – Commenting on the recent “tax incident” in Dagestan, Paul Goble, a prominent American political scientist and diplomat, made an interesting comparison. The appointment and quick resignation of Vladimir Radchenko as Head of the Federal Tax Service in Dagestan has many similarities to the events of 1986 in what was then the Kazakh SSR, he says.

Let us revisit briefly the “December Events” of just over twenty years ago. On 16 December 1986, anti-government youth demonstrations took place in the otherwise stable Soviet Union (moreover, in Kazakhstan, considered then the “sanctuary of stagnation”). The main reason was Moscow’s perceived neglect of the republic’s interests. Tensions began when ...

Postscript To The Daghestan Tax Inspector Debacle

 

Aliyev blamed the Tax Service incident

on "destructive forces" who will stop at

nothing.

 

February 20, 2009

On February 16, Daghestan's President Mukhu Aliyev convened a press conference with the clear intention of setting the record straight with regard to the failed bid by his political rivals earlier this month to install their own candidate as head of the Daghestan subsidiary of the Federal Tax Service.

Aliyev blamed that incident on "a certain group of people" in Daghestan and elsewhere who for whatever reason are not happy with his leadership and have therefore launched a struggle for power. Aliyev described that group as "not even an opposition such as exists in the civilized world, but destructive forces" who will stop at nothing to achieve their objective, trampling on the law and the constitution, ...