November 5th 2009 · Prague Watchdog / Sergei Markedonov
What is blocking the president's way?
By Sergei Markedonov, political scientist
Moscow
October 30, 2009 marked the first anniversary of the day on which Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree “On the early termination of the powers of the president of the Republic of Ingushetia". This legal document brought to an end the political career of Ingushetia’s second president, Murat Zyazikov, who had held the post since April 2002. At the same time, Medvedev’s decree gave a start to another career – that of Yunus-Bek Yevkurov. On October 31 2008 the republic’s parliament confirmed a military officer none too well known to the general public, the deputy chief of staff for the Volga-Urals Military District (PUrVO), in the post of President of Ingushetia.
During his first year as president Yevkurov had quite a number of successes. He moved the acute problem of the republic’s Prigorodny ...
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Yunus-Bek Yevkurov -- his greatest achievement as president may be actually surviving the first year.
October 30, 2009
On October 31, 2008, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev named Yunus-Bek
Yevkurov, a colonel in military intelligence, to succeed Murat Zyazikov
as president of Ingushetia.
Yevkurov's
greatest achievement over the past year is arguably that he is still
alive, having made a remarkable recovery from injuries sustained in an assassination attempt on June 22.
But
he also secured a huge financial aid package from Moscow intended to
kick-start the republic's moribund economy, reduce unemployment, and
alleviate social problems. And he has made every effort to reach out
to, and win the trust of, a population alienated and disgusted by the
corruption and inefficiency that flourished under Zyazikov.
Yevkurov
has been less successful, however, in improving the efficiency of ...
Ingushetian President Opens Culture Center In Almaty
ALMATY, Kazakhstan -- The president of the Russian Republic of Ingushetia, Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, presided at the ceremonial opening of an Ingush Cultural Center in Almaty on October 30, RFE/RL's Kazakh Service reports.
At a meeting with leaders of the Ingush diaspora in Kazakhstan, Yevkurov said: "I envy you that you are living here in peace, keeping the traditions of your ancestors."
Yevkurov arrived in Kazkahstan on October 28, although Kazakh state media did not report on his visit.
Yevkurov -- who was appointed head of Ingushetia by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev last year -- was seriously wounded in an assassination attempt on his convoy in Ingushetia in June.
There are some 20,000 ethnic Ingush in Kazakhstan living as Kazakh citizens.
President of Ingushetia Yunus-bek Yevkurov (R) with his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev
The Kremlin is maintaining its policy of trying to impose “external” rule on Ingushetia. The individual assigned to the post of prime minister of the republic is not only an outsider, but also an ethnic Russian. Such actions have aroused indignation within Ingushetia. For example, a leading Ingush human rights activist, Magomet Mutsulgov, publicly announced his disapproval of the federal center’s policies vis-à-vis Ingushetia, calling them an expression of mistrust of the local government on the part of the federal authorities. Mutsulgov expressed doubt that visiting officials could normalize the situation in the republic (www.gazeta.ru, October 16). Websites associated with the opposition in Ingushetia posted material portraying the republic’s new Prime Minister, Aleksei Vorobyov, as a corrupt official. According to these websites, Vorobyov was involved in the release of ...
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President of Ingushetia Yunus-bek Yevkurov (R) with his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev
