Kabardino-Balkarian Government Policy Failures Raise Ethnic Tensions
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posted by eagle on December, 2013 as KABARDINO BALKAR
December 2, 2013 04:58 PM
Kabardino-Balkarian Government Policy Failures Raise Ethnic Tensions
By: Valery Dzutsev Belaya Rechka road blockade by Balkars (Source: kavpolit.com)
Inter-ethnic tensions unexpectedly flared up in Kabardino-Balkaria at the end of November. Residents of the ethnic Balkar–majority town of Belaya Rechka blocked the roads into the town and seized surrounding land to build homes. The republican government, made up mainly of ethnic Kabardinians (a.k.a. Circassians) threatened to use force to reclaim the seized land. At the height of the tensions, Balkar activist Kesaryu Gekkieva told the Kavpolit website: "Currently, about 500 people have gathered, but more people are arriving. Do they [the authorities] want to challenge everybody? Let them send in their tanks. No one will back off” (http://kavpolit.com/belaya-rechka-puti-otrezany/).
The Balkars, a Turkic-speaking ethnic group, comprise about 13 percent of the total population of Kabardino-Balkaria, or some 110,000 people. Ethnic Kabardinians make up about 57 percent of the republican population—around 500,000 people. Ethnic ... >> full
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Clashes Between Police and Militants Continue to Be Reported in Kabardino-Balkaria
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posted by eagle on August, 2013 as KABARDINO BALKAR
July 26, 2013 05:35 PM Age: 6 days Clashes Between Police and Militants Continue to Be Reported in Kabardino-BalkariaBy: Mairbek VatchagaevOn July 17, the Kabardino-Balkarian interior minister summed up the results of the first six months of the year during a press conference in the republican capital, Nalchik. The minister was forced to admit that the government had failed to achieve decisive results in the fight against extremism and terrorism in the republic. The official highlighted the scope of extremism’s spread in Kabardino-Balkaria, citing the example of a high school student who had helped the insurgents (www.regnum.ru/news/1685071.html#ixzz2Zx99gF82). This is part of a general trend of members of the insurgency in Kabardino-Balkaria and in the North Caucasus as a whole becoming younger.
News reports of armed incidents and the discovery of temporary rebel bases across the republic show Kabardino-Balkaria is far from quiet (www.contrasterra.ru/news/11467). Still, the frequency with which the police claim to have ...
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Seven Years After Attack on Nalchik, Trial of Alleged Perpetrators Grinds On
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posted by eagle on October, 2012 as KABARDINO BALKAR
Seven Years After Attack on Nalchik, Trial of Alleged Perpetrators Grinds OnPublication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 9 Issue: 189 October 17, 2012 03:31 PM
 Troops in the streets of Nalchik following the insurgents' October 2005 raid (Source: ITAR-TASS)
On October 13, Kabardino-Balkaria marked the seventh anniversary of the attack on Nalchik, the republic’s capital. Groups of militants staged simultaneous attacks on the headquarters of the police, Federal Security Service (FSB) and several other agencies in the republic. In the resulting violence, 35 police officers and members of the military, 14 civilians and 92 militants were killed. In addition, 129 servicemen and 66 civilians were injured. The trial of the suspected perpetrators of the attack is one of the largest court processes to have taken place in the Russian Federation. Yet, despite its scale and importance, the Russian media practically ignores it. According to many experts, the continuing court process has adversely affected the ...
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Another Attack On The Leader Of The Circassian Social Movement «Khаse»
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posted by eagle on July, 2011 as KABARDINO BALKAR
Another Attack On The Leader Of The Circassian Social Movement «Khаse»Ibrahim Yaghan, the leader of the Circassian movement "Khase” was brutally attacked again on Tuesday evening 19-July-2011 on the Moscow Street. Ibrahim’s friends informed that the attack on him was on the moment when he went to park his car in the Garage, as Ibrahim says: there were more than five personal. Ibrahim Yaghan is in the hospital now, because he needed medical treatment, as the correspondents of (The Caucasus Knot), the attack caused him cerebral concussion, traumatic brain injury, and other head injuries. The attackers used a rebar, and an iron pipe. This was not the first attack on Ibrahim Yaghan. On the 5th of December 2009 he was beaten and hospitalized in serious conditions. 30th of April, the chairman of the Circassian movement Ibraim Yaghan was also attacked around 20:30 local time, when he was leaving his house, ...
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The Telegraph: Militants Kill Russian Police Colonel Who Led Fight Against Extremists In South
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posted by eagle on June, 2011 as KABARDINO BALKAR
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