Jamestown Foundation: Attack On Kabardino-Balkaria Hydroelectric Plant Exposes Government’s Weakness
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posted by eagle on July, 2010 as KABARDINO BALKAR
Attack on Kabardino-Balkaria Hydroelectric Plant Exposes
Government’s Weakness
Publication: North Caucasus Analysis
July 30, 2010 12:29 PM
By: Valery Dzutsev
On July 21, a group of militants in Kabardino-Balkaria launched a
bold attack on the Baksan hydroelectric plant, ransacked the facility and
rendering it unusable after a series of explosions. Two policemen who were
guarding the plant were killed in the raid. The attack drew significant
attention from the Russian government and media. Gazeta.ru called the attack
the first successful assault of the insurgency on a strategic object in Russia
(www.gazeta.ru, July 21). Geidar Jemal, the Chairman of Russia’s Islamic
Committee, considered the assault to be "a huge scandal around the
impossibility of holding these Olympic Games [in neighboring Sochi]”
(Kommersant, July 21).
Despite the fact that the destruction of the hydroelectric plant did not lead
to a major ...
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Window On Eurasia: Russian Supreme Court Ruling Likely To Exacerbate Ethnic Tensions in Kabardino-Balkaria
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posted by eagle on as KABARDINO BALKAR
Paul Goble
Staunton, July 28 – Tensions between the Kabardin majority and the Balkar minority in the bi-national North Caucasus republic of Kabardino-Balkaria are likely to be exacerbated by the decision of the Russian Supreme Court to set aside the decision of KBR’s highest court to ban the activity of the Council of Elders of the Balkar People as "extremist.”
Leaders of the Council of Elders celebrated yesterday’s decision which set aside the May 31st ruling by the Kabardino-Balkaria republic supreme court. One of their number, Oyus Gurtuyev, said that the Moscow decision shows "that [the Balkars] have acted within the law and that the law defends us” (www.kavkaz-uzel.ru/articles/172180/).
Gurtuyev’s comments are more significant than a first glance might suggest. On the one hand, the leaders of Kabardino-Balkaria, where 55 percent of the population is Circassian Kabardins ...
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RFE/RL: Kabardino-Balkaria President Looks For Scapegoats
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posted by circassiankama on as KABARDINO BALKAR
Kabardino-Balkaria President Looks For Scapegoats
Arsen Kanokov's claims that he is under pressure are open to question. July 16, 2010
With less than three months to go before his presidential term expires, Kabardino-Balkaria Republic (KBR) President Arsen Kanokov has complained he is under pressure from unnamed rivals who, he claims, do not shrink from using "dirty methods" to discredit him. Meeting with journalists in Nalchik on July 9, Kanokov linked both the upsurge in militant attacks over the past couple of months and the hunger strikes launched last week by representatives of the republic's Balkar minority to the imminent end of his first term in office. He implied that both trends are being artificially orchestrated with the aim of thwarting his chances of a second term. At the same time, in a seeming contradiction, Kanokov said the intensification of militant activity is part of a broader effort by "certain ...
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Echo Moskvy: What has highlighted the explosion at the Baksan hydroelectric?
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posted by circassiankama on as KABARDINO BALKAR
What has highlighted the explosion at the Baksan hydroelectric?, by Sufian Zhemukhov
Sufian Zhemukhov, a political scientist from Nalchik: What has the explosion at the Baksan hydroelectric power plant illuminated?
Echo Moskvy, July 24, 2010
Kabardino-Balkaria in recent days has become the focus of attention because of the explosion at the Baksan hydroelectric power plant. It is the oldest electric power plant in Russia, built as part of Lenin’s electrification plan (GOELRO), and was a sort of symbol of the Soviet era in the North Caucasus. I remember from my schooldays the poem "Baksan Hydroelectric Power Plant” by Ali Shogentsukov, a classic of Kabardian literature, which contains lines whose poetic quality even their ideological load could not conceal: |
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Your star, Baksan Hydroelectric Power Plant,
Pointed out to us the road to progress.
You illuminated with your fires
The path of Lenin before us.
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ADN: Police: 2 Killed In Russian Power Station Attack
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posted by eagle on as KABARDINO BALKAR
Police: 2 killed in Russian power station attack
By SERGEI VENYAVSKY
(07/20/10 21:36:12)Two carloads of assailants attacked a hydroelectric station in southern Russia early Wednesday, killing two workers and setting off bombs. The attack took place in Kabardino-Balkariya, one of the republics in Russia's restive Caucasus region where clashes with insurgents are frequent. A spokesman for the republic's police, Adlan Kakakuyev, said two cars carrying a half-dozen assailants attacked the Baksan plant at about 4:30 a.m., killing two guards and wounding three others in gunfire. The attackers then set off explosives in several parts of the 25-megawatt plant and detonated them before fleeing. There were no immediate claims of responsibility for the attack. The explosions and subsequent fire destroyed two of the plant's three power units, but there was no danger of flooding downriver, the state news agency ITAR-Tass cited power company RusGidro as saying. The dam and plant are on the Baksan River, a waterway ... >> full
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