23:54, 3 May 2019

YouTube users are sceptical about Ingush elders' appeal to Putin

Screenshot of a video "An appeal to the President Vladimir Putin" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k08wXn7Y5qM

The Ingush Council of Teips (family clans) has complained to the President of Russia about the persecution of protesters and asked Mr Putin to protect Ingushes' rights in the Prigorodny District of North Ossetia. The appeal will give no expected result, users of the YouTube have suggested.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that the demand for the resignation of the head of Ingushetia, Yunus-Bek Evkurov, became most popular among the republic's protesters.

On March 26, a rally was held in the city of Magas, the capital of Ingushetia, with a demand of Evkurov's resignation. On March 27, an attempt to disperse the rally ended in clashes with law enforcers. On April 2, mass arrests of activists began.

"The republic is literally flooded with law enforcers; military vehicles can be seen in the streets of the cities ... We demand to radically revise the national policy towards the Ingush people," the website of the Council of Teips reports.

Ingush activists had declared the non-fulfilment of the law on the rehabilitation of repressed nations, according to which victims have the right to receive compensations for the caused damage. After the Ossetian-Ingush conflict, the Prigorodny District of North Ossetia practices separate education of schoolchildren of two nationalities, said Ismail Nalgiev, the coordinator of the public organization "Ingushetia's Choice".

"I support you, but I don't see much sense in such appeals," the user Wei Meidn has told the elders.

"You should attract foreign journalists to such statements .... The whole world should know what is happening in Ingushetia," the user Alexander Nekrasov has advised.

This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on May 3, 2019 at 08:11 pm MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.