16 April 2007, 23:05
Stanislav Dmitrievsky: solution of Chechen problems is impossible without changing power in Russia
The problems of Chechnya and North Caucasus cannot be settled without changing Russian political regime. Stanislav Dmitrievsky, leader of the Society of Russian-Chechen Friendship, liquidated in Russia by court ruling, expressed this opinion to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. The well-known opponent of the Kremlin's policy in Chechnya was one of the organizers of the oppositional "Disagreement Marches" in Nizhni Novgorod.
"It is impossible to speak about any stop of violent disappearances and liquidation of "Kadyrovschina" (President Kadyrov's style of ruling) as a totalitarian regime built in one of Federation's subjects without changing the state policy of the Russian Federation as a whole," human rights defender Dmitrievsky explains his motives of getting engaged in organization of anti-governmental protest actions.
According to Mr. Dmitrievsky, while in 2001-2002 negotiations between the Kremlin and Chechen separatists and international intervention into the conflict seemed possible, today it is clear that "Chechnya is the most concentrated display of what is being built in Russia." His name to what is being built is "authoritarianism."
On Saturday, April 14, Stanislav Dmitrievsky and Oksana Chelysheva, leaders of the Society of Russian-Chechen Friendship, took part in the "Disagreement March" in Moscow.
Author: Vyacheslav Feraposhkin, CK correspondent
