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Friday, 19 August 2005

VILLAGERS WANT ETHNIC CHECHENS EVICTED OVER ETHNIC CLASHES

Published in News Digest

By empty (8/19/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)

Villagers demanded at a meeting on Friday that ethnic Chechens who were found responsible for the clashes with ethnic Kalmyks in the village of Yandyki in the Russian region of Astrakhan be evicted from Yandyki, regional governor Konstantin Markelov said. But \"we will act strictly within the limits of the law\" as regards possible evictions, Markelov told Interfax. Markelov said that grievances against local police were also voiced at the meeting, which brought together residents of Yandyki, as well as those of three nearby villages and the town of Lagani, in the neighboring Russian region of Kalmykia.
Villagers demanded at a meeting on Friday that ethnic Chechens who were found responsible for the clashes with ethnic Kalmyks in the village of Yandyki in the Russian region of Astrakhan be evicted from Yandyki, regional governor Konstantin Markelov said. But \"we will act strictly within the limits of the law\" as regards possible evictions, Markelov told Interfax. Markelov said that grievances against local police were also voiced at the meeting, which brought together residents of Yandyki, as well as those of three nearby villages and the town of Lagani, in the neighboring Russian region of Kalmykia. The head of the regional police authority decided at the meeting to dismiss the police chief of Liman district, where Yandyki is located, Markelov said. (Interfax)
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