FINAL AMENDMENTS MADE TO DRAFT CHECHEN CONSTITUTION
By empty (8/6/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)
At a session on 5 August, the Chechen government made final amendments to, and then approved, the republic's new draft constitution. Participants agreed to remove from the draft the reference to Chechnya's sovereignty; administration head Akhmed-hadji Kadyrov noted that the sovereignty granted to Chechnya and other federation subjects by former President Boris Yeltsin "turned into war, poverty, and destruction," according to "The Moscow Times" on 6 August. Added to the draft was a stipulation that presidential candidates must have lived in Chechnya for the past 10 years, a requirement that may have been directed specifically against former Russian parliament speaker Ruslan Khasbulatov, who claims to enjoy wide support among the Chechen population.Visit also
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