Karachay nationalists. Why were Karachays and Balkars deported? Hypothesis about the Kabardian origin of Karachays and Balkars

"The Einsatzkommando ... was received with enthusiasm"

"... The German troops from the very beginning were confident in the fullest and most joyful support from the mountaineers. At a time when the Circassians in the former autonomous regions of Adygea and Cherkessia at first could only be observed spontaneous readiness for self-defense against partisans, among the very active Karachays political goals are already visible.When the German armed forces entered the Karachay region, they were greeted with universal rejoicing.In their willingness to help the Germans, they literally surpassed themselves.

Thus, for example, the Einsatzkommando of the Security Police and the SD, which arrived at the beginning of September in the Karachai village located south of Kislovodsk, was received with enthusiasm comparable to the days of the annexation of the Sudetenland. Team members were hugged and lifted on their shoulders. gifts were offered and speeches were made that ended with a health resort in honor of the Fuhrer. At many rallies, the Karachays assured through their representatives of unconditional loyalty to Adolf Hitler and boundless trust in local German authorities. They handed over a thank-you note addressed to the Fuehrer. In all these expressions, the hatred of the Bolshevik regime and the will of the Karachais for freedom are sharply emphasized. In addition, clearly defined wishes were expressed for a certain self-government, for the dissolution of collective farms and for the education of young people in accordance with the characteristics of the genus. These proposals were also joined by representatives of the Balkars, who sought to separate from the existing administrative association with the Kabardians and unite with the Karachays.

From the available observations, thus, the different behavior of the Russian-Ukrainian population and mountain tribes is revealed.

...Remarkable is the desire of approximately 60,000 Balkars to separate from the Kabardians and join the Karachays, numbering 120,000 inhabitants. Both tribal groups expressed their unity with the Greater German Empire in many events through their deputies."

[RGVA. F. 500k. Op. 1. D. 776. L. 15 - 32.]

I leave the document without comment.

Dear Colleagues,
I am writing these lines to you in connection with a journalistic investigation into corruption and violations of the law in the Karachay-Cherkess Republic. It was planned to publish this material in parts, but yesterday's murder of the young Circassian Aslan Zhukov prompted me, on an emergency basis, to finalize the second part of my investigation and release it to the public.
I am under constant surveillance, so I have to use a pseudonym.
The information in the articles is all verified, obtained from reliable sources and from serious people.
It is important for everyone to see these articles, the attention of the Russian leadership should be focused on the KChR.
I ask you to publish this material on your website. Only public outcry will be able to stop the lawlessness that is happening in the KChR.
Alexey Karaev

Part 1. Corrupt lawlessness or who can live well in Karachay-Cherkessia?
There are no national elites in the KChR; power is the only elite
Boris Ebzeev
Prerequisites ethnic conflicts.
Small and extremely unstable in recent months, the Republic of Karachay-Cherkessia is attracting more and more attention. Publications about the tense situation became more frequent, and at the end of February 2010 the President visited the republic Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev with his plenipotentiary in the North Caucasian Federal District Alexander Khloponin. A short visit to the KChR revealed to the federal leadership some of the “charms” of the life of ordinary people in the republic, although much of what is happening is carefully hidden under seven locks in the corrupt offices of republican officials.
The main reason for the growth of instability was the violation by the current authorities of the KChR of the parity agreement of 1999, in which the distribution of control over the republic took place according to the formula: the President is a Karachai, the Chairman of the Government is a Circassian, the Chairman of the People's Assembly (Parliament) is Russian.
The situation was further aggravated by the blocking by the Karachai majority in parliament of the candidacy of Vladislav Derev, an ethnic Circassian, to the Federation Council. This caused massive protest actions by the Circassian population. Ignoring the legitimate demands of the Circassian public organizations led to the complication of the already tense socio-political situation in the republic. Youth movements "Adyghe Khase" from the neighboring republics - Kabardino-Balkaria and Adygea joined the process. Repeatedly at civil rallies, the leaders of public organizations of the three regions declared that such lawlessness and permissiveness on the part of the authorities towards citizens would not be allowed.
Numerous experts and politicians, considering the situation in the KChR, agreed that Boris Ebzeev, despite his experience in the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, turned out to be extremely unprepared to manage the region. During the short period of his rule, he showed an obvious lack of ethno-political delicacy and did not take into account the peculiarities and subtleties of stability in the KChR. The public abuse of alcoholic beverages by Boris Ebzeev was also noticed, which could not but affect his actions. Obviously, the growing problems and the inability to cope with them put pressure on the head of the region, and the desire to “forget” increases every day.
For greater clarity, the reforms of the leadership of the KChR were divided into main components:
Personnel policy
Here are the statistics of the most "bright" appointments of Boris Ebzeev:
1. Everest Gochiyaev (cousin of B. Ebzeev) - appointed head of the municipal settlement "Dombay Village". In the past, he was a defendant in a criminal case for harboring the well-known leader of the terrorist underground - A. Gochiyaev, who was involved in the explosions in Moscow. E. Gochiyaev is also known for his connections with the criminal community of the republic.
2. Arashukov Rauf Raulevich (son of the General Director of Stavropolregiongaz LLC and Stavropolkraigas OJSC Raul Arashukov) - was appointed head of the Khabezsky district of the KChR. Arashukov Rauf, born in 1987, at the age of 17 became a deputy of the Stavropol City Duma, later moved to the post of Minister of Labor and Social Development of the KChR, later became an adviser to Boris Ebzeev, and, finally, the last appointment - the head of the Khabezsky district. List of "antics" of this young man known to many, the description of the criminal nature of which may take several pages.
3. Aliyev Ismail Ibragimovich - appointed First Deputy Chairman of the Government of the KChR, supervises the economic bloc. Karachay nationalist - one of the main ideologists of superiority Karachai people over the rest. He has no experience of public service and management in general. An extremely odious personality, with pronounced aggression and intolerance towards everything non-Karachai.
4. Aibazov Ratmir Umarovich - Senator from the KChR in the Federation Council, "elected" by the parliament of the republic at the suggestion of B. Ebzeev. In 1979, R. Aibazov was sentenced to 6 years in prison, under article 117 part 2 for rape. Completed the term. In 2003, his criminal record "mysteriously disappeared" from court records. R. Aibazov formed his capital with the help of criminal activity. In 1999, a criminal case was opened against him on the fact of fraud on an especially large scale. After a lengthy investigation, the case was "dismissed". His fortune is estimated at 100 million euros. It is known for certain that R. Aibazov is actively appointing his relatives to seats in district courts, using the services of Andrey Davydkov, Chairman of the Supreme Court of the KChR. Behind Lately R. Aibazov presented President Ebzeev with several expensive cars and apartments.
5. Umar Akhmatovich Uzdenov - "elected" the head of the Malokarachaevsky district. Known for his connections with crime and the extremist underground, he was nominated for the post of head of the district by B. Ebzeev, with the tacit support and agitation of the population by members of illegal gangs.
In total, with the number of Karachais 38% of the total number of residents of the republic, they are: .
Investigative Committee - 70%; .
Executive power - 44%; .
Bailiffs - more than 80%; .
traffic police - more than 80%; .
Courts (including the Supreme Court) - more than 50%; .
Accounts Chamber - 42%;
Electoral Commission - 52%.
Deputies of the People's Assembly (Parliament) - 51%;
Prosecutor's office - more than 50%.
Obviously, in personnel policy B. Ebzeev shows an open ethnocracy. It should be mentioned that in all appointments Active participation accepts his son - B. Ebzeev.
Economy
In the socio-economic aspect, Karachay-Cherkessia is falling lower and lower every month in the list of well-being of Russian regions. These figures reflect the situation as of mid-2009 (which is much worse today):
- Agriculture: the number of cattle has decreased significantly, the area under crops of all grain crops has decreased. Manufactured goods rose in price by more than 10%.
- Industrial production fell by 11%
- Construction sector: the volume of work decreased by 57%. The construction of social housing is frozen. Accordingly, all key positions in the bodies responsible for construction are occupied by appointees B. Ebzeeva and R. Aybazova.
- The real income of the population (according to special economic indicators and calculations, including inflation and other factors) decreased by 7%
- The volume of overdue wages increased by 70%!
Experts noted an extremely unhealthy situation in the economic sector, the authorities of the KChR are not taking significant steps to overcome the crisis. All activity is reduced to empty statements.
Crime
With all the attempts of the leadership of the KChR to hide the real statistics of crimes and violations of the law, not without effort, but still managed to get the final figures on the level of crime in the region. The growth of registered crimes in the middle of 2009 was 17% compared to the same period last year. The growth of especially serious crimes amounted to 32.6%. The number of murders and attempts increased by 1.8 times, hooliganism increased by 3.5 times, the number of economic crimes increased by 1.6 times, and bribery doubled. As the source notes, administrative pressure on small and medium-sized businesses has increased many times over. Tax deductions from business fell by 30% due to the departure of many investors from the republic.
The current situation can only be called "administrative racketeering" in relation to businessmen, which contributes to the redistribution of financial flows and the elimination of competitors. The head of the department for combating economic crimes of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the KChR A. Khapaev is the main "executor" of orders of this kind, has stable ties with the criminal world and the radical underground. His promotion to the post of Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the KChR is actively lobbied by President Ebzeev and Senator Aibazov.
4. The conclusions from all this are as follows:
1. The authorities of Karachay-Cherkessia and directly President Boris Ebzeev do not cope with their duties;
2. There are systemic problems in the management of the region;
3. The standard of living of the population is lower than the average for Russia;
4. The level of corruption is excessively high, clannishness and the merging of power with crime go beyond all acceptable limits;
5. Socio-economic indicators are mostly negative;
6. There is no adequate activity to combat gangs and underground formations;
7. The socio-political situation is extremely tense: the inability of the authorities to dialogue with representatives of civil society contributes to a social explosion.
Dmitry Medvedev's visit to the KChR became an indicator that the Federal Government sees a danger to stability North Caucasus and the unity of Russia in the actions of the leadership of the republic - personally Boris Ebzeev and his entourage.

Part 2. Murder in a dark alley or who lives well in Karachay-Cherkessia.
We will drive everyone into a stall, and everything will be fine in this republic Rauf Arashukov
On the evening of March 14, 2010, a young activist of the Adyghe Khase movement, Aslan Zhukov, was brutally murdered near his own car service. As one of the most active representatives of the Circassian youth, Aslan Zhukov was under the close attention of the KChR authorities. Aslan often received threats, and there were attempts to exert pressure. As he told his friends, the authorities tried to put spokes in his wheels in business, always inciting some kind of checks on him. Aslan Zhukov was a simple citizen of the republic, honestly earned his living and tried to promote the positive development of young people. Among the young Circassians and Abaza, he enjoyed great respect.
Trying to answer the question, why was he killed? - the first thing that comes to mind is ethnic strife and a political order. The republic knew that Aslan Zhukov would be able to consolidate the Circassian youth if needed. Repeatedly, he, together with the leader of the youth "Adyghe Khase" Timur Zhuzhuev, stopped the riots and took the youth away from the places of "showdowns". Often, it was these people who, by virtue of their patriotism and desire for justice, fought corruption, lawlessness of law enforcement agencies and overgrown crime in the KChR. Thanks to the efforts of such activists, a huge number of young people avoided falling into the ranks of the militants.
Obviously, the positive activity of Aslan Zhukov interfered with "someone" in the republic.
There is no doubt that, following the example of past crimes, the authorities of the KChR will want to give this political murder a “domestic character”, attributing a well-thought-out legend to this event.
In the media, press releases from the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the KChR often surfaced, in which mass fights between Karachai and Circassian youth were called "simple riots that have no national overtones."
Whom do the KChR authorities want to deceive? Yourself, your citizens or the Federal Center?
The pursuit public figures, pressure on everyone who is not in a corrupt interweaving with the ruling clans of the KChR has become commonplace. Not only residents of the republic, but even high-ranking officials are subjected to such pressure. federal level. A striking example of such persecution was Oleg Panasenko, the prosecutor of the KChR, who took a principled stand against corruption. In his annual report, he stated: “During the 10 months of 2009, about 2,000 violations of anti-corruption legislation were revealed, 65 criminal cases of corruption were initiated against 67 persons, 14 of which were related to bribery.” Of these, most of the corruption offenses and crimes were committed when leasing land and forest plots. After such vigorous activity, the prosecutor of the republic was subjected to severe persecution by the Karachay officials and authorities, memoranda were written to Moscow, calls to the top leadership with complaints about his incompetence and requests for his resignation.
Another example from the same series was the dismissal of Major General Nikolai Osyak from the post of Minister of Internal Affairs of the KChR. He was known for his incorruptibility and his legal activities interfered with numerous illegal transactions with property, real estate and land resources in the KChR. Numerous letters from "frontmen", corrupt social activists and officials at all levels, whom Nikolai Osyak prevented from stealing the budget of the republic, influenced Dmitry Medvedev's decision to resign the general.
Valery Ostrovetsky, the current head of the FSB Department for the KChR, fell under the same nationalist "skating rink". The ethnocratic authorities of the KChR, protecting their personal interests, used methods of pressure and threats even in relation to such a person. Officials approached him different levels, starting from ordinary employees of the administration of the President of the Republic. The main implication of all the "talks" was pressure on the activities of Ostrovetsky, in other words, he was required to do nothing. Otherwise, he was threatened with the loss of his job.
The Karachay authorities did not bypass the “attention” of the current representative of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation for domestic politics Renata Karchaa in the KChR.
In the short period of his work on the territory of the KChR, R. Karchaa proved himself to be an experienced federal official, contributed to the preservation of the unity of the republic and carried out work to reduce tension and return the parity of 1999. But apparently, the desire of R. Karchaa to establish a dialogue of all segments of the population and to put representatives of different peoples at the negotiating table did not fit into the mono-ethnic model of management of B. Ebzeev and his entourage.
Who is not with us is against us
Several more actively joined the process of pressure on federal officials in the KChR actors. The formula for pressure on unwanted people relies on the following people:
1. Aibazov Ratmir - Senator from the President of the KChR in the Federation Council. We talked about it in the first part. Its main task is financial support for all illegal actions: bribery, bribes, payment for compromising materials, etc. It has its own bloc in parliament, with the help of dependent deputies of the national assembly, it changes the legislative base of the republic.
2. Kipkeev Sairambek - Head of the Administration of the President of the KChR. Using administrative levers, puts pressure on any subordinate. Starting from the heads of districts, ending with small and medium-sized businessmen. Sets strict conditions for the execution of orders of any nature. In case of non-compliance, he seeks the dismissal of the official.
3. Khasan Sarkitov - Deputy Head of the Administration of the KChR. He holds various events in the style of party meetings, develops information on slander against certain figures. Participates in public lynching of guilty people.
4. Sergei Smorodin - Permanent Representative of the Republic of KChR under the President of the Russian Federation - and he is also in the rank of First Vice - Prime Minister of the KChR government. Fulfills all instructions of the ruling clan in the KChR, delivers memorandums and libels to the country's leadership. The main reason for his actions is the fear of losing his job and losing his place of residence - he lives in Ratmir Aibazov's apartment in Moscow. At one time, Smorodin participated in the active "pressure" of the head of the public organization "Rus" M. Khokhlochev. Now he is entrusted with the task of removing any obstacles from the Russian public of the republic.
5. Ismail Aliyev - First Deputy Chairman of the Government of the KChR. Chief ideologist Karachay nationalism, oversees issues of pressure from the Karachay public on certain officials. Engaged in writing numerous complaints and requests for the removal of people objectionable to the clan. He contributed to the merging of the nationalist part of the Karachay people with the power structures.
6. Rauf Arashukov is a new member of the team of the Karachay ethnocratic clan. By his actions, he very actively shows devotion to the cause and the principle of "hand washes his hand." Without thinking about the consequences for the inhabitants of the republic, he was many times involved in illegal machinations that destabilized the situation in the republic. In his desire to become the leader of the Circassians of the whole world, he went to extreme measures. Used in provocations against Circassian businessmen, attacks on young activists national movement and oversees the pressure on the Circassian part of the population of the republic. Quoting his illiterate "eloquence" has become a fashionable activity among students.
One example of the teamwork of the ruling clan against positive changes in the republic was a recent event held in the Khabez district on March 2.
So, on the eve of the arrival of Renat Karchaa, the curator of the republic in the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation, in the Khabez district, a provocative PR action was organized. Throughout the district, Rauf Arashukov's people pasted misleading leaflets, in which the federal government was shown to be extremely incompetent, with a biased attitude towards ordinary people. On the same night, these leaflets were liquidated by representatives of law enforcement agencies under the leadership of I.O. Interior Minister Sergei Skripko. This action was enough to excite the population of the region and to inflame the situation as much as possible until the meeting itself. Sairambek Kipkeev was in charge of direct management of this action, he gave instructions to hang leaflets and then take them down.
On March 2, a lot of people gathered in the hall of the house of culture of the Khabez district, the deputies of Rauf Arashukov sat in the presidium, having prepared a scenario for holding the meeting in the form of a reporting session. Rauf Arashukov himself was sunbathing in Egypt at that time, managing the process by phone.
After the first speaker, who praised and welcomed the positive changes in the Khabez district, the hall began to resent loudly. The word was demanded by ordinary villagers who were waiting for an opportunity to speak out in front of the federal center, to talk about what is really going on in the KChR. Speakers complained about the prosperity in the area of ​​corruption, tribalism, constant pressure and lawlessness from the police and local administration.
Acute dissatisfaction was expressed with the fact that the tariffs for housing and communal services in the Khabezsky district at the beginning of 2010 increased by 578% since the beginning of the year. This is not a typo, indeed the tariffs increased by 578%, this happened due to the collusion of the district administration with the leadership of the republic.
The formula is quite simple: the Federal Housing and Utilities Development Fund annually allocates funds to help the subjects of the federation to reform facilities in the form of grants. The republican authorities demanded that the head of the Khabez district refuse these subsidies in order to use them in an inappropriate way, or simply plunder them. Counting on the fact that the Arashukov family, due to their financial security, will cover these expenses from their own pocket. But not here - that was, being the head of the Khabezsky district, Rauf Arashukov shifted all payments to the shoulders of the common population. Thus increasing the utility bills by six times!
Returning to the meeting of residents in the House of Culture, after many speakers, the floor was asked by the former head of the Khabez district, Mukharbi Shebzukhov. He also experienced the methods of pressure and persecution of the ethnocratic authorities of the KChR. Due to constant persecution, he was hospitalized several times and, in the end, was removed from the post of head of the Khabez region. He spoke very emotionally, a lot of things hurt and I wanted to express everything that is. During his speech, the session moderator began to actively interrupt him, insulting and humiliating the elderly Shebzukhov. Unable to withstand the tension, Shebzukhov's pressure jumped, and he lost consciousness right at the podium. He was taken to the hospital, but the people did not want to stop the meetings and continued to resent the lawlessness taking place in the KChR.
After 20 minutes, a message came to the hall that Mukharbi Shebzukhov had died of a heart attack. This is another death that can be attributed to the leading clan of the KChR and its supporters.
Upon returning to the republic from Egypt, Rauf Arashukov made a public statement that he had agreed on everything with Ramzan Kadyrov. They will remove federal officials objectionable to them in the person of Renat Karchaa and Nazir Khapsirokov from their posts, and Rauf Arashukov himself will become the Prime Minister of the KChR. “We will drive everyone into a stall, and everything in this republic will be fine,” he finished.
An objective question arises: how many more people will be "killed" by the hands of this rotten to the foundations of the power-criminal elite?

Part 3. Survival of the Russian-speaking population, or who in Karachay-Cherkessia has a good life?
Being in Karachay-Cherkessia, it is hard not to notice how, over time, more and more people leave the republic with their whole families. Especially seriously, this trend began to affect the Russian population of the region, which fell under the covert "ethnic cleansing". The republican system of government created uncomfortable living conditions that contributed to a massive outflow of people: over the past 20 years, almost 100,000 Russian-speaking people have left the KChR. In the period from 2002 to 2008, there was a stable trend of outflow of Russians and a drop in their number in the republic from 33.6% to 21.8%. If this trend continues, by 2014 there will be no Russian-speaking population in Karachay-Cherkessia at all.
White slavery is still relevant today
The history of the village of Ispravnaya in the Zelenchuksky municipal district clearly shows the methods and technologies of the process of squeezing citizens out of their homes.
At the time of the Soviets, the village of Ispravnaya had the richest potential and large land holdings. The collective farm owned a thousandth herd of cattle, produced all types of agricultural products, and supplied these high-quality goods to all regions of the state. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, collective farm property was distributed among the inhabitants of the village, the villagers received land shares for unlimited use and were able to support themselves and their families.
During the years of the ethnocratic system of the Karachay leadership of the republic, the inhabitants of the village of Ispravnaya almost completely lost their property. The owner of the huge land areas around Ispravnaya became the limited liability company Paritet. According to the website of the Ministry economic development KChR, since the beginning of 2010 LLC "Paritet" under the leadership of Yakushenko V.I. signed a dozen large contracts with the municipal authorities of Cherkessk and regions of the republic in the amount of several million rubles. An internal investigation into the transfer of large land areas into the hands of the Paritet company showed that, using simple fraudulent schemes, poor legal awareness of the population, frank naivety and low financial income of the villagers, the employees of this company transferred all land shares to the possession of their own company. After some time, a whole bunch of fictitious powers of attorney appeared, allegedly on behalf of rural residents, giving the right to Paritet LLC to dispose of these territories at its discretion. A direct dependence of Paritet LLC on such officials as Rauf Raulevich Arashukov, the former head of the Khabez district, and Ali Tambiev was revealed.
Tougher measures were applied to those residents of the village who tried to refuse to transfer land and property into the hands of Paritet LLC. Armed people from the Starazhevsky criminal group under the tacit control of Sairambek Kipkeev, the head of the administration of the President of the KChR, “agreed” with those who did not want to give up their lands. Many residents know that the Zelenchuksky district is a node of special interest to the Starazhevskaya criminal group. Their interests are lobbied by Sairambek Kipkeev, who does not hide his connection with crime. It is as if the dashing 90s have returned to Russia and the criminal gang is in charge of all management processes.
Not having received protection from law enforcement agencies, many residents began to leave the republic. And those who remained came under all-round pressure and persecution. One of the most striking examples of such persecution was the deputy chairman of the public organization "Rus" - Antonina Golovina, who lives in the village of Ispravnaya. In the past, the son of A. Golovina was brutally murdered, the criminal case has not been solved, the motives for the crime and the perpetrators have not been found. She was regularly threatened, fired from her job, not given the opportunity to live. The head of the Zelenchuksky district, N.A., tried to exert open pressure on her. Belanov, who is deeply involved in corrupt relationships with other defendants in this investigation.
The people in the village are put in a position incomparable with human life, cannot even sell potatoes from their own plot, because the local police immediately arrive and confiscate the food. In such conditions, the inhabitants of the village of Ispravnaya had no choice but to work as laborers on the former own land for pennies, forming the basis of the "white slaves" in the hospitable Karachay-Cherkessia.
Knocking on the sky and the "rules" in lawlessness.
Calls for help from the inhabitants of Ispravnaya reached the federal center, and on March 1 a commission consisting of the chief federal inspector A. Karabeynikov, the chairman of the people's assembly of the KChR A. Ivanov and the curator of the KChR under the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation R. Karchaa went to the village. The meeting with the villagers began around 19:00 and dragged on well past midnight. Stories about threats, physical reprisals, collusion of municipal authorities and law enforcement agencies controlled by Paritet LLC showed the failure of the republic's leadership in the fight against corruption, but rather showed collusion and mutual protection of these structures.
In the house of culture of the Khabez district on March 2, residents of the district spoke without interruption on the podium, telling the federal center about their personal tragedies associated with the lawlessness perpetrated by the existing elite. They criticized the President of the Republic B. Ebzeev, demanded the resignation of Arashukov, the recall of Senator Aibazov - the dark cardinal of all political intrigues, and asked to help them somehow.
In the evening of the same day, R. Karchaa met with the leaders of public organizations in the building of Adyghe Khase. Sairambek Kipkeev, the head of the presidential administration of the KChR, and several officials were invited to the meeting.
Realizing the depth of the crisis of power in the KChR, the representative of the federal center R. Karchaa proposed a formula for getting out of this situation. The main idea was to draw up an agreement that would spell out the principles of cohabitation of peoples in one republic, the content of parity agreements and mechanisms for the implementation of general equality on the territory of the KChR. In political science, such a document is often referred to as a "road map". It is adopted in those places where the law no longer works. Karachay-Cherkessia today has become the very subject in which it will be extremely difficult to solve problems without such a memorandum.
This document must be considered by all parties to the conflict, agreed upon and adopted by the leaders of national organizations - on the one hand, and the authorities of the republic, on the other hand. It was proposed to include political parties in the process. All leaders of public organizations and officials present at the meeting agreed on the importance of such a step and the need to immediately begin to implement this idea.
However, such an initiative of the federal center to resolve the conflict in the republic ran into open disagreement with President Boris Ebzeev, who, in the presence of several people, said: “All these agreements to resolve conflicts are chatter and complete nonsense. Conflicts must be suppressed. I will put a couple - three leaders of organizations in prison, the rest will quickly calm down. There are no national elites in the KChR - the only elite is the government. I'm not going to negotiate with anyone."
Supporting his colleague, Senator Aibazov ordered the immediate "neutralization" of federal officials and any other figures who want to sign an agreement that establishes the "rules of the game" as opposed to the lawlessness that is happening in the KChR.
Here it is important to emphasize the destructive role of Ratmir Aibazov (http://compromat.ru/page_19575.htm) in violating stability in the republic. Due to personal financial interests in the protected and recreational zone of Dombai, Senator Aibazov began to persecute the newly appointed head of the Ministry of Natural Resources. Previously, his most active participation in pressure on the Minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Osyak, the prosecutor of the republic Panasenko, planning the elimination of the mayor of Cherkessk, Korochenko Petr, and the campaign to eliminate federal employees who tried to stop the violation of the rights and legitimate interests of citizens in the region were described.
After a direct order from Ratmir Aybazov, within a day, Sairambek Kipkeev, together with Rauf Arashukov, provoked unrest in the Khabez region, which was described in the second part. An open provocative campaign was launched against R. Karchaa, A. Karabeynikov and A. Ivanov due to their interest in the processes of dialogue with civil society.
The authorities of the republic wrote a letter addressed to V.Yu. The formula of a comprehensive "attack" on unwanted people, worked out in the KChR, received a new round of activity.
With all three (Karchaa, Karabeynikov, Ivanov), representatives of President Ebzeev began to actively meet with demands to abandon the idea of ​​a memorandum that takes into account the interests of all the peoples of the KChR.
Obviously, the authorities do not want to change the situation for several reasons:
1. They do not want to admit the existence of conflict processes that undermine stability in the KChR
2. They do not want to give up the practice of lawlessness and lawlessness, with the help of which they conduct all their affairs
3. They do not want to take on obligations that will prevent them from implementing their own corrupt plans to privatize all the property of the republic
In addition to threats that federal officials will be slandered in many pages, denigrating their image and making a negative impression on their superiors, the leading clan in the KChR threatened to send a well-funded group of henpecked social activists to Moscow who would organize mass protests and demand a meeting with the president Russia, demand the dismissal of these officials, accusing them of destabilizing the entire situation.
What is happening can be described in a simple phrase: The authorities of the KChR decided to shift all the blame from a sick head to a healthy one.
The subjects of the ruling clan publicly accused the dissatisfied people of extremism, tried to shift all responsibility for what was happening to independent public organizations"Adyghe Khase", "Rus", "Circassian Congress", "Abaza", etc.
The Coordinating Council will take on the role of stabilizer
In such a situation, in order to protect their legitimate interests, understanding the danger posed by the leadership of the KChR, public organizations of all the peoples of the republic created a Coordinating Council. A cooperation agreement was signed, points of direction for joint work to bring the republic out of the crisis and pre-war state were described.
Yesterday's contract killing of a young Circassian activist Aslan Zhukov was perceived by the public extremely negatively. The majority of the population of the republic accuses the authorities of indirect complicity in rampant crime and crime, the growth of national intolerance among young people and mass fights on ethnic grounds.
The existing ethnocratic government, headed by Boris Ebzeev and Ratmir Aibazov, has lost the trust of the people, has become their direct enemy, posing a danger to the life of any citizen of the KChR (read the Russian Federation).
Pathological instability in the KChR frankly tired the federal center. The consequences for a failed clan will be extremely severe. The loss of jobs for the ethnocracy will be the most favorable outcome.
Alexey Karaev
Freelance journalist

This was enough for, after the liberation of the Caucasus, Stalin gave the command to resettle the Karachais for "disloyalty to the Soviet government and sympathy for the invaders"

The deportation of the Karachay people took place at the end of 1943, immediately after the liberation of the Caucasus from fascist invaders. Shortly before the start of the Great Patriotic War, according to the All-Union census of 1939, 75,763 Karachays lived throughout the USSR, 92.79% (70,301) of whom lived within the Karachay Autonomous Okrug. During the general mobilization, 15,600 Karachais were called to the battlefields with German troops, another 3,000 people were involved as the so-called. "labor reserves". The Karachais who remained in the rear also did not sit idle: in the first years of the war, they collected and sent 6 wagons of things for the front (felt boots, sheepskin coats, cloaks, earflaps, woolen socks, etc.).

However, the first days of the Great Patriotic War turned out to be very sad for the USSR. The Wehrmacht moved by leaps and bounds and already in August 1942 German troops occupied the territory of the Karachay Autonomous Okrug. About 1200 inhabitants, incl. women, Karachay Autonomous Okrug formed about 17 partisan detachments.

Having occupied the territory, the Wehrmacht established its own rules throughout the region: curfew (from 19:00 to 4:00), use of German currency, German spelling of names settlements and institutions in the occupied territory, leaflets that reported on the liquidation of collective farms. The latter was used to recruit the indigenous population of the Karachay Autonomous Okrug: it was assumed that the liquidation of collective farms would provoke the transition of workers to individual land use, which would improve the life of the peasants. The tension in the ranks of the Karachays of the region was accompanied by a continuing deterioration in the financial situation of the population and new repressions against it. Karachays, who in the years civil war acted on the side of the White Guards, the dispossessed and opponents of the Soviet regime began to go over to the side of the invaders. Anti-Soviet elements began to form detachments to support the occupying regime and fight the partisans.

During the Second World War, the command of the German Wehrmacht often resorted to the formation of various kinds of organizations in the occupied territories in order to support the occupation regime, for example, the Karachai National Committee. This was enough to make a decision on the deportation of the Karachai people.

Accusations of collaborationism were the reason for the deportation not only of the Karachays, but also of most other peoples of the North Caucasus. One of the reasons for the resettlement was the anti-Soviet movements of the 30s of the XX century during the period of forced collectivization. "Excesses and distortions committed during the collectivization" provoked the performance of more than two thousand Karachais, among whom were not only supporters of the White Guards, but also religious figures and princes. Despite the fact that the speeches were suppressed, some Karachai families switched to underground activities, so-called. "bandit-insurgent organizations".

Operational-Chekist campaign to identify and arrest active members of rebel organizations in 1941-1942. didn't bring much results. During the specified period, 21 gangs and 135 of its members were identified on the territory of Karachay. With the German offensive, the anti-Soviet elements stepped up their work. Some historians do not rule out that the anti-Soviet actions of the Karachays and the German offensive were planned simultaneously. This is indicated by the close contacts of the leaders of the rebel organizations with the German occupiers, and some of them even received training in German intelligence schools. This fact was confirmed by Dr. historical sciences Ivan Bugay in his work "They must be deported".

The "Karachay National Committee", created under the occupation regime, promised that the collective farms would be abolished, its property, as well as the management of the autonomy's economy and culture, would be transferred to the committee. The committee, as conceived by the Wehrmacht, was to report to the German diplomat Ernst-August Koestring, who later took an active part in the conspiracy against Hitler.

The theme of anti-Soviet speeches of the Karachais is also present in the studies of the German military historian Joachim Hoffmann. In his work “Germans and Kalmyks 1942-1945”, he points out that the result of the formation of administrative departments in the Karachaev Autonomous Region was “ recognition on the basis of non-intervention of independent republics of Karachays, Kabardians and Balkars in the North Caucasus, who rose to fight against Soviet power even before the arrival of the Germans».

In January 1943 Soviet army ousted German troops from the territory of the Karachay Autonomous Okrug and began the fight against anti-Soviet elements. As a result of these measures, the rebels (“leaders of bandit rebel formations”, “Muslim clergy and nationalists”) were partially liquidated, and those who disappeared continued to work underground. During the clashes February 10-15, 1943 Karachays liquidated 115 soldiers and officers of the Red Army and employees State Security. From the side of the Soviet armed forces, about two thousand police officers and military personnel were involved. Clashes continued until October 1943. During this period, 37 operations were carried out, as a result of which both anti-Soviet elements and NKVD officers died.

In the midst of these confrontations, April 15, 1943, a joint directive of the NKVD and the USSR Prosecutor's Office was issued on the resettlement of 573 family members of rebel leaders. This figure was later reduced to 472 people. August 9 they were all evicted from the region.

October 12, 1943 The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR decided to liquidate administrative structure Karachay Autonomous Okrug and the resettlement of the remaining representatives of the Karachay ethnic group (62,842 people) to the Kazakh and Kirghiz SSR. The decision took effect from November 2, 1943.

The NKVD troops, numbering 53,000 people, encircled the auls and blocked the ways of entering and exiting the city. At four o'clock in the morning, the Chekists began arrests, and it took an average of 3 to 6 hours to evict one village.

TO November 5, 1943 from the Karachaev Autonomous District was taken out 34 echelons, each of which consisted of 58 wagons, accommodating about 2-2.1 thousand people. The first echelons from the Karachay Autonomous District arrived in the Dzhambul and South Kazakhstan regions on November 10. By December, the territory of the Kazakh and Kirghiz SSR was settled 15,987 families(12,500 men, 19,444 women and 36,670 children). Most of the special settlers were settled on the territory of the South Kazakhstan region - 25,142 people(3689 men, 6674 women and 14679 children).

From the message of the head of the Gulag V. G. Nasedkin L. P. Beria:

By the time the trains arrived at the unloading stations, auto-drawn transport was concentrated in a timely manner. The unloading of trains was organized and planned. There were no excesses and incidents both when receiving trains and when moving into collective farm and state farm houses, both on the part of the arrived Karachays and the local population. The overwhelming majority of special settlers in the very first days after resettlement began to work on state farms and collective farms, harvesting cotton, beets, and cleaning the irrigation system.

After a few months, March 3, 1944, based on the order State Committee 2,543 Karachays were demobilized and were supposed to go to the place of resettlement of their families or relatives.

Especially for the arrival of special settlers in the Kazakh SSR, a 488 special commandant's offices, to each of which 5-7 Chekists were seconded and officers. Particular attention was paid to preventing attempts to escape by special settlers, however, on June 1, 1944, 77 people fled from the places of settlement, another 19 people were detained.

The lack of housing for special settlers from the North Caucasus forced the local population to condense, and those who did not have enough space had to be content with club buildings, temporary barracks, dugouts and dilapidated houses. In addition, the deportees did not have any clothes suitable for the local climate. People needed in large numbers fabric for winter clothing and footwear, but the measures taken were not enough. Needless to say, the deportees had no right to leave the district, and disobedience was severely punished. In addition, heads of resettlement families were required to report all changes in their families (escape, birth of a child or death of a family member) within three days. Violation of this rule was punishable by a fine of up to 100 rubles or by arrest for up to five days. For the fugitives, the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR provided for a punishment in the form of 20 years of hard labor.

The first years outside their native lands were especially difficult for the Karachay people. By 1948, the evicted Balkars, Chechens, Ingush, Karachais 28,120 children were born, A 146,892 people died.

The first indulgences for the regime of detention of the North Caucasian peoples on the territory of the republics of Central Asia were adopted in 1954, from citizens born after December 31, 1937, the status of special settlers was removed. This allowed children over 16 years of age to enter educational establishments travel outside the place of residence.

July 16, 1956 The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR issued a decree "On the removal of restrictions on special settlements from Chechens, Ingush, Karachays and members of their families evicted during the Great Patriotic War." By that time, the number of special settlers had greatly decreased (30,100 people), largely due to the 1954 decree on removing the status of special settlers from citizens born after December 31, 1937.

Decrees on the abolition of the special regime in relation to the deported peoples and other groups of people were distinguished by their half-heartedness, the desire not to subject the policy of mass deportations pursued earlier to the slightest criticism. It was about the fact that people were evicted “due to the circumstances of wartime”, and now, they say, their stay in the special settlement “is not necessary”. From the last phrase it logically followed that earlier it was "caused by necessity." There was no question of any political rehabilitation of the deported peoples. As they were considered criminal peoples, they remained so, with the difference that they turned from punished peoples into pardoned ones.

V. N. Zemskov.

Among the Karachais related to Kazakhstan, there was a Karachay-Balkar poet, prose writer and playwright Albert Uzdenov, who was born in the village of Zadarya, Arys district of the South Kazakhstan region. In addition to him, it is worth noting the first chairman of the Supreme Court of the Karachay-Cherkess Republic Mohammed Abrekov, third president of the Karachay-Cherkess Republic Mustafa Batdiyeva, Chairman of the Coordinating Center for Muslims of the North Caucasus, Chairman of the Spiritual Muslim Board of the KChR, Mufti Ismail Berdiev, actor, native of Dzhambul region Shukura Tebueva and Hero of Socialist Labor Patia Shidakova.

Karachaevskaya Autonomous Okrug was restored January 9, 1957, but now the Karachay-Cherkess Autonomous Region was part of the Stavropol Territory. She was returned some areas that became part of the border regions during the liquidation of the region. The first echelons of Karachays arrived at home May 3, 1957, which in the history of the Karachai people is celebrated as "The Day of the Revival of the Karachai people."

Circassian, Karachai, Abaza and Nogai. Muslim Notes

Karachay village Uchkeken, Circassian village Adyge-Khabl, Nogai village Erken-Shakhar, Abaza village Elburgan, as well as the two capitals of Karachay-Cherkessia - the cities of Cherkessk and Karachaevsk in 4 days. From February 12 to 15, the Working Group of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation for the Caucasus, headed by journalist and political scientist Maxim Shevchenko, held a series of round tables and meetings in the cities and villages of Karachay-Cherkessia as part of the Peace to the Caucasus civil project.

Impoverishment of the spirit

There are not many of us - group leader Maxim Shevchenko, journalist Orkhan Dzhemal, leading expert on Islam at the Carnegie Center Alexei Malashenko, Chief Editor"Caucasian Knot" Grigory Shvedov, our organizer Maria, me and the crew of the "Russia.Ru" channel. Each of us in his own way admires the beauties of the republic, the abundance of young people, Caucasian hospitality, tables bursting with treats. I note for myself an unusual number of young people in power - young heads of districts, the mayor of Karachaevsk, a dozen or two deputies of the People's Assembly, the Minister for Youth Affairs. Beautiful, stately, courageous guys. This is the Caucasus - my homeland.

Most of all, during my visits to the villages and cities of Karachay-Cherkessia, I was struck by the huge difference in the problems that concern people of different nationalities and different ages. The Nogays from Erken Shahar, as well as most of the older Circassians, Karachais and Abaza, speak about socio-economic and everyday problems.

There is not enough work and money, there are not enough kindergartens, bad roads, infrastructure, budgets at all levels are stolen. But, unlike many dying Russian regions, there are strong farms around, decent cars, neatly dressed people. The peoples of the Caucasus love and know how to work. They are enterprising and resourceful. They feed families and raise children.

But for some reason, almost everyone seems to think that this is not enough. Many are waiting for some special state care and easy money. I explain this to myself by two catastrophes of the Caucasian people. The first happened in Soviet years when the state weaned people from showing initiative, developing their farms, accustoming them to social dependency.

The second catastrophe occurred in the 90s after the collapse of the USSR. It was a time of easy money. Young people were rapidly criminalized, they learned to take away and grab. But today those days are gone. Today we need to show entrepreneurial and career initiative, today we need to get an education and work hard. And the Soviet and post-Soviet generations do not yet fully know how to do this.

In addition, I managed to talk with Circassian, Karachay and Abaza imams. Most of them note that the people strive more for worldly and material than for spiritual enrichment. This is despite the fact that, according to the same imams, their peoples have never lived as well as they do now. Cars, houses, strong households, mobile phones...

And our ancestors used to survive in stone huts, without water, electricity and gas, without pensions and benefits, without cars and telephones. But at the same time they managed to raise children, and defend the honor and freedom of the people, and become hafiz, and develop their religion. So what happened to us? the imams ask. The answer is obvious - the impoverishment of the spirit.

I am not calling for a return to the past. I urge you to realize all the mercy that the Almighty has shown our generation. I urge you to compare our well-being not with Hollywood stars, but with the position of our ancestors and those generations of Muslims who, despite their modest income, ensured the prosperity of Islam. I urge you to use all the benefits that have been given to our generation to rapidly improve the level of education of our children, to help each other, for good deeds, for the development of our national Caucasian culture, but saturated with Islamic morality and purity.

blinding pain

It is worth driving a few kilometers from the Nogai Erken-Shahar, which is preoccupied with everyday problems, to the Circassian Adyge-Khabl, as the picture changes radically. Every Circassian approaching the microphone is trying to shout out and convey to the Moscow landing forces the age-old pain of their people, who, after the genocide in tsarist times, found themselves in a minority in their homeland.

The Circassians, indeed, survived a terrible tragedy - the extermination of entire tribes by the tsarist troops at the end of the Caucasian War, the horrors of resettlement to a Turkish foreign land, the loss of a significant part of a million people. Once one of the largest peoples of the Caucasus, who gave the Ummah the greatest heroes, resisted tsarist aggression even after the capture of Imam Shamil, inscribed in world history legendary battle in the Kbaada tract (Krasnaya Polyana), today he is forced to shout that his rights are being infringed on his own native land.

The Abaza in the village of Elburgan, representatives of a small people very close to the Abkhaz, speak of the same thing. The question of the Olympics in Sochi unexpectedly makes the conversation with Abaza especially acute. Namely, that the Olympic facilities are being built on the bones of the Circassian and Abaza martyrs of Krasnaya Polyana. Despite the fact that the authorities in no way even try to discuss this issue before the Circassian and Abaza communities.

The Abaza, as well as the Circassians, are worried that the surrounding peoples are gradually dissolving them. Abaza youth forget their culture and language. However, it is worth asking in more detail, it turns out that the conditions for preserving culture for the Circassians and Abaza have been created - lessons national language, its own newspaper, its own districts. It turns out that the problem of oblivion of national culture lies elsewhere.

In what? In the course of the conversation, I try to find this answer. To begin with, I, as a representative of the divided Lezgi people, understand the pain that young Circassians and Abazins are trying to convey to us. But for some reason, this pain is all described through daily everyday problems - clashes on ethnic grounds, discrimination in employment. For some reason, as a solution to these everyday problems, extremely radical methods and utopian projects are proposed - to divide the republic into Karachay and Cherkessia, to assign flat areas to certain nationalities, to create national squads, to ban the Olympics in Sochi.

One people - two approaches

Emotions so overwhelm those who speak and listen in Adyga-Khabl and Elburgan that no one remembers that the main problem of the Circassians and Abaza today is not the lack of their own republic, but a terrible level of lack of spirituality that corrodes young souls, the spread of alcoholism, drug addiction, promiscuity of guys and girls low level education.

It is frightening that none of the speakers even perceive all this as a problem. He does not feel how exactly these vices and troubles crippled the will and ability of the Circassian and Abaza peoples for social competition, survival and development.

I feel that young and hot blood, as before, no longer raises the Circassian and Abaza people to exploits and accomplishments in the name of faith, peoples and homeland. Because someone deliberately puts this blood on alcohol, tobacco, drugs, and undermines the spiritual foundations of the people. This problem is relevant for all the peoples of the Caucasus, but most of all for the Circassians, Abazins and Abkhazians. I am looking in front of me for those Circassians whom Lermontov sang:
But the Circassians do not give rest,
They will hide, then they will attack again!
They are like a shadow, like a smoky vision,
Far and near at the same time!

I believe they are. But they need time to straighten their shoulders again. They need the fraternal help of neighboring peoples in order to once again take on their shoulders all responsibility for the fate of their homeland.

It's not just my feeling. All the educated Circassians with whom I share my feelings say the same thing. Circassian and Abaza youth, who used to be driving force of the history of the Caucasus, today they “hide” on patches and decide who to go for vodka, or where to get a dose.

The youth, which the Circassian and Abaza peoples need so much today, which should be a nuclear power plant that gives the people frantic social energy of creation, wanders, having lost their vector and forgotten their history. Instead of fighting vices, raising spiritual culture and readiness for social competition, it transfers all problems to the national plane with the utmost fervor.

But after all, in the past, when no one created special conditions for the Circassians or Abaza, separate regions and republics, they inscribed the most glorious pages of history into world history. They gave birth to the greatest sons of their people, who, not expecting pensions, benefits and grants from anyone, in brotherhood with neighboring peoples, paid with their lives for the preservation of the people, culture, freedom and honor.

I am even more strengthened in my former opinion. When Muslim peoples forget about their true purpose in this world… when they stop zealous on the path of Truth… When they stop spending themselves generously on the path of Allah…. When they stop brotherly helping their neighbors…. Then the gradual degradation of Muslims begins.

When the understanding of the Truth is washed out of the hearts, the poisonous seeds of nationalism, disengagement, the search for enemies and culprits in one's own troubles penetrate into the hearts. I realize how strikingly different from today's young Circassians and Abazins of the Caucasus are those Circassians and Abazins who at one time, with the flows of Muhajirs, ended up in the Balkans and the Middle East.

Vivid examples of this are my teacher Arabic and the life stories of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) at Damascus University Abu Nur, the Circassian ustaz Ramadan Najda and the young muhajir Abazi from Kosovo are a student at the same university. Their hearts are also full of pain for the current state of their people. But they see the roots of these problems in a completely different way.

Namely, in the abandonment of religion by the Circassians, the loss by the Circassians of the spiritual core of Monotheism, their abandonment of the ropes of Allah and the Islamic brotherhood. In solving the problems of their people, they call not for national demarcation, but for the return of the Circassians to the bosom of Islamic culture, for the fight against the moral corruption of the people, against the vices of drunkenness and drug addiction, for raising the level of education and fraternal attitude towards all neighboring peoples.

The immature community

In Karachaevsk and the spiritual citadel of the Karachai people Uchkeken, the range of issues discussed is completely different. The lack of a Juma mosque in the capital of the republic, extrajudicial persecution of young Muslims, discrimination against believers, torture of detainees. Unlike the Circassians and Abazins, the Karachai youth speaks not of an inter-ethnic split, but of an intra-national split - into "believers" and "non-believers".

The majority of Karachays are rapidly returning to Islam, building mosques, readily marrying and giving birth to children generously. The Muslim religious community of the republic is growing rapidly, mainly due to the Karachays, although among them the problems of drunkenness, drug addiction, and crime are not an empty phrase.

Not everything goes smoothly, of course. One by one, the speakers say that when solving the problems of Muslims, the authorities prefer forceful methods, rather than constructive social, economic and political technologies.

Even shaved guys and girls without hijabs say that an unduly tough policy is being pursued against the rapidly growing Muslim community of the republic in violation of all laws. “The presumption of innocence does not apply to believing children,” these words were uttered not by an imam or a lawyer for the detainees, but by a teacher at a state university with her head uncovered.

There are voices that the more money the government pumps into anti-terror, the more the threat of radicalism expands in the republic. One of the imams exclaims in their hearts: “When they tell me for ten years in a row that I am a bandit, in the end I will become one!”

But at the same time, even among practicing Muslims in Karachai, there are voices that the government “does not help” and “does not give”. Many, too many, for a healthy Caucasian society, expect help "from their uncle." I long to hear from someone at least a word that we can cope with the problems ourselves, so long as they don’t interfere ... But I don’t hear.

Islamologist Aleksey Malashenko from the Moscow delegation speaks in response to a certain inferiority complex that has developed among the Caucasian peoples. He says that Caucasian Muslims lack confidence that they can and should protect their rights, they lack the level of education, legal literacy, readiness to defend their rights, civil mobilization.

audacious goals

In conversations with people, you really realize that Caucasians, with all the explosive return of Islam to their lives, with all that they remember about their glorious past, have lost some skills and social experience. They forgot that they were once an example of a strong communal democracy, they forgot that Russian nobles, Decembrists, European poets and writers were inspired by the civil courage of the highlanders, who were ready to defend the truth in the face of the most unjust and cruel rulers.

They forgot that in its history the Ummah gave rise to the strongest institutions of civil society - civil associations of young merchants and artisans "futuvva", powerful communities of ulema, faqihs and qadis. Nothing from the experience of the past is used today by the Muslims of the Caucasus.

We are not ready, like our ancestors, to give all our property and our lives for the protection of our faith, our native land, the interests of our community. Instead of maintaining in our own chest the fire that burned in the hearts of our ancestors, we only keep the ashes of the memory of their heroism. But these ashes will not help us build mosques, or protect our brothers from persecution, or defend our right to justice ...

Without a doubt, the future of our peoples, whether they are Lezgins or Abazins, Chechens or Circassians, Nogais or Russians, Karachays or Avars, is to set the most daring goals and the highest heights. To nominate new Beibarsov and Klych Gireev from their midst, give birth to their own Lomonosovs and Tolstoys, Mahathtirovs and Erdogans... Become the economic, social, political locomotive of the country... Turn our Caucasus from the outskirts of Russia into the intellectual, business and energy center of Eurasia...

Are we capable of all this? Of course, only Allah knows the future. But it was He who gave us all the means to achieve this - a legendary and heroic story, incredibly brave, courageous and chaste youth, hot and restless blood, a daring mind and ready to break out of the tight chest of the heart ... And everything else depends on us.

Ruslan Kurbanov, political scientist, Islamic scholar

The attention of the supervisory authority of the Karachay-Cherkess Republic was attracted by a memo Yuri Andropov, submitted by him to the Politburo and the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the CPSU when he was chairman of the KGB of the USSR, December 9, 1980. The document has the working title About negative processes in the Karachay-Cherkess Autonomous Region". The head of the KGB of the USSR then testified that among a certain part of the indigenous population of the region " negative processes are noted, characterized by nationalist, anti-Russian sentiments. On this ground, there are antisocial manifestations, as well as criminal offenses ...».

The note provides statistics on crimes committed against non-Karachais - rapes and beatings. “Such sentiments among young people often turn into open hostility towards Russians, on this basis impudent hooligan antics, rape and group fights are allowed, sometimes threatening to spill over into riots.

So, only in 1979 law enforcement agencies of the region 33 cases of rape of women of Russian and other non-local nationalities were recorded; for 9 months of this year 22 similar crimes and 36 beatings were committed. These actions are often accompanied by cynical statements and cries ...

A significant part of the crimes is committed in the areas where allied and international tourist bases are located. In view of this, the objects of crimes often become vacationers, including Foreign citizens. So, in 1979, two tourists from the GDR were sadistically raped, one of whom later died», - brought to the attention of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU, the head of the KGB of the USSR.

"To reinforce these sentiments influenced by the older generation of local residents who participated in the fight against the Soviet system, - Andropov wrote. - The past is idealized, a feeling of resentment is warmed up Soviet power for the "persecution of Karachays" ... The reactionary part of the mountain emigration is trying use contacts with the indigenous population to incite ethnic hatred and inspiration on its basis of various conflict situations.

Under the influence of the ideas of nationalism, some representatives of the creative intelligentsia in their works emphasize the national superiority of the Karachays, endow positive qualities portrayed by them as former traitors to the Motherland, they seek to arouse in readers and viewers a sense of resentment for the allegedly illegal eviction” (referring to the deportation of the Karachais in November 1943 to Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan).

Andropov also noted that Karachai nationalists in the late 1970s, they began to move to Kislovodsk, declaring this city "their". The nationalists, according to the future General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU, behave defiantly in the city, "terrorize vacationers, provoke group clashes with tourists and residents of other nationalities."

“The presence on the territory of the region of all-Union health resorts, tourist bases, as well as accommodation military units nationalist elements regard as an encroachment on their "primordial" lands and deliberately aggravate relations with the administration of these institutions and military personnel,” wrote Andropov.

The note also refers to the “latent Islamization of the region” and negative factors in the form of mutual responsibility and parochialism. Numerous facts are known when individual Karachay leaders are trying in every possible way to get rid of workers of another nationality and staff with relatives or other people close to them.

This situation gives rise to frequent abuse of office and other negative social phenomena which creates the idea of ​​impunity, causes justified indignation among the population”, - reported the head of the Soviet state security in the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU.

Andropov's note "On Negative Processes in the Karachay-Cherkess Autonomous Region" was quoted in the article Vladimir Voronov"Internationalism in Karachay", published on the website of the newspaper "Sovershenno sekretno". The article is a historical essay, talking about crisis national policy USSR in Karachay-Cherkessia on the eve of perestroika.

Attention to the article was drawn by a resident of the KChR, who informed the prosecutor's office that this publication, according to him, incites ethnic strife.

“The Prosecutor’s Office of the Karachay-Cherkess Republic conducted an audit at the request of a resident of the republic about an attempt to incite ethnic hatred in the article "Internationalism" in Karachaev's way" posted on the global Internet and in the newspaper "Sovershenno sekretno" - said in a statement from the supervisory authority.

The audit found that the article really " there are statements aimed at inciting hatred and enmity, as well as to humiliate the dignity of a person or a group of persons on the grounds of nationality, committed in public.”

“In connection with the above, the prosecutor's office of the republic appealed to the court with a statement on the recognition of the specified material as extremist, at the same time, demanding that a copy of the court decision be sent to the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation for inclusion of the said material in the Federal List of Extremist Materials," - according to the message of the prosecutor's office of the KChR.

According to the supervisory authorities of the KChR, urban the court of Cherkessk satisfied the application of the prosecutor's office in full. Enforcement of a judgment that is, the procedure for sending a court decision to the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation) the prosecutor's office of the KChR took control.

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