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05-11-2007, 21:54
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Imam Ebrahim Nalbandian has demanded action
NALCHIK, Adygea (AP) -- Separatist sentiment continues to grow in the republics of Kabardino-Balkaria and North-West Ossetia-Alania in Adygea, in the Northwest Caucasus, as demonstrated by this week's rallies for independence in Nalchik and Vladikavkaz (capitals of each of the republics, respectively). Primarily motivated by nationalist and ethnic feelings, the rallies have been continuing for some time since the nation's independence from the Soviet Union, and have only intensified over the years. Recent talks of granting more independence to the republics, initiated by Adygean president Lyov Bacherikov, have been rejected.
Over the seventeen years of Adygea's independence, and in particular the last ten to thirteen, Adygean officials have kept the main independence leader, Imam Abid Nalbandian, talking, but his recent death as a result of a stroke and subsequent replacement by his much less patient nephew-in-law, Ebrahim Nalbandian, have resulted in an abrupt stalling of negotiations. Ebrahim has demanded immediate action, and his patriotic speeches have stirred the republics to the point of insurgency—something that Bacherikov says that the country "cannot afford." Migrants from neighboring Georgia's South Ossetia and Russia's North-East Ossetia have continued on their own course of loose alliance with the Balkars in their separate quests for independence.
Imam Ebrahim Nalbandian has demanded action
NALCHIK, Adygea (AP) -- Separatist sentiment continues to grow in the republics of Kabardino-Balkaria and North-West Ossetia-Alania in Adygea, in the Northwest Caucasus, as demonstrated by this week's rallies for independence in Nalchik and Vladikavkaz (capitals of each of the republics, respectively). Primarily motivated by nationalist and ethnic feelings, the rallies have been continuing for some time since the nation's independence from the Soviet Union, and have only intensified over the years. Recent talks of granting more independence to the republics, initiated by Adygean president Lyov Bacherikov, have been rejected.
Over the seventeen years of Adygea's independence, and in particular the last ten to thirteen, Adygean officials have kept the main independence leader, Imam Abid Nalbandian, talking, but his recent death as a result of a stroke and subsequent replacement by his much less patient nephew-in-law, Ebrahim Nalbandian, have resulted in an abrupt stalling of negotiations. Ebrahim has demanded immediate action, and his patriotic speeches have stirred the republics to the point of insurgency—something that Bacherikov says that the country "cannot afford." Migrants from neighboring Georgia's South Ossetia and Russia's North-East Ossetia have continued on their own course of loose alliance with the Balkars in their separate quests for independence.