Nogais in Stavropol complain of discrimination
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Nogais in Stavropol complain of discrimination
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RFE/RL Russian Federation Report
Vol. 1, No. 12, 19 May 1999
Stavropol
Local ethnic group claims discrimination. Around one thousand Nogais,
the modern descendants of the Turkic- Mongolic nomads who moved into
the steppe areas of the northern Caucasus, recently held an
unauthorized meeting in the village of Tuku-Mekteb in Stavropol Krai
and demanded the resignation of the regional and educational
administration of the Nogai okrug, "Nezavisimaya gazeta" reported on
15 May. The meeting was called because of the killing of two Nogai,
aged 30, by a local police officer, according to the daily. Murat
Auvesov, chairman of the executive committee of the interregional
association of Nogais, "Birlik," told the newspaper that Nogais in
Neftekumsk Raion do not have equal rights with other ethnic groups.
According to Auvesov, there are no Nogais in the raion's
administration or in any of the local law enforcement agencies. He
concluded that unless the problem of providing equal rights to the
Nogai people is resolved, "sad consequences" could ensue. JAC
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