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The Dynamics of the Ethnopolitical Situation and Conflicts in the North Caucasus
The Dynamics of the Ethnopolitical Situation and Conflicts in the North Caucasus
Pages 120-130
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Khoperskaya North Caucasus Territorial Office Ministry of Nationalities and Federal Affairs retrospective analysis of political processes in the late 1990s attests to the fact that, as the year 2000 approached, tendencies toward a deepening crisis of the Russian state were intensifying. In the North Caucasus, this was expressed in · the existence of political (an understanding of the nature of the federation as a federation of ethnoses)
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~ conflicts with adherents of nontraditional denominations and faiths, especially Wahhabists · the intensification of conflicts between Russian Federation subjects in the regions on various grounds, including ~ territorial: conflicts resulting from territorial disagreements, such as those between Ingushetia and North Ossetia-Alania (Prigorodny Region) and Kalmykia and Astrakhan Oblast (the Chernye Zemli area)
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Viktor Kazantsev has been appointed as the plenipotentiary representative of the president of the Russian Federation for this district. The Southern Federal District occupies 3.5 percent of the territory of Russia and consists of some 589,200 square kilometers.
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Other subsidiary legal and law enforcement agencies have also been created, including a district office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, a council of heads of local offices of Russian Federation security agencies in the Southern Federal District, a district branch of the tax police, and a district justice administration. Each of these organizations has been assigned specific responsibilities.
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The program calls for the implementation of more than 700 projects at a cost of more than 150 billion rubles, with about 18 percent of the funding to be provided by the federal budget. Implementation of the program will · build or renovate hundreds of facilities and enterprises and improve their financial condition create more than one million jobs promote the resolution of housing problems for forced migrants increase freight shipment and oil transport volumes by 400 percent ensure at least a tripling of revenues accruing to government budgets at all levels The structure of the program focuses considerable attention on matters related to rebuilding a unified state transportation system as a major stabilizing factor for the economy.
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More than 700 have since been brought into compliance with federal law, and work is nearly complete on revising approximately 150 more local laws and other regulatory acts. Work to create a unified legal space in the district and bring regional legislation into compliance with federal laws and the Constitution of the Russian Federation has already produced results.
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Special attention is being focused on creating a system of justices of the peace, who will be called upon to relieve the regular courts of less significant cases, and on monitoring the effectiveness of the operations of the regular courts and arbitration courts in the Southern Federal District as well as the activities of regional units of such governmental departments as the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the State Customs Committee, and the tax police. RELATIONS BETWEEN THE PLENIPOTENTIARY REPRESENTATIVE AND REGIONAL ELITES The political life of the Southern Federal District is increasingly shaped by events connected with election campaigns.
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In the opinion of existing regional elites, the reforms of 2000-2001 have already achieved undoubtedly positive results, while at the same time creating new problems. In particular, after the reform of the Federation Council of the Russian Federal Assembly, leaders of the legislative bodies of the various federation subjects faced the question of organizational forms and mechanisms of participation in the development of federal legislation.
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Up to now, Viktor Kazantsev has not rejected such initiatives, but he has reacted extremely cautiously to them, which suggests that he does not see supporting them as a means of establishing a positive dialogue with regional elites. He uses different means to create a positive public image, primarily including the following: · direct influence on the development of the military situation (the shift from the military to the police stage in the counterterrorist operation)
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On the other hand, a clear picture has already emerged of the purposeful formation of a social base for Kazantsev's future political activities and his transformation into an independent political figure. The dynamic of the ethnopolitical situation attests to the search for new ways of resolving and preventing conflicts and demonstrates the existence of a specific strategy guiding the activities of the plenipotentiary of the president of the Russian Federation in the Southern Federal District, namely that of transforming the district into a new socioterritorial and sociopolitical community.
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