Valery Hatazhukov: events in Nalchik can cause anti-Chechen moods 

As the head of the Kabardino-Balkarian branch of the All-Russia movement "For human rights" Valery Hatazhukov declared on October, 13th in his interview to “Caucasus Times”, in connection with that blame for the attack at the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria Nalchik was taken by the Chechen resistance, in KBR it is possible to expect rising of anti-Chechen moods.

However, in the legal expert’s opinion, in Kabardino-Balkaria they would not get mass character - for that simple reason that the majority of the attack participants are local residents. Valery Hatazhukov noted that the blade of the national indignation would be directed first of all on the authorities and representatives of power structures as it had happened in Beslan and Ingushetia.

" Now a great deal depends on what ways the republican leadership would behave. They should assure the population of the power actions’ correctness", - considered the legal expert. According to some information, in Kabardino-Balkaria from 45 up to 65 thousand compelled immigrants from the Chechen Republic live. A significant part of the refugees are in Nalchik.

Caucasus Times