In the regions

Announcement of war

December 29, 2007 Alexander Cherkasov

When in early July I left the Magas Airport in Ingushetia, I was surrounded by gypsies. Someone may be surprised, but along with the blue sky and piercing sun, a flock of gypsies created a feeling of serenity and peace. A week later, Iduchi in the evening on Nazranovskaya Street, I saw a crowd of gypsies floating towards them. Well, I think they will guess to me ... No - their working day is over, and women and children passed by, plowing lively with each other and on mobile phones. It seems that their business flourished.

They say a good sign. They say that the gypsies feel the war and leave in advance. And they also feel the world - they return.

I looked after the Sun who was going behind a large Caucasian ridge, and thought: “Good evening ...” I was mistaken. Sometimes signs are deceiving ...

On the night of July 16, in the village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya (here she is called the old-Sleptsovskaya) unknown people from a pistol with a muffler shot the family of the Russian teacher Lyudmila Terekhina. About one in the morning a group of armed people entered the house. They entered the room where Terekhins were sleeping, asked in Russian: "Where is the money?" Without waiting for an answer, they killed Lyudmila, and then her children, Vadim and Marina. On July 18, during the funeral of Terekhins, a homemade explosive device worked in the cemetery, ten people were injured.

On August 25, during a funeral in the Christian cemetery, an explosion occurred again. The landmine worked when a tractor with a trailer drove up to the gates of the churchyard, in which the body of the deceased Viktor Myashch was brought for burial, and there were two more stanitsa, Russians. The driver of the tractor, a local resident of George Chernets, was wounded, with fragments, on a tangent.

Around midnight on August 28, the explosive device was thrown into the courtyard of the house of twenty -five years old Nina Penkova at the Ordzhonikidzevskaya. There were no casualties.

On August 30, near midnight in Karabulak, the family of a Russian language teacher Draganchuk was killed-her husband Anatoly and two sons, 24-year-old Mikhail and 20-year-old Denis shot her husband. Vera himself Draganchuk managed to escape.

On September 6, two Koreans were killed in the Ordzhonikidze shots: father and son Lagay.

On September 7, in Nazran near the gates of his house, the head physician of the blood transfusion station 58-year-old Natalya Mudarova-Russian was shot from the machine gun, was married to a Chechen.

On the night of September 11, three members of the gypsy family of the Lulyakovs were killed in Ordzhonikidzovskaya. The criminals in masks broke into the house, demanded money and values ​​and killed three adult men: 55-year-old Vasily, and his two sons-19-year-old Yanysh and 26-year-old Peter. The killers spared women and children.

On the night of September 15, in Malgobek, a bottle of incendiary mixture was thrown into the window of the Pleshakov family apartment, a fire began. No one was injured only because the owners were not at home.

On October 14, on the Muslim holiday of Uraza-Bayram, in broad daylight from the machine guns shot a Kortikov family. 54-year-old Nikolai and his pregnant daughter-in-law Zoya were killed. Tatyana Kortikova, the wife of Nikolai, survived, their neighbor Valentina Nemova died in the hospital.

On October 15, an empty house of the Russian family was blown up in Troitskaya. This family just the other day was going to return to Ingushetia.

On November 4, at about ten in the evening, in the village of Yandare, "Armed Persons in Masks" entered the territory of the brick factory and shot workers. Three were killed-Ponomarev, Butusov and Oskin, who came from Kabardino-Balkaria, from Stavropol and from Belarus. Troshchak, a resident of Stavropol, was wounded in the hand.

On November 5, at about eight in the evening in Nazran on Gadziyev Street, armed people who arrived at the Zhiguli shot the drift of the diesel locomotive of the railway depot - Armenians Avetisov and Khursshudyan. Both died in the hospital.

It is obvious that these killings are not a criminal element, but the systemic pressure on the Russian -speaking, that is, the Nevaine population of the republic. Moreover, the most respected representatives of the Russian -speaking community become victims. Teachers Dragganchuk and Terekhina enjoyed great authority: read, their students are everywhere.

The gypsy family of the Lulyakovs is also not a "roller-field", but the indigenous residents lived in Igushetia for four generations, worked at the state farm. Vasily Lulyakov, the tractor driver, they say, was in the Sleptsovo universal favorite: "There is no man in our village, to whom he would not help to bring something or the field to plow." And after the murder of the Lulyakov family, all gypsy families left Ingushetia. Before leaving, the locals guarded them.

The response of the Ingush to the murder of Russian -speaking unanimous - extreme indignation, indignation, misunderstanding. "Who?". And the versions arise ...

“This is a provocation, someone wants to destabilize the situation,” Antonina Petrovna Khasieva, deputy head of the administration of the Sunzhensky district, responsible for the Russian return to the republic, expressed common opinion.

The prosecutor of the republic Yuri Turygin connects these killings just with the program of the return of the Russian -speaking population. According to him, about 2800 people are already living in Ingushetia now.

And the victims of the attacks themselves - those who survived - cannot explain the motive of criminals. Tatyana Draganchuk, the daughter of Vera Draganchuk, was perplexed: “We lived so well, not to convey in words so peacefully. We never cursed with anyone ... I worked as a paramedic in the Karabulak clinic, I know half the city in the face ... We have never closed the house, I haven’t been afraid of anyone and now my friends are going to my neighbors. One neighbor brought the lime, the second room turned the lime, the saleswoman from the store came, asks me not to leave. "

So who kills the Russians in Ingushetia?

The prosecutor’s office in July, at the very beginning of the campaign of terror, published its version: both the murder of Terekhina and the explosion , ”could be performed by the Wahhabits militants from the detachments of local field commanders Magomed-Bashir Albakov and Khas-Magomed Apiev,” who in 2006 committed a series of attacks on the Russians.

This version was commented by Anna Karenikova, who worked in the summer in the region. Who is Apiev, she could not find out in Ingushetia. As for Albakov with the call sign "Yasir" - his life on the pages of the media is diverse, and the earthly seems to be repeated. The peak of the first was participation in the attack on Number in 2004, then under the command of the Abu Dziat-the leadership of the large-scale organization, the “gang of the Chalifate”. In early 2005, January 8, Albakov dies during the storm of the “pennant” of the house on the outskirts of Nazran-the flamethrower of the “bumblebee” did not leave any chances. But he used some chances, unexplored by identification The charred corpse.

But Karetnikova, my bona fide opponent, goes further: “ Completed in recent months can be divided into actions against the military and the police (explainable and logical: the militants declare their existence and, if possible, cause damage to the enemy’s combat power), the campaign against President Zyazikov and the leadership of the republic (“ crimes against the authorities ”) , and crimes against the Russians. Why are they interested in this militants? The business remains in the Republic of Russia? Is these attacks to bring them political benefits? Are their actions to be a public opinion of the Russian teacher - vile and ashamed, such things are not glory to anyone. (they are shaken by nationalist Russian websites) that to expel the Russians from Ingushetia is the dream and will of all the Ingush, as well as those who present the tragedy as ethnic cleaning in the interests of these Ingush. We cannot deny the existence of a group of scumbags that actively hate all the Russians without exception, or, on the contrary, deliberately choosing the "weakest", the most affordable link. But for understanding, the idea of ​​the customer-organizer is more important. Distabulization clearly chooses the direction: crimes against Russian citizens bring destabilization in Ingushetia to a general -contemptuous federal level. ”

So, the main thing for us is the motive. Based on the possible rational and human motives (in the sense: “We are all people, and nothing animals is alien to us”), several versions regarding possible organizers and inspirers of terror against Russians in Ingushetia - “those who are beneficial” were expressed.

The first three versions of local origin. Since the first attacks on the Russians coincided with the next series of disappearance of the Ingush in North Ossetia and with the arrival of the relevant commission to the region, the version was put forward: "The murders of Russians in Ingushetia are beneficial to show that the North Ossetia is an island of stability and legality." Or: "Distribution in Ingushetia against the backdrop of a stable Chechnya tells the way to solve the problem - the unification of the two republics under the guidance of the successful Ramzan Kadyrov." This version was also expressed: "Detabilization in the republic is beneficial to the internal opposition to President Murat Zyazikov."

But these top -up reasonings were fussing next to versions of a state scale.

In the minimalist version, all attacks and murders were attributed to federal special services. As an elegantly expressed at the forum in the discussion of the article "Ingushetia. Chechen street" someone under the nickname Corax: " The whole republic screams that all the shelling of" Urals "and the blocks of the hands of the gabya ", and a lot of good to the author. Provocation means.

In the full version of this version The purpose of provocation, associated with the upcoming elections, was also added. Everything is like eight years ago - attacks of militants, the entry of troops and large -scale military operations as a background for the operation "successor", only instead of Dagestan there was now Ingushetia.

The commentators also prompted the coincidence of dates. In Dagestan in 1999, it all began in early August. Russian media also spoke about the entry of troops into Ingushetia in early August. Only here is bad luck - by that time, two regiments of the internal troops have been in the republic for a couple of weeks. Our curved information space has such a property-they do not write about something at all, and then suddenly everyone writes about only one. The murders of the Russians in Ingushetia in the first half of 2006 remained unnoticed, and a new wave of violence in the republic in the summer of 2007 was somewhere on the periphery of the frame, until on July 18, Olga Kiriya, from Channel One, covered the explosion into the cemetery in Sleptsovskaya. After that, on August 25, an “special complex preventive operation” was launched in Ingushetia, and additional troops were introduced into the republic.

Meanwhile, in Russia, the dead political season began. An event that at another time would not have been in the news even with a note “briefly”, had a chance to become the main topic (just as in August 2005 the mass riots in the village of Yandyki Astrakhan region became the main topic). And since almost one topic remained in our political desert - the throne of the throne - it would be natural to expect from the "picket vests" of meaningful comments: in Ingushetia the next combination, Mittelshpil ...

Only now, unlike the 1999 Dagestan, the military had no enemy. Indeed, in Ingushetia there are almost no open combat clashes, but the number of attacks, shelling, and undermining. The underground here is elusive and Bezliko-law enforcement agencies cannot say anything at least somewhat determined either about its number, leadership, nor about the deployment. Almost always, after attacks and shelling, the militants, having not suffered losses, dissolve in impunity in the Ingushetia, which was embedded in the blocks of Ingushetia. Therefore, July was ineffective in the input of an additional contingent. Two and a half thousand fighters did not become an obstacle to the militants, but they themselves became targets. As a result, on October 10, the commander of the Interior Ministry of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, General Nikolai Rogozhkin, said in an interview with Echo of Moscow that from the end of September, the withdrawal of an additional contingent from Ingushetia has begun - they say, their work has been done. And the tasks of protecting the order are performed by the republican police and the units of the internal troops constantly deployed in the republic-they themselves will cope with a bunch of bandits ... After this statement, eight "Russian-speaking" were killed.

And what, tell me, can there be a gendarmerie? Their "language" does not include many words. Introduce the troops. Or withdraw troops ... But the significance of these actions is “on a global scale” doubtful ...

That is, if, in accordance with the "conspiracy theory", to consider the murders of Russian inhabitants of Ingushetia as a provocation, then this provocation did not take place.

And yet, tell me what kind of "provocation" is this? Usually, this word is understood as a pebble generating an avalanche, a pretext for a decisive change in the situation. The “Number population” is killed, and not for four months, but soon for two years - and it has not become any excuse for anything. There is no dispute, the situation in Ingushetia is by no means for the better, but slowly and gradually. What is this over the years provoking "certain forces" that they can’t do anything?

The "conspiracy theory" is definitely not triggered.

Or maybe you don’t need to look for such complex explanations?

Yes, now the leaders of the underground deny involvement in these murders. On September 9, 2007, the “Caucasus-Center” separatists website appeared “The press release of the Ingush sector of the KF”, which resolutely denied the involvement of “Mujahidens” in the executions of Russian residents of Ingushetia and the explosion in the cemetery during the funeral of July 18:

“We do not distinguish people by nationality, and if people live calmly, whether Russians, Chechens, Koreans and representatives of any other nationality, subject to their non -participation in the struggle against Islam and Muslims, then we have no complaints against them.”

Moreover, the authors of the “press release” had the responsibility for these crimes on the “Chekists”.

However, the first series of attacks on the Russian-speaking residents of Ingushetia occurred in January-March 2006, and on May 17, 2006, an interview with the “Ingush Mujahideen commander” Amir Magas appeared on the same website of the Caucasus-Center, in which he, in particular, said the following: the following said:

“By the order of the military Amir in the structures of the current sectors of the KF, special operational groups (SOG) were formed, before which the combat task of the operational-tactical purpose is set. One of these tasks is targeted work for specific persons <...> SOG units have already carried out a number of response and combat operations for the actions of the FSB and other structures of kafir and munafics, including against Russians in the territory of the North Caucasus (including Ingushetia), which we now consider as military colonists with all the ensuing consequences. ”

Although customers and executors of the murders of the “Russian-speaking” are not established, the words of one of the leaders of the militants give reason to say-or at least assume that the responsibility for these crimes lies with some (some) of the militants (possibly acting autonomously).

I expected to hear some objections, but the only thing that voluntary opponents could tell me: “How do you know that this Amir Magas exists? After all, he is virtual! Different people can write under this “nickname” ... ” Well, maybe ... As Polevin’s story“ Reconstructor ”, which says that there were five Stalin, and for some time-three at the same time ... But over the past year, no one has shot this self-disclosure text from the Caucasus Center!

And if for someone later statements cancel the early ones, then here you are fresh. Proclaiming himself “Amir of the Caucasian Emirate”, Doku Umarov on October 7, 2007, in particular, said the following:

“ I deny all the Kafir laws that are established in the world. I deny all the laws and systems that the infidels installed on the land of the Caucasus. <...> I am upset by the position of those Muslims who declare enemies only those kafirs who attacked them directly. At the same time, they are looking for support and sympathy for other kafirs, forgetting that all the wrong ones are one nation. ”

Such murders of the “infidels” - whether Russians, Armenians, Gypsies, Koreans, anyone - are unlikely to increase the popularity of the underground, in the Caucasus, in the world.

However, for someone, the statements similar to the above sound normally, do not cause rejection. The norm is changing. The norm becomes an altered human consciousness. More precisely, the consciousness is inhuman. A variety of nations are subject to such psychopathology. After all, the opinions that have been established in many heads that Yuri Budanov is a “example of a Russian officer”, and Edward Ulman “could not do otherwise” are also inhuman. Если для кого-то раздетая и задушенная полковником девушка, закопанная по его приказу (об изнасиловании на суде речь не шла) — повседневность борьбы со снайперами... Если убийства людей, в непричастности которых к военным действиям капитан имел время убедиться, есть суровая работа спецназа... В устроенной таким образом голове вполне могло бы поместиться и убийственное для русских жителей Кавказа определение "военные колонисты". Ведь война начинается как раз в головах.

…Вера и Татьяна Драганчук перебираются теперь в Ставропольский край. Остаётся надеяться, что их судьба сложится на новом месте.

Где-то сейчас кочуют цыганки, покинувшие Ингушетию? Иногда очень хочется, чтобы добрые приметы сбывались.

Автор — член правления общества "Мемориал"