Will there be a surge in Chechenophobia?

Black Widow Bag Ending. Start on page 1 As for the identity of the terrorist, during the first interrogations she named different names and different places from which she came - either Grozny or Bamut. Judging by the passport and air ticket found on her (Nazran-Moscow flight), the person detained, as investigators assumed yesterday, most likely turned out to be a 22-year-old resident of the village of Asinovskaya, Sunzhensky district of Chechnya, Zarema Muzhikhoeva. As the Chechen special services previously found out, she was born in the village of Bamut, but in November 1999, Zarema’s house was blown up, and she and her one-year-old child moved to Asinovskaya to live with her aunt. At the beginning of the year, Zarema left for Ingushetia, allegedly to earn money, leaving her son with relatives. It also turned out that shortly before this, her husband died during a clash between one of the separatist detachments and federal forces. Alexander Raskin, Alexander Shvarev, Victor Paukov

A new series of terrorist attacks in the Russian capital may once again prompt Muscovites and residents of other regions to advocate for intensifying military operations in Chechnya. Sociologists make this forecast today, based on the experience of previous years. However, public opinion researchers believe that this surge will be short-lived and not as strong as after the explosions of residential buildings in the fall of 2000. “In Chechnya, in recent years, the federal authorities have been placing fewer bets on war, and this has definitely affected the position of ordinary people,” said Yuri Levada, head of the All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion, in an interview with a correspondent of the Vremya Novostei newspaper. - Even when we conducted a survey last fall, after the tragic events on Dubrovka, the growth of supporters of a tough decision in Chechnya was insignificant, and it was observed only for one month. The latest terrorist attacks, it seems to me, will not cause such a strong shock.” However, Mr. Levada emphasized that sociologists do not yet have the results of the latest measurements of public opinion. Human rights activists began to worry without waiting for the questionnaires to be processed. “When law enforcement agencies are put under arms, the victims are always Caucasians,” says Tatyana Lokshina, executive director of the Moscow Helsinki Group. - After the tragedy on Dubrovka, we were faced with illegal persecution of ethnic Chechens by law enforcement officers. The same thing will inevitably happen now. "

Irina Belasheva, Oleg Volkov