Another anti-Chechen publication by Moskovsky Komsomolets

After the prosecutor of the Yaroslavl region, Mikhail Zelepukin, called for mass inspections in the region of those whom he calls "natives of the North Caucasus region" , the Caucasians of the Yaroslavl region expressed their fear that "this statement will untie the hands of national chauvinists, untie the hands of those who work in in terms of inciting ethnic hatred, this is the basis for xenophobia, especially Caucasian phobia . And these fears were not in vain.

On June 10, 2005, Moskovsky Komsomolets published Vadim Rechkalov's article "Closed Chechnya", in which the author tries to prove that "it is as if these Vainakhs are not an ethnic group, but a gigantic organization with its own charter. Viable, closed and hardened" and that an official who "shouts about a criminal nation" and a Chechen who "proves that his nation is the most law-abiding" "will never agree, because although they live in the same state, they follow different laws . "

In the middle of the article, the author, of course, stipulates that "the philistine opinion that the Chechens are a criminal people is not politically correct, and indeed incorrect . " At the same time, V. Rechkalov defends the extremely dubious thesis that almost all representatives of the Chechen and Ingush ethnic groups do not live according to the laws of Russia, but according to adat (customary law), which often conflicts with the Criminal Code of Russia.

For example, (apparently trying to help the prosecutor prove that every Chechen must be seen as a potential terrorist), V. Rechkalov actually accuses the ethnic Chechen Nur-El Khasiev (acting chairman of the Yaroslavl branch of the Assembly of the Peoples of Russia) of having links with terrorists.

The "ubiquity" of terrorism is also proved in another way: it turns out that "Yaroslavl is directly related" to the explosion of the Government House of Chechnya on December 27, 2002 (let us recall that 71 people died and 640 were injured). And this attitude is as follows: the perpetrator of the terrorist act lived and studied in Yaroslavl until 1997, and in 1998 he took his two children from there to Chechnya (in fact, this article is devoted to this story). Probably, following this logic, it would be worth writing that Moscow has a direct bearing on the terrorist attacks carried out by Shamil Basayev - after all, Basayev lived in Moscow for several years.

Recall that V. Rechkalov, while working in Izvestia, repeatedly published articles on the Chechen war and related problems. Among them were extremely controversial ones , similar to this publication in MK. Meanwhile, let us repeat once again that publications of this kind cannot lead to anything other than the growth of Chechenophobia, which is already quite strong in Russian society.

Rechkalov Vadim. Chechnya of a closed type: If adat is contrary to the law, God bless him ... with the law // Moskovsky Komsomolets. 2005. June 10.