‘Vestnik Kavkaza’ continues a series of publications, presenting responses to the events on Moscow's Manezhnaya Square from the republics of the North and South Caucasus.
Today we are going to inform our readers of North Ossetia’s response to the events in Moscow. The poverty of the majority of the Russian population is the reason most often mentioned by the analysts of North Ossetia. “Individuals of Caucasian nationality" were the scapegoats to be blamed for the country’s poverty. Meanwhile, in the Caucasus, the native populations live with "individuals of Slavic nationality” and the nationalistic sentiment in Russia may backfire on them. The chairman of the committee on Legislation, Law and Local Self-Government of the North Ossetian parliament, the chairman of the executive committee of the NGO “Consent and Stability”, Valery Guizoyev, has made his comments on the situation in an interview to VK.According to Guizoyev, the events in Moscow were the result of the failure to develop a concise program of youth education in tolerance, as well as the low standards of local police and a range of other entangled serious social problems, such as poverty, corruption, the deep polarization of society, etc. Another incentive for nationalistic sentiments, according to Guizoyev, is the absence of a well-developed policy on migration and a firm governmental position on the issues related to it. Guizoyev sees the answer to the problem in the nationalization of resources and of the main industries in Russia.
Tamara Bunturi, Vladikavkaz, exclusively for VK
