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Head of Hasania settlement administration shot in Kabardino-Balkaria
In the night on May, 15th in Hasania settlement the head of the settlement administration Artur Zokaev was shot, informed IA REGNUM correspondent. According to preliminary data the murder was committed in the midnight. A. Zokaev went out his private household in the street to answer a car signal. His relatives heard shots of a machine-gun; when they appeared in the street a car had been already off. Medical experts found nine bullet wounds of Kalashnikov machine-gun and two control shots in head made with Stechkin gun.
“Public considers the event as a political murder,- stated to IA REGNUM correspondent A.Zokaev’s deputy Ramazan Friev. According to Friev’s words A. Zokaev was very firm against integration Hasania to Nalchik city and insisted on referendum on that question. Such referendum, planned on May 29th was abused by Nalchik city Office of Prosecutor. On May 23 in Nalchik city court a case about referendum will be considered.
With a new territorial division of Kabardino-Balkaria a part of Balkarian settlement disagrees. Several times they addressed to Kabardino-Balkarian president Valeriy Kokov and plenipotentiary of Russian president in the SFD Dmitry Kozak with a request for reconsideration of the republican decision about integration of two Balkarian settlements Belaya Rechka and Hasania to Nalchik city and giving the status of town to Elbrus settlement.
Office of Prosecutor of Kabardino-Balkarian Republic instituted criminal proceeding
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