From: eagle_wng
KABARDINO-BALKARIA CONSTITUTIONAL COURT REJECTS APPEAL AGAINST REDISTRICTING LAW
20.08.2005 – 00:18:49
The Constitutional Court of the Kabardino-Balkaria Republic ruled on 18 August that the controversial Law on the Status and Borders of Municipal Formations in the republic enacted in February does not violate the republican constitution…
That ruling is final and may not be appealed.
Residents of the republic´s Elbrus Raion appealed the law in June, arguing that it violates the rights of local Balkars insofar as it transfers to a local municipal council land that the villagers traditionally used for their flocks, depriving them of their livelihood.
On 12 July, the republican parliament amended several articles of the law in line with a request by villagers in Chegem Raion.
At that time, Deputy Prime Minister Anuar Chechenov said the parliament would also consider analogous requests from Elbrus villagers, but that none had been made.
(Agency Caucasus)
290705 Kabardino Balkaria
http://www.kafkas.org.tr/absoluten/showarticle.php?articleID=1299
