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ADYGEYA PARLIAMENT UPPER CHAMBER REJECTS DRAFT LAW ON REFERENDUMS
13.02.2006 – 00:49:04
´´Adygeya’s Slav majority favors the republic’s merger with the surrounding Krasnodar Krai; the Cherkess minority has vowed to fight to prevent any such merger, which would deprive the Cherkess of any formal ethno-territorial unit…´´
The State Council — the upper chamber of the Republic of Adygeya parliament — failed on 8 February to endorse the draft law on referendums approved by the lower chamber last month.
Public organizations representing the republic’s Cherkess and Adyg minority, who account for some 10 percent of the population, have demanded that the draft be amended to exclude the possibility of holding a referendum on changing the republic’s borders.
The Slavs, who account for some 70 percent of the population, are campaigning for the abolition of Adygeya’s status as a separate federation subject and its merger with Krasnodar Krai, within which it constitutes an enclave.
Also on 8 February, several public organizations representing the Cherkess minority dispatched an appeal to Russia’s presidential Public Chamber protesting the Slavs’ initiative and appealing for the preservation of Adygeya’s status as a republic.
(Agency Caucasus)
280705 Adygeia
http://www.kafkas.org.tr/absoluten/showarticle.php?articleID=1466
