ЗЕМЕЛЬНЫЙ ВОПРОС В ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТИ КАБАРДИНСКИХ ОБЩЕСТВЕННЫХ ОБЪЕДИНЕНИЙ В НАЧАЛЕ XXI ВЕКА

Abstract

The article shows that the land question was a priority in the activities of Kabardian public associations at the beginning of the XXI century. Kabardian public associations protested against the decisions of the Parliament of the KBR in 2005–2009 on the liquidation of inter-settlement territories and their distribution among some rural settlements. The leaders of the Kabardian national movement announced a disproportion in the distribution of «inter-settlement territories» along ethnic lines – the allocation of more than 90% of inter-settlement territories to villages with a predominantly Balkarian population, and appealed to the leadership of the Russian Federation and the KBR with requests to repeal of all laws on the boundaries of municipalities adopted in the KBR in 2005–2009 and the subsequent adoption of the law «On distant pastures», with the allocation of mountain pastures in a separate category of land, equally belonging to mountainous and lowland villages, regardless of the nationality of the people living there. In the context of the aggravated socio-political situation, the Parliament of the KBR suspended consideration of a draft law on changing the boundaries of municipalities in the republic (November 2009), and also adopted a law (June 2011), according to which distant pastures are classified as republican property and are not subject to privatization. But, despite the normative acts adopted by the Parliament of the KBR, the distributed «inter-settlement territories» remained in the use of some rural settlements.