Tuesday, February 17, 2009

BLOG: 180 Families in Ingushetia Currently Involved in Blood Feuds (windowoneurasia.blogspot.com)

By Paul Goble

Vienna, February 15 – Ingush President Yunus-Bek Yevkurov yesterday appealed to the 180 families in his North Caucasus republic who are now involved in blood feuds to resolve their differences and allow law enforcement agencies there to bring to justice those guilty of the crimes which have triggered these disputes up to now.

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Paul Goble is a longtime specialist on ethnic and religious questions in Eurasia. Most recently, he was director of research and publications at the Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy. Earlier, he served as vice dean for the social sciences and humanities at Audentes University in Tallinn and a senior research associate at the EuroCollege of the University of Tartu in Estonia. While there, he launched the “Window on Eurasia” series. Prior to joining the faculty there in 2004, he served in various capacities in the U.S. State Department, the Central Intelligence Agency and the International Broadcasting Bureau as well as at the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He writes frequently on ethnic and religious issues and has edited five volumes on ethnicity and religion in the former Soviet space. Trained at Miami University in Ohio and the University of Chicago, he has been decorated by the governments of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania for his work in promoting Baltic independence and the withdrawal of Russian forces from those formerly occupied lands. Mr. Goble can be contacted directly at paul.goble@gmail.com

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