INFORMATION CENTER OF THE SOCIETY OF RUSSIAN-CHECHEN FRIENDSHIP

Press release No. 375, March 14, 2003

On March, 2003 Makhauri Khedi Shamilevna, who lives in the village Nesterovskaya of Sunzhen district at 99 Moskovskaya St., appealed to the SRCF regional department office in Ingushetia saying that the houses where Chechen refugees live are often disconnected from electric lines because of debts.

Migrants who live in private houses in Ingushetia pay their homeowner 500-2000 rubles per month. To find these sums they have to sell their valuables and even humanitarian aid received from various public and charitable organizations. However, representatives of “Ingush-Energo” are not interested in who, how and on what lives in the building – they just cut off the wire.

Although Russian government has long entrusted solving of such problems with Ministry for Interior Affairs, Migrant Service and Ministry for Emergency Cases and supported them with all necessary documents and money to give out compensations to Ingush houseowners, still the situation is not changing. Refugees are constantly addressing to state and public organizations asking for help – either they are deprived of gas and electricity supply or illegally excluded from Migration Service computer database.

(From our correspondent.).

Editor in chief Stanislav Dmitriyevsky.

Editor of this edition Oksana Bazhina.

This edition has been put out with the support of The National Endowment for Democracy, as part of their "Russian-Chechen Information Partnership".

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