01 November 2010, 21:00
Dagestan: rally demands resignation of Tabasaran District head
Today, in Khuchni village, centre of the Tabasaran District, several hundreds of local residents rallied to express distrust to district head Nurmagomed Shikhmagomedov.
According to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, the rally passed without incident. None of the authorities came out to communicate with the protesters. A resolution was adopted at the end of the action; while initiators of the rally - the Anti-Corruption Board of the Tabasaran District - sent a letter on the situation in the municipality formation of the Russian Federation to Alexander Khloponin, Presidential Plenipotentiary in the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD).
According to the protesters, they want to draw attention of the country's and local authorities to the corrupted head of the Tabasaran District Nurmagomed Shikhmagomedov and his family.
The head of the administration of the Tabasaran District was unavailable for comments.
Author: Oleg Ionov Source: CK correspondent