Ingush Speaker offers to commemorate deportation victims on October 30

Zelimkhan Evloev, the Speaker of the People's Assembly of Ingushetia, has suggested addressing the federal centre with a request to mark October 30 as the Day of Memory and Grief. The press service of the Ingush Parliament has explained that it does not mean a transfer of the Memory Day of Deportation Victims from February 23.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on February 22, the Ingush Parliament adopted, in the first reading, the draft law to ban any perpetuation of Stalin’s memory in the region.

The Evloev’s speech is posted on the official website of the Parliament in the Instagram. This video is accompanied by press service’s comments.

"In the context of the incorrect interpretation of Zelimkhan Evloev’s speech on the tragic date of February 23, the press service of the National Assembly finds it necessary to make a clarification. February 23 was, is and will remain a tragic date for every Ingush family... We hereby state officially that the People's Assembly of the Republic of Ingushetia is not considering a transfer of the date to some other day," says the statement.

According to the press service, today Russia marks October 30 "as a commemoration day of tragic fates of many citizens touched on by Stalin’s terror."

Instagram users have expressed, in their comments on Evloev’s speech and press service’s statement, their outrage.

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.