22:38, 27 October 2006

Kondopoga residents forced the head of Karelia to go to Moscow

Sergey Katanandov, head of Karelia, has interrupted his vacations spent in Portugal, and is for two days already working in Moscow. According to the press service of the Karelian government, in the nearest future he is planning to get back to his Republic and hold a series meetings and actions there to execute the instructions of president Vladimir Putin, announced on October 25 during the TV bridge session of the head of the state with Kondopoga residents, the "LentaCom.Ru" reports.

Then Vladimir Putin expressed his surprise with the fact that he was not able to contact the Republic's leaders and promised to hold "a serious talk" to Karelian authorities, the Regnum rights.

We remind you that the cause of disorders in Kondopoga was a mass fight between locals and Caucasian natives, in the course of which Gregory Slizov, 27, and Sergey Usin, 32, a security of the Central District Hospital, were killed. As a result of subsequent disorders practically all the members of national minorities, including the Chechen Diaspora, quitted Kondopoga.