About 10,000 families evacuated from the contaminated area were still living in makeshift houses built 30 years before, and radiation levels at Karachay lake were as high as 120m curies. (British Broadcasting Corporation 5/20/99 & 5/23/99) In light of the tensions surrounding the election, both candidates met with the acting Russian prime minister and signed an agreement intended to defuse the situation. (British Broadcasting Corporation 5/24/99) A large group of participants in a rally led by the brothers of Cherkessk mayor Stanislav Derev stopped the car belonging to permanent envoy to the Russian president Magomed Kaitov . Karachays join in bloody anti-Russian revolts carried out by Caucasian peoples. It had been completely backfilled in November 2015, then monitored before placing the final layer of rock and dirt. (British Broadcasting Corporation 11/14/99) Abazins and Cherkess rallied in Adyge-Khabl in Karachay-Cherkessia to protest a rumor that the head of the republic dismissed the head of the Adyge-Khabl District administration - an ethnic Cherkess - and replaced him with a representative of the Nogay people. The Karachay-Cherkess Justice Ministry announces its intention to ban operations of the "Rus" political movement (a Russian nationalist organization) on the grounds that it incites inter-ethnic conflict. (Jamestown Foundation. "Karachay Jamaat: History, Reality and Perspective, Part 1" Chechnya Weekly, 8:22), Several attacks by Karachay Jamaat lead to deaths of police officers starting in summer 2005. The Russian Ministry of Atomic Energy announced plans to build a new fast breeder reactor to evaporate the contaminated water of Lake Karachay, after which sludge wastes from the lake would be buried. The Congress of the Moslems of Karachay calls for a return of Karachay autonomy. Semenov's representatives did not publicly state their plan, although they emphasized that Semenov had legally won and any further appointments by Moscow would be in violation of their rights. Sign Up Now! At the Lake Karachay, another smaller incident occurred with release of mixed fission products in April 1967 that formed the Karachay Trace over an area of 1,800 km 2 (Peremyslova et al. The law was passed four days later. The Karachay parliament declares the territory's sovereignty as the Soviet Socialist Republic of Karachay. Chechnya Weekly. 5 thoughts on “ Civic Issues – Lake Karachay ” Boyoung Kim March 6, 2014 at 9:13 am. About 60 supporters of Derev, all of them members of the republic government, announced their withdrawal from the republic's government. About 10,000 families evacuated from the contaminated area were still living in makeshift houses built 30 years before, and radiation levels at Karachay lake were as high as 120m curies. He also threatened to take steps against members of the republican parliament who had not taken their seats, most notably those who were participating in the breakaway Cherkess parliament. They turned the vehicle upside down, dragged Kaitov out and brought him to the office of the Mercury company of Stanislav Derev and beat him, allegedly because of his support of Derev's rival, Army Gen Vladimir Semenov. The opposing sides were separated by police, but the Cherkessk law-enforcement agencies adopted no measures to lift the siege or ensure Semenov's safety. The area has also been severely damaged by the plutonium-producing facility Mayak opened in Chelyabinsk-40 (later called Chelyabinsk-65, Ozyorsk), in the Southern Ural, after World War II. The protestors believed that the closing of Mercury resulted from a political intrigue which started in November when Stanislav Derev - the firm's president - was elected mayor of Cherkessk, but found himself unable to communicate with the head of the Republic, Vladimir Khubiyev due to language difficulties. Those taking part in the action demanded the removal of Vladimir Semenov from the post of head of Karachay-Cherkessia. "Karachay Jamaat: History, Reality and Perspective, Part 1." Derev supporters claimed Semenov had tampered with the vote by controlling polling places and casting duplicate votes. That year’s abnormally warm summer saw the shallow lake begin to dry up, exposing the contaminated lake sediment, which blew into the atmosphere, spreading strontium over an area approximately 1,800 sq.km. The level of radiation in nearby lakes is said to be 2.5 times that of Chernobyl. Among workers, cancer mortality remains an issue. "Karachay Jamaat: Countermeasures, Connections and Composition, Part 2." After five days of protests in the city, the groups disbanded after the announcement that the elections would be declared invalid. The body of water that received the most contamination from Mayak’s nuclear fuel production was Lake Karachay. A mass rally bringing together representatives from across the republic issues a similar appeal. (British Broadcasting Corporation 4/26/99), In the period between the first election and the run-off, numerous terrorist attacks were carried out, including grenade attacks and arsons. They dumped load after load into it and then even more into Karachay Lake. The agreement recognized the right of all citizens regardless of nationality or religion to be elected to any elected position, and called on the voters to reconcile, and the government to create the post of plenipotentiary representative of the Russian president in the Karachay-Cherkess Republic to cooperate with the Russian president. Chechnya Weekly, 8:22; Jamestown Foundation. Karachay and Russian officials meet and reach an agreement to diffuse political and ethnic tensions in the republic, in part by scheduling elections to local and republic-level representative bodies. The Techa River, which provides water to nearby areas, was contaminated, and about 65% of local residents fell ill with radiation sickness. The ban was to be in effect until the political situation in Karachay-Cherkessia stabilized. 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