More than 100 residents of the Dagestan village of Gamiyakh asked the head of the republic to “freeze” the sale of land plots until the Aukhovsky district is restored. The request was initiated by the Public Council of Chechens of Aukha.

“Our only requirement is that no land transactions be allowed until the restoration of the Aukhovsky district,” the speakers noted. It is reported that after this, the authorities suspended the sale of land until the legality was clarified.

The problem of restoring the original Chechen Aukhovsky region, transferred from Checheno-Ingushetia to Dagestan during the deportation of Chechens in 1944, has been dragging on for many decades. Moscow allocated huge transfers for the resettlement of those who occupied the houses of Akkin Chechens during their forced expulsion from their native lands, their stay in a foreign land, and also after their return to their homeland.

“Housing has been built for them in a new place, infrastructure has been created - water and electricity supply, kindergartens and schools, but they are not moving,” Said Dadaev, a resident of Khasav-Yurt, told our correspondent. The Akkin Chechens, according to him, show incredible patience, strive to peacefully return to the homes of their ancestors - they call on the new “owners” to show humanity and commitment to Islam, if they are Muslims, but this leads to nothing. And local authorities, he complains, do not want to solve the problem.