MAKHACHKALA. July 22 (Interfax-AVN) - More than 100 people have left the Chechen village of Borozdinovskaya, where a sweep operation took place in early June, and set up a tent camp on Chechnya's administrative border with Dagestan.
The tent camp is currently home to 115 people, including 80 women, a Dagestani Interior Ministry spokesman told Interfax-Military News Agency on Friday.
Some of the people have brought their personal belongings to the camp. They are demanding the release of 11 village residents who were abducted on June 4 and compensation payments, the spokesman said.
Chechen Deputy Prime Minister Dukvakha Abdurakhmanov said on Thursday that some Borozdinovskaya residents were trying to blackmail the republic's government.
"The authorities of Chechnya have met all their obligations related to the return of Borozdinovskaya residents from the tent camp to their homes," Abdurakhmanov said. "Some residents of the village of Borozdinovskaya, who are being encouraged by somebody from the outside, are trying to blackmail the authorities of the Chechen republic. They ignore the fact that the republic was left in ruins," he said.
Several dozen people held a rally outside the Dagestani town of Kizlyar, the chief of the Shelkovskoi district's police department said.
A Kizlyar police source confirmed that up to 60 Borozdinovskaya residents entered the Kizlyar district on Thursday and staged a rally there.
"After representatives of the administrations of Dagestan's Kizlyar district and Chechnya's Shelkovskoi district met with the demonstrators, the village residents returned to Chechnya but they remain in the immediate vicinity of the administrative border with Dagestan," the source said.