The aftermath of the checkpoint bombing in Nazran, Ingushetia (ITAR-TASS)
A suicide car bomber attacked a police checkpoint in Nazran, Ingushetia, yesterday (December 17), wounding 23 people –10 internal troops, three members of the patrol-sentry service of Ingushetia’s interior minister and 10 civilians, including three children. Law enforcement sources were quoted today as saying that they had identified the suicide bomber as 23-year-old Batyr Dzhaniev and that the motive for the attack was revenge for the death of his mother –the mother-in-law of slain Ingush opposition leader and human rights activist Maksharip Aushev– in an explosion on December 16 (www.kavkaz-uzel.ru, December 17-18).
Russian news agencies reported on December 16 that two people had been killed and two wounded when a car blew up in Nazran, Ingushetia, after it was shot at by police. ...
On December 12, the brother of the murdered Ingush opposition figure Maksharip Aushev, Mussa, stated that the investigation of the murder had made no evident progress since he was killed on October 25. That is despite the fact that Ingushetia’s President Yunus-Bek Yevkurov and Russian Prosecutor-General Yuri Chaika took the case under their personal control. Mussa Aushev stated that the cars in which Maksharip Aushev’s killers were traveling had no plates and prior to the killing had been caught by police cameras parked next to police roadblocks. “It is easy to explain why none of the policemen undertook anything, when there were cars with no plates on them [illegal in Russia],” said Musa. “They were people from the security services, the FSB” (www.kavkaz-uzel.ru, December 12).
Ingush Official Denies Being Fired Over Conflict With Prime Minister
Ingush leader Yunus-Bek Yevkurov
December 08, 2009
PRAGUE -- A dismissed Ingushetian presidential administration official
denies he was fired by President Yunus-Bek Yevkurov after challenging
the Russian republic's prime minister, RFE/RL's North Caucasus Service
reports.
Media
outlets reported that Vladimir Borshchev challenged the transparency of
a tender called by Prime Minister Aleksei Vorobyov, and that Yevkurov
took Vorovyov's side and dismissed Borshchev over the issue.
But
Borshchev released an official statement on Monday denying that
explanation for his firing and asked the media not to report false
information.
Borshchev had been appointed head of the
presidential administration in April, and Vorobyov named prime minister
in late October.
Borshchev's departure leaves just one other ethnic Russian within the presidential administration in addition to Vorobyov.
Prior
to his appointment as Yevkurov's chief of staff, Borschev served in the
central apparatus ...
Slain Ingushetian Activist Given U.S. Human Rights Award
Maksharip Aushev
December 10, 2009
The U.S. State Department's annual Human Rights Defenders Award has
been given posthumously to Ingushetian human rights activist Maksharip
Aushev.
Aushev, the owner of the opposition website ingushetia.ru, was shot dead in his car by unknown assailants near Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, on October 25. He was 43 years old.
His website actively reported about killings, kidnappings, and human rights violations in Russia's volatile North Caucasus.
U.S.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in a statement on December 9
that Aushev "bravely continued to train a spotlight on abductions,
torture, killings, and other serious human rights abuses in Russia's
North Caucasus, even after one of the website's previous owners was
killed in police custody in 2008."
One of the leaders of the
Ingushetian opposition, Magomet Khazbiev, talked to RFE/RL's Russian
Service and praised ...
Picketers turned out in Moscow in September 2008 to decry the militia killing of Magomed Yevloyev in Nazran.
December 11, 2009
A court in the North Caucasian republic of Ingushetia has sentenced a
policeman to two years in jail for the killing of opposition website
owner Magomed Yevloyev, RFE/RL's Russian Service reports.
The
court ruled that former Interior Ministry official Ibragim Yevloyev (no
relation to the victim) is guilty of negligent murder in the 2008
killing.
Yevloyev was not in court for the verdict and his whereabouts are not immediately known.
A
representative for Magomed Yevloyev's family said he disagrees with the
court verdict and will appeal against the sentence after consulting
with Magomed Yevloyev's father.
Magomed Yevloyev was a
prosecutor in Ingushetia before moving to Moscow, where he set up the
independent website ingushetiya.ru in 2001 (now ...
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The aftermath of the checkpoint bombing in Nazran, Ingushetia (ITAR-TASS)
Ingush opposition figure Maksharip Aushev
