House of famous judoist shelled in Ingushetia

Ingushetia is Still Burning

Nearly six months after Yunus-Bek Yevkurov was appointed the new president in volatile Ingushetia, the violence in the republic has shown few signs of abating.

“During the two days that I stayed in Ingushetia recently, ten attacks took place in the republic, including an attack on [Russian] border guards and others,” said Ingushetia’s first president, Ruslan Aushev, in an interview with Echo Moskvy radio station on April 21.

The calculus of Moscow's move to replace Murat Zyazikov with Yevkurov last October was to improve the security situation in the republic, which had been plagued by hostilities for several years. Yet, the patterns of violence have continued largely unchanged: radicals that are often thought of as Islamists attack police, Russian military forces and occasionally people who act contrary to the stringent Islamic norms in Ingushetia. In turn, the Russian security forces and ...

Death Toll in Ingushetia’s Violence Continues to Mount

The press office of the Federal Security Service (FSB) branch in Ingushetia told Itar-Tass on April 21 that an anti-terrorist operation in and around the village of Verkhny Alkun in Ingushetia’s Sunzha district had been completed. According to the office, a base under construction by gunmen and a ward for “keeping hostages” were discovered in a forest during the operation, which had been launched on April 20 due to the information that several gunmen were staying in Verkhny Alkun. Yet, no gunmen were found during the operation.

Also on April 21, a member of an “illegal armed gang” who had targeted law enforcement officers in Ingushetia was shot dead in the republic’s Nazran district, RIA Novosti reported. “Law enforcers had information that militants involved in attacks ... traveled in a black Lada Priora car without a license ...