May 16th 2009 · Prague Watchdog / Magomed Toriyev. ALSO AVAILABLE IN:
Yevkurov's jihad
By Magomed Toriyev, special to Prague Watchdog
In contrast to his uninventive predecessor General Zyazikov, who was as predictable as rising inflation, Ingushetia’s new president, Yunus-bek Yevkurov, turns out to have a lively satirical mind and an uninhibited imagination. Having failed to din sense into his people by the use of traditional methods, the republic’s new leader has decided to try out a specially modified version of the human cordon. It is obvious that such a non-trivial solution to the problem of night attacks could only sprung from the head of a man whose wit has its source in the inexhaustible reserves of army humour.
From now on, the fight against the armed insurgency will be joined by civilians – government officials and religious figures. The former, in particular, will play the role of "human shields", able to protect from enemy bullets and grenades ...
NAZRAN, Ingushetia -- Unknown assailants wounded a local citizen in the Nazran district of Ingushetia in Russia's North Caucasus last night, RFE/RL's Russian Service reports.
Ingushetia's Interior Ministry said the assailants attacked a private home with grenade launchers and machine guns.
The same day in Ingushetia's Sunzhen district, another group of assailants opened fire at a gasoline station. No casualties were reported.
There have been dozens of killings, kidnappings, and disappearances in Ingushetia as violence has escalated this year.
Ingush Presidential Bodyguards Reportedly Involved in Shootout
Publication: North Caucasus Weekly
May 1, 2009 03:50 PM
Kavkazky Uzel reported on April 29 that unidentified attackers the previous evening fired an anti-tank grenade launcher at a group of servicemen who were guarding a train loaded with military equipment in Ingushetia’s Sunzha district. No one was hurt in the incident.
On the evening of April 28, a shootout took place in Nazran’s Nasyr-Kort district: according to some reports, the gun battle was between policemen and members of Ingush President Yunus-Bek Yevkurov’s bodyguard detail. According to one report, three people were killed in the shootout—two policemen and one of the presidential bodyguards—and another presidential bodyguard was hospitalized with gunshot wounds. According to another report, however, one policeman and two bodyguards were killed in the shootout. The Ingush president’s press service said the shootout was not an attempt on the life of Yevkurov, who was not travelling with ...
Vienna, May 1 – On October 31 of last year, Moscow dismissed Murat Zyazikov, the widely despised president of Ingushetia, and installed Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, a much-decorated Ingush colonel in the Russian Army, in his place, a move that many both in that North Caucasus republic and more generally marked the dawn of a new day there. Now, six months later, Kavkaz-uzel.ru has offered an assessment of what has changed and what has not, concluding that while Yevkurov has been far more effective in working with the population and with Moscow than his predecessor, the republic he heads is still “far from stable” and in some respects may be getting even less so (www.kavkaz-uzel.ru/articles/153606). Because Zyazikov sought to suppress all independent media, falsified election results and other data, and is widely suspected of ordering the killing of at least ...
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