RFE/RL: Is Ingushetia Heading For a New Political Standoff?
posted by circassiankama on August, 2009 as INGUSHETIA
August 10, 2009
Is Ingushetia Heading For A New Political Standoff?
Ingushetian President Yunus-Bek Yevkurov was discharged from hospital
in Moscow today, exactly seven weeks after sustaining serious injuries
in a suicide-bomb attack. He is likely to resume his duties by the end
of this month, by which time political tensions may be on the rise in
the run-up to the municipal elections scheduled for October 11.
Since
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev appointed him president in late
October 2008, Yevkurov has made a valiant effort to win back the trust
of a population alienated and disgusted by the corruption,
mismanagement, injustice, economic decline, and arbitrary police
violence that had become a byword under his predecessor Murat Zyazikov.
Yevkurov dismissed some of the more compromised members of the previous
government, and won over some opposition political figures. But within
...
Russian President Sacks Ingushetia's Interior Minister 08/17/09 03:01 pm (EST)
(RTTNews) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Monday sacked Ingushetia's interior minister over a bombing attack on a police station in the volatile southern republic, on grounds that the attack was preventable.
"The police must protect the people and the police must also be able to defend themselves... I have decided to relieve Ingushetia's interior minister of his duties," Medvedev was quoted as saying by Russia's official news agencies.
Earlier in the day, at least 20 people, mostly police officers, were killed and more than 100 others injured in a suicide-bomb attack at a police headquarters in Russia's southern restive republic of Ingushetia
A suspected militant rammed a truck packed with explosives through the gates of the police headquarters in Nazran, the main city in the republic, as police officers were lining up for the morning inspection. The injured included 11 children, living in residential ...
MOSCOW, Russia (CNN) -- At least 19 people died and about 70 were wounded following a suicide bombing Monday morning outside a police headquarters in Nazran in the Russian republic of Ingushetia, Russian state television reported.
"The fire was finally extinguished, but there could be more dead and wounded under the rubble of the exploded building," it said.
"At about 9 a.m. local (1 a.m. ET) a suicide bomber driving a truck stuffed with explosives rammed into the gate of the police station," Kaloi Akhilgov, a spokesman for Ingushetia's president, told CNN. "It was a powerful explosion. Windows and balconies were broken in several residential buildings around the police station, injuring many people."
Ingushetia's president called the attack an attempt by Islamist rebels to undermine stability in the republic.
"There is no doubt that militants did that to boost their significance. It was an attempt to undermine ...
MONDAY, AUGUST 17, 2009 11:58 MECCA TIME, 08:58 GMT
Many dead in Ingushetia bombing
Ingushetia has been rocked by other attacks on
police and government officials [AFP]
At least 16 people have been killed and more than 50 others wounded in a suspected suicide attack on a police station in Russia's southern Ingushetia region.
The bombing is the latest attack in the mainly Muslim region, which has seen an upsurge in violence in the past few months.
The blast occured after a truck broke through security gates at police headquarters in Nazran, Ingushetia's capital, as officers gathered for a morning check on Monday, Russian agencies reported.
"Practically all the cars and buildings in the yard of the police headquarters were completely destroyed", the Interfax news agency quoted a law-enforcement source as saying.
At least nine children were said to be among the wounded, Svetlana Gorbakova of the regional branch of the Russian prosecutor general's office said.
Vienna, August 14 – Ethnic and religious differences have long been a source of tension within the Russian armed forces, and many Russians now openly expressing fears that President Dmitry Medvedev’s backing for having priests, imams and other religious leaders work in the services will only what many call incidents of “religious dedovshchina.” But however that may be, today, Ingushetia.org reports on a particular case in a regiment of the 58th Russian army stationed in the North Caucasus that suggests inter-ethnic and inter-religious tensions among soldiers and officers may have become a threat to unit cohesion and command and control (www.ingushetia.org/news/20166.html). The independent website says that yesterday it received information that an ethnic Ossetin officer named Mirzoyev, about whom the site said it had no additional information, has called for all ethnic Ingush serving in that army’s 503rd ...
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