Ingushetia
Medvedev and Putin pay surprise visits to the North Caucasus
March 03, 2010By Valery Dzutsev The North Caucasus receives unprecedented attention from Russian leaders On March 1, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin made an unannounced brisk visit to the North Caucasus. In the North Ossetian town of Beslan, Putin met the head of...
New Georgian War Could Destroy Russia
August 12, 2009By Paul Goble A new war with Georgia, something Russian officials and commentators are increasingly talking about, could have the same impact on the Russian Federation that the invasion of Afghanistan had on the USSR, according to Yuliya Latynina,...
'Such People Are The First To Be Killed'
July 16, 2009By Aleksandr Cherkasov Natasha Estemirova was grabbed as she was leaving her apartment building in Grozny on July 15 and bundled into a white car. She just had time to yell out that she was being kidnapped. A few hours later, her body was found in...
Militants, Police, Servicemen Die in North Caucasus Violence
July 15, 2009Top Russian officials are claiming that the security situation in the North Caucasus is improving. News reports from the region, however, paint a different picture. President Dmitry Medvedev told Ingushetia's acting president, Rashid Gaisanov, during...
Moscow, Not Kadyrov’s Chechens, Should Stabilize Ingushetia
July 06, 2009By Paul Goble Moscow should introduce “direct presidential rule” in order to stabilize the situation in Ingushetia, according to a senior member of the Russian Duma, rather than relying on forces from neighboring Chechnya whose introduction...
Russia Would Be Better Off Without Non-Russian Areas
July 01, 2009By Paul Goble In recent statements, some of which eerily recall writer Valentin Rasputin’s 1989 proposal that Russia should leave the Soviet Union, some Russian nationalists are now arguing that their nation both as a people and a state would...
A New and More Dangerous ‘Red Belt’ Emerges in Russia
June 20, 2009By Paul Goble A new “red belt” is emerging in Russia, the result of the coming together of economic problems, political difficulties between Moscow and the regions, and ethnic challenges to central control, according to a new map of social...
Assassinations Roil Russia's Caucasus Region
June 11, 2009By Peter Fedynsky The deputy head of Ingushetia's Supreme Court has been shot dead in the latest incident of violence to hit Russia's troubled Caucasus region. The assassination of Justice Aza Gazgireeva follows a recent high profile killing in neighboring...
Deputy Chairperson of Ingushetia's Supreme Court Murdered
June 10, 2009President Dmitry Medvedev traveled to Dagestan on June 9 and vowed to fight extremism in the North Caucasus just four days after the assassination of the republic's interior minister, Adilgerei Magomedtagirov, at a wedding ceremony in the capital Makhachkala...
Bombings and Shootings Reported Across North Caucasus
June 02, 2009A month and a half after the President Dmitry Medvedev ordered an official end to the decade-long counter-terrorism operation in Chechnya, bombings and shootings have been reported there and in neighboring Dagestan, Ingushetia, North Ossetia over the...