Yunus-bek Yevkurov

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Corruption

Two former Ingush officials sentenced to five years for misspending budget funds

by OC Media

•3 min read

A former Finance Minister of Ingushetia and another high-ranking ministry official have been sentenced to five years in prison for misspending ₽2 billion ($31 million) in budgetary funds that were allocated for state employees and housing. The Magas District Court handed down the sentences to former minister Ruslan Tsechoev and the former head of the compensation payments department at the ministry, Vakha Bersanov, on 30 November. The criminal investigation into the two was initiated four

Chechen-Ingush Land Deal

Thousands demand release of Ingush activist Zarifa Sautiyeva

by OC Media

•4 min read

An online protest is demanding the release of Zarifa Sautiyeva, an activist against Ingushetia’s controversial land deal with Chechnya. Thousands of people from all over Russia have uploaded videos calling for her release. Sautiyeva is the former deputy director of the Memorial of Memory and Glory, a large memorial and museum complex in Ingushetia’s largest city, Nazran, dedicated to the victims of political repression. She was arrested on 13 July on charges of organising the use of violen

Bagaudin Myakiyev

Ingush activist ‘beaten up’ in Nalchik detention centre

by OC Media

•5 min read

Ingush activist Bagaudin Myakiyev has been beaten up in a detention centre in Nalchik, the capital of the Russian republic of Kabardino-Balkaria, his lawyer says. Myakiyev, a representative of Ingushetia’s Council of Teips (clans) was detained on 13 April for participating in an unauthorised rally in the Ingush capital Magas on 27 March. He was charged with using violence against the authorities. Myakiyev was taking part in widespread protests in the republic against a land deal in wh

Chechnya

Ingushetia’s head to step down after eight months of turmoil

by OC Media

•4 min read

The Head of Ingushetia, Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, has announced he is stepping down, citing ‘disunity in society’. Yevkurov leaves his post following eight months of unprecedented mass protests in Ingushetia over a land deal with neighbouring Chechnya. ‘I made my own decision. As an Ingush, a patriot, I decided to appeal to President Vladimir Putin for my early resignation from the office of the head of the republic’, Yevkurov announced on 24 June. In his televised address, the 55-year old reti

Chechnya

Chechnya and Daghestan suspend border demarcation

by OC Media

•5 min read

Chechnya and Daghestan have suspended the border demarcation process between the two Russian republics a month after Chechnya ‘unilaterally’ registered parts of Daghestan as within their own territory. On 16 April, the chairs of the Chechen and Daghestani parliaments, Magomed Daudov and Khizri Shikhsaidov, officially announced they were suspending work to enter information on the border into the official state register. The authorities of both republics did not comment on the reasons behind

Chechen-Ingush Land Deal

Arrests follow Ingush referendum law protests

by OC Media

•5 min read

Three leaders and several participants of Ingush protests against the land swap deal with Chechnya were arrested this week. Following the renewed protests on 26–28 March, the authorities have cracked down on government critics who demanded the government cancel the recent border deal with Chechnya and the resignation of the republic’s head, Yunus-Bek Yevkurov. According to Russian media outlet Caucasian Knot, law enforcement agencies have arrested nine individuals, sentencing them to t

A protest in Nazran, Ingushetia, against the land deal with Chechnya. Photo: Malik Butayev/OC Media.

Chechen-Ingush Land Deal

Turmoil in Ingushetia as protests re-erupt and interior minister ‘sacked’

by OC Media

•7 min read

Thousands of protesters have returned to the streets of Ingushetia’s largest city, Nazran, to oppose a land deal with neighbouring Chechnya. The authorities have responded by banning further protests and firing the republic’s interior minister and disbanding a local police unit after reports they sided with protesters against units of the Russian National Guard. On 31 March, Ismail Nalgiyev, head of Choice of Ingushetia, a rights group opposed to the land deal, posted a picture of a police