After months of relative quiet, there have been unexpected reports in recent weeks of battles with militants in Ingushetia, Russia’s smallest republic. Among other reported incidents, police officers were apparently wounded during a special operation in the republic’s foothills in May (Echo.msk.ru, May 23), and a car was fired on from a hideout in Ingushetia in June (Newsru.com, June 19). Since the beginning of 2010—i.e., after the arrest of the local insurgent leader, Amir Magas (Ali Taziev/Magomed Yevloev) (Rosbalt, June 10, 2010)—the activities of the rebels in Ingushetia, who under Magas had been one of the strongest rebel forces in …read more
Source: The Jamestown Foundation