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Daghestani head promises to restore historic Aukh District amidst rising tensions between Chechens and Avars

The head of Daghestan, Ramazan Abdulatipov, has pledged that the government will support the restoration of the historic Aukh District, but in a truncated form. Abdulatipov made the announcement during a visit to Daghestan’s Kazbekovsky and Novolaksky districts — territories of the former Aukh District which were repopulated with ethnic Avars and Laks after the deportation of Chechens in 1944. On 25 June, a fight between two young men broke out in Leninaul, in Kazbekovsky District, after