Chechen-Ingush Land Deal

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The Erzi Nature Reserve. Photo: Ingushetia Gazeta.

Ingushetia denies plans to transfer protected land to Chechnya

by Luiza Mchedlishvili

•2 min read

The Russian Government has claimed that the Ingush authorities have signed off on the transfer of parts of the Erzi Nature Reserve to Chechnya as part of the 2018 land swap between the two republics — an allegation denied the very next day by Ingushetia’s vice-premier. The Russian Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology, Alexander Kozlov, made the comments in a meeting with Ramzan Kadyrov, the Head of Chechnya, on 13 June. He said that part of the Erzi Nature Reserve was to be transferred to

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Facebook takes down social media pages of Ingush news site Fortanga

by Luiza Mchedlishvili

•3 min read

Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has blocked the accounts of Fortanga, the largest Ingush news site, allegedly for trademark infringement. Izabella Evloeva, editor-in-chief of Fortanga, told OC Media that they had managed to recover their Instagram account and Facebook group on Thursday morning, however, their Facebook page remains unavailable. Immediately after losing the accounts, the outlet’s editor-in-chief also began receiving threats and attempts to extort money fro

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Ingush journalist Rashid Maysigov sentenced to 3 years in prison

by Tata Shoshiashvili

•2 min read

Ingush activist and journalist Rashid Maysigov has been sentenced to three years in a penal colony for ‘drug possession’. On Wednesday, the Magas District Court in Ingushetia sentenced him for the ‘possession of a large quantity of drugs’. The prosecutor’s office had demanded five years in prison for Maysigov. A former journalist for local opposition news outlet Fortanga, Maysigov covered the Chechen–Ingush land swap dispute. The authorities in Russia, and especially in the North Caucasus

Protest in Nazran, Ingushetia. (Malik Butayev/OC Media)

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One year since Ingushetia’s protests

by Volodymyr Soboliev

•5 min read

One year ago today, a clash between protesters and security forces in Magas, the capital of Ingushetia, marked the beginning of some of the worst persecutions of activists in Ingushetia since the collapse of the USSR. ‘On the morning of the 27th, we were dozing’, Tamerlan (not his real name) recalled. ‘When we heard the noise of heavy vehicles’. The noise they heard was the national guard, moving in on their position in armored trucks. The protesters had been gathered since the day before

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Ingush volunteer group shuts down after pressure from authorities

by OC Media

•3 min read

A volunteer group in the Russian Republic of Ingushetia has shut down after pressure from the authorities on several members. Nyeotlozhka (ambulance) had been providing aid to people detained in the wake of the Chechen–Ingush land deal. The group was created in the summer of 2019 following the arrests of dozens of participants of March protests over the deal. The group purchased and delivered donations of food, medicine, and other daily necessities to the detention centres. Nyeotlozhka’s

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New detentions of Ingush-Chechen land deal activists

by OC Media

•3 min read

Twelve more people have been detained in Ingushetia over last year’s protests against the Ingush-Chechen land deal. Those detained included Isropil Nalgiyev, a blogger who has extensively covered the protests and subsequent arrests in Ingushetia. Magomed Bekov, a lawyer representing several activists against the deal, told OC Media that the security forces raided homes in three villages in Ingushetia and one in the neighbouring Republic of North Ossetia–Alania on Tuesday. He said that el

Protests in Magas on 4 October 2018. (Aznaur Tashayev /OC Media)

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Prosecutor’s move to liquidate Ingush National Unity Committee as parliament backs protest group

by OC Media

•4 min read

The Prosecutor’s Office of Ingushetia has demanded the liquidation of Ingush protest group the Committee of National Unity for failing to properly register. Following the move, a number of MPs from the Ingush parliament backed the group over allegations they had been pressuring MPs. On 23 January, the Prosecutor’s Office of the Russian republic submitted a lawsuit to the Ingush Supreme Court demanding it liquidate the group, the lawyer of one of the movement’s members, Magomed Bekov, told O