Ingush Republic

At Chechnya's border with the Ingush republic, troops all but closed the frontier, and demanded that all males from 10 to 60 be checked.

Zyazikov has been accused by the government's critics of corruption and inability to deal with political unrest which has plagued the Ingush republic.

December 28 1995 the a Federal Law № 217-FZ "On the construction of the capital of the Ingush Republic."

On October 1, 1991, some of the ex-deputies decided to divide the republic into the Chechen Republic and the Ingush Republic.

The Supreme Soviet passed a law on June 4 "on the formation of the Ingush Republic (part of Chechen-Ingushetia) within the Russian Federation".

In response, the western Ingush districts after a referendum on 28 November 1991, were organised into an Ingush Republic which was officially established on 4 June 1992, by decree of Russian President as the Republic of Ingushetia.

Shakhrai, critical of the delay in establishing administrative structures in the Ingush republic, appointed Gen. Ruslan Aushev, an Afghanistan veteran previously advisor to Russian Vice-President Aleksandr Rutskoi, to head a temporary administration prior to republican elections.

On Oct. 10, Tishkov, then Chair of the Russian State Committee on Nationalities Policy, visiting the region to monitor progress in forming an Ingush republic out of Chechen-Ingushetia, had confirmed that there would be no changes in the current borders of the North Caucasian republics.