Ingushetia

For other uses, see Ingushetia (disambiguation).

Republic of Ingushetia
ГӀалгӀай Мохк (Ingush)
Республика Ингушетия (Russian)
Republic
Flag of Republic of Ingushetia
Flag
Coat of arms of Republic of Ingushetia
Coat of arms
Anthem: State Anthem of Ingushetia
Location of Republic of Ingushetia
Coordinates: 43°12′N 45°00′E / 43.200°N 45.000°E / 43.200; 45.000
CountryRussia
Federal districtNorth Caucasian
Economic regionNorth Caucasus
CapitalMagas
Largest cityNazran
Government
 • TypePeople's Assembly[1]
 • Head[1]Mahmud-Ali Kalimatov[2]
Area
[3]
 • Total
3,628 km2 (1,401 sq mi)
Population
 (2021 Census)[4]
 • Total
Increase 509,541
 • Rank74th
 • Density163.16/km2 (422.6/sq mi)
 • Urban
54.8%
 • Rural
45.2%
Time zoneUTC+3 (MSK[5])
ISO 3166 codeRU-IN
Vehicle registration06
Official language(s)Ingush[6] • Russian[7]
Websiteingushetia.ru

Ingushetia or Ingushetiya,[8][a] officially the Republic of Ingushetia,[b] is a republic of Russia located in the North Caucasus of Eastern Europe. The republic is part of the North Caucasian Federal District, and shares land borders with the country of Georgia to its south; and borders the Russian republics of North Ossetia–Alania to its west and north and Chechnya to its east and northeast.

Its capital is the town of Magas, while the largest city is Nazran. At 3,600 square km, in terms of area, the republic is the smallest of Russia's non-city federal subjects. It was established on 4 June 1992, after the Checheno-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was split in two.[9][10] The republic is home to the indigenous Ingush, a people of Nakh ancestry. As of the 2021 Census, its population was estimated to be 509,541.[4]

Largely due to the insurgency in the North Caucasus, Ingushetia remains one of the poorest and most unstable regions of Russia. Although the violence has died down in recent years,[11][12] the insurgency in neighboring Chechnya had occasionally spilled into Ingushetia. According to Human Rights Watch in 2008, the republic has been destabilized by corruption, a number of high-profile crimes (including kidnapping and murder of civilians by government security forces),[13] anti-government protests, attacks on soldiers and officers, Russian military excesses and a deteriorating human rights situation.[14][15] In spite of this, Ingushetia has the highest life expectancy in all of Russia at 80.52, beating out second-place Dagestan by almost 4 years.

  1. ^ a b Constitution of the Republic of Ingushetia, Article 64
  2. ^ Official website of the Republic of Ingushetia. Head of the Republic of Ingushetia Archived 10 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)
  3. ^ Федеральная служба государственной статистики (Federal State Statistics Service) (21 May 2004), "Территория, число районов, населённых пунктов и сельских администраций по субъектам Российской Федерации (Territory, Number of Districts, Inhabited Localities, and Rural Administration by Federal Subjects of the Russian Federation)", Всероссийская перепись населения 2002 года (All-Russia Population Census of 2002) (in Russian), Federal State Statistics Service, archived from the original on 28 September 2011, retrieved 1 November 2011
  4. ^ a b "Оценка численности постоянного населения по субъектам Российской Федерации". Всероссийская перепись населения. Federal State Statistics Service (Russia). Archived from the original on 1 September 2022. Retrieved 1 September 2022.
  5. ^ "Об исчислении времени". Официальный интернет-портал правовой информации (in Russian). Archived from the original on 22 June 2020. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
  6. ^ Constitution of the Republic of Ingushetia, Article 14
  7. ^ Official throughout the Russian Federation according to Article 68.1 of the Constitution of Russia.
  8. ^ Encyclopædia Britannica.
  9. ^ Law of 4 June 1992
  10. ^ Official website of the Republic of Ingushetia. Social-Economic Characteristics Archived 2 June 2015 at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)
  11. ^ "Russia's North Caucasus Insurgency Widens as ISIS' Foothold Grows". www.worldpoliticsreview.com. 12 April 2016. Archived from the original on 3 October 2017. Retrieved 3 October 2017. Russia's North Caucasus insurgency has gone relatively quiet, but reduced casualty numbers belie a still-worrying situation where long-standing grievances remain.
  12. ^ Walker, Shaun (4 April 2017). "Why suspicion over St Petersburg metro attack is likely to fall on Islamist groups". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 3 April 2017. Retrieved 3 October 2017. A renewed crackdown on any suspected militant activity in the run-up to the Sochi winter Olympics in 2014 and the departure of many militants to fight in Syria led to a weakening of the North Caucasus insurgency.
  13. ^ "Ingushetia's cycle of violence". BBC. 3 October 2009. Archived from the original on 16 March 2020. Retrieved 7 January 2011.
  14. ^ sk/HRW/acb93ad76de9628c932576501538c803.htm Urgent Need for Vigorous Monitoring in the North Caucasus. Human Rights Watch/Reuters, 15 April 2008. (archive link)
  15. ^ People & Power – Ingushetia: A second Chechnya – 28 October 2009, Al Jazeera English on YouTubeAl Jazeera English on YouTube [dead link‍]


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