Insurgency in Ingushetia

Insurgency in Ingushetia
Part of the Second Chechen War and North Caucasus Insurgency
Date21 July 2007[1] – 19 May 2015[2]
(7 years, 9 months and 4 weeks)
Location
Ingushetia, Russia
Result Russian victory
Belligerents

Russia Russia

Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (until October 2007)

Caucasus Emirate (from October 2007)

Ingushetia Ingush opposition (2007–2008)
ad hoc revenge groups
Commanders and leaders
Russia Vladimir Putin (2007–2008; 2012–2015)
Russia Dmitry Medvedev (2008–2012)
Ingushetia Murat Zyazikov (2007–2008)
Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Yevkurov (2008–2015)		 Chechen Republic of Ichkeria Dokka Umarov †
Ilyas Gorchkhanov †
Akhmed Yevloyev (POW)
Said Buryatsky †
Arthur Getagazhev †
Casualties and losses
400 policemen killed (2005–2010)[3]
93 security forces killed (2010–2014)[4]		 182 killed (2010–2014)[5]
800 killed overall between 2002 and November 2008[6]
71 civilians killed (2010–2014)[7]

The Insurgency in Ingushetia (Russian: Война в Ингушетии, romanized: Voyna v Ingushetii) began in 2007 as an escalation of an insurgency in Ingushetia connected to the separatist conflict in Chechnya. The conflict has been described as a civil war by local human rights activists and opposition politicians;[6] others have referred to it as an uprising.[8] By mid-2009 Ingushetia had surpassed Chechnya as the most violent of the North Caucasus republics.[9] However, by 2015 the insurgency in the Republic had greatly weakened, and the casualty toll declined substantially in the intervening years.[2][10]

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  3. ^ "Ingushetia Militants Announce Moratorium On Killing Police". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. 6 October 2010. Archived from the original on 24 November 2010. Retrieved 22 April 2011.
  4. ^ 50 killed (2010–2011),[1] Archived 2012-04-19 at the Wayback Machine 33 killed (2012),[2] Archived 2016-04-16 at the Wayback Machine 6 killed (2013),[3] Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine 4 killed (2014),[4] Archived 2016-03-25 at the Wayback Machine total of 93 reported killed
  5. ^ 103 killed (2010–2011),[5] Archived 2012-04-19 at the Wayback Machine 40 killed (2012),[6] Archived 2016-04-16 at the Wayback Machine 39 killed (2013–2014),[7] Archived 2016-03-25 at the Wayback Machine total of 182 reported killed
  6. ^ a b Galpin, Richard. Ingushetia in 'state of civil war' Archived 2008-11-24 at the Wayback Machine, BBC News, 23 November 2008
  7. ^ 51 killed (2010–2011),[8] Archived 2012-04-19 at the Wayback Machine 11 killed (2012),[9] Archived 2016-04-16 at the Wayback Machine 7 killed (2013),[10] Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine 2 killed (2014),[11] Archived 2016-03-25 at the Wayback Machine total of 71 reported killed
  8. ^ Blomfield, Adrian (1 September 2008). "Russia faces new Caucasus uprising in Ingushetia". The Daily Telegraph. London. Archived from the original on 27 February 2009. Retrieved 30 April 2010.
  9. ^ Bigg, Claire. Five Years After Nazran, Ingushetia Still Plagued By Militant Violence Archived 2010-11-26 at the Wayback Machine, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 19 June 2009
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