Her appeal to Mikhail Saakashvili the woman explains by "centuries-old sympathies between Ingush and Georgian peoples." She wrote: "Everybody knows your high authority in the world, when you have proved that Georgia does stick up for its citizens. My address is a step of despair, I do not expect protection and justice from anywhere, I have no one to write to ".

Mankieva says that she and her husband had been living in Egypt for 4 years. Her husband was a student - he intended to continue his studies in local universities, but could not because of problems with the passport. As the letter says, "For over a year he could not get Russian passport as at the consulate this issue was delayed, referring that supposedly Moscow had not yet replied to their request", and "numerous appeals to the embassy are fruitless".

"Neither the president of Ingushetia nor Russian authorities are interested in helping our family in this situation", - wrote Mankieva. She reports that she received an official response from the Foreign Ministry, according to which Ibrahim Mankiev "was detained on the orders of security services of North Ossetia-Alania" for a case that was instituted in 2007 - when the Mankievs already lived in Egypt. "The accusations are groundless, - wrote a woman - we consider the main reason for his arrest to be the fact that for some time he served as imam in a mosque in North Ossetia-Alania."

21/12/2009 11:12

A committee of inquiry into the murder of Maksharif Aushev and other unsolved crimes has been created in Ingushetia. The Committee, which was founded on October 25th by Magomed Aushev - the father of the Ingush opposition member Maksharif Aushev who had been murdered by "unknown persons". Human rights activists in Russia have announced about their support for work of the committee.

"We will not surrender, if one is killed another will continue his work, then the third and this will continue until law and justice are restored" - says Magomed Aushev.

Magomed Aushev made a decision to establish a committee after the attack on a pregnant wife of his son Maksharif - Fatima Janieva and her family that shocked the entire Caucasus."

Ian Kelly
Department Spokesman, Washington, DC

December 21, 2009

Russian newspaper Komersant.ru took an interview from the Russian prosecutor-general of Ingushetia - Yuri Turigin about the execution. He claimed that:"at least one of them was a terrorist who wanted to perform a terrorist act ... and they had the bomb in the car." This of course doesn’t make any sense because they were searched at the checkpoint. On the other hand a pro-Russian website Ingushetia.org claims that Russian special forces were forced to shot into the car because it failed to stop at the checkpoint.

Office of the Spokesman

This is an interview based on Rossiyskaya Gazeta with the Ingush president Yunus-Bek Yevkurov.

Scarcity of jobs in Ingushetia is rather sharp. In recognition of Yunus-Bek Evkurov, permanent jobs are not more than 50 percent of working-age population-that is, more than one hundred thousand people. One way out of the difficult situation is a project to resettle the unemployed. “Several dozen Ingush families have already decided to move to the Urals”, said the president of Ingushetia in an interview to "Rossiyskaya Gazeta". For the first time immigrants will lift - more than 50 thousand rubles per person, said Yevkurov. The earliest plan is to send the Ingush to Sverdlovsk region. The authorities of the Republic also held talks with the heads of Kemerovo, Kirov, Irkutsk and Arkhangelsk regions. According to the Ingush leader he is preparing a proposal to the chairman of the government to resettle residents of the Caucasus in the Far East and in the Amur region. Yevkurov concerned about the reduction in these regions of the local population and the growth of migrants from neighboring China.

The Ingush authorities also intend to provide financial support to rural families, which will be combined in various cooperatives, such as dairy or meat products.

History.
The Ingush nationals were forced to leave their land multiple times with great loss of lives:

1830-1865 deportation of Ingushetians to Ottoman Empire and colonization of the Ingushetian land.

1920-1930 red terror of communist regime deportation of Ingushetians to Siberia, transfer of part of Ingushetian territory to Ossetia.

1944-1957 genocide, and deportation of the entire population of Ingushetians to concentration camps in Siberia, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan. Transfer of third of Ingushetian territory to Ossetia.