Republic of Ingushetia
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Anthem: State Anthem of Ingushetia | |
Coordinates: 43°12′N 45°00′E / 43.200°N 45.000°E | |
Country | Russia |
Federal district | North Caucasian |
Economic region | North Caucasus |
Capital | Magas |
Largest city | Nazran |
Government | |
• Type | People's Assembly[1] |
• Head[1] | Mahmud-Ali Kalimatov[2] |
Area | |
• Total | 3,628 km2 (1,401 sq mi) |
Population | |
• Total | 509,541 |
• Rank | 74th |
• Density | 163.16/km2 (422.6/sq mi) |
• Urban | 54.8% |
• Rural | 45.2% |
Time zone | UTC+3 (MSK[5]) |
ISO 3166 code | RU-IN |
Vehicle registration | 06 |
Official language(s) | Ingush[6] • Russian[7] |
Website | ingushetia.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.
Russia's North Caucasus insurgency has gone relatively quiet, but reduced casualty numbers belie a still-worrying situation where long-standing grievances remain.
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.
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