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Ingushetia

American  
[ing-goo-shee-shuh, -tee-uh] / ˌɪŋ guˈʃi ʃə, -ti ə /

noun

  1. an autonomous republic in the Russian Federation, in the N Caucasus. 1,544 sq. mi. (4,000 sq. km). Magas.


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Court documents viewed by The Associated Press show the suspect, identified by prosecutors as Mohammed M., is from the Ingushetia region in Russia’s Caucasus Mountains, which neighbors Chechnya.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 14, 2023

He said much of the smuggling was done by rebel fighters from Chechnya and Ingushetia, in Russia's volatile North Caucasus region, who ship the weapons back home.

From Reuters • Jul. 25, 2016

His mother told me how her husband, her son’s father, died when the boy was nine, and how the family lived in refugee camps in Ingushetia during the two Chechen wars.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 12, 2016

Back in Ingushetia, Zulai remembers seeing the news of Boris Nemtsov's death on television.

From BBC • Mar. 16, 2015

Rebel attacks declined over all in the first half of the decade, but persisted in Chechnya and continued to spread into Dagestan and Ingushetia.

From New York Times • Feb. 5, 2014