Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A region of southwest Russia in the northern Caucasus west of Chechnya. Conquered by Russia in the 1800s, Ingushetia and Chechnya later formed a semiautonomous republic within the USSR. Ingushetia approved separation from Chechnya in a referendum (1991) and became a constituent republic of the Russian Federation the following year.
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- proper noun A
republic ofRussia in theCaucasus region, with capitalMagas .
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Examples
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This morning, prominent Russian Human Rights activist Natalya Estemirova was abducted from her home in Ingushetia by armed men.
Global Voices in English » Russia: Politkovskaya laureate murdered 2009
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At a camp in Ingushetia, Russia housing thousands of refugees from Chechnya, Mailia Huseeinova built a makeshift garden with white stones and two summers ago she planted sunflowers that grew to drape over the roof of the tent.
Archive 2007-05-01 2007
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At a camp in Ingushetia, Russia housing thousands of refugees from Chechnya, Mailia Huseeinova built a makeshift garden with white stones and two summers ago she planted sunflowers that grew to drape over the roof of the tent.
Defiant Gardens 2007
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“Mobile phone subscribers in Ingushetia, which neighbours Chechnya, have begun receiving SMS messages from Russia’s state anti-terrorist committee urging rebels to take up an offer to disarm in exchange for a fair trial.”
Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » SMS text messages urge rebels to surrender in exchange for a fair trial 2006
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Mobile phone subscribers in Ingushetia, which neighbours Chechnya, have begun receiving SMS messages from Russia’s state anti-terrorist committee urging rebels to take up an [...]
Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » SMS text messages urge rebels to surrender in exchange for a fair trial 2006
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Russia's insurgency-plagued North Caucasus, such as Ingushetia or Dagestan.
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The Kremlin fought two post-Soviet wars against separatist rebels in Chechnya but the insurgency has now become more Islamist in tone and has spread to neighbouring regions such as Ingushetia and Dagestan.
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Russia's insurgency-plagued North Caucasus, such as Ingushetia or Dagestan.
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Doug Muir at A Fistful of Euros informs us that Yunus-Bek Yevkirov, the new President of Ingushetia, was also the leader of the March on Pristina in 1999.
Things that caught my eye nwhyte 2009
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Officials say violence is down in Chechnya and neighboring Ingushetia.
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