ingushetia
June 22nd, 2009
The head of Russia's Muslim region of Ingushetia was seriously wounded in an assassination attempt on Monday, dealing a fresh blow to the Kremlin's fragile rule of the North Caucasus. The President of Russia's volatile southern republic of Ingushetia, Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, injured in an assassination attempt. MOSCOW - The president of Russia's volatile southern republic of Ingushetia has been hospitalised after he was seriously injured in an assassination attempt, the republic's interior ministry said Monday.