On 4 October 2018, thousands of local residents came out to the streets in Ingushetia parliament building, disagreeing with the “quiet” transfer of land overpopulated and overflowing with refugees from the Prigorodny district and Vladikavkaz to the refugees of the neighboring Chechen Republic, where the issue of land shortage is not so acute.

Formally, the republics exchanged supposedly "equivalent non-residential areas." But in reality, Chechnya was transferred much more suitable for the settlement and economic use of the territory than were received in return.

In fact, the already small-scale republic once again was “deprived of land”. And this is despite the fact that a significant part of the original Ingush lands, including the city of Vladikavkaz, is illegally located in the “North Ossetia of Alania” from where in 1992 most of the Ingush were expelled.

The events in Ingushetia show what the support of separatism by the Russian government and the division of the people into "loved ones" and "unloved ones" can turn into. It threatens to blow up Russia itself and, above all, the North Caucasus. The people in Ingushetia are outraged by the redistribution of the borders of the republic. It is clear that the Ingush have nothing against the fraternal Chechen people, but it is unacceptable to give Ingush lands even to the brothers without taking into account the majority opinion of the Ingush.

Moreover, the issue of the return of Ingush refugees to the Prigorodny district and Vladikavkaz is still not resolved, and this process is being inhibited in every way. Here, Ossetians live illegally in others homes - people from the Tskhinvali region of Georgia. With the efforts of the Russian occupation authorities on the Georgian territory, a puppet "independent state" seems to be created. Local Ossetian separatists expelled a large part of the Georgian population from the Tskhinvali region, but did not remain on the occupied lands, but went to the Russian Federation to settle down in the same way in the exiled Ingush.

In fact, being “favorites” of the Kremlin and the powerful Armenian lobby, Ossetian nationalists acted in general unprecedentedly brazenly: they not only don’t let go Georgians to their native places, but they themselves do not want to live in their own “independent” state, but illegally live in the homes of the Ingush, who, let’s remind, the Ossetian nationalists expelled the Ingush of the Prigorodny district during the ethnic cleansing and genocide in the fall of 1992.

The question arises, what is the reason for such wildness and glaring injustice of the Russian authorities in relation to the Ingush? To the people who were illegally deported in 1944 and now, it turns out that the Ingush are the most unfairly oppressed in the recent history of the Caucasus?

To understand this we need to go back to the beginning of the 90s.

As it is known at that time, the Armenian lobby and some pseudo-“patriots” of Russia in the late 80s and early 90s set about supporting separatism in the Caucasus. First, the Karabakh conflict was inflamed, then Armenian nationalists began to incite to separatism the people living on the territory of Georgia - the Ossetians and the Abkhazians, in order to have precedents for the reshaping of borders and ethnic cleansing.

Moreover, since it was clear that the forces of the deceived Abkhazians themselves to cope with Georgia would not be enough, an attempt was made to create a kind of so-called “Confederation of Mountain Peoples of the Caucasus” controlled from the Kremlin and Yerevan.

However, neither Karachai nor Balkarians - Turkic peoples who have lived side by side with Georgians in the North Caucasus for centuries, neither Dagestanis, nor the Ingush for such provocations, succumbed and refused to fight the fraternal Georgian people.

The refusal of “stabbing Georgia in the back” of the Ingush especially outraged the Armenian provocateurs. It turns out in their provocative pseudo- "mountain" confederation a "gap" was formed. The myth of the common "anti-Georgian solidarity" of the Caucasian peoples has collapsed. For this, the Ingush decided to “punish” and give their lands to the Ossetian nationalists, who, on the contrary, acted like Armenian nationalists to be extremely mean, raised a hand on their Georgian neighbors, forgetting all the good things that Georgia did for their recently “restless” people sheltered on their lands.

The Ingush genocide in the Prigorodny district and Vladikavkaz began in October 1992 after Gagra and Abkhaz separatists fell in Abkhazia, Armenian militants together with mercenaries from the so-called "Confederation of Caucasian Mountain Peoples" carried out the genocide of the Georgian population of Gagra and its environs.

And there was not a single Ingush among the militants of the “Confederates” in Abkhazia. In fact, the Kremlin and the Armenian lobby dealt with the peaceful Ingush population, and gave it to the Ossetian nationalists for reprisal for the true Caucasian nobility and the refusal to raise their hand against the Georgian brothers in Abkhazia.

When in 2008 the same forces repeatedly attempted to carry out the genocide and ethnic cleansing of Georgians in the Tskhinvali region, again there were attempts to involve the Ingush in anti-Georgian actions. Then we recall the number of criminals and renegades of Chechen nationality, the Kremlin managed to hammer together a battalion of mercenaries "East", which took part in the aggression against Georgia. But again, it was not possible to drag anyone out of the Ingush into this gang, although they would like to force the Ingush “security forces” to persuade and promise generous remuneration to serve in the “East”.

It turns out that twice the Ingush did not succumb to provocations and refused to betray centuries-old friendship with their neighbors Georgians. And this they cannot forgive. Their lands are simply divided, without asking the opinion of the majority of the Ingush people.

Not to mention the fact that a territorial dispute between Ingushetia and North Ossetia Alania is not resolved and Vladikavkaz (at least its right bank part) Prigorodny district — the originally Ingush lands — no one in the Kremlin is going to return to the Ingush people. It is sad that in the same Kadyrov's Chechnya, which still enjoys the relative favor of the Kremlin, no one too particularly raises the question of returning the land illegally seized by Ossetian nationalists to the fraternal Ingush people.

At the same time, it is not clear what the Ossetians from the Georgian Tskhinvali region are doing on these lands. They contributed to the occupation of the land of Georgia, but they do not want to live in their fake "republic". They live on foreign lands. Such behavior does not contribute to the reconciliation of the Ossetians with the neighboring nations, which will soon be necessary - after all, Russia may withdraw from the Caucasus today or tomorrow — and what will the Ossetian nationalists do then? Where to find new "strong host." How to look into the eyes of people whom they meanly deprived of their homes and killed loved ones? This is not too much for them to think about it today.

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