The head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov summed up the results of the ultimatum given to the people of Ingushetia
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The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, summed up the three-day ultimatum he gave to the people of Ingushetia. His video message is posted on the Instagram account ya_pomoshnik_kra_95.
He stated that within the allotted time, no one approached the elders or himself, and made no accusations.
No one declared a blood feud, no one turned to the elders of my family, to the Mufti of Chechnya, and I thank the Almighty for this. We don’t have any problems with Ingushetia, in particular, those concerning me personally, Ramzan Kadyrov
Ramzan KadyrovHead of Chechnya
Kadyrov added that he was not an enemy of Ingushetia, and the Chechens and Ingush were and remain brothers.
The essence of the ultimatum
On January 12, at 17:30, Kadyrov began a three-day countdown with a request to the Ingush people. He stated that if the Ingush consider him an enemy, then they should determine the degree of guilt and punishment. “Tell me what you want to do: beat, exile, kill,” the head of the region said, offering to bring charges under the laws of the Russian state or Sharia, observing the traditions of the region.
The politician stressed that if the Ingush people do not bring charges against him, he will question those who are trying to denigrate his honor.
A new conflict between Chechnya and Ingushetia began in October 2021 over a territorial issue. Residents of Ingushetia were outraged by the repair work on the border, they considered it another provocation of their neighbors. On January 11, Kadyrov threatened to take the “remaining villages” from Ingushetia if allegations of illegal division of territories did not stop. “I am now addressing those provocateurs. I took the land from you, because I do not consider you to be people and men. And I will take the rest of the villages, because you will not calm down until I do this, ”he said.
Land issue
In November 2021, Kadyrov also threatened to forcibly take away from Ingushetia the lands “illegally transferred by [the first president of the self-proclaimed Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (ChRI, recognized as a terrorist organization in Russia) by Dzhokhar] Dudayev.” Kadyrov's statement came amid reports of renovations being carried out in the Ingush settlement of Dattykh in the Sunzhensky District, which borders Chechnya. Netizens called what is happening another provocation of neighbors. Kadyrov, in response, recalled his visit to Ingushetia and said that he asked provocateurs not to spoil the alliance between the two peoples.
In 1993, Ruslan Aushev, who served as president of Ingushetia from 1993 to 2001, concluded an agreement with Dudayev, according to which the Sunzhensky district, with the exception of the settlements of Sernovodsk and Assinovskaya, went to Ingushetia. However, the final demarcation of the border did not happen, and in 2012 Kadyrov asked the federal center to establish an administrative border with Ingushetia. In September 2018, the then head of Ingushetia, Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, and his Chechen counterpart, in the presence of Alexander Matovnikov, who was then the representative of the Russian president in the North Caucasus Federal District, signed an agreement on establishing the border. In accordance with the document, Chechnya transferred part of the Nadterechny region to Ingushetia – mountainous and wooded areas. Ingushetia, in turn, transferred to Chechnya an equivalent territory on the border with the Malgobek region.
