Ingush opposition website under authorities’ scrutiny

17.08.2006 Editor

NORTH OSSETIA, 10 Augus, Caucasus Times – The authorities have started checking the Ingush opposition Ingushetiya.ru website which posts reports that allegedly incite ethnic strife.

However, the investigators could hardly find the owner of the website who lives in Moscow and is not directly related to the site.

The report said that the websites Ingushetiya.ru and Ossetia.ru were involved in what it described as an “information struggle”.

“The information struggle is continuing between two republics of the North Caucasus – Ingushetia and North Ossetia – over the Prigorodnyy District of North Ossetia which the neighbouring republic lays claims to.
The report added that the two websites – Ingushetiya.ru and Ossetia.ru – recently published contradictory reports on meetings between representatives of Ingush and North Ossetian public organizations.

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