[Russia] - In Russia's Caucasus, a Tentative Border Redraw Edges Republics Closer to Instability

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
neighboring republic of North Ossetia-Alania was plotting to redraw the two regions' shared border.Documents obtained by Fortanga revealed
Ingushetia faced repression during the protests [against a similar border deal with Chechnya] in 2018 and 2019, which significantly weakened
Chechen-Ingush ASSR was disbanded and its territory was allocated to neighboring regions and republics, including the present-day Stavropol
deportation was the Prigorodny district of North Ossetia, which borders the Dzheyrakhsky district of modern-day Ingushetia.In 1992 the two
republics fought a brief war for control over Prigorodny, which resulted in the death of 192 Ossetians and 409 Ingush, as well as the
controversial land swap deal between Ingushetia and neighboring Chechnya, which saw the former give up disproportionally more territory than
city of Vladikavkaz in North Ossetia
rubberstamp a similar border deal with North Ossetia cannot be ruled out
trump card up its sleeve, which would allow it to destabilize the situation here and start a war at a moment when they deem it beneficial
when the Ingush go to war for this land is only a matter of time, without a doubt
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