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Ingushetia: Thousands of servicemen deployed on Chechnya-Ingushetia border |
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Thursday, 24 March 2005 |
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A total of 4,500 policemen and servicemen of interior troops ensure security on
the administrative border between Chechnya and Ingushetia, Russian Interior Minister
Rashid Nurgaliyev said.
He said in parliament’s upper house on Wednesday that the 640-kilometer
border between the two republics is divided into four operational areas.
Special attention is given there to crime detection.
Nurgaliyev said the 126th regiment of interior troops handled “tasks
to localise possible armed intrusions and terrorist acts jointly with groups
of operational control”.
Such groups, whose total strength is 19,000 servicemen, have been set up in
12 regions of the Southern Federal District.
As for the appointment of Ingushetia’s interior minister, Nurgaliyev
said the decision would be made after the completion of a parliamentary probe
into September’s hostage-taking raid of a school in Beslan. Terrorists
then entered the city from Ingushetia.
Source: TASS
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