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solution to the dispute with the support of the Ingush and Osetians. The 
Confederation, later repeated this call once more on 28 February 1992 in Grozny. 
Meanwhile, the Soviet Union was collapsed, and throughout the early months of 
1992, the war of words between the North Osetia and the Ingush escalated without 
any larger disturbances. 
 
On 4 June 1992 the Ingush Republic was founded by a Russian Supreme 
Soviet decree which was to consist of three rural districts -Nazran, Malgobek, and 
Sunzha- with no defined borders, and no state institutions or administrative bodies 
of any kind. The sole decision-making authority rested with President Yeltsin’s 
representative in the republic, Isa Kostoyev, a former official in the Russian 
Procurator General’s Office. With this decree the transitional phase ranging until 
March 1994 was proposed to resolve all the questions related to it, including 
administrative issues but mainly its territorial delimitation. In a meeting in Nazran, 
the Ingush, including the representatives from Prigorodnyi, welcomed the new law, 
but declared that any such republic without Prigorodnyi would be unacceptable, 
and called for a congress of the Ingush people. In that power vacuum, the rural 
councils and tribal leadership played a symbolic role early on and to some degree 
filled in the gaps left by the absence of government structures. Nevertheless, the 
other group with any real authority in Ingush Republic at the time of the republic’s 
creation was religious organizations.
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568
 Cornell, Small Nations., 262. 
569
 Osipova, “North Osetia and Ingushetia,” 51-52. 

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In the meantime, the Confederation was still working on the issue and in 
order to discuss the developments in the North Osetia, the Parliament and the 
Presidential Council called a meeting in the town of Jeyrakh, in a mountain region 
of Ingushetia.
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In this meeting, the Confederation offered the sides of the conflict taking a 
decision, which excludes the use of force on the solution of the land dispute. As a 
result, the solution to the problem of the partition of the disputed lands would be 
postponed and the eruption of the military confrontation (by the active participation 
of the Russians) would be obstructed for a time. On this way, the representatives 
from North Osetia, by the approval of the President of the North Osetian Supreme 
Soviet, put forward a package of proposals that was met with, after the intensive 
pressures from the Confederation, understanding by the Ingush side.
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According to the proposals, the North Osetian Supreme Soviet and the 
government would prepare for the return of Ingush people who lived on the 
republic’s territory prior to their eviction in 1944 to their homes. The names of the 
settlements would reinstitute as they were in the pre-deportation period. The homes 
that were occupied by the Osetians or the representatives of other peoples at that 
time would be given back to the Ingush people. And, these peoples would pay 
compensation and give help to built shelters in any other region, at their own 
discretion, or they will be granted flats. The cemeteries belong to the Ingush that 
were damaged will be restored. North Osetia was prepared to help with the 
                                                 
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  Şenibe,  Birliğin Zaferi, 53 and “Caucasian Parliament Meets to Discuss North and South 
Osetia,” SWB SU/1423, B/2, 3 July 1992. 
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 Şenibe, Birliğin Zaferi, 53. 

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publication of newspapers in the Ingush language and with the transmission of 
signals from the television station in Grozny. 
The main thing –once the state bodies of Ingush republic would set up, the 
Osetian side was ready to sit down at the negotiating table with official 
representatives of the authorities of Ingushetia to resolve territorial disputes. In 
order not to waste any time, the Confederation Parliament proposed convocation of 
urgent meeting, with the participation of legal and political experts and 
representatives of the elders and socio-political movements of the peoples 
concerned.
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However, the difficulties in resolving the question of territorial 
rehabilitation for the Ingush soon became clear, and once again, as a result of “the 
active Russian participation” the Osetian side violated the agreement.
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 On 3 July 
1992, the Russian Supreme Soviet announced a moratorium on raising the 
territorial problems until 1995, and criminal penalties were established for any 
unauthorised changes in territorial borders.
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In the case of Ingush, this understood as move to prevent elections within a 
defined territory for the new autonomous republic’s parliament and thus prevented 
the setting up of both legislative and administrative structures. Thus, the 
provisional administration of the Russian parliament, under plenipotentiary 
representative General Viktor Yermakov was to remain in July 1992 up to the 
outbreak of the conflict in October. 
 
                                                 
572
 “Caucasian Parliament Meets to Discuss North and South Osetia,” SWB SU/1423, B/2, 3 July 
1992. 
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 Şenibe, Birliğin Zaferi, 53. 

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