- Ingushetia.org
Ingushetia.org (formerly "ingushetiya.ru") is a non-government Ingush news agency and web site and was owned by
Magomed Yevloyev . Its server is located in theUnited States .ru icon [http://www.lenta.ru/news/2007/02/14/ingushetia/ "Ингушетию.Ру" атакуют хакеры и прокуроры]Lenta.ru ]The website has been accused of "inciting inter-ethnic hatred" by the public prosecutor of
North Ossetia and came under numeroushacker attacks in 2007. The portal also organised the "I have not voted!" action in Ingushetia after the 2007 Russian legislative elections, gathering more than 57,000 signatures of people who had not voted. The aim of the action was to demonstrate that the official results of the regional voting (98% turnout and 99% support ofUnited Russia ) were false. [ru icon [http://www.svobodanews.ru/Article/2007/12/27/20071227174121883.html «Ингушетия.ру» считает тех, кто не голосовал] , 27.12.07] According to Ingushetia.ru, as reported in Chechnya Weekly, access to the portal by people within Ingushetia was blocked by Ingush authorities in November 2007. [ [http://www.jamestown.org/chechnya_weekly/article.php?articleid=2373790 Chechnya Weekly Volume 8, Issue 44 (November 15, 2007) "Ingush Authorities Block Opposition Website"] ]On
August 31 2008 , the website's owner [ [http://ingushetiya.wordpress.com/2008/08/31/owner-of-site-ingushetiyaru-killed/ Owner of the news site Ingushetiya.Ru Magomed Yevloev] , 31 August 2008] and a vocal critic of the government,Magomed Yevloyev , was shot dead while in police custody. [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7590719.stm Ingushetia website owner killed] ,BBC News , 31 August 2008] [ [http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24272873-12377,00.html Kremlin critic found dead] , "The Australian ", 31 August 2008] Around the same time, the website was shut down by hackers, something that has happened multiple times in the past. [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/08/31/international/i072332D67.DTL&tsp=1 Deputy says Russian police kill Web site owner] ,Associated Press , 31 August 2008]Since September 25 2008, the domain "ingushetiya.ru" ceased to operate and the address of the web portal was changed to "ingushetia.org".
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External links
*ru icon [http://ingushetia.org/ Ingushetia.org home page]
*ru icon [http://web.archive.org/web/20080212141814/http://www.ingushetiya.ru/ Archive of Ingushetiya.ru (Feb 12, 2008)]
* [http://ingushetiya.wordpress.com English language blog of Ingushetiya.ru]
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