Oppositional site Ingushetia.Ru announces its termination

On November 29, an announcement appeared in the Internet website Ingushetia.Ru, which had been oppositional to the authorities of Ingushetia, that it would be terminated in the nearest two-three days.

"In the coming 2-3 days, the website Ingushetia.Ru will be closed. The site administration is ready to hand over all the materials accumulated by the portal - photos, video records, books, articles, audio files, etc. - to any initiative group, which will create a new site and go on with the cause started by us for the welfare of the people of Ingushetia and our Republic. The domain name www.ingushetiya.ru shall not be transferred," runs the announcement.

The message gives no reasons of this decision. It just expresses the regret that "the people of Ingushetia have failed to save the sole national independent Internet resource."

The announcement remained for some time at the address of http://www.ingushetiya.ru/news/12479.html, but disappeared at about midnight.

Earlier, on November 27, the Ingushetia.Ru had informed that "several days ago Yakhya Evloev (father of the owner of the website), a resident of the city of Malgobek, was visited by about 20 representatives of the kin of Evloevs." According to the website, among the visitors of the father of entrepreneur Magomed Evloev there were Zelimkhan Evloev (head of the administration of the city of Karabulak of the Republic of Ingushetia) and Salamkhan Evloev (deputy head of the administration of the RI's President), Vakha Evloev and Mukhtar Buzurtanov, deputies of the National Assembly of Ingushetia, Khava Evloev, deputy chairman of the RI's government, and others.

"They asked Yakhya to affect his son and persuade him to stop to oppose President Zyazikov and the incumbent power in the Republic. Then, Yakhya Evloev demanded that he stop the website Ingushetia.Ru. At all times, with the Ingushes father's will has been the law", the Ingushetia.Ru writes. Under this message, a video address of Yakhya Evloev to his son, the owner of Ingushetia.Ru, was placed.