(Source: Daily News Bulletin; Moscow - English)
MOSCOW. Sept 30 (Interfax) - Former Ingush President Ruslan Aushev has suggested that the investigation into the death of Magomed Yevloyev, a lawyer and the owner of the opposition website www.ingushetiya.ru, has been dragged out.
"This was a prominent man in Ingushetia. It seemed to me that this would be the most rapid solving of a crime in the Russian Federation in the past ten years. I thought the first suspects would be arrested the same evening," Aushev said on Echo Moskvy radio on Tuesday.
"Look how much time has passed. They know what car it was, who met him and who was seeing him off. The man is dead, and they are still discussing what court the case should be passed to. They should have found out who did what within an hour," Aushev said.
Yevloyev was killed on August 31 shortly after police apprehended him at the Magas airport in Ingushetia, where he had flown from Moscow. The Ingush prosecution authorities have assumed that the shot that fatally wounded Yevloyev was fired accidentally. Ingush Prosecutor Yury Turygin told Interfax earlier that the criminal case into Yevloyev's death was to be passed to courts in October.
Describing the situation in Ingushetia, Aushev said attacks on government officials and kidnappings have become increasingly more frequent of late. "These are elements of a civil war, with security agencies, government officials, and regular people coming under fire," he said.
"There is no way of resolving complicated political, economic, and social problems in the Caucasus, including the problems of refugees, solely by force. The use of force evokes the use of force in response, and society, especially young people, is becoming more radical. There is a need to analyze what is going on," Aushev said.
He said he had not received proposals on becoming the president of Ingushetia again.
Meanwhile, Ingush People's Assembly Chairman Makhmud Sakalov told Interfax on Tuesday that "certain forces" in the West are interested in destabilizing the situation in Ingushetia.
"Certain forces in the West are interested in seeing some negative events and instability in the North Caucasus today. There was Chechnya, and now they are trying to shatter the situation in Ingushetia," he said.
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