Ingushetia.org

Ingushetia.org (Ингушетия.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 the United States.[1]

History

The site was launched on August 8, 2001 by owner and chief editor Magomed Yevloev.[2][3]

In 2007 Yevloev stopped editing the website and announced, that he would be no longer involved with the editorial policy. He worked in its own lawyers’ practice in Moscow but remained the website’s owner.[4]

The website has been accused of "inciting inter-ethnic hatred" by the public prosecutor of North Ossetia and came under numerous hacker attacks in 2007.[1] 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 of United Russia) were false.[5] According to Ingushetia.ru, and as reported in Chechnya Weekly, access to the portal by people within Ingushetia was blocked by Ingush authorities in November 2007.[6]

In 2008, a court found the site to disseminate extremist materials aimed at inciting hatred or enmity. Therefore the site was shut down for several months and on June 6, 2008 the Kuntsevo District Court official declared the site to be “extremist” and ordered its shutting down.[7]

Murder of Yevloyev

On August 31, 2008, the website's owner[8] and a vocal critic of the government, Magomed Yevloyev, was shot dead while in police custody.[9][10] Around the same time, the website was shut down by hackers, something that had happened multiple times in the past.[11]

Since September 25, 2008, the domain ingushetiya.ru ceased to operate and the address of the web portal was changed to ingushetia.org.[12]

See also

References
  1. (in Russian) "Ингушетию.Ру" атакуют хакеры и прокуроры Lenta.ru
  2. "ingushetiya.ru at Website Informer. Visit Ingushetiya". website.informer.com. Retrieved 2020-09-24.
  3. "Евлоев, Магомед". lenta.ru. Retrieved 2020-09-24.
  4. Узел, Кавказский. "Magomed Evloev remains the owner of "Ingushetia.Ru" without interfering into the work of the editorial board". Caucasian Knot. Retrieved 2020-09-24.
  5. (in Russian) «Ингушетия.ру» считает тех, кто не голосовал, 27.12.07
  6. Chechnya Weekly Volume 8, Issue 44 (November 15, 2007) "Ingush Authorities Block Opposition Website"
  7. Howard, Rick (2010). Cyber Fraud: Tactics, Techniques and Procedures. p. 93.
  8. Owner of the news site Ingushetiya.Ru Magomed Yevloev, 31 August 2008
  9. Ingushetia website owner killed, BBC News, 31 August 2008
  10. Kremlin critic found dead Archived 2008-09-16 at the Wayback Machine, The Australian, 31 August 2008
  11. Deputy says Russian police kill Web site owner, Associated Press, 31 August 2008
  12. "Activist from Ingushetia killed in ambush". Human Rights House Foundation. 2009-10-26. Retrieved 2020-09-29.
  13. http://www.interfax.ru/society/news.asp?id=106897
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