Ready to come to the rescue:
Chechen president Ramzan Kadyrov
President Kadyrov of Chechnya suddenly appeared unannounced in Ingushetia this Tuesday claiming he had been authorized by russian president Medvedev to take action following the assassination attempt on ingush president Yevkurov. No one doubts he means what he is saying when he claims that "the revenge for Yunus-Bek Yevkurov will be cruel". The unexpected entry into ingush internal affairs by the infamously hard handed chechen president has stirred up some feelings among the establishment, at the same time as no one wants to contradict the man likely responsible for tracking down and killing opponents even as far away as Austria or Saudi Arabia. No one doubts that any action taken by Kadyrov would be just as cruel and arbitrary as the measures taken by president Zyazikov who stepped down last fall.
Ingushetia's first president Ruslan Aushev says he would be happy to step in again for the wounded president and that the ingush security forces were perfectly capable of dealing with the situation themselves.
Some fear the chechen president could use the incident to effectively take over the country and unite it with Chechnya into a single Vaynakh republic like in Soviet times. Although united by ethnicity and language, Ingushetia was spared of the violence seen in Chechnya during the two wars for independence there.
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