Ruslan Aushev
| Ruslan Sultanovich Aushev Руслан Султанович Аушев |
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| 1st President of Ingushetia | |
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In office 18 February 1993 – 28 April 2002 |
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| Preceded by | Position created |
| Succeeded by | Murat Zyazikov |
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29 October 1954 Volodarskoye village, Kokchetav Region, Kazakh SSR, RSFSR, USSR |
| Political party | Non-Partisan |
| Spouse(s) | Aza Bamatgirovna Ausheva |
| Children | 4 |
| Profession | Soldier and Politician |
| Religion | Sunni Islam |
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| Military service | |
| Rank | Lieutenant General |
Ruslan Sultanovich Aushev (Russian: Русла́н Султа́нович А́ушев; born 29 October 1954 in Volodarskoye, Kazakhstan) was the president of Ingushetia from March 1993 to December 2001. He was reportedly the youngest officer in the Soviet army to reach the rank of lieutenant general. He received the Gold Star of the Hero of the Soviet Union on 7 May 1982. Aushev has emerged as Ingushetia's most popular politician, having kept peace and stability during the Chechen war.
Aushev was born on 29 October 1954 to an Ingush family living in Kazakhstan, who were deported from the Soviet Union in 1944. Very little is known about Aushev's early life.
After three years at the Frunze Military Academy, Aushev returned to the Soviet war in Afghanistan in charge of a combat regiment where he was wounded on 16 October 1986. Later he ascended to the Soviet parliament where he remained for two years while serving on the Military Affairs Committee. In November 1992 Aushev was appointed to lead the provisional administration in Ingushetia, a position he resigned two months later to run in the Ingushetian presidential elections. Being the sole candidate, he won the presidency on 28 February 1993 with 99.99% of the vote, and he was re-elected two years later.
During the First Chechen War as many as 200,000 refugees from Chechnya and neighboring North Ossetia strained Ingushetia's already weak economy and on several occasions, Aushev protested incursions by Russian soldiers, and even threatened to sue the Russian Ministry of Defence for damages inflicted. President Aushev said that his people could not forget how the same Russian armored columns "and the same Defense Minister" (Pavel Grachev) assisted in the destruction of Ingush settlements and the expulsion of Ingush population during the 1992 ethnic conflict in North Ossetia.
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