The War in Ingushetia was a civil war in the Russian constituent republic of Ingushetia fought between the pro-Russian government and the Islamist Caucasus Emirate insurgents. By 2009, Ingushetia had surpassed Chechnya as the most violent of the North Caucasian republics, but the insurgency had been defeated by 2015.
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The Second Chechen War, fought between Islamist Chechen separatists and the Russian government, spilled over into neighboring North Caucasian republics, leading to other Islamist movements emerging. On 26 July 2007, a massive security operation was launched in Ingushetia following an assassination attempt on Ingush president Murat Zyazikov five days earlier. Moscow sent in an additional 2,500 MVD interior ministry troops, tripling the number of special forces in Ingushetia. Zyazikov was unpopular, as he was a former KGB general who was criticized by human rights groups for his abuses of power. Zyazikov's unpopularity led to increased support for the insurgency, and Russian president Dmitry Medvedev had Zyazikov replaced as president by Yunus-Bek Yevkurov on 30 October 2008. However, the first three months of 2009 saw 50 people die each day, and assassinations and attempts on the lives of high-profile figures continued. By October 2010, 400 police officers had been killed. By that year, the levels of violence had begun to decline, and casualties fell by 60% between 2013 and 2014. In mid-2015, 80 insurgents accepted an amnesty and surrendered, and the deaths of high-ranking insurgency commanders and an exodus of militants to other conflict zones led to the war's end.