Relations between the Ingush national movement and the Central government in the context of the conflict in the Prigorodny district of North Ossetia, as reported in the Russian press in the early 1990s.

The article, based on the most typical publications in the central periodical press of various political views, published documents, memoir literature, and socio-political journalism of the 1990s, focuses on certain aspects of the relationship between the federal center and the Ingush people (later, the Ingush Republic) in the context of the Ossetian-Ingush conflict. It presents the most popular perspectives of the Ingush national organizations of that era. Initially, the Ingush actively supported the political course of the Russian authorities, led by Boris Yeltsin, who publicly promised to resolve the dispute over the territorial affiliation of the Prigorodny District in their favor. However, the authority of the Russian Center in the republic quickly declined due to the indecisive policy of the federal authorities regarding the transfer of disputed territories to the Ingush. In turn, the Russian government called for the legitimization of the Ingush Republic and the establishment of official authorities on its territory. In 1991-1992, this process was not completed. Later, due to the joint actions of the Russian Federation's security forces and Ossetian detachments against Ingush activists in the autumn of 1992 in the Prigorodny District, some people even sympathized with the Dudayev regime in Chechnya. The author concludes that these changes in the political attitudes of the Ingush were logical, but they were temporary and did not lead to any fatal changes in the region for the Center.