INGUSHETIA OPPOSES RUSSIAN TROOP REDEPLOYMENT ON ITS TERRITORY.

Ingush president Ruslan Aushev preempted Yeltsin’s televised speech by announcing that Ingushetia opposed any redeployment of Russian troops from neighboring Chechnya to its territory. Such a move would risk "involving Ingushetia in combat actions" and would also expose it to "looting by the Russian military," Aushev said. The president and Ingush Popular Assembly (legislature) Chairman Ruslan Pliev also pointed out that Ingushetia is now accommodating, unassisted by Moscow, more than 100,000 Chechen refugees and some 50,000 Ingush refugees from North Ossetia — an added reason why troop redeployment to Ingushetia is impossible even for a few months, Aushev said. (Interfax, March 29 and 30)

As part of the plan just announced by Yeltsin, the Russian command plans to bring some of its troops from Chechnya to the neighboring