ABSTRACT
One of the most dangerously explosive republics in the North Caucasus without a doubt has to be the former Checheno-Ingushetia—the second most populous (1.27 million) republic in the region. Today, it has become a terribly entangled knot of ethnic and political conflicts, one of which—the Ossetian-Ingush issue—evolved into armed conflict in late October 1992. I will attempt here to analyze the historical, political, sociodemographic, and sociopsychological aspects of the development of interethnic conflict situations both around the former Checheno-Ingushetia and within it, working from the position of research on interethnic relations.
