Head of Chechnya Kadyrov: Ingush descended from Chechens, as well as Orstkhoys only one of the branches of this people, as well as the Orstkhoyans. The corresponding words were pronounced during the retreat in Galanchozhsky district, excerpts from Kadyrov's speech were published on his official page in VKontakte, and Fortanga also drew attention to them.
“We used to be one people, but now it is a separate nation with its own republic. Most of all, a kinship, among all subjects of the Russian Federation, we must maintain with them, “said Kadyrov, stressing the importance of peaceful coexistence of the two republics.
The statement by the head of the region was made after reports appeared on the network about repair work in the Ingush settlement of Dattykh (Sunzhensky district) bordering Chechnya. Users called it a provocation from neighbors. Kadyrov, responding to such messages, recalled his visit to Ingushetia and added that he had asked the provocateurs not to spoil the alliance between the two peoples.
In the same speech, he threatened to take away by force from Ingushetia the lands that were transferred to the republic by the first president of the self-proclaimed Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, Dzhokhar Dudayev. According to Kadyrov, Chechnya left these territories to Ingushetia because the fraternal republics and Grozny decided to “do good.” .
In 1993, the first president of Ingushetia Ruslan Aushev and Dzhokhar Dudayev signed an agreement, according to which the Sunzhensky region, with the exception of the settlements of Sernovodsk and Assinovskaya, went to Ingushetia. At the same time, the final demarcation of the border did not take place. In September 2018, the then head of Ingushetia, Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, and his Chechen counterpart, in the presence of Aleksandr Matovnikov, the Russian presidential envoy to the North Caucasus Federal District, signed an agreement on the establishment of the border. In accordance with the document, Chechnya handed over to Ingushetia a part of the Nadterechny region – a mountainous and wooded area. Ingushetia, in turn, gave Chechnya an equivalent territory on the border with the Malgobek region.
Orstkhoytsy are the self-name of a free society, partially formed into a nationality. One of the components in the ethnogenesis of the modern Chechen and Ingush peoples.