Mon Oct 27, 2008
By Conor Sweeney
MAGAS, Russia, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Armoured vehicles patrol the streets and his bodyguards do not let him out of sight, but the leader of Russia's most volatile region calls predictions of civil war "the ravings of a madman".
Gunbattles, ambushes and explosions erupt regularly in Ingushetia, a mainly Muslim region in Russia's turbulent North Caucasus where Moscow and its local allies are fighting insurgents, many of them inspired by radical Islam. http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSLR229542