By empty (7/7/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Magomed-hadji Albogachiev announced on 5 July at a specially convened meeting of Ingushetia\'s Muslim clergy that he has submitted his resignation as chief mufti to protest the \"anti-Islamic\" policies of President Murat Zyazikov, ingushetiya.ru reported. Albogachiev noted that the increase in corruption, abductions and other crimes, and the worsening economic situation are a source of concern and indignation to the republic\'s population, but even the coordinated attacks on Interior Ministry facilities on 21-22 June did not impel the Ingushetian leadership to abandon its policies, which Albogachiev branded as \"aimed at splitting society.The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst is a biweekly publication of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center affiliated with the American Foreign Policy Council, Washington DC., and the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm. For 15 years, the Analyst has brought cutting edge analysis of the region geared toward a practitioner audience.
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