Ingushetia: Lessons Learned from an Assassination Attempt

A June 22 assassination attempt in which Ingush President Yunus-bek Yevkurov was severely injured apparently was the result of some fundamental lapses by Yevkurov’s security detail. These include the decision to proceed along a road where an unknown vehicle was parked. Practicing more thorough situational awareness could have prevented the bombing, which was the sixth attack against a high-value target in Ingushetia just this month.