![]() ![]() “Our hands are tied due to the imperfections in the law,” which only allows police to arrest someone for kidnapping if the victim presses charges, the President told a meeting of the region’s security chiefs the day after the shootout. He is now in custody facing charges of murder, while the would-be groom, whom local authorities have only identified by his surname, Bogatyrev, has not been arrested. The police officer involved in the shootout, Magomed Yevloev, has been identified in the Russian press as either the father or the cousin of the kidnapping victim. ( MORE: Has Russia Lost Control of the North Caucasus?) Most tragic of all, several of their stray bullets went through the windows of a passing bus, wounding a young woman who was reportedly nine months pregnant she later died at a hospital. In the video aired on Russian television, an unidentified brawler, presumably from the Yevloev clan, can be seen cracking one of the Aushev gunmen on the head with a baseball bat. He returned fire, killing both men on the spot. Among the incident’s other similarities to the Wild West, the meeting was reportedly scheduled for high noon.Īccording to local press reports, two brothers from the Aushev clan, both in their 20s, came to the meeting armed with automatic weapons and, after pulling masks over their faces, opened fire on a male relative of Yevloeva’s who happened to be a police officer. 25, the two families started a gunfight in the middle of the regional capital, Nazran, which was shown on national television after a witness captured it on video. When the same man kidnapped her for a fourth time on Oct. Over the course of this year, Yevloeva had been abducted three times by a persistent suitor from a neighboring clan, the Aushevs, but each time her relatives had managed to find her and take her back. 26, two prominent family clans in Ingushetia staged a shootout in broad daylight over the repeated kidnapping of 21-year-old Khagi Yevloeva. 4, Russia’s National Unity Day, when the Kremlin-appointed leader of the region of Ingushetia called on his tiny, mountainous republic “to preserve its historic traditions and cultural values.” What President Yunus-Bek Yevkurov failed to mention was how much trouble the tradition of bride stealing has caused his region (or at least its women) over the past week and a half. ![]() That tension between Russian law and local tradition was on display on Nov. Follow centuries, it has been common for men in Russia’s southern regions to kidnap the woman they want to marry, a ritual known as “bride stealing.” And despite amounting to a major felony, the local custom is still widely tolerated. ![]()
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