In the summer of 2001, the Russian leadership and the administration of the Chechen Republic intensified their attempts to return to their places of permanent residence refugees (forced migrants, as they are usually called in official sources) who had settled in the territory of neighboring Ingushetia.
On the night of July 21, 2001, in the Zavodskoy district of Grozny, a UAZ car was blown up at a crossroads near a former furniture factory.
On July 20, 2001, at three o'clock in the city of Urus-Martan, presumably, officers of the military commandant's office, having previously thrown a smoke bomb, broke into the house located at 92, Sportivnaya Street.
On July 19, 2001 between 6 and 7 o'clock the village of Shalazhi was cordoned off by armored vehicles and servicemen of the federal forces. A little later, they began to enter houses and take men and teenagers out of there.
On the night of July 18, 2001, Ruslan Abdulrakhmanovich Almurzaev, 35 years old, district police officer in the village of Chiri-Yurt, was shot at in his apartment; one attacker was killed, the other was wounded.
On July 17, 2001, at about nine o'clock in the village of Mesker-Yurt, members of the law enforcement agencies in masks, who had arrived in an armored personnel carrier, took away Im-Eli LomEmievich Saidakhmetov from their home.
On July 16, 2001, on Gudermesskaya Street in the Oktyabrsky district of Grozny, Russian military tanks knocked down fruit trees growing near the fences of households.
On July 15, 2001, at dawn in the village of Petropavlovskaya, during a targeted “cleansing” operation, Bislan Lom-Alievich Islamov, born in 1980, was taken away from the house located at 88 Lenina Street.
On the morning of July 14, 2001, the Russian military broke into the house at 94 Sheripova Street, in the village of Serzhen-Yurt. They lifted Movsarovich Bedigov, born in 1956, out of bed, put a pillowcase over his head and, beating him, took him to Sobar-Ali (Sobur-Ali) street.
On July 13, 2001, at about three o'clock in the village of Serzhen-Yurt, a group of 25-30 Russian servicemen in camouflage uniforms and masks, swearing, shouting and insulting, broke into the house at 100 Sheripova Street.
Khizir Vitaev, the head of the administration of the Sunzhensky district, issued order No. 200, in which he obliges the heads of the administrations of the villages of Sernovodsk and the village of Assinovskaya, where tough "cleansing" operations took place in early July, to take all measures to return refugees from Ingushetia.