Former Armenian President Robert Kocharyan warned against the current government's flippant attitude toward possible harsh responses from Moscow. He believes the authorities fail to grasp the scale of the potential impact Russia could have, including tariff revisions and export blockages.
The relatives of students from Ingushetia, Malik and Ramazan Gandaloev, who disappeared on 27 February, began to search for them themselves. They toured the route the brothers travelled, asking about them at Astrakhan Medical University.
Gandaloev’s mother denied her sons' commitment to radical Islam. Their father is a surgeon at the Malgobey CRB, Malik was preparing to become a cardiologist, Ramazan was a pediatrician. Both were well-educated and were friendly young people. Earlier, relatives announced a reward of 1 million rubles for information about the whereabouts of the brothers. They were wanted by the police.
Malik and Ramazan Gandaloev, along with a friend from Dagestan, studied at the Astrakhan Medical Academy. On February 27, they left the three of them for Ingushetia on a bus, without warning their parents and the university administration. Where they are now - unknown. According to the police, the students may be preparing an attack.