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MOSCOW — Russia’s president acknowledged Wednesday that growing violence in the impoverished southern republic of Ingushetia is rooted in unresolved domestic problems such as corruption and poverty.
The statement by President Dmitry Medvedev was a stark admission of the deep troubles tearing at the Caucasus — and a departure for an administration that has generally preferred to downplay the violence in its restive southern republics or, when pressed, to blame the bloodshed on foreign meddling.
