Ingushetia and other regions of the North Caucasus have the lowest personal income levels in Russia. In the RIA Novosti rating, Ingushetia ranked 85th, with a per capita income to cost ratio of 1.20 and a per capita income of 26,800 rubles per month, the lowest in the country.
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.