Ingushetia says Chechen claims on district violate Constitution

The Ingush parliament has criticized Chechnya for taking over the Sunzhensky District. Chechnya passed the bill on taking the territory on November 6, 2012, but it was only published in January. Such a law violates the Russian Constitution, Ingush MPs insist, ITAR-TASS reports.
Before the bill was passed, the district was split into two parts, with Ingushetia in control of the bigger one. This means that the villages of Voznesenskaya, Ordzhonikidzevskaya, Nesterovskaya, Troitskaya and Karabulak belonged to Ingushetia, while Chechnya was only in control of Sernovodskoye and Assinovskaya.
Ingush Leader Yunus-Bek Yevkurov said that Chechen laws had no legal power in Ingushetia. He added that during formation of local autonomies and delimitation of borders in the district in 2009, Chechnya had no objections.
Ingush Speaker of Parliament Mukharbek Didigov said that Chechnya had passed the bill on municipalities of the Sunzhensky District in early November 2012. It had been published on January 30, 2013. This caused surprise, because the Ingush authorities were not informed by Chechen MPs who had been visiting Ingushetia.
Didigov expressed regret that Chechnya had violated both the constitutional norms of Chechnya and Ingushetia, set in the Russian Constitution as well.
Border delimitation of Russian regions is not part of the competence of republican authorities. Only the federal center may take such actions. Ingush MPs requested the federal government to react to the Chechen law.