State buys houses for Ingush refugees from Chechnya

18 families of internally displaced persons (IDPs) from Chechnya have been settled in Ingushetia by the Ingush Migration Service at the expense of the federal budget since 2003, the Caucasian Knot correspondent was told at the Ingush Interior Ministry on May 15. Altogether 25 private houses have been bought in order to settle IDPs who stay in Ingushetia for permanent residence. The houses usually consist of 3 or 4 rooms. The authorities buy it from local residents mainly in the villages of Barsuki, Pliyevo, Ordzhonikidzevskaya, and in the town of Karabulak. "Several thousands of IDPs from Chechnya whose living conditions need to be improved are on the list of the local government now," Radimkhan Meysigova, an official of the Ingush Migration Service, said to the Caucasian Knot correspondent. "It is clear that we can't satisfy housing needs of all the refugees. The program is carried out as funds from the federal budget come." The right to be the first to get housing is given to families of disabled people, single mothers, and people who have not received any welfare in the form of compensations, subsidies and loans from the state to present day.