MOSCOW, Aug 22 (Reuters) - Gunmen killed one soldier and wounded three in an attack on a Russian army convoy in southern Ingushetia province on Friday, Interfax news agency said. The agency quoted Ingush Interior ministry as saying that the unidentified gunmen fled after the attack on the Kavkaz highway, which links Russia's troubled North Caucasus republics. Attacks on police, officials and troops are not unusual in Ingushetia, a poor region neighbouring restive Chechnya. Officials blame the attacks on criminal elements and Muslim rebels, while their critics say poverty, corruption and widespread abuse of power keep social tensions high. Russian security officials have said they expected a rise in rebel attacks after Russia launched a military incursion in Georgia, an ex-Soviet republic neighbouring Ingushetia, to crush its attempt to retake a breakaway region of South Ossetia. (Writing by Oleg Shchedrov; Editing by Angus MacSwan)
A man waves Georgia's national flag through the window of the municipal building in Gori's Stalin Square on August 22, 2008. Russian troops left the key Georgian town of Gori on ...
