Aushev served as a negotiator on the second day of the Beslan school hostage crisis, convincing the hostage-takers to release 26 nursing women and their infants.
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During the First Chechen War as many as 200,000 refugees from Chechnya and neighboring North Ossetia strained Ingushetia's already weak economy and on several occasions, Aushev protested incursions by Russian soldiers, and even threatened to sue the Russian Ministry of Defence for damages inflicted.
Ruslan Zainullin | Ruslan Provodnikov | Ruslan Kurbanov (athlete) | Ruslan Kogan | Ruslan Khasbulatov | Ruslan Gritsan | Ruslan Chagaev | Ruslan Aushev | Ruslan and Ludmila | Ruslan Abishov's free kick. International friendly vs Malta. Bakcell Arena |
In 1995, President Ruslan Aushev founded Magas just a few kilometers south of Nazran, naming it after the medieval city of Maghas.