MOSCOW -- Two pro-Kremlin officials were shot to death minutes apart yesterday in Ingushetia, a republic bordering Chechnya in Russia's volatile North Caucasus that has been destabilized by the region's separatist and Islamic insurgency.
The assassinations appeared to be another round of carefully timed attacks against the government. First, an administrator responsible for helping Russian families resettle in the region was gunned down, and then a senior police commander was killed as he drove his three young children to school.
