Galashki
Coordinates: 43°05′45″N 44°59′07″E / 43.09583°N 44.98528°E
Galashki (Russian: Галашки; Ingush: Галашкe) is a rural locality (a selo) in Sunzhensky District of the Republic of Ingushetia, Russia, located on the left bank of the Sunzha River near the border with the Republic of North Ossetia–Alania. Its population was about 9,000 people in 2009.
It was a site of two raids by Chechen separatists during the Second Chechen War, the Galashki ambush in 2000 (from Chechnya) and the Battle of Galashki in 2002 (from Georgia).
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