Ingushetia

Ingushetia, or Ingushia, or Ингуше́тия, is a republic of the Russian Federation located in the Caucasus right next to Chechnya.

While Ingushetia is real, it does not and never issued its own stamps; the stamps supposedly being issued by it are not genuine. Beginning in the early 1990s, old Soviet stamps were surcharged with INGUSHIA or РЕСПУБЛИКА ИНГУШЕТИЯ (what's a little accent symbol good for, anyway?). Various topical sheetlets followed like weeds after a Spring rain, inscribed Ingushetia, Republic of INGUSHETIA, ИНГУШЕТИЯ, bilingually, etc., etc.  File:Ingushetia bird quad.jpg|bogus surcharge on four Soviet stamps. File:Ingushetia butterfly.jpg|from the/a bogus butterfly sheetlet. File:Ingushetia chimp.jpg|from the bogus chimpanzee sheetlet. File:Ingushetia bats.jpg|bogus bats sheetlet. The sheetlet, not the bats. 

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