Ingushetia

Ingushetia, or Ingushia, or Ингушетия, 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. 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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