ROSTOV-ON-DON, June 27 (RIA Novosti) - The president of Ingushetia, Yunus-bek Yevkurov, is showing small signs of improvement but remains in a coma after this week's assassination attempt, his spokesman said on Saturday.
"Small improvements are seen in the president, and overall he is stable. Doctors do not expect any sudden changes," press secretary Kaloy Akhilgov said by telephone, adding that Yevkurov had still not regained consciousness.
Akhilgov said, however, that the president's brother Uvais was feeling much better.
"He is conscious and is talking," the spokesman said.
A hospital source in Nazran told RIA Novosti on Saturday that one of the injured, Yevkurov's cousin and driver Ramzan Yevkurov, died overnight of injuries sustained in Monday's attack near the city of Nazran, the main city in the tiny republic in Russia's North Caucasus.
The president received serious head and internal injuries when his motorcade was hit by an explosion believed to have been detonated by a suicide bomber. He and Uvais were airlifted to Moscow after undergoing surgery in Ingushetia.
One bodyguard died in the attack.
