Chechnya Weekly - Volume VI, Issue 40
October 27, 2005
IN THIS ISSUE:
* Kabardino-Balkaria cracks down on Muslims
* Observers continue to question why Nalchik happened
* Four servicepersons killed in Ingushetia
* Three rebels killed in Dagestan
* Trial of Maskhadov's associates continues
* Sadulaev restructures rebel government
* Briefs
* Nalchik: Chechen Rebels Build on Ancestor's Tactics
By Andrei Smirnov
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KABARDINO-BALKARIA CRACKS DOWN ON MUSLIMS
Russian media have been reporting over the past week that large-scale security operations are continuing in Kabardino-Balkaria and elsewhere in the North Caucasus following the October 13 rebel attacks in Nalchik. Gazeta reported on October 26 that Ramazan Tembotov, a local legislator from the village of Khasnya in Nalchik's suburbs and a member of the pro-Kremlin United Russia party, was arrested without explanation on October 23 and taken to the headquarters of RUBOP, the anti-organized crime directorate, in Nalchik. "People in masks came flying in, they [treated me] like a criminal, with obscene language. It ...
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