Ongoing Violence In Daghestan Deters Would-Be Emigres From Leaving Syria
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posted by eagle on December, 2012 as DAGESTAN
Ongoing Violence In Daghestan Deters Would-Be Emigres From Leaving Syria
Residents flee their homes after shelling by government forces at Houla, near Homs, in early December.
In addition to Armenian, Circassian, Chechen, and Ossetian minorities, Syria is also home to an estimated 7,000-9,000 people whose ancestors settled there after leaving Daghestan following the Caucasus wars of the mid-19th century. Members of that Daghestani community, most of whom live in Homs or the village of Derfoul, have sought for the past two years to avoid taking sides in the ongoing fighting between opposition forces and government troops loyal to President Bashar Assad. But since government forces bombarded Derfoul in a bid to destroy a nearby military base seized by the opposition, some 200 Syrian Daghestanis have drafted an appeal to the Russian authorities for help in leaving Syria, acquiring the recognized status of refugees, and settling in Daghestan. The independent Russian-language weekly "Chernovik" convened ...
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Head of World Union of Muslim Scholars Visits Dagestan
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Head of World Union of Muslim Scholars Visits Dagestan
Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 9 Issue: 223 December 6, 2012 05:57 PM Age: 16 min
 Ali-Vyacheslav Polosin (Source: islamrf.net) Having failed to defeat the armed resistance, the Dagestani authorities decided to look for help by finding favorable interpretations of Sharia law among foreign scholars. The republican authorities certainly received official consent from Moscow for their quest abroad (http://russian.irib.ir/radioislam/2010-08-31-12-33-40/2010-09-09-08-01-11/item/156021-%D0%B2). Their efforts resulted in the condemnation of Salafism by some foreign Islamic scholars, which was a fairly significant achievement for the local political elite (http://chechnya.gov.ru/page.php?r=126&id=11197).
The authorities never stopped looking for the right person to declare a fatwa on jihad in the North Caucasus. Ali-Vyacheslav Polosin, a former Christian Orthodox priest who converted to Islam, energetically worked toward this goal and became the new face of Islam in Russia. On his initiative, it was decided to invite Sheikh Karadagi, the secretary general of the World Union ... >> full
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Failure of Government Institutions Mobilizes North Caucasian Ethnic Groups
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posted by eagle on November, 2012 as DAGESTAN
Failure of Government Institutions Mobilizes North Caucasian Ethnic GroupsPublication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 9 Issue: 214 November 21, 2012 03:48 PM
 (Source: ng.ru) On November 8, ethnic Nogai in Dagestan held a rally calling on President Vladimir Putin to consider creating a Nogai autonomous republic within Russia. The new republic would presumably include parts of Dagestan, Chechnya and Stavropolregion where Nogais have resided traditionally. The activists declared: "Only separation from Dagestan and the creation of an [separate] autonomy can give the Nogais a chance to preserve themselves as an ethnic group and retain their land for the future generations.” The rally took place in the village of Terekli-Mekteb in Dagestan’s Nogai district, where 200 delegates arrived from Dagestan, Karachaevo-Cherkessia, Chechnya, and the Stavropol and Astrakhan regions, where Nogais have resided historically for generations. This was the fourth conference Nogais have held with the same demands. "Nogais are patient people, but patience has ... >> full
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Moscow Develops Dagestan Along the Model of Chechnya
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posted by eagle on October, 2012 as DAGESTAN
Moscow Develops Dagestan Along the Model of ChechnyaPublication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 9 Issue: 186 October 12, 2012 04:58 PM
 Magomedsalam Magomedov and His Majesty King Abdullah of Jordan, October 8 (Source: The Jordan Times)
Against the backdrop of a presumably pacified Chechnya, the neighboring republic of Dagestan remains only barely under the government’s control, even formally. In contrast to Chechnya, the Kremlin has stumbled in Dagestan and has been incapable of easing the tensions there as the intense armed confrontation between government forces and the militant armed underground grinds on. A Chechen-style solution, with the Kremlin handing over full control of the republic to the local pro-Moscow elites, turning a blind eye to multiple breaches of the Russian law and providing financial resources, is not acceptable in Dagestan in principle. Yet it appears that Moscow has not been able to grasp this. Replicating the Chechen system of governance is precluded in all ...
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Dagestan’s Government Is Forced to Rely on Crude Force
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posted by eagle on August, 2012 as DAGESTAN
Dagestan’s Government Is Forced to Rely on Crude ForcePublication: North Caucasus Analysis Volume: 13 Issue: 16 August 8, 2012 03:56 PM On August 5, a group of protesters blocked an international rail line in Dagestan for two hours. The railway links Russia with Azerbaijan and Dagestan’s capital, Makhachkala, with Moscow. The protesters were from the village of Komsomolskoye in northern Dagestan’s Kizilyurt district and were protesting the kidnapping of a villager, Adam Khairulaev, on August 3. Khairulaev’s relatives said they believed he had been kidnapped by government agents. They unblocked the railway after the police promised to clarify Khairulaev’s whereabouts the following day. The Kizilyurt district police chief, Askhabali Zairbekov, denied the local police’s involvement, saying that some other forces aiming to destabilize the district were behind the kidnapping. He said that Khairulaev was not particularly religious or suspicious and was summoned to the police station only once in the past ... >> full
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