Al Jazeera: Dagestan's 'Spiritual Conscience'
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posted by eagle on October, 2009 as DAGESTAN
| Dagestan's 'spiritual conscience' | | By Neave Barker in Dagestan
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2009
Dagestan, a province in Russia's volatile North Caucasus, has been the scene of a low-level insurgency, ethnic tensions and deadly attacks since the 1990s.
According to the International Crisis Group, Shariat Jamaat, an armed Islamist organisation, is responsible for much of the violence.
They are a wing of a united organisation called the Caucasian Front established in 2005 and fighting to create an emirate throughout the North Caucasus.
In Dagestan, the shadow of violence and lawlessness has created the ideal breeding ground for organised crime. Oil and caviar mafias reportedly flourish. Firearms are ubiquitous and assassinations are a regular occurrence. The province is also plagued by inter-ethnic disputes. The region is made up of seven main ethnic groupings, with only seven per cent of the population ethnic Russians. Striking a balance is difficult, but Moscow manages to hold on to power via the regional authorities under the ...
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RIA Novosti: Police officer killed in Dagestan
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posted by eagle on as DAGESTAN
27/10/2009
MAKHACHKALA, October 27 (RIA Novosti) - A police officer was shot down early on Tuesday in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Dagestan, a law enforcement source told RIA Novosti. "Unidentified assailants, believed to be using automatic weapons, opened fire at him when he went into the yard of his house," the source said. The attack happened in the republic's Kizilyurtovsky district, some 60 kms north of the capital, Makhachkala. Russia's predominantly Muslim North Caucasus republics, in particular Dagestan, Chechnya and Ingushetia, have seen a marked rise in militant violence of late.
http://en.rian.ru/crime/20091027/156601217.html
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RFE/RL: Daghestan's Moscow Representative Denies Advocating Death Squads
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posted by circassiankama on as DAGESTAN
Daghestan's Moscow Representative Denies Advocating Death Squads
October 19, 2009
Gadji Makhachev, who is Daghestan's formal representative in Moscow, issued a statement
on October 18 distancing himself from comments he was quoted as having
made at a roundtable discussion in Moscow two days earlier of the
repeated incursions into Daghestan by Chechen militants in the summer
of 1999. RIA Novosti issued two separate reports late on October
16, one of which quoted Makhachev as having said at the roundtable that
following the murder on June 5 of Daghestan's Interior Minister
Lieutenant General Adilgirey Magomedtagirov, he had advocated
recruiting the relatives of Interior Ministry personnel slain by the
Islamic resistance to undertake revenge killings of militants "in
accordance with the law of the mountains." Makhachev is also
said to have proposed forming self-defense detachments in every village
to ward off militant attacks. That, Makhachev ...
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Jamestown Foundation: Murder Of Dagestani District Chief And Top Police Official Raises Tensions In Republic
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posted by eagle on as DAGESTAN
Murder of Dagestani District Chief and Top Police Official Raises Tensions in RepublicPublication: Eurasia Daily Monitor September 29, 2009 03:28 PM By: The Jamestown Foundation  Aftermath of the attack (Above) and a photo of Alimsultan Alkhamatov, Head of the Dagestan's Khasavyurt district (Below)
 The head of the administration of Dagestan's Khasavyurt district, Alimsultan Alkhamatov, was shot to death on Moscow on September 27. His driver-bodyguard, Nadzhmutdin Mitikov, was wounded in the attack, which took place in the southwestern part of the Russian capital. The head of the investigations unit of the Investigative Committee for Moscow, Anatoly Bagment, said that at least four weapons were found at the scene of the attack, including two Kedr machine-pistols. According to other reports, a Kalashnikov automatic rifle used in the attack was also found at the scene (ITAR-TASS, September 27).
The attackers reportedly fled the scene of the shooting in a Mitsubishi Pajero and a Mercedes S350. Police managed ... >> full
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Eurasia Daily Monitor: Dagestan Follows In Chechnya's Footsteps
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posted by eagle on as DAGESTAN
Dagestan Follows in Chechnya's FootstepsPublication: Eurasia Daily Monitor September 18, 2009 05:06 PM  Human rights activists in Chechnya hold up signs memorializing the late activist Natalya Estemirova
Chechnya's experience under the leadership of Ramzan Kadyrov -that is, the ostensible rule of law and order with the local police force seemingly in full control of the situation- could not leave the neighboring North Caucasus republics unaffected. The very public support that Moscow and the federal center lends freely to the Chechen president (www.gzt.ru, August 28) only adds fuel to the fire, as the other North Caucasus governments and law enforcement branches seem unable to win the same approval or acknowledgement of their efforts compared to the hero worship Ramzan Kadyrov receives from the Kremlin. To wit, during his visit to the Dagestani capital of Makhachkala on June 9, President Dmitry Medvedev noted that the roots of the local problems include "continued impoverishment of ...
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