Paul Goble
Vienna, November 16 – Plans to form MVD units consisting of members of local nationalities in Daghestan appear to have slowed because of a lack of funding for infrastructure such as housing, an indication that this program may neither have the priority that its backers had suggested or achieve its goals as soon or as completely as they had hoped.
General Nikolay Rogozhkin, Russia’s deputy minister of internal affairs, announced yesterday the completion of what he described as the first stage of the formation of a specialized motorized MVD battalion whose soldiers are drawn from the non-Russian nationalities of Daghestan (www.kavkaz-uzel.ru/articles/177011/).
Rogozhkin said that the MVD had "completed the formation of this separate 300-man battalion, that it is "included in the military staff of the Daghestani Ministry of Internal Affairs to guarantee security in Makhachkala and ...
MOSCOW (AFP) - – Gunmen on Thursday killed at least seven Russian police officers in a shooting rampage in the turbulent North Caucasus region of Dagestan, news agencies quoted police as saying.
Police chased the assailants, and blocked their vehicle, which ignited and exploded in the resultant shooting. Four gunmen were killed, RIA Novosti reported.
The attackers had stolen a car in Dagestan's capital Makhachkala before shooting police on duty in two locations in the city centre, killing six on the spot. Another later died of his wounds.
"According to our revised figures, the two attacks occurred on Thursday afternoon," resulting in the death of six traffic police officers, the RIA Novosti news agency quoted officials as saying.
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