The first president of Dagestan, Mukhu Aliev, has about six months left before he is either reappointed for a second term or replaced. The anticipated end of Aliev's presidential term has sparked a remarkable wave of activity in the republic.
On April 28, a nephew of the northern Dagestan strongman, Saigidpasha Umakhanov, was killed in Khasavyurt. The murder of the 25-year-old man stirred tension in the second largest town of Dagestan, to the extent that additional interior ministry troops and police were deployed there and Aliev himself paid a special visit to the town. While the murder may not be directly related to politics, this incident indicates the nervousness of the situation and the extent of the overall violence in the republic (Kommersant, May 6).
For nearly two months after the death of the last leader of Dagestan’s Sharia Jamaat, Emir Muaz (Umar Sheikhullaev), who was killed in Leninkent, a suburb of the Dagestani capital Makhachkala, during a special operation on February 5 (http://www.kavkaz.tv/russ/content/2009/02/16/64019.shtml), the Sharia Jamaat operated without a leader. One can only guess why it took 60 days to appoint a new emir since the armed underground issued no comments or clarifications regarding this appointment.
According to Muhanned, the naib (deputy) of the military emir of the Armed Forces of the Caucasus Emirate, the emir of Caucasus Emirate, Dokka Umarov, announced, in a videotape issued on April 6, his decision to appoint Al Bar, who commands the militant front in Dagestan, as the new emir (http://www.jamaatshariat.com/content/view/1047/41/). At the same time the statement included an interesting caveat: “perhaps there are those ...
Dagestani Authorities Crack Down on Banned Muslim Organization
Publication: North Caucasus Weekly
May 1, 2009 03:53 PM
Several Russian news agencies reported on April 30 that two people were wounded when police and interior ministry troops in Dagestan were involved in what RIA Novosti called “a friendly-fire shootout” the previous day. The news agency, quoting an anonymous law-enforcement source, reported that the shootout occurred as a result of “uncoordinated actions” in a forest near the village of Kakashura in Dagestan’s Karabudakhkentsky district. Yet, a spokesman for Dagestan’s Interior Ministry told RIA Novosti he had “no information” about such an incident. Interfax, for its part, reported that the shootout involved Nogaisky district police officers, on one side, and servicemen from a unit of the Russian Interior Ministry Internal Troops “carrying out special activities,” on the other. Interfax reported that a contract serviceman and a district patrol officer were wounded and hospitalized.
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