3 suspected militants, 2 police and regional administrator killed in southern Russia raid
The Associated Press
Sep 13 2010
MAKHACHKALA, Russia - A security raid in Russia's restive province of Dagestan left three suspected militants, two police officers and a regional administrator dead Monday, officials said.
Vyacheslav Gasanov, a spokesman for the Russian Interior Ministry's branch in the region, said police surrounded a house in the village of Komsomolskoye near the border with Chechnya, where the suspected militants were holed up Monday.
The suspects refused to surrender and shot and killed the village administrator who tried to persuade them to lay down arms, he said. All three gunmen and two policemen died in the clash.
The security raid followed Sunday's killing of a top police official after gunmen ambushed his car in the provincial capital, Makhachkala.
Police then tracked down and killed 10 suspected militants in a shootout on the outskirts of Makhachkala, Gasanov said. Officials initially ...
President Dmitry Medvedev visited Dagestan on April 1, in an attempt to show his own country and the world that he views militant attacks in Moscow and in the remote province as equally serious (www.gazeta.ru, April 1). Following the heavy blows delivered by suicide bombers in the very heart of Moscow on March 29, the twin bombings against police in Kizlyar on March 31, which took the lives of 12 police officers, did not seem to be any different from a plethora of other attacks that had been perpetrated by militants in Dagestan. Nonetheless, never before had a Russian president or prime minister flown to the North Caucasus after such a rebel attack. This time, though, the Russian government decided to demonstrate that it considers these two incidents as interrelated and part ...
Aftermath of a Bombing in Vladikavkaz (RIA Novosti)
August 2010 saw violent incidents all across Russia’s North Caucasus region, above all in Dagestan, where rebels and Russian police dealt heavy blows to each other. On August 21, forces from Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) and local police supported by army units conducted a joint special operation and killed the leader of Dagestan’s Sharia Jamaat, Emir Seyfullah (aka Magomedali Vagapov), who was hiding in a private house in Dagestan’s mountainous village of Gunib (www.rosbalt.ru, August 21). Apart from being the military commander of his own Sharia Jamaat, Emir Seyfullah also was the chief qadi (supreme judge of the Sharia court) of the entire Caucasus Emirate. That means that he in fact was one of the top leaders in the North Caucasus resistance movement. A highly educated man who held two ...
The site of a suicide car-bomb attack on a Russian base in the city of Buinaksk, Dagestan. (AP)
On September 5, a suicide bomber driving a car packed with explosives attacked a Russian infantry military training camp near Buinaksk in Dagestan. According to official sources, four servicemen died in the attack and 35 were injured. Policemen who arrived at the site of the explosion afterwards also came under a bomb attack, but reportedly suffered no casualties. Russia’s defense ministry announced it is heightening the security regime in its camps across southern Russia (www.kavkaz-uzel.ru, September 5). The real casualties may be even higher than officially admitted. At least two groups of wounded servicemen were airlifted to military hospital facilities in Rostov-on-Don for treatment, while only five people were reported to be in critical condition ...
Staunton, September 6 – In the course of the 2002 Russian census, officials in some Daghestani cities and villages falsely reported higher population counts lest their districts be amalgamated with neighboring ones. Now, as the 2010 census begins, some Daghestanis are convinced that it too will be marked by crude falsifications. In an article in the current issue of Makhachkala’s "Novoye delo” entitled "The Distorted Mirror of Daghestani Statistics,” that journal’s reporters both describe what happened eight years ago and point out that, Moscow’s complaints notwithstanding, "attempts to distort” the 2010 results "are already in evidence” (www.ndelo.ru/one_stat.php?id=3287). At the time of the 2002 census, they report, rumors were rife that any district with less than 10,000 people would be combined with its neighbors to form a larger unit. And not surprisingly, officials in those ...
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