Staunton, September 5 – Although they have been "eclipsed” by the spy scandals, the fires, and "other cataclysms” this summer, a "Novaya gazeta” military correspondent says, the Primorsky partisans represent a far more important precedent for the future of Russia, one that Russians will ignore only at their peril. In a comment posted on Grani.ru, Arkady Babchenko argues that the actions of the group of armed young men in the Russian Far East earlier this summer have three dimensions, aspects which make those events important as a source of insights about Russia and a dangerous precedent for the future of the country (grani.ru/blogs/free/entries/181341.html). First, the military correspondent says, even though the official version that those involved acted simply to seize arms and documents is plausible, the fact that those involved were willing to "die for an ...
A senior official in Russia's North Caucasus has been injured and his driver killed in a bomb explosion. September 04, 2010
The Investigative Committee of the Prosecutor-General's Office said that Bekmurza Bekmurzayev, a minister in charge of national, religious, and foreign affairs in Daghestan, was taken to the hospital suffering from shock.
It said that "unknown assailants detonated explosives under his car."
Two of the minister's bodyguards injured in the attack were also hospitalized.
Daghestan, an ethnically mixed, mainly Muslim republic on the Caspian Sea, has overtaken other volatile areas in the North Caucasus to become the worst-hit by Islamist and criminal violence in recent months.
Officials say attackers have killed two law enforcement officers in two incidents in Russia's North Caucasus. September 02, 2010
In the Daghestani capital, Makhachkala, a Federal Security Service officer was killed when his car was blown up on September 1. Another officer running to the scene of the crime was shot and wounded.
In Ingushetia, attackers burst into the home of a police official and opened fire, killing him and wounding his wife.
In Daghestan, police also said they killed a man suspected of an earlier deadly attack on police. The man was killed when he opened fire on officers trying to arrest him. compiled from agency reports
At Least Three Killed, Dozens Injured In Daghestan Suicide Bombing
The site of a suicide bomb attack at a military firing ground outside the Daghestani town of Buinaksk today
Last updated (GMT/UTC): 05.09.2010 13:30
By RFE/RL
A suicide bomber today killed at least three soldiers and wounded dozens more at a military base in southern Daghestan.
The attack took place shortly after midnight, when the attacker drove a car carrying the equivalent of 35 to 55 kilograms of TNT through the gate surrounding a military training camp near the town of Buinaksk, about 50 kilometers west of the republic's capital, Makhachkala.
"Today at 0030, a suicide bomber traveling from the village of Takaloi, two kilometers northwest of Buinaksk, managed to get through the security zone of the military field camp of the 136th Motorized Brigade at the Dalny training ground," Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Aleksei Kuznetsov said in describing the attack.
Kuznetsov said three servicemen were killed in ...
Moscow, Sep 5 (IANS/RIA Novosti) At least five people were killed and 39 injured early Sunday in a suicide terror attack on a military unit in the southern Russian republic of Dagestan, a law enforcement source said.
A suicide bomber detonated his car packed with explosives near Buinaksk town after ramming into the gates of the military unit, the source said.
Another source said 34 were injured and that many of them were in a serious condition.
Earlier the defence ministry put the toll at three and said 26 people were injured.
A second explosion took place in the town as investigators were heading to the site, but there were no casualties.
A defence ministry spokesman said the ministry has dispatched a special commission led by acting Southern Military District commander Maj. Gen. Alexander Galkin to the site of the terrorist attack.
Sporadic terrorist attacks and militant clashes are common ...
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