Militant killed, two injured in Russia's North Caucasus
16/02/2009 09:07 MAKHACHKALA, February 16 (RIA Novosti) - One militant has been killed and two others injured after police in Russia's North Caucasus Republic of Daghestan opened fire on their car, a local police spokesman said on Monday.
The militants were killed by police in Daghestan's Khasavyurtovsky district late on Sunday. Officers received a tipoff that the suspected gunmen were in the car and tried to stop it, but the driver did not follow police instructions.
"Police opened fire. As a result one person was killed and two injured," the spokesman said.
On February 2, following a series of highly unusual events, the newly appointed head of the Dagestani branch of the Russian federal tax service was prevented from taking his position. Vladimir Radchenko and his superior Pyotr Kovalev were not even allowed to cross the administrative border into Dagestan: they were told that the Dagestani police could not guarantee their safety. At the same time, several hundred people in Makhachkala protested against the new appointment (Kommersant, February 3).
Kommersant claimed that the protests were informally supported by the Dagestani government, which had not approved the new appointment. The popular opposition was quoted as demanding the appointment of a Lezgin, which is one of Dagestan’s major ethnic ...
Events in the Republic of Dagestan—one of the most unstable republics in the North Caucasus region—are again demanding attention. This time, however, what is noteworthy are not the usual reports of daily armed clashes, but the news propagated by the Russian mass media concerning the death of the recently appointed leader of the Dagestani Sharia Jamaat, Emir Muaz.
The people of Dagestan are predominantly Muslim and the republic is situated in a strategically important region in the Russian south. Since Dagestan borders Azerbaijan, Georgia and the Chechen Republic, the republic has always been the object of Moscow’s special attention.
The Russian mass media reported that Emir Muaz (Omar Sheikhulaev, b. 1975) was killed during a special operation carried out ...
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