Truro Daily News: Officials: 2 Police Killed, 5 Wounded In Russia's Caucasus
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posted by eagle on December, 2010 as KABARDINO BALKAR
Officials: 2 police killed, 5 wounded in Russia's Caucasus
- Published on December 23rd, 2010
ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia - Officials say two police have been killed and five wounded in Russia's southern Caucasus region. Regional police spokesman Maxim Ushanov said assailants gunned down two police officers in the village of Shalushki in the Kabardino-Balkariya province Thursday. Magomed Tagirov, police spokesman in the nearby province of Dagestan, said that two roadside bombs wounded five policemen in the provincial capital of Makhachkala. Dagestan is gripped by near-daily violence between police and soldiers and Islamist insurgents believed to be inspired by separatists in neighbouring Chechnya. Kabardino-Balkariya also faces increasing violence as authorities crack down on radical groups. http://www.trurodaily.com/Canada---World/Society/2010-12-23/article-2065862/Officials:-2-police-killed,-5-wounded-in-Russias-Caucasus/1
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RFE/RL: Top Muslim Cleric Shot Dead In Volatile Caucasus
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posted by eagle on as KABARDINO BALKAR
Top Muslim Cleric Shot Dead In Volatile CaucasusDecember 16, 2010 The top Muslim cleric in Russia's volatile region of Kabardino-Balkaria has been shot dead.December 16, 2010
A spokeswoman for the regional investigators said that Anas Pshikhachev, the region's top mufti, was attacked by two unidentified assailants just outside his home in the town of Nalchik on December 15.
He received several gunshot wounds and died of his injuries on the spot.
President Dmitry Medvedev expressed his condolences to the mufti's family.
Kabardino-Balkaria is located near the volatile regions of Chechnya, Daghestan, and Ingushetia, where the authorities are battling a Muslim insurgency and attacks on government officials are a near-daily occurrence.
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SBS: Justice Official Gunned Down In Russia
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posted by eagle on November, 2010 as KABARDINO BALKAR
Justice official gunned down in Russia29 November 2010 | 09:22:07 AM | Source: AAP
A Russian justice official was gunned down while driving in the volatile Russian Caucasus on Sunday, prosecutors said, in the latest attack in the region hit by an Islamist insurgency. Albert Altuyev, 39, died on the scene of the attack in Nalchik, capital of the Kabardino-Balkaria republic in the unstable North Caucasus, prosecutors said in Russian media reports. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev offered a bleak assessment of the situation in the Caucasus on November 19, saying there was little improvement in security. He said the situation in the Northern Caucasus, which has been beset by Islamic militancy over the last years, remained "very difficult". After a second war in Chechnya in 1999 between Russian forces and separatist fighters, the rebels' inspiration moved towards Islam with the aim of imposing an Islamic state in the region. Although the war ended in 2000, rebels have waged an ...
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RFE/RL: Kremlin Replaces Kabardino-Balkaria Interior Minister
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posted by circassiankama on as KABARDINO BALKAR
Kremlin Replaces Kabardino-Balkaria Interior Minister  Kabardino-Balkaria President Arsen Kanokov says his complaints about the harrassment of Muslims fall on deaf ears. November 24, 2010 Russian President Dmitry Medvedev fired Kabardino-Balkaria Interior Minister Lieutenant General Yury Tomchak on November 18, replacing him with Sergei Vasilyev, a career Russian police officer from Kemerovo with no previous experience of the North Caucasus. Tomchak is apparently being held responsible for the spike in militant attacks in the republic
since Balkar fighter Asker Djappuyev (aka Emir Abdullakh) succeeded
Anzor Astemirov in the spring as commander of the
Kabardino-Balkaria-Karachai (KBK) wing of the North Caucasus
insurgency. Speaking in Pyatigorsk on November 18, Russian Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev singled out
Kabardino-Balkaria and Daghestan as the two North Caucasus republics
with the highest level of terrorist activity. Interior Ministry Colonel
Valery Zhernov gave
the number of "terrorist acts" in Kabardino-Balkaria during the first
nine months of this year ...
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TopNews: Blast Rocks Russia's North Caucasus
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posted by eagle on as KABARDINO BALKAR
Blast rocks Russia's North Caucasus Submitted by Saurav Shukla on Fri, 11/26/2010 - 04:03
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