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Ivan Sukhov: Rebel Activity in North Caucasus on the Rise
In a piece published in the October 2 edition of Vremya Novostei, North Caucasus correspondent Ivan Sukhov wrote that the region’s insurgents are slowly but surely becoming more active. “The militants are conducting their war to establish a Sharia order against local officials who long... MORE
Yamadaev Suggests Brother Killed to Provoke Conflict with Kadyrov
In his first press interview following the murder in Moscow of his brother, former State Duma Deputy Ruslan Yamadaev, former Vostok battalion commander Sulim Yamadaev rejected the theories put forward by investigators and others - including Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov - that his brother was... MORE
Violence in Ingushetia Unabated
The failed suicide bombing targeting Ingush Interior Minister Musa Medov on September 30 was just one of several recent attacks in the republic. On October 2, the acting head of Sunzhensky criminal police was shot in the village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya when unidentified gunmen fired on... MORE
Suicide Bomber Targets Ingush Interior Minister
A suicide bomber attacked the motorcade of Ingush Interior Minister Musa Medov on September 30. The Moscow Times reported on October 1 that the male bomber attempted to ram a Lada hatchback packed with explosives into Medov’s convoy in downtown Nazran at 8:20 a.m., local... MORE
Ruslan Yamadaev Murdered in Moscow
Ruslan Yamadaev, the older brother of Vostok (East) battalion commander Sulim Yamadaev and former State Duma deputy who received a Hero of Russia award in August 2004 from then President Vladimir Putin, was shot to death in central Moscow on September 24. As is typically... MORE
North Caucasus Rebels Seek to Expand into Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Azerbaijan
Last fall, the top leader of the rebels in the North Caucasus Dokka Umarov declared the establishment of the Caucasus Emirate, an underground state that unites all rebel groups in the Caucasus in one political structure. In the statement declaring the Emirate, Umarov stressed that... MORE
Karachaevo-Cherkessia Faces Renewed Militant Activity
The new president of Karachaevo-Cherkessia Boris Ebzeyev inherited the old problems from his predecessor Mustafa Batdiev. The new head of the republic is a very famous person. As a member of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, he has had the reputation of a... MORE
Alekseyeva: Situation in Ingushetia Today Resembles Stalin-era Terror
Lyudmila Alekseyeva, the veteran human rights activist who heads the Moscow Helsinki Group and was recently in Ingushetia on a fact-finding mission (North Caucasus Weekly, September 19), has said that the present situation in Ingushetia is comparable to recent events in Chechnya in terms of... MORE
Chechens Debate Significance of Ruslan Yamadaev’s Murder
In his first public comments on Ruslan Yamadaev’s murder, Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov told reporters in Grozny on September 26 that he was "80 to 90 percent certain that the murder could be motivated by a blood feud," Interfax reported. According to the Moscow Times,... MORE