DAGESTAN’S FINANCE MINISTER KILLED BY BOMB.

Publication: Monitor Volume: 2 Issue: 153

A car bomb exploded in Makhachkala on August 19, killing Hamid Hamidov, finance minister of the southern Russian republic of Dagestan, which borders on Chechnya. (Itar-Tass, Reuters, August 20)

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