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Politicial activist killed in Russian Caucasus republic
Surkhakhi :: Russia | about 1 month ago
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Colleagues of the victim blame the authorities for his death, though the deceased was not opposing the current Ingushetian leader. Maksharip Aushev, a member of the expert council with the presidential plenipotentiary on Human Rights, was shot dead as...
Tags: Maksharip Aushev, Ingushetian, North Caucasus, Russian Caucasus
Human rights activist killed
Moscow :: Russia | about 1 month ago
Credibility The victim, Maksharip Aushev, has been connected to the local opposition Internet site, Ingushetia.org. Aushev was at the wheel of his car, driving on the highway to the city of Nalchik, when the occupants of another car opened fire.
Tags: Russian, Southern Russia, Ingushetia, Maksharip Aushev, opposition activists, opposition figure, North Caucasus, activists killing, shot dead, prominent opposition
4 killed in south Russia attacks
Makhachkala :: Russia | about 1 month ago
Credibility Four militants were killed in two separate gun battles in Russia's volatile North Caucasus while bombs went off in both the capital of a third region and under a gas pipeline, Russian news agencies reported on Monday. Violence has surged in the South...
Tags: South Russian, suspected militants, Chechnya, North Caucasus, volatile north
Russia accuses Georgia of aiding al-Qaeda
Lon :: Burkina Faso | about 1 month ago
Credibility Russia has accused Georgia of training al-Qaeda agents and helping them plan terror operations in the volatile Caucasus region. The head of Russia's FSB secret service, Alexander Bortnikov, said on Tuesday that according to "audio evidence seized from...
Tags: Russian Royal, Georgian Foreign Ministry, Republic of Ingushetia, North Caucasus, accused georgia
Another official killed in North Caucasus
Moscow :: Russia | 2 months ago
Credibility This adds to the recent days of bloodshed in Russia's southern republics in the Caucasus. Also, one person has died in hospital from injuries they received on Friday during an attack on a police checkpoint near Ingushetia's largest city, Nazran. In Chechnya,...
Tags: Russia, Chechnya, Grozny, North Caucasus, Dagestan, suicide bomber, Ingushetia, Moscow
Caucasus suffers from “colonial legacy”
Moscow :: Russia | 2 months ago
Credibility These are territories with different ethnic religious and cultural groups of people who were forced into the Russian Empire in the 19th century after long guerilla wars, and they never really adjusted neither to the life in the Russian Empire nor the...
Tags: Russian Empire, North Caucasus, death squad
Al Qaeda 'coordinator' killed in Russia
Moscow :: Russia | 2 months ago
Credibility Two officers were injured in the clash, the FSS official said Monday. 'A foreign mercenary killed in the special operation has been identified. He is an Algerian national, Al Qaeda's coordinator in Dagestan, known among the militants as Doctor Muhammad,'...
Tags: Russian, Dagestan, Chechnya, North Caucasus, militants kills, Al Qaeda
Russia, Belarus leaders fail to mend stormy ties
Sochi :: Russia | 3 months ago
Credibility The presidents of Russia and Belarus failed to find agreement on issues ranging from emergency credits to gas prices when they met on Thursday for their first bilateral meeting in four months. The two former Soviet republics officially share a customs...
Tags: Russian, North Caucasus, Dmitry Medvedev, Belarussian, Muslims, Alexander Lukashenko
Suicide bomber attacks policemen in Chechnya
Moscow :: Russia | 3 months ago
Credibility The attacker approached a group of policemen waiting at a car wash for their car to be cleaned and set off the explosion.
Tags: Putin Chechnya, suicide bombers, Russian Republic, suicide bomb, police officer, North Caucasus, Ramzan Kadyrov, RIA Novosti, car wash
Medvedev issues stark warning on Russian Caucasus!
Moscow :: Russia | 3 months ago
Credibility Medvedev issues stark warning on Russian Caucasus Moscow: President Dmitry Medvedev warned on Wednesday that Russia's Caucasus region was dangerously unstable and said "terrorists" there must be "liquidated without emotion." "The battle against terrorists...
Tags: Dmitry Medvedev, Russian Caucasus Moscow, Ingushetia, North Caucasus, suicide bomb, stark warning, issues stark, president dmitry, medvedev issues, police station
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