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Russia

Militancy Reportedly Rising Outside Chechnya

Nikolai Patrushev, director of the Federal Security Service (file photo) (ITAR-TASS)

Russia; August 25, 2006 -- The head of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) says militants are becoming more active in southern Russian republics neighboring Chechnya.

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Nikolai Patrushev attributed the change to successes scored by security forces against militants in Chechnya itself.

He says that over the past seven months, militants carried out 18 "terrorist" acts in Ingushetia and 11 in North Ossetia, twice as many as in the same period of 2005.

He also said 163 Chechen militants have so far laid down their arms under a proposed amnesty, a number that he described as "significant."

Earlier this year, Patrushev proposed an amnesty for all militants who laid down their arms by August 1. Chechen officials later proposed the offer be extended to January 1, 2007.

(ITAR-TASS)

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