Officials say some 95 militants died as a result of the 13 October attacks (AFP) 14 November 2005 -- Police officials in the Russian republic of Kabardino-Balkariya say militants behind last month's attack in the city of Nalchik aimed to spark a wider war throughout the North Caucasus.
14 November 2005 -- A court in the Russian city of Nizhnii Novgorod today ruled against a Justice Ministry order aimed at closing down a Chechen advocacy group.
(RFE/RL) 12 November 2005 -- Interior Ministry officials in Chechnya say they have killed an alleged militant after he had refused to surrender during a standoff on the outskirts of Grozny.
(RFE/RL) 11 November 2005 -- Religious leaders in Russia's Northern Caucasus republic of Adygea today called upon their communities to help prevent sectarian violence by praying together later this month.
11 November 2005 -- A Russian prosecutor says a prominent Islamic scholar is suspected of instigating a militant raid in the North Caucasus last month.
There is still no sign of Ruslan Nakhushev, a former KBG officer and head of the unregistered Islamic Research Institute in Nalchik, who went missing on 4 November.
11 November 2005 -- Authorities in Russia's Far East say they have arrested two men suspected of taking part in an armed raid last month in the North Caucasus.
Russian Army soldiers in Chechnya (AFP) 10 November 2005 -- A military official in Chechnya described as an accident a mortar-fire attack by federal forces on the village of Starye Atagi.
9 November 2005 -- Prosecutors in the North Caucasus republic of Kabardino-Balkariya have opened a criminal case into the disappearance of Islam expert Ruslan Nakhushev, who disappeared this week.
8 November 2005 -- Police in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Kabardino-Balkariya have concluded investigations into last month's attacks by alleged Islamic extremists in Nalchik.<br />
(RFE/RL) 8 November 2005 -- The Supreme Court of Russia's southern autonomous Republic of Karachaevo-Cherkessia today resumes hearings in the trial of 16 people accused of involvement in the murder last year of seven local businessmen, RFE/RL's Russian Service reported.
(RFE/RL) 7 November 2005 (RFE/RL) -- The United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia ( UNOMIG ) today expressed concern at the overall situation in breakaway Abkhazia's southern Gali region, saying tensions there could rise.
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