Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has accepted the resignation of Karachayevo-Cherkessia Republic (KChR) President Boris Ebzeyev and named Rashid Temrezov, 34, head of the office in charge of Karachayevo-Cherkessia's highways, as acting KChR president.
The Kabardino-Balkaria-Karchai jamaat headed by Asker Jappuyev will have to contend with a second adversary in the shape of the "Black Hawks," a band of armed, masked, black-clad men who have vowed to kill him and others for having "brought shame upon their race" by killing innocent civilians and by aligning themselves with Chechen insurgent commander Doku Umarov.
Thanks to the Internet, we now have photos of Ramzan Kadyrov's mansion in Tsentoroi. The photos don't tell us much about the man aside from a penchant for expensive, if tasteless, furnishings.
Three people have been killed and two others wounded in the North Caucasus region of Kabardino-Balkaria on their way to a ski resort.
Since Asker Jappuyev was named its commander in April 2010, the Kabardino-Balkar-Karachai jamaat has systematically gunned down dozens of police and security officials. In the past two months alone, insurgents have killed the republic's mufti, a respected ethnographer, and Chegem district head Mikhail Mambetov.
Several of the comments on Asker Jappuyev's decree ask whether the "general mobilization" he calls for also extends to neighboring Karachayevo-Cherkessia: the consensus was that the Karachais en masse have no inclination to join the jihad, although isolated individuals may have done so.
In the wake of a terrorist attack at a Moscow airport in January that left 35 people dead, Russia's volatile North Caucasus region has been rocked by fresh violence, once again sparking debate about why Moscow has been unable to pacify the region after decades of effort.
Two separate bombings on February 14 in the Daghestani village of Gubden have left two policemen dead and 26 others wounded.
Despite the threats and reprisals meted out over the past couple of years by the pro-Russian Chechen leadership to the parents of young men and women who "head to the forest" to join the insurgency, there are few signs of that exodus abating.
Four alleged Islamic extremists were apprehended in the Russian republic of Bashkortostan today, According to the arrest report, one of the suspects is leader of the so-called Oktyabrsky Jamaat, which is reportedly part of the self-proclaimed Caucasus Emirate. The Caucasus Emirate, led by Doku Umarov, is considered a terrorist organization by Russia.
Chechen Islamist rebel leader Doku Umarov says he ordered a suicide bombing that killed 36 people at Russia's busiest airport last month.
A new video purportedly by Chechen rebel leader Doku Umarov has warned that Russia will have another year of "blood and tears" unless it withdraws from the North Caucasus territories. The video, posted on the Islamist website www.kavkazcenter.com February 4, did not mention the airport bombing in Moscow last month that killed 36 people
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