The North Caucasus insurgency perpetrated a series of terrorist attacks in Grozny last night, killing at least eight people and injuring 22. No faction has yet claimed responsibility. The modus operandi suggests the attacks were the work of the Gakayev brothers.
Nine people have been killed in Grozny by what authorities say was a triple suicide attack during Eid al-Fitr celebrations marking the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
Russian investigators say they have arrested a former police officer in connection with the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya and are close to determining who ultimately ordered the hit.
Daghestan appears set to make headlines in Russia for something other than the continuing terrorism and violence that have increasingly plagued the North Caucasus republic.
Local officials in Chechnya say at least 11 militants have been killed in security operations in Chechnya since August 17, including four killed in a nighttime raid led by Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov.
Two Chechen teenagers living in Norway are being hailed for their role in rescuing dozens of young people trapped on the island of Utoeya during a massacre by a far-right extremist last month. Rustam Daudov and Movsar Dzhamayev, who emigrated with their families to Norway after living through the war in Chechnya, say they hurled stones in an attempt to disarm Anders Behring Breivik before helping other teenagers attending the island's Labor Party youth camp find shelter in a cave.
How did a predominantly rural, mountainous region of fewer than 10 million people degenerate so swiftly into chaos, misery, endless bloodshed, and religious and social polarization?
"Kommersant" says the group of North Caucasus-based militants had already prepared a fertilizer bomb and were in the closing stages of their operation when they were arrested by Federal Security Service (FSB) agents.
Russia says its forces in the North Caucasus have killed at least six suspected militants, including an alleged top commander responsible for a number of deadly attacks on Russian servicemen.
A standoff is looming in Ingushetia between republic head Yunus-Bek Yevkurov and the municipal council of the village of Pliyevo, northeast of Nazran.
In a move that insurgency commander Doku Umarov has hailed as marking "a new page" in the ongoing jihad against the Russian presence in the North Caucasus, several of the senior Chechen commanders who split with him a year ago have reaffirmed their allegiance.
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