updated Sat. December 30, 2023
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https://en.crimerussia.com/
April 25, 2018
Two guerrillas from the militant group formed in Derbent, whose plans included the organization of a terrorist attack during the May holidays, were killed today by the security forces officers in the Derbent district of Dagestan. Two armed members of the group were found in a forest near the village of ChinarÃâà...
RAPSI
April 19, 2018
MOSCOW, April 19 (RAPSI) - A criminal case against deputy education minister of Russia's Republic of Dagestan, who stands charged with embezzling 97 million rubles ($1.6 million), has been forwarded to the Gagarinsky District Court of Moscow for hearing, the Prosecutor General's Office's press serviceÃâà...
Bloody Elbow
April 10, 2018
When Khabib Nurmagomedov landed in the Uytash Airport in Makhachkala, Dagestan, he was greeted by approximately two thousand local fans, who braved the cold weather to give him a hero's welcome upon arrival. Nurmagomedov, who defeated Al Iaquinta by unanimous decision to claim the UFCÃâà...
MMA Fighting
April 9, 2018
Khabib Nurmagomedov has spoken often of the massive following he has in his native Dagestan, and if his return home on Monday was any indication, he wasn't kidding. The newly crowned undisputed UFC lightweight champion was swarmed by a legion of his fans as he touched down at Uytash AirportÃâà...
The Jamestown Foundation
April 5, 2018
When, in October 2017, Russian President Vladimir Putin appointed Vladimir Vasilyev to take over from Ramazan Abdulatipov as head of the North Caucasus republic of Dagestan, there were widespread hopes and fears that Vasilyev would transform the local political elite by a wholesale replacement ofÃâà...
Sputnik International
April 3, 2018
The Black Sea Fleet's former commander, Admiral Vladimir Komoyedov, welcomes the decision to relocate the Caspian Flotilla headquarters from Astrakhan to Kaspiisk in Dagestan as “strategically correct.” “From a strategic standpoint, all the neighboring countries are our good friends. Secondly, we areÃâà...
Human Rights Watch
March 28, 2018
Sirazhutdin Datsiev, the head of the Memorial office in Dagestan was hospitalized with a head injury. Russian authorities should promptly and thoroughly investigate the attack and punish those responsible. “This cowardly attack can only be regarded as part of the ongoing harassment campaign againstÃâà...
The Moscow Times
March 28, 2018
The head of Russia's Memorial human rights group in the Republic of Dagestan has been attacked in what appears to be a continuing intimidation campaign against activists. Authorities in the neighboring Chechen Republic have been holding Oyub Titiyev, the head of the local Memorial branch, on drugÃâà...
https://en.crimerussia.com/
March 10, 2018
The officer shot two people dead in the Gerga village (Kayakentsky district, Dagestan), according to the Press Service of the Main Department of the MIA Directorate in Dagestan. The murder was due to a conflict that escalated into a fight. The off-duty officer shot his opponents from a Saiga rifle, killing bothÃâà...
https://en.crimerussia.com/
March 9, 2018
The trial in the case of former Head of Kizlyarsky district of Dagestan Andrey Vinogradov saw the witness calling Sagid Murtazaliev, Olympic wrestling champion and ex-Head of the Russian Pension Fund (PFR) branch in Dagestan, the customer of the murder of MIA Lieutenant Colonel Shevket Kudzhaev.
https://en.crimerussia.com/
March 8, 2018
The namesake of the former head of Dagestan in the position of senior operative worker at the Russian MIA General Administration of Economic Security and Anti-Corruption in Dagestan has been busted on taking a bribe in Makhachkala.
https://en.crimerussia.com/
March 8, 2018
In connection with the receipt of a large number of appeals from low-mobility invalids and their legal representatives, the Prosecutor's Office of Dagestan has already analyzed the state of law in the sphere of their provision with technical means of rehabilitation, the republic's supervisory agency has reportedÃâà...
TASS
March 3, 2018
MAKHACHKALA, March 4. /TASS/. A counter-terrorist operation began in Dagestan's Tsumadinsky district, where special forces search for militants and their allies, the local branch of Russia's Anti-Terrorist Committee told TASS on Sunday. "The security alert was announced at 04:00 Moscow time on Sunday," the sourceÃâà...
The Jamestown Foundation
February 28, 2018
Since the second half of January, the Republic of Dagestan has undergone a systemic “cleaning out” of the entrenched local authorities. Similarly, there were recent loud arrests and prosecutions of local authorities in various regions across the Russian Federation—the former head of Sakhalin region,Ãâà...
The Moscow Times
February 27, 2018
The arrests followed President Vladimir Putin's decision last October to replace the head of Dagestan, Ramazan Abdulatipov, with the retired Deputy Interior Minister Vladimir Vasilyev. In doing so, Vasilyev became the first outsider leader of the largest and most populated of the North Caucasus republics inÃâà...
New York Times
February 18, 2018
A man carrying a knife and a hunting rifle opened fire on worshipers on Sunday at an Orthodox church in Kizlyar, in the Dagestan region of Russia, killing at least five people and wounding several others, according to a Russian state news agency. The gunman shouted, “Allahu akbar” and began firing,Ãâà...
The News International (blog)
December 31, 1999
MOSCOW: Nine people suspected of plotting an attack in Russia were killed in a shootout with security forces in Dagestan, the country's National Anti-Terror Committee has said. The “anti-terrorist” operation was launched Saturday in Derbent, Dagestan, after police received a tip off over a group hiding inÃâà...
Xinhua
December 31, 1999
MOSCOW, March 6 (Xinhua) -- Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said Tuesday it had detained five people trying to recruit for the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group in the country's Republic of Dagestan in the North Caucasus region. During a police raid on Monday, the five recruiters were nabbed inÃâà...
