Dagestan
(2002 est. pop. 2.2 million). A southern Russian republic, Dagestan is bordered by Azerbaijan to the south, Georgia to the west, and the Caspian Sea to the east. Although Dagestan translates ...
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Moscow (dpa) - One woman died and eight people were injured
Tuesday when a bomb exploded in a mini-bus in Dagestan, Interfax news
agency quoted the republic's Interior Minis...
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About 50 women occupied a central square in this provincial Russian capital on Friday, declaring a hunger strike and vowing not to leave until authorities tell them what happened to their missing c...
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Moscow (dpa) - At least two police officers were killed and 20
injured in several attacks on Russian security forces in the northern
Caucasus region Thursday, Russian news a...
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MAKHACHKALA, Russia, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Smart cars purr along
the streets of Moscow and French chefs run glitzy restaurants in
thriving Russian mining towns, but in the impoverished regions
of Ingu...
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More than 500 militants in Chechnya and other parts of Russia's troubled North Caucasus mountain region have surrendered to authorities as part of an amnesty that expired Monday, an official said.A...
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Russian authorities arrested former world chess champion Garry Kasparov on Saturday and sentenced him to five days in prison after he helped lead a protest against President Vladimir Putin that end...
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President Vladimir Putin on Thursday dismissed the president of the war-battered republic of Chechnya and named its widely feared prime minister Ramzan Kadyrov as acting president.The dismissal of ...
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Aid group Doctors Without Borders claimed victory Thursday in a case brought against it by the Dutch government over a euro1 million ransom paid to free one of its staff in Russia.The group, also k...
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The mayor of Russia's second-largest city says she sees no need to tighten her security measures in the wake of arrests in a suspected plot to assassinate her.A Federal Security Service spokesman s...
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ROUNDUP: One killed, eight injured in Dagestan suicide bombEd: Updates injured toll, adds background
Dagestan
