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Armored Trains Return to the Russian North Caucasus
February 23, 2010 03:45 PM
A weapon thought by many to belong to military museums is making a return to active anti-insurgency operations in the North Caucasus: the armored train. First used for such purposes in the American Civil War, armored trains and the tactics associated with their use were most fully developed in the vast expanses of Russia, where they were used in large numbers in World War One, the Red-White Civil War of 1917-22 (including extensive operations in the Caucasus), the Second World War and the Sino-S...
Yevkurov’s Bloody Ramsons
February 19, 2010 03:52 PM
A special operation in the vicinity of settlements of Arshty and Dattykh ended along the lines of a classic phrase authored by former Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin: “We wanted the best, but it turned out as it always does.” This broadly advertised operation implemented by Ingush troops, Federal Security Service (FSB) personnel and police, was intended to send the following message to the outside world: “Look, we are capable of maintaining order at home ourselves.” The large number o...
Ingush Organize Demonstration to Protest Against Kidnappings of Compatriots
March 9, 2010
On March 6, several hundred protestors in Ingushetia’s Plievo settlement, which is situated in the vicinity of Nazran, the republic’s largest town, blocked local highways and demanded that authorities investigate the kidnapping...
Russia’s President Visits North Caucasus Offering No Real Solution to its Main Problem
March 5, 2010In the eleventh year of conflict in the North Caucasus, the Russian leadership intends (yet again) to radically change the situation to its advantage. With this intent, on February 27, President Dmitry Medvedev unexpectedly...
Said Buryatsky Reported to be Among Six Militants Killed in Ingushetia
March 5, 2010Russian news agencies reported today (March 5) that Aleksandr Tikhomirov, aka, Sheik Said Buryatsky, the Muslim convert from eastern Siberia’s Buryat republic who became the main ideologist of the North Caucasus insurgency, was...
The North Caucasus Receives Unprecedented Attention from Russian Leaders
March 3, 2010On March 1, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin made an unannounced brisk visit to the North Caucasus. In the North Ossetian town of Beslan, Putin met the head of North Ossetia, Taimuraz Mamsurov, and in the capital of Ingushetia,...
Is the Kremlin Announcement a new Drive to Suppress Government Critics?
March 2, 2010
On February 27, President Dmitry Medvedev made a surprise trip to the North Caucasus, visiting Nalchik in Kabardino-Balkaria and Cherkessk in the neighboring republic of Karachaevo-Cherkessia. The Russian president reiterated...
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Volatile Landscape: Iraq and its Insurgent Movements
March 8, 2010 09:29 AM
Violence in Iraq has declined since its civil war of 2005-2007 due to the implementation of the U.S. counterinsurgency strategy, Shi'a militia ceasefires, and the emergence of Iraq's Awakening Movement. But as the U.S. military draws down its forces, Iraq remains a fragile, un-reconciled state, riddled with sectarian tensions and new political rivalries that may negatively affect its future security and stability. Though less resourceful now, al-Qaeda in Iraq, Ba'athist elements, and Sufi insurg...