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Russian Security Services Offer Surprising Revelations About Boston Bombings
April 29, 2013 05:37 PM
On April 27, the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta published an article on the dead Boston bomber suspect, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, based on information it received from the Russian security services. It cited officers of the Dagestani Center for Combating Extremism who said they became aware of Tsarnaev’s presence in the republic in April 2012 and registered his “repeated” meetings with 18-year-old Mahmud Mansur Nidal, who had previously been under surveillance for a year. The police considered Nidal t...
Chechen Authorities Organize Incursion into Ingushetia
April 24, 2013 02:32 PM
On April 18, against the backdrop of the ongoing territorial dispute between Chechnya and Ingushetia, about 300 law enforcement agents from the Chechen Republic entered the village of Arshty in Ingushetia’s Sunzha district. The incursion took the tensions between Ingushetia and Chechnya to a whole new level. The Chechen side insisted that the police were only chasing the militants. The Ingush authorities, however, said that several Chechen civilian officials, along with the residents of nearby C...
Moscow’s Revolving Door of Alleged Killings of Militant Leaders in Ingushetia Continues
May 24, 2013The armed conflict in the North Caucasus continues to kill and maim (www.kavkaz-uzel.ru/articles/224400/). Murders, kidnappings and explosions have become the daily routine in this part of Russia. Only suicide bombings carried...
Moscow’s Revolving Door of Alleged Killings of Militant Leaders in Ingushetia Continues
May 24, 2013
The armed conflict in the North Caucasus continues to kill and maim (www.kavkaz-uzel.ru/articles/224400/). Murders, kidnappings and explosions have become the daily routine in this part of Russia. Only suicide bombings carried...
Did Surkov Step Down, or Was He Forced to Step Down?
May 23, 2013In his childhood, Vladislav Surkov, an ethnic Chechen by birth, initially had his father’s surname, Dudaev—a surname that is related to the Zandak teip (clan) (www.anticompromat.org/surkov/surkbio.html). However, with Russian...
Did Surkov Step Down, or Was He Forced to Step Down?
May 23, 2013
In his childhood, Vladislav Surkov, an ethnic Chechen by birth, initially had his father’s surname, Dudaev—a surname that is related to the Zandak teip (clan) (www.anticompromat.org/surkov/surkbio.html). However, with Russian...
Forging of Alliance Between Tatar and Bashkir Nationalists Worries Moscow
May 22, 2013Tatar and Bashkir civil organizations are moving toward the forging of an alliance, regional and Russian experts say. “Bashkir nationalists have tried to find support among Tatar and Ugro-Finnish nationalists for several years,...
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Volatile Landscape: Iraq and its Insurgent Movements
March 8, 2010 11:29 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...
