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‘No-one was held accountable’: Beslan, 20 years later
Beslan School Siege

‘No-one was held accountable’: Beslan, 20 years later

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Twenty years after the Beslan School Siege, many of its victims continue to seek accountability from Russia’s leaders, who appear determined to ignore their calls.  Until 2004, few outside of North Ossetia knew of the existence of Beslan, a town of just 35,000 people a stone’s throw from the regional capital, Vladikavkaz. That changed on 1 September 2004, when more than 30 armed men stormed a local school during a ceremony to mark the beginning of the school year. During a three-day siege, t

Arrest and interrogation of the suspect. Screengrab: TASS/Telegram
Adygea

Eighteen-year-old detained in Adygea on suspicion of planning attack on church

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Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has said it has prevented a terrorist attack on an Orthodox church in the North Caucasian Republic of Adygea. On 11 July, the FSB announced that they had detained an 18-year-old from a Central Asian country who was a member of an ‘international terrorist organisation’.  Russian state news agency TASS cited the FSB as saying that the detainee had been preparing an attack on an Orthodox church in the capital of Adygea, Maykop, with the intention of ki

St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna, which the group had reportedly planned to attack. Photo via Getyourguide
Austria

Daghestani man commits suicide in Austrian deportation centre

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A Daghestani man accused of planning terrorist attacks has committed suicide in an Austrian deportation centre, hours before he was expected to be deported to Russia.  On Thursday, Austrian tabloid newspaper Kronen Zeitung reported the man’s suicide, describing him as a member of Wilayat Khorasan, a regional branch of terrorist organisation Islamic State. Other outlets later confirmed the reports with the Viennese State Police Directorate. The Wilayat Khorasan group took responsibility for t

Coordination Centre for Muslims of the North Caucasus. Image: Chechnyatoday.com
Chechnya

Niqab and MMA under fire in North Caucasus following Daghestan terror attack

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The niqab and mixed martial arts have come under fire from within the North Caucasus and Russia as a whole following last month’s deadly terror attack in Daghestan. On Wednesday, the Coordination Centre for Muslims of the North Caucasus decreed that niqabs cause harm to Muslims and threaten discord in interreligious and interethnic relations. The decree came days after Daghestan’s Muftiate issued and then retracted a decree banning the niqab throughout Russia. The Coordination Centre un

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