Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan establishes temporary checkpoints near Russian border
Official statements implied the checkpoints would be enacted after a special operation near the border.
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Beslan School Siege
‘No-one was held accountable’: Beslan, 20 years later
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
Adygea
Eighteen-year-old detained in Adygea on suspicion of planning attack on church
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
Austria
Daghestani man commits suicide in Austrian deportation centre
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
Chechnya
Niqab and MMA under fire in North Caucasus following Daghestan terror attack
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
Chechnya
Kadyrov at odds with Investigative Committee head over Islamophobic remarks
Chechnya’s Ramzan Kadyrov has accused the head of Russia’s Investigative Committee of ‘conflating Islam with terrorism’ following deadly attacks in Daghestan in June. The Investigative Committee’s head, Alexander Bastrykin, had spoken in favour of banning the niqab, a long garment worn by some Muslim women that covers their entire body and face, in Russia. Bastrykin went on to say that ‘Islamists’ committed the Daghestan attacks and the Rostov detention centre hostage crisis in June. In
Chechnya
Recriminations in Daghestan and Chechnya follow deadly attacks
At least 12 relatives of a Daghestani official have been detained as several regions of the North Caucasus have stepped up security following Sunday’s deadly attacks in Daghestan. Chechen Head Ramzan Kadyrov has meanwhile promised to eliminate the male bloodline of any attackers. The 23 June attacks, which targeted Orthodox churches, a synagogue, and a traffic police post in two Daghestani cities, resulted in the deaths of at least 20 people and the hospitalisation of at least 16 more. On
