Kavkaz News

Kavkaz Center’s sources in Wilayah of Dagestan of the Caucasus Emirate reported that command of Temir-Khan-Shura sector of Degestani Front of Armed Forces of CE (Seyfullah unit) confirmed martyrdom of an operative unit of Mujahideen during a fierce gun battle that took place on  Friday 6 Rabi‘ al-Awwal 1429 (14.03.2008) …

According to Kavkaz Center’s three Mujahideen were martyred (inshaAllah) in a hostile incident on 8 Rabi‘ al-Awwal 1429 (16.03.2008) in Vedeno district of Wilayah Nokhchicho of the Caucasus Emirate.

Kavkaz Center’s source from Wilayah of Nokhchicho (Ichkeria) of the Caucasus Emirate reported about an ambush of a group of murtadin and kuffar made by a mobile team of near the village of Olhazar-Kotar (Alhazurovo) on 13 Rabi’ Al-Awwal 1429 (20 March 2008).

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Police in a central Russian region have advised priests to apply for firearms licenses so they can defend their churches from marauding thieves who have been stealing religious icons at gunpoint.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said he had agreed with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice after six hours of talks in Moscow to study further U.S. proposals aimed at allaying Russian concerns about the shield.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia will announce soon whether it will allow NATO to deliver supplies to Afghanistan through its land and air spaces, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – President-elect Dmitry Medvedev urged experts outside the Kremlin to stimulate public debate about Russia’s economic and social challenges.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia, which cut passenger flights to Georgia in November 2006 amid a bitter political row, said on Tuesday it would resume civil aviation links with the Caucasus neighbor from March 25.

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia (Reuters) – Members of a pro-Kremlin youth group demonstrated outside a U.S. consulate in Russia’s far east on Monday to support Alexander Kashin, a local man paralyzed in an accident involving a U.S. diplomat’s car.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian newspaper said on Saturday security forces foiled an attempt by a sniper to kill President Vladimir Putin near the Kremlin this month. Itar-Tass news agency cited a security source denying the report.