Timeline Dagestan
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c600-700 Dagestan, formerly a part
of Caucasian Albania, came under Arab domination and the population
converted to Islam.
(SFC, 8/14/99, p.A10)
900-1500 Rule over Dagestan passed from the Arabs to
the Seljuk Turks to the Mongols and the Golden Horde.
(SFC, 8/14/99, p.A10)
c1500-1700 The Ottoman Empire ruled the Dagestan
region.
(SFC, 8/14/99, p.A10)
c1700-1800 Persians took control of the Dagestan
region.
(SFC, 8/14/99, p.A10)
1919 The people of Dagestan
supported the Bolshevik Revolution and Lenin promised them autonomy.
(SFC, 8/14/99, p.A10)
1987 Aug, Magomedali Magomedov
(b.1930) became chairman of Dagestan’s State Council. Under his rule
(1987-2006) the government was run as a family business and police
served clan interests.
(Econ, 7/25/05, p.44)(http://rulers.org/russdiv.html)
1996 Jan 10, Chechen rebels seized
as many as 3,000 hostages in the Russian Republic of Dagestan.
(WSJ, 1/2/97, p.R2)
1996 Jan 15, Risking the lives of
more than 100 hostages in an effort to wipe out their Chechen rebel
captors, the Russian military hurled rockets and shells at the tiny
village of Pervomayskaya, at the border of Dagestan and Chechnya.
(WSJ, 1/16/96, p. A-1)(AP, 1/15/01)
1996 Jan 22, The Chechen rebel
leader escaped from Dagestan along with many fighters and hostages.
(WSJ, 1/23/96, p.A-1)
1997 Jul 8, In Dagestan a bomb
blew up on a bus carrying Russian border police and 9 officers were
killed. Sporadic violence continued along with kidnappings.
(SFC, 7/9/97, p.A8)
1998 Jan 8, Two Swedish
missionaries, Daniel and Paulina Brolin, were kidnapped in Dagestan.
They were released in June.
(SFC, 12/10/98, p.C8)
1999 Aug 7, In Russia Islamic
fighters based in Chechnya seized at least 2 village in Dagestan.
Warlords Shamil Basayev and Wahabi commander Khattab (Hattab) were
reported to be involved. The Wahabis are a puritan branch of Sunni
Islam founded in the 18th century in Saudi Arabia.
(SFEC, 8/8/99, p.A20)
1999 Aug 8, In southern Russia
federal forces opened fire from the ground and air on Islamic militants
in Dagestan. Prime minister Stepashin was in the capital Makhachkala.
The state is home to some 33 ethnic groups including Wahhabi militants
backed by Chechen commanders. Shamil Basayev, a Chechen militant,
declared Dagestan an independent Islamic state within days of seizing
several villages.
(SFC, 8/9/99, p.A11)(SFC, 8/14/99, p.A10)
1999 Aug 10, In Dagestan the
Interior Ministry said 44 militants were killed and 80 wounded in
fighting with Russian forces.
(SFC, 8/11/99, p.A12)
1999 Aug 13, Izvestia confirmed
that 4 Russian helicopters were destroyed in Dagestan and that an SU-24
fighter plane was damaged.
(SFC, 8/14/99, p.A10)
1999 Aug 14, Russia bombed
guerrilla bases in Dagestan as 4 Russian soldiers were killed and 13
wounded.
(SFEC, 8/15/99, p.A24)
1999 Aug 18, Russian forces lost 8
soldiers in Dagestan as they tried to storm Tando village.
(SFC, 8/19/99, p.D10)
1999 Aug 19, Russian troops failed
to take the village of Tando in Dagestan and lost another 18 soldiers
and 3 helicopters.
(SFC, 8/20/99, p.A18)
1999 Aug 24, In Dagestan rebels
forces pulled back and Russian forces took control of 5 villages that
had been seized 3 weeks earlier.
(SFC, 8/25/99, p.A17)
1999 Aug 30, Russia reported four
soldiers killed and 5 wounded from fighting in Dagestan.
(WSJ, 8/31/99, p.A1)
1999 Sep 4, In Dagestan a car bomb
killed at least 22 people at a Russian military housing block in
Buinaksk. The death toll son expanded to 64. Russian officials believed
that Khattab, a Jordanian operating in Chechnya, ordered the bombing.
In 2000 5 suspects were charged in the bombing. In 2001 six men were
convicted. In 2004 Magomed Salikhov was arrested in Baku for his role
in the bombing. In Feb, 2006, Salikhov was acquitted of organizing the
explosion, but was sentenced to over 4 years in prison for membership a
rebel group. The Russian Supreme Court overturned the acquittal on June
15 and ordered the investigation to be reopened. A Dagestan jury
acquitted Salikhov on Nov 10.
(SFC, 9/6/99, p.A12)(SFC, 9/7/99, p.A12)(SFC,
9/8/99, p.A16)(SFC, 8/5/00, p.C1)(SFC, 3/20/01, p.A11)(AP,
11/13/04)(AP, 6/15/06)(AP, 11/11/06)
1999 Sep 5, In Dagestan several
thousand rebels began a 2nd siege from Chechnya.
(SFC, 9/6/99, p.A12)
1999 Sep 6, In Dagestan Russian
forces used artillery and air power against rebel guerrillas and 2
dozen people were killed on the Chechen side of the border. Fighting in
NoIvolakskoye left 14 soldiers dead.
(SFC, 9/7/99, p.A12)
1999 Sep 9, In Dagestan Russia
lost a Su-25 combat jet.
(SFC, 9/10/99, p.D4)
1999 Sep 12, In Dagestan Russian
troops seized control of the villages of Karamakhi and Chabanmakhi.
(SFC, 9/13/99, p.A13)
1999 Sep 16, Pres. Yeltsin ordered
the Dagestan border sealed against the 1,500 Chechen militants massed
there.
(WSJ, 9/17/99, p.A1)
1999 Sep 18, Russian forces
attacked rebel targets in Chechnya to prevent guerrilla raids in
Dagestan.
(SFEC, 9/19/99, p.A1)
2000 Nov 11, A Dagestan Airlines
jet was hijacked. The Russian plane was forced to and in Israel with 58
people aboard. Pres. Barak, enroute to Washington, returned to handle
the crises. The hijacker surrendered and the plane was returned to
Moscow.
(SFEC, 11/12/00, p.A22)(SFC, 11/13/00, p.A12)
2002 May 9, In Russia a terrorist
bomb killed at least 41 people including 13 children in Kaspiisk,
Dagestan.
(SFC, 5/10/02, p.A1)(WSJ, 5/10/02, p.A1)(SFC,
5/11/02, p.A12)
2002 Aug 12, Arjan Erkel, a Dutch
aid worker for Doctors Without Borders, was kidnapped and beaten in
Dagestan. He was released Easter Sunday in 2005 following a $1 million
ransom.
(WSJ, 9/22/05, p.A1)
2003 Jul 17, In Russia's Dagestan
region a shrapnel-filled bomb exploded near a police station, killing
at least four people and injuring 18 others.
(AP, 7/17/03)
2003 Aug 11, Gunmen killed
Nadirshakh Khachilayev, a former lawmaker, in Makhachkala, capital of
Dagestan. In 1998 his armed supporters were accused of seizing a
Dagestani government building during a violent anti-government raid and
Russia's parliament voted to lift his immunity.
(AP, 8/12/03)
2003 Nov 3, Rasul Gamzatov,
Dagestan poet, died in Moscow. He wrote in Avar, a language spoken by
some 500,000 people in Dagestan. He also wrote the prose work "My
Dagestan."
(SFC, 11/4/03, p.A21)
2003 Dec 15, At least 25 gunmen
crossed from Chechnya into the Russian region of Dagestan, killing at
least 3 border guards and seizing hostages in a remote mountain village.
(AP, 12/15/03)
2003 Dec 16, Chechen rebels, who
fought their way into the neighboring Dagestan region and occupied a
village, released all their hostages and fled, avoiding capture.
(AP, 12/16/03)
2004 Mar 2, Russian authorities
said they have confirmed that a man killed in the Dagestan region a few
days earlier was Ruslan Gelayev, one of the Chechnya's most powerful
rebel warlords.
(AP, 3/2/04)
2005 Jan 15, Gunmen shot and
killed three police officers as authorities stormed a house in
Kaspiisk, a port on the Caspian Sea in the Russian province of
Dagestan. Riot police and other security forces besieged a house in the
provincial capital, Makhachkala, where gunmen were hiding and one
officer was killed.
(AP, 1/16/05)
2005 Feb 16, In southern Russia a
car bomb killed 3 people outside a government building in Dagestan.
(WSJ, 2/17/05, p.A1)
2005 Apr 19, A car exploded in the
southern Russian region of Dagestan, killing two people in what
investigators believe was a botched attempt to kill a local prosecutor.
(AP, 4/19/05)
2005 May 20, A bomb exploded in an
apartment building in southern Russia's Dagestan region, killing the
area's minister for ethnic relations and his bodyguard.
(AP, 5/21/05)
2005 May 31, In Dagestan a police
bus was bombed in Makhachkala and 7 people were killed.
(WSJ, 7/29/05, p.A11)
2005 Jun 25, In Dagestan, Russia,
4 explosions aimed at police vehicles and transportation links,
including one that derailed a cargo train, wounded eight people.
(AP, 6/26/05)
2005 Jun 28, In Dagestan, Russia,
a writer and critic of the Islamist movement was shot to death in
Makhachkala.
(WSJ, 7/29/05, p.A11)
2005 Jul 1, In Dagestan, Russia, a
bomb in Makhachkala killed 10 Russian troops.
(WSJ, 7/29/05, p.A11)
2005 Jul 5, In the southern
Russian region of Dagestan an explosion tore through a police post,
killing at least one officer and wounding 3.
(AP, 7/5/05)
2005 Jul 6, A shootout between
police and gunmen with automatic weapons left a bystander and two of
the gunmen dead in the southern Russian region of Dagestan.
(AP, 7/6/05)
2005 Jul 26, In Dagestan, Russia,
the head of traffic police in Izberbash was killed at a traffic stop.
(WSJ, 7/29/05, p.A11)
2005 Aug 20, A bomb detonated by
remote control killed at least three police officers in the troubled
southern Russian region of Dagestan and wounded several more.
(AP, 8/20/05)
2005 Sep 2, A bomb exploded in a
pile of garbage in the capital of the southern Russian region of
Dagestan, killing a serviceman and wounding five others who had been
searching for explosives.
(AP, 9/2/05)
2005 Nov 2, Police in the troubled
Russian region of Dagestan killed Makhach Mamashev, a militant leader,
and detained eight fighters in an operation near the Chechen border.
(AP, 11/3/05)
2005 Dec 29, A man blew himself up
in what appeared to be an attempted suicide bombing near a mosque in
the Russian province of Dagestan, killing himself and injuring another
person.
(AP, 12/29/05)
2006 Aug 8, A car bomb killed a
prosecutor in Dagestan, Russia, and two police were shot dead as they
arrived on the scene.
(AP, 8/8/06)
2006 Aug 26, In Russia's Dagestan
region police surrounded a home and exchanged gunfire with suspected
militants, killing four and wounding a woman who was with the gunmen.
(AP, 8/27/06)
2006 Nov 26, Abu Khavs, a
Jordanian who commanded foreign mercenaries in Chechnya and was
reportedly al-Qaida's top emissary in the troubled North Caucasus, died
along with 4 other militants in a shootout with police in Dagestan.
(AP, 11/26/06)
2007 Aug 3, About 50 women
occupied a central square in Makhachkala, Dagestan, declaring a hunger
strike and vowing not to leave until authorities tell them what
happened to their missing children. The president of Dagestan, Mukhu
Aliev, admitted last month that 76 people have been kidnapped so far
this year in Dagestan. In six of those cases, the abductors wore
camouflage uniforms similar to those worn by law enforcement officers.
(AP, 8/4/07)
2007 Aug 23, In Dagestan, Russia,
gunmen ambushed security forces, killing three people and wounding 17.
(AP, 8/24/07)
2007 Oct 23,
A bomb courier accidentally blew up a taxi in Russia's Dagestan
region, killing herself and wounding eight other people.
(AP, 10/23/07)
2007 Dec 11, A judge from the top
court in southern Russia's violence-plagued Dagestan region was fatally
shot by an unidentified attacker. Dagestan Supreme Court Justice Kurban
Pashayev was shot more than 10 times with a pistol in the entranceway
of his apartment building in the provincial capital, Makhachkala. In
Ingushetia an 18-year-old rookie in an elite police unit was fatally
shot by attackers who fired at him at close range from a passing car as
he was walking home after work.
(AP, 12/11/07)
2008 Mar 14, Russian forces raided
a forest camp in the volatile North Caucasus province of Dagestan,
leading to a shootout in which six suspected militants, a police
officer and an Interior Ministry servicemen died.
(AP, 3/14/08)
2008 Jun 9, A soldier and a police
officer were killed when unidentified gunmen fired at a train carrying
troops from Chechnya that had pulled in to the town of Khasavyurt in
the republic of Dagestan.
(AP, 6/9/08)
2008 Jun 12, In Dagestan, a
remote-controlled bomb killed a jogger in a park in the capital,
Makhachkala. A passerby was injured and taken to hospital. Police said
the explosive device was packed with shrapnel.
(Reuters, 6/13/08)
2008 Jun 28, Police in Russia’s
Dagestan province killed three suspected militants, including a woman.
(AP, 6/29/08)
2008 Jul 5, Dagestan's Interior
Ministry says three policemen were wounded when a bomb went off near
their vehicle in the town of Khasavyurt.
(AP, 7/5/08)
2008 Sep 2, In Russia's troubled
North Caucasus journalist Telman Alishaev was shot in Dagestan. Islamic
TV reporter Telman Alishaev died at a hospital in Makhachkala the next
day. Journalist Miloslav Bitokov was left with a fractured skull after
a beating in Nalchik, Kabardino-Balkariya. Police and co-workers said
the two men were likely targeted for their work.
(AP, 9/3/08)
2008 Sep 4, Russian troops killed
5 suspected Muslim rebels in Dagestan.
(WSJ, 9/5/08, p.A1)
2008 Sep 3, In Dagestan journalist
Abdullah Alishayev died one day after he was attacked by armed gunmen.
(http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/09/03/russia.journalist/index.html)
2009 Mar 21, In Dagestan 3 days of
intense fighting between police and insurgents in a wooded area ended
with five officers and about a dozen militants left dead.
(AP, 3/22/09)
2009 Jun 9, Russia’s Pres.
Medvedev visited Dagestan. He went to police bases and reviewed troops,
lavishly covered by state-controlled TV. Medvedev blamed what he called
foreign "freaks" for inciting the violence. Hours after Medvedev left
Dagestan, a riot police officer was shot and killed as he headed home
after work not far from a base where Medvedev had watched
counterterrorism exercises. In another part of the Dagestan capital, a
road police officer was killed after trying to stop a car to check
documents.
(AP, 6/10/09)
2009 Jun 10, In southern Dagestan
a group of 10 gunmen attacked a police post with automatic weapons and
mortars, battling police troops for more than an hour. The gunmen later
escaped into the forested mountains.
(AP, 6/10/09)
2009 Jun 27, In Dagestan Interior
Ministry troops patrolling a village south of Makhachkala clashed with
a group of 10 gunmen who tried to hole up in village houses, but were
driven into surrounding hillsides. A police officer was killed.
Officials then called in helicopter gunships and armored vehicles to
shell the forests where the gunmen hid out. Troops sweeping the forest
the next morning found the bodies of four gunmen.
(AP, 6/28/09)
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