Guerrilla phase of the Second Chechen War (2007)
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January
- January 11 - Security forces killed three alleged guerrillas in an apartment block in the DagestanDagestanThe Republic of Dagestan is a federal subject of Russia, located in the North Caucasus region. Its capital and the largest city is Makhachkala, located at the center of Dagestan on the Caspian Sea...
i capital of MakhachkalaMakhachkala-Twin towns/sister cities:Makhachkala is twinned with: Sfax, Tunisia Siping, China Spokane, United States Vladikavkaz, Russia Yalova, Turkey Ndola, Zambia-See also:*...
.http://www.watchdog.cz/index.php?show=000000-000005-000001-000179-000043&lang=1
- January 29 - Four reconnaissance unit soldiers from the battalion Vostok and one guerrilla were killed after a gunbattle in a forest near the city of GudermesGudermesGudermes is a town in the Chechen Republic, Russia, located on the Sunzha River east of Grozny. Population: 32,000 .Gudermes had a rural locality status until 1941. Later, it became a railroad junction between Rostov-on-Don, Baku, Astrakhan, and Mozdok. Gudermes is home for oil extraction...
; the guerrilla who lost his life reportedly blew himself up to evade capture. A further two Russians were killed when they came under attack in the ShatoyShatoyShatoy or Shatoi is a village in the Chechen Republic, Russia. It is the administrative center of Shatoysky District. Population: 1,771 . It is the home village of underground rebel President Doku Umarov. Geographical location: ....
region, high in the CaucasusCaucasusThe Caucasus, also Caucas or Caucasia , is a geopolitical region at the border of Europe and Asia, and situated between the Black and the Caspian sea...
mountains.
February
- February 2 - Chechen police killed four militants in a security operation in Kurchaloy, ChechnyaChechnyaThe Chechen Republic , commonly referred to as Chechnya , also spelled Chechnia or Chechenia, sometimes referred to as Ichkeria , is a federal subject of Russia . It is located in the southeastern part of Europe in the Northern Caucasus mountains. The capital of the republic is the city of Grozny...
Interior MinisterInterior ministerAn interior ministry is a government ministry typically responsible for policing, national security, and immigration matters. The ministry is often headed by a minister of the interior or minister of home affairs...
Ruslan Alkhanov said. He said three militants were killed in the clash and that another was wounded before blowing himself up with a hand grenade.
- February 3 - Two guerrillas, including a woman, were killed in a security operation in the town of MalgobekMalgobekMalgobek is a town in the Republic of Ingushetia, Russia, located northwest of the republic's capital Magas. Population: Malgobek was founded in 1935 as a settlement for workers at then recently discovered oilfields, on the territory of former Ingush villages of Malgobek-Balka and Chechen-Balka...
, IngushetiaIngushetiaThe Republic of Ingushetia is a federal subject of Russia , located in the North Caucasus region with its capital at Magas. In terms of area, the republic is the smallest of Russia's federal subjects except for the two federal cities, Moscow and Saint Petersburg...
. Two policemen were killed during an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Dagestani Interior Minister Adilgerei MagomedtagirovAdilgerei MagomedtagirovAdilgerei Magomedtagirov was a Russian politician and general, who served as the Interior Minister of Dagestan, a Russian Republic....
in Makhachkala; another policemen was shot dead in the same city earlier that day.http://www.watchdog.cz/index.php?show=000000-000005-000001-000179-000044&lang=1
- February 7 - Mairbek Murdagaliyev, deputy head of the Vedensky District administration, was killed in a blast of an explosive device planted at the door of his house.http://www.watchdog.cz/index.php?show=000000-000005-000001-000179-000044&lang=1
- February 13 - Four rebels and two policemen were killed in the village of Ishkoi-Yurt, eastern Chechnya. The rebels were said to be hiding out in a deserted house when they were located and killed by the security forces.
- February 23 - Five policemen were killed and two wounded by a blast during a mine disposal operation in the east Chechen village of Oyskhara.http://www.watchdog.cz/index.php?show=000000-000005-000001-000179-000044&lang=1
- February 24 - Three guerrillas were killed in Dagestan's Kizlyarsky DistrictKizlyarsky DistrictKizlyarsky District is an administrative and a municipal district , one of the forty-one in the Republic of Dagestan, Russia. Its administrative center is the town of Kizlyar . District's population: 57,748 ;...
. The owner of the house where the guerrillas hid was also killed.http://www.watchdog.cz/index.php?show=000000-000005-000001-000179-000044&lang=1
March
- March 19 - Chechen president Ramzan KadyrovRamzan KadyrovRamzan Akhmadovich Kadyrov is the President of Chechnya and a former Chechen rebel.Ramzan is a son of former Chechen President Akhmad Kadyrov, assassinated in May 2004. In February 2007 Kadyrov replaced Alu Alkhanov as President, shortly after he had turned 30, which is the minimum age for the post...
vowed to put an end to all remaining guerrilla activity in Chechnya within two months.
- March 21 - Tahir Batayev, a Kumyk-Chechen commander of the northeastern front of the Chechen resistance forces, was killed in a shoot-out in Gudermes with federal forces.http://groups.msn.com/JusticeForNorthCaucasus/chechnya.msnw?action=get_message&mview=0&ID_Message=9550&LastModified=4675617822996671185
- March 23 - Four guerrillas have been killed in a clash with federal troops near the village of Tazen-Kale in Chechnya's Vedensky District.http://www.watchdog.cz/?show=000000-000005-000001-000179-000045&lang=1
- March 24 - Soldiers from a reconnaissance sub-unit of the Internal Troops of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs under command of Lieutenant Colonel Alexei Korgun opened fire on three women-local residents who were gathering ramson in a large forest near Urdyukhoi village, Shatoi District. Later, the militaries declared that they had opened fire as took the women for militants. As a result of the shelling, Khaldat Mutakova, a teacher of the local school, was shot dead, and her sister Zalpa Mutakova and Zaira Kasumova were heavily wounded. The latter became invalid from the caused injury. In 2008 the Grozny Garrison Military Court sentenced Alexei Korgun, Lieutenant Colonel of Internal Troops of the Russian MIA, guilty of the death of a woman-resident of the Shatoy District of Chechnya, to three years of conditional imprisonment.
- March 25 - Rebels published a video of an APC attack near the village of Dargo (Vedensky District) in which they say four soldiers were killed.http://www.alkavkaz.com/haber_detay.php?haber_id=165 One soldier died and three were wounded by a roadside bomb outside Gekhi-Chu, Urus-Martan District.
- March 27 - A resident by the name of Radik Bapinaev was shot dead by police forces at an attempt to detain him. Officials asserted that the resident was guilty of crimes and refused to release the body to his relatives. His mother has since been campaigning to stop the criminal prosecution of her son which she calls unjustified, and to release his body to her.
April
- April 5 - Kadyrov government forces killed a top Chechen rebel commander Amir Khayrullah (Suleiman Imurzayev) suspected of assassinating President Akhmad KadyrovAkhmad KadyrovHajji Akhmad Abdulkhamidovich Kadyrov , also spelled Akhmat, was the Chief Mufti of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria in the 1990s during and after the First Chechen War...
. Khayrullah was named a rebel vice-premier on March 7, 2007.http://www.caucasuslive.org/eng/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=82&Itemid=2
- April 12 - Rebel sources claimed a victory in the several days of heavy fighting near the village of Bas-Gordali (Nozhai-Yurt district) and reported killing dozens of pro-Moscow Chechen soldiers and militiamen including three commanders. The website of Nezavisimaya GazetaNezavisimaya GazetaNezavisimaya Gazeta is a Russian daily newspaper. Published since December 21, 1990.Information ranging from a wide variety of sources, such as reporters, political scientists, historians, art historians, as well as critics are published in the newspaper...
reported four days earlier that two Interior Ministry servicemen, including a commander of the elite Sever (North) battalion, were killed in the area.
- April 19 - Six Russian policemen from KareliaKareliaKarelia , the land of the Karelian peoples, is an area in Northern Europe of historical significance for Finland, Russia, and Sweden...
were injured during a night attack on a checkpoint on the outskirts of the Chechen capital GroznyGroznyGrozny is the capital city of the Chechen Republic, Russia. The city lies on the Sunzha River. According to the preliminary results of the 2010 Census, the city had a population of 271,596; up from 210,720 recorded in the 2002 Census. but still only about two-thirds of 399,688 recorded in the 1989...
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- April 27 - Russian military Mi-8 helicopter with infantry was reported to be downed2007 Shatoy Mi-8 crash2007 Shatoy Mi-8 crash crash happened on April 27, 2007, when a Russian military Mil Mi-8 helicopter carrying special forces and officers crashed in southern Chechen mountains, killing all 20 people aboard....
by automatic rifle fire in Chechnya, killing all 20 people abroad, among them 15 SpetsnazSpetsnazSpetsnaz, Specnaz tr: Voyska specialnogo naznacheniya; ) is an umbrella term for any special forces in Russian, literally "force of special purpose"...
GRUGRUGRU or Glavnoye Razvedyvatel'noye Upravleniye is the foreign military intelligence directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation...
commandos and two army officers. It was one of three helicopters carrying special forces troops sent to reinforce the federal task force fighting the rebels near the village of Shatoy where at least three rebels and five federal troops died.
May
- May 7 - A Russian spokesman said three policemen and three militants were killed in a clash in Vedensky District, while four other servicemen were wounded. A police patrol commander was shot dead in Shalinsky DistrictShalinsky District, Chechen RepublicShalinsky District is an administrative and municipal district , one of the fifteen in the Chechen Republic, Russia. Its administrative center is the town of Shali...
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- May 14 - Police said three militants were killed and three police commandos injured in a fierce firefight on Sheikh MansurSheikh MansurSheikh al-Mansur was a Chechen leader who led the resistance against Catherine the Great's imperialist expansion into the Caucasus during the late 18th century. He remains a legendary national hero of the Chechen people....
Street in KhasavyurtKhasavyurtKhasavyurt is a city in the Republic of Dagestan, Russia. Population: It was founded in 1846 and granted town status in 1931. The main local industries are food processing, brick making and garment making....
, Dagestan.http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=11523089&PageNum=0
June
- June 2 - Three suspected Chechen rebels and two policemen were killed in clashes in the forest in Dagestan near the border with Chechnya, officials said.
- June 15 - Magomedali Aliyev, head of the of Untsukulsky DistrictUntsukulsky DistrictUntsukulsky District is an administrative and a municipal district , one of the forty-one in the Republic of Dagestan, Russia. The area of the district is . Its administrative center is the rural locality of Untsukul. District's population: 27,460 ; Population of Untsukul accounts for 20.1% of...
police department, was killed in Dagestan.
- June 19 - At least three policemen were wounded in the attack on the special-task force base in KarabulakKarabulak, Republic of IngushetiaKarabulak is a town in the Republic of Ingushetia, Russia, located on the Sunzha River , north of the republic's capital Magas. Population: The Cossack stanitsa of Karabulakskaya was founded in the 19th century...
, Ingushetia.
- June 21 - A gun battle between police forces and a Defense Ministry unit in Grozny left several people dead and wounded among the local policemen and soldiers. Later reports said five soldiers of the battalion Zapad were killed and three policemen wounded http://www.watchdog.cz/index.php?show=000000-000005-000004-000148&lang=1 in the incident involving up to 200 armed soldiers and police officers.http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070620/ap_on_re_eu/russia_chechnya Several policemen were wounded in a rebel attack on OMONOMONOMOH is a generic name for the system of special units of militsiya within the Russian and earlier the Soviet MVD...
base in Karabulak, Ingushetia.http://www.watchdog.cz/index.php?show=000000-000005-000001-000179-000048&lang=1
July
- July 1 - A mine detonation killed two Russian soldiers and wounded two others in Vedensky District of Chechnya.http://www.spa.gov.sa/English/details.php?id=463793 A drive-by attack on a truck carrying Russian soldiers in Shalinsky District killed one soldier and wounded two others and a civilian passerby.
- July 6 - Several dozen of rebels in Russia's North Caucasus region used firearms and grenade launchers to attack a Russian military base in Ingushetia. The number of casualties was disputed.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19631164/
- July 8 - Suspected rebel commander Yunus Akhmadov killed Saipudi Lorsanov, a senior police officer, and was himself killed by the police during a shootout in Grozny. An ambushAmbushAn ambush is a long-established military tactic, in which the aggressors take advantage of concealment and the element of surprise to attack an unsuspecting enemy from concealed positions, such as among dense underbrush or behind hilltops...
elsewhere in Chechnya left one Russian combat engineer dead and another one injured, while a police officer was injured in a car bombing in Kabardino-BalkariaKabardino-BalkariaThe Kabardino-Balkar Republic , or Kabardino-Balkaria , is a federal subject of Russia located in the North Caucasus. Population: -Geography:The republic is situated in the North Caucasus mountains, with plains in the northern part....
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- July 10 - Three Russian soldiers were killed and five others wounded in an ambush on a sapper convoy in southeastern Chechnya; among the casualties were three unit commanders. In another incident, 11 members of OMON from Samara OblastSamara OblastSamara Oblast is a federal subject of Russia . Its administrative center is the city of Samara. Population: In 1936–1990, it was known as Kuybyshev Oblast , after the Soviet name of Samara .-Demographics:Population:...
were injured in a road accident in Chechnya. On the same day, Ramzan Kadyrov declared in his first State of the Nation addressState of the Nation (Russia)The State of the Nation is a speech given by the Russian President to outline the state and condition in which Russia is in. It is given in front of the Russian Duma and Federation Council....
that the hostilities in Chechnya had "finally and irreversibly" ended; however, all Russian interior ministry units in Chechnya had been put on an increased state of alert.
- July 18 - A bomb blast in Dagestan killed four policemen and wounded up to eight during their morning physical exercises in the town of KizilyurtKizilyurtKizilyurt is a town in the Republic of Dagestan, Russia, located on the Sulak River, northwest of Makhachkala. Population: It was founded in 1963 by merging the work settlements of Kizilyurt, Bavtugay , and Sulak ....
. In Chechnya, a drunken Russian soldier shot dead his commanding officer and wounded three other soldiers and then himself. A bomb targeting a funeral procession of an ethnic Russian woman shot dead in Ingusehtia wounded at least 10 people, including four police officers.http://news.aol.com/story/_a/bomb-in-southern-russia-wounds-10/n20070718154509990012?ecid=RSS0001
- July 19 - Two policemen and were killed and two wounded during a gun attack on a police outpost near the village of Assinovskaya, Chechnya. Two militants were killed and six police officers wounded in a clash in Kurchaloi District of the republic.
- July 21 - Gunmen in Karabulak, Ingushetia, killed Vakha Vedzizhev, a well-known figure in the republic and an adviser to Ingushetia's president on religious matters.
- July 23 - Separatist website announced the death from wounds of the rebel commander identified as Amir Muslim. In Chechnya, at least 11 police officers and one soldier have been wounded in clashes and explosions, including five injured in an attack in Grozny, while one federal soldier was killed and one wounded in another skirmish near the village of Tazen-Kala, Interior Ministry said. In Ingushetia, one police officer was killed and one wounded when gunmen opened fire on their patrol vehicle, while a police major was fatally shot in Kabardino-Balkaria.
- July 26 - At least two people, including Khura-Magomed Ramazanov, a senior IslamIslamIslam . The most common are and . : Arabic pronunciation varies regionally. The first vowel ranges from ~~. The second vowel ranges from ~~~...
ic cleric in Dagestan, were killed by a radio-controlled bomb in Makhachkala. A massive security sweep operation was launched in Ingushetia,http://news.uk.msn.com/Article.aspx?cp-documentid=5683034 sparked by another assassination attempt on President Zyazikov. In the next few days hundreds of men have been rounded up in the sweeps, while several security officers were killed and wounded in the continued attacks in Ingushetia. Moscow sent in an additional 2,500 MVD troops, almost tripling the number of special forces in Ingushetia.http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070829/wl_nm/russia_ingushetia_dc
August
- August 3 - Five militants, one soldier, and the deputy chief of police in the city of Buinaksk were killed in Dagestan. Kadyrov announced "with all responsibility" that there will be no militants left in Chechnya by the end of 2007.
- August 8 - Two MVD servicemen were killed in a silenced sniper rifle attack in Grozny.
- August 23 - Two elite policemen and one soldier were killed and 17 troops wounded in two ambushes in Ingushetia and Dagestan, officials said. Two policemen and a Chechen gunman armed with a pistol were killed in a shootout in Grozny.http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/08/24/ap/world/main3200277.shtml
- August 30 - Two border troops were killed by gunmen near NazranNazranNazran is a town in the Republic of Ingushetia, Russia. It served as the republic's capital in 1991–2000, until the town of Magas was specially built as the new capital. Nazran is the largest city of the republic: -General:...
, Ingushetia, while a soldier was wounded in an attack on a convoy in Chechnya. A teenage suspected militant and three ethnic Russian civilians were shot dead in two separate incidents in Nazran.
- August 31 - Four policemen died and three to five other people were injured in the explosion of a car bomb in the center of Nazran.
September
- September 1 - Six pro-Russian Chechen troops were reported killed in the ambush near the mountain village of Sharo-Argun.
- September 2 - A violent confrontation between the FSB and the local police took place in Karabulak in Ingushetia after a suspected militant was killed by the federal agents.
- September 4 - Insurgent raid on a settlement of Glukhoi in Chechnya killed one and wounded four policemen, Interior Ministry spokesman said.http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=11839237&PageNum=0
- September 5 - The FSB said two armed men, including a militant leader, were killed by its patrol while trying to cross the border to Karachayevo-Cherkessia from GeorgiaGeorgia (country)Georgia is a sovereign state in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the southwest by Turkey, to the south by Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. The capital of...
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- September 6 - Two OMON policemen from the republic of Buryatia were shot and killed in the Chechen village of Alpatovo, Itar-Tass reported.http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=11846299
- September 8 - Alleged rebel commander Musa Mutiyev has been "liquidated" in Grozny, Chechen Interior Minister said. Two warrant officers were wounded in an attack on an army truck in Dagestan.
- September 9 - One serviceman died and two were wounded in an attack on Interior Ministry base in Malgobek, Ingushetia; two of the attackers were also killed, officials said. A local GRU serviceman and a militant suspect were killed on the outskirts of the village of Pervomayskoye in the Groznensky DistrictGroznensky DistrictGroznensky District is an administrative and municipal district , one of the fifteen in the Chechen Republic, Russia. Its administrative center is the city of Grozny . District's population: 126,940 ;...
of Chechnya.
- September 12 - Three servicemen were killed and two were wounded in an two clashes in Chechnya; one rebel fighter also died. Another soldier was wounded by a boobytrap while on reconnaissance mission.
- September 18 - Dagestani insurgent leader Rappani KhalilovRappani KhalilovRappani Khalilov , also known as Rabbani, was the militant leader of the Shariat Jamaat of the Caucasian Front during the Second Chechen War, in the volatile southern Russian republic of Dagestan...
and his deputy Nabi Nabiyev were surroundered and killed in Dagestan; at least two policemen were wounded in the overnight battle. MajorMajorMajor is a rank of commissioned officer, with corresponding ranks existing in almost every military in the world.When used unhyphenated, in conjunction with no other indicator of rank, the term refers to the rank just senior to that of an Army captain and just below the rank of lieutenant colonel. ...
Androkhman Meiriyev, chief investigatorDetectiveA detective is an investigator, either a member of a police agency or a private person. The latter may be known as private investigators or "private eyes"...
of western Ingushetia, was shot dead in the village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya.
- September 20 - Two OMON troopers from Rostov OblastRostov OblastRostov Oblast is a federal subject of Russia , located in the Southern Federal District. Rostov Oblast has an area of and a population of making it the sixth most populous federal subject in Russia...
were killed and two wounded http://www.watchdog.cz/?show=000000-000005-000001-000179-000051&lang=1 in a gun attack on a Lada NivaLada NivaThe Lada Niva or VAZ-2121 is the Russian word for "crop field") is an off-road vehicle built by Soviet/Russian automaker AvtoVAZ. The car is very popular in its home country. It is also popular in Canada , South America, Europe, and other regions where the terrain requires a robust and tough car...
police vehicle in Nazran. Also in Ingushetia, a UralUral Automotive PlantThe Ural Automotive Plant is a major manufacturer of heavy-duty trucks in Russia. It was established in 1941, when the ZiS factory was evacuated from Moscow during the World War II, and is now part of the GAZ group.-External links:* on GAZ website...
truck was shot at on the Kavkaz highway near the village of Yandare, wounding two servicemen. In Dagestan, Omar Sheikhullayev and Ismail Akhmedov, two Dagestani militant leaders, and a Russian special forces officer were killed in the battle, police said.
- September 29 - Kavkaz CenterKavkaz CenterThe Kavkaz Center is a privately run website by pro-Chechen which aims to be "a Chechen internet agency which is independent, international and Islamic" that "does not represent the viewpoint of any state structures"...
claimed 7 soldiers were killed during an ambush in Tazen-Gala under the command of Amir Aslambek. They released a video of the operation which circulates on the internet. According to the Jamestown Foundation those who were ambushed were men of the Sever SpetsnazSpetsnazSpetsnaz, Specnaz tr: Voyska specialnogo naznacheniya; ) is an umbrella term for any special forces in Russian, literally "force of special purpose"...
unit, which is composed of KadyrovtsyKadyrovtsyKadyrovtsy also Kadyrovites, is a term used by the population of Chechnya, as well as members of the groups themselves, for former members of the paramilitary units of the former pro-Moscow President of the Chechen Republic Akhmad Kadyrov, headed by his son and the current President Ramzan...
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October
- October 5 - Fifteen men from Chechnya's Oil Regiment (KadyrovtsyKadyrovtsyKadyrovtsy also Kadyrovites, is a term used by the population of Chechnya, as well as members of the groups themselves, for former members of the paramilitary units of the former pro-Moscow President of the Chechen Republic Akhmad Kadyrov, headed by his son and the current President Ramzan...
) were reportedly killed in fighting in the Shatoysky District.
- October 7 - At least four local troops killed and 16 hospitalized in the 2007 Zhani-Vedeno ambush2007 Zhani-Vedeno ambushIn the 2007 Vedeno ambush at least four local Russian troops were killed and 10 to 16 hospitalized when a convoy of vehicles carrying Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs soldiers and policemen was ambushed in the volatile Vedeno region of Chechnya...
. One militant died during the ambush.
- October 9 - Special forces killed two rebels and arrested another during a house siege in Makhachkala, Dagestan, the Interior Ministry said. Two militants and an Interior Troops officer were killed and another five soldiers and one fighter were wounded in three incidents in Chechnya, local law enforcements officials said. In Ingushetia gunmen opened fire on two policemen who stopped their car in Nazran, killing both.
- October 18 - Gunmen opened fire at a police car in MagasMagasMagas is the capital of the Republic of Ingushetia, Russia. The town was founded in 1995; it replaced Nazran as the capital of the republic in 2002. In terms of population, Magas is the smallest capital of a federal subject in Russia: -History:...
, capital of Ingushetia, killing four federal police officers, authorities said.
- October 21 - Two rebels were killed in the Urus Martan region of Chechnya, the Russian Interior Ministry said Monday. Rebel sources said the killed were the commander of the Shatoi sector,(Ramzan Saluyev), killed by a sniper bullet, and his assistant, who blew up himself 45 minutes later. Rebels claimed the assistant killed two Soldiers until his ammunition ran out.
November
- November 4 - The bodies of 9 hunters and huntsmen were found executed in the woods of Kabardino-BalkariaKabardino-BalkariaThe Kabardino-Balkar Republic , or Kabardino-Balkaria , is a federal subject of Russia located in the North Caucasus. Population: -Geography:The republic is situated in the North Caucasus mountains, with plains in the northern part....
. The victims were deprived of their rifles, mobile phones and hunting knives. According to the FSB, the Yarmuk JamaatYarmuk JamaatYarmuk Jamaat is a militant Islamist jamaat organization connected to numerous attacks against the local and federal security forces in Russian republic of Kabardino-Balkaria in the North Caucasus...
was responsible for the killings. According to Valery Ustov, head of the Investigatory Committee (IC) of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), the killers could have taken the hunters for militiamen, since they were dressed in camouflage. Kavkaz CenterKavkaz CenterThe Kavkaz Center is a privately run website by pro-Chechen which aims to be "a Chechen internet agency which is independent, international and Islamic" that "does not represent the viewpoint of any state structures"...
published an interview of a leader of the Jamaat named "Amir Salih" who claimed the Jamaat was responsible for the killings and claimed the hunters and huntsmen were Russians related to the FSB and MVD.
- November 9 - A six-year-old boy was killed by security forces in IngushetiaIngushetiaThe Republic of Ingushetia is a federal subject of Russia , located in the North Caucasus region with its capital at Magas. In terms of area, the republic is the smallest of Russia's federal subjects except for the two federal cities, Moscow and Saint Petersburg...
inside a house in the village of Chemulga. According officials the boy, Rakhim Amriev, was accidentally shot during a special operation targeting a suspected militant who had allegedly taken refuge in the home of his father Ramzan Amriev. The parents and relatives of Rakhim Amriev said they were convinced that the six-year-old boy was killed by a deliberate gunshot to the head and not because of a ricocheting bullet. KommersantKommersantKommersant is a commerce-oriented newspaper published in Russia. , the circulation was 131,000.- History :The newspaper was initially published in 1909, and it was closed down following the Bolshevik seizure of power and the introduction of censorship in 1917.In 1989, with the onset of press...
reported on November 12 that the republic’s law-enforcement structures in fact had no claims against Ramzan Amriev and had raided his house on November 9 in order to detain a certain "Makhauri" who was on the republic’s wanted list for allegedly being a rebel. Ramzan Amriev told Kommersant: "Makhauri is our distant relative, but he lives in the village of Assinovskaya and has never stayed with us." Amriev said he believed someone slandered his family and that the federal security forces targeted his home without verifying the accusation.
- November 12 - Russian troops supported by armoured vehicles stormed a house in Makhachkala, killing 7 militants, including two women, police said. Meanwhile, police stormed an apartment building in another part of the city.
- November 15 - The head of the local transportation police has been killed in Ingushetia, while another police officer was killed in Dagestan. Two policemen from the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous OkrugKhanty-Mansi Autonomous OkrugKhanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug , also known as Yugra, is a federal subject of Russia . Population: The people native to the region are the Khanty and the Mansi, known collectively as Ob Ugric people...
were injured in an attack on their car in Chechnya.
December
- December 16 - Four Chechen fighters, including a woman, and one policeman were killed in a clash during a sweep operation in Grozny; three other policemen were wounded (according to Kavkaz CenterKavkaz CenterThe Kavkaz Center is a privately run website by pro-Chechen which aims to be "a Chechen internet agency which is independent, international and Islamic" that "does not represent the viewpoint of any state structures"...
, eight to 12 Chechen police were killed).
- December 27 - Several militants ambushed a border guards' vehicle, killing two officers and wounding two other servicemen, the Ingush Interior Ministry said. Unidentified gunmen shot and killed a local police officer in Grozny, the Chechen Interior Ministry said.
Overall
- 2007 - In November a newspaper published that at Least 150 Servicemen and Police were killed so far in Chechnya (excluding other republics) According to Ruslan Alkhanov, Interior Minister of Chechnya, 82 policemen died in 2007 during their service in Chechnya, with a large increase in the last two months. The Defense Ministry of Russia reported 442 servicemen died in the armed forces in 2007, including 180 deaths because of accidents and 224 suicides. 54 soldiers and officers died in Chechnya. Alkhanov also claimed 72 rebels were killed in Chechnya, 32 were arrested and 139 had surrendered. A total of 192 militants and armed rebels were killed and more than 700 arrested in operations in Russia's North Caucasus last year, a deputy interior minister Arkady Yedelev reported.