It was the biggest terror act outside Russia's troubled North Caucasus region since 2004.
The Republic of Karachay-Cherkessia lies in the northwest of Russia's troubled North Caucasus region.
But without dispensing something, it may end up losing the whole North Caucasus region, pipeline and all.
Imarat Kavkaz is the most potent militant Islamist group in the north Caucasus region, which includes Chechnya and Dagestan.
Attackers have shot dead an imam and two of his male relations, as they drove to a mosque in the Russian North Caucasus region of Dagestan.
The Tsarnaev brothers, ethnic Chechens, lived in Kyrgyzstan and Dagestan in Russia's volatile North Caucasus region, where Islamic insurgency has taken hold in a fight for independence.
In recent years, however, the terror attacks have largely been confined to the North Caucasus region, rarely spilling into the rest of Russia, including the Sochi area.
In the years since, a radical Muslim insurgency has spread from Chechnya across the entire North Caucasus region, and militant attacks have become a frequent occurrence in Ingushetia.
Nevertheless, many are wondering why this young man seemingly dropped off the FBI's radar in the years since, particularly after his six-month trip to Russia's unstable North Caucasus region.
Nevertheless, many are wondering why this young man seemingly dropped off the FBI's radar in the years since -- particularly after his six-month trip to Russia's unstable North Caucasus region.
Dagestan is one of seven small republics within the Russian Federation that together comprise Russia's North Caucasus region, a predominantly Muslim area which itself is wedged between the Caspian and Black Seas.
But the trend is clear: violence once confined to Chechnya, where in the past ten years Russia has fought two grisly wars against separatism, has spread across the entire north Caucasus region.
Desperate to regain a semblance of control over the north Caucasus, the Kremlin recently appointed Alexander Khloponin, an ambitious former businessman and governor of a Siberian region, as an envoy to the newly formed administrative district of the north Caucasus.
Although it has not experienced the levels of violence seen elsewhere in the North Caucasus, the republic lives in the shadow of the troubles which have plagued the region.
Resentment over the lavish subsidies paid to Chechnya and other regions in the mostly Muslim North Caucasus to secure loyalty after the war has spawned a movement dedicated to cutting the region off financially.
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