Rebels attack strategic points in Russia's Caucasus

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Source: Kyiv Post Independant

Suspected armed militants simultaneously attacked several strategic points in Russia's North Caucasus region of Kabardino-Balkaria on Friday, killing no one, news agencies reported.

Using a grenade launcher, rebels took aim at the regional headquarters of the federal security services, the FSB, set off an explosion at a hotel and opened fire on two police checkpoints in the provincial capital Nalchik, state-run Itar-TASS said, citing a law enforcement source.

Interfax news agency said four traffic police points had also been fired upon.

The attacks are the latest blow to Kremlin efforts to contain a swelling Islamist insurgency in its mainly Muslim North Caucasus, a decade after federal forces threw separatists out of power in the second separatist war in Chechnya.





Read more: http://www.kyivpost.com/news/russia/detail/98414/

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Publication is Kyiv post Ind. but source is Reuters

Another: Itar-Tass

Seems to be heating up again in Chechnya. Spring offensive time all over the northern hemisphere I guess.

[DeSwiss]

1. Revolution is in the air. K&R - n/t

[David__77]

2. Russia could easily dissolve as a nation-state.

It is an agglomeration of different nations.