During the week from January 30 to February 5, 2012, four persons fell victim to armed conflict in Northern Caucasus

At least two persons were killed and two more injured during the period from January 30 to February 5 in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. These are the results of calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot", based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

Over the past week two law enforcers were killed - both in Kabardino-Balkaria. One suspected militant and one civilian were injured - both in Kabardino-Balkaria. At least 14 people were detained, five - in Dagestan and North Ossetia each and four in Chechnya.

Attacks on law enforcers

On February 4 in Nalchik, unidentified persons opened automatic fire at the car of the inspector of the second division of the Investigatory Department for Kabardino-Balkaria of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF). The Lieutenant of Justice Kantemir Kyarov, 23, died on the spot. A criminal case was opened under Articles 295 (attempt on life of the person conducting preliminary investigation) and 222 (illegal weapon circulation) of the Russian Criminal Code.

According to investigators, Kyarov's assassination had to do with his professional activities: he worked for the division engaged in investigating criminal cases related to attempts on law enforcers and militaries.

Attacks on civilians

In Kabardino-Balkaria, Antemirkan Kanokov, the head of the Urvan District and the cousin of the President of the Republic Arsen Kanokov, was wounded during a shelling. The incident occurred on the road between the village of Shitkhala and the district centre Nartkala. Unidentified persons opened fire at the Mercedes car with the head of the district and the accompanying law enforcer - the district policeman of the Russian MIA for the Urvan District Aslanbek Kuashev, - who were on the way to the district administration. Antemirkan Kanokov received two heavy wounds and was hospitalized; the law enforcer died on the spot. A criminal case was initiated under Articles 317 (attempt on the life of a law enforcer) and 222 (illegal circulation of weapons), and Part 3, Article 30 (attempt on committing a crime), and Part 2, Article 105 (attempt on murder), of the Russian Criminal Code.

According to law enforcers, one of the militants was wounded in the attack. The attackers on Andemirkan Kanokov shot at least 89 rounds from automatic firearms of 5.45 and 7.62 mm calibres. The attackers stole the policeman's service Makarov pistol; he managed to jump out of the car and open fire on the attackers. In this regard, the above three articles of the Criminal Code, under which the criminal case was opened, were complemented by two more - Articles 226 (theft of weapons) and 167 (intentional destruction of or damage to one's property).

In the evening on January 31, in Dagestan, an attempt was committed on Zalimkhan Kocherov, First Deputy Chair of the National Council of the Nogai People. This was reported by Fazil Cherkesov, a resident of the village of Terekli-Mekteb, Nogai District. As a result of the shooting, nobody was hurt.

Special operations

After a combat clash, starting February 2, a special operation was undertaken in the large woodland to the east of Chechnya, near the administrative border with the Dagestan's Kazbek District. It was conducted by special units of the Chechen MIA and Internal Troops of the Russian MIA, jointly with law enforcers of the MIA of with the aim to find a grouping of militants of some 4-5 estimated members. The operation gave no results - power agents did not rule out that that the blocked militants could break out of the cordon.

Detentions

The police detained in Grozny a 20-year-old Muscovite, who, according to her story, planned to be trained as suicide bomber and subsequently commit a terror act in Moscow.

Three residents of Chechnya - two women and a man - were detained on February 2 in the mountainous Vedeno District of the republic and Grozny on suspicion of helping participants of illegal armed formations (IAFs). Two of them are residents of the Vedeno District. They confessed that in 2006 and 2008 they provided foodstuffs to the members of one IAF that operated in their district. In Grozny, a 34-year-old local woman was detained, who also admitted that a few years ago she was an accomplice to IAFs.

On February 3 at the village of Gimry, Untsukul District of Dagestan, law enforcers detained - in the course of operative-search actions - three local residents, who were later beaten, said Shamil Magomedov, a resident of this village. On the same day they were released.

In the Khasavyurt District of Dagestan, a 52-year-old resident of the village of Mutsalaul was detained under a suspicion of a knowingly false report about a terror act. On January 28, she said on telephone that an explosive device had been planted in the building of the Tsumadin central hospital. The woman confessed of the offence.

Power agents of North Ossetia found, acting jointly with a mobile squad of the Russian MIA, a large caches of weapons and ammunition in a village of the Prigorodny District of the republic, and detained its owner. The cache contained two Kalashnikovs, a Dragunov sniper rifle, two hunting rifles, a large-calibre tank machine gun, 53 grenades, two silencers and more than 10,000 various-calibre rounds of ammunition.

A law enforcer and three residents of Ingushetia were detained in North Ossetia in an attempt to sell arms. In the course of checking operative information about involvement of a resident of the village of Chermen, North Ossetia-Alania, a law enforcer of the Republic of Ingushetia, in illegal trafficking of firearms and ammunition, police operatives detained, acting jointly with the Russian FSB Department for North Ossetia-Alania, a 42-year-old citizen at an attempt to sell three machine guns, three pistols, two silencers and ammunition for six thousand US dollars. Apart from the main suspect, four other figurants were identified and arrested; three of whom were residents of the Republic of Ingushetia. Nine Kalashnikovs, 16 pistols of different models, four of them with silencers and more than 4000 rounds of ammunition were taken away from them.

In Dagestan, policemen detained a 30-year-old resident of the village of Orta-Tyube, Nogai District, who on January 31 shelled a house in the district.

Statements about disappearances

An application about kidnapping of her son Sirazhutdin Aliev and his friend Gazimagomed Abdullaev was submitted to the Lenin ROVD (District Interior Division) of Makhachkala, Prosecutor's Office and the Investigatory Department for Dagestan of the ICRF by Tamala Alieva. According to her story, the young men disappeared on January 21, and as of February 2 their whereabouts remained unknown.

On February 3, as reported to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by a villager Shamil Magomedov, three persons disappeared from the Dagestani village of Shamkhal.

Earlier disappearances found

Khava Esmurzieva, a minor resident of the village of Sagopshi, Malgobek District of Ingushetia, who was announced missing at the end of last year, was found alive. The girl left home on December 30, and was considered missing since. In the course of operative-search activities, her whereabouts were established, and she was handed over to her relatives.