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The man who was regarded as the second most powerful figure in the Russian North Caucasus has suffered a spectacular fall from grace.
Said Amirov, the former mayor of Makhachkala, had dominated political life in Dagestan for years, On August 27, he was given a life sentence in prison by a court in Rostov-on-Don. Several of Amirov's closest associates, including his nephew Yusuf Dzhaparov, also received lengthy sentences.
Amongst other crimes, the men were found guilty of the 2011 assassination of senior counter-intelligence official Arsen Gadzhibekov and of organizing a bombing at a shopping center in the town of Kaspiisk.
For a long time, Amirov's political stature in the North Caucasus was second only to Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov—although unlike Kadyrov, he had no political ambitions outside Dagestan, the largest republic in the region.
In 2006, Amirov ran in Dagestan’s presidential election, but lost to Mukhu Aliyev. Despite this,
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Beslan school siege
2004 Russian hostage crisis and massacre
| Beslan school siege | |
|---|---|
| From top left clockwise: the building of school No. 1 in 2008, the Orthodox cross in the gymnasium in memory of the victims, the "Tree of Sorrow" memorial cemetery, photos of the victims | |
| Location | Beslan, North Ossetia–Alania, Russia |
| Date | 1–3 September 2004 (UTC+3) |
| Target | Beslan school |
Attack type | Hostage-taking, school shooting, mass shooting, mass murder, suicide bombing, siege, shootout |
| Weapons | Assault rifles, suicide belts |
| Deaths | At least 334 (excluding 31 terrorists)[1] |
| Injured | 800+ |
| Perpetrators | Riyad-us Saliheen Brigade |
No. of participants | 32 |
| Motive | See Motives and demands |
The Beslan school siege, also referred to as the Beslan school hostage crisis or the Beslan massacre,[2][3][4] was an Islamic terrorist attack that started on 1 September 2004. It lasted three days, and involved the imprisonment of more than 1,100 people as hostages, including 777 children,[5] ending with the deaths of 334 people, 186 of them children,[6] as well as 31 of the attackers.[1] It is considered the deadliest school shooting in history.[7]
The crisis began when a g
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