Dokument #1217854
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Autor)
Sources currently available to the DIRB do
not contain information on the treatment of supporters of an
independent Dagestan in the Russian Republic of Dagestan.
The attached articles published in
Izvestia of 21 May 1992 and in Nezavisimaya Gazeta of
17 June 1992 report that in the last two years Dagestan has been
shaken by violence and that over 40 acts of terrorism have been
committed against members of the government and leaders of public
movements. A media report published by the BBC on 23 May 1992
states that the Shamilya Popular Front [People's Front] in Dagestan
kidnapped a public prosecutor to exchange him for three of their
leaders, whom the front claimed were illegally arrested. The
attached article published in Moscow News of 8 January 1992
provides an overview of the current different nationalist movements
in the Russian Republic of Dagestan. For further information on the
above-mentioned events please refer to the attached documents.
Additional and/or corroborative information
on the requested subject is currently unavailable to the DIRB.
BBC Summary of World Broadcasts. 23 May
1992. "Dagestan People's Front Kidnap Public Prosecutor Government
Averts Bloodshed." (NEXIS)
Izvestia. 21 May 1992. Ali
Kazikhanov. "State of Emergency Imposed in Makhachkala and
Kizilyurt." (The Current Digest of the Soviet Press, 17 June 1992).
(NEXIS)
Nezavisimaya Gazeta. 17 June
1992. Mikhail Karpov. "Dagestan: Between Azerbaijan and Chechnya."
(The Current Digest of the Soviet Press, 15 July 1992). (NEXIS)
BBC Summary of World Broadcasts. 3 April
1992. "Dagestan Government Minister's Car Fired At." (NEXIS)
_____. 23 May 1992. "Dagestan People's
Front Kidnap Public Prosecutor Government Averts Bloodshed."
(NEXIS)
_____. 31 August 1992. "Dagestan Calls
for Early Election." (NEXIS)
Izvestia. 21 May 1992. Ali
Kazikhanov. "State of Emergency Imposed in Makhachkala and
Kizilyurt." (The Current Digest of the Soviet Press, 17 June 1992).
(NEXIS)
Moscow News. 8 January 1992. Olga
Glezer and Mikhail Shevelyov. "No Ethnic Problems in Daghestan?"
(NEXIS)
Nezavisimaya Gazeta. 17 June
1992. Mikhail Karpov. "Dagestan: Between Azerbaijan and Chechnya."
(The Current Digest of the Soviet Press, 15 July 1992). (NEXIS)
Russian Press Digest. 17 February
1992. Ali Kazikhanov. "Political Assassinations in Daghestan."
(NEXIS)
The Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union
(TASS). 17 October 1992. "Dagestani Unions Hold Rally Against
Russia's Government." (NEXIS)