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)