| Both men had emigrated from Russia in their teens, Tamerlan from Dagestan to Cambridge, Plotnikov from Siberia to Toronto. |
| Avars or Caucasian Avars are a modern people of Caucasus, mainly of Dagestan, in which they are the predominant group. |
| Interfax also reported that four Russian soldiers were killed and two injured in a helicopter crash on the border of Chechnya and the neighbouring Russian region of Dagestan. |
| And many of those female suicide bombers hail from Dagestan, a violent region in the North Caucasus. |
| But Plotnikov had no sooner reached Moscow than he headed back to Dagestan. |
| A former Russian ambassador to Tajikistan, he is an ethnic Dagestani and president of Russia's Republic of Dagestan. |
