| Avars or Caucasian Avars are a modern people of Caucasus, mainly of Dagestan, in which they are the predominant group. |
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| Avar is a written language of Dagestan, which has somewhat more than half a million speakers. |
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| A former Russian ambassador to Tajikistan, he is an ethnic Dagestani and president of Russia's Republic of Dagestan. |
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| 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. |
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| The Russians appear to have been satisfied when Plotnikov agreed to leave Dagestan. |
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| But in 1991, as the former Soviet Union broke apart, Chechnya and Dagestan declared their independence from Moscow. |
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| But Plotnikov had no sooner reached Moscow than he headed back to Dagestan. |
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| Yet four years into the second Chechen war, victory still eludes Russia, and there are signs that the upheaval is spilling into Ingushetia and Dagestan. |
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| Both men had emigrated from Russia in their teens, Tamerlan from Dagestan to Cambridge, Plotnikov from Siberia to Toronto. |
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| And many of those female suicide bombers hail from Dagestan, a violent region in the North Caucasus. |
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| Russian army forces invaded in 1994 and again in 1999 in response to the War of Dagestan. |
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| The Vilayat Dagestan issued a quasi-denial in the wake of the attack. |
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| Acting on a tip, Dagestan police searched an area in the village of Zagorodny in the outskirts of the republic's capital Makhachkala. |
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| Fighting has also spilled over into the neighbouring provinces of Dagestan, Ingushetia and North Ossetia in recent years. |
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| Dagestan native Naida Asiyalova, 30, boarded the local No 29 bus in the southwestern Russian city, took a seat near the back and blew herself up. |
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| Attacks on security forces, police and civilians are reported regularly in the neighboring republics of Dagestan, Ingushetia and Kabardino-Balkaria. |
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| More than 19 countries attended the Dagestan economic forum where 80 investment projects worth some 190 billion Russian Rubles were presented at the forum in Kaspiysk. |
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| The Nogai region is in northern Dagestan, close to Stavropol. |
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