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Guerrilla phase of the Second Chechen War (2006)

Timeline

January

February

  • February 8 - At least 13 Russian Army special forces troops were killed and 22 injured in explosion at Russian military barracks in Chechnya.
  • February 9 - Seven soldiers, two policemen, and five rebels reportedly killed in clashes in Chechnya.
  • February 10 - Russian security forces clashed with guerrillas in the village of Tukuy-Mekteb in Russia's Stavropol Krai. Several guerrillas, allegedly belonging to the Nogaysky Battalion, as well as several policemen were killed.
  • February 27 - Magomed Chakhkiyev, Ingush politician and father-in-law of Ingushetia's President Murat Zyazikov, was kidnapped from his car by unknown armed men in Nazran. He was freed two months later after ransom.

March

  • March 22 - A group of assailants fatally shot Ruslan Aliyev, the chief administrator of mountainous Botlikhsky District of Dagestan, during a fierce gunbattle; Aliyev's vehicle was struck by gunfire in the center of Makhachkala on the city's most guarded street. On March 10, Magomed Magomedov, deputy head of the republican Criminal Investigation Department, was killed in Makhachkala by a bomb planted underneath his car. Two days later, March 12, a senior officer from the Organized Crime Department was shot dead in Makhachkala, and another was killed on March 21 in the town of Buinaksk.
  • March 28 - Negotiated surrender of Chechen warlord Sultan Geliskhanov.

April

May

June

  • June 4 - Two security officials died in Nazran, Ingushetia, when guerrillas opened fire at their car.http://www.watchdog.cz/index.php?show=000000-000005-000001-000179-000032&lang=1
  • June 9 - Two officials were killed minutes apart in Ingushetia by gunmen wearing black uniforms, berets, and masks. The assassinations appeared to be another round of carefully timed attacks against the government. First, Galina Gubina, an administrator responsible for helping ethnic Russian families resettle in the region was gunned down. Then, Musa Nalgiyev, the commander of Ingushetia's OMON riot police, was killed as he drove his three young children to school. Nalgiyev's children were also killed, as were the commander's two guards. In recent weeks, rebels in Ingushetia have also kidnapped Magomed Chakhiyev, a lawmaker and the father-in-law of President Murat Zyazikov, and have attempted to kill Health Minister Magomed Aliskhanov. Galina Gubina earlier escaped an attempt on her life two years ago when a bomb went off under Gubina's car, severely wounding her.http://www.jamestown.org/email-to-friend.php?article_id=2371187
  • June 17 - Abdul-Halim Sadulayev, the Ichkerian president since the death of Aslan Maskhadov, and at least two FSB agents and Chechen militiamen killed and five wounded during a firefight in the town of Argun.

July

August

September

November

  • November 3 - A deputy commander of the Oryol Oblast OMON detachment died and four were wounded in the URAL truck explosion on a bridge in Grozny; one died of his injuries. Previously, four policemen from Oryol have been killed in Chechnya in 2006.
  • November 8 - Chechen separatists killed at least seven Mordovian OMON members in an ambush near the village of Dair in southern Chechnya; a major of police was seriously wounded. In a separate incidents two servicemen were killed and one wounded in a blast and a gunfight.
  • November 26 - Abu Hafs al-Urduni, a Jordanian-born guerrilla commander, was killed along with four Chechen guerrillas in a security operation in the Dagestani town of Khasavyurt.

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