Russia's breakaway republics; Fighting in Dagestan may be only the tip of the iceberg for the troubled north Caucasus region.(World)(Dagestanis Dig In)

The Christian Science Monitor | August 11, 1999| | Copyright

Once again, Russia's weakening central government is facing the threat of lost territory on its volatile Caucasus frontier.

Three years after a devastating separatist rebellion in Chechnya, a brand of Islamic extremism is igniting civil war in the neighboring republic of Dagestan, a mountainous region beside the Caspian Sea rife with social and ethnic tensions.

In recent days, as many as 2,000 armed militants claiming to belong to the Wahhabi Islamic movement (see story, below) have seized several villages near Dagestan's border with Chechnya, declaring the ...

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