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Sulak Canyon is one of the world's deepest canyons Kakhib, one of many abandoned auls in Dagestan Abandoned Lezgin village of Grar. Dagestan (/ ˌ d æ ɡ ɪ ˈ s t æ n,-ˈ s t ɑː n / DAG-ə-STA(H)N; Russian: Дагестан; IPA: [dəɡʲɪˈstan]), officially the Republic of Dagestan, [a] is a republic of Russia situated in the North Caucasus of Eastern Europe, along the Caspian Sea.
First holder. Mukhu Aliyev. Salary. $ 15,000 (2018) Website. president.e-dag.ru. The Head of the Republic of Dagestan is the highest official and the head of the executive power of the Republic of Dagestan. The Head is Dagestan’s Head of State and Head of Government. The Head of Dagestan’s duty is to ensure compliance with the Russian ...
On 23 June 2024, coordinated attacks were launched in the cities of Derbent and Makhachkala in the Russian republic of Dagestan in the North Caucasus. [6] [7] Two synagogues, two Eastern Orthodox churches, and a traffic police post were attacked simultaneously [8] [9] with automatic weapons and Molotov cocktails. [10]
This is a list of diplomatic missions of Russia. These missions are subordinate to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Russian Federation has one of the largest networks of embassies and consulates of any country. Russia has significant interests in Eastern Europe, the Near East and especially in the former states of the Soviet Union.
The 1999 war in Dagestan, also known as the Dagestan incursions [5] (Russian: Война в Дагестане), was an armed conflict that began when the Chechen-based Islamic International Peacekeeping Brigade (IIPB), an Islamist group led by Shamil Basayev, Ibn al-Khattab, Ramzan Akhmadov and Arbi Barayev, invaded the neighboring Russian republic of Dagestan on 7 August 1999, in support of ...
On 5 October 2020, the powers were terminated as Melikov, by decree of the President of Russia, was appointed Acting Head of the Republic of Dagestan. On 14 October 2021, the parliament of Dagestan elected him as the 5th Head of Dagestan. He was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Hero of Russia Foundation Colonel General Anatoly Romanov.
The name Dagestan historically refers to the eastern Caucasus, taken by the Russian Empire in 1860 and renamed the Dagestan Oblast. The current, more autonomous Republic of Dagestan covers a much larger territory, established in 1921 as the Dagestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, by the inclusion of the eastern part of the Terek Oblast .
The Dagestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic [a] (1921–1991), abbreviated as Dagestan ASSR [b] or DASSR [c] and also unofficially known as Soviet Dagestan or just simply Dagestan, was an autonomous republic of the Russian SFSR within the Soviet Union. This "Land of Mountains" was known also for having a "mountain of peoples," with more ...