- Date
- 13/10/2005
- First
- Tamirlan
- Surname
- KAZIKHANOV
- Sex/Age
- M, 35
- Incident
- crossfire
- Motive
- J
- Place
- office
- Job
- journalist
- Medium
- press service
- Federal District Plus
- North Caucasus
- Street, Town, Region
- Nalchik, Kabardino-Balkaria
- Freelance
- no
- Local/National
- local
- Other Ties
- Cause of Death
- crossfire
- Legal Qualification
- no information
- Impunity
- No Information
CJES, 42 (2005)
The recent attack on the city of Nalchik, the capital of Kabardin0p-Balkaria, received a lot of coverage in the Russian press at the end of last week.
“We are always caught unprepared,” “Kabarda is preparing to become a second Chechnya,” Gazeta reported. Novyye Izvestiya are calling Kabardino-Balkaria “the second Caucasian front.” “Did militants try to have a second Beslan?” Komsomolskaya Pravda said.
“Nalchik was seized by militants. [It was done] impudently, virtually in broad daylight. Nazran was seized in the same manner in June 2004. There were dozens of casualties on both sides,” Gazeta reported in its publication We Are Always Caught Unprepared. “The special services have missed a storm of a whole city again,” Novyye Izvestiya said.
Krasnaya Zvezda has a different opinion. “The attack did not catch them [the law enforcement agencies] unprepared.” “The military and law enforcement officers were very professional and brave when they took this blow,” Krasnaya Zvezda said.