….Dagestan is now officially the most dangerous part of the Federation…
For those that follow the region, this is old news. Dagestan has accounted for more than half of all casualties of violence in the North Caucasus for a few years now, with a spike in the second quarter of 2012 that saw it account for just over two-thirds of such casualties. For those who like metrics, the Caucasian Knot offers victim stats; it also serves (the unabridged Russian version of the site) as one of the primary sources for the Open Source Center's tracking of incidents in the region.