Vilayat Dagestan, a North Caucasus militant Islamist group that has claimed two recent bombings in Volgograd, issued a statement calling on Russians to “decapitate [the] hydra” of the Kremlin or face further attacks. Magomed Magomedov, a deputy in the Daghestani parliament, was arrested on charges of organizing a criminal group; his brother, Ruslan Magomedov, was added to a wanted list. Nine Circassian organizations have issued a joint statement disclaiming any terrorist intentions despite their disapproval of the choice of Sochi as the Winter Olympics site.
