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- ↑ "U.S. Designates North Caucasus Insurgency As Terrorist Organization". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. 30 May 2011.
- ↑ "Two killed in attack on Russian power station". Reuters . 2010-07-21. Archived from the original on March 5, 2016.
- ↑ "North Caucasus Insurgency Admits Killing Circassian Ethnographer". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. 10 January 2011.
- ↑ "Kabardino-Balkaria Insurgency Commander Killed". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. 29 March 2012.