Kadyrov's native village attackers eliminated. .

MOSCOW, August 29, 2010 (RIA Novosti)

Militants, who attempted to attack Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov's native village of Tsentoroi, are eliminated.

Members of warlord Akhmed Avdorkhanov's band were identified among the 12 killed assailants. Avdorkhanov, close associate of terrorist leader Aslan Maskhadov, commanded the so-called eastern front of Ichkeria (the name that Chechen separatists gave to Chechnya). He was killed in 2005.

All the 12 assailants, who entered the village are dead, Kadyrov, who headed the elimination operation, said. Only those militants who were capturing the assault on video, but did not participate in the attack itself, have allegedly escaped, he added.

The assailants entered the village at 04.30 local time and fired several houses, and then policemen and officers from Kadyrov's guard went into combat with them.

Five civilians and two policemen have been killed in time of the attack on Tsentoroi.

Currently, the situation in the village is stable, Kadyrov said.

Ten militants killed as police repel attack on Kadyrov's home village

GROZNY, August 29, 2010 (RIA Novosti)

Ten militants and two police officers were killed in a shootout which occurred early on Sunday when the militants were trying to attack Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov's home village, Kadyrov said.

The shootout took place in Chechnya's Kurchaloyevsky district.

Kadyrov, who controls the operation, said bodies of the ten killed militants were found at the scene, adding that the militants were being identified.

"Currently servicemen and police are scouring the nearby forest. The situation is stable and controllable," he said.

Another shootout occurred early on Sunday in the North Caucasus republic of Dagestan.

According to a local interior ministry official, unidentified assailants opened fire at a traffic police post in the republic's Khasavyurt district when police stopped their car for a check. Police opened retaliatory fire, killing all four militants in the car.

Policemen uncover two arms caches in Dagestan

MAKHACHKALA, August 29, 2010 (RIA Novosti)

15:10 29/08/2010 RIA Novosti. Magomed Aliev

Policemen uncovered two caches of weapons in the capital of the Russia's volatile North Caucasus republic of Makhachkala, a source from the republic's law enforcement agencies said.

On Sunday evening a 200-liter plastic barrel containing some 9,000 cartridges, 20 grenades, 5 TNT blocks as well as other weapons and 6 car license plates was found at the depth of one meter under a search in a garage, the source said.

The second hideout was uncovered in time of a search in uncompleted construction. The cache contained some 5,000 cartridges and several grenade launchers.

Russia's North Caucasus republics, in particular Chechnya, Dagestan and Ingushetia, have seen frequent attacks on police and officials despite the end of a decade-long special regime for counterterrorism operations in Chechnya last year.