In Dagestan, Russia, tour guides sparked outrage by sending a donkey down a zipline to attract tourists. Although the donkey ...

Third-ranked ONE featherweight MMA contender Shamil Gasanov wants to continue upholding Dagestan's reign of dominance atop ...

* Dagestan village keeps ancient tradition amid insurgency * Boasts entire population OF 2,300 has mastered skill By Amie Ferris-Rotman and Olga Petrova KUBACHI, Russia, May 21 (Reuters Life ...

Gudben - the myth Gudben, a village in the Karabudakhkent District, has something of a reputation. People outside and inside Dagestan say that it is a ‘wahhabi' village.

The leader of the so-called Khunzakhskaya militant group, Khadzhimurad Gadzhiyev, may be hiding in the village of Orota in Russia’s North Caucasian republic of Dagestan where counter-terrorism ...

But in the dusty flatlands of rural Dagestan, amid peach and apricot trees, is Sulak, a village of 8,000 people. In Sulak, dogs and cows wander the beat-up streets.

Perched 2,000 metres (6,560 ft) in the Caucasus overlooking steep mist-covered valleys and ramshackle farms, Kubachi is 90 km (56 miles) south of Makhachkala, the Caspian Sea capital of Dagestan ...

Dagestan has experienced violence from militants wanting to set up an Islamic state in the North Caucasus since the late 1990s. But a regional police officer told Russia's RIA news agency Tuesday ...

Four militants and three Russian security force members were killed in a shootout in the Russian republic of Dagestan, state-run news agency RIA Novosti said.

Russian Dagestan village defies odds with ancient art By Reuters May 21, 20104:42 AM PDTUpdated May 21, 2010 ...

Four militants and three Russian security force members were killed in a shootout in the Russian republic of Dagestan, state-run news agency RIA Novosti said.

An Islamist insurgency is raging in Russia s North Caucasus region, particularly in Dagestan, Ingushetia and neighbouring Chechnya, site of two separatist wars with Moscow since the mid-1990s.