Experts rule out involvement of IS in videos of executions of Dagestanis

The video clips depicting executions of Migitin Djavadov, the head of the Dagestani village of Karamakhi, and Shamil Ibakov, a resident of the village of Chankurbe, were filmed by local militants, who acted without the guidance from the "Islamic State" (IS), forbidden in Russia, stated the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

It was reported earlier that Djavadov's body was found on October 1 in the Karabudakhkent District. He was known as an opponent of the ideas of the armed underground.

Making their videos of the above executions, North-Caucasian militants imitate their IS colleagues, who regularly post similar clips, said Mikhail Roschin, Senior Researcher at the Centre for Studying Central Asia, Caucasus and Volga-Ural Region of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS). He recalled that during the military campaigns in Chechnya made similar records for reporting to terrorists' financiers.

The clips with recent executions of residents of Dagestan were made to intimidate the civilian population and to show "how influential authors of the records are," Roschin has suggested.

The videos of the executions in Dagestan are not the order of the IS, said Yana Amelina, the secretary-coordinator of the Caucasian Geopolitical Club. In her view, the North-Caucasian underground is not funded by the IS, and the above casualties hardly had any real attitude to the IS.

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.