This is a List of clashes in the North Caucasus - 2010. The North Caucasus is the northern part of the Caucasus region between the Black and Caspian Seas and within European Russia. The term is also used as a synonym for the North Caucasus economic region of Russia. Insurgency in the North Caucasus continues despite the official end of the decade-long Russian counter-terrorist operation in Chechnya on 15 April 2009. Violence is concentrated mostly in the North Caucasus republics of Chechnya, Dagestan, Ingushetia and Kabardino-Balkaria, with only occasional clashes and bombings elsewhere (including Moscow and North Ossetia).
January
January 2 - At the city hospital in Saratov, a call about a potential bomb scare resulted in 79 patients being evacuated from the building. All the evacuated patients were later placed in other city hospitals. It is unclear if this incident is related to the insurgency. January 3 - A gas station exploded along the Kavkaz highway near the settlement of Gazi-Yurt in the Nazranovsky District of Ingushetia. There were no casualties. It has been suggested that the gas station was shot at with a grenade launcher. January 4 - A bomb explosion occurred at a railroad on the outskirts of Nazran in Ingushetia, the Interior Ministry reported. Six wagons were reportedly derailed at this site. No casualties were apparently reported in this derailment. January 6 - In Nazran, Ingushetia, an MVD major's house was shot at with automatic weapons, causing no injuries to the officer or his family. At least 7 policemen were killed and another 20 were injured after a suicide bomber targeted the base Battalion DPS in Makhachkala, Dagestan. Interior ministry sappers defused an explosive device planted on the Mozdok-Tbilisi gas pipeline in Ingushetia. No injuries were reported at the scene, as this device was being defused. In Nazran, Ingushetia, unidentified militants opened fire on a grocery shop with automatic weapons. This attack reportedly killed a local seller. In Dagestan, on the railroad between Targi and Makhachkala, EOD officials safely neutralized a powerful home-made explosive device. No one was injured. In Makhachkala, two grenades were hurled into the yard of a Ministry of Natural Resources official, but no one was injured in the attack. In Karabulak, Ingushetia unknown assailants detonated an unidentified explosive device at a gas station. However, there were no casualties in this explosion. January 7 - In the village of Korkmaskala, Dagestan, in a counter terrorist operation, operatives killed 2 militants after the rebels refused to surrender and exit the building they occupied. During the storming two soldiers were lightly wounded. In Nazran, Ingushetia, one soldier was wounded after unknown assailants fired upon the building where the soldiers were located. The perpetrators fled after this attack. An explosive device detonated in Makhachkala, apparently targeting a police car. The explosion damaged nearly a dozen surrounding buildings but missed the intended target. Later, in Makhachkala, a police officer was gunned down at the doorstep of his own home. The policeman later died on the way to hospital due to the wounds he sustained. January 9 - In the village of Babayurt in Dagestan, unknown persons opened fire on traffic police who were in a patrol car. No one was injured in this incident however. January 10 - It was reported that 3 militants were killed near Makhachkala after they apparently opened fire on officers from their car. The officers returned fire on the perpetrators killing the three culprits. In Dagestan, a private house in Makhachkala was blocked by riot policemen. Suspected militants were believed to have been stationed in the house. After failed negotiations the authorities killed 1 militant who had allegedly remained in the building. January 11 - The Deputy Director General for the Kizlyar Electromechanical Plant was killed in Dagestan. He was reportedly discovered dead with 4 gunshot wounds. This killing is currently under investigation by police. In Makhachkala, EOD operatives from the FSB defused a powerful bomb that had been placed under a car owned by a traffic policeman. In Nazran, Ingushetia, an unknown gunman repeatedly shot at a traffic outpost, causing no casualties however. January 12 - In Dagestan, an explosion targeting a police car damaged the vehicle and a nearby house; the policeman inside escaped unhurt. A suspicious device believed to be a bomb, was discovered on the Mozdok gas pipeline in Dagestan. Federal EOD experts summoned to the area delayed the disarming of the bomb until morning. The device detonated at night causing no casualties but damaging the pipeline. Over 170,000 residents were left without natural gas for several days.