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The Islam, Islamism and Politics in Eurasia Report (IIPER) is a project of the Monterey Terrorism and Research and Education Program (MonTREP) at MIIS.  IT focuses on all politically-relevant issues involving or bearing on Islam and ethnic Muslim communities in Russia and Eurasia writ large.  All issues of IIPER are available at http://www.miis.edu/academics/faculty/ghahn/report.

The 32nd report overall and the first of 2011 has been released.

Contents of this report include:

RUSSIA

• Trends in Jihadism in Russia and Eurasia, 2010
• Dagestan Vilaiyat’s Response to Amnesty Offer
• CE’s Ovkbk Kills Seven FSB Operatives
• Kabardino-Balkaria’s Chief Mufti and Dagestan Imam Killed
• Recent Foreign Global Jihadi Revolutionary Ideological-Theological Tracts in CE Media
• Amir Al-Bara of Dagestan Vilaiyat’s Makhachkala-Kaspiisk Sector Killed?

CENTRAL ASIA by Yelena Altman

• Violence a Normality in Kyrgyzstan
• More Clashes in Tajikistan, Bedaki Killed
• Shakhibiddin Shomirzayev Convicted in Uzbekistan
• Efforts to Combat Extremisms in Kazakhstan

*IPPER is written and edited by Dr. Gordon M. Hahn unless otherwise noted.  Research assistance is provided by Leonid Naboishchikov, Daniel Painter, Seth Gray, and Daria Ushakova.