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Tue 08 Aug 2010Policeman killed in Russian bombing
A blast rocked a cafe in Russia’s North Caucasus today and a suicide bomber killed a policeman, dealing a blow to Kremlin efforts to contain a spreading Islamist insurgency.
The attacks in the majority-Christian regions of Stavropol and North Ossetia highlight the insurgency's recent trend to spill over from the traditional epicentre of violence in the mainly Muslim regions of Dagestan, Ingushetia and Chechnya.
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