*Gimry "emir" claims responsibility for killing Dagestan's interior minister
*Insurgent movements step up their activities across the North Caucasus
*Russian intelligence intensifies its activities in Ukraine
*Lavrov threatens the U.N. and OSCE mandates in Georgia
*Cyprus issue challenges Turkish E.U. ambitions
**Visit the Jamestown blog on Russia and Eurasia (http://www.jamestown.org/blog):
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