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Gimri (Template:Lang-ru) is a village (selo) in Untsukulsky District of the Republic of Dagestan, Russia. It is located in the mountain where Imam Shamil, the third Imam of Dagestan, was born.

The people of Gimry are deeply conservative and have been accused of practising Wahhabism by the Russian government.[citation needed]

At the beginning of 2006 there was a fierce battle between a group of militants and over 3,000 Russian soldiers. The militant group are thought to have escaped the encirclement.[citation needed]

On December 19 2007, police blocked the mountainous village of Gimry and detained several local men accusing them of being supporters of Salafist rebels with links to Chechnya. The village has been blockaded for several days and local residents claim that Russian soldiers have stolen from them and terrorized them during house-to-house searches. Gimry is one of the spiritual homes of Islam in the Eastern Caucasus


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