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===Anti terrorist operations prior to 2014 Sochi Olympics===
Olympic organizers received several threats prior to the Games. In a July 2013 video release, Chechen Islamist commander Dokka Umarov called for attacks on the Games, stating that the Games were being staged "[[Ethnic cleansing of Circassians|on the bones of many, many Muslims killed]] ...and buried on our lands extending to the Black Sea."<ref name=rferl-caucasusthreat>{{cite news|title=Caucasus Emirate Leader Calls On Insurgents To Thwart Sochi Winter Olympics|url=https://www.rferl.org/a/sochi-olympics-terrorism-umarov/25035408.html|website=Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty|date=3 July 2013|access-date=3 September 2017}}</ref> Threats were received from the group [[Vilayat Dagestan]], which had claimed responsibility for the [[Volgograd bombings]] under the demands of Umarov, and a number of National Olympic Committees had also received threats via e-mail, threatening that terrorists would kidnap or "blow up" athletes during the Games.

In response to the insurgent threats, Russian special forces cracked down on suspected terrorist organizations, making several arrests and claiming to have curbed several plots,<ref>{{cite news|last1=Novogrod|first1=James|author2=Becky Bratu|url=http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2014/01/24/22434874-inside-russias-pre-olympics-terrorist-crackdown?lite|title=Inside Russia's pre-Olympics terrorist crackdown|date=14 October 2014|work=NBC News|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141009144603/http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2014/01/24/22434874-inside-russias-pre-olympics-terrorist-crackdown?lite|archive-date=9 October 2014}}</ref> and killed numerous Islamist leaders including Eldar Magatov, a suspect in attacks on Russian targets and alleged leader of an insurgent group in the Babyurt district of Dagestan.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2014/01/21/21412981.html?cid=rssnewsworld|archive-url=https://archive.today/20141006151515/http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2014/01/21/21412981.html?cid=rssnewsworld|url-status=usurped|archive-date=6 October 2014|title=Russian police kill Islamist militant leader before Olympics|work=canoe.ca|access-date=16 October 2014}}</ref> Dokka Umarov himself was poisoned on 6 August 2013, and died on 7 September 2013.<ref>{{cite web|last=Fuller|first=Liz|url=https://www.rferl.org/a/insurgency-commanders-divulge-of-umarovs-death/25467747.html|title=Insurgency Commanders Divulge Details Of Umarov's Death|publisher=[[Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty]]|date=23 July 2014|access-date=3 September 2017}}</ref>