2006 North Ossetia sabotages

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The 2006 North Ossetia sabotages were two explosions which occurred on the main branch and a reserve branch of the Mozdok-Tbilisi pipeline in the Russian border region of North Ossetia at around 03:00 local time (24:00 GMT) on January 22, 2006.

The electricity transmission line in Russia's southern region of Karachayevo-Cherkessiya - also near the Georgian border - was brought down by an explosion just hours later.

The explosions suspended gas supply to Georgia and Armenia, at a time when the weather conditions were particularly severe. Georgian authorities claimed the explosions were a deliberate act of sabotage, to force the nation into surrendering its pipelines to the Russian state owned monopoly Gazprom.

Russians dissmiss those accusations, claiming the charges were set by Chechen terrorists; the Chechen separatists rejected the accusation.