This is a List of clashes in the North Caucasus - 2010. The North Caucasus is the northern part of the Caucasus region between the Black and Caspian Seas and within European Russia. The term is also used as a synonym for the North Caucasus economic region of Russia. Insurgency in the North Caucasus continues despite the official end of the decade-long Russian counter-terrorist operation in Chechnya on 15 April 2009. Violence is concentrated mostly in the North Caucasus republics of Chechnya, Dagestan, Ingushetia and Kabardino-Balkaria, with only occasional clashes and bombings elsewhere (including Moscow and North Ossetia).