With just ten days to go before the start of the Sochi Games, the Olympic torch is in the Caucasus region.<br /><br />It was carried through Chechenya on Tuesday after making its way through the troubled region of Ingushetia. <br /><br />On Monday, the torch passed through Dagestan, a region which has become the centre of an Islamic insurgency. Two militants from there have apparently claimed responsibility for a double suicide blast last month in Volgograd which left 34 people dead.<br /><br />As a result Russian authorities are expected to mount the biggest security operation ever staged at a winter games.
