• Death toll grows as skinhead views move into mainstream
    The Globe and Mail, April 30, 2007

  • Fighting reported in Shatojskom region - rebel site reports
    Kavkazcenter, April 30, 2007

  • Opposition website accuses the local TV channel of not reporting a single case of kidnapping or killing committed in the republic by "death squadrons"
    Ingushetiya.ru (BBC) April 29, 2007

  • Chechen rebel president signs decree on restoration of "Shari'ah guard"
    Kavkaz-Tsentr (BBC) April 29, 2007

  • Pipeline Damage leaves 80,000 without gas in southern Russia
    RIA, April 29, 2007

  • ICRC representatives discuss interaction problems with Chechen authorities
    Caucasus Knot, April 28, 2007

  • Criminal involved in kidnapping people in N Caucasus detained
    ITAR-TASS, April, 28, 2007

  • Public Prosecutor's Office stops investigation into Baisarov's murder
    Caucasus Knot, April 28, 2007

  • Sweep operation continues in Chechnya
    Interfax, April 27, 2007

  • Chechens Remember Yeltsin, Not Fondly
    Chechnya Weekly, April 27, 2007

  • Umarov Says Bodies of Chechens Tossed From Helicopters
    Chechnya Weekly, April 27, 2007

  • Grozny's "Potemkin villages"
    "It can’t be a bad thing that Grozny’s streets are being cleared of debris, building waste and household garbage, and semi-destroyed buildings restored. But the process of reconstruction is accompanied by a wide range of negative factors and various nuances which suggest that the emphasis is on the number of buildings being renovated and the quantity of the work rather than the quality of its implementation,"
    Prague Watchdog, April 27, 2007

  • Russians Don't Think Human Life Is Valued Enough In Russia - Poll
    JRL April 27, 2007 (Interfax April 25, 2007)

  • Georgia: Is Putin's CFE Threat Aimed At Caucasus?
    RFE/RL, April 27, 20007

  • Helicopter Shot Down in Chechnya, 17 Dead: Reports
    Reuters, April 27, 2007

  • Umarov may be among besieged militants in Chechnya
    Russia & CIS Military Newswire April 27, 2007

  • North Ossetia Rocked by Killings
    "A spate of killings in North Ossetia are thought to be part of a murky power struggle for wealth and political influence ahead of parliamentary elections scheduled for this autumn."
    IWPR, April 26, 2007

  • Chechnya: A Dubious Amnesty
    IWPR, April 26, 2007

  • European Parliament scarifies Russia for abuse of human rights
    Caucasus Knot, April 26, 2007

  • Residents of "Maiskiy" settlement, North Ossetia, can be forced out
    Caucasus Knot, April 26, 2007

  • Chechen Official Slams Western Double Standards
    RRE/RL; (chechenpress.ru), April 26, 2007

  • Confusion Over Karachevo-Cherkessia Election Continues
    RFE/RL (regnum.ru), April 26, 2007

  • Authorities of North Ossetia ignore problems of forced resettlers
    Caucasus Knot, April 26, 2007

  • European Court for Human Rights gets tired with claims from North Caucasian Republics
    Caucasus Knot, April 26, 2007

  • Russian Top Police Officials Discuss Ways to Fighting Terror in the North Caucasus
    The meeting was attended by Russia's Deputy Interior Minister Arkadiy Yedelev, heads of city and district interior departments and interior ministers of the republics of the Southern Federal District. BBC Monitoring International Reports
    (Dagestani television RGVK TV), April 25, 2007

  • Detainees beaten in Krasnodar SIZO
    Caucasus Knot, April 25, 2007

  • "Novaya Gazeta": criminal case against Beslan power agents will be initiated
    Caucasus Knot, April 24, 2007

  • 150 extremist websites exposed this year - Russian police
    ITAR-TASS, April 24, 2007

  • Boris N. Yeltsin, Reformer Who Broke Up the U.S.S.R. And Led Russia, Dies at 76
    The New York Times, April 24, 2007

  • Putin reshuffles southern Russia socioeconomic commission
    Included in the new commission are Valeriy Gayevskiy, the president's deputy plenipotentiary representative in the Southern Federal District; Arkadiy Yedelev, deputy Interior Minister of the Russian Federation; Ramzan Kadyrov, president of Chechnya; Vladislav Streltsov, deputy head of the FSFR; and Aslancheriy Tkhakushinov, president of the Republic of Adygeya. Alu Alkhanov, Andrey Novikov, Aleksandr Pochinok and Khazret Sovmen have been excluded from the new commission.RIA Novosti (BBC Monitoring Former Soviet Union) April 23, 2007
  • Religious literature confiscated in Dagestan
    Caucasus Knot, April 23, 2007

  • CE Commissioner Thomas Hammerberg cannot reach liquidation of ORB-2 in Chechnya
    Caucasus Knot, April 23, 2007

  • Two militants killed in special operation in Russia's Dagestan
    ITAR-TASS, April 23, 2007

  • Chechnya: 138 militants arrested over Jan-Mar 2007
    RIA Novosti (BBC Monitoring Former Soviet Union) April 23, 2007

  • The Russian military in Kadyrov's Chechnya
    Prague Watchdog, April 23, 2007

  • Chechen president says militants no longer a threat, Putin should stay in office
    REGNUM April 18, 2007(BBC Monitoring Trans Caucasus Unit April 21, 2007)

  • Work of the "Educated Media" ("Internews") Foundation paralyzed
    Caucasus Knot, April 20, 2007

  • Militants detained in Chechnya, Ingushetia
    Interfax, April 20, 2007

  • Gunmen Attack Grozny Checkpoint, Injure 6 Russians
    The New York Times (REUTERS), April 19, 2007

  • Soldiers jump bail in Chechen massacre case
    The Guardian, April 19, 2007

  • Weapons and ammunition are still found in territory of Chechnya
    Caucasus Knot, April 18, 2007

  • Residents of Kabardino-Balkaria, tortured by militia, appeal against verdict
    Caucasus Knot, April 18, 2007

  • Trial of militants who committed raid on Ingushetia in 2004 begins
    Caucasus Knot, April 18, 2007

  • Trial on Kislovodsk Imam murder will continue in Pyatigorsk
    Caucasus Knot, April 18, 2007

  • Dagestani policemen killed
    Moscow Times, April 18, 2007

  • Number of terrorist acts sharply on decline in Chechnya
    ITAR-TASS, April 17, 2007

  • 22 militants killed in Chechnya since January 1-republic's Int Min
    ITAR-TASS, April 17, 2007
  • Ulman disappeared for the fault of the Court
    Caucasus Knot, April 17, 2007
  • Ulman's case defendants could have been kidnapped
    Caucasus Knot, April 16, 2007
  • First vice-premier praises positive changes in Chechnya
    ITAR-TASS, April 16, 2007
  • Chechnya: New Republic Head Moves to Consolidate Power
    RFE/RL, April 16, 2007

  • Insight with Tony Wood and Tom de Waal: Independence for Chechnya?
    Frontline Club, April 10, 2007

  • Chechens Yearn to Return to Mountains
    IWPR, April 5, 2007

  • Was Dagestan's Amnesty a Fiction?
    IWPR, April 5, 2007