Chechen
Refugees Called Off from Pankiss Gorge
Kommersant, May 31, 2007
Russia
and Chechnya: The Warlord and the Spook
Economist, May 31, 2007
Karachai-Cherkessia:
Opposition in Retreat
IWPR, May 31, 2007
Number
of kidnappings rising in Dagestan every year
ITAR-TASS, May 31, 2007
The Kremlin-backed
Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov has said he accepts
honest and objective criticism but rejects statements by the Memorial
human
rights centre that the Kadyrov charity fund was dealing in extortion.
Caucasus Knot (in Russian), May 31, 200
Politkovskaya's
Family Presents a New Book
The Moscow Times, May 31, 2007
The Chechen Public
Chamber is seriously worried over the lack of progress in
investigations into kidnappings and missing people in Chechnya, the chamber
said in a statement circulated on Thursday.
Russia & CIS News, May 31, 2007
Parishioners
who suffered in Dagestan mosque have no claims to militia
Caucasus Knot, May 30, 2007
Ingush
refugees on hunger strike at the Council of Federation in Moscow
Caucasus Knot, May 30, 2007
Amnesty
act applied to Beslan militiamen will be appealed against
Caucasus Knot, May 30, 2007
Court
judgment to amnesty the militiamen figuring in the case of Beslan terror
act was announced in the absence of victims and defendants
Caucasus Knot, May 29, 2007
Female
victims of Beslan terror wreck court
RIA Novosti, May 29, 2007
The Russian Foreign
Ministry started preparing a visit to the Chechen Republic by
ambassadors of 30 Muslim states. A trip is a unique event in its status
and content.
The republic is revitalizing at an accelerated rate, and it needs substantial
investments
to overcome consequences of military operations.
ITAR TASS, May 29, 2007
Two
dead bodies found in Chechnya
Interfax, May 29, 2007
Comrades
in Acquisition
Novaya Gazeta, May 28, 2007
Putin
posthumously decorates Chechen village administration head
Russia & CIS Military Newswire. May 29, 2007
Russian officials
are expected in the Pankisi Gorge within the next few days to meet with
Chechen
refugees and discuss their possible return. A large number of refugees
would like to meet with the
Russian authorities
Russia & CIS Military Newswire. May 29, 2007
Trial
on Ulman's case will continue without three defendants
Caucasus Knot, May 28, 2007
Nongovernmental organizations
in a southern Russian region will organize
volunteer groups to help avoid ethnic unrest if the authorities continue
to fail
to avert ethnic conflicts such as the mass brawl between ethnic Russians
and
Chechens on May 25, the head of an NGO said.
Russia & CIS Military Newswire, May 28, 2007
Re.
"No Terrorist Acts in Russia", A. Smirnov
JRL, May 28, 2007
Schoolboy
confesses of murdering dozens of Caucasian natives
Caucasus Knot, May 28, 2007
Russian
CC to consider the complaint of the relatives of the militants who perished
in Kabardino-Balkaria
Caucasus Knot, May 28, 2007
Izmailov:
two residents of Chechnya are Politkovskaya's killers
Caucasus Knot, May 28, 2007
Re.
"No Terrorist Acts in Russia", A. Smirnov
JRL, May 28, 2007
The
role of religion in the Chechen conflict
Prague Watchdog, May 27, 2007
Chechenpress website
claims that 150 Chechen prisoners are
sent to concentration camps scattered throughout Russia each moth.
Chechen Press, May 27, 2007 (BBC)
The
Blood Feud of the Rebel Region
The Irish Times, May 26, 2007
Criminal
case initiated on mass fight in Stavropol
Caucasus Knot, May 26, 2007
Chechen
policemen involved in criminal cases on kidnapping
ITAR-TASS, May 25, 2007
Elegiac
Russian film looks at life in Chechnya
REUTERS, May 25, 2007
Russia
says cuts kidnapping in Chechnya
REUTERS, May 25, 2007
North
Caucasus Elders Lambaste Georgia
RFE/RL, May 25, 2007
Strasbourg
Court accepts Tsakoevs' complaint from Kabardino-Balkaria
Caucasus Knot, May 24, 2007
No
Terrorist Acts in Russia Since Beslan: Whom to Thank?
Jamestown, May 24, 2007
Caucasian
Migrants' Struggle in Russia
IWPR, May 24, 2007
Helsinki
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe Hearing
May 24, 2007
Chechnya:
Far from war, but not at peace
Relief Web, May 24, 2007
Chechens
Suffer Torture "Hell"
IWPR, May 24, 2007
Chechnya
will become one of the economic leaders in the South Federal District
before 2010, Ramzan Kadyrov, the republic's president.
Russia & CIS Military Newswire, May 24, 2007
Chechnya
may become profitable region despite restoration problems
ITAR-TASS, May 24, 2007
Is
Ramzan Angling to Take Over Ingushetia?
Jamestown, May 24, 2007
Kabardino-Balkaria:
relatives of deceased militants ask to return automobiles
Caucasus Knot, May 23, 2007
YouTube
cancels a video clip about tortures in Chechnya finding it excessively
cruel
Caucasus Knot, May 23, 2007
Case
against participant of the meeting on Kondopoga events stopped
Caucasus Knot, May 23, 2007
Amnesty
International Report: Russian Federation: What justice for Chechnya's
"disappeared"?
May 23, 2007
Five
servicemen wounded in Chechnya
Interfax, May 23, 2007
Mufti
of Chechnya recognizes the fact that young people leave for the militants
Caucasus Knot, May 23, 2007
Junior
police officer killed in Dagestan
ITAR-TASS, May 23, 2007
Armed
band chased in Chechnya
ITAR-TASS, May 23, 2007
Russian
President Arrives In Austria - Chechens protest
RFE/RL, May 23, 2007
"Beslan
Mothers": power officers will be amnestied
Caucasus Knot, May 22, 2007
Public
Chamber of Chechnya supports claims against Republic's Public Prosecutor's
Office
Caucasus Knot, May 22, 2007
Russia,
West combating terrorism jointly - Safonov
Interfax Interview, May 22, 2007
Russia's
troubled Caucasus bids for foreign business: Local officials
from the
impoverished North Caucasus region of Russia urged foreign investors on
Tuesday
to overcome security fears and invest in their provinces at a meeting
in Moscow.
Agence France Presse, May 22, 2007
Two
gunmen killed in Dagestan planning terrorist acts
ITAR-TASS, May 22, 2007
Consideration
of Beslan militiamen's case postponed till May 29
Caucasus Knot, May 22, 2007
Chechnya
to receive mobile air-testing laboratory
ITAR-TASS, May 22, 2007
Chechen president
unveils monument to journalists who died in republic
RTR Rossiya (BBC), May 22, 2007
3
civilians, 1 policeman wounded in gun battle with militants in southern
Russia
Pravda, May 22, 2007
Petrov:
Russians apply to European Court because of Chechnya conflict and imperfect
trials
Caucasus Knot, May 21, 2007
Putin
Happy with the Kadyrov Government's Work
Chechnya Weekly, May 21, 2007
Chechen
Interior Ministry claims fall in abductions in republic
Caucasus Times, May 19, 2007
New
OMON commander appointed in Chechnya
Interfax, May 21, 2007
In
the Footsteps of Dokka Umarov: Kadyrov's Trip to Kabardino-Balkaria
Chechnya Weekly, May 21, 2007
Putin Tangles
with Austrian TV before Visit
Kommersant, May 21, 2007
New
concerns about media freedom in Russia arise with journalists' resignations
International Herald Tribune (AP), May 19, 2007
North
Ossetia: refugees are forced out of temporary settlement
Caucasus Knot, May 18, 2007
Whose
side can we be on?
Financial Times, May 18, 2007
Erection
of a temple in Beslan not decided yet
Caucasus Knot, May 18, 2007
European
Court dismisses Russia's complaint on the case of Yandiev who disappeared
in Chechnya in 2000
Caucasus Knot, May 17, 2007
"Memorial":
Kuznetsov is the first Chechnya's Public Prosecutor with whom we can cooperate
Caucasus Knot, May 17, 2007
Two
killed in Chechnya shoot-out
RIA Novosti May 17, 2007
In
the first decade of May more than 150 Russian occupiers destroyed in Chechnya
KavkazCenter, May 17, 2007
Armed
group planning terror attacks eliminated in Chechnya - FSB
Interfax, May 17, 2007
Putin satisfied
with Chechen government work Russian President Vladimir Putin
is satisfied with the way the Chechen government works. Putin also promised
to issue
instructions on the improvement of the health care system in the republic.
ITAR-TASS, May 16, 2007
European
Court rejects Russian appeal on Chechnya case
AP, May 16, 2007
Nukhazhiev:
residents of Chechnya have no trust in courts and power agencies
Caucasus Knot, May 16, 2007
Russian Bomb
Disposal Experts Clear over 400 mines, artillery rounds in Chechnya
Over the last two months, specialists from the Leader High Risk Rescue
Centre of the Russian
Emergencies Ministry disposed of more than 400 mines and rounds of ammunition
in Chechnya.
BBC, May 16, 2007
Arakcheev-Khudyakov's
case postponed till May 30
Caucasus Knot, May 16, 2007
Chechen
Ombudsman Calls Republic's Prosecutor Incompetent
Interfax (BBC), May 16, 2007
International
Helsinki Federation for Human Rights Report:Amnestied People as Targets
for Persecution in Chechnya
IHF-HR, May 16, 2007
The
radicalisation of the Chechen separatist movement: Myth or reality?
Prague Watchdog, May 16, 2007
The
so-called "Cadet" accused of tortures in Chechnya is left under arrest
Caucasus Knot, May 15, 2007
The
condition of children ill with unknown disease worsens in Ingushetia
Caucasus Knot, May 15, 2007
The
condition of children ill with unknown disease worsens in Ingushetia
Caucasus Knot, May 15, 2007
Lawyers
and human rights defenders see no reason in EC's program aimed to reduce
claims from Russia
Caucasus Knot, May 14, 2007
Bomb
kills 1, injures railroad official in southern Russia
International Herald Tribune (AP), May 14, 2007
Mother
of terror suspect says he was mistreated by Russian security service in
prison
International Herald Tribune (AP), May 14, 2007
FSB
officers detain illegal armed group member in Dagestan
ITAR-TASS, May 14, 2007
Gannushkina:
accusations against Chechens of preparing a terror act in Moscow are doubtful
Caucasus Knot, May 12, 2007
Chechnya:
The Turning Point That Wasn't
RFE/RL May 11, 2007
Chechnya:
Why Did 1997 Peace Agreement Fail?
RFE/RL May 11, 2007
Dzhabrailov:
European Commission will improve qualification of judges in Chechnya
Caucasus Knot, May 11, 2007
Cherkess Genocide
Recognition Appeal Rejected -The regional branch of the Russian
Academy of Sciences, whose expertise the presidential envoy's office solicited,
has ruled
that the killing of Circassians during the Russian war of conquest in
the North Caucasus
cannot be qualified as genocide as defined in the 1949 UN convention
RFE/RL May 11, 2007
Chechnya
has up to 300 militants, collaborators - commandant
Interfax, May 11, 2007
Residents
of TACs in Chechnya receive promises of help with resettlement
Prague Watchdog, May 10, 2007
Beslan
School a New Source of Grief
IWPR, May 10, 2007
Beslan
militiamen of North Ossetia petition for amnesty
Caucasus Knot, May 10, 2007
Moscow
court sanctions arrest of 2nd suspect in May 9 abortive bombing
ITAR-TASS, May 10, 2007
A
powerful car bomb defused
Moscow Times, May 10, 2007
European
rights court blames Russia for violent death of Chechen man
International Herald Tribune (AP), May 10, 2007
2
killed in clash in southern Russia - Karachayevo-Cherkessiya
International Herald Tribune (AP), May 9, 2007
Break
till May 14 announced in Arakcheev-Khudyakov's trial
Caucasus Knot, May 9, 2007
Whereabouts
of Hussein Mutsolgov, kidnapped in Ingushetia, unknown
Caucasus Knot, May 9, 2007
Chechen
separatists' web site author sentenced to compulsory medical treatment
Caucasus Knot, May 9, 2007
Fierce
battle in Khattuni district
KavkazCenter, May 8, 2007
Chechnya
sets up a commission to restore the rights of repressed citizens
Caucasus Knot, May 7, 2007
Terrorist
acts prevented in Dagestan
ITAR-TASS, May 7, 2007
Human
rights defenders state a sharp reduction of kidnappings in Chechnya
Caucasus Knot, May 7, 2007
Rebel
envoy, Zakayev, says Russia's Chechen policy may change after 2008 election:
military operations will not stop in Chechnya until Russian troops leave
the republic
BBC (Chechenpress), May 7, 2007
Putin
urged to restore peace in Chechnya
More than 100 members of Britain's political and cultural elite have written
to President
Vladimir Putin of Russia urging him to use his final year as president
to restore "peace
and justice" to Chechnya.
The Independent (London), May 7, 2007
Read The
Letter to President Putin
At
Least Three Police, Three Militants Killed In Chechnya
RFE/RL, May 7, 2007
UN
representative: Xenophobic tendencies in Russia is another concern to
us
Chechnya currently has the highest ranking in terms of the UN security
classification,
that is most restrictive, security rating in UN terms
Interfax, May 6, 2007
Leader
of Chechnya: I'll let nobody goof on people
Caucasus Knot, May 5, 2007
Chechen
government warns of social unrest if federal police do not stop torturing
detainees
International Herald Tribune (AP), May 5, 2007
EU
and Russia hold the fifth round of their Human Rights Consultations
May 4, 2007
Russian
conscripts visit museum in bid to fight racial conflict
A new method of combating inappropriate relations is being tried out in
army units in
Leningrad Region. A new addition has been made to compulsory military
duties: a visit
to an ethnographic museum. Conscripts are shown around exhibition on the
culture and
people of Ingushetia, Kalmykia, Khakassia, Kabarda-Balkar Republic, Bashkortostan
and
other regions
RTR Rossiya (BBC), May 4, 2007
Outcomes
of searching defendants in Ulman's case to be presented in Rostov-on-Don
Caucasus Knot, May 4, 2007
The
defence party in Khudyakov and Arakcheev's case will speak at court on
May 7
Caucasus Knot, May 4, 2007
Firemen
inspect the "Educated Media" Foundation
Caucasus Knot, May 4, 2007
Power
officials in Chechnya ask Kadyrov to close ORB-2 down
Caucasus Knot, May 4, 2007
Council
of Europe Concerned About Russia's Minorities
RFE/RL May 4, 2007
French
front-runner Sarkozy says he'd raise Chechnya with Putin if elected
International Herald Tribune, (AP), May 4, 2007
Chechen leader
critical of judges for doing poor job: “some decisions
local
courts had already made could be regarded as void, because there had been
no
proper scrutiny before the verdicts.”, ITAR-TASS, May 4, 2007
Chechen
law enforcer killed in village of Ordzhonikidzovskaya in Ingushetia
ITAR-TASS, May 4, 2007
Bandit
land
The Economist, May 5, 2007
Chechen
leaders eager to guarantee human rights
ITAR-TASS, May 3, 2007
Russia:
Rights Activist Discusses Difficulties Of Working In Chechnya
RFE/RL, May 2, 2007
Posthumous
Honour Points to Russia's Muzzled Media
IPS, May 2, 2007
Roadside
bomb blast kills 2 police in Chechen capital
IHT (AP) May 2, 2007
Three Russian
servicemen die in Chechnya
Agence France Presse, May 2, 2007
Moscow
City Court postpones the case hearing of Stomakhin, supporter of Chechen
separatists
Caucasus Knot, May 2, 2007
North
Ossetian SC refuses to bring Beslan power officials to responsibility
Caucasus Knot, May 2, 2007
Ex-Russian
policeman 'complicit' in torture
National Post (Canada), May 2, 2007
New Chechen
rebel field commander, Amir Muslim, appointed
Kavkaz Center, May 2, 2007
Two
servicemen wounded in Ingushetia by mine blast
ITAR-TASS, May 1, 2007
Over 20,000 celebrate
May 1 holiday in Grozny while Chechen President Promises to Fully Restore
Capital of the Republic
RIA Novosti (BBC) , May 1, 2007