• 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