• Prosecutor's office in Kabardino-Balkaria denies the existence of Vakhabits' lists
  Caucasian Knot, July 31, 2007
• Re-trial of "Cadet" case starts in Chechnya
  Caucasian Knot, July 31, 2007
• Russia: Security Sweep Fails To Stem Violence In Ingushetia
  RFE/RL, July 31, 2007
• Russia begins large-scale military exercises in North Caucasus
  RIA Novosti, July 31, 2007
• Group of sappers attacked in Chechnya, 1 serviceman injured
  ITAR-TASS, July 31, 2007
• Police bus attacked in Ingushetia, one policeman killed, 3 wounded
  ITAR-TASS, July 31, 2007
• "Novaya Gazeta": haemodialysis equipment delivered to Ingushetia after a hunger strike of patients
  Caucasian Knot, July 31, 2007
• A member of the NN Committee Against Torture took part in the meeting of the Public Chamber in Chechnya
  Committee Against Torture, July 30, 2007
• Residents of temporary accommodations in Grozny forced out
  Prima-News, July 30, 2007
• Daghestan Jamaat Claims Responsibility For Killing Muslim Cleric
  RFE/RL, July 30, 2007
• Beslan Mothers Say New Video Refutes Official Version
  RFE/RL, July 30, 2007
• Case on threats to Society of Russian-Chechen Friendship deputy head closed for finding no offenders
  Caucasian Knot, July 28, 2007
• Old men and children were beaten during special operation in Ingushetia
  Caucasian Knot, July 28, 2007
• Suspects Detained In Ingushetia After Attack On FSB
  RFE/RL, July 28, 2007
• Contract soldiers from Dagestan think that their discharge from the army is nationality-motivated
  Caucasian Knot, July 27, 2007
• Prosecutor's Office wants to stop "Pravo-Zaschita" and lock up Dmitrievskiy
  Caucasian Knot, July 27, 2007
• ECHR on Russian war crimes: Responses from Moscow and Grozny
  Prague Watchdog, July 27, 2007
• HRC "Memorial": European Court's decisions animate investigation into crimes committed in Chechnya
  Caucasian Knot, July 27, 2007
• Senior Muslim Cleric Killed In Daghestan
  RFE/RL, July 27, 2007
• Murder of religious leader in Daghestan threatens situation
  RIA Novosti, July 27, 2007
• Russia’s Human Right Defenders Hardly Have Any Rights Themselves
  Kommersant, July 27, 2007
• Militiamen of North Ossetia still have their 683 million roubles of "emergency money" unpaid
  Caucasian Knot, July 26, 2007
• This year, over 300 persons fell victim of racist attacks in Russia
  Caucasian Knot, July 26, 2007
• Tatiana Lokshina: Chechen young people join militants out of despair
  Caucasian Knot, July 26, 2007
• ECHR condemns Russia for slaughter in Chechnya's Novye Aldy and double murder in Gekhi
  Prague Watchdog, July 26, 2007
• Chechnya: Ancient Land Disputes Rumble On
  Moscow News, July 26, 2007
• The Continuing Exodus of Ethnic Russians from the Caucasus
  Jamestown Chechnya Weekly, July 26, 2007
• North Caucasus Women Ply Secret Trade
  IWPR, July 25, 2007
• ECHR condemns Russia for slaughter in Chechnya's Novye Aldy and double murder in Gekhi
  Prague Watchdog, July 26, 2007
• Situation in Chechnya calm, improving - Russian interior minister
  Russian Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev said that the situation in the Chechen republic is relatively calm. "Only a non-professional can say that the situation in the Chechen republic has worsened and is moving toward further destabilization… Allegations that the situation in Chechnya and the neighboring regions has become more complicated are likely being made by people and groups who are interested in its complication… I am making such conclusions as a professional and a man who knows the situation, and I can say that the situation in the Chechen republic has not worsened and is even improving," he told Interfax.
  Russia & CIS Military Newswire, July 26, 2006
• Ingush authorities silence newspaper (in Russian)
  All copies of issue 27 of the Ingush newspaper “Severny Kavkaz” have been confiscated by the authorities after the newspaper published a material criticizing Ingush government. A similar situation happened with the radio station Ekho Moskvy, when it mysteriously went out of air in Ingushetia on the day a program critical of the republic’s government was scheduled.
  Ingushetiya.ru, July 26, 2007
• Militants Claim Responsibility for Shooting KBR Police Officers
  RFE/RL, July 26, 2007
• Russian Interior Ministry begins special preventive operation in Ingushetia
  ITAR-TASS, July 25, 2007
• Chechnya allots 47 million rubles for search of missing people
  Caucasian Knot, July 25, 2007
• Ingushetia: information on hunger strike of renal insufficiency patients refuted
  Caucasian Knot, July 25, 2007
• Coordination Council of Ingush NGOs has been created (in Russian)
  21 out of 50 Ingush nongovernmental organizations have established a Coordination Council, whose major goal is to support initiatives of NGOs to advocate for realization of human rights and civil liberties, as well as promote the development of civil society institutions in Ingushetia. Musa Malsagov, Head of the Ingush office of the Russian Red Cross, has been elected Chair of the Council.
  Ingushetiya.ru, July 25, 2007
• Religious leaders from the North Caucasus to visit President Bush (in Russian)
  Three imams from Ingushetia, North Ossetia and Kabardino-Balkaria have accepted President Bush’s invitation to conduct a month-long visit to the USA and arrived in the country this weekend. The imams will meet with the President and his father and afterwards with representatives of American Muslim communities and North Caucasus diasporas. Although invitations were also sent to imams of Chechnya, Adygeya and the Stavropol region, they did not accept due to personal or political reasons. Gazeta reports this invitation was unexpected for the Russian government officials.
  Ingushetiya.ru, July 25, 2007
• President Seeks to Reassure Balkars
  RFE/RL, July 25, 2007
• Relatives Ask Killers to Explain Shooting Of Ingush Cleric
  RFE/RL, July 25, 2007
• Resistance, Pro-Moscow Chechens Clash In South
  RFE/RL, July 25, 2007
• Russian Regional Prosecutor Warns Against Ethnic Strife
  RFE/RL, July 25, 2007
• Kabardino-Balkaria registers increase in Islamic radicalism
  RFE/RL, July 25, 2007
• Free expression under threat from law that would step up fight against “extremism” – statement
  Reporters without Borders, July 24, 2007
• Problem of religious extremism discussed in Kabardino-Balkaria
  Caucasian Knot, July 24, 2007
• All renal insufficiency patients go on hunger strike in Ingushetia
  Caucasian Knot, July 24, 2007
• Race Brawl Ends In Confusion
  The St. Petersburg Times, July 24, 2007
• UN to help develop Chechen agriculture
  Regnum, July 24, 2007
• Authorities do not fight terrorism, but "designate" terrorists
  Prima-News, July 23, 2007
• Dagestan authorities want to deprive the charitable hospital of its building
  Caucasian Knot, July 23, 2007
• Prominent public figure killed in North Caucasus - police
  RIA Novosti, July 23, 2007
• Gunmen open fire on Ingush president's motorcade
  RFE/RL, July 23, 2007
• Prosecutor-general warns Balkar group
  RFE/RL, July 23, 2007
• Soldier who has disappeared in North Ossetia returns to Volgograd Region
  Caucasian Knot, July 21, 2007
• Victims of Beslan terror act punished for pogrom in the courtroom
  Caucasian Knot, July 21, 2007
• Attackers shoot dead Ingush President’s top ethnic relations aide
  Attackers shot and killed a senior specialist on ethnic relations in a troubled region of southern Russia on Saturday after a week of violence authorities suspect resulted from tensions between Christian and Muslim communities. Vakha Vedzizhev, a top adviser to the Interethnic and Public Relations ministry of Ingushetia, was killed after unidentified attackers sprayed his car with automatic gunfire in the town of Karabulak, according to a spokesman with the Ingush Interior Ministry. Vedzizhev died from his wounds on the way to the hospital.
  Associated Press Worldstream, July 21, 2007
• "Unwanted" journalists turned away from Public Prosecutor's press conference in Kabardino-Balkaria
  Caucasus Knot, July 20, 2007
• Russia seeks to restrict flow of Chechen complaints to European Court on Human Rights
  International Herald Tribune, July 20, 2007
• Ingushetia Racked by Murders, Bombings and Shootings
  Jamestown Chechnya Weekly, July 19, 2007
• The Future of Ramzan Kadyrov
  Jamestown Chechnya Weekly, July 19, 2007
• Chechen who appealed to the Strasbourg Court dies in Murmansk penal colony
  Prague Watchdog, July 19, 2007
• SKorea may invest up to 2 billion dollars in Chechnya, says official
  AFX News, July 19, 2007
• Six people to go on trial over last year clashes in Kondopoga
  ITAR-TASS, July 19, 2007
• Politicians and public figures of Ingushetia are indignant with teacher's murder and act of terrorism in the cemetery
  Caucasian Knot, July 18, 2007
• Chechen homes - silent reminders
  Prague Watchdog, July 18, 2007
• Victims of terror attack in Ingushetia will receive 100,000 rubles each (in Russian)
  The Ingush President Murat Zyazikov promised compensation to victims of the explosion of a bomb planted at a cemetery during funeral of a perished school teacher and her two children. A total of 10 people were injured, 7 are hospitalized.
  Ingushetia.ru, July 18, 2007
• Seven wounded in blast at cemetery in Ingushetia
  Interfax, July 18, 2007
• Federal official assesses abductions in North Ossetia
  RFE/RL, July 18, 2007
• Foreign teachers allowed to return to Islamic school in southern Russia
  After a two-year break, the Federal Migration Service of Russia allowed foreign teachers to return to Imam Abu Hanifa Islamic Institute in Karachay-Cherkessia. Four foreign teachers - in Arabic grammar, history and interpretation of the Koran - had been working at Imam Abu Hanifa Islamic Institute since 1993. Three teachers had been sent by Egypt's well-known Islamic university Al-Azhar and one by the Turkish Ministry for Religious Affairs. In 2005, the Russian Migration Service expelled the teachers for violating the visa regime. The foreigners had entered the country with a private visa instead of a business visa. Two years later, the Russian Migration Service tempered justice with mercy.
  Regnum, July 17, 2007
• Facts of incredible corruption are investigated in Chechnya
  Caucasian Knot, July 17, 2007
• Dagestan debates on shooting down peaceful meeting
  Caucasian Knot, July 17, 2007
• Parents of the militants lost in Kabardino-Balkaria receive answer from the State Office of Public Prosecutor on the fact of cremation
  Caucasian Knot, July 17, 2007
• Mothers of Beslan Committee appeals to Federation Council (in Russian)
  They insist that a federal law be passed providing state support to victims of terror acts - in form of subsidies for medical treatment and rehabilitation.
  Hro.org, July 17, 2007
• Kadyrov Seeks More Oil Wealth
  The Saint Petersburg Times, July 17, 2007
• Chechen who appealed to European Court killed in Russian prison
  Kavkaz Center, July 17, 2007
• Ingush president's family residence comes under attack, no fatalities – official
  Interfax, July 17, 2007
• Investigators to probe abductions in Russia's North Ossetia
  RIA Novosti, July 17, 2007
• Federation Council delegation visits North Ossetia, Ingushetia
  RFE/RL, July 17, 2007
• Federal official suggests Ingush abductions are revenge for Beslan
  RFE/RL, July 17, 2007
• Interview of Ramzan Kadyrov to Izvestia (in Russian)
  Izvestia.ru, July 16, 2007
• Balkars stage protest against republican leadership
  RFE/RL, July 16, 2007
• Festivities to mark Chechen leader's first 100 days postponed
  RFE/RL, July 16, 2007
• Rights champs call for probe into abductions in Russia's North Ossetia
  An Ingush opposition website published a statement of a group of North Caucasus human rights champions and regional leaders of the Russian Yabloko party who demanded that the North Ossetia authorities take immediate action to release the recently kidnapped people and bring to book the culprits. They also urged the leadership of the Southern Federal District to immediately investigate the cases of abduction in North Ossetia's Prigorodnyy District and the capital Vladikavkaz.
  Ingushetia.ru, July 15, 2007
• Website says southern Russian mp's anti-Wahhabi views may be behind his murder
  Ibragim Ibragimov, member of the Gubden village council in Karabudakhkentskiy District, spoke on a local TV channel a day before his murder. He criticized followers of the Wahhabi trend in Islam and recommended that they "be taken by their neck and thrown out of the village", the website said.
  Caucasian Knot, July 15, 2007
• 2,000 kidnapping cases opened in Chechnya since 1991 – prosecutor
  More than 2,000 criminal cases on charges of kidnapping have been opened in Chechnya over the past 16 years. "This figure includes all cases reported to law enforcement agencies since 1991," Chechnya's chief prosecutor Valery Kuznetsov said. The majority of those kidnapped went missing during the active phase of the counter-terrorist operation. The following years saw a steady decrease. "In 2006, 196 kidnappings were reported, down from 439 in 2005. This year, only 80 incidents have so far been reported," Kuznetsov said. Some kidnappings have nothing to do with crime. "In a number of cases, the so-called 'missing' were active members of illegal paramilitary formations," the prosecutor said.
  Russia and CIS Newswire, July 16, 2007
• Local self-govt council member killed in Dagestan
  ITAR-TASS, July 14, 2007
• European Court's decision obliges to investigate into activities of the Oktiabrskiy VOVD of the Chechen capital
  Caucasian Knot, July 13, 2007
• Congress of Caucasian Nations demands that State Office of Public Prosecutor stops xenophobia in mass media
  Caucasian Knot, July 13, 2007
• North-Ossetian ombudsman dies in a car accident (in Russian)
  Yuri Sidakov, republic ombudsman and coordinator of Moscow Helsinki Group in North Ossetia died because of a heart attach while he was driving.
  Novoteka, July 13, 2007
• Chechen leader calls Putin world’s politician number one
  ITAR-TASS, July 13, 2007
• Poll in North Caucasus: Monarchy will be declared in Russia, and Putin will become emperor
  Regnum, July 13, 2007
• Ingush appeal to international community
  RFE/RL, July 13, 2007
• Scholars raise alarm over decline of Daghestan's languages
  RFE/RL, July 13, 2007
• Resistance warns tourists to stay away from Kabardino-Balkaria
  RFE/RL, July 13, 2007
• European Court again finds Russia guilty of disappearance and death of Chechnya resident (Magomadov and Magomadov v. Russia)
  Caucasian Knot, July 12, 2007
• Problem of media freedom discussed at the Human Rights Centre of Kabardino-Balkaria
  Caucasian Knot, July 12, 2007
• Parents of perished militants address the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria
  Caucasian Knot, July 12, 2007
• Upsurge of Fighting in Chechnya
  IWPR, July 12, 2007
• Dagestan in Crisis
  Jamestown Chechnya Weekly, July 12, 2007
• Growing Distrust of Kadyrov in Russian Political Circles
  Jamestown Chechnya Weekly, July 12, 2007
• Russian authorities prepare for possible attack in North Ossetia
  Jamestown Eurasia Daily, July 12, 2007
• Russia loses in yet another case in the European Court of Human Rights
  ECHR press release, July 12, 2007
• Supreme court annuls ruling on Karachayevsk mayoral elections
  RFE/RL, July 12, 2007
• Crime continues to rise in Kabardino-Balkaria
  RFE/RL, July 12, 2007
• In Russia, legislation on ‘extremism’ poses new press freedom threat
  Committee to Protect Journalists, July 11, 2007
• Is the war in Chechnya "over" again?
  Prague Watchdog, July 11, 2007
• Chechnya: Kadyrov Completes First 100 Days in Office
  RFE/RL, July 11, 2007
• Senators approve extremism bill
  Interfax, July 11, 2007
• Five persons to be punished for a fight attempt between locals and Caucasian natives in Zelenograd
  Caucasian Knot, July 11, 2007
• Over 4,000 missing in Chechnya since 1994 - human rights chief
  RIA Novosti, July 11, 2007
• Ingush protest continues
  RFE/RL, July 11, 2007
• Public Chamber Supports Zorkin's Call For New Laws On Filing Suits With Strasbourg Court
  Johnson’s Russia List, July 10, 2007
• "Memorial" criticizes CC's bill on amending the procedure of appealing to Strasbourg
  Caucasian Knot, July 10, 2007
• President of the RF Constitutional Court proposes amendments to Russian laws which will limit the right of Russian citizens to file complaints in the European Court of Human Rights
  Committee Against Torture, July 10, 2007
• Gazprom forces North Caucasus shareholders get rid of their shares (in Russian)
  A subsidiary of Gazprombank in Pyatigorsk, which provided depositary services to shareholders of Gazprom in Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachaevo-Cherkessia, North Ossetia, Caucasus Mineral Waters and other districts in the south of Russia, will no longer provide such services. A Gazprom official explained such development as necessary to ensure security in operations with shares, which can only be provided in the region by using the modern depositary system in the Stavropol office of Gazprombank. Shareholders, most of who are pensioners and are not able to make long trips to Stavropol, regard this measure as an intentional isolation of people in the North Caucasus from participating in the financial operations with shares of the state-owned Gazprom and as forcing them to sell their portfolios.
  Caucasus Times, July 10, 2007
• Chechnya’s priority – economic development, war is over - Kadyrov
  ITAR-TASS, July 10, 2007
• Chechen republic head submits annual address to parliament
  RFE/RL, July 10, 2007
• First anniversary of Shamil Basayev's death
  Prague Watchdog, July 10, 2007
• North Ossetian Ingushes protest against kidnapping of locals
  Caucasian Knot, July 9, 2007
• "Novye Izvestia": Russians are not definite in their attitude to migrants
  Caucasian Knot, July 9, 2007
• Hostilities in Chechnya are over - Kadyrov
  Interfax, July 9, 2007
• Judge Seeks to Slow Appeals to Strasbourg
  The Moscow Times, July 9, 2007
• Fugitives from Chechnya meet with Daghestani official
  RFE/RL, July 9, 2007
• North Caucasus leaders euphoric over choice of Sochi for 2014 winter Olympics
  RFE/RL, July 9, 2007
• Ingush again protest abductions
  RFE/RL, July 9, 2007
• Duma approves 'anti-extremism' law
  RFE/RL, July 9, 2007
• European court of human rights blames Russia for death of former Chechen parliament speaker
  RFE/RL, July 9, 2007
• North Ossetia: Dozens rally in troubled southern Russian region protesting disappearances
  International Herald Tribune, July 8, 2007
• "Memorial": European Court's decisions on Chechnya do not reduce the crime count
  Caucasian Knot, July 7, 2007
• Relatives of those perished in Nalchik: they burnt torture traces in crematorium
  Caucasian Knot, July 7, 2007
• State Duma toughens punishment for extremism
  Caucasian Knot, July 5, 2007
• Chechnya Deployment “Deprofessionalizes” Russian Policemen
  Chechnya Weekly, July 5, 2007
• Zyazikov's Spiraling Problems in Ingushetia
  Chechnya Weekly, July 5, 2007
• More court holdings against Russia
  The European Court of Human Rights has condemned Russia for the killing of Ruslan Alikhadziyev, Speaker of the Parliament of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, who was arrested by federal soldiers in May 2000 in his home in Shali and then "disappeared".
  European Court of Human Rights, July 5, 2007
• Situation in Chechnya heating up again
  Prague Watchdog, July 5, 2007
• Extremism Bill Clears Key Hurdle
  The Moscow Times, July 5, 2007
• Ulman case continues to alarm Chechen public opinion
  Prague Watchdog, July 4, 2007
• There are no aliens in the republic (in Russian)
  Ingush president Murat Zyazikov commits to work closely with SIDA, UN, foreign donors to provide all necessary conditions for internally displaced persons to acquire permanent residency in the Ingush republic. Currently, 19 thousand out of 40 thousand refugees from Chechnya and North Ossetia are willing to settle down in Ingushetia.
  Republic of Ingushetia, July 4, 2007
• Two female suicides in Grozny
  Prague Watchdog, July 3, 2007
• Keilin's advocate addresses Ombudsman of Stavropol Territory
  Caucasian Knot, July 3, 2007
• "Voice of Beslan": Beslan residents' complaint to the European Court is legally justified
  Caucasian Knot, July 3, 2007
• Anonymous burials in Chechnya can keep remains of 3000 persons
  Caucasian Knot, July 3, 2007
• One killed in mass scuffle in Dagestan, suspects detained
  ITAR-TASS, July 3, 2002
• Tensions surface within Ingushetian branch of pro-Kremlin party
  RFE/RL, July 3, 2007
• Chechen resistance claims to control 'most' of south
  RFE/RL, July 3, 2007
• Two Russian Journalists Find Political Asylum in US
  Kommersant, July 2, 2007
• War with the Media; Moscow's crackdown on independent news outlets harkens back to the dark days of the Soviet era
  Newsweek (International Edition), July 2, 2007