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March 2008

• Administrative case against Ella Kesayeva, one of the leaders of “Voice of Beslan” is closed by the court decision…and a new case - now criminal - opened, the claimant in which is the new chairperson of the “Voice of Beslan”, Marina Malikova (in Russian)
  Caucasian Knot, March 31, 2008
• Grenade explosion injures 19 people at wedding in Chechnya
  RIA Novosti, March 31, 2008
• Chechen police search for Internet extremist
  The Financial, March 31, 2008
• FSB chief sees threat from Islamic extremist groups
  RIA Novosti, March 31, 2008
• Blast heard near the house of the Ingushetia’s Deputy Minister on Culture
  Unknown threw an explosive device in the court of the Deputy Minister’s house. No casualties reported. (in Russian)
  Caucasian Knot, March 31, 2008
• Tajiks Hold 3 in Death Of Reporter
  The Moscow Times, March 31, 2008
• The Moscow court will hear the case against the Ingushetiya.ru, the opposition website on April 11 (in Russian)
  Earlier, on March 28, the court declined the request by the Prosecutor General of Ingushetia to suspend the website until the ruling is issued.
  Caucasian Knot, March 31, 2008
  
• Gyulnara Rustamova: Dagestan advocates would not defend interests of kidnapped persons
  Caucasian Knot, March 29, 2008
• Administrative case against "Voice of Beslan" is still open
  Caucasian Knot, March 29, 2008
• Politkovskaya killer 'identified'
  BBC, March 28, 2008
• Chechnya’s local resident voluntarily surrenders 20 kg of TNT
  ITAR-TASS, March 28, 2008
• Oil depot fire in South Russia put out - emergency services
  RIA Novosti, March 28, 2008
• Russian Islamic universities criticize bans of Muslim literature
  Interfax, March 28, 2008
• International terrorist organizations back continued Caucasus hostilities
  ITAR-TASS, March 28, 2008
• Leading journalists says no free speech in Russian media
  RFE/RL, March 28, 2008
• Joint Open Letter to the Bureau of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
  Newsdesk, March 28, 2008
• Interior Troops Commander Reports a "Surge in Militant Activity"
  Chechnya Weekly, March 28, 2008
• Bombings, Shootings and Abductions Continue to Plague Ingushetia
  Chechnya Weekly, March 28, 2008
• Dagestani Journalists, Police and Young People Victims of Violence
  Chechnya Weekly, March 28, 2008
• Members of “Voice of Beslan” are not allowed in the courtroom during the hearing on the case of Ella Kessayeva, one of the leaders of the organization, accused in violating administrative law (in Russian)
  Caucasian Knot, March 28, 2008
• Squandering of federal funding goes on unpunished in Chechnya (in Russian)
  The Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of Chechnya revealed violations of federal laws in the course of evaluating the observance of the budgetary legislation by the territorial administration of the Federal Service of financial-budgetary supervision (Rosfinnadzor) in the Chechen republic.
  Caucasian Knot, March 28, 2008
• Russia says 50 militants 'eliminated' in N. Caucasus last year
  RIA Novosti, March 27, 2008
• Russian forces kill 3 rebels in southern region
  Reuters, March 27, 2008
• Strasbourg court rules Russia pay $6.7 million for 2007 cases
  RIA Novosti, March 27, 2008
• Oil depot on fire in Dagestan, blast heard
  Reuters, March 27, 2008
• OSCE Official Urges Russia to Investigate Murders of Dagestani Journalists
  Voice of America, March 27, 2008
• Moscow police trace killers of Daghestani journalist
  Security forces kill three militants in Southern Daghestan
  RFE/RL, March 27, 2008
• Militants surrounded in small town in southern Russia
  RIA Novosti, March 27, 2008
• Dagestan's Ombudsman claims the people disappearances problem in Dagestan is overrated (in Russian)
  Since July 2007, alleged Ms. Alisultanova, no complaints have been filed with respect to disappearances. According to the Ombudsman, the more critical problem in the republic is the illegal interrogation methods. “Mothers of Dagestan for Human Rights”, one of the Dagestan’s NGOs, contested the statement and suggested a political bias in the situation assessment by the Ombudsman.
  Caucasian Knot, March 27, 2008
  
• 15 people attend the picket in Moscow to protest the Kremlin’s policy in the North Caucasus (in Russian)
  Caucasian Knot, March 27, 2008
• 2 weapons caches found in Chechnya in one day (in Russian)
  Caucasian Knot, March 27, 2008
• 5 residents, suspected of assistance to rebels, detained during a special operation in Chechnya (in Russian)
  Caucasian Knot, March 27, 2008
• 500 gunmen operate in North Caucasus – ministry
  ITAR-TASS, March 26, 2008
• Russia's Chechnya to honor neglected Soviet leader
  Reuters, March 26, 2008
• Case opened over fire at North Ossetia-Ingushetia border checkpoint
  ITAR-TASS, March 26, 2008
• Reportedly mutilated bodies of alleged Ingush militants returned to families
  RFE/RL, March 26, 2008
• Another case of abduction in Ingushetia: a young man reported disappeared in the Barsukinskiy municipality (in Russian)
  Caucasian Knot, March 26, 2008
• 3 suspected militants detained in Chechnya (in Russian)
  Caucasian Knot, March 26, 2008
• Chechnya - The week in brief: 17 - 24 Mar 2008
  Relief Web, March 25, 2008
• Three police killed, one injured in attacks in south Russia
  RIA Novosti, March 25, 2008
• Could hypnosis solve Dagestan murder?
  Russia Today, March 25, 2008
• Nalchik trial hearings resume
  RFE/RL, March 25, 2008
• "We are being followed and threatened" - say the representatives of the Morther of Dagestan (in Russian)
  "Mothers of Dagestan for Human Rights" seek protection from harassment by the authorities from "Memorial" and the "International Helsinki Federation
  Caucasian Knot, March 25, 2008
• Policeman killed, and two wounded (in Russian)
  One police officer killed, two wounded in a cross fire followed by the armed attack on the police unit in Khasavyurt, Dagestan
  Caucasian Knot, March 25, 2008
• Two police officers wounded at the border checkpoint between North Ossetian and Ingushetia (in Russian)
  Caucasian Knot, March 25, 2008
• Cache with arms and 6 kg of an explosive substance found in Chechnya (in Russian)
  Caucasian Knot, March 25, 2008
• Chair of the Journalist Union apologizes to Kadyrov (in Russian)
  Chairperson of the Journalists Union of Russia pays a visit to Chechnya to personally apologize before President Kadyrov for the incident in connection with admitting Kadyrov into the Union by Chechen journalists
  Caucasian Knot, March 25, 2008
• Blast injures four in Nazran, south Russia – 2
  RIA Novosti, March 24, 2008
• The North Ossetia police examined the “Voice of Beslan’s” materials (in Russian)
  The police in North Ossetia requested expertise of an independent linguist to examine the materials of “Voice of Beslan” for extremism. Independent linguist did not find any extremism in the materials of “Voice of Beslan”
  Caucasian Knot, March 24, 2008
  
• Are "blacklisted" Russian journalists being murdered?
  Komsonol'skaya Pravda, March 24, 2008
• Melamedov: Dagestan journalists Shurpaev and Abashilov were on the "black list"
  Caucasian Knot, March 22, 2008
• An hour before his own death, Chairman of STRC "Dagestan" spoke about Ilyas Shurpaev's murder in Moscow
  Caucasian Knot, March 21, 2008
• Chief of local television company shot dead in Russia's volatile Caucasus province
  International Herald Tribune, March 21, 2008
• Moscow: State-run TV journalist found slain
  USA Today, March 21, 2008
  
• Blast hits checkpoint in southern Russia – TASS
  Reuters, March 21, 2008
• Grozny's lost boys
  Sydney Morning Herald, March 21, 2008
• Police car fired at in Grozny, one policeman wounded
  ITAR-TASS, March 21, 2008
• North Ossetian Court orders to conduct testing of the “Voice of Beslan’s” materials for extremism (in Russian)
  Caucasian Knot, March 21, 2008
• Dmitry Medvedev’s Chechnya Policy
  Chechnya Weekly, March 21, 2008
• The Kremlin Ponders What to Do with Zyazikov
  Chechnya Weekly, March 21, 2008
• Zyazikov Allies Try to Strike at Critical Media—but Fail
  Chechnya Weekly, March 21, 2008
• Chechen resistance launches major attack
  RFE/RL, March 20, 2008
• Nine killed in Chechnya gunfight
  Guardian UK, March 20, 2008
• The ECHR found Russia guilty in the disappearance of two brothers in Chechnya (in Russian)
  Caucasian Knot, March 20, 2008
• Police seize computer servers, cell phone of activist, critic of rights abuses in Chechnya
  AP, Moscow, March 20, 2008
• The Investigative Committee in Kabardino-Balkaria rejected allegations of use of torture by the accused in the 2005 attack on Nalchik, and refused to investigate the allegations (in Russian)
  Caucasian Knot, March 20, 2008
• Car of the Interior Ministry’s high official ambushed in Ingushetia (in Russian)
  Caucasian Knot, March 20, 2008
• A police car was blown-up in Ingushetia, one person wounded (in Russian)
  Caucasian Knot, March 20, 2008
• Power cutoff in Makhachkala, due to the unpaid energy bills, is being postponed until March 21 (in Russian)
  Caucasian Knot, March 20, 2008
• FEATURE-Russia rearms former rebels to patrol Chechnya
  Reuters, March 19, 2008
• US registration saves Russian opposition site
  CNews, March 19, 2008
• Russia's New Chechnya Enemy
  Turkish Weekly, March 19, 2008
• Fairy Tales of Glorious Battles in Chechnya
  The Moscow Times, March 19, 2008
• Supreme Court of the Russian Federation upheld the decision to allow the Council of Elders on Kabardin-Balkaria to remain open on the basis of lack of incriminating evidence by the Prosecutor’s Office of Kabardino-Balkaria (in Russian)
  Caucasian Knot, March 18, 2008
• Anti-terrorist Committee of Kabardino-Balkaria considers extremism the main predicament to the stability in the republic (in Russian)
  Caucasian Knot, March 18, 2008
• Supreme Court leaves Ingushetia.Ru Internet site in force
  ITAR-TASS, March 18, 2008
• Council of Federation declined request by Ingush legislators to ban broadcasting of Ren-TV in Ingushetia (in Russian)
  Caucasian Knot, March 18, 2008
• Teenager hurt in mine explosion in Chechnya’s Urus-Martan region
  ITAR-TASS, March 18, 2008
• Chechnya - The week in brief: 10 - 17 Mar 2008
  Relief Web, March 18, 2008
• In Dagestan, journalists accuse newspaper founder of attempting to get rid of unwanted workers
  Caucasian Knot, March 18, 2004
  
• New Prime Minister named in Ingushetia
  Militants killed in Dagestan
  RFE/RL, March 17, 2008
• Dagestan’s companies, responsible for delivering energy payments to the EES, getting fined (in Russian)
  Caucasian Knot, March 17, 2008
• 2 relatives of an Ingush human rights defender, Magomed Mutsolgov, killed in the past week (in Russian)
  Caucasian Knot, March 16, 2008
• Murat Zyazikov is replaced in his post as the Chairman of Ingushetia’s United Russia by Maryam Amrieva (in Russian)
  Caucasian Knot, March 15, 2008
• Russia: The legacy of Anna Politkovskaya
  Human Rigths Tribune, March 15, 2008
• Ingush president appoints new head of Cabinet
  ITAR TASS, March 14, 2008
• 4 government forces, 6 militants die in clashes, attacks in turbulent Russian region
  Associate Press, March 14, 2008
• Eighteenth issue of the monthly Chechen Society Today released
  Prague Watchdog, March 14, 2008
• 3 FSB officers attacked in Ingushetia, 2 died
  Caucasian Knot, March 14, 2008 (in Russian)
• A police officer shot in his car in Ingushetia
  Caucasian Knot, March 14, 2008 (in Russian)
• A police officer in Kabardino-Balkaria wounded in a cross-fire with militants
  Caucasian Knot, March 14, 2008 (in Russian)
• In light of the energy debt, power was cut off at the refugee camp in Ingushetia
  Caucasian Knot, March 14, 2008 (in Russian)
• 2 caches with weapons found in Chechnya by police
  Caucasian Knot, March 14, 2008 (in Russian)
• Balkar villagers demand abolition of police post
  RFE/RL, March 14, 2008
• Ramzan Kadyrov Targets the Yamadaev Brothers
  Chechnya Weekly, March 13, 2008
• Dagestan: Bombings, Shootings and an Armed Raid on a Power Company
  Chechnya Weekly, March 13, 2008
• Zyazikov Dismisses His Cabinet
  Chechnya Weekly, March 13, 2008
• Over 100 militants 'neutralized' in Chechnya in 2008 – official
  RIA Novosti, March 13, 2008
• 3 Chechen men were detained on the Swedish border in a car loaded with explosives, automatic rifles and cartridges (in Russian)
  Caucasian Knot, March 13, 2008
• Militant killed in Ingushetia planned terrorist act – FSB
  ITAR-TASS, March 13, 2008
• Ingushetia’s President Dismisses Cabinet
  RFE/RL, March 13, 2008
• President of Russian republic of Ingushetia fires government amid growing local violence
  International Herald Tribune, March 12, 2008
• Counter-terrorist operation begins in Russia’s Ingushetia
  ITAR-TASS, March 12, 2008
• An explosive device detonated in the center of the Dagestan’s capital and a container with explosives was found in a residential area in Makhachkala earlier the same day (in Russian)
  Caucasian Knot, March 12, 2008
• Dagestan’s President, EES discuss energy debts
  Russia will introduce system to evaluate ‘terrorist threats’
  RFE/RL, March 12, 2008
• Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria annulled the ruling of the Elbrus Regional court which sentenced the police officers for tortures of two youths to 3 years in prison (in Russian)
  Caucasian Knot, March 11, 2008
• The “hospital business” in Chechnya
  Prague Watchdog, March 11, 2008
• Welcome to Chechnya, soccer's latest outpost
  AFP, March 11, 2008
• Moscow authorities banned a meeting commemorating the three year anniversary of Maskhadov's death (in Russian)
  Caucasian Knot, March 11, 2008
• Mass meeting in Ingushetia again postponed
  Two civilians injured in militant attack in Kabardino-Balkaria
  RFE/RL, March 11, 2008
• A checkpoint of the Russia’s federal troops ambushed in Ingushetia (in Russian)
  Caucasian Knot, March 11, 2008
• Congress of Ingush Nation demands from Putin and Medvedev to set up order in Ingushetia
  Caucasian Knot, March 10, 2008
• Russian soldier killed near Chechnya
  The News - International, March 10, 2008
• Chechens as Janissaries of the regime?
  Prague Watchdog, March 10, 2008
• Police post fired at in Nalchik suburb, policemen unhurt
  ITAR-TASS, March 10, 2008
• Ingush People’s Congress appeals to Putin, Medvedev
  Chechen journalists throw down gauntlet
  Ossetian jamaat claims responsibility for killing police official
  Balkars mark deportation anniversary
  RFE/RL, March 10, 2008
• Russia power firm regains control after armed attack
  Reuters, March 9, 2008
• Police detain suspect in N.Ossetia senior police officer murder
  RIA Novosti, March 9, 2008
• Decision on Ramzan Kadyrov's membership in Russian Union of Journalists revoked
  Perma-News, March 9, 2008
  
• Organized crime police dept chief gunned down in Vladikavkaz
  ITAR-TASS, March 8, 2008
• North Caucasus: Dagestan Adopts New Program on Ethnic Relations
  Turkish Weekly, March 8, 2008
• Movement against War in Northern Caucasus asks Alexis II to help Maskhadov's relatives to get his remains for burial
  Caucasian Knot, March 8, 2008
• Additional troops and armored vehicles deployed in Nazran
  Caucasian Knot, March 8, 2008
• In Kabardino-Balkaria, a rally was held in memory of victims of deportation of the Balkar people
  Caucasian Knot, March 8, 2008
• CPRF of Dagestan declares distortion of voting results
  Caucasian Knot, March 7, 2008
• Suspected Ingush terrorist explodes himself in foiled escape
  ITAR-TASS, March 7, 2008
• Centre provides support for Beslan's families
  UNICEF, March 7, 2008
• Several energy stations in Dagestan being attacked (in Russian)
  Caucasian Knot, March 7, 2008
• March 8 marks the 3 year anniversary of the death of Aslan Maskhadov, the leader of the Chechen separatist movement (in Russian)
  Caucasian Knot, March 7, 2008
• Kadyrov Accepted, then Rejected by Journalists Union
  Moscow News Weekly, March 7, 2008
• The Journalists Union of Chechnya is leaving the Russia’s Journalists Union in protest for rejection of their decision to accept President Kadyrov to the membership of the Union (in Russian)
  Caucasian Knot, March 7, 2008
• Prominent Avar politician reelected mayor
  RFE/RL, March 7, 2008
• Kadyrov Seeks to Use Leading Human Rights Group against His Rivals
  Chechnya Weekly, March 6, 2008
• Voting in Ingushetia and Chechnya Again Scrutinized
  Chechnya Weekly, March 6, 2008
• Opposition in Ingushetia Plans to Hold a Council and Another Protest
  Chechnya Weekly, March 6, 2008
• Experts: Ingushetia is not pre-war Chechnya, but does remain the most unstable region in Russia, the failure of which will cause a chain reaction in the North Caucasus (in Russian)
  Caucasian Knot, March 6, 2008
• Russia Supreme Court upholds acquittal of Beslan police
  RIA Novosti, March 6, 2008
• Journalist quit Union to protest admission of Chechen leader
  Authorities in Ingushetia move to prevent ‘National Congress’
  Nalchik raid suspect says attempt made to kill him
  RFE/RL, March 6, 2008
• An extraordinary congress of Ingush people is planned by the Ingush opposition on March 8 to discuss the conditions of the current situation in the republic (in Russian)
  Caucasian Knot, March 6, 2008
• Football Coming Back to Chechnya?
  Moscow News Weekly, March 6, 2008
• Chechen police discovered a cache of weapons in South-West of Chechnya (in Russian)
  Caucasian Knot, March 6, 2008
• Ingush opposition unveils agenda for “National Congress”
  Suspected detained for murder of Daghestan oppositionist
  RFE/RL, March 5, 2008
• Russia posts February inflation
  RosBusiness Consulting, March 5, 2008
• Ingush oppositionist sheds light on low turnout figure
  RFE/RL, March 4, 2008
• In Chechnya, 91% of voters cast their votes, 88.7% - for Medvedev
  Caucasian Knot, March 3, 2008
• In Ingushetia, voter turnout was 92.3%
  Caucasian Knot, March 3, 2008
• Voter turnout during presidential election at 69.65%
  RosBusinessConsulting Database, March 3, 2008
• Final results of the election monitoring in Ingushetia: a total 5,742 people voted (in Russian)
  Independent Ingush website, Ingushetiya.ru, reports that a group of local citizens, who took on a task of monitoring elections, recorder no more the 5,742 voters, which amounts to 3.5% of eligible voter body.
  Ingushetiya.ru, March 3, 2008
  
• Author Asne Seierstad enters hell with the angel of Grozny
  Sunday Times, March 2, 2008
• Bombings wound 2 in police convoy near Chechnya
  IHT, March 2, 2008
  

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