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April 2008

• Chechnya’s Capital Rises From the Ashes, Atop Hidden Horrors
  New York Times, April 30, 2008
• Militants injure soldier with grenade launcher in Chechnya
  RIA Novosti, April 30, 2008
• Search warrant issued for brother of renegade Chechen commander
  RFE/RL, April 30, 2008
• 2 militants suspected in the murder of two girls killed in Chechnya (in Russian)
  Caucasian Knot, April 30, 2008
• Radical Islam sweeping into North Caucasus
  Russia Today, April 30, 2008
• The owner of a bookstore selling Muslim literature in Dagestan harassed by police (in Russian)
  Caucasian Knot, April 30, 2008
• No second performance of play about "Nord-Ost" in Dagestan was staged
  Caucasian Knot, April 30, 2008
• US Department of State’s report on terrorism: Russian government continued to view counterterrorism as top priority
  Focus News, April 30, 2008
• Strasbourg court rules Russia pay $112,000 to Chechen woman
  RIA Novosti, April 29, 2008
• Dagestan cancels refusal to open a criminal case against Director General of "Nastoyascheye Vremya"
  Caucasian Knot, April 29, 2008
• Dagestan’s government highlights causes of Russian outmigration
  RFE/RL, April 29, 2008
• Smiling children promote violent Russian region
  Reuters South Africa, April 29, 2008
• Ingush divided over how to stem corruption
  RFE/RL, April 29, 2008
• Lokshina: EU 'credibility gap' on human rights in Russia
  EurActiv, April 29, 2008
• Americans get rid of ‘Russian public enemies’
  CNews, April 29, 2008
• Chechen human rights official downplays prison camp brawl
  RFE/RL, April 28, 2008
• Human Rights Commissioner: “No evidence of the continued use of tortures in Chechnya” (in Russian)
  Caucasian Knot, April 28, 2008
• Rival on run after standoff with Chechen president
  Times Online, April 27, 2008
• Grozny district resident rewarded for information about 150 kilos of TNT
  ITAR-TASS, April 27, 2008
• Chechnya: Is Kadyrov Maintaining Hold On Power?
  RFE/RL, April 27, 2008
• Court in Ingushetia fines and expels US woman out of Russia
  Caucasian Knot, April 27, 2008
• Russia's region of 'lawlessness'
  BBC, April 27, 2008
• Russia listens to HR criticism
  The News - International, April 25, 2008
• Chechnya's neighbors seen facing turmoil
  Reuters, April 25, 2008
• Analysis: Russian Defense Ministry Postpones Ruling On Controversial Chechen Battalion
  RFE/RL, April 25, 2008
• Who in Moscow Protects the Yamadaev Brothers?
  Chechnya Weekly, April 25, 2008
• Human Rights Watch expert: the conflict between Kadyrov and Yamadayev illustrated the degree of instability in Chechnya (in Russian)
  Caucasian Knot, April 25, 2008
• Large cache of weapons discovered in the basement of a hospital in Grozny(in Russian)
  Caucasian Knot, April 25, 2008
• This Odd Place Called Ingushetia
  Chechnya Weekly, April 25, 2008
• One killed, two injured in Ingushetia militant raids
  RIA Novosti, April 25, 2008
• Putin, COE’s human rights commissioner meet in Moscow
  ITAR-TASS, April 25, 2008
• Nalchik trial begins
  RFE/RL, April 25, 2008
• Channel One "Uncovers" a Turkish-U.S. Plot in the Caucasus
  Chechnya Weekly, April 25, 2008
• Russia: Canadian newspaper reporter expelled from Chechnya
  Canada News Wire, April 24, 2008
  
• Two servicemen are injured in a roadside blast in Ingushetia
  Caucasian Knot, April 24, 2008 (in Russian)
  
• Two servicemen injured in the blast at the block post in Ingushetia
  Caucasian Knot, April 24, 2008 (in Russian)
• President of the Committee on Forced Migrants, Aslambek Apayev claims, 18000 refugees from North Ossetia reside in Ingushetia (in Russian)
  Caucasian Knot, April 24, 2008
• Nationalist website publishes enemies list
  RFE/RL, April 24, 2008
• Nation’s Enemies Went to Prosecutors
  Kommersant, April 24, 2008
• Russia Remembers Yeltsin
  Voice of America, April 24, 2008
• Council of Europe body wants Russia to promote human rights
  Council of Europe official visits North Caucasus
  Two suspects in train bombing released from custody
  RFE/RL, April 24, 2008
• FSB helicopter attacked in Chechnya
  RIA Novosti, April 23, 2008
• Thousands still missing in Chechnya
  Russia Today, April 23, 2008
• Kadyrov Is the Better of Two Chechen Evils
  The Moscow Times, April 23, 2008
• Chechnya: Russian Documentary Alleges West Sought Chechen Secession
  RFE/RL, April 23, 2008
• Western Secret Services Plotted Chechnya’s Separation
  Kommersant, April 23, 2008
• Turkish building company denies funding Chechen militants
  RIA Novosti, April 23, 2008
• 100 inmates involved in a fight at the Chernokozovo prison in Chechnya (in Russian)
  Caucasian Knot, April 23, 2008
• One police officer wounded in Daghestan grenade attack
  RIA Novosti, April 23, 2008
• Two security officers injured in S. Russia attack
  RIA Novosti, April 23, 2008
• Council of Europe thanks authorities of Ingushetia for aid to Chechen refugees
  ITAR-TASS, April 23, 2008
• Over 1,500 troops take part in N.Caucasus air defense drills
  RIA Novosti, April 23, 2008
• Nalchik attackers’ parents appeal to president
  RFE/RL, April 22, 2008
• Residents of Nasyrkotsk district deny that unidentified attackers fired on the police post near Nazran and allege that shooting was done by the federal security forces (in Russian)
  Caucasian Knot, April 22, 2008
• Unidentified attackers fire on police post in Ingushetia, casualties reported
  ITAR-TASS, April 22, 2008
• Russia bans play about deadly siege at Moscow theatre
  Independent UK, April 22, 2008
• Unidentified men threw a hand grenade at the police on duty in Makhachkala
  (in Russian)
  Caucasian Knot, April 22, 2008
• Soldier injured in attack on convoy in Chechnya
  RIA Novosti, April 22, 2008
• Three gunmen nabbed in Chechnya, including former warlord
  ITAR-TASS, April 22, 2008
• Russian Defense Ministry postpones ruling on controversial Chechen battalion
  RFE/RL, April 22, 2008
• Council of Europe will assist in opening of DNA analysis laboratory in Chechnya to identify bodies (in Russian)
  Caucasian Knot, April 22, 2008
• The internecine battle for Chechnya
  ISN Security Watch, April 21, 2008
• EU commissioner to monitor human rights progress in Chechnya
  RIA Novosti, April 21, 2008
• Is it safe in Chechnya?
  Russia Today, April 21, 2008
• Serviceman killed in shootout with gang in Chechnya
  RIA Novosti, April 21, 2008
• A group of servicemen from the Russia’s Interior Ministry fired on at the border between Ingushetia and North Ossetia (in Russian)
  Caucasian Knot, April 21, 2008
• Convoy of Russian mobile detachment fired on in Dagestan
  ITAR-TASS, April 21, 2008
• Embattled Chechen commander affirms loyalty to Putin
  RFE/RL, April 21, 2008
• Two residents from Ingushetia and Chechnya attacked in Stavropol by a group of youths, the student from Chechnya died from multiple knife wounds (in Russian)
  Caucasian Knot, April 21, 2008
• Yamadayev calls Kadyrov a liar
  Kavkaz-Center, April 20, 2008
• Two girls killed in Chechnya shooting
  Reuters, April 20, 2008
• 150 Yamadayev's relatives departed from Moscow to an unknown direction
  Kavkaz-Center, April 20, 2008
• Large arms cache found in Daghestan in North Caucasus
  RIA Novosti, April 20, 2008
• Police post attacked, large bomb found in Kabardino-Balkaria
  ITAR-TASS, April 20, 2008
• Chechen commander warns ex-rebels ready for new war
  Reuters, April 19, 2008
• Yamadaev's utterances about militia provoke Chechen MIA's indignation
  Caucasian Knot, April 19, 2008
• Analysis: North Ossetia Struggles with Crime Wave, Police Corruption
  Turkish Weekly, April 19, 2008
• HRC "Memorial": Chechnya's authorities under-fulfil what they had promised to human rights activists
  Caucasian Knot, April 18, 2008
• HRC "Memorial": violations of human rights in Northern Caucasus continue
  Caucasian Knot, April 18, 2008
  
• The Dangers Of Crossing A Strongman
  The Moscow Times, April 18, 2008
• Yamadaev vs. Kadyrov: The Kremlin's Quandary with Chechnya
  Chechnya Weekly, April 18, 2008
• Prison service says Yamadayev in breach of parole
  RIA Novosti, April 18, 2008
• Chechen Parliament Asks Defense Minister to Deal with Vostok Battalion
  Chechnya Weekly, April 18, 2008
• Observers Put Their Money on Kadyrov
  Chechnya Weekly, April 18, 2008
• District police chief abducted, killed in Chechnya, law enforcement officials say
  International Herald Tribune, April 18, 2008
• Illegal Oil Refinery Found in Russia's Dagestan
  Red Orbit, April 18, 2008
• Gunmen in Ingushetia Target Police, Kill Supreme Court Deputy Chairman
  Chechnya Weekly, April 18, 2008
• A blast occurred in the courtyard of the Nazran’s mayor’s house early in the morning (in Russian)
  Caucasian Knot, April 18, 2008
• Council of Europe human rights chief to visit Russia
  RIA Novosti, April 18, 2008
• Tensions in Chechnya Boil Over
  The Moscow Times, April 17, 2008
• Vostok battalion military personnel request discharge – Kadyrov
  RIA Novosti, April 17, 2008
• Russia: Tensions Amid Signs of a Chechen Power Struggle
  New York Times, April 17, 2008
• Dagestan prosecutors refuse to initiate criminal case against founder of "Nastoyascheye Vremya" newspaper
  Caucasian Knot, April 17, 2008
• Gunmen injure six in attack on Ingush police base
  Russia Today, April 17, 2008
• Russian Nazis plan mayhem for Hitler's birthday
  RIA Novosti, April 17, 2008
• Kremlin's Moves Against NGOs Set to Hit Non-Russian Areas Especially Hard
  Window on Eurasia, April 16, 2008
• Chechen public demands to punish "Vostok" for skirmish in Gudermes
  Caucasian Knot, April 16, 2008
• Standoff between pro-Russian Chechen forces – media
  Reuters, April 16, 2008
• Military denies shootout in Chechnya with president's convoy
  RIA Novosti, April 16, 2008
• More details emerge of Guedermes shoot-out
  RFE/RL, April 16, 2008
• Gas pipe blast kills one soldier, injures another in Chechnya
  RIA Novosti, April 16, 2008
• Khazbiev: at May rally in Ingushetia opposition will demand to return Ruslan Aushev to the Republic
  Caucasian Knot, April 16, 2008
• Russia can have much less NCOs
  Caucasian Knot, April 16, 2008
• Council of Europe Failing on Russia
  ReutersAlertNet, April 16, 2008
• Merkel urges Russia to stop blocking reform of Europe's human rights court
  PR-inside.com, April 16, 2008
• PACE anxious about situation with human rights in Northern Caucasus
  Caucasian Knot, April 16, 2008
  
• Politkovskaya Suspect's Photo Leaked
  The Moscow Times, April 16, 2008
• Chechen Crime Boss Has Disappeared
  Kommersant, April 15, 2008
• Two schoolboys die in grenade blast in Chechnya
  ITAR-TASS, April 15, 2008
• Police officer abducted in Chechnya
  RIA Novosti, April 15, 2008
• Attackers killed in shootout with police in Chechnya
  ITAR-TASS, April 15, 2008
• Shootout reported between rival Chechen militias
  RFE/RL, April 15, 2008
• "Voice of Beslan" wants to meet commanders of the storm of Beslan School
  Caucasian Knot, April 15, 2008
• Moscow: another murder of a native from Kabardino-Balkaria
  Caucasian Knot, April 15, 2008
• Prosecutors target ‘extremism’ on internet
  RFE/RL, April 14, 2008
• Economy Develops Unevenly in Regions
  Kommersant, April 14, 2008
• Ingush parliamentarian takes issue with KBR Interior Minister
  RFE/RL, April 14, 2008
• Security tightened in Ingushetia following the assassination of the Supreme Court judge (in Russian)
  Caucasian Knot, April 14, 2008
• Ingush Supreme Court Judge Shot Dead
  The Moscow Times, April 13, 2008
• Militant leader killed in Daghestan special operation
  RIA Novosti, April 13, 2008
• Dagestani villagers sue Defense Ministry for damages
  RFE/RL, April 13, 2008
• Police officer killed in an armed skirmish in Ingushetia (in Russian)
  Caucasian Knot, April 12, 2008
• Russia: Daghestani Decree May Spell Curtains For Play Recalling Dubrovka Tragedy
  RFE/RL, April 12, 2008
• Playwright alleges Russia gagged political play
  Wasington Post, April 11, 2008
• Charny: Moscow authorities conceal growth of ethnic-motivated crimes
  Caucasian Knot, April 11, 2008
• Play based on bloody Moscow theater siege to be shown in Beslan
  RIA Novosti, April 11, 2008
• Certain NGOs promote separatism, religious extremism in Russia – FSB
  Interfax, April 11, 2008
• Roundtable in Mozdok, North Ossetia, organized by the General Council of the Interior Ministry, discussed the necessity of closer interaction with the public and higher accountability of the police force to facilitate effectiveness and improve protection of human rights (in Russian)
  Caucasian Knot, April 11, 2008
• North Ossetian court closes criminal case against human rights activist
  RFE/RL, April 11, 2008
• Special Commission, created by the public organization “North Ossetia” and headed by the first deputy of the Parliament’s leader, Stanislav Kesayev, to conduct an independent assessment of the Beslan hostage tragedy in 2004 (in Russian)
  Caucasian Knot, April 11, 2008
• Moscow City Court will not consider the "Ingushetia.Ru" case
  Caucasian Knot, April 11, 2008
• Dagestani president urges greater police efforts to counter corruption
  RFE/RL, April 11, 2008
• Russian official reports sharp decrease in kidnappings in Chechnya
  RFE/RL, April 11, 2008
• Rights Activists Want EU to Pressure Moscow over Chechnya Abuses
  Chechnya Weekly, April 10, 2008
• Kadyrov Meets with Presidential Envoy
  Chechnya Weekly, April 10, 2008
• Chechen Rebels Step Up Operations
  Chechnya Weekly, April 10, 2008
• Russia Attempts to Draft Chechens into the Army
  Chechnya Weekly, April 10, 2008
• 13 years ago in Chechnya, Russian military massacred residents of Samashki village
  Caucasian Knot, April 10, 2008
• Ramzan Kadyrov requested from Moscow creation of a special economic zone in Chechnya to speed up economic recovery in the republic (in Russian)
  Caucasian Knot, April 10, 2008
• 43kg of drugs confiscated in Chechnya in 2008 (in Russian)
  Caucasian Knot, April 10, 2008
• Interior Minister of Dagestan reported the reduction in crimes related to terrorism, abductions and violation of public order in Dagestan by 20.4% (in Russian)
  Caucasian Knot, April 10, 2008
• Almost 200 militants killed in North Caucasus in 2007
  RIA Novosti, April 10, 2008
• Public Chamber criticizes application of NGO registration law
  RFE/RL, April 10, 2008
• Chechen rebel website reports on militants’ attack against pro-Russian Chechens
  RFE/RL, April 9, 2008
• On April 10, picket in Moscow will honor over the 100 villagers killed in the mop-up operation by the Russian forces in the village of Samashki in April 1995 (in Russian)
  Caucasian Knot, April 9, 2008
• Cache with 40 mortar shells found in Chechnya (in Russian)
  Caucasian Knot, April 9, 2008
• An associate of the Khasavyurt militants ring detained in Dagestan
  Caucasian Knot, April 9, 2008 (in Russian)
• The new editor-in-chief of the “Present Time” of Dagestan, Khanzhan Kurbanov, refused to publish an article about the government’s ban of the play about the events in Nord-Ost (in Russian)
  Caucasian Knot, April 9, 2008
• Member of the unit fighting organized crime in Ingushetia severely injured in the car blast (in Russian)
  Caucasian Knot, April 9, 2008
• Car bomb targets police inspector in Ingushetia
  RFE/RL, April 9, 2008
• Relatives think that figurant in the "Neva-Express" case needs hospitalization
  Caucasian Knot, April 8, 2008
• Federal Security Service of Russia is going to fight terrorists not only be the means of force, but also with ideological decimator
  Pravda, April 9, 2008
• FSB accuses NGOs of abetting terrorism
  RFE/RL, April 9, 2008
• The Russian minister of Culture and Communications, Andrey Sokolov, during his visit to Kabardino-Balkaria, assures of the lack of censorship in the Russian mass media, but calls journalists on upholding corporate ethics and report correctly with respect to North Caucasus (in Russian)
  Caucasian Knot, April 9, 2008
• 3 suspects in planned series of Interior troops assassinations detained in Kabardino-Balkaria (in Russian)
  Caucasian Knot, April 9, 2008
• International terrorists recruit in Russia via foreign NGOs - FSB – 2
  RIA Novosti, April 8, 2008
• European Court rules Russia to pay 14,000 euros to Chechen war veteran
  Caucasian Knot, April 8, 2008
• 2006 Registration requirements reduces number of NGOs
  RFE/RL, April 8, 2008
• Human rights defenders appeal to Dmitry Medvedev to address the issue of disappearances in the North Caucasus (in Russian)
  Caucasian Knot, April 8, 2008
• Russia: The Situation in Northern Caucasus
  Equilibri.net, April 8, 2008
• 160 hatred crimes took place in Russia in the past three months resulting in 40 deaths and 120 injured, reports human rights organization “SOVA” (in Russian)
  Caucasian Knot, April 8, 2008
• In North Ossetia, leaders of "Voice of Beslan" reach reconciliation in court
  Caucasian Knot, April 7, 2008
• Magomed Mutsolgov, president of the Ingush human rights organization "MASHR": 5 traffic collisions occurred in Ingushetia between civilian and armored vehicles since 2002 (in Russian)
  Caucasian Knot, April 8, 2008
• Law enforcers destroy 14 terrorist bases in Chechnya in March
  RIA Novosti, April 8, 2008
• Police station attacked in Chechen capital
  RIA Novosti, April 8, 2008
• In Dagestan, Mukhu Aliev treats the ban of "Nord-Ost" play as provocation
  Caucasian Knot, April 7, 2008
• Northern Caucasus: Commission allocates €11 million for victims of the conflict in Chechnya
  European Commission (press release), April 7, 2008
• EU: Seize New Opportunities to Press Russia on Chechnya
  Human Rights Watch (press release), April 7, 2008
• Food Prices Soared 2 Percent in March
  Kommersant, April 7, 2008
  
• Grozny wins best CIS city contest in the nomination “for the successful restoration of the city”
  ITAR-TASS, April 7, 2008
• Dagestan’s president warns of instability
  RFE/RL, April 7, 2008
• Explosive device goes off in municipal district of Nasyr-Kortovsky of Nazran, no victims
  ITAR-TASS, April 7, 2008
• Criminal case opened over attack on police convoy in Ingushetia
  ITAR-TASS, April 6, 2008
• Russian driver hospitalized after APC hits car in southern Ingushetia region
  International Herald Tribune,April 6, 2008
• ECT: custody conditions in Northern Caucasus become better
  Caucasian Knot, April 5, 2007
• Blast injures police after Putin-Bush summit
  Reuters, April 7, 2008
• Confront the Kremlin
  International Herald Tribune,April 4, 2008
• Participant in execution of servicemen detained in Chechnya
  ITAR-TASS, April 4, 2008
• Ramzan Kadyrov celebrates first anniversary as president of southern Russian republic
  Newsahead, April 4, 2008
• Berezovsky denies ordering Politkovskaya’s killing...
  ...while editor links special services to her ‘potential killers’
  Russian security forces seize arms cache, arrest militants
  RFE/RL, April 4, 2008
• Umarov Faces Charges of Incitement Via the Internet
  Chechnya Weekly, April 4, 2008
• Medvedev and Kadyrov: The Start of a Beautiful Friendship?
  Chechnya Weekly, April 4, 2008
• The Alkhazurovo Operation: Are Chechnya's Rebels on the Rebound?
  Chechnya Weekly, April 4, 2008
• The Geography of OMON Deployments in the North Caucasus
  Chechnya Weekly, April 4, 2008
• Editor-in-chief of the Dagestan’s weekly publication “Present Times” fired (in Russian)
  Caucasian Knot, April 4, 2008
• President of Dagestan, Mukhu Aliyev, claims forces using nonpolitical means in the struggle for power responsible for destabilizing the situation in the republic (in Russian)
  Caucasian Knot, April 4, 2008
• Kabardino-Balkaria’s Parliament adopted preventive programs to combat terrorism and criminal violationsa (in Russian)
  Caucasian Knot, April 4, 2008
• North Ossetia’s Mufti, Ali-Hadji Evteyev, suggests resorting to ideology in fighting religious extremism in the North Caucasus (in Russian)
  Caucasian Knot, April 4, 2008
• Red Cross: landmine blasts in Chechnya continue causing injuries in the local population (in Russian)
  Caucasian Knot, April 4, 2008
• Caucasus: Chechnya, Kabardino-Balkaria Compete For New Oil Refinery
  RFE/RL, April 3, 2008
• Court extends custody for three Politkovskaya murder suspects
  RIA Novosti, April 3, 2008
• Chechen arrivals in Poland back to normal after surge
  MyNews, India, April 3, 2004
• Poland's closed centres open to MEPs
  European Parliament (press release), April 3, 2008
• Tajik Police Find Reporter's Killers
  Moscow News, April 3, 2008
• Embattled investigative committee official claimed Berezovsky ordered Politkovskaya’s killing...
  ...Leaving websites to speculated on interview significance
  RFE/RL, April 3, 2008
• Nearly 20 representatives of Russian NGOs participated in a picket in Moscow protesting human rights violations in Ingushetia
  Caucasian Knot, April 3, 2008
• Editor of “Ingushetiya.ru” fined for the use of Purin’s photo to advertise the website
  Caucasian Knot, April 3, 2008
• Russian reporter who authored book critical of Kremlin granted asylum in Britain
  International Herald Tribune, April 2, 2008
• Newspaper says Politkovskaya’s killer is hiding abroad...
  ...But some say ostensible break in the case is just PR
  North Caucasus resistance commander charged with extremism
  Chechen woman’s killer denied parole
  RFE/RL, April 2, 2008
• Shchekochikhin case reexamined
  Reporters without Borders, April 2, 2008
• Chechen food
  Prague Watchdog, April 2, 2008
• Foreign extremist funding suspected by the FSB in the activity of the Chechen Committee of the National Salvation (in Russian)
  Caucasian Knot, April 2, 2008
• 2 of the 8 detained following the protest in Nazran on January 26, 2008 released (in Russian)
  Caucasian Knot, April 2, 2008
• Explosion in Dagestan capital Makhachkala kills one
  ITAR-TASS, April 2, 2008
• Police conducting search of the militants from the April 1st attack on police officers and military personnel in the Shatoyskiy district in Chechnya (in Russian)
  Caucasian Knot, April 2, 2008
• Police car blasted in Khasavyurt, Dagestan (in Russian)
  Caucasian Knot, April 1, 2008
• Putin's 'pacification' of Chechnya
  ISN Security Watch, April 1, 2008
• Gang leader involved in terrorist acts in Chechnya detained
  ITAR-TASS, April 1, 2008
• Nineteenth issue of the monthly Chechen Society Today released
  Prague Watchdog, April 1, 2008
• Web terrorist calling online for overthrow of authorities and enticing interethnic conflict in Chechnya turned out to be Dokku Umarov, the self-proclaimed Emir of the North Caucasus (in Russian)
  Caucasian Knot, April 1, 2008

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