Reports and analysis

ACPC Reports

"Dagestan at Tipping Point"
An assessment of Dagestan President's first year in office
Written by the American Committee for Peace in the Caucasus | March 18, 2011

"The Yevkurov Experiment"
An assessment of Ingushetia President's first year in office
Written by the American Committee for Peace in the Caucasus | November 18, 2009

Timeline of Violence

ACPC compiltation of data illustrating an increasingly deteriorating security situation in the North Caucasus.

Chechnya (map)

Ingushetia (map)

  Dagestan (map) 

Interviews

Exclusive interview with Magomed Mutsolgov, Director of the Human Rights Organization MASHR in Ingushetia
ACPC, November 18, 2009

Interview with President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Yevkurov
Expert Online, October 22, 2009  (translated by ACPC)

Interview with Lyudmila Alexeyeva, Chair of the Moscow Helsinki Group 
ACPC, April 22, 2009

Interview with Ekatirina Sokirianskaia, "Memorial" North Caucasus expert
ACPC, December 9, 2009

Freedom House publications

• Freedom in the World - Russia (2009) 
• Freedom in the World - Chechnya [Russia] (2009)
• Nations in Transit - Russia (2009)

Human rights reports

Amnesty International 

• 2009 Country report: Russian Federation
  
  

Council of Europe

• "Legal remedies for human rights violations in the North Caucasus"
• Report by Thomas Hammarberg, Commissioner for Human Rights of The Council of Europe
  Following his visit to the Russian Federation (Chechen Republic and the Republic of Ingushetia) on 2 - 11 September 2009
• Situation in the North Caucasus Region: security and human rights
  Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights. September 2009
• Transcript of current affairs debate
  The situation of human rights defenders and the increasing violence in the North Caucasus region of the Russian Federation. September 30, 2009
  
  

Center for Strategic and International Studies

• Violence in the North Caucasus-Summer 2009
  Violence in Russia’s North Caucasus is on the rise.  Since January 2004, CSIS staff have been compiling, almost daily, a database that tracks incidents of violence occurring in the region.
• 49 Steps to Improve Human Rights and Security in the North Caucasus
  This policy brief condenses dozens of specific, practical recommendations generated over several days of meetings convened in Berlin at the Robert Bosch Stiftung in May 2005, March 2006, and October 2006 with senior representatives from international organizations, governments, and nongovernmental organizations (NGO's). September, 2007
• Human Rights Situation in Chechnya
  April 2003

European Court of Human Rights

• Annual Report - 2008

• Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms

• Protocol 14 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
   

Human Rights Watch Country Reports: Russia

• "You Dress According to Their Rules"
  This report documents acts of violence, harassment, and threats against women in Chechnya to intimidate them into wearing a headscarf or dressing more “modestly,” in long skirts and sleeves to cover their limbs. March, 2011 
• "Who Will Tell Me What Happened to My Son"
  
  This 38-page report examines Russia's response to European Court judgments on cases from Chechnya. In the 33 cases researched by Human Rights Watch, Russia has still not brought a single perpetrator to justice, even in cases in which those who participated in or commanded the operations that led to violations are named in the European Court judgments. July, 2009
  
• "What Your Children do Will Touch Upon You"
  This report is based primarily on field research conducted in close cooperation with Memorial Human Rights Center, a leading Russian human rights organization, in March and April 2009 during two Human Rights Watch missions to Chechnya. July, 2009
• "An Uncivil Approach to Civil Society"
  This 68-page report describes how current rules allow the state to interfere arbitrarily with the work of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and documents the corrosive impact of these rules and other government measures on independent organizations and activists in Russia. June,2009
• "As If They Fell From the Sky"
  Counterinsurgency, Rights Violations, and Rampant Impunity in Ingushetia. June, 2008
  

Human Rights Center Memorial

• Memorial Bulletin - North Caucasus Winter 2009-2010
• Memorial Bulletin - North Caucasus Autumn 2009
  March 2009
• Memorial Bulletin - North Caucasus Summer 2009
  October 2009 (in Russian)
• Memorial” Bulletin – North Caucasus Summer 2008
  October 2008 (Translated by ACPC)

International Federation of Human Rights

• Steadfast in Protest: Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, Annual Report 2006

Russian Justice Initiative

• Russian Justice Initiative is a groundbreaking initiative that utilizes domestic and international legal mechanisms to seek redress for human rights abuses committed in the North Caucasus.
• Chechnya Justice Project - 2006 Annual Report

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

• Shelter situation and property status survey among IDPs residents of temporary accommodations in the republics of Chechnya and Ingushetia June 2007

United States Department of State

• Country Report on Human Rights Practises in Russia
  United States Department of State Bureau of Human Rights, Democracy, and Labor
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• Supporting Human Rights and Democracy: The U.S. Record 2004-2005
  March 2005
  

Terrorism

• Has Russia Achieved Victory in Its War against Terror?
  December 2006: Pavel K. Baev, PONARS policy brief, CSIS
• From Dubrovka to Beslan: Who is learning faster?
  November 2004: Ekaterina Stepanova, PONARS policy brief, CSIS
• Links between Chechen rebels and al-Qaeda questioned
  March 21, 2003: Andrew Jack, The Financial Times
• Patterns of Global Terrorism
  May 2002: United States Department of State

U.S. policy briefs

• The Changing Context of Russian Federal Policy in the North Caucasus
  December 2006: Mark Kramer, PONARS policy brief, CSIS
• Instability in the North Caucasus and the Political Implications for the Russo-chechen War
  December 2005: Mark Kramer, PONARS policy brief, CSIS
• The Coming Revolutions in the North Caucasus
  December 2005: Georgi Derluguian, PONARS policy brief, CSIS
• Bringing Peace to Chechnya?
  February 11, 2005 : Jim Nichol, CRS Report for Congress
• Russia
  January 5, 2005 : Stuart D. Goldman, CRS Issue Brief for Congress
• Ingushetia as a Microcosm of Putin’s Reforms
  November 2004: Matthew Evangelista, PONARS policy brief, CSIS
• Putin’s War in Chechnya: Who steers the course?
  November 2004: Pavel K. Baev, PONARS policy brief, CSIS
• Security Sell-Out in the North Caucasus, 2004
  November 2004: Mikhail A. Alexseev, PONARS policy brief, CSIS
• The Structures of Chechnya’s Quagmire
  November 2003: Georgi Derguluian, PONARS policy brief, CSIS
• US Policy on Chechnya
  May 9, 2002 : Steven Pifer, Deputy Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs, Statement Before the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
• Opposition to the War in Chechnya: Antimilitarist Organizing in Russia
  January 2002: Valerie Sperling, PONARS policy brief, CSIS
• An Opening on Chechnya
  July 2001 : Zbigniew Brzezinski, Max M. Kampelman and Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
• Chechnya Conflict: Recent Developments
  May 3, 2000: Jim Nichol, Congressional Research Service