News
Our selection
of primarily English-language news and analysis about the North
Caucasus region from around the web will be updated monthly; previous
editions can be found in our archive.
Because of the wealth of information available on Chechnya, we cannot
guarantee that our selection will be complete or that it represents
the whole range of opinions. We try to present different takes in
order to cover not just events, but a whole range of views and interpretations.
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September 29, 2008:
Police
say suicide bomber attacks Ingushetia minister
(IHT)
Strasbourg
court fines Russia $206,000 over Chechnya deaths (RIA Novosti)
It's
over, and Putin won (The Guardian)
To
Smother Chechen Insurgency, Arson Campaign (New York Times)
Bitter
rival of Chechnya's leader is shot dead in Russian capital (The
Guardian)
Kadyrov
Says Killing Tied to Blood Feud (Moscow Times)
Yamadayev
Shot Dead in City Center (Moscow Times)
Ex-lawmaker
from powerful Chechen clan murdered in Moscow (AFP)
Former
Rebel in Chechnya Is Killed in Moscow (New York Times)
A
Blast from the Past (Russia Profile)
Chechen
president denies link to former Russian MP's assassination (The
Guardian)
"Many
People Tell Me Ramzan Did It" (Kommersant)
Chechnya's
President Lost the Best Enemy (Kommersant)
How
Moscow's hard man changed the face of Grozny (The Independent)
Gracious
Grozny (Anatol Lieven in National Interest)
The
biggest European mosque to open in Grozny in October Interfax)
Ramzan
Kadyrov's grandfather, who was a renowned Chechnya religious leader,
deceased (Interfax)
Ingush
Man Escapes Torturers (Moscow Times)
Ingushetiya.ru
Moves to New Address (Moscow Times)
Banned
Ingushetia opposition website dodges authorities, reopens (RIA
Novosti)
Ingush
president's cousin shot dead in possible vendetta killing (Moscow
News)
A
Ridiculous Case of Mismanagement (Russia Profile)
Ingushetia
abuses 'may spark war' (BBC)
Who's
pushing Ingushetia out from under Russia's control?(Komsomolskaya
Pravda)
Russian
police break up demo over Kremlin critic's death (AFP)
U.S.
urges probe of journalist's death in Ingushetia (Reuters)
EU
joins calls for probe into death of Kremlin critic (EU Business)
Website
owner's last words to his editor: "Roza, they are taking me
away" (Reporters without Borders)
S.Russia
opposition head says hounded after journalist death (RIA Novosti)
Tension
in Ingushetia after journalist's death (Financial Times)
Kremlin
critic shot in Ingushetia (BBC)
Begging
to Disagree (Russia Profile)
Wrestlers
Wrest Heritage From War's Wreckage (New York Times)
Book
Review: 'The Angel of Grozny'(International Herald Tribune)
Angel
of Grozny (Christian Science Monitor)
The
Other Caucasus War (Moscow Times)
Anti-radical
Islam reporter killed in south Russia (The Independent)
Second
Russian journalist in three days killed (CNN International)
58
Muslims Await Trial in Nalchik (Moscow Times)
Mothers
Sit and Wait for Answers (Moscow Times)
Russian
forces kill 10 militants in Dagestan (Reuters)
Russian
police: 11 gunmen killed in Dagestan (IHT)
Woman
is killed by bomb in southern Russia (IHT)
Two
police officers killed in N.Caucasus shooting (RIA Novosti)
August 14, 2008:
Russian
manhunt for rival bolsters Chechen leader
(Reuters)
Warrant
Out for Yamadayev (Moscow Times)
Chechen
Hero Now a Murderer (Kommersant)
Russia:
Torture Victim Abducted in Chechnya (Human Rights Watch)
Justice
According to Kadyrov (St. Petersburg Times)
Attackers
kill 3 policemen in Chechnya (AP)
Ex-Chechen
Rebel Tours Europe for Returnees (Moscow Times)
Gunmen
Kill 2 Policemen in Ingushetia (Moscow Times)
Editor-in-chief
of "Ingushetiya.ru" to apply for political asylum in Europe
(Caucasian Knot)
Facing
harassment, Web site editor flees Russia (CPJ News Alert)
Attackers
target newsmen in Russia's Ingushetia-CPJ (Reuters)
80,000
sign petition vs south Russia leader-activist (Reuters)
Gunmen
kill Ingushetia village police chief-media (Reuters)
Imam
and his son attacked in Ingushetia (Interfax)
Court
upholds order blocking website based in Ingushetia (Reporters
without Borders)
Russian
military ammo accident kills 7: media (Reuters)
Justice,
Chechen style (Open Democracy)
Chechen
Refugees Receive ID Cards, Free to Cross Borders (Georgian Times)
Chechens
detained for Norway refugee centre attack (Reuters)
Attackers
storm Norway asylum center, hurting 20 (AP)
Medvedev
Picks Judge As Region's President (Moscow Times)
Information
about attempt on Kadyrov's life confirmed in Chechnya (Caucasian
Knot)
Chechen
President Kadyrov denies assassination attempt rumors (RIA Novosti)
RF
Government approves the Chechnya development program for 2008-2011
(Caucasian Knot)
Public
prosecutor beaten in Chechnya was threatened for participating in
trial of "Gorets" fighters (Caucasian Knot)
MPs
of Chechnya vote for their self-dissolution (Caucasian Knot)
Light
shines on small business as key to economic revival of Chechnya
(Russia Today)
Chechnya's
largest mosque opens in Grozny (Interfax)
Thousands
to be immunised in North Caucasus (Reuters AlertNet)
Similar,
But Different (Russia Profile)
July 9, 2008:
Russia's
Balkars Present New Grievances
(RFE/RL)
Armed
group kills 3 in south Russia night raid (Reuters)
Three
policemen killed in Russia's N.Caucasus-media (Reuters)
Three
police officers killed in the Baksan region of Kabardino-Balkaria
(ITAR-TASS)
How
Chechnya came to Ingushetia (The Guardian)
Chechnya
schools to teach math in local language (AP)
Construction
Company from Slovakia to Build Sports Centre in Chechnya (Slovakia
Today)
Russia
begins military exercises in volatile N. Caucasus region (RIA
Novosti)
Russia
begins North Caucasus exercises (UPI)
Watchdog
alleges mass grave in Chechnya (IHT)
Politkovskaya
suspect 'in Europe' (BBC)
Russian
prosecutor: Journalist's killer in West (AP)
Politkovskaya
murder suspect sought since 2001: prosecutor (AFP)
Russia
to spend 2.5 billion pounds rebuilding Chechnya (Reuters)
Human
Rights Watch condemns Russia for violence in Ingushetia (IHT)
New
Human Rights Watch on Ingushetia (HRW)
Time
for a New Elite in Chechnya (Russia Profile)
Militants
in Chechnya burn Russian armored vehicle (IHT)
Three
More Charged In Journalist's Killing (Washington Post)
Clashes
in Chechnya tarnish film week's bid for normality (Reuters)
Bomb
blast injures 12 in Russia's Chechnya (Reuters)
Struggling
to integrate: Displaced people from Chechnya living in other areas
of the Russian Federation (Reliefweb)
The
brutal biography of Chechnya's Ramzan Kadyrov (LA Times)
Chechnya
in diaspora (Prague Watchdog)
Clashes
in Chechnya tarnish film week's bid for normality (Reuters)
Fail
grades in Russian and warfare (Prague Watchdog)
Jail
sentence for Beslan 'healer' (BBC)
Russia
criticizes Sweden's refusal to extradite alleged terrorist (IHT)
The
unbearable lightness of hatred (Prague Watchdog)
Moscow
court orders closure of North Caucasus news Web site (CPJ)
Against
the odds, Chechen landmine survivors score goals on the football
pitch (UNICEF)
The
explosion that was noticed too late (Prague Watchdog)
Gunmen
kill a police chief in Russia's Dagestan (Reuters)
The
Dangers Of Wearing A Headscarf
(Moscow Times)
Dagestani
Newspaper Founder in Rare Probe (Moscow Times)
Family
identifies son in Russian beheading video (IHT)
June 7, 2008:
Chechnya
Wants Defense Agencies' Bases Out of Nature Preserves
(Red Orbit)
Assailants
attack police head in Russia's Chechnya (Reuters)
Russia's
Chechnya moves memorial, citizens complain (Reuters)
Relocation
of Chechen 'genocide' memorial opens wounds (AFP)
Chechnya:
Pro-Moscow Authorities Move Memorial To Stalin Victims (RFE/RL)
A
war with ancestral shades (Prague Watchdog)
The
ice-cold reporter (Sydney Morning Herald)
Three
children injured by mine explosion in Chechnya (Itar-Tass)
Mysterious
Shifts in Chechnya, by Thomas de Waal (Moscow Times)
Analysis:
Chechen Premier In Exile Denies Imputed Overtures To Pro-Moscow
Leadership (RFE/RL)
Gunmen
kill 3 policemen in Russia's Ingushetia (Reuters)
Daghestan's
finance official escapes assassination attempt (RIA Novosti)
Police
find two bombs in Daghestan in Russia's North Caucasus (RIA
Novosti)
Amnesty
International urges Russian president to follow through on human
rights pledge (IHT/AP)
When
Rebels Need Cash, a Relative Vanishes (Moscow Times)
Russian
suspends Ingushetia opposition Web site (Reuters)
Militant
with Khattab links detained in Chechnya (RIA Novosti)
Russia's
Dagestan: Conflict Causes (new report by the International Crisis
Group)
Politkovskaya
murder suspect named (The Guardian)
Court
releases suspect in Politkovskaya murder case (RIA Novosti)
Death
of a Journalist (about new documentary about Anna Politkovskaya;
Moscow Times)
Families
of Disappeared Chechens Win Suit (Kommersant)
Strasbourg
court orders Russia to pay compensation for abductions (RIA
Novosti)
Russian
Soldiers Complain to Strasbourg (Kommersant)
Kadyrov's
Power Grows As Commander Leaves (Moscow Times)
Chechen
Factory Rolls Out First Cars (Moscow Times)
Twenty-first
issue of the monthly Chechen Society Today released (Prague
Watchdog)
A
World Away from Europe: Pankisi gorge shows another face of Georgia
(Armenia Now)
Russia:
In Daghestan, Free Maternity Care Ends With Hospital Closure (RFE/RL)
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