Vakhit Akaev is a Doctor of Philosophy and a member correspondent of the Academy of Sciences of the Chechen Republic. He is also the Chair of Theory and Practice of Social Work at Chechen State University...

Murad B. Al-Shishani is a Jordanian-Chechen writer. He has an M.A degree in Political Science specializing in Islamic Movements in Chechnya. He is also author of the book The Islamic Movement in Chechnya and the Chechen-Russian Conflict 1990-2000, Amman, 2001 (in Arabic)...

Ivar Amundsen is Director of the Chechnya Peace Forum, a human rights organization based in London which seeks to promote the cause of democracy and human rights in Chechnya...

Dr. Pavel K. Baev is a senior researcher at the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO)...

Aliy Berzegov is a freelance writer based in New York...

Vladimir Bobrovnikov is a senior research fellow at the Institute for Oriental Studies (Moscow) and teaches anthropology and Arabic in the Russian State University of Humanities and the Moscow State University. He is the author of Custom, Law and Violence Among the North Caucasus Muslims...

Marc Brody is an independent journalist who specializes in the Caucasus...

Oksana Chelysheva is the deputy executive manager of the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society...

Zaindi Choltaev, a Chechen political analyst, served in the 1990s as deputy foreign minister and Chairman of the Administration in the Provisional State Council of Chechnya's separatist government...

John B. Dunlop is a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. He is an expert on Russia's two wars in Chechnya, nationalism in the former Soviet Union, Russian cultural politics, and the politics of religion in Russia...

Dr. Pavel E. Felgenhauer is an independent, Moscow-based defense analyst...

Aslan Idar is a freelance journalist based in Nalchik...

Dr. Marlene Laruelle is a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. She works on Eurasianism, Russian Nationalism and on the Russia's growing role in Asia...

Dr. Matthew A. Light is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He conducted field research on the politics of Adygeia in Maikop from May to July 2006 while holding an Independent Advanced Research Opportunity fellowship from IREX...

Dr. Andrew McGregor is the director of Aberfoyle International Security in Toronto, Canada...

Roger N. McDermott is an honorary senior research associate, department of politics and international relations, University of Kent at Canterbury (UK)...

Aset Murtazalieva is a reporter for the independent Chechen newspaper Groznensky rabochy...

Naima Nefliasheva has a PhD in history (Candidate of Historical Sciences) and is a docent and senior research fellow in the Center for Civilization and Regional Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow). Dr...

Emil Pain is Director of the Center of Ethnopolitical Studies in Moscow...

Andrei Piontkovsky, director of the Center for Strategic Research in Moscow, has written extensively on Chechnya...

Michaela Pohl, Assistant Professor of History at Vassar College, has written extensively about post-Soviet politics and ethnic relations...

John Reuter is a Fulbright scholar living in Ukraine...

Mikhail Roshchin is a Senior Research Analyst at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences...

Andrei Smirnov is an independent journalist covering the North Caucasus. He is based in Russia...

Ruslanbek Sultanov is a freelance writer based in Chechnya who covers the security and human rights situation inside Chechnya...

Fatima Tlisova is a Human Rights Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Tlisova is an independent journalist from the North Caucasus...

Igor Torbakov is a freelance journalist and researcher who specializes in CIS political affairs. He holds an MA in History from Moscow State University and a PhD from the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences...

Paul Tumelty is a researcher specializing in the Russian North Caucasus, the Caucasus and Central Asia. He holds an MPhil in Russian and East European Studies from the University of Glasgow and a BA War Studies, King's College, London...

Lawrence A. Uzzell is a senior Jamestown Foundation fellow who opened Jamestown's Moscow office in 1992...

Anar Valiyev is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the School of Social Studies in Masaryk University at Brno, Czech Republic. His areas of interest include urban terrorism, public policy of post-Soviet countries, governance and democracy...

Dr. Mairbek Vatchagaev is the author of the book, "Chechnya in the 19th Century Caucasian Wars...

Laurent Vinatier is an expert on the Chechen conflict, Russia and Central Asia. A Ph.D. candidate at Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, he is author of L'islamisme en Asie centrale...