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Nurgaliev to Dagestan Law-Enforcement: Work "Preemptively" In a meeting held in Makhachkala on April 9 devoted to the work plans of Dagestan's internal affairs bodies for this year, Russian Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliev told the leadership of Dagestan's Interior Ministry that it needs to work... MORE
Ingushetia: APC Collides with a Civilian Car, Again
An automobile belonging to a member of the local police force in the Ingush city of Malgobek was blown up on April 7, Interfax reported. The explosion took place after the policeman parked the car outside his apartment building and went inside. No one was... MORE
Kadyrov Meets with Presidential Envoy
President Vladimir Putin's envoy to the Southern Federal District, Grigory Rapota, has visited Chechnya and met with the republic's president, Ramzan Kadyrov. During a meeting in Grozny on March 9, Kadyrov asked Rapota to consider the possibility of creating a port special economic zone in... MORE
Rights Activists Want EU to Pressure Moscow over Chechnya Abuses
On April 7, a coalition of leading human rights groups called on the European Union to press Russia to end human rights abuses in Chechnya and other parts of the North Caucasus and ensure perpetrators are brought to justice. The European Council on Refugees and... MORE
Kadyrov Seeks to Use Leading Human Rights Group against His Rivals
On February 22, Ramzan Kadyrov, the pro-Russian Chechen leader, met in the republican capital Grozny with leaders of Memorial, the biggest and the most influential human rights organization in Russia (Chechnya Weekly, February 29). Memorial has been monitoring human rights violations in Chechnya closely since... MORE
Umarov Faces Charges of Incitement Via the Internet
Kommersant reported on April 2 that the Investigative Committee's investigative directorate for Chechnya has launched a criminal case against Chechen rebel leader Dokka Umarov for inciting inter-ethnic hatred and calling for the overthrow of the Russian government on the Internet. If he is captured, prosecuted... MORE
The Alkhazurovo Operation: Are Chechnya’s Rebels on the Rebound?
Recent developments in the North Caucasus have captured the attention of skeptics who had prematurely decided that the region had finally achieved long-term stability and that there was no longer anything that could unsettle the situation. Armed clashes of the magnitude of those that took... MORE
The Geography of OMON Deployments in the North Caucasus
On March 17, Russian official news agencies reported that a rebel group in the North Caucasian Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria (KBR) had a day earlier tried to destroy an armored car with five police officers inside using a roadside bomb. The vehicle was damaged but luckily... MORE
FSB: Nazran-based Rights Group Funded by “Foreign Extremists”
Kavkazky Uzel reported on April 2 that the Federal Security Service (FSB) directorate in Ingushetia claimed that "foreign extremists" are funding the Chechen National Salvation Committee (ChKNS), the Nazran-based human rights group. For that reason, the FSB last August ordered a probe of the committee... MORE