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Latest North Caucasus Weekly Articles
Sadulaev’s Death and the Future of the Chechen Insurgency
Like his predecessors in the war, the leader of the Chechen resistance movement, president of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (ChRI), Abdul-Khalim Sadulaev, has been killed [1]. A. Sardali, a resident of Argun, was quoted by the Kavkazcenter website as saying that up to several... MORE
REBELS RATCHET UP ATTACKS IN INGUSHETIA
The violence in Ingushetia spiraled upward another notch on June 9, when gunmen fired on an SUV carrying Musa Nalgiev, the commander of the republic's OMON special police, killing him along with three of his children, a bodyguard, and a driver. Russian and Western news... MORE
INGUSHETIA SQUEEZED BETWEEN REBELS AND RAMZAN
Commenting on the violence in Ingushetia, Aleksandr Cherkasov of the Memorial human rights group wrote in an item posted on Ej.ru, the website of Yezhednevny zhurnal, on June 12 that the nearly simultaneous murders of Musa Nalgiev and Galina Gubina were neither coincidental nor unexpected.... MORE
BASAEV AND UMAROV STAR IN NEW VIDEOS
The separatist Kavkazcenter.com website on June 15 posted a video clip of Chechen rebel warlord Shamil Basaev discussing the May 2004 assassination of Akhmad Kadyrov and plans to kill his son, Chechen Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov. While the video was for unknown reasons inaccessible when... MORE
The Kadyrovtsy: Moscow’s New Pawns in the South Caucasus?
Intermittent attacks, shootings, and explosions in Chechnya, Dagestan, Ingushetia, and Kabardino-Balkaria have punctured the relative stability that has existed in the North Caucasus since the Beslan school massacre in September 2004. Now it may end with massive destabilization, triggered by resumed fighting in South Ossetia.... MORE
MEMORIAL FINDS AN ABANDONED SECRET PRISON IN GROZNY
Memorial has published a report about a secret Interior Ministry prison in Grozny where, according to the human rights group, people were tortured and killed. According to the report, which was posted on Memorial's website (Memo.ru) on June 5, at the end May Memorial staffers... MORE
INTERNALLY DISPLACED CHECHENS THREATENED WITH EVICTION
Kavkazky Uzel, citing the Chechen National Salvation Committee (ChKNS), reported on June 5 that 47 families of internally displaced Chechens were facing eviction from a temporary accommodation center, or PVR, on Ulitsa Derzhavina in Grozny on the orders of Khozhbaudi Estamirov, head of the Chechen... MORE
OBSERVERS DECONSTRUCT CHECHNYA’S CONSTRUCTION BOOM
Several reputable observers - specifically, New York Times correspondent C. J. Chivers and Tanya Lokshina, chair of the Demos Center for Information and Human Rights Research in Moscow - have noted the construction boom that has taken place in Chechnya under the direction of Ramzan... MORE