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PATRUSHEV ATTACKS U.S. “DOUBLE STANDARDS”
Federal Security Service (FSB) Director Nikolai Patrushev accused "some countries" of a policy of "double standards" in the fight against international terrorism, and took the United States specifically to task over the fact that a Chechen rebel "ideologist," whom he called "Vychigaev," had been in... MORE
Political Disunity Mars Chechen Rebel Strategy in the North Caucasus
Early this year Chechen separatists began to discuss holding a major meeting among North Caucasian rebel commanders and underground Muslim religious leaders to transform the Caucasian insurgency into a unified political force. In an interview posted on the Kavkazcenter website on January 9, Chechen warlord... MORE
BASAEV REPORTEDLY TOURS NORTH CAUCASUS
The separatist Chechenpress and Kavkazcenter websites on May 30 quoted a source in the Military Committee of the GKO [State Defense Committee] Majlis-ul-Shura as saying that “the first vice premier of the ChRI [Chechen Republic of Ichkeria] government, military emir of the mujahideen Abdallakh Shamil... MORE
KADYROV WANTS TO CHASE REBELS OUT OF NEIGHBORING REPUBLICS
In an interview with Komsomolskaya pravda published on May 30, Chechen Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov said it was necessary to mount a large-scale campaign to drive militants out of the republics neighboring Chechnya. Asked whether it was Shamil Basaev’s dream “to set the whole North... MORE
ZAKAEV GETS A PROMOTION
The separatist Chechenpress news agency on May 27 published several decrees issued by rebel leader Abdul-Khalim Sadulaev, one of which named London-based rebel emissary Akhmed Zakaev as the rebel government’s minister of foreign affairs. Zakaev replaces Usman Ferzauli, who will now serve as Zakaev’s deputy.... MORE
ALKHANOV ATTENDS STRASBOURG ROUNDTABLE
A Chechen government delegation headed by Chechen President Alu Alkhanov and including the speaker of the lower house of Chechnya’s parliament, Dukvakha Abdurakhmanov, was set to take part in a Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) roundtable meeting in Strasbourg, France, on June... MORE
APPEAL IDENTIFIES CHECHEN “CONCENTRATION CAMPS”
The separatist Chechenpress news agency on May 29 published an appeal by the chairman of the board of the Society of Concentration (Filtration) Camp Prisoners in the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, Vakha Banzhaev, which claimed that over the last 12 years more than 250,000 Chechens... MORE
BRIEFS
--ALKHANOV DENOUNCES “CLAN-BASED POLITICS” In his first “state of the nation” address to the Chechen people and parliament on May 29, President Alu Alkhanov said that the North Caucasus needs to modernize its political system, Itar-Tass reported. “Not only the Chechen Republic but also other... MORE
A Sour Freedom: The Return of Russia’s Guantanamo Bay Prisoners
During the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, a ready market developed for the seizure and sale of foreign individuals to U.S. forces as suspected Taliban or al-Qaeda fighters. Typically these captives were transferred to the special U.S. detention facility in Guantanamo... MORE