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Latest North Caucasus Weekly Articles
EDUCATIONAL PROJECT UNDERWAY.
On October 16, an agreement to restore the educational system in the Chechen Republic was signed in Paris by a deputy chairwoman of the Russian government, Valentina Matvienko, and the general director of UNESCO, Koitro Matsuura. This joint project will be funded in the amount... MORE
AFTER MEETING WITH PUTIN, KADYROV REACHES FOR POWER.
As reported in last week's issue, the Putin leadership appears to have opted, at least for the time being, for a policy of "Chechenization," which will place additional responsibility and imbue with new powers the pro-Moscow Chechen administration of Akhmad Kadyrov, an ethnic Chechen, and... MORE
PROSPECTS FOR NEGOTIATIONS IFFY AT BEST.
The chances of a negotiated settlement of the Russo-Chechen conflict--which had never been particularly good--took a nosedive last week when Russian presidential spokesman Sergei Yastrzhembsky seemed to brush aside peace overtures by Chechen separatist President Aslan Maskhadov. On October 9 the newspaper Kommersant-Vlast published an... MORE
AFGHAN MERCENARIES FIGHTING IN CHECHNYA?
In an interview with the newspaper Izvestia, presidential aide Sergei Yastrzhembsky maintained that there definitely were Islamic "mercenaries" who had been trained in Osama bin Laden's camps in Afghanistan who were currently fighting in Chechnya. At present, he noted, the number of such mercenaries is... MORE
WAR CORRESPONDENT SENT ABROAD FOR HER SAFETY.
On October 7, the European-based website Ichkeria.org reported that award-winning Russian war correspondent Anna Politkovskaya has been sent to Vienna, Austria by the editorial board of her newspaper, Novaya Gazeta, "out of considerations for her safety." In an interview with a Vienna website, Politkovskaya explained... MORE
CHECHENS PROTEST AGAINST MILITARY SUBSCRIPTION.
The Prague Watchdog has reported that residents of the Chechen Republic have been staging protests against a call-up of their sons into the Russian military. On October 5, some 500 people picketed the building of the district military headquarters in Shali, while similar rallies were... MORE
NEW MASS GRAVE REPORTED.
There are preliminary reports that a new mass grave containing the bodies of Chechen civilians has been discovered in Djohar. According to a October 14 report by the Australian Broadcasting Company, "Police say the remains of twelve men and women, who apparently were murdered, have... MORE
TERRORISM: WALKING THE FINE CHECHEN LINE.
In an interview with journalist Megan Twohey of the Moscow Times, the new U.S. ambassador to Russia, Alexander Vershbow, commented on the subject of Chechnya: "The Chechnya issue is a very tricky one. We're trying to walk a very fine line. We continue to have... MORE