Exploring the Links Between the Chechen Resistance and Afghanistan

How many Chechens have disappeared in "zachistki" security sweeps by pro-Moscow or pro-Kadyrov gunmen? Abdul-Khakim Sultygov, Vladimir Putin's special representative for human rights in Chechnya, said last week that independent human rights groups have exaggerated the number--that many of those said to have disappeared have... MORE

An October 29 article by Said Bitsoev in Novye izvestia noted the excruciatingly slow rate of progress in what is supposed to be one of Putin's and Kadyrov's top priorities: the payment of monetary compensation to families whose homes have been destroyed by the two... MORE

Rebel guerrillas killed eight Russian troops in gunfights and bombings during the twenty-four hours that ended on November 1, an official in the Kadyrov administration told the Associated Press. Two of the eight were shot at an open-air market in the southwestern town of Achkhoi-Martan.... MORE

The recent upheavals in the Kremlin, including the resignation of Aleksandr Voloshin as President Vladimir Putin's chief of staff, could portend major changes in the Kremlin's policies on Chechnya. Voloshin was known as a key architect of those policies and especially as a political ally... MORE

The use of ostensibly criminal cases to pursue political objectives, a well-established tactic in both Soviet and post-Soviet Russia, is apparently being used again to silence those who challenge the official version of the 1999 and 2002 terrorist attacks in Russia. A KGB officer turned... MORE

Exploring the Links Between the Chechen Resistance and Afghanistan

How many Chechens have disappeared in "zachistki" security sweeps by pro-Moscow or pro-Kadyrov gunmen? Abdul-Khakim Sultygov, Vladimir Putin's special representative for human rights in Chechnya, said last week that independent human rights groups have exaggerated the number--that many of those said to have disappeared have... MORE

An October 29 article by Said Bitsoev in Novye izvestia noted the excruciatingly slow rate of progress in what is supposed to be one of Putin's and Kadyrov's top priorities: the payment of monetary compensation to families whose homes have been destroyed by the two... MORE

Rebel guerrillas killed eight Russian troops in gunfights and bombings during the twenty-four hours that ended on November 1, an official in the Kadyrov administration told the Associated Press. Two of the eight were shot at an open-air market in the southwestern town of Achkhoi-Martan.... MORE