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Latest North Caucasus Weekly Articles
IS MOSCOW ON THE OFFENSIVE AGAIN? “
The Federal Forces Are Again Preparing for War" announced a headline in the May 7 issue of Kommersant, which reported on an important meeting held on May 5, in the city of Essentuki, in Stavropol Krai in southern Russia. Present at this meeting were the... MORE
DUMA TO TRY AGAIN FOR A POLITICAL SETTLEMENT TO CHECHEN CONFLICT.
In light of the new outbreak of serious fighting in Chechnya, the long passive Russian State Duma apparently intends to involve itself in the search for a political solution to the conflict. Duma deputy Valentin Nikitin recently visited Chechnya, where he held talks with the... MORE
RUSSIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS MURDERS OF ETHNIC RUSSIANS.
The Russian media have of late been focusing attention on the recent murders of ethnic Russians in the Chechen capital of Djohar [Grozny]. The assumption has been that the murderers are Chechens, consumed with a "genocidal" hatred for Russians. The Chechen separatist president, Aslan Maskhadov,... MORE
EU DELEGATION ASSESSES SITUATION IN NORTH CAUCASUS.
On May 6-7, a fact-finding mission of the European Union visited Ingushetia and Chechnya. The mission consisted of the Swedish and Belgian ambassadors to Russia, Sven Hirdman and Andre Mernier, and the chief of representation of the European Commission to Russia, Richard Wright. On May... MORE
BUDANOV TRIAL RESUMES.
On May 7, the heavily publicized trial of Colonel Yury Budanov, accused of having murdered a young Chechen woman, El'za Kungaeva, in March 2000, resumed in Rostov-on-Don. Budanov once again had to receive medical attention for his high blood pressure. On May 8, his prospects... MORE
WAR CORRESPONDENT AWARDED JOURNALISM PRIZE.
Anna Politkovskaya, the well-known war correspondent for the pro-democracy weekly, Novaya Gazeta, was awarded the prize "For Courage in Journalism" by the International Pen Club of America in Washington, DC in early May (Novaya Gazeta, May 7).
RUSSIAN HUMAN RIGHTS WORKER AWAKENS FROM COMA.
Leading Russian human rights worker Viktor Popkov, who was severely wounded on April 18 in Chechnya by an attacker employing an automatic weapon, emerged from a comatose condition on May 3 and two days later was transferred to a special clinic in Moscow. A plane... MORE
A RIFT OPENS UP BETWEEN MOSCOW AND PRO-MOSCOW CHECHENS.
After the May 5 meeting of the Russian power ministers and the heads of regions in the Southern Federal District had concluded, the chairman of the pro-Moscow Chechen administration, Akhmad Kadyrov, and his prime minister, Stanislav Il'yasov, left for Chechnya. Following their departure, the director... MORE
RUSSIAN AUTHORITIES ACCUSED OF BURYING EVIDENCE.
On May 15, the New York-based Human Rights Watch issued a 24-page report that documented what it termed the Russian government's botched investigation of a mass dumping ground for bodies discovered in February of this year. The report claimed that the Russian authorities had literally... MORE