Kavkazky Uzel on January 18 reported that many Chechens view acting Chechen Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov's call for the legalization of polygamy in Chechnya as a "bad joke." Kadyrov said on January 13 during a long telephone interview with Ekho Moskvy radio devoted to the... MORE

Chechen human rights activist Said-Emin Ibragimov ended his hunger strike in Strasbourg on January 18 after receiving guarantees that the situation in Chechnya would be on the agenda of the Council of Europe's parliamentary assembly (PACE), Kavkazky Uzel reported. Ibragimov had told the Associated Press... MORE

The announcement of the killing of Abu Omar al-Saif, "the mufti of Arab fighters in Chechnya", on December 12, 2005, shed light on the movement's future and its presence in Chechnya. While the Russian government did not deny or confirm the news until December 16,... MORE

On January 25, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) passed a resolution on the human rights situation in Chechnya. According to PACE's website (assembly.coe.int), the resolution, which passed by a vote of 117 to 24, stated that the Strasbourg-based assembly "is deeply... MORE

Kavkazky Uzel reported on January 24 that Memorial had received information that the relative of a Chechen who had filed a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg has been tortured since his detention at the end of December. According to Memorial,... MORE

The trial of Dagestani human rights activist Osman Boliev will continue on January 30, Kavkazky Uzel reported on January 25. The previous court session in his trial had to be postponed because of the failure of prosecution witnesses to appear. Boliev, a resident of Khasavyurt,... MORE

A roadside bomb targeting a member of the Dagestani branch of the State Road Safety Inspectorate (GIBDD) went off in Khasavyurt as the officer was passing by in his police vehicle, but the intended victim was not hurt, the Dagestani Interior Ministry's press service told... MORE

A group of unidentified gunmen killed two people and seriously wounded a man and a woman during a January 20 attack in the village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya in Ingushetia's Sunzhensky district, which borders Chechnya. Citing Ingushetia's Interior Ministry, RIA Novosti reported that the gunmen, who were... MORE

There is little left of the Orthodox Church establishment in Chechnya. Most of Chechnya's ethnic Russian Christian minority fled in the early 1990s during the creation of Dzhokar Dudaev's independent Chechen state. The onset of war in 1994 found only the aged and the impoverished... MORE

The situation in Chechnya and the North Caucasus was among the subjects that President Vladimir Putin addressed during his January 31 Kremlin press conference. “I think that it is possible to talk about the end of the counter-terrorist operation since Chechnya’s law enforcement agencies will,... MORE