According to research by the Memorial human rights group, the number of kidnappings in Chechnya and people killed in violence in Ingushetia increased between January-April of this year, compared to the same period in 2008. Kavkazky Uzel reported on April 27 that, according to Memorial,... MORE

Nearly six months after Yunus-Bek Yevkurov was appointed the new president in volatile Ingushetia, the violence in the republic has shown few signs of abating.“During the two days that I stayed in Ingushetia recently, ten attacks took place in the republic, including an attack on... MORE

The Russian authorities have been trying to present the cancellation of the counter-terrorist operation as a victory over unruly Chechnya (Interfax, April 16). Yet, some 18 years have passed since the Chechen people declared independence from Moscow in 1991. This small North Caucasian republic was... MORE

The press office of the Federal Security Service (FSB) branch in Ingushetia told Itar-Tass on April 21 that an anti-terrorist operation in and around the village of Verkhny Alkun in Ingushetia’s Sunzha district had been completed. According to the office, a base under construction by... MORE

Just days after the Russian government announced that it had cancelled the ten-year-old counter-terrorist operation in Chechnya (North Caucasus Weekly, April 17), federal military authorities in the republic announced on April 24 that a new counter-terrorist operation had been launched in three districts of the... MORE

Is the conflict between youth and elders in the Circassian national movements just a generational dispute or is it the beginning of a revolutionary change in the Circassian regions of the North Caucasus? The generational conflict between these groups is now becoming quite obvious, as... MORE

On the evening of March 28, the Chechen community in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)—which is approximately 2,000-3,000 strong—was abuzz with the news of the assassination attempt on Sulim Yamadaev (https://chechen.org/forums/showthread.php?t=41&page=63). Closer to midnight, the mass media, citing the Reuters news agency, began to talk... MORE

The United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) newspaper The National quoted an anonymous senior official for the Dubai Police Criminal Investigations Department as saying that the gold-plated gun used to assassinate the former Vostok special operations battalion commander on March 28 is believed to have been smuggled... MORE

The investigation committee of the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office on April 16 overruled a decision by one of its subdivisions to resume a probe into the May 2004 assassination of then Chechen President Akhmad Kadyrov, father of the republic’s current president. As RIA Novosti reported,... MORE