Latest Articles about The Caucasus
Social Protest and Political Struggle on the Rise in Dagestan
Electricity cutoffs in the capital of Dagestan, Makhachkala, have become the focal point of social protest actions in the republic. The Dagestani electricity distribution company imposed restrictions on the supply of electricity in Makhachkala on May 21 and extended the restrictions to several other Dagestani... MORE
Bombings and Shootings Reported Across North Caucasus
A month and a half after the President Dmitry Medvedev ordered an official end to the decade-long counter-terrorism operation in Chechnya, bombings and shootings have been reported there and in neighboring Dagestan, Ingushetia, North Ossetia over the past several days.A man was hospitalized with shrapnel... MORE
U.N. Secretary-General Revises Report on Abkhazia under Russian Pressure
Russia no longer needs to veto the U.N. Security Council's (UNSC) resolution on the mandate of U.N. observers in Georgia, which expires on June 15. Intimidated by Moscow's veto threats, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and some key UNSC members have bowed to Russian demands and... MORE
Bombings and Shootings Reported Across North Caucasus
A month and a half after the President Dmitry Medvedev ordered an official end to the decade-long counter-terrorism operation in Chechnya, bombings and shootings have been reported there and in neighboring Dagestan, Ingushetia, North Ossetia over the past several days.A man was hospitalized with shrapnel... MORE
Final Settlement of North Ossetian-Ingush Conflict is tied to Peace in Ingushetia
In a surprising statement, Ingush President Yunus-Bek Yevkurov said that violence in the republic was rooted in the unresolved Ingush-Ossetian territorial dispute. To stabilize the situation in the republic, Yevkurov promised that all displaced persons from North Ossetia would go back to their homes. According... MORE
The Hunt for Rebels in Chechnya and Ingushetia Enters a Second Week
Military operations targeting rebel fighters in Chechnya and Ingushetia were conducted between May 17-24 near the villages of Bamut and Alkhasty in the Assa river valley, which serves as a boundary between the two republics. The operation involved up to several thousand Chechen policemen, among... MORE
Briefs
North Caucasus Natives Reportedly Arrested in EgyptRussian news sources reported on May 29 that Russian citizens in Egypt, most of them students at Al-Azhar University in Cairo, had been detained by authorities. Ingushetia.org quoted a Russian student at Al-Azhar as saying that Egyptian special services... MORE
Photo Surfaces of Sulim Yamadaev, Purportedly Among the Living
In the latest bizarre turn in the case of Sulim Yamadaev, the Chechen rebel website Kavkaz-Center on May 21 posted a photograph it said it received that day showing Yamadaev, the former commander of the Russian army’s elite Vostok battalion and rival to Chechen President... MORE
Memorial: Kidnappings in North Caucasus Go Unsolved and Unpunished
Memorial said in a report released May 26 on the situation in the North Caucasus that more than 3,000 people have been kidnapped or disappeared without a trace in the region since 2000. According to the Russian human rights group, most of the abductions and... MORE
Dagestan Plagued by Shootings and Power Cuts
The deputy mufti of the Spiritual Board of Muslims of Dagestan, Akhmed Tagaev, was shot dead in the republic’s capital, Makhachkala, on May 25. As Interfax noted, Tagaev was in charge of public and media relations for the board and regarded as “one of the... MORE