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FSB Accuses Georgia of Aiding al-Qaeda in the North Caucasus
February 5, 2010 12:12 PM
Insurgent violence has continued unabated in the North Caucasus this week, with five federal servicemen dying in a shootout with insurgents in Chechnya yesterday (February 4) and Russia’s security services again accusing Georgia of aiding militants in the North Caucasus.A source in Chechnya’s security apparatus told Kavkazsky Uzel today (February 5) that five federal troops were killed yesterday during a firefight with insurgents in Chechnya’s Urus-Martan district. The source said the battle bet...
After Silencing Criticism in Chechnya, Kadyrov Moves on to the Rest of Russia
February 3, 2010 04:21 PM
On February 2, Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov’s lawyer Andrei Krasnenkov announced that Kadyrov had appealed to prosecutors to launch a criminal case against Lyudmila Alekseyeva and Vyacheslav Izmailov on defamation charges. According to Krasnenkov, at a May 2008 press conference Alekseyeva made the statement: “Kadyrov’s gangs roam Chechnya, killing, kidnapping people, doing whatever they want to do” (www.gazeta.ru, February 2).Lyudmila Alekseyeva is a veteran dissident and human rights activi...
Rights Organizations Recall Mass Killings in Chechnya’s Aldy
February 8, 2010On February 5, the head of Makhachkala’s police force, Ahkmed Magomedov, was gunned down in the center of Dagestan’s capital. Magomedov’s driver and two his bodyguards also died in the attack. According to the investigators, the...
Appointment of New Kremlin Envoy to the North Caucasus Causes Concern for Kadyrov
February 4, 2010
The appointment of Aleksandr Khloponin to the position of presidential envoy to the newly formed North Caucasus Federal District marked the beginning of a new era for the North Caucasus elites, represented primarily by the...
Dagestan’s Political Uncertainty Joined by Turmoil, Technological and Social Failures
February 1, 2010
As of January 29, an estimated 50,000 inhabitants of Dagestan’s capital Makhachkala remained without central heating, water and stable electricity supply for several days. Officials said that cold weather was causing the...
New Federal District Will Not Stabilize the North Caucasus
January 29, 2010Against the backdrop of the unavailing year in 2009 for Russian soldiers in the North Caucasus, Moscow is trying to explain to the Russian people why other countries want to interfere in its internal affairs (www.infox.ru,...
Rights Activists Say Corruption in Chechnya is an “Unwritten Rule”
January 29, 2010Russian President Dmitry Medvedev presided over a meeting of the collegium of the Federal Security Service (FSB) yesterday (January 28) devoted to examining the results of the agency’s work last year and its tasks for 2010. The...
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