Chechnya

Reuters: Two Russian police killed in Dagestan - reports 2008-05-15

Russian forces have fought two wars in Chechnya since 1994, killing thousands of people and scarring the north Caucasus. The violence has spilled over ...

Azerbaijan Business Center: Russia proposes to create Caspian States Parliamentary Assembly ... 2008-05-15

Russia itself is under blows of PACE because of events in Chechnya , impairment of civil freedoms and non-transparency of election processes.

Bombay News: Muslims must come out openly against terrorists 2008-05-15

Many of the terrorists acting in the name of Islam cite Kashmir, Palestine, Chechnya , Iraq and Afghanistan to justify the killing of innocent lives.

Twin Cities Planet: Theater note: "American Pilot" explores global tensions 2008-05-15

Rummenie"s version plays on the possibility that this is in a Chechnya -like country, with a war that had turned on the question of communism but ...

Twin Cities Planet: Theater note: "American Pilot" explores global tensions 2008-05-15

Rummenie"s version plays on the possibility that this is in a Chechnya -like country, with a war that had turned on the question of communism but ...

European Voice: An angel and the devil in hell on earth 2008-05-15

Eventually he was taken in by Hadijat, a local woman who with her husband runs an unofficial home for Chechnya's lost children. Locals know her simply ...

RIA Novosti: Some 20000 cases against Russia pending in Strasbourg court 2008-05-15

... and unlawfully destroyed property during counter-terrorist operations in the troubled North Caucasus Republic of Chechnya in 1999-2001.

Adnkronos International Italia: Germany: Threat of Islamic terrorism 'consistently high', says report 2008-05-15

American, Israeli and British institutions were at high risk, said the report, as well as Russian targets, due to the ongoing conflict in Chechnya .

ISA: Russia's foreign policy 2008-05-15

The appeasement of Chechnya , however relative and incomplete, has stabilised the situation around Russia's southern borders. In Central Asia and the Caspi ...

Asia Sentinel: Bangladeshi Immigrants Stoke Terror in India 2008-05-15

... Bangladesh and on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, have attacked targets in the disputed Jammu and Kashmir region and even as far afield as Chechnya .

RIA Novosti: Police checkpoint attacked in Chechnya, no injuries 2008-05-15

MOSCOW, May 15 (RIA Novosti) - A police checkpoint has come under fire in Russia's troubled Caucasus republic of Chechnya , a source in local law enforcement ...

New York Times: World Briefing | Europe Russia: Clashes Kill 9 Near Chechnya 2008-05-15

With Chechnya largely under the control of local forces aligned with the Kremlin, many remaining insurgents have moved to Ingushetia. Col. Gen.

Global Voices Online: Ukraine: Moscow Mayor's Sevastopol Controversy 2008-05-15

In Chechnya , the federal government is not working. As for Luzhkov - he's got his own foreign policy. Which serves his business. Of which they reminded him ...

Reuters AlertNet: Germany: Press for Human Rights Reform in Russia 2008-05-09

In 26 rulings to date, the European Court has repeatedly found Russia responsible for serious abuses in Chechnya , including torture, "disappearances," ...

New York Times: Putin Is Approved as Prime Minister 2008-05-09

Mr. Zyuganov opened by pointing out what he regarded as successes, including the defeat of separatists in Chechnya and the unification of much of ...

BBC News: Moscow Diary: Chechnya challenge 2008-05-08

Russia still has unfinished business in troubled Chechnya - and President Medvedev cannot ignore it, the BBC's James Rodgers reports.

ReliefWeb (press release): Georgia: Long-simmering Abkhaz conflict heating up....but why now? 2008-05-08

But Moscow, which has for years beat down separatist sentiments in volatile republics like Chechnya , is loathe to risk the appearance of double standard ...

RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty: In Daghestan, Free Maternity Care Ends With Hospital Closure 2008-05-08

Magomedova set up the hospital in 1994 in a dilapidated former clinic and has treated women from Daghestan as well as nearby Chechnya and North Ossetia.

International Herald Tribune: Book Review: Timothy Colton's "Yeltsin: A Life" 2008-05-08

He unleashed the army against a mutinous parliament and waged a brutal, scorched-earth war against separatist Chechnya . For years after Yeltsin crashed ...

International Herald Tribune: A summary of top stories in Russian newspapers 2008-05-08

In the North Caucasus, the body count in Chechnya continues to rise as a result of a feud between rival law enforcement clans. War in the Caucasus defined ...

Telegraph.co.uk: Islamic preacher Abu Qatada is bailed 2008-05-08

... police officers in February 2001, he had £170000 cash in his possession, including £805 in an envelope marked íFor the Mujahedin in Chechnya ì.

Reuters: Russia's Chechnya says car production starts 2008-05-08

MOSCOW, May 8 (Reuters) - A new factory in the south Russian republic of Chechnya assembled its first cars on Thursday, the Chechen government ...

UNPO: UNPO Applauds Approval of Human Rights Report 2008-05-08

In Russia, the situation in Chechnya is highlighted, together with the persecution of journalists, human rights defenders and political prisoner ...

Journal: EDITORIAL: Economic freedom and human rights - Las Vegas Review 2008-05-08

Two occupied territories, Chechnya and Tibet, "whose inhabitants suffer intense repression," were placed in the lowest category, as well -- though their ...

San Francisco Chronicle: As expected, he taps Putin at once for prime minister 2008-05-08

His government beat pro-democracy demonstrators, allowed ultranationalists free range of the streets and waged a war in Chechnya . Perhaps nothing so neatly ...

Prague Post: European Roundup 2008-05-08

CHECHNYA Five police officers were killed by a roadside bomb in the capital city Grozny, the BBC reported May 5. They were preparing for the upcoming ...

Journal of Turkish Weekly: Country Reports on Terrorism 2007: Europe and Eurasia Overview - III 2008-05-08

The majority of terrorist attacks continued to occur in the North Caucasus, where the pacification of much of Chechnya has correlated with an increase ...

BalkanInsight.com: BIRN post-election reading listâ 2008-05-08

K=9780300120349&search_text=tanner&sort=SORT_DATE%2FD&search_field=KEYWORD&x=38&y=8&m=1&dc=10 The Angel of Grozny: Inside Chechnya by Asne Seierstad.

Khaleej Times: Saakashvili warns of war threat with Russia 2008-05-08

... in the north Caucasus," the agencies quoted Saakashvili as saying, referring to the troubled Russian region that includes Chechnya and North Ossetia.

Expressindia.com: Even in New avitar, Putin may keep bear-like grip on power 2008-05-08

His popularity shot up in his first months in office after he oversaw a bloody military operation against Chechnya "s separatist rebellion.

Kommersant: Chechnya Launches Production 2008-05-08

The Argun plant, Pishchemash, has set to manufacturing VAZ-21074 cars, the press service of Chechnya "s president reported. The estimated output of facility ...

Tulsa Beacon: This Day in History: Tony Blair announced his resignation 2008-05-08

A suicide truck-bomb attack kills at least 60 at a government compound in northern Chechnya . Benvenuto Cellini"s Saliera is stolen from ...

Russia-InfoCenter: Chechen republic to open independent Islam TV channel 2008-05-08

The president of Chechnya earlier emphasized the role of mass media in the process of education and social development.

Prague Post: Nonprofit seeks to honor slain journalist 2008-05-08

Politkovskaya was gunned down in her Moscow apartment building in October 2006 after reporting on Russian military practices in Chechnya .

RIA Novosti: Russian police kill militant planning VE Day attack in N.Caucasus 2008-05-08

A Victory Day bomb in neighboring Chechnya killed the republic's pro-Moscow president, Akhmad Kadyrov, in 2004. Around 15 other people died in the attack.

Yemen Times: May God Have Mercy on the People of Sa"ada They really need ... 2008-05-08

... from the deserts of Mauritania to the jungles of Indonesia and from the once independent Chechnya to the once democratic and culturally dynamic venue ...

Arab Times: Iran backs Sunni fighters: Kuwaiti 2008-05-08

Al-Bathali, whose remarks were unusually bold, said he has also sent Kuwaitis to fight in Kosovo and Chechnya . He gave no evidence of his claims ...

France24: Russian parliament to confirm Putin as new PM 2008-05-08

His tough line on Chechnya earned him strong approval ratings, although there were dark accusations of FSB collusion in the apartment bombings, which killed ...

BBC News: Insight: The Bush-Putin legacy 2008-05-06

Economic progress in Russia has come at a cost - a bloody war in Chechnya ; the erosion of some media freedoms; a cowed and dispersed political opposition;

Raw Story: Journalist released from Gitmo calls it 'most heinous mankind h ... 2008-05-06

... said in a hearing that Hajj was classified as an enemy combatant because of alleged ties to a company that aided Muslim forces in Bosnia and Chechnya .

Reuters Canada: North Caucasus violence hits Putin's Russian legacy 2008-05-06

In Chechnya , centre of insurgency in the 1990s, separatist rebellion has largely been pacified. Moscow has handed responsibility for security to a loyal ...

International Herald Tribune: Long list of challenges awaits Medvedev in Russia 2008-05-06

... personal incomes for many Russians rose sharply, Russian troops and their proxies defeated and marginalized the bulk of separatist forces in Chechnya ...

Washington Post: Putin restored Russia's pride, at a price 2008-05-06

Putin sent troops to Chechnya and, at considerable cost in human life, brought the region back under Kremlin's control. His popularity soared.

Washington Post: Bombing in Chechnya Kills Five Police Officers 2008-05-06

A remote-controlled bomb exploded on a roadside late Sunday in Grozny, capital of the troubled Russian region of Chechnya , leaving five police officers dead ...

WPSD: Survey lists most world's most repressive regimes 2008-05-06

The organization also placed the territories of Chechnya and Tibet into the lowest category because the group says their "inhabitants suffer intense ...

NDTV.com: Putin to give up Kremlin charge tomorrow 2008-05-06

Putin had got the reins of power from a feeble Boris Yeltsin, who in the backdrop of Chechnya War with Islamists realised the crash course of the former ...

RIA Novosti: Chechen mufti looks to stamp out tradition of bride abductions 2008-05-06

ROSTOV-ON-DON, May 6 (RIA Novosti) - Religious leaders in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Chechnya plan to eradicate a century-old tradition of bride ...

Organisation de la Presse Africaine (Communiqués de presse): Chad Joins Ranks of World"s Worst Regimes, Others Decline Further 2008-05-06

The citizens of two territories, Chechnya and Tibet, suffer from similar intense repression and state control over daily life.

Daily Georgian Times: Abkhazian Gambit - the Kremlin"s Risky Venture 2008-05-06

The situation is far from being stable in Chechnya as pro-Moscow Kadirov and Yamadaev"s clans continue their armed conflicts while Ingushetia remains a hot ...

Canada NewsWire (press release): Dignitas International Co-Founder & Executive Director Named ... 2008-05-06

... including Dagestan, Chechnya , Democratic Republic of Congo, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Colombia, Sierra Leone, Kosovo, and Chiapas, Mexico.

ITAR-TASS: One serviceman died, 14 injured in road accident in Ingushetia 2008-05-06

All injured people are servicemen of the Interior Troops that serve at the checkpoint Kavkaz on the administrative border between Ingushetia and Chechnya .

International: Indian officials quit after threat - The News 2008-05-06

GROZNY, Russia: A bomb attack on a security checkpoint in Russia"s restive Chechnya province killed five policemen just days ahead of Dmitry Medvedev" ...

PR-Inside.com News: 6 police killed in Chechnya attacks 2008-05-05

AP ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia (AP) - A roadside bomb killed five police officers in Chechnya's capital and another officer was shot dead near the city ...

PR-Inside.com News: Refer to a friend 2008-05-05

2003 - Two suicide bomb attacks kill at least 75 people and injured hundreds of others in the rebellious southern republic of Chechnya .

History News Network: Is Hawaii a Colony that Needs to Be Freed? 2008-05-05

It is what binds together the questions of Tibet, Chechnya , the Hawaiian Sovereignty movement, Kosovo independence and the Iraq war.

BBC News: Chechnya bomb kills five police 2008-05-05

Five police officers have been killed by a roadside bomb in Grozny, the capital of the Russian republic of Chechnya , officials have said.

Reuters: Blast kills 5 policemen in Russia's Chechnya 2008-05-05

GROZNY, May 5 (Reuters) - At least five policemen have been killed and two injured in an explosion in Russia's turbulent southern region of Chechnya ...

The Mercury: From correspondents in Grozny, Chechnya 2008-05-05

FIVE policemen were killed when a homemade mine loaded with metal shrapnel exploded in the restive Russian province of Chechnya . Check your progress in our ...

NEWS.com.au: Five police killed in Chechnya blast 2008-05-05

FIVE policemen were killed when a homemade mine loaded with metal shrapnel exploded in the restive Russian province of Chechnya .

Mercury: Shanghai bus blast kills three 2008-05-05

A BUS has exploded in Shanghai, killing at least three people, the Associated Press reports. It's a weird and wonderful world in which we live.

Globe and Mail: Russian republic in clutches of imported rebellion 2008-05-05

He had spent the previous 24 hours blindfolded and locked in a basement cellar somewhere in Chechnya . Every hour or so, a jailer would enter the cell ...

Yemen Times: Al-Jazeera cameraman released from Gitmo 2008-05-05

The US accused Al-Hajj of having helped transfer funds to Muslim armed groups in Bosnia and Chechnya , though his lawyers have consistently denied it.

PRESS TV: Chechnya bomb blast kills 5 police 2008-05-05

Five policemen have been killed as a home-made bomb exploded in the capital of restive Russian province of Chechnya , injuring two others.

RIA Novosti: Five police officers killed in Chechnya bomb attack 2008-05-05

... officers have been killed and two others injured after a bomb exploded next to a police checkpoint in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Chechnya .

Washington Post: Questions Consume Kremlin-Watchers As Putin Steps Aside 2008-05-04

At a rally in Chechnya last week, a portrait of Russian President-elect Dmitry Medvedev slightly obscures one of the outgoing president, Vladimir Putin.

Irish Independent: US forces kill 14 gunmen in Baghdad as violence shows no signs ... 2008-05-04

SUSPECTED Islamic militants clashed with police in Chechnya , killing two law enforcement officers yesterday. A group of about 25 suspected militants fought ...

Arab Times: Interior probes "Gitmo" attack 2008-05-04

In related developments, security authorities tasked to follow-up Kuwaiti fighters in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Chechnya , Afghanistan and Iraq revealed many ...

Reading Eagle: Caucasus mountain climbing adventure provokes tears 2008-05-04

... Russian conquerors, for centuries ë giving the Caucasus a deserved reputation for persistent violence, particularly in Chechnya and on the Russian side.

Registan.net: Timing Is Everything 2008-05-03

Is he bestowing an image-building conflict on his successor, in the way that Chechnya built up Putin"s own nationalist credentials when he took power ...