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 A collection of miscellaneous news, political comments, reports, interviews with politicians involved in the conflict, that are an evidence of never-ending but so far fruitless attempts to find a political solution to the Chechen conflict.
Newly added and regularly updated is a collection of articles and statements which are putting Chechnya in the context of the terrorist attacks at the US. The link to it can be found in the right upper yellow box on our homepage. |
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 What changes await Chechnya? (weekly review) |
| The image of the great builder such as mankind has never known before must be constantly reinforced by hundreds and thousands of foundation pits for new construction that have been dug across the whole republic. |
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| A war of survival (weekly review) |
| The Kremlin is afraid to put Chechnya completely in Kadyrov’s hands, even though it is prepared to meet his wishes where the lifting of the basic restrictions is concerned. |
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| The “golden gun” of Adam Delimkhanov (weekly review) |
| The most shocking aspect of this story is the audacity and cynicism of the assassination’s organizers, who were absolutely certain of their impunity and did not consider it necessary to destroy the traces of their involvement in the case. |
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| Battle at the murder scene (weekly review) |
| The perpetrators may have been motivated by a very large monetary or other reward. But even from a very rough description, the sequence of events seems highly unusual. |
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| The discrediting of Ichkeria (weekly review) |
| Having brought together in one room a few dozen of his recent enemies among the Ichkerian field commanders, Ramzan Kadyrov made them systematically trample in the mud not only their former comrades-at-arms, but also themselves. |
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| Licence to kill |
| The right to eliminate opponents is granted only to special units operating with the support of the Russian law enforcement agencies. |
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| Kadyrov’s Arab diplomacy (weekly review) |
| Russia has made Chechnya a sort of window on the Middle East. For Arab kings, sheikhs, emirs and other oriental rulers a meeting with the leader of the former rebel territory is a mandatory item on their agenda in Russia. |
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| The president of dead bears |
| No one is able to explain what is going on in Ingushetia. The killing is universal: it is wiping out Russians and Ingush, clerics and businessmen, not to mention employees of the Ingush interior ministry and FSB, and insurgents. |
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| Kadyrov’s acrobatic etudes (weekly review) |
| Some details of the meeting were so extraordinary that they provided an instant insight into the essence of the profoundly Asiatic nature of the relations between the “white” ruler and his “coloured” vassal. |
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| Ingushetia revisited |
| It is absolutely obvious, however, that Yunus-Bek Yevkurov feels himself to be a man of the state, and will never make a break with the Russian legal system of the kind that his Chechen counterpart, Ramzan Kadyrov, has made. |
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| Not the time for a hero |
| In the Caucasus bravery verging on insanity is valued and respected more than intelligence and prudence. All that Yevkurov needs is a demonstration of lofty madness, not its actual embodiment. |
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| The hero’s non-return |
| The fact that Yevkurov has hired people from Aushev’s team is of no significance at all. What really matters is whether he has a mission for the “team”, whether he is ready to protect the village. |
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| Operation search and destroy |
| Yunus-Bek Yevkurov's appointment means that a new model has been chosen, one which uses the Chechen experience. Instead of deploying in the houses and streets, abducting people, his men will go into the forests and mountains with weapons in their hands. |
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| Dagestan: the justice deficit |
| Among those who have gone to the forest, there are many of very high social status, individuals who are successful and have brilliant prospects. |
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| The rout of the Ingush opposition |
| The increasing pressure on opposition politicians demonstrates the direction in which the authorities plan to move. As in neighbouring Chechnya, it is likely that lawful, public protest will soon be totally banned. |
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| Realpolitik as the matrix of contemporary fascism |
| We are saying goodbye to the iron logic of the inviolability of borders, which was never really observed very much in insignificant parts of the world, but which in the case of a major nuclear power no one ever dared to call into question. |
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| Don't write Russia off yet! |
| If the Russian state is able to conduct an effective campaign against corruption and the privatization of power, it will not collapse like a house of cards. |
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| "Chechnya Day" in Vienna |
| The programme of events attracted the attention of dozens of people of different nationalities, ages and occupations, and acquainted them with the situation of Chechen refugees in Austria, Chechen history, culture, traditions and cuisine.
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| Two sides of the Georgia-Russia conflict |
| The current pressure on Georgians and other ethnic groups from the Caucasus has two roots: Russia’s conflict with Georgia and internal developments in Russia proper. |
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| Trapped in Azerbaijan |
| In the absence of legal recognition from the local government, the Chechens are entirely dependent on help from their relatives abroad plus a handful of programs carried out by various humanitarian agencies. |
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