Justice For North Caucasus

Friday 19 April 2013 12.04 EDT

To Tolstoy, fighting Chechen rebels in the 1850s, they were a ‘hardy thistle’ defying suppression. Now, it has seeded itself afar

Special forces outside parliament in 2010 in Chechnya’s rebuilt capital, Grozny. Photograph: Viskhan Magomadov/AFP/Getty Images

Stephen Kinzer

Although nothing is yet [...]

Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 10 Issue: 68 April 11, 2013 05:13 PM By: Mairbek Vatchagaev Over the past week, Russian government special forces have been conducting a large-scale special operation to root out militants in the Achkhoi-Martan district of Chechnya and the adjacent Sunzha district of Ingushetia. The fact that even auxiliary police forces have [...]

Chechen Youths Demonstrate In Amman, Jordan

Chechen youths demonstrate  yesterday in Amman, Jordan in front of the Russian embassy to commemorate the day (February, 23, 1944), when the Chechen nation was exiled by Soviet Russia to Siberia:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbVQYLMD1wQ

Chechnya’s Insurgency Stubbornly Remained Active in 2012 Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 10 Issue: 5 January 11, 2013 06:40 PM By: Mairbek Vatchagaev Out of 137 official news releases in connection to the armed opposition’s activities in Chechnya in 2012, 71 were about the arrests of rebel supporters. One-third of those arrested on charges of providing [...]

Double agent claimed to stay behind death of heroic Caucasus Jihad Commander Last update: 10 January 2013, 13:15 Publication time: 9 January 2013, 23:28 It is to be recalled that Shamil Basayev martyred (Insha’Allah) as a result of an explosion of a truck loaded with weapons and ammunition near the Ingush village of Ekazhevo on [...]

Visit Fabulous, Bloody Grozny Has the world’s most destroyed city recovered? 26 October 2012 MATTHEW CLAYFIELD

The first-time visitor to Grozny has to be reminded that, until recently, the Chechen capital was often called “the most destroyed city on Earth.” Today, Grozny rises out of the plain like the Emerald City of Oz. The famous [...]

Suicide Bombings Return to Grozny Publication: North Caucasus Analysis Volume: 13 Issue: 16 August 10, 2012 05:44 PM By: Mairbek Vatchagaev

Before the commotion over the possible death of the well-known Chechen rebel emir Zaurbek Avdorkhanov in the Ingush village of Galashki on July 29 had subsided (www.chechenews.com/world-news/breaking/8565-1.html), suicide bombers attacked in Grozny. As of August [...]