Terror in Chechnya: Russia and the Tragedy of Civilians in War (Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity)
Islam in Europe (Free subscription) | yesterday
Switzerland: Imam reported for incitement The Swiss People's Party (UDC) in Fribourg turned to the Office of the Examining Magistrates to check the possibility of opening a criminal investigatoin following remarks made by an imam in one of the city mosques. According to "La Liberté" of October 28, quoted by the head of the UDC of Fribourg Daniel Gander, the imam called to "punishe...
JURIST (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
[JURIST] A lawyer for the man accused of the double murder of human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova said Friday that his client has confessed to the crime. Nikita Tikhonov and female companion Yevgenia Khasis were arrested Thursday and brought before the Basmanny District Court. In an interview on the radio program Echo Moskvy, Tikhonov's lawyer, Yevgeny Skripelev,...
Creeping Sharia (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Keith Ellison (Democrat – MN) must be jealous. Reuters has the details: MOSCOW, Nov 5 (Reuters) – Russia’s mostly Muslim, volatile Chechnya region will pay for hundreds of pilgrims to go to Mecca for this year’s haj, its leader’s spokesman said on Thursday. The free haj trip, ordered by regional president Ramzan Kadyrov, follows prizes for newborns [...]
Religion Clause (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
In Russia's Chechnya region, Chechen president Ramzan Kadyrov has ordered the government to pay for 400 residents to go to Mecca on this year's Hajj. Reuters reported yesterday that trips will be financed for those who cannot afford to go, for the single and the young, out of a fund Kadyrov has created to honor father who was assassinated in a bomb blast in 2004. Kadyrov has previously awarded prizes...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Chechen authorities on Thursday abducted human rights advocate in Moscow who has been critical of Chechnya's Kremlin-backed leader, a Russian rights group said.
Yahyasheikho786's Blog (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Chechnya, kavkaz, prince Khattab the leader of the Muslim Army’s in chechnya, proves that these so called American humanitarian organizations like us aid are nothing but a froud and a lie, by asking the peasents and villigers in one of the villiges in chechnya, listen to the answer and laugh LOL May Allah protect the believers [...]
A Step At A Time (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
RFE/RL’s Caucasus Report examines the abrupt change of tack on the part of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, who had earlier said he would welcome the return to the republic of ChRI head Akhmed Zakayev, now exiled in London. But last week Kadyrov branded Zakayev a “liar”, and accused him of misrepresenting the situation in Chechnya. [...]
A Step At A Time (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
RFE/RL's Caucasus Report examines the abrupt change of tack on the part of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, who had earlier said he would welcome the return to the republic of ChRI head Akhmed Zakayev, now exiled in London. But last week Kadyrov branded Zakayev a "liar" , and accused him of misrepresenting the situation in Chechnya. Now Chechen parliamentary speaker Dukvakha Abdurakhmanov has...
Kinshasa On The Potomac (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
The Army Times has an article today about current intel estimates about the insurgency in Afghanistan. It is not pretty. Here are a few excerpts; The expansion of Islamic extremist groups across the Afghanistan-Pakistan region is “the worst I’ve seen it,” with Afghan insurgents receiving help from Iranian operatives and “very possibly” freelancing Pakistani intelligence...
Perspective Journal: News and Polit (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
In the war-torn Russian republic of Chechnya, Moscow-backed leader Ramzan Kadyrov has ordered the return of Sufi Islam and Chechen traditions as a way to establish control and undercut Muslim extremists. Some in the Kremlin are now beginning to ask what they have unleashed in the unstable region. » E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us [...]
Ria Novosti (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
A total of 144 militants have been killed during special operations in Russia's North Caucasus since April, the interior minister of the republic of Chechnya said Monday.
New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
The Melbourne Cup could become part of an international money laundering scheme if Chechen dictator Ramzan Kadyrov's horse Mourilyan wins the race, an expert in Russian politics says.Kadyrov has been described as the new Stalin...
JURIST (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
[JURIST] Russia must undertake extensive legal reforms in order to protect human rights, according to a report issued Friday by the UN Human Rights Committee. The committee found that Russia is failing to protect important human rights in a number of areas. The report emphasized the problems the country is having guaranteeing its citizens rights such as fair trials and freedoms of speech and of the...
Ria Novosti (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
A militant leader was killed in a special operation in the capital of Chechnya on Saturday, the republic's interior minister said.
Washington Post (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
SUNZHENSKY, RUSSIA -- Her face wet with tears and framed by a black shawl, Madina Albakova sat in her ransacked living room and described how she had become another teenage widow here in Ingushetia, the most volatile of Russia's Muslim republics.
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