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(RTTNews) - Chechnya's interior ministry says Russian security forces shot dead five rebels in a special operation near the the Caucasus republic's capital Grozny Wednesday, RIA Novosti news agency reports.
Moscow, Nov 11 (AFP) Russian security forces killed five rebels in a special operation near the Chechen capital Grozny today, the Caucasus republic's interior ministry said, quoted by RIA Novosti news agency.
A Russian rights group said Chechen authorities on Thursday abducted a human rights advocate in Moscow who has been critical of Chechnya's Kremlin-backed leader.
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.
Summer 2009 in Chechnya, Ingushetia and Dagestan was the bloodiest in several years. Since the July murder of Natalia Estemirova, a human rights activist from Memorial, three more activists have been killed. read more
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.
Ten suspected militants and one police officer have been killed in the volatile southern provinces of Dagestan and Chechnya in three separate incidents, officials said.
A decade of Russian military operations in its Muslim provinces has converted a nationalist movement into a religious one, experts say. The government declared victory in Chechnya in April.
A lawyer for Chechnya's strongman president said Tuesday that a criminal libel case carrying possible prison time has been opened against one of Russia's most prominent human rights activists, news agencies reported.
Natalya Estemirova’s body was found on June 15th of this year. The award winning journalist and human rights defender was getting too close to the truth. She paid for it with two bullets. In Chechnya and indeed elsewhere in that wide expanse of impunity (see Dagestan and Russia), Estemirova was finding hard evidence of Chechnya’s state [...]
GROZNY, Russia, Oct. 24 (UPI) -- Chechen police saved the life of President Ramzan Kadyrov Friday when they shot the driver of a speeding car carrying a large bomb, officials said.
Four suspected rebels and one police officer have died in a series of clashes in Chechnya and a suicide bomber wounded four police officers and a civilian, authorities said Wednesday.
Four suspected rebels and one police officer have died in fighting in Chechnya, a spokesman for the regional branch of Russia's Interior Ministry said Wednesday.
NAZRAN, Russia—Melted rubber sandals float in the bus-sized crater outside what’s left of the Nazran city police department. The devastation is testament to what happened just after 9 a.m. Aug. 17 when a man crashed a bomb-laden van through the station gates and into a crowd of police officers gathered for roll call. The attack in the main city of the long-troubled region of Ingushetia killed at ...
