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Chechen human rights activist abducted in Moscow

AP - Thu Nov 5, 3:55 pm ET

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.

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Chechen Leader's Islamic Policies Stir Unease
NPR - Tue Nov 3, 6:33 am ET
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.
Violence and Impunity in the North Caucasus: Status Report and Policy Recommendations
Center for Strategic and International Studies - Mon Nov 2, 5:40 pm ET
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
Chechnya's separatist rebellion grows into regional Islamist insurgency
Washington Post - Fri Oct 30, 12:00 am ET
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.
10 Suspected Militants, 1 Police Officer Killed in Russia
Fox News - Sat Oct 31, 10:30 am ET
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.
Violence Spikes In Russian Caucasus
OfficialWire - Sat Oct 31, 6:59 am ET
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.
Reports: Case opened against Russian activist
AP via Yahoo! News - Tue Oct 27, 5:07 pm ET
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.
Sakharov Prize
Foreign Policy Blogs - Mon Oct 26, 4:03 am ET
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 [...]
Chechnya: Attempt to kill leader averted
UPI - Sat Oct 24, 2:02 am ET
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.
4 rebels, 1 officer killed in Chechnya
USA Today - Wed Oct 21, 2:51 pm ET
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.
4 Rebels, 1 Policeman Killed in Chechnya
Fox News - Wed Oct 21, 11:28 am ET
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.
After Chechnya, many fear a new Caucasus war
Richmond Times-Dispatch - Sat Oct 17, 12:16 am ET
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 ...