Chechnya

Chechen Rebels Claim Responsibility For Russian Train Bombing

AP | DAVID NOWAK | Posted 12.02.2009 | World

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MOSCOW — Chechen rebels claimed responsibility Wednesday for blowing up a high-speed Russian train last week, an attack that killed 26 people, i...

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International Flight Leaves Grozny Airport For First Time In 15 Years

BBC NEWS | Posted 11.16.2009 | World

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The first international flight to leave conflict-hit Chechnya in 15 years has taken off from the airport in Grozny....

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Chechen human rights activist abducted in Moscow

AP | Posted 11.05.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Moscow-Russia, Chechnya, Chechnya Human Rights, Arbi Khachukayev, Moscow, Russia Human Rights, Chechen Human Rights, World News

MOSCOW — A Russian rights group said Chechen authorities on Thursday abducted a human rights advocate in Moscow who has been critical of Chechny...

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Getting the Vietnam Analogy Right in Afghanistan

Leon T. Hadar | Posted 10.21.2009 | World

Read More: Nazi Germany, President Obama, Lebanon, Iran, Hitler, China, History, Muslim, Saudi Arabia, Nato, Vietnam War, John Kennedy, Chechnya, Munich, Analogies, Czechoslovakia, Syria, Xinjiang, West Germany, South Vietnam, Hamas, Soviet Union, Hizbollah, Afghanistan War, Al Quaeda, Kashmir, Shiites, Iraq War, Communism, North VIetnam, Taliban, India, Lyndon Johnson, Cuba, Ospolitik, Detente, World News
Leon T. Hadar

The ghosts of the Vietnam War seem to be hanging around the White House Situation Room as President Obama and his national security aides debate a new strategy for the war in Afghanistan.

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Shifting Gears on Missile Defense Marks a Shift in U.S. Policy Toward Russia, with Immediate Impact on Iran

David Paul | Posted 11.27.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Missile Defense, George W. Bush, Joe Biden, Russia Georgia Conflict, Ukraine, Dmitry Medvedev, Realism, Foreign Policy, Dick Cheney, Kosovo Independence, Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Sergei Lavrov, Nato, Chechnya, Vladimir Putin, Gwot, Ukraine Gas, World News
David Paul

Ahmadinejad's normal swagger has been muted, perhaps with the realization that his days of manipulating Russia against the West have ended.

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Chechnya Suicide Attacks Kill 4 Police And Civilian

AP | MUSA SADULAYEV | Posted 09.21.2009 | World

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GROZNY, Russia — Suicide bombers on bicycles detonated explosives in Chechnya on Friday, killing at least four police officers and a civilian in...

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Russia: Suicide Truck Bomb Kills At Least 20

AP | SHAMSUDIN BOKOV, Associated Press Writer | Posted 09.17.2009 | World

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NAZRAN, Russia (AP) - A suicide bomber exploded a truck at a police station in Russia's North Caucasus on Monday, killing at least 20 people and wound...

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Russia Huffs and Puffs as the House Comes Down

Robert Amsterdam | Posted 09.12.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, Robert Amsterdam, Kremlin, United States, Joe Biden, Cold War, Ukraine, Russia Georgia War, Barack Obama, Dmitry Medvedev, Yukos, Natalia Estemirova, Viktor Yuschenko, Chechnya, Vladimir Putin, Moscow, Farc, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, World News
Robert Amsterdam

By creating manageable confrontations with Europe, the U.S, and former Soviet states, the Kremlin is attempting to govern outwardly, diminishing pressures for greater domestic accountability.

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Chechen Activist Zarema Sadulayeva And Husband Found Shot Dead In Trunk: Memorial

AP | MUSA SADULAYEV | Posted 09.11.2009 | World

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SHALAZHI, Russia — The bullet-riddled bodies of a Chechen activist and her husband were found in the trunk of their car Tuesday, the latest in a...

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Chechnya: Gunmen Kill 5 Police Officers In Convoy Ambush

New York Times | Posted 09.03.2009 | World

Read More: Chechen, Russia, Chechnya Violence, Foreign Affairs, Chechnya, Advocacy, World News

Gunmen attacked a police convoy in the Russian republic of Chechnya on Sunday evening, killing at least five officers and wounding four others, invest...

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Killers of Russian Human Rights Activists Will Not Be Punished

Oleg Kozlovsky | Posted 08.20.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Ramzan Kadyrov, Natalya Estemirova, Chechnya, World News
Oleg Kozlovsky

The death of Natalya Estemirova is not the first tragedy in the recent history of human rights activism in Russia and in Northern Caucasus in particular.

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Natalya Estemirova Murder Prompts Memorial To Suspend Chechnya Work

Deutsche Welle | Posted 08.20.2009 | World

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Russian human rights group Memorial has suspended operations in Chechnya following the murder of one of its most prominent activists, Natalya Estemiro...

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Ramzan Kadyrov, Chechen Leader, To Sue Rights Group Memorial For Natalya Estemirova Accusations

AP | Posted 08.17.2009 | World

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MOSCOW — The spokesman for Ramzan Kadyrov, Chechnya's strongman leader, says his boss will sue a top human rights organization for claiming he w...

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Natalya Estemirova Murder Reveals Russia's "Terror Campaign": Activists

AP | MUSA SADULAYEV and MIKE ECKEL | Posted 08.16.2009 | World

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GROZNY, Russia — Weeping mourners escorted the body of Natalya Estemirova through Chechnya's capital on Thursday, honoring the activist whose br...

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Top Chechnya Rights Defender is Brutally Slain

Human Rights Watch | Posted 08.16.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Natalia Estemirova, Chechnya, Chechnya Human Rights, Human Rights Watch, Chechnya Government, Estemirova Death, World News
Human Rights Watch

Human Rights Watch has called on Russian authorities to investigate immediately the abduction and killing of Estemirova, and to bring all of those involved to justice.

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Medvedev: Natalya Estemirova's Killers Will Be Found

AP | ROLAND LOSCH and GEIR MOULSON | Posted 08.16.2009 | World

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MUNICH — Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Thursday he is confident that the killer of a prominent human rights activist will be found and ...

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Ramzan Kadyrov, Chechen Leader, Fingered By Natalia Estemirova's Colleagues For Her Death

GlobalPost | Posted 08.15.2009 | World

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Natalia Estemirova was an increasingly rare breed in Russia. Committed to exposing human rights abuses committed by the ruthless leadership in Chechny...

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Natalia Estemirova: Russian Rights Activist Kidnapped, Found Dead

AP | MIKE ECKEL and MANSUR MIROVALEV | Posted 08.15.2009 | World

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MOSCOW — A well-known Russian rights activist was found slain execution-style on Wednesday, hours after being kidnapped in Chechnya – the ...

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Obama Does Moscow, and Vice Versa

William Bradley | Posted 08.08.2009 | World

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William Bradley

Unlike most of the rest of Europe, Russia is hardly in the grips of Obamamania. He's certainly more popular than George W. Bush or John McCain, but that's damning with faint praise.

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Canadian Model Hosts a News Show in Chechnya

Russia Magazine | Posted 07.13.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Media, Chechnya, Chechnya-Journalist, Ramzan-Kadyrov, World News
Russia Magazine

Unable to exercise its feeble control over the Republic in stabilizing the region, Kremlin opted instead to hire a model to deliver its blatantly positive spin.

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Russian Ends Chechnya Counter-Terrorism Operation

RIA Novosti | Posted 05.17.2009 | World

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MOSCOW, April 16 (RIA Novosti) - The counter-terrorism operation that was launched in Russia's volatile republic of Chechnya in 1999 finished at midni...

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Russian Soldier Shoots Platoon Mates, Himself In Chechnya

RIA Novosti | Posted 05.14.2009 | World

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A soldier in Chechnya killed his platoon commander and two other soldiers before turning his weapon on himself, a police source told RIA Novosti on Mo...

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Sulim Yamadayev, Former Chechen Rebel Boss, Assassinated In Dubai

The Independent | By Shaun Walker in Moscow | Posted 04.30.2009 | World

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An opponent of Chechnya's Moscow-backed president, Ramzan Kadyrov, has been shot dead in Dubai. The murder of Sulim Yamadayev is the latest in a line ...

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We Can't Allow Russia's Dissidents to be Killed on Western Streets

Johann Hari | Posted 03.27.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Vladimir Putin, Russian Dissidents, Russian Journalists, Chechnya, Ukraine, Moscow-Russia, World News
Johann Hari

The current killing-spree of Russian dissidents is, in part, an attempt to silence criticisms of crimes in Chechnya.

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Anna Politkovskaya Trial: Russia Reopens Case

Nytimes.com | ELLEN BARRY and MICHAEL SCHWIRTZ | Posted 03.23.2009 | World

Read More: Russia Press Freedom, Chechnya Journalist, Chechnya, Russia, Russia Murdered Journalist, Russia Human Rights, Anna Politkovskaya, World News

MOSCOW -- A day after a Moscow jury acquitted all three suspects in the murder of the prominent investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya, the presi...

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