Chechnya: Forgotten Orphans
By Asya Ramazanova (Caucasus Reporting Service No. 321, 06-Jan-06)


Rebellion Creeping Through Caucasus
By Kim Murphy, The Los Angeles Times (Sun Oct 23, 2005)


The Sheik In the Kremlin
The Washington Post, by Jim Hoagland (September 18, 2005)

Beslan mothers tell Putin: stay away
Sunday Times, by Mark Franchetti (August 28, 2005)


Islamic revival stirs angry youths in six Russian republics
Baltimore Sun by Douglas Birch (July 17, 2005)

Beslan: results of the preliminary investigations
Three articles by Kommersant (June 24, 2005)

Court Issues Free Pass to Kill Civilians Editorial
The Moscow Times, Editorial (May 24, 2005)

Russia's 'war on terror' tainted by brutality and corruption
By  Julius Strauss, The Telegraph (May 21, 2005)

License to kill
The Chechen Times (May 22, 2005)

A monument to tyranny
By Zaindi Choltaev and Michaela Pohl (May 9, 2005)

Europe is risking silence to end its longest war
Western leaders now refuse to condemn Russia's abuses in Chechnya
By Jonathan Steele, The Guardian (March 25, 2005).

Look back at Weimar – and start to worry about Russia
By Niall Ferguson, The Opinion.telegraph (1 January 2005)

Victims of Russian-Chechen war ask: why?
(Reuters - December 17, 2004)


“Insignificant” statistics?

By Sergei Karpov, The Chechen Times (17 November 2004)


Soviet-era dissidents despise Putin
By Betsy Pisik
, The Washington Times (November 14, 2004)

Putin's Appeasers
By Garry Kasparov,
The Wall Street Journal Europe (November 11, 2004)

Suffering for the good of mother Russia
By Stephen Dalziel, BBC Russian affairs analyst (October 20, 2004)


'New Stage' of Fear For Chechen Women Russian Forces Suspected in Abductions
By Peter Baker, Washington Post Foreign Service (October 19, 2004)

Umar Khanbiev: "Alone we will never be able to solve this problem"
From an interview with Marco Masi (October 12, 2004)

America must give Russia a dose of tough love

By Mark Brzezinsk and Richard Holbrooke, Financial Times
(October 7 2004)


Moscow's Mussolini

By Zbigniew Brzezinski, Wall Street Journal (Sept. 20, 2004)

'I would listen to their screams, see their faces'

By Richard Halicks, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (17 Sept. 2004)

From Russia With Hate
By Yuri Zarackhocich, Time Europe Magazine (9 August 2004)

Russian History Books Accused of Bias
By Maria Danilova, Associated Press (16 August 2004).

Russia’s Quagmire
By Rajan Menon, Boston Review (summer 2004)

Chechnya: Learning to Parrot
By Tanya Lokshina, Transitions Online (5 August 2004).

Of truth and lies and presidents
By Jeremy Putley, The Chechen Times (July 6, 2004)

Building a Potemkin Civil Society

The Moscow Times, Editorial. (June 28, 2004)

Young Men Vanishing in Russian Region
By Peter Baker, Washington Post Foreign Service, (June 6, 2004)

Shadowy kidnappings keep Chechens on edge
By David Filipov, Globe Staff (February 29, 2004)

A tide of Hatred Swells in Russia
By Kim Murphy, The Los Angeles Times (February 18, 2004)

Chechnya's agony
by Jeffrey T. Kuhner
(The Washington Times, Feb. 15, 2004)

Bombings Aren't the Whole Story
By Rajan Menon, Los Angeles Times (July 8, 2003)

Turning a blind eye
By Gwynne Dyer, The Toronto Star (July 8, 2003)

Silent screams - Our self-righteous prime minister is complicit in the endless atrocities in Chechnya
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By J. Meek, The Guardian (December 14, 2002)

Chechens Fight Deportation
By Timur Aliev in Bela Camp, Ingushetia, CRS No.159 (December 12, 2002)

Georgia Cracks Down on Chechens
- by Giorgy Kupatadze and Beslan Makhauri in Tbilisi, CRS No.159 (12-Dec-02)


Chechens in Moscow
- By Waclaw Radziwinowicz
, Gazeta Wyborcza (Decmber 11, 2002)

Reavealed: The Undercover War to Wipe Out Chechen Rebels
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By Mark Franketti, The Sunday Times (December 8, 2002).

In Russia, "Nothing is Debated"

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An interview with Grigory Yavlinsky edited by Patricia O'Connel, The Business Week (November 13, 2002).

This is Moral Clarity?
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By Fareed Zakaria, The Washington Post (November 5, 2002).
A reply by Alexander Massey

Other Reports

Chechnya: The Search for a Strong Successor C W Blandy (.pdf)
(July 2004)

Amnesty International: Russian Federation - Annual report 2004

(May 2004)

Human Rights Watch: "The Situation in Chechnya and Ingushetia Deteriorates"

(April 8, 2004)

When separatists become islamists: the case of Chechnya (.pdf)
By Wilhemsen Julie, Norwegian Defence Research Establishment, Norway.

Human Rights Watch: "Glad to be Deceived”: the International Community and Chechnya"
(January 2004)

International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (IHF):
No Human Rights Improvements in Post-Referendum Chechnya

(18 July, 2003)

Chechnya: Council of Europe Anti-Torture Committee makes a public statement
(Starsbourg, 10 July .2003)

International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (IHF): Disappearances Spread to Ingushetia: Torture, Ill-Treatment and Looting During Mop-up Operations in IDP Camps - Continued Impunity Demonstrates Need for ad hoc Tribunal
(Vienna, 18 June 2003).

Chechnya: the Genocide Continues (.pdf)
A Memornadum by the Society for Threatened Peoples (May 19, 2003, in German, pdf format)

HRW Briefing Paper on the Situation of Ethinic Chechens in Moscow
(April 1, 2003)

US Foreign Policy and Chechnya (.pdf)
(March, 2003 - By Michael McFaul)

Serious Violations of Women's Human Rights in Chechnya
To Members of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women- By Human Rights Watch (January 2002)

An Amnesty International Special Report

Background Information on Chechnya (.pdf) (.pdf file)
A study by Alexander Iskandarian, Director of the Moscow-based Centre for Studies on the Caucasus. (Moscow, December 2000)
Study was commissioned by UNHCR.

Chechnya: The Politics of Terror
- A Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Special Report (November 22, 2000)

Chechnya: The Tracking of Civilians - Interviews with Chechne refugees in Georgia
 
- A Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Special Report (December 1999)

Appeals & Statements

Sign an appeal for an interim United Nations administration in Chechnya!

Armistice in Chechnya - Immediately!
By Nadezhda Banchik and Raissa Talkhanova, August 2003.

Set up a Tactical media group!

Conditional Independence under an International Administration
The foreign minister of the Republic of Ichkeria (February, 2003)

An Open Letter to President Bush
By Elena Bonner & Vladimir Bukovsky (March 10, 2003)

A Joint Statement by Human Rights Groups

Violations of Human Rights in the Course of Warfare in the Chechen Republic
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By O. Orlov. Chairperson
of Moscow's Human Right Center - Memorial


Bibliography on Chechnya


The Chechen Wars: Will Russia Go the Way of the Soviet Union?
By Matthew Evangelista (Brookings, 2003).

The Oath: A Surgeon Under Fire
By Khassan Baiev (Walker, 2003).

Chienne de Guerre: A Woman Reporter Behind the Lines of the War in Chechnya
By Anne Nivat (Public Affairs, 2001).

A Small Corner of Hell: Dispatches from Chechnya
By Anna Politkovskaya (University of Chicago Press, October 2003).

A Dirty War: A Russian Reporter in Chechnya

By Anna Politkovskaya (Harvill, 2001).

Hadji Murat
Leo Tolstoy (Hesperus Press, 2003).

 

 











 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



























































 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 


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