NOVEMBER 2006

From: MSN Nicknamepsychoteddybear24  (Original Message)    Sent: 11/16/2007 6:31 AM

Chechnya Weekly - Volume VIII, Issue 44‏
November 15, 2007
 
IN THIS ISSUE:
* Death of Ingush Boy Sparks Further Unrest
* Ingush Authorities Block Opposition Website
* ChRI Parliament Condemns “Caucasian Emirate” Proclamation
* Kadyrov Offers Umarov Medical Care
* Rebels and Security Forces Battle in Makhachkala
* Briefs
* Weaknesses in Moscow’s Chechnya Policy
By Mairbek Vatchagaev
* The Kremlin Calls on Shamanov Again
By Andrei Smirnov

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Death of Ingush Boy Sparks Further Unrest

A six-year-old boy was killed on November 9 by security forces during a special operation targeting a suspected member of an “illegal armed formation” who had allegedly taken refuge in the home of Ramzan Amriev in the village of Chemulga, located in Ingushetia’s Sunzhensky district. Kavkazky Uzel on November 9 quoted an unnamed Sunzhensky district law-enforcement official as saying that he did not have precise information about the incident because “federal power structures” had launched an operation in Chemulga ...
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 Appeal to the European Parliament

From public organizations of the Chechen refugees in Europe

Dear deputies, elected representative of the European countries!

Our appeal to you is connected with regard to the fact, that during 11 years there is a total war against Chechen people and its state, which is conducted by the RUSSIAN FEDERATION - RUSSIA, directed on destruction of Chechen people, in the presence of silent observation from the West side about occurbing rough infringement of international law by the Russian authorities.

Essentially, there is a genocide of Chechen people from the Kremlin side, which occupied the territory of the Chechen state. During 11 years Moscow is carrying out provocative work all over the world to represent Chechens as criminal people not capable of independent existence within the limits of their state,

In practice all is differently, Chechen people, strictly following norm of international law, restored its statehood in 1991, having carried out ...
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng  (Original Message)    Sent: 11/3/2006 1:47 PM
November 1st 2006 · Prague Watchdog      
    
    
Calendar of Events - November 2006

This schedule of major events related to the conflict in Chechnya is continuously updated. Announcements for planned or expected events or any other suggestions are most welcome (e-mail: mail at watchdog.cz).
November 1     Moscow (Russia)
UN General Secretary-elect Ban Ki-moon will meet with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
November 3     Grozny (Chechnya)
A round table on amnesty will be organized by the Chechen Ministry for Nationalities Policy, Press and Information. More.
Novermber 4     Montreuil (France)
Le Comité Tchétchénie will organize a conference and debate entitled "Women in occupied Chechnya". The event will take place at Maison des femmes de Montreuil (24 - 28 rue de l’Eglise) in Montreuil (near Paris) at 16.00. The speakers include Issita Arslanova, chairwoman of the French-Chechen Cultural Center, and Martin Rosselot of l’Ecole des Hautes Etudes ...
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng  (Original Message)    Sent: 11/5/2006 7:36 PM
November 4th 2006 · Prague Watchdog     
    
    
The Month in Brief - October 2006

October 3-4

Two platoons comprising over fifty servicemen from the Chechen battalions East and West were sent to Lebanon to protect there a Russian engineering battalion reconstructing bridges destroyed during the recent conflict with Israel.

October 4

UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Manfred Novak postponed his planned visit to Russia, including Chechnya, because Russian authorities were not ready to allow him to make unannounced visits to detention centers and to hold private interviews with detainees.

October 5

Celebrations marking the 30th birthday of the Kremlin-backed Chechen Premier Ramzan Kadyrov took place in Chechnya. The age of 30 makes Kadyrov eligible to become President of the Chechen Republic.

The renovated Severny airport in Grozny was officially opened and the first civilian aircraft landed there.

October 7

Investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who covered ...
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From: MSN Nicknamepsychoteddybear24  (Original Message)    Sent: 11/8/2006 7:25 PM
UPI, November 6, 2006 Monday 7:14 AM EST

Analysis: Chechnya food crisis looms
EDITH HONAN
UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 6

With another bitterly cold winter on the way and tuberculosis rates on
the rise, nearly 250,000 people in Chechnya face a cutoff of U.N. food
aid.

Donor countries say the U.N. World Food Program has been too slow to
update its approach. The agency says a highly vulnerable population
now risks going hungry. There is evidence Russia shares the blame.

WFP officials told United Press International the agency can finance
its efforts through the end of November. But with the European
Commission Humanitarian Organization, the program's principal donor,
threatening to scale back aid, U.N. officials are warning they may be
forced to shut down the program for the second winter in a row.

Last year, at the height of the coldest winter recorded in Russia in
25 years, no food aid was distributed from November to March.

Doctors working in ...
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