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posted by circassiankama on July, 2009 as CHECHNYA
Violence in Chechnya is Getting Worse and Negotiating with Exiled Rebels Will Not Stop It
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suicide bomb attack in the capital of Chechnya on Sunday seems to have
been aimed at undermining Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov’s claims to
have brought the insurgency under control. Desperate to convince Moscow
that he can be a conciliator as well as a fighter, Kadyrov has opened
talks with exiled rebel leader Akhmed Zakayev. But the insurgents in
the mountains appear determined to keep fighting.
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Sunday a suicide bomber – a relatively rare species of terrorist in the
Caucasus, but increasingly visible as of late – blew himself up outside
a theater in Grozny. The theater was packed, but he had not made it
into the building. He detonated his bomb when suspicious policemen
stopped him outside (according to accounts in the mainstream press
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CHECHENPRESSS: AKHMED ZAKAEV MET WITH DUKH-VAKHA ABDURAKHMANOV
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posted by eagle on as CHECHNYA
AKHMED ZAKAEV MET WITH DUKH-VAKHA ABDURAKHMANOV
July, 25th 2009
"Chechnya Peace Forum" July, 24th 2009.
ABDURAKHMANOV AND ZAKAEV: - FIRST TALKS IN EIGHT YEARS GIVE HOPE TO LASTING POLITICAL STABILITY IN CHECHNYA
The Chechnya Peace Forum has mediated the first talks for political stability in eight years in the latest move to resolve the conflict in Chechnya.
At a press conference on Friday 24th July in Oslo, Dukhvakha Abdurakhmanov, (Chairman of the Chechen Parliament and representative of the Kadyrov government) and Akhmed Zakaev (representative of the Maskhadov continuation government) spoke for the first time in public about their consultations.
Commenting on the talks Dukhvakha Abdurakhmanov, (Chairman of the Chechen Parliament and representative of the Kadyrov government) said: “The objectives of my recent meetings in Oslo with Mr Akhmed Zakaev have been to establish political stability for the ultimate goal of consolidating the Chechen nation.”
Akhmed Zakaev (representative of the Maskhadov continuation government) added: “The peaceful resolution of political ...
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Newsweek: Chechnya Through Her Eyes
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Chechnya Through Her Eyes
In an audio 'memoir' taped a year before her death, slain activist Natalya Estemirova discusses her work, her fears for her daughter, and life in the war-ravaged Muslim republic of Chechnya.
Natalya Estemirova Newsweek RusskyOn July 15, a group of men seized human-rights advocate Natalya Estemirova outside her home in the Chechen capital, Grozny, and forced her into a car as she shouted for help. Eight hours later, her body was found nearly 50 miles away with bullet wounds in her head and chest. Estemirova, 50, was a key figure in the human-rights movement in Chechnya. She began working as a journalist and an advocate for the Organization of Detention Camp Inmates in 1999, and in 2000 she joined the staff of the Memorial Center in Chechnya. She received the Swedish Parliament's Right Livelihood Award in 2004, the Robert Schuman Medal in 2005, and the inaugural prize named for ...
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Prague Watchdog: Natalya Estemirova Killed - Memorial Quitting Chechnya (Weekly Review)
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Natalya Estemirova killed - Memorial quitting Chechnya (weekly review)
By Vadim Borshchev, special to Prague Watchdog
If it turns out that Ramzan Kadyrov does indeed bear responsibility for the death of Natalya Estemirova, the chances that an investigation will ever uncover the truth are non-existent. This was in fact made clear by Dmitry Medvedev, who during a press conference in Germany called the theory of Kadyrov’s involvement "the least acceptable one for the authorities." It seems that having allowed himself to become too emotional, the Russian president dropped his guard for a moment and simply described the established mode of relations between the Kremlin and the head of the Chechen Republic. Indeed, Natalya Estemirova was far from being at the top of the list of people who for various reasons have incurred Kadyrov’s displeasure, and have ended up dead. His involvement in the stream of ugly assassinations ... |
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Moscow Times: Kadyrov Nears Abkhaz-Like Independence
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Kadyrov Nears Abkhaz-Like Independence21 July 2009By Nikolai Petrov
Opponents of Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov — both real and imagined — have been mowed down like grass in recent years. The victims include Novaya Gazeta journalist Anna Politkovskaya, Chechen commander Movladi Baisarov, the brothers Ruslan and Sulim Yamadayev, former Kadyrov bodyguard Umar Israilov and now human rights activist Natalya Estemirova. The murders have taken place all over the world: in Grozny, Moscow, Vienna and Dubai. At the same time, a host of prominent Chechen expatriates have voiced support for Kadyrov and his regime. Even as the Kremlin continues to regularly allocate huge sums from the federal budget to finance Chechnya despite the economic crisis, Kadyrov squeezes Kremlin loyalists out of his domain, becoming in the process an absolute dictator of the republic — and now, in part, of Ingushetia as well. Kadyrov commands a personal army that largely consists of ... |
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