RFE/RL: Ramzan Kadyrov's Evolving Political Credo
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posted by circassiankama on August, 2009 as CHECHNYA
August 10, 2009
Ramzan Kadyrov's Evolving Political Credo
by Liz Fuller
Ramzan Kadyrov's career trajectory, from the poorly educated son of a
Muslim cleric to one of the most powerful men in Russia, epitomizes Mao
Tse-Tung's classic pronouncement that "political power grows out of the
barrel of a gun." But Kadyrov's recent statements reflect a desire for
a redefinition of the powers of federation subject heads that would
strengthen his position even further.
When
Kadyrov was first promoted to the post of Chechen prime minister in
March 2006, educated Chechens ridiculed his inability to express
himself coherently in either his native Chechen or in Russian, which he
speaks with a marked Chechen accent.
There has
been little if any improvement in his elocution over the past three
years, a failing that only serves to highlight the contrast between his
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RFE/RL: Activist, Husband Found Dead in Chechnya
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posted by circassiankama on as CHECHNYA
August 11, 2009
Rights Activist, Husband Found Dead In Chechnya
(RFE/RL) -- Two more human rights workers have been murdered in Chechnya.
Zarema
Sadulayeva, the head of a charity for victims of the Chechen wars, has
been found shot dead, along with her husband, Alik Dzhabrailov.
The murders come less than a month after another prominent Chechen rights activist, Natalya Estemirova, was killed.
Police
found the bodies of Sadulayeva and Dzhabrailov on August 11 in the
trunk of a car in a suburb of Grozny. Both had been shot dead after
being abducted from the office of their charity in the capital on
August 10.
Sadulayeva headed a Russian NGO, Save the
Generations, which provided medical and psychological help to young
victims of the fighting in Chechnya. Among those it helps are children
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RFE/RL: Readers React to Kadyrov Interview
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posted by circassiankama on as CHECHNYA
August 14, 2009
Readers React To Kadyrov Interview
On August 8, in an exclusive interview with RFE/RL, Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov denied his involvement in the murder of prominent Russian rights activist Natalya Estemirova
and blamed the West for spreading lies about him. Our language services
received an unprecedented response to the interview. Below is a
sampling of some of the comments RFE/RL has received.
Russian Service
"Kadyrov's
opponents can only criticize him without offering ANY kind of
alternative for exiting a frightening situation. They fully understand
there's simply no alternative to him. Under the guise of 'human rights'
(that is, of criminals), Kadyrov's opponents want chaos, anarchy, and
wide-scale war to return to Chechnya. Let them bark -- there's no
alternative to Kadyrov and won't be anytime soon (and will there ever
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RFE/RL: The Price of Progress- Life in Kadyrov's Grozny Permeated by Fear
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posted by circassiankama on as CHECHNYA
August 11, 2009
The Price Of Progress -- Life In Kadyrov's Grozny Permeated By Fear
by Gregory Feifer
GROZNY -- The last time I visited the Chechen capital, in 2007, it seemed most of the city had been already rebuilt.
It
was just before national parliamentary elections, in which Chechnya --
only recently bombed to ruins during two bitter wars for independence
from Moscow -- would deliver 99 percent of its votes to the main
pro-Kremlin party, United Russia.
The party's only platform was support for the man who'd launched the second of those wars, then-President Vladimir Putin.
But
I was wrong to think the city's reconstruction was nearly finished. A
year and a half on, Grozny has been still further transformed. It now
boasts Europe's largest mosque, surrounded by acres of neatly tended
gardens.
Expensive cars speed down the main thoroughfare, Putin
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RFE/RL: Are Chechen Factions Headed Toward Unity?
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posted by circassiankama on as CHECHNYA
August 13, 2009
Are Chechen Factions Headed Toward Unity?
by Liz Fuller
Akmed Zakayev, the head of the pro-independence Chechen Republic
Ichkeria, has announced he and an official from the pro-Moscow Chechen
leadership had reached agreement on convening a world congress to
promote the further unity of Chechen society.
The
August 12 statement followed two days of consultations in London
between Zakayev and Dukvakha Abdurakhmanov, the parliament speaker of
the Kremlin-backed Chechen Republic.
The two sides first
embarked on consultations two months ago in hopes of achieving such a
rapprochement between the pro-Moscow Chechen leadership and the
representatives in exile in Europe of the Chechen Republic Ichkeria,
against which Russia launched two successive wars, in 1994 and 1999.
Two
previous rounds of talks took place in Oslo, mediated by Norwegian
businessman Ivar Amundsen, who heads the London-based Chechnya Peace
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