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Moscow Times: Raining On Chechnya's Parade

posted by eagle on April, 2009 as War in Chechnya

Raining on Chechnya's Parade

22 April 2009By Yulia Latynina

Federal authorities ended counterterrorist operations in Chechnya as of midnight April 16. Thank God for that. President Ramzan Kadyrov and his local forces deal with Chechnya's problems much better than the forces sent from Moscow, which only infuriate the local population.

At least the situation with insurgents is no worse in Chechnya than it is in Ingushetia and Dagestan. In the Chechen city of Zandag, there is an active group of 20 to 30 insurgents operating under field commander Magarbi. In Nozhai-Yurtovsky, Chechnya, three commanders control about 100 insurgents. In the Shatoisky district of Chechnya, Tarkhan Gaziyev has about 30 insurgents, and 15 to 20 more operate under Said-Emin Dadayev in the Sharoisky region. The combined total is obviously more than the 70 insurgents that Chechen officials claim they are battling, but it is still a modest figure.

An insurgency needs the support of the ...
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Prague Watchdog: And The Mountains Will Remain

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April 22nd 2009 · Prague Watchdog / German Sadulayev. ALSO AVAILABLE IN:

And the mountains will remain

By German Sadulayev, special to Prague Watchdog

St. Petersburg

Commentators have noted the lack of symmetry in the new legal measures that have accompanied the introduction of the ending of the counter-terrorist operation in Chechnya. From a legal perspective, the operation itself rested on a theoretical and practical basis that was thoroughly shaky, and whose sole purpose was to avoid the direct application of international humanitarian law to those who took part in hostilities on both sides.

Under international humanitarian law as enshrined in the Geneva Conventions, armed groups operating under a single command and fighting units of a regular army on their own territory with the aim of defending the sovereignty of the state and the preservation of the governmental status quo could not be categorized as “terrorists”.

Whichever way one looks at it, this was a war.

But for Russia to acknowledge ...

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NY Times: Russia: 3 Soldiers Killed In Chechnya

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Russia: 3 Soldiers Killed in Chechnya

By CLIFFORD J. LEVY

Published: April 22, 2009

Three Russian soldiers were shot and killed in Chechnya, the southern region of Russia where separatist Muslims have long fought the government, Russian news agencies reported on Wednesday. Last week, Moscow formally lifted what it had called its counterterrorism operation in Chechnya, responding to its relative success at quelling the insurgency. But the attack on the soldiers on Tuesday underscored that while violence has declined, the separatists have not been completely defeated.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/23/world/europe/23briefs-russia.html?_r=2&partner=MOREOVERNEWS&ei=5040

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RFE/RL: Chechnya Remains Bound To Moscow By Economic Weakness

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Chechnya Remains Bound To Moscow By Economic Weakness

Chechnya's Moscow-backed president, Ramzan Kadyrov, has seen his already considerable power augmented lately.

April 22, 2009

By Liz Fuller

Chechen Republic head Ramzan Kadyrov has hailed the April 16 announcement of the end of the 10-year counterterrorism operation in Chechnya as an acknowledgment that Islamic radicalism has been defeated and as heralding a badly needed economic upswing in the republic.

By contrast, many commentators in Moscow and abroad have construed it as the latest in a long series of concessions by Moscow, one that has further augmented Kadyrov's already considerable power and removed the last constraints on his imputed plan to transform Chechnya into a de facto independent state within the Russian Federation.

Kadyrov's hyperbole is misplaced insofar as the Islamic resistance still moves freely throughout Chechnya's mountainous southern regions, staging ambushes and hit-and-run attacks against the various police and paramilitary formations loyal to Kadyrov. And foreign investors are ...
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KC: Russia Moves Troops Closer To Georgia's Capital

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Russia moves troops closer to Georgia's capital

Publication time: 22 April 2009, 09:52

At a military checkpoint between Georgia and its breakaway region of South Ossetia, the word "Russia" is hand-painted in pink on a concrete security barrier.

"It will be Russia," said a Russian army lieutenant as the Ossetian soldiers under his command nodded.

"And Georgia used to be Russian, too," said the young freckle-faced lieutenant, who would give only his first name, Sergei. Three armored personnel carriers and a tank were dug in around the checkpoint.

Russia has troops just 25 miles (40 kilometers) from the Georgian capital, in violation of the European Union-brokered cease-fire that ended last year's brief war. And in recent weeks, it has put even more soldiers and armored vehicles within striking distance of the city ahead of street protests against Georgia's president.

The protests, which began April 9, drew about 10,000 people Tuesday, and opposition leaders said they would ...

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