RIA Novosti: Three Police Officers Injured, Militant Dead In Chechnya Shootouts
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posted by eagle on August, 2009 as War in Chechnya
19/08/2009 MOSCOW, August 19 (RIA Novosti) - Three police officers have been injured in two separate shootouts in Chechnya, a police spokesman told RIA Novosti on Wednesday.The spokesman said one officer was injured on Tuesday when unknown assailants armed with automatic weapons opened fire on police in southeast Chechnya's Vedeno District. The second incident occurred a few hours later in the Achkhoi-Martan District in the southwest of the republic when two officers were injured in shootout with militants near the village of Bamut. One militant was killed during the exchange of fire. Russia's North Caucasus republics have seen a rise in violence of late. Attacks on federal forces and police are an almost daily occurrence. Monday saw the worst attack in the region for years when a suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden minivan into the gates of a police station, killing over 20 officers. The Kremlin officially ... >> full
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RIA Novosti: Suicide Bombers On Bicycles Kill At Least 4 Police In Chechnya
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posted by eagle on as War in Chechnya
21/08/2009
GROZNY, August 21 (RIA Novosti) - Suicide bombers on bicycles carried out four blasts in the capital of Russia's North Caucasus republic of Chechnya on Friday, leaving at least four police dead and two injured. "Four suicide bombers riding bicycles activated explosive devices in various locations in Grozny," the Investigative Committee at the Russian Prosecutor General's Office said in a statement. The explosions were carried out in a period of some 30 minutes, with the first attack staged by a cyclist in Grozny's Leninsky District at 01:10 p.m. (09:10 GMT). Two officers died, and one police officer was injured. The second blast occurred in similar circumstances at 01:40 p.m. (09:40 GMT), and also left two police officers dead and one injured.
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The Agonist: Bomb Blasts Kill Police In Chechen Capital
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posted by eagle on as War in Chechnya
Moscow | Aug 21
CNN - At least two police officers in Russia's restive region of Chechnya were killed Friday when two bombs went off in the capital, Grozny, the Russian Interior Ministry said. The bombs went off around 2 p.m. (6 a.m. ET), the ministry said. An investigation into the explosions has been launched. Reports on Russian state television said preliminary information suggested four people were killed in the blasts and one person was wounded. http://agonist.org/20090821/bomb_blasts_kill_police_in_chechen_capital
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JRL: Chechnya: Wilder, Deadlier And Out Of Control
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posted by eagle on as War in Chechnya
Russia Profile
August 13, 2009
Chechnya: Wilder, Deadlier and Out of Control
As Ramzan Kadyrov’s Security Forces Look Increasingly Lawless, Human Rights Groups Take Hope in Yunnus-bek Yevkurov’s Return to Work
By Roland OliphantOn Tuesday, August 11, the bodies of Zerema Sadulayeva and Alik Dzhabrailov were found in the trunk of their car in the factory district of Grozny, the capital of Chechnya. They had both been shot. Marks on Sadulayeva’s body suggest she may also have been raped. The Russian media have widely referred to Sadulayeva and Dzhabrailov as “human rights defenders,” a phrase that neatly packages their deaths with that of Natalia Estemirova, murdered in Chechnya on July 15. But apart from a common determination to help others, this is a misleading comparison that brushes over the significance of the crime. Natalya Estemirova was a human rights defender in every sense of the word. Her professional activities, exposing and publicizing abuses by Russian ... >> full
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RFE/RL: Are Chechen Factions Headed Toward Unity?
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posted by eagle on as War in Chechnya
August 13, 2009Are 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 Forum. Amundsen described the second round of talks, which took place in late July, as "a very constructive ... >> full
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