Wikio - Chechnya

“As If They Fell From the Sky”: Counterinsurgency, Rights Violations, and Rampant Impunity in Ingushetia (Human Security Gateway: All Updates)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:30:15 GMT

The Chechnya armed conflict affected stability and the security of communities across the North Caucasus region of Russia, and continues to do so. In Ingushetia, the republic into which Chechnya’s conflict overflowed, the grave conflict dynamics of its larger neighbor have arisen. For the past four years Russia has been fighting several militant groups in Ingushetia, which have a loose...

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Russian News - Chechnya: Schools to teach math in local language - United Nations and Peoples Organisation (Global Geopolitics News)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:30:22 GMT

Chechnya: Schools to teach math in local language - United Nations and Peoples OrganisationMOSCOW (AP) Officials in Chechnya said Tuesday [2 July 2008] that local schools will start teaching mathematics in Chechen language the latest move by leader[s] to broaden the region’s autonomy. The decision apparently will [...]

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Free Fireworks - Welcome to Sofia (Sofia News Agency)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:34:55 GMT

If you were woken up by violent explosions early Thursday morning, chances are you are not in the Gaza Strip, Baghdad's Sadr City, or Chechnya, but in one of the EU capitals. A military storage facility keeping some 1500 tons of ammo including 20 tons of TNT went off in the Sofia suburb of Chelope...

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the Simulation Exercise (Thinking made Easy)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:58:02 GMT

Vic... I need this back today...1 page only. Thanks so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11 The website is www.ecgi.org Under Educational Resources. Click on For the Classroom button Click Simulations Click on the use of force in Chechnya And answer these questions. I have chose Boris Nets As the first step of the Simulation...

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Struggling to integrate: Displaced people from Chechnya living in other areas of the Russian Federation (Human Security Gateway: All Updates)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:46:50 GMT

... Civic Assistance Committee. Regardless of their ethnic background, IDPs are unwilling to return to Chechnya because they believe their physical security there would be at risk, yet they struggle to settle outside of the north Caucasus due to specific circumstances which they often share. Many IDPs lack the documents necessary to lead a normal life. They struggle to acquire residence registration,...

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Muslim Mass Graves Only a Brief (Rock The Truth)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:15:00 GMT

I'll bet if they were Jews in the Ukraine it would get it's own article in the Zionist-controlled War Daily. I'm tired of their anti-Muslim agenda-pushing, folks. Does it show? "Inquiry sought on possible mass grave GROZNY - A human rights watchdog in Russia's Chechnya region yesterday demanded an investigation into a suspected mass grave where he said Russian soldiers buried up to 300 civilians...

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Ombudsman Seeks Probe Of Suspected Mass Grave (Moscow Times)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:00:00 GMT

Chechnya’s ombudsman is demanding an investigation into a suspected mass grave where he said federal soldiers buried up to 300 civilians they had killed in an attack.

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Chechnya to Start Teaching Math in Chechen Language (Moscow Times)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:00:00 GMT

Chechnya's schools will start teaching mathematics in the Chechen language, officials said -- the latest move by President Ramzan Kadyrov to broaden the region's autonomy.

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Better Make that Four Safehavens for al Qaeda (The Jawa Report)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:10:14 GMT

In addition to Pakistan, Somalia and Algeria al Qaeda has at least one more safe haven: Chechnya. Sure, the Russians are always on the hunt, but the same can be said about Somalia and Algeria, if not Pakistan. Candidate countries...

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Watchdog alleges mass grave in Russia's Chechnya (Alertnet)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:10:19 GMT

Source: Reuters GROZNY, Russia, July 1 (Reuters) - A human rights watchdog in Russia's Chechnya region on Tuesday demanded an investigation into a suspected mass grave where it said Russian soldiers buried up to 300 ...

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Chechnya schools to teach math in local language (Seattle Times)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:35:24 GMT

Officials in Chechnya said Tuesday that local schools will start teaching mathematics in Chechen language - the latest move by a self-assertive provincial leader to broaden the region's autonomy.

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[khabor.com] US anti-Islamic policies responsible for terrorism (Daily Khabor @ Khabor.Com)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:48:00 GMT

US anti-Islamic policies responsible for terrorism Asif Haroon Raja Till 9/11, all our Jihadis (now dubbed as extremists) were waging Jihad outside Pakistan, whether in Kashmir, Afghanistan , Chechnya or Kosovo. After terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, Pakistan was roped in to fight the US sponsored war on terror to provide safety to USA located 10,000 miles away. In our bid to please...

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Gunmen kill six in Chechnya (News Scotsman)

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 23:23:56 GMT

REBELS killed six people in Russia's volatile province of Chechnya early on Sunday police sources say.

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Six Killed In Chechnyan Clashes (The Post Chronicle)

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 21:14:41 GMT

Russian officials say three police officers and three civilians were killed Sunday in two separate clashes with militants in the republic of Chechnya. ...

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Six killed in Chechnyan clashes (News: Moldova.org: Politics)

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 18:06:00 GMT

Russian officials say three police officers and three civilians were killed Sunday in two separate clashes with militants in the republic of Chechnya.In the first incident, a police officer and a civilian were killed when suspected militants opened fire on a police station in a village in Chechnya's Vedeno district early Sunday, RIA Novosti reported.And in a separate attack in the republic's...

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How Putin Muzzled the Russian Press (La Russophobe)

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 13:02:19 GMT

Garry Kasparov writing in the Wall Street Journal : "How come I am still alive? When I really think about it, it's a miracle." Several years back so spoke Anna Politkovskaya, the late Russian investigative journalist who for years fearlessly explored the depths of war-ravaged Chechnya. She is now the subject of the documentary "Letter to Anna" by Swiss director Eric Bergkraut. The film premiered...

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Russia: Nine dead, four injured in clashes with Caucasus jihadists (Doc's Talk)

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 12:25:00 GMT

Though not often reported on in the mainstream press, the jihad in and around Chechnya has not gone away. "Nine dead, four injured in North Caucasus clashes," from Deutsche Presse Agentur, June 28: MOSCOW - Nine people have been killed and four injured in several exchanges of gunfire in the disputed Russian North Caucasus region, Interfax news agency and regional authorities said Saturday. Four...

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6 Killed in Chechnya Clashes Amid Upsurge of Violence (OTB News)

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 11:45:17 GMT

Two separate militant attacks in Russia’s Chechnya region killed three police officers and three civilians, a law enforcement official said Sunday.

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Chechen rebels kill six in attacks (Reuters)

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 08:04:52 GMT

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Rebels killed three policemen and three civilians in Russia's volatile province of Chechnya early on Sunday, Interfax news agency quoted police sources as saying.

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Weekend Reading: Ghosts of Alexander (The Strategist)

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 18:00:00 GMT

I've been reading this fascinating post at Ghosts of Alexander on Russia's use of social scientists to inform war fighting and strategy in Turkestan, during the 19th century, and Chechnya, in the late 1990s. The post mentions the US Army's...

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