Chechnya
Chechnya
Grozny city towers over Chechen grief
WITH flashing lights, banners and celebrity guests such as British violinist Vanessa-Mae, a spectacular complex of high-rise towers was opened last week in what was once the war-torn capital of Grozny.
Three die in rebel bid to seize Chechen parliament
Islamist rebels killed at least three people yesterday as they tried to seize Chechnya's parliament in a brazen suicide attack that showed Russia is failing to quell the insurgency on its southern flank.
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Chechen activist released in Poland amid extradition row
ONE OF Russia's most wanted men – a Chechen activist who counts actress Vanessa Redgrave among his supporters – has been freed after being arrested in Poland on Russian charges related to the Chechen war.
Most wanted Chechen 'terrorist' Zakayev arrested by Polish police
One of Russia's most wanted men - a charismatic Chechen activist who counts Vanessa Redgrave among his supporters - was arrested yesterday on Russian charges of murder, kidnapping and terrorism during Chechnya's separatist war in the 1990s.
Chechen President denies having opponent killed
THE president of Russia's troubled republic of Chechnya yesterday rejected Austrian officials' contention that he was behind the killing of an opponent in Vienna.
Police hit as suspect detonates explosives
A SUICIDE bomber blew himself up near a police patrol in the capital of Russia's war-scarred Chechnya province, wounding three officers.
Chechen rebels order killing of separatist
CHECHEN rebels have called for separatist leader Akhmed Zakayev to be killed, saying he had abandoned Islam by recognising the legitimacy of the region's Kremlin-backed government.
Chechnya veteran to lead crackdown
PRESIDENT Dmitry Medvedev yesterday ordered a Russian general "to put in order" the Muslim-majority province of Ingushetia, a day after a suicide bomb attack on a police station killed 20 and injured 136.
Money and murder are key to Grozny regeneration
IN A city which was, less than two years ago, a byword for destruction, evening life has been transformed. Women stroll on pavements which did not exist last year. Teenagers cluster under newly installed street lights, chatting on mobile phones. Young men gather to race cars on a freshly paved road. Scenes which, considering this is Grozny, capital of Chechnya, feel out of place and from another time.
Four found guilty of Chechen atrocities
A RUSSIAN court yesterday handed out long jail terms to four army servicemen for killing civilians in Chechnya in a move hailed by a human rights watchdog as a significant victory for justice.
Notes from elsewhere
NOT even the snow can disguise the fact that Ardon, in North Ossetia-Alania, is a drab little town with a sinister atmosphere.
Human rights warning as warlord installed as Chechnya's president
CHECHNYA installed as president yesterday a 30-year-old with his own militia force, praised by allies for restoring order to the Russian province but accused by rights groups of killing and abducting civilians.
Chechnya boost as airport reopens
CHECHNYA reopened its civilian airport yesterday in a move intended to show that the war-ravaged region is recovering under its pro-Moscow government.
Warlord named Chechen president
A FEARED Chechen warlord has been nominated president of the Russian republic, despite persistent allegations of torture laid against him.
Row over role of Chechen police in killing of journalist
A ROW broke out last night between a press freedom group and Russian authorities over the possible role of Chechen police in the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya.
Amnesty lures Chechen fighters
A SIX-MONTH amnesty for rebels in Russia's Chechnya region expired with 550 fighters having swapped their mountain hideouts for civilian life on the promise of not being arrested, authorities said.
Fancy a holiday in a war zone?
THE prime minister of war-battered Chechnya said yesterday that his government wants to restore the Russian republic's tourism business.
Arab mercenary commander killed
RUSSIAN police yesterday killed an Arab who security officials said commanded foreign mercenaries in Chechnya and was al-Qaeda's top emissary in the troubled North Caucasus.
Journalist's death exposes the truth of Putin's brutal, lawless regime
IT IS time to end the fiction that Vladimir Putin's "dictatorship of law" has made post-communist Russia any less lawless. The murder of Anna Politkovskaya, one of Russia's bravest and best journalists, a woman who dared to expose the brutal murders committed by Russian troops in Chechnya, is proof that the Russian president has delivered nothing more than a run-of-the-mill dictatorship with the usual contempt for law.
Murdered writer's paper prints her unfinished work
THE assassinated journalist Anna Politkovskaya's newspaper yesterday published an unfinished article on torture in Chechnya that she had been working on when she was killed.
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