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23:00, 15 June 2010
Capture of militants' leader named Magas; hot debates on the role of the Russian language in Armenia, - look up these and other events in the review of the week of June 7-13, 2010, in the Caucasian regions prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".
23:50, 14 June 2010
The law enforcement bodies of Chechnya have disclosed the names of several suspected members of the armed underground who were killed on June 9 in the mountainous Vedeno District. Last weekend four more potential militants were liquidated here, the bodies assert. Local human rights activists are sceptical of the data.
23:20, 14 June 2010
Today, the Stavropol Territory holds mourning actions in memory of the victims of Shamil Basaev's attack on Budyonnovsk in June 1995.
23:00, 14 June 2010
Firstly, President of the Russian Federation Dmitri Medvedev paid a visit to the tomb of the first President of Chechnya Ahmad Kadyrov in Tsentoroy village, then held a meeting in Grozny on development issues of the republic with participation of the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, Plenipotentiary of the President in the NCFD (North-Caucasian Federal District) Alexander Khloponin, First Deputy Head of the President's Administration Vladislav Surkov and Director of the FSB Alexander Bortnikov.
21:00, 14 June 2010
President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov has expressed his regret in the context of tragic events in Kirghizia, stating to journalists on June 13 in Gudermes that several districts of this country sees the events, which cannot be understood or explained.
16:00, 12 June 2010
Three suspected militants were killed in the mountains of the Vedeno District of the Chechen Republic. This was reported today to journalists by President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, who was during the last three days in the special operation area.
22:50, 11 June 2010
The Chief Investigatory Department of the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) of the Russian Federation has completed investigating the murder of the Hero of Russia and former State Duma Deputy Ruslan Yamadaev and attempt on Sergey Kizyun.
22:00, 11 June 2010
Lately, the capital of Chechnya saw almost two dozens attacks made from paintball rifles on girls without headscarves. One of the victims of these attacks lost her eye as a result of a paintball shot. According to human rights activists, local militiamen may be involved in the attacks.
21:00, 11 June 2010
In Chechnya, in the city of Gudermes, leaflets appeared on posts near the city bus station and in the vicinity of the marketplace calling Chechen girls to wear headscarves, eyewitnesses report.
20:00, 11 June 2010
Today at a press conference, relatives of Egle Kusaite, a native of Klaipeda, said that her confession about intention to commit a terror act in Chechnya was "drawn out" of the girl by means of psychological and physical violence.
18:00, 11 June 2010
The federal agents who took away in 2002 brothers Magomed-Salekh and Magomed-Ali Ilyasov failed to present their IDs, behaved rudely and aggressively and threatened their family members. This was reported by their mother Zhugurkhan Ilyasovа, who was defined as victim by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).
23:40, 10 June 2010
From early June, unidentified persons are driving in central Grozny in cars with tinted glasses and shoot from paintball rifles (the so-called "markers") at the girls who go along the street with uncovered heads. This is reported by the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".
22:20, 10 June 2010
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg has fined Russia by 430,000 euros for kidnapping eight residents of Chechnya in 2001, 2002 and 2005.
20:00, 9 June 2010
On June 5, the capital of Chechnya saw several incidents, when unidentified persons in camouflage and masks were shooting paintballs from passing cars at the girls who were in the streets without headscarves. Eyewitnesses say that one of the attacked girls was even hospitalized with a heavy trauma.
21:00, 8 June 2010
On June 7, the Russian Ministry of Regional Development held a meeting on compensations for lost houses in Chechnya. According to Svetlana Gannushkina, leader of the NGO "Civil assistance", the officials told that they would be able to calculate the value of the project by July only and asked for a delay.