http://www.rferl.org/archive/North_Caucasus/latest/682/682.html RFE/RL's latest news, features, commentary, and multimedia content on Russia's North Caucasus region http://www.rferl.org/img/rssLogo_RFERL.gif http://www.rferl.org/archive/North_Caucasus/latest/682/682.html en-US Copyright 2010 - RFE/RL, Inc. 60 Tue, 21 May 2013 13:00:23 +0000 Pangea CMS – RFE/RL Two car bombs have exploded with deadly effect in front of the Court Bailiffs' Directorate in Makhachkala, the capital of Russia's North Caucasus republic of Daghestan. http://www.rferl.org/content/daghestan-bombings/24991602.html http://www.rferl.org/content/daghestan-bombings/24991602.html Mon, 20 May 2013 12:30:33 +0000 North Caucasus RFE/RL In line with a recent amendment to last year's law reintroducing direct elections for the heads of Russia's 83 federation subjects, the Daghestani and Ingushetian parliaments have voted overwhelmingly for an alternative option. Will others follow suit? http://www.rferl.org/content/direct-elections-north-caucasus-russia/24990665.html http://www.rferl.org/content/direct-elections-north-caucasus-russia/24990665.html Sun, 19 May 2013 11:06:35 +0000 Caucasus Report http://www.rferl.org/content/direct-elections-north-caucasus-russia/24990665.html#relatedInfoContainer The FBI has been investigating a former Chechen rebel fighter over his association with one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, Tamerlan Tsarnaev. http://www.rferl.org/content/boston-bombing-tsarnaev-tamerlan-rebel/24989229.html http://www.rferl.org/content/boston-bombing-tsarnaev-tamerlan-rebel/24989229.html Fri, 17 May 2013 12:28:57 +0000 North Caucasus VOA's Fatima Tlisova Chechnya's maverick leader Ramzan Kadyrov is threatening to close his Instagram account after he was criticized for posting a photo of himself standing with an ethnic Chechen convicted for involvement in the killing of a Russian soccer fan in 2010. http://www.rferl.org/content/kadyrov-chechnya-instagram-controversy/24989034.html http://www.rferl.org/content/kadyrov-chechnya-instagram-controversy/24989034.html Fri, 17 May 2013 11:05:12 +0000 Transmission http://www.rferl.org/content/kadyrov-chechnya-instagram-controversy/24989034.html#relatedInfoContainer A CBS News report says Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev wrote a handwritten message describing the attacks as retribution for U.S. wars in Muslim countries. http://www.rferl.org/content/boston-bombings-note/24988269.html http://www.rferl.org/content/boston-bombings-note/24988269.html Thu, 16 May 2013 15:14:27 +0000 North Caucasus French actor Gerard Depardieu plans to make two movies in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Chechnya. http://www.rferl.org/content/depardieu-making-movies-chechnya/24987751.html http://www.rferl.org/content/depardieu-making-movies-chechnya/24987751.html Thu, 16 May 2013 09:12:14 +0000 North Caucasus RFE/RL's North Caucasus Service The leader of Russia's North Caucasus republic of Chechnya says he is not against unblocking the access to YouTube in his republic, according to the republican government website. http://www.rferl.org/content/chechnya-youtube-kadyrov-block/24985482.html http://www.rferl.org/content/chechnya-youtube-kadyrov-block/24985482.html Tue, 14 May 2013 09:43:46 +0000 North Caucasus RFE/RL The trial has begun of one of the top lieutenants of Doku Umarov, the Islamic insurgency leader in Russia's North Caucasus. http://www.rferl.org/content/islamic-separatist-commander-aziyev-trial-caucasus/24984558.html http://www.rferl.org/content/islamic-separatist-commander-aziyev-trial-caucasus/24984558.html Mon, 13 May 2013 12:03:36 +0000 North Caucasus Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev has been buried in a Muslim cemetery in Virginia, after authorities spent a week searching for a final resting place for his remains. http://www.rferl.org/content/tamerlan-tsarnaev-buried/24982721.html http://www.rferl.org/content/tamerlan-tsarnaev-buried/24982721.html Fri, 10 May 2013 19:11:48 +0000 North Caucasus Authorities say seven militants have been killed in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Daghestan and one in Kabardino-Balkaria. http://www.rferl.org/content/daghestan-kabardino-militants-killed/24981220.html http://www.rferl.org/content/daghestan-kabardino-militants-killed/24981220.html Thu, 09 May 2013 11:13:26 +0000 North Caucasus After five months of court proceedings that Chechnya’s human rights ombudsman, Nurdi Nukhadjiyev, dubbed a “witch hunt” and a travesty of justice, a Moscow court has found Chechen national Yusup Temerkhanov guilty of the murder of former Russian army Colonel Yury Budanov and sentenced him to 15 years’ imprisonment. http://www.rferl.org/content/budanov-murder-chechen-convicted-sentenced-russia-chechnya/24979306.html http://www.rferl.org/content/budanov-murder-chechen-convicted-sentenced-russia-chechnya/24979306.html Tue, 07 May 2013 12:23:11 +0000 Caucasus Report http://www.rferl.org/content/budanov-murder-chechen-convicted-sentenced-russia-chechnya/24979306.html#relatedInfoContainer The Moscow City Court has sentenced Yusup Temerkhanov, an ethnic Chechen, to 15 years in prison for the murder of former Russian Army Colonel Yury Budanov. http://www.rferl.org/content/russia-budanov-killer-sentenced-15-years/24979192.html http://www.rferl.org/content/russia-budanov-killer-sentenced-15-years/24979192.html Tue, 07 May 2013 11:40:29 +0000 Russia RFE/RL Pro-Kremlin Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has invited foreign tourists to come to his republic, saying on his twitter account, "In Chechnya it is safer than in England." http://www.rferl.org/content/chechnya-kadyrov-safer-england/24976787.html http://www.rferl.org/content/chechnya-kadyrov-safer-england/24976787.html Sat, 04 May 2013 13:58:11 +0000 Russia Russia's Council of Muftis has met and decided how to allocate the 20,500 slots that Saudi Arabia has given Russia for the 2013 hajj in October. http://www.rferl.org/content/russia-muftis-hajj-quotas/24975999.html http://www.rferl.org/content/russia-muftis-hajj-quotas/24975999.html Fri, 03 May 2013 14:04:42 +0000 Russia On May 1, an improvised explosive device went off outside a store in Makhachkala, killing two people. Daghestan’s security services believe that the bomb was intended as a warning to the owner of the store, who had refused to pay “zakyat” – the percentage of one’s income that the North Caucasus insurgency seeks to extort to fund its activities. http://www.rferl.org/content/daghestan-extortion-insurgency/24975168.html http://www.rferl.org/content/daghestan-extortion-insurgency/24975168.html Thu, 02 May 2013 17:13:41 +0000 Caucasus Report http://www.rferl.org/content/daghestan-extortion-insurgency/24975168.html#relatedInfoContainer Chechen strongman Ramzan Kadyrov was this week unanimously voted "Person of the Year" for 2012 by jurors at a ceremony in Grozny, the regional capital. His relative, Islam Kadyrov, the mayor of Grozny, received the "Best Manager" award. http://www.rferl.org/content/chechnya-kadyrov-person-of-the-year/24975035.html http://www.rferl.org/content/chechnya-kadyrov-person-of-the-year/24975035.html Thu, 02 May 2013 14:47:02 +0000 Transmission http://www.rferl.org/content/chechnya-kadyrov-person-of-the-year/24975035.html#relatedInfoContainer Russian officials say a bomb has killed at least two people in Russia’s North Caucasus republic of Daghestan. http://www.rferl.org/content/daghestan-bomb-shopping-area-two-dead/24974210.html http://www.rferl.org/content/daghestan-bomb-shopping-area-two-dead/24974210.html Wed, 01 May 2013 17:55:44 +0000 North Caucasus A jury at the Moscow City Court has found Yusup Temerkhanov, an ethnic Chechen, guilty of the murder of former Russian Army Colonel Yury Budanov. http://www.rferl.org/content/russia-budanov-murder/24972657.html http://www.rferl.org/content/russia-budanov-murder/24972657.html Tue, 30 Apr 2013 10:35:41 +0000 Russia The Boston Marathon bombings have served to corroborate many observers’ previously unsubstantiated hunch that one reason for the Russian security services’ inability to contain the North Caucasus insurgency is that the various agencies responsible fail to share information among themselves. http://www.rferl.org/content/daghestan-tsarnaev-communication/24972337.html http://www.rferl.org/content/daghestan-tsarnaev-communication/24972337.html Tue, 30 Apr 2013 06:20:14 +0000 Caucasus Report http://www.rferl.org/content/daghestan-tsarnaev-communication/24972337.html#relatedInfoContainer Akhmed Bilalov, a former deputy head of Russia’s Olympic Committee, says he has been poisoned with mercury. Bilalov’s claim comes just weeks after he was fired by President Vladimir Putin over huge cost overruns in the construction of a ski jump for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. The allegations add to the long list of controversies surrounding the upcoming Sochi Olympics. http://www.rferl.org/content/sochi-olympics-official-bilalov-poisoned/24972133.html http://www.rferl.org/content/sochi-olympics-official-bilalov-poisoned/24972133.html Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:08:36 +0000 Russia Claire Bigg A preliminary court hearing has begun in Russia's North Caucasus for one of the top lieutenants to the Islamic insurgency's leader there, Doku Umarov. http://www.rferl.org/content/article/24971599.html http://www.rferl.org/content/article/24971599.html Mon, 29 Apr 2013 11:05:46 +0000 North Caucasus Investigations are continuing into the Boston Marathon bombings. http://www.rferl.org/content/tsarnaev-investigation/24970374.html http://www.rferl.org/content/tsarnaev-investigation/24970374.html Sat, 27 Apr 2013 13:09:21 +0000 North Caucasus Russia’s says the leader of a militant group in the North Caucasus republic of Daghestan has been killed in an overnight gunbattle with police. http://www.rferl.org/content/daghestan-militant-leader-killed/24970309.html http://www.rferl.org/content/daghestan-militant-leader-killed/24970309.html Sat, 27 Apr 2013 12:00:11 +0000 North Caucasus Americans are struggling to make sense of what occurred in Boston on April 15 and how two young ethnic Chechen immigrants might have become motivated to kill. The result has been an uptick in Islamophobic rhetoric from some corners, but gestures of tolerance from others. http://www.rferl.org/content/boston-attacks-islamophobia-tolerance/24970144.html http://www.rferl.org/content/boston-attacks-islamophobia-tolerance/24970144.html Sat, 27 Apr 2013 09:24:31 +0000 North Caucasus Richard Solash A U.S. Congressional panel has urged greater security cooperation between Washington and Moscow in the wake of the April 15 Boston Marathon attack. http://www.rferl.org/content/us-congressional-panel-urges-security-cooperation-with-russia-after-boston-bombings-chechnya-tsarnaev/24969930.html http://www.rferl.org/content/us-congressional-panel-urges-security-cooperation-with-russia-after-boston-bombings-chechnya-tsarnaev/24969930.html Fri, 26 Apr 2013 20:05:44 +0000 News RFE/RL It's been a week since police suspected Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev following a gunbattle that led to the death of his older brother and fellow suspect, Tamerlan. Evidence suggests the ethnic Chechen immigrants may have been independent radicals motivated by resentment of the U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. http://www.rferl.org/content/boston-tsarnaev-case-knowns-unknowns/24969738.html http://www.rferl.org/content/boston-tsarnaev-case-knowns-unknowns/24969738.html Fri, 26 Apr 2013 14:44:15 +0000 Russia RFE/RL Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been moved from the hospital where he was recovering from injuries to a prison medical facility in Fort Devens, Massachusetts. http://www.rferl.org/content/tsarnaev-transferred-prison/24969361.html http://www.rferl.org/content/tsarnaev-transferred-prison/24969361.html Fri, 26 Apr 2013 10:47:32 +0000 North Caucasus Russia’s National Counterterrorism Committee (NAK) says a security operation in the North Caucasus republic of Daghestan has resulted in the deaths of two members of a local criminal group. http://www.rferl.org/content/russia-security-forces-kill-two/24968392.html http://www.rferl.org/content/russia-security-forces-kill-two/24968392.html Thu, 25 Apr 2013 12:55:06 +0000 North Caucasus U.S. officials say the CIA added the deceased Boston Marathon bombing suspect to a terrorist database 18 months before the deadly April 15 explosions. http://www.rferl.org/content/tsarnaev-terror-database/24968264.html http://www.rferl.org/content/tsarnaev-terror-database/24968264.html Thu, 25 Apr 2013 10:58:59 +0000 North Caucasus In a wide-ranging question-and-answer session, Russian President Vladimir Putin said he hopes the April 15 Boston Marathon bombings will bring Russia and the United States closer together in combating terrorism. http://www.rferl.org/content/putin-conducts-annual-phone-in/24968071.html http://www.rferl.org/content/putin-conducts-annual-phone-in/24968071.html Thu, 25 Apr 2013 08:50:06 +0000 Russia RFE/RL's Russian Service U.S. officials have met with the parents of suspected Boston Marathon bombers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in the capital of Russia's North Caucasus republic of Daghestan. http://www.rferl.org/content/us-tsarnaev-parents-questioned/24967654.html http://www.rferl.org/content/us-tsarnaev-parents-questioned/24967654.html Wed, 24 Apr 2013 18:57:21 +0000 North Caucasus RFE/RL North Caucasus residents appear to have strong misgivings about the alleged involvement of brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in the Boston Marathon bombings. Despite evidence provided by U.S. investigators, many in the Russian region believe the two were set up by U.S. authorities. http://www.rferl.org/content/north-caucasus-boston-bombing-suspects-innocent/24967549.html http://www.rferl.org/content/north-caucasus-boston-bombing-suspects-innocent/24967549.html Wed, 24 Apr 2013 16:14:46 +0000 North Caucasus Tom Balmforth, Claire Bigg Russia's North Caucasus republic of Ingushetia has approved a draft bill in the first reading that would eliminate direct elections for the republic's leader. http://www.rferl.org/content/ingushetia-leadership-election-change/24967007.html http://www.rferl.org/content/ingushetia-leadership-election-change/24967007.html Wed, 24 Apr 2013 10:03:31 +0000 North Caucasus U.S. officials in the capital of Russia's North Caucasus republic of Daghestan have met for a second day with the mother of the suspected Boston Marathon bombers, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. http://www.rferl.org/content/tsarnaev-mother-daghestan-questioning/24966823.html http://www.rferl.org/content/tsarnaev-mother-daghestan-questioning/24966823.html Wed, 24 Apr 2013 07:22:16 +0000 North Caucasus RFE/RL The widow of alleged Boston Marathon bomber Tamarlan Tsarnaev says news of her late husband’s suspected involvement in the April 15 terror attack that killed three people and injured 270 came as "an absolute shock." http://www.rferl.org/content/boston-bombings-tsarnaev-wife-shocked/24966576.html http://www.rferl.org/content/boston-bombings-tsarnaev-wife-shocked/24966576.html Tue, 23 Apr 2013 20:45:34 +0000 North Caucasus RFE/RL Ramzan Kadyrov has come up with a novel way to punish his subordinates, punching his sports minister in the boxing ring as a way of reprimanding him for his building's "shoddy appearance." http://www.rferl.org/content/chechnya-kadyrov-boxing-ministers/24966206.html http://www.rferl.org/content/chechnya-kadyrov-boxing-ministers/24966206.html Tue, 23 Apr 2013 13:41:59 +0000 Transmission http://www.rferl.org/content/chechnya-kadyrov-boxing-ministers/24966206.html#relatedInfoContainer As more details emerge about the backgrounds of the two Boston Marathon bombing suspects, questions are being focused on Tamerlan Tsarnaev and the six months he spent last year in restive southern Russia. Could the experience have solidified his radicalism? RFE/RL correspondent Tom Balmforth is in Makhachkala, the Daghestani capital, and spoke to Tsarnaev’s aunt, Patimat Suleimanova, about her nephew. http://www.rferl.org/content/tsarnaev-boston-bombings-trip-to-daghestan/24965405.html http://www.rferl.org/content/tsarnaev-boston-bombings-trip-to-daghestan/24965405.html Mon, 22 Apr 2013 19:54:19 +0000 North Caucasus Tom Balmforth Investigators are looking into possible ties between Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the Chechen brothers suspected of staging the Boston marathon, and Islamist insurgents in the North Caucasus. The region’s biggest militant group, the Caucasus Emirate has denied involvement. But Ivan Sukhov, a respected North Caucasus expert, says the suspects nonetheless may have been influenced by Islamic rebels. http://www.rferl.org/content/boston-bombings-north-caucasus-insurgency/24965139.html http://www.rferl.org/content/boston-bombings-north-caucasus-insurgency/24965139.html Mon, 22 Apr 2013 14:37:15 +0000 North Caucasus The Daghestani wing of the North Caucasus insurgency has formally denied any role in the Boston marathon bombings. In a brief statement posted on April 21 on the website vDagestan, its leaders stress that their primary enemy is Russia and they “are not engaged in military hostilities with the United States.” http://www.rferl.org/content/daghestan-insurgency-denies-any-role-in-boston-bombing/24964774.html http://www.rferl.org/content/daghestan-insurgency-denies-any-role-in-boston-bombing/24964774.html Mon, 22 Apr 2013 10:15:17 +0000 Caucasus Report http://www.rferl.org/content/daghestan-insurgency-denies-any-role-in-boston-bombing/24964774.html#relatedInfoContainer Two Kazakh students with possible links to the suspected Boston Marathon bombers have been detained in that city for allegedly violating U.S. immigration regulations. http://www.rferl.org/content/boston-bombing-kazakh-students-tsanaev-detained/24964601.html http://www.rferl.org/content/boston-bombing-kazakh-students-tsanaev-detained/24964601.html Mon, 22 Apr 2013 08:32:30 +0000 Kazakhstan In a statement, the Justice Department said Tsarnaev has also has been charged with one count of malicious destruction of property by means of deadly explosives. http://www.rferl.org/content/boston-massachusetts-silence-bombing-deaths/24964542.html http://www.rferl.org/content/boston-massachusetts-silence-bombing-deaths/24964542.html Mon, 22 Apr 2013 07:36:01 +0000 News RFE/RL As media outlets scramble to understand more about the suspected Boston Marathon bombers, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, many relatives linked to the family in Makhachkala, Daghestan, are declining to talk to journalists.Nonetheless, the men's father, Anzor Tsarnaev, did speak from an undisclosed location via telephone to RFE/RL’s Tom Balmforth and the Associated Press in Makhachkala on April 21. http://www.rferl.org/content/interview-father-tsarnaev-boston-bombing-suspects/24964282.html http://www.rferl.org/content/interview-father-tsarnaev-boston-bombing-suspects/24964282.html Sun, 21 Apr 2013 20:45:39 +0000 North Caucasus The father of Boston Marathon bombing suspects Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev insists he wants come to the United States to seek justice for his sons who he claims are victims of a "clear setup." http://www.rferl.org/content/russia-north-caucasus-resistance-umarov-denies-role-boston-bombings/24964130.html http://www.rferl.org/content/russia-north-caucasus-resistance-umarov-denies-role-boston-bombings/24964130.html Sun, 21 Apr 2013 13:36:27 +0000 North Caucasus RFE/RL