http://www.rferl.org/archive/North_Caucasus/latest/652/682.html RFE/RL's latest news, features, commentary, and multimedia content on Russia's North Caucasus region http://www.rferl.org/img/rssLogo.gif http://www.rferl.org/archive/North_Caucasus/latest/652/682.html en-US Copyright 2009 - RFE/RL, Inc. 60 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:55:24 +0000 Pangea CMS – RFE/RL The leader of Russia's Muslim republic of Ingushetia, who narrowly survived an assassination attempt in June, conceded on November 22 that widespread state corruption was helping an Islamist insurgency in the region. http://www.rferl.org/content/Ingushetia_Boss_Admits_Corruption_Fuels_Rebellion/1885164.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Ingushetia_Boss_Admits_Corruption_Fuels_Rebellion/1885164.html Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:46:28 +0000 News Mourners in Moscow have buried a Russian Orthodox priest shot dead in his church by a masked gunman last week. Daniil Sysoyev had received death threats for converting Muslims and criticizing Islam. His death is drawing attention to fragile relations between the Russian Orthodox Church and other faiths in a country that has Europe's largest Muslim population. http://www.rferl.org/content/Patriarch_Kirill_To_Take_Part_In_Funeral_For_Slain_Priest/1885137.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Patriarch_Kirill_To_Take_Part_In_Funeral_For_Slain_Priest/1885137.html Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:27:10 +0000 News http://www.rferl.org/content/Patriarch_Kirill_To_Take_Part_In_Funeral_For_Slain_Priest/1885137.html#relatedInfoContainer International PEN -- the worldwide association of writers -- marks the Day of the Imprisoned Writer this time each year. Its aim is to recognize and support writers who resist repression of their basic human right to freedom of expression. While International PEN campaigns on behalf of hundreds of authors all year round, this November 15 the group is highlighting the cases of five authors in five countries, representing five geographical regions. The countries are Cameroon, Iran, China, Russia, ... http://www.rferl.org/content/Interview_International_PEN_Marks_Day_Of_The_Imprisoned_Writer/1878857.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Interview_International_PEN_Marks_Day_Of_The_Imprisoned_Writer/1878857.html Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:25:28 +0000 Features http://www.rferl.org/content/Interview_International_PEN_Marks_Day_Of_The_Imprisoned_Writer/1878857.html#relatedInfoContainer Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov says security forces have killed up to 20 Islamic rebels. http://www.rferl.org/content/Chechen_Leader_Says_Special_Forces_Kill_20_Rebels/1877881.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Chechen_Leader_Says_Special_Forces_Kill_20_Rebels/1877881.html Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:26:21 +0000 News Before the autumn revolutions in Eastern Europe, there was the Moscow Spring in the Soviet Union. In 1989, Mikhail Gorbachev's reform policies hit their high-water mark, as the USSR held its first competitive elections, press freedom flourished, and civil society awakened. http://www.rferl.org/content/Revolutions_of_89_The_Moscow_Spring/1876450.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Revolutions_of_89_The_Moscow_Spring/1876450.html Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:14:45 +0000 Features http://www.rferl.org/content/Revolutions_of_89_The_Moscow_Spring/1876450.html#relatedInfoContainer As the swine-flu virus continues to spread through the Balkans and the former Soviet Union, the measures taken by some governments range from bizarre and befuddled to possibly political. http://www.rferl.org/content/Swine_Flu_Follies_A_Regional_Roundup/1874396.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Swine_Flu_Follies_A_Regional_Roundup/1874396.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:11:26 +0000 Features http://www.rferl.org/content/Swine_Flu_Follies_A_Regional_Roundup/1874396.html#relatedInfoContainer The chairman of the Grozny-based human rights organization Pravo (Right), Arbi Khachukaev, has been detained by Moscow police, RFE/RL's Russian Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/Chechen_Rights_Activist_Detained_In_Moscow/1871189.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Chechen_Rights_Activist_Detained_In_Moscow/1871189.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:10:32 +0000 From Our Bureaus Over the past year, Chechen Republic head Ramzan Kadyrov has repeatedly said he would welcome the return to Chechnya from London of Akhmed Zakayev, who heads the Chechen Republic Ichkeria (CHRI) leadership in exile. But last week, Kadyrov abruptly changed tack, branding Zakayev a liar and a hypocrite and accusing him of misrepresenting the present situation in Chechnya. http://www.rferl.org/content/Campaign_To_Discredit_Exiled_Chechen_Leader_Intensifies/1868401.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Campaign_To_Discredit_Exiled_Chechen_Leader_Intensifies/1868401.html Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:40:50 +0000 Caucasus Report http://www.rferl.org/content/Campaign_To_Discredit_Exiled_Chechen_Leader_Intensifies/1868401.html#relatedInfoContainer The president of the Russian Republic of Ingushetia, Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, presided at the ceremonial opening of an Ingush Cultural Center in Almaty on October 30, RFE/RL's Kazakh Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/Ingushetian_President_Opens_Culture_Center_In_Almaty/1867504.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Ingushetian_President_Opens_Culture_Center_In_Almaty/1867504.html Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:41:16 +0000 From Our Bureaus A group of Balkars launched a series of public pickets in Moscow on October 26 to protest perceived discrimination at the hands of the predominantly Kabardian leadership of the Kabardino-Balkaria Republic (KBR) and the failure of the federal authorities to implement the 1991 law on the rehabilitation of ethnic groups deported by Stalin from the North Caucasus in 1943-1944. http://www.rferl.org/content/Karachais_Join_Balkar_Protest_In_Moscow/1865997.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Karachais_Join_Balkar_Protest_In_Moscow/1865997.html Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:22:46 +0000 Caucasus Report http://www.rferl.org/content/Karachais_Join_Balkar_Protest_In_Moscow/1865997.html#relatedInfoContainer Since being named president of Ingushetia a year ago, Yunus-Bek Yevkurov's greatest achievement over the past year is arguably that he is still alive, having made a remarkable recovery from injuries sustained in an assassination attempt in June. But he also secured financial aid from Moscow to kick-start the republic's moribund economy, and has made every effort to reach out to, and win the trust of, a population alienated and disgusted by corruption and inefficiency. http://www.rferl.org/content/Violence_Pervades_Ingushetian_Presidents_First_Year_In_Office/1865178.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Violence_Pervades_Ingushetian_Presidents_First_Year_In_Office/1865178.html Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:17:12 +0000 Caucasus Report http://www.rferl.org/content/Violence_Pervades_Ingushetian_Presidents_First_Year_In_Office/1865178.html#relatedInfoContainer The government in the Russian republic of Kabardino-Balkaria is offering a cash reward for information leading to the arrest of those who assassinated Ingush opposition leader Maksharip Aushev, RFE/RL's Russian Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/Reward_Offered_For_Information_About_Slain_Ingush_Activist/1862443.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Reward_Offered_For_Information_About_Slain_Ingush_Activist/1862443.html Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:53:22 +0000 From Our Bureaus http://www.rferl.org/content/Reward_Offered_For_Information_About_Slain_Ingush_Activist/1862443.html#relatedInfoContainer Maksharip Aushev was buried today. Some 3,000 mourners gathered in the drizzle outside Nazran, Ingushetia's largest city, to say goodbye to the opposition campaigner. http://www.rferl.org/content/Rights_Campaigner_Gunned_Down_In_Ingushetia/1861295.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Rights_Campaigner_Gunned_Down_In_Ingushetia/1861295.html Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:41:41 +0000 Watchdog http://www.rferl.org/content/Rights_Campaigner_Gunned_Down_In_Ingushetia/1861295.html#relatedInfoContainer More than 3,000 people gathered in the Russian republic of Ingushetia to bury an opposition campaigner whose murder rights groups say has underlined the slide into violence across the North Caucasus. http://www.rferl.org/content/Murdered_Russian_Campaigner_Buried_In_Ingushetia/1861262.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Murdered_Russian_Campaigner_Buried_In_Ingushetia/1861262.html Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:17:11 +0000 News http://www.rferl.org/content/Murdered_Russian_Campaigner_Buried_In_Ingushetia/1861262.html#relatedInfoContainer An opposition activist from Russia's Ingushetia region has been shot dead in his car in the latest sign of rising violence in the North Caucasus. http://www.rferl.org/content/Opposition_Head_Killed_In_Russias_Ingushetia/1860424.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Opposition_Head_Killed_In_Russias_Ingushetia/1860424.html Sun, 25 Oct 2009 09:57:04 +0000 News