Below is an article published by The Moscow Times: Members of the Kremlin's human rights council appealed to President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday to protect colleagues in Chechnya after Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov lambasted rights workers.Kadyrov called rights workers "enemies of the state" in an interview this month, using a Soviet-era term for traitors, provoking...
Members of the Kremlin's human rights council appealed to President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday to protect colleagues in Chechnya after Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov lambasted rights workers.
Below is an article published by the New York Times:This is hardly the first time that the Strasbourg, France-based assembly has issued a damning assessment of human rights in the North Caucasus, the mountainous...
Below is an article published by The Associated Press: Human rights activists say fighting torture and racism in Russia should be on the agenda for Prime Minister Vladimir...
Below is an article published by Relief Web:In the small Chechen village of Shaami-Yurt, 45 km from Grozny, more than 75 percent of the 3,500 residents are unemployed. There is no local...
Below is an article published by the Georgiandaily.comOn May 6, the Kavkazsky Uzel (Caucasian Knot) website reported that the Chechen parliament resolved to address Moscow with a request to assist with...
Below is an article published by The Jamestown Foundation: On February 16-17, a delegation of the British parliament’s committee on human rights visited Chechnya. A member...
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