Tuesday, October 10, 2006


... Turns 30 Ramzan Kadyrov's personal residence in Gudermes (TASS) 'PLEASED, HAPPY, AND GRATEFUL': RFE/RL's North Caucasus Service interviewed a number of Chechens in the republic, in Moscow and Amsterdam. An overwhelming majority had nothing but ...

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Journalist Gives Her Life for Her Professionolitkovskaya Kommersant - Anna Politkovskaya Hunted Down by a Pair

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2006
Russia to hunt down journalist's killers but colleagues skeptical of official investigation
(The Associated Press)
Russia pledged Sunday to hunt down the killers of crusading journalist Anna Politkovskaya but her colleagues said they will mount their own investigation, certain she was killed because of her critical reporting of President Vladimir Putin's war in Chechnya.

In Russia, a Murder With a Message
42 min ago Time
... testified to the U.S. Congress and the European Union Human Rights Commission on atrocities committed in the North Caucasus. The respect she had established in her work as a fiercely independent chronicler of the brutal conflict in the North ...

Reporter's death 'tragic' - Putin
1 hr ago BBC
... he said. Chechen forces loyal to Mr Kadyrov have been accused of widespread human rights abuses in the North Caucasus region and Ms Politkovskaya condemned them in her last published article. Mr Kadyrov rejected claims of Chechen involvement in the ...

Anna Politkovskaya: Putin's Russia
4 hrs ago BBC
... and that all it lacked for its renaissance was a second Chechen war. Everything that has happened in the northern Caucasus since then can be traced back to this premise. When the Second Chechen War began, the Army was given free rein, and in the ...

World People's Blog
Anna Politkovskaya - Russian Federation
4 hrs ago World People's Blog
Anna Politkovskaya is a reputed
Russian journalist. In 1999, Anna started working for the - Novaya Gazeta' newspaper as a special correspondent in the Northern Caucasus.

Anna Politkovskaya Fierce honesty Anna Politkovskaya remembered by the BBC's Malcolm Haslett
4 hrs ago BBC
BBC Caucasus and Central Asia analyst Anna Politkovskaya will be buried on Tuesday To many of us Anna Politkovskaya will remain the epitome of what a journalist should be.

Russian journalist's murder carefully planned, say detectives
5 hrs ago Raw Story
... Chechen link in the crime, since Politkovskaya had been due to file a story on torture by authorities in the North Caucasus republic. In an issue devoted to its slain employee, Novaya Gazeta on Monday named Chechnya's infamous, Kremlin-loyal Prime ...

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