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NEWS ABOUT: Chechnya

Chechnya stories: 14 news summaries

GQ Buries Story on 'Putin's Dark Rise to Power'

Piece on '99 bombings at odds with Condé Nast's biz in Russia

Sep 4, 09 1:54 PM CDT
(Newser) - GQ is keeping a tight lid on one of its own articles that questions the Russian government’s involvement in the 1999 bombings that catapulted Vladimir Putin to power, NPR reports. GQ owner Condé Nast operates in Russia, where dissent is often met with crippling “audits.”... More »

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terrorism • Vladimir Putin • censorship • bombing • Chechnya • Conde Nast • journalistic ethics • GQ magazine • Scott Anderson • expose

Russian High Court Reopens Case of Murdered Journalist

Suspicion of Anna Politkovskaya's killers leads to Chechnya

Sep 3, 09 7:47 AM CDT
(Newser) - Russia's supreme court ordered a new investigation into the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, the crusading journalist whose killers have not yet been found, reports the Guardian. The move received a cautious welcome from Politkovskaya's lawyer, who welcomed a new manhunt but said, "Whether the general prosecutor will use this... More »

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Russia • Chechnya • journalists killed • journalist • Anna Politkovskaya • Ramzan Kadurov • Natalya Estemirova

(Newser) - The kidnapping and murder of activist Natalya Estemirova in Chechnya was horrific, her friend writes in a Washington Post op-ed, but not surprising in the "grossly misruled" region where "anyone who challenges the authorities risks her life." Tanya Loshkina, a director of Human Rights Watch, had... More »

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Russia • human rights • Vladimir Putin • Chechnya • Natalya Estemirova

(Newser) - A human rights activist whose probes into abuse by authorities were a constant irritation to authorities has been kidnapped and murdered in Chechnya, the Wall Street Journal reports. Natalya Estemirova was found shot dead along a roadside hours after witnesses saw her being bundled into a car. Chechnya's president, pro-Russia... More »

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human rights • murder • Chechnya • activist • Anna Politkovskaya • human rights activists • Ramzan Kadurov • Natalya Estemirova

Russia Orders Retrial in Journalist's Murder

Supreme Court throws out acquittals in Politkovskaya case

Jun 25, 09 5:33 AM CDT
(Newser) - Russia's Supreme Court has overturned the acquittals of three men in the murder of crusading journalist Anna Politkovskaya, and ordered a retrial, reports the BBC. Prosecutors claimed that judicial irregularities and misinformation led to an improper verdict, and Politkovskaya's newspaper colleagues have accused the police of shoddy work. Despite international... More »

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Russia • Moscow • murder • Kremlin • Chechnya • journalists killed • journalist • Anna Politkovskaya • Novaya Gazeta

 4 Acquitted in Russian 
 Journalist's Murder 

Politkovskaya's killer remains at large after shambolic trial

Feb 19, 09 8:28 AM CST
(Newser) - Four men were acquitted today on charges related to the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, a prominent Russian journalist shot dead in 2006. Two Chechen brothers and a former Moscow policeman were found not guilty of offering operational support to her killer, and a Russian spy was cleared in a related... More »

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Russia • murder • Chechnya • journalists killed • journalist • Anna Politkovskaya • Novaya Gazeta • Ramzan Kadurov

Top Human Rights Lawyer Slain in Moscow

He opposed release
of colonel who killed Chechen teen

Jan 19, 09 4:41 PM CST
(Newser) - A Russian lawyer fighting the early release of a colonel convicted of war crimes was shot dead yesterday in Moscow, Deutsche Welle reports. Stanislav Markelov, 34, was planning to challenge the parole of Yuri Budanov, who was freed last week after being imprisoned 6 years ago for murdering a Chechen... More »

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Russia • human rights • Moscow • Chechnya • lawyer • Human Rights Watch

4 Men Charged in Murder of Politkovskaya

Indictments for killing
of journalist, but
hit man still at large

Jun 19, 08 9:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - Four men have been charged in Moscow in connection with the killing of Anna Politkovskaya, the investigative journalist shot dead outside her apartment in 2006. Authorities believe that her murder was linked to her exposés on human rights abuses in Chechnya. Two of the accused are Chechens, the Guardian ... More »

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Russia • investigation • murder • journalism • Chechnya • Anna Politkovskaya

 Amnesty Again Demands
 Gitmo Closure 

'World leaders are in a state of denial' on human-rights abuses, group charges

May 28, 08 11:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - The US has “distinguished itself in recent years through defiance of international law,”  says human-rights advocate Amnesty International in its annual reports, released today. The group called for the closure of Guantanamo Bay and other secret detention centers , the New York Times reports, and the prosecution of... More »

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Darfur • human rights • Amnesty International • 2008 Beijing Olympics • Guantanamo Bay • Chechnya • human rights violations • human rights activists

 2 Journalists Killed in Russia 

TV reporters killed in Moscow, Dagestan

Mar 22, 08 5:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - Two journalists have been killed in separate incidents in Russia, AFP reports. A reporter for state-run television was found strangled and stabbed in his Moscow apartment. Only hours earlier he had written a blog post saying "Now I'm a dissident!" The man had worked in Dagestan and elsewhere... More »

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Russia • television • Moscow • journalism • Chechnya • journalists killed • Dagestan

Police Raid Kills 8 As Chechen Violence Spreads

Spillover violence from neighboring Chechnya

Nov 12, 07 5:53 PM CST
(Newser) - In the latest incident of Chechen violence spreading to bordering regions, Russian police killed at least 8 militants in a house raid in neighboring republic of Dagestan today, the AP reports. Police, who were acting on a tip about an armed gang in the capital Makhachkala, are still searching for... More »

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Russia • violence • Chechnya • Dagestan

Russia Arrests 10 for Murder
of Journalist

Chechen crime group, government officers implicated

Aug 27, 07 1:57 PM CDT
(Newser) - Ten men were arrested today in the murder of Russian investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya last October, the Guardian reports. A Chechen organized-crime boss led the group responsible for the slaying, Russian authorities say. Those arrested are said to include current and former officials in the interior ministry and the security... More »

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Russia • organized crime • Vladimir Putin • murder • Chechnya • journalist • Paul Klebnikov • Anna Politkovskaya • freedom of press

Bomb Derails Russian Train

Authorities claim link to Chechen insurgency

Aug 14, 07 7:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - Russia suspects terrorism in a bomb that derailed a train on the busy Moscow-to-St. Petersburg line yesterday, reports Reuters. Thirty-eight people were hospitalized and more  treated at the scene, about 170 km from St. Petersburg. The bomb was planted on a bridge; the locomotive and most carriages derailed after crossing. More »

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Russia • terrorism • insurgents • Eastern Europe • Moscow • bomb • Chechnya • train • St. Petersburg

Boris Yeltsin Dies at 76

Apr 23, 07 10:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - Boris Yeltsin, who orchestrated Russia's uneasy transition to democracy, died this morning, according to the Kremlin. He was 76. The cause hasn't been released, but Russia's first democratically elected leader had a history of heart problems. Yeltsin ascended to power after a struggle with reformer Mikhail Gorbachev, who finally ceded... More »

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Russia • democracy • Boris Yeltsin • obituary • death • Mikhail Gorbachev • USSR • Chechnya

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