Caucasus Survey, the journal of the Association for Caucasian Studies, announces a call for papers for its 1st and 2nd issues. Deadline for submissions for No 1, May 2012, and No 2, February 2013.

On April 3, in a bloody incident in Nazran, five people were killed on their way home from their jobs at a brickyard. The incident illuminated the authorities’ incompetence and inadequate response to the processes occurring in the republic. Government agents surrounded the car on two sides and gunned down all of the people inside it – Salman Gardanov, who drove the car, his nephew, 24-year-old Salautdin Muruzhev, 56-year-old Zina Velkhieva, 30-year-old Shamsudin Gardanov and his brother Juneid Gardanov. Following the shootout, the agents exited their cars and finished off the victims. The head of Ingushetia, Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, said later […]

Austrian NGOs organized a joint press conference in which they expressed their concerns about the situation facing Chechen asylum seekers who are sent back to the Russian occupied Chechen Republic of Ichkeria.

Austrian journalist Susanne Scholl has written an article about extradition threats which Chechen asylum seekers face in Austria.

Alev Korun, the Austrian Green Party’s Human Rights Officer, criticized the Austrian government’s policy of blind deportation of Chechen asylum seekers.

The Higher Regional Court in Vienna (OLG) has confirmed the sanctions in the Umar Israilov case.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has fined Russia around 35,000 Euros for killing one Chechen villager in 2001, the court said in a statement today.

The website for the Lithuanian State Border Guard Service (VSAT) has reported that four Chechen asylum seekers were arrested just after crossing the border between Belarus and Lithuania.

The Belarusian media has reported that two former Chechen resistance fighters were arrested and will be extradited to Russia.

A social organization of the Protestant Church, Dikonia’s Austrian branch has published an urgent press statement about the deportation threat facing a Chechen family in Austria.

Istanbul is the most popular city among illegal aliens and asylum seekers in Turkey. In Turkey, there are more than 100,000 illegal aliens. Among this illegal population, about 25,000 asylum seekers who are registered by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), live in the country. According to unofficial statistics, at least half of them live in Istanbul because they can hide easily and find illegal jobs in the city. Among them, some have lived there for 10 years. Problems with their health, education, and residence are snowballing, though.

Ismet Yildiz, the Minister of National Defense in Turkey, and other government officers participated in the opening ceremony of a pro-Russian Chechen association in the city of Sivas, Turkey.

The annual report of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom has published. The commission demands from the U.S. authorities have to impose a ban on issuing a U.S. visa and to freeze all assets of Ramzan Kadyrov, head of the pro-Russian regime in Russian occupied Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, like the year before.

Local sources have reported that a demonstration in support of the Gataev couple was held in front of the Lithuanian Embassy in Finland’s capital, Helsinki.

On April 3, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) notified a judgement case which is related to Russian occupied Chechen Republic of Ichkeria. The case is about the killing of a pro-Russian Chechen police officer.

An Austrian newspaper, Oberösterreichische Nachrichten (OÖN), has published an article about the talented young Chechen football player, Adlan Asukhanov.

Local sources have reported that a 15-year old Chechen girl hung herself with her headscarf.

Local sources have reported that a senior citizen was abducted in the Russian occupied Chechen Republic of Ichkeria.

Lithuanian media outlets reported that a district court in Klaipėda satisfied a request by the regional prosecutor Alicija Petkevičiūtė to launch a search for Chechen human rights activist Khadizhat Gataeva (nicknamed the “Angel of Grozny”) and her husband Malik Gataev, who were convicted of self-willed conduct, and also sanctioned their arrest in absentia.

Lithuanian director Mantas Kvedaravičius’s “Barzakh”, a movie about the Russian-Chechen war, has won the Amnesty International Slovenia’s award for human rights as part of the 14th Ljubljna Film Festival of Documentary Films, which was held from March 22-29, 2012.

Local sources reported that a young man has been kidnapped in the Russian occupied Chechen Republic of Ichkeria.

On March 27, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) notified two judgement cases which is related to Russian occupied Chechen Republic of Ichkeria. The cases are about the murder of four Chechen women.