Ichkeria.info reported that since 2006 two former Chechen freedom fighters are in custody in Slovakia.

Chechen athletes achieved successful results at international and national tournaments of judo, wrestling and boxing.

Lord Judd and Jo Swinson, an MP of UK Parliament, made their blunt assessment after a two-day visit to Chechnya last week during which they met and interviewed a large number of officials and human rights activists.

Ichkeria.info website announced the demonstrations and the appeal of “Free Caucasus” organization on February 23, the day of genocide of Waynakh (Chechen and Ingush) people by Red Army and the World Chechnya Day.

Russia urged the U.N.’s top human rights body on 18 February to suppress a report on secret detention centers that includes interviews with unnamed Chechens alleging they were tortured in covert prisons operated by Kremlin.

In Germany, the Federal Administrative Court has found the actions of the Chechen who killed two Russian soldiers in an armed conflict to be a war crime.

After suffering from a long battle with cancer, 72 years old Linnart Mäll, a friend of Chechen people, the first President of Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO), a scholar and a social activist passing away on February 14.

On February 11-12, 2010 a special operation was held at the border of the Chechenya and Ingushetia in the outskirts of the village of Arshty and Dattykh in a woodland. As a result Russian occupying forces reported on destruction of the large Chechen mujahedeen unit, denying any victims among civilians. Meanwhile as early as in the morning February 12, there appeared information on large civilian casualties during the special operation.

Czech senator Jaromir Stetina said Thursday he hopes the case of Timur Borchashvili, a Georgian citizen of Chechen nationality, who has been denied asylum in the Czech Republic and is hiding on its soil, will influence Czech asylum policy. Stetina writes in a statement he sent to CTK (Czech News Agency) Tuesday, while the Interior Ministry says there exists a way for the man to stay in the country legally.

Russian sources claims that twenty Chechen mujahedeens eliminated; but KavkazCenter website denies Russian allegations and reports that in Arshty and Dattykh villages of Ingushetia near Chechnya border, Russian occupying forces killed and abducted Chechen civilians mostly schoolchildren.

A rally was arranged against Vladimir Putin in Helsinki on Wednesday, when he attended the Baltic Sea Action Summit in the Finlandia House.

According to Human Rights Center Memorial, on February 7, 2010, three human rights activists who give legal help to relatives of abducted and missing people were detained in Chechnya and 15 hours after around 10:30 a.m today they were released.

“Today when I walk through Grozny I do not see the rebuilt houses or shops, I still see the dead and the faces of those who killed them,” Elvira Dombaeva, survivor of the Novy Aldy (New Aldy) killings.

A group of Russian non-governmental organizations working in collaboration with the St Petersburg branch of the Yabloko political party has started an online petition addressed to Russian Prosecutor General Yury Chaika in connection with the tenth anniversary of the massacre at the Chechen village of Novy Aldy (New Aldy) on February 5, 2000, widely believed to have been carried out by servicemen from the St Petersburg OMON security police.

A Chechen mother of four was hit by a car while waiting for refugee decision. She has spent a lot of time in a hospital. She still is not able to live on her own. But still Office for Foreigners in Poland wants to deport her.

On February 4, 2010, at 12:00, a press-conference “Cleansing in Novy Aldy (New Aldy) – To the 10th Anniversary of the Tragedy” organized at Independent  Press Center and the presented of the film “Aldy, without a limitation period”.

Candidates for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize include a Russian human rights group, a Chinese dissident and an inanimate object: the Internet, people who made the nominations said Tuesday.

A newly-launched Russian language Georgian TV channel “First Caucasus” said Sunday that it had been taken off air by its France-based satellite operator because of what it alleged was pressure from the Russian government.

Russian police broke up anti-Kremlin protests in Moscow and St.Petersburg on January 31, Sunday, and detained more than 100 demonstrators, including several opposition leaders.

The sister of Anna Politkovskaya, Elena Kudimova, tells why the Russian writer’s crusading journalism cost her her life.

Office of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) was closed in the Pankisi Gorge. All those programs, which the Norwegian Refugee Council had been carrying out for Chechen refugees living in the gorge, were stopped.

United States welcomes initial steps taken to investigate crimes against human rights defenders, and published a statement on Russian Federation’s Call for Protection of Human Rights Organizations in the North Caucasus.