Fear is dominating people’s lives in the North Caucasus republic of Ingushetia. MSF (Doctors Without Borders) is one of the few aid organisations still working in the republic and witnessing the severe impact violence is having on the people.

According to Kavkaz-Uzel website, a young Chechen man was kidnapped in Grozny by gang members of puppet regime on December 11, 2009.

As stated by Svetlana Gannushkina, head of the Committee “Civil Assistance”, the criminal investigation on Natalya Estemirova’s murder faces problems, although inspectors are still going to round it up. Oleg Orlov, head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) “Memorial”, believes that involvement of power agents in her murder should be considered as one of the main versions in searching the criminals.

On January 25, 2009, the municipal court of Helsinki made an unprecedented decision to postopone consideration of the European arrest warrant issued by the prosecutor’s office of Kaunas on Khadizhat and Malik Gataevs until the asylum seeking process is over.

Alla Dudaeva,  the widow wife of Dzhokhar Dudaev, first President of Ichkeria, and her son Degi applied for citizenship to Georgia’s Justice Ministry.

Khadizhat Gataeva, also known as the Angel of Grozny, and her husband Malik Gataev are to be allowed to remain in Finland. Helsinki District Court decided today that the couple would not be extradited to Lithuania.

A school teacher was abducted in Chechnya with accused of aiding for Chechen mujahedeens.

The International Secretariat of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) requests your URGENT intervention on disappearing relatives of Maksharip Aushev in the Russian Federation.

Belkiz Mustieva, 21, who testified against her foster parents Khadizhat and Malik Gataev in the court case in Lithuania, has spoken out during her visit to Helsinki, Finland.

During this week, five civilians were abducted and a former fighter of national traitors from Yamadayev’s clan was killed in Chechnya.

Young Chechen wrestlers gained good results at Championship of North Rhine-Westphalia on last weekend.

Kavkaz-Uzel reported, in the high-mountainous Vedeno district of Chechnya, as a result of a special operation, a man of 32 was abducted, who on the eve returned from Austria, where until recently he lived as a refugee, by gang members of puppet regime in Chechnya. The abducted man is accused of taking part in Chechen mujahedeens in 2001.

Yesterday afternoon (on January 18), Chechen diaspora in Austria has organized a demonstration for Akhmed Chataev who is a handicapped Chechen refugee and under risk of extradition from Ukraine.

Ramzan Kadirov, Russian puppet ringleader in Chechnya, and his sycophants allege that Chechnya is the most peaceful area in the North Caucasus. But, however, General Arkady Yedelev, Russia’s Deputy Interior Minister, stated military acts rose sharply in the area.

On January 12, U.S. based Freedom House released its findings with “Freedom in the World 2010”, the annual survey of global political rights and civil liberties. During the press conference Russian puppet Kadirov’s bloody regime in Chechnya was critized also.

Amnesty International has urged the Ukrainian authorities not to extradite to Russia a disabled Chechen refugee amid fears he would be at risk of torture and other grave human rights violations.

Österreich, an Austrian newspaper, has published a hot interview with Malika Israilova, wife of Chechen refugee Umar Israilov who was killed on 13 January 2009 in the streets of Vienna.

Ramzan Kadirov, Russian puppet in Chechnya, said he would “rather die 100 times” than disappoint Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, according to an interview published in Russian weekly newspaper Nasha Versia on January 13.

On January 6, residents of a number of small settlements located in the Staropromyslovskiy district of Grozny, Chechen capital, report about the check of their passports held there.

On January 10, a young woman was abducted by gang members of Russian puppet regime in Chechnya.

The Helsingin Sanomat reported that The Helsinki District Court decided on Friday that Khadizhat Gataeva and her husband Malik Gataev, known as benefactors of orphans of the war in Chechnya, are to remain apprehended until the court will decide whether or not to extradite the couple to Lithuania.

At night on January 7, in the Urus-Martan district of Chechnya, which is still under the counter-terrorist operation (CTO) regime, unknown armed people set on fire two small shops, which provoked fire in a number of kiosks located nearby. Kavkaz-Uzel correspondent learnt about it from residents of the village of Gekhi, where the incident took place.