• Photo Exhibit Shows Grim Face of War

    January 2, 2011 | admin

    Twenty-five years of war around the world are on display at a new exhibit in Washington, DC, called the “War Zone”.

  • Censorship in the Caucasus: Mikael Storsjo Hosts the Kavkaz Center

    October 30, 2010 | admin

    Mikael Storsjo, a prominent Swedish journalist who currently lives in Finland, is the founder of the Finnish-Chechen Association, a human rights organization that advocates for refugees and asylum-seekers from the North Caucasus.

  • Zurab Markhiev: Undercover Journalist in Ingushetia

    October 23, 2010 | admin

    When the Second Russian-Chechen War started in 1999, Zurab Markhiev was living in Grozny. Like many others he fled to neighboring Ingushetia where he lived for a while in a refugee camp and often helped foreign journalists as a guide in Chechnya. As someone who grew up in Grozny he knew every corner of the city. It was then that Markhiev decided to become a journalist.

  • Chechnya: The Assassination of Journalist Natalya Estemirova

    September 3, 2010 | admin

    Extremely brave is the first characteristic you hear when interviewing people who had known Natalya Estemirova as a colleague, friend, journalist and human rights advocate.