• Chechens Mark Ten Years of Exile

    January 2, 2010 | admin

    A decade after they fled their homeland, Chechens in Georgia still fear it is unsafe to go back.

  • Pankisi Valley: “The Chechens are the Bravest Men”

    November 21, 2009 | admin

    Three weeks ago Alexander Bortnikov, the head of Russia’s federal security service, accused Georgia of harbouring Al Qaeda extremists in Pankisi. No terrorists have been discovered either by the numerous reporters who have travelled to the area or the delegation of journalists and foreign diplomats whose trip was organised by the Christian Democrat opposition party. But all the media attention aside, Pankisi remains an underreported region, home to people who have experienced the devastating power of both war and rhetoric.