Category Chechnya

A Guide to Conflict in the North Caucasus

February 11, 2014 · by · in Caucasus, Central Asia, Chechnya, Dagestan · 9 Comments

The Caucasus are restive. In the North Caucasus conflicts, according to International Crisis Group: “Overall in 2011, more than 750 security personnel, insurgents and civilians were killed and at least 628 were injured in the region. In the first nine months of 2012, 574 people were killed and 422 wounded.” There are active terrorist groups, […]

It’s Not Just LGBT That The Sochi Games Are Hurting – Here’s Seven Other Reasons Putin’s Games are Shameful

January 30, 2014 · by · in Central Eurasia, Chechnya, Dagestan, Human Rights, Media, Northern Caucasus, Russia · 30 Comments

  The Sochi Games have already brought a lot of attention to shameless corruption and gross violations of human rights in Russia, all the while revealing the deterioration of state institutions. Thus, as a political prestige-boosting enterprise, the 2014 Winter Olympics are already a failure.                                     – Pavel K. Baev, for the Jamestown […]

Chechnya and Dagestan are Not the Same Thing: A Brief Look at Conflict in the Caucasus

April 19, 2013 · by · in Central Eurasia, Chechnya, Dagestan, Northern Caucasus, Russia · 2 Comments

The Boston Bomber suspects may be Chechen and lived at one time in Dagestan. These are not the same places. We don’t know anything else about the suspects, and they have/had lived in America for a very long time as well. But since Chechnya and Dagestan are all over the news now, here’s the very […]