Kavkaz News

Basayev thanks Iraqis for elimination of Russian diplomats

Vice-president of CRI, the Military Amir Abdallah Shamil Abu-Idris (AKA Shamil Basayev) has officially thanked the Iraqi Mujahideen for elimination of a group of Russian diplomats the spies in Bagdad, the Kavkaz Center has learned. In the telegram for mass media, Basayev specifies:

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137 dead in Russian plane crash

IRKUTSK (AFP) — Up to 137 people died Sunday when a Russian passenger plane veered off a runway, slammed into a concrete wall and burst into flames while landing in the Siberian city of Irkutsk, officials said.

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US outflanked in Eurasia energy politics

The United States’ global energy-control strategy, it’s now clear to most, was the actual reason for the highly costly regime change in Iraq, euphemistically dubbed “democracy” by Washington. But while it is preoccupied with implanting democracy in the Middle East, the United States is quietly being outflanked in the rush …

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Pyongyang: Another headache for Bush

With the wobbly security situation in Iraq and the headache of Iran’s nuclear programme, the last thing the US president needs is another crisis with North Korea.  Pyongyang has test-fired at least six missiles in the Sea of Japan, one of them a long-range weapon said to be capable of …

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Amnesty International Urges Putin to Review NGO Legislation

Non-governmental organization Amnesty International in official letter to Russian President published on its website urges Vladimir Putin to review the implementation of Russia’s legislation governing civil society organizations, a commitment he made Tuesday at meetings with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) held in the context of the forthcoming summit of the Group …

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Large scale special operation underway in Chechen village of Kotar-Yurt

At dawn on July 4 Russian military and Moscow-backed Chechen police blockaded the village of Kotar-Yurt in the Achkhoy-Martanovsky district, with the support of a large quantity of armour. After closing off all routes in and out of the village, soldiers and police began a large-scale passport check.

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A European Justice for Chechnya’s Victims

“Kill him, dammit, that’s your entire order. Get him over there, shoot him.”   Fatima Bazorkina was watching the evening news when she heard a Russian general give this order. The general was ordering the execution of a young man just detained by the Russian forces.

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32 More Russians, Puppets Terminated, Wounded in Chechnya

On June27 to June 28, thirty two  Russian kafirs (infidels) and munafiqs (traitors) were terminated and wounded in different firefights and military divervion operations on the territory of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, report Kavkaz Center sources in the Chechen Command. Mujahideen were most actrve in districts Vedeno, Nozhai Yurt,

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