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Letter to the Prime Minister of Kosovo The ChRI Cabinet of Ministers Chairman Statement by the ChRI Prosecutor General’s Office New resolutions of the ChRI Parliament Statement by the ChRI Government Statement by Uvais Akhmadov Address by the Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers of the ChRI Akhmed Zakaev

World Chechen Congress

September 2nd, 2010

International Forum "The Faith of the Chechen People: Current Realities and Perspectives", to be held from 16-18 September 2010 in Warsaw (Poland). The Forum is organized by the World Chechen Congress in co-operation with members of the European Parliament and of parliaments of European states. The escalation of armed opposition and violence against the civilian population in the Chechen Republic and other Caucasian republics gets larger in scale and becomes more radicalized. The tendency towards an unwinding new Caucasian war is evident........

Statement by the ChRI Cabinet of Ministers
August 9th, 2010

Commissioning and carrying out terrorist attacks with the help of their own henchmen, including those who position themselves as "armed opponents of Russia', the Russian leadership infringes upon the basic human rights of its citizens, including the right to elect leaders of national autonomies. At the moment the Russian "triumphators" are planning to practically abolish the very notion of a national autonomy by amalgamating all nations of the North Caucasus into one administrative region. However, in order for such decision to be implemented they need another pretext, stressful for Russian citizens and palatable for the.......

Akhmed Zakayev: Statement on the suspension of Doku Umarov
August 3rd, 2010

Chechen Republic of Itchkeria Cabinet of Ministers press office has released the following statement by Chairman Akhmed Zakaev with regards to the suspension of Acting ChRI President Doku Umarov from the post of 'Emir of the Caucasus Emirate'. "Information on leadership changes within the Caucasus Resistance Forces discussed in the media carries vast political importance. The significance of this event lies not in the removal of Doku Umarov from the command of Resistance Forces but that his suspension has released armed insurgent groups in the Northern Caucasus and ChRI Armed Forces from under the control and direct influence of Russian Special Forces."......

Zakayev says that he is not intended to return
February, 12th 2009

I expressed my appreciation - I can now express my appreciation to those who are concerned about my fate - but my position differs principally from the position of those who today entrust themselves to the Russian leadership and actually terrorize their own people...

Chechen leader probed for alleged rights abuses
February, 12th 2009

Prosecutors did not tell the public the Kadyrov investigation had been conducted until word emerged that Falter, a Vienna weekly known for its investigative reporting, was preparing to publish an article about it on Wednesday...

New evidence available for use of Chechen tombstones in buildings
May, 27th 2008

There is new evidence that Russians used pieces of the monumental Chechen tombstones as construction materials in the late 1940s after the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, or USSR, which was the absolute authority then in power across the entire Caucasus, exiled Chechens both to Siberia and the Central Asia...

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