The founder of a newspaper that investigated government corruption has been shot dead outside the newspaper’s office in Russia‘s North Caucasus region, police say. A gunman shot Gadzhimurat Kamalov as he was leaving the offices of the newspaper Chernovik in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan province, shortly before midnight on Thursday, the regional interior ministry [...]
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December 16, 2011
November 12, 2011
Podcast: The Causes Of Militant Islam, Plus Putin And The State Of Marriage In Russia
The Causes Of Militant Islam And The State Of Marriage In Russia (Episode 44) Playlist Download Why are radical Islamists more violent in Pakistan than in Indonesia? On The Blender this week, that’s just one of the questions put to “Wall Street Journal Asia’ columnist Sadanand Dhume. He’s the author of the book “My Friend [...]
November 9, 2011
When The (Russian) Punishment Doesn’t Fit The Crime
Last week, a court in Moscow sentenced Akhmedpasha Aydayev, a 23-year-old native of Chechnya, to 17 years in a maximum security jail over the killing in a July 2010 street brawl of Yury Volkov, a Spartak Moscow FC fan. The other defendant in the case, Bek-Khan Ibragimov, also a Chechen, was found guilty of hooliganism [...]
November 9, 2011
Russian nationalism may be biggest threat to Putin’s power, experts warn
Rising nationalist sentiment may pose the biggest challenge to Vladimir Putin‘s hold on power as the Kremlin persists in avoiding a glaring social fracture, experts warn. The Kremlin has so far refrained from dealing with mounting anger against people from Russia‘s turbulent North Caucasus region, as well as migrant workers from central Asia, which has [...]
October 28, 2011
Cherkesov sentenced to 20 years over Moscow football fan murder
A Moscow court on Friday sentenced Aslan Cherkesov to 20 years in jail for murdering Moscow Spartak fan Yegor Sviridov. Cherkesov, from the North Caucasus Kabardino-Balkaria republic, shot Sviridov dead in a brawl last December. The death triggered nationalist riots throughout Russia. President Dmitry Medvedev appealed for ethnic calm after some 5,000 ultranationalist and football [...]
October 28, 2011
October 9, 2011
Police defuse bomb equivalent to 3 kg of TNT in Dagestan
Police have defused a roadside bomb equivalent to 3 kg of TNT in the Republic of Dagestan in Russia’s volatile North Caucasus region, the republican interior ministry said on Sunday. During a search operation on Saturday, the police found an improvised explosive device on the Sergokala-Urakhi road in central Dagestan. The bomb was destroyed on [...]
October 8, 2011
Russian Media Tests Boundaries Of State Censorship
Features Supporters of journalist Yuri Shchekochikhin believe he was poisoned because of his work. October 7 marks the fifth anniversary of the assassination of “Novaya gazeta” journalist and author Anna Politkovskaya, renowned for her groundbreaking investigative reporting from the North Caucasus region. To mark this date and to honor Politkovskaya’s memory, RFE/RL introduces a six-part [...]