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Russia's Colonies
Chechnya specialists, Chechen sources
Chechnya Short-list
(groups.yahoo.com/group/chechnya-sl/)
is run from Denmark by Norbert Strade, and is THE newsgroup on current events in Chechnya. Some 400 members post news articles and analyses from all over the English speaking world. Material in Russian (and other languages) is translated.
Chechnya Short-list started in August 1999.
The Government of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (chechengovernment.com)
(Noxçiyn Respublika Noxçiyçö, in Chechen)
The official website in English. Daily press releases and other official documents, including the constitution of Chechnya. Press releases from the Chechen government are also published on
Chechnya Short-list (groups.yahoo.com/group/chechnya-sl)
(amina.com).
On this Chechen-American website lies much material, current and historical, culture and politics. Chechen Republic Online was a kind of semi-official Chechen website before the official website of the Chechen government appeared. It has been subject to destructive hacking and harassment by the FBI on Russian request.
There is another semi-official Chechen website in Russian, affiliated with the islamist wing of the government Kavkaz-Tsentr (kavkaz.org) Kavkaz.org ia a major source of battle news, and its copy is translated into
Swedish on
//home.swipnet.se/~w-47763/main.htm, into English on
Chechnya Short-list,
A truly fundamentalist website, affiliated with the foreign mujahedeens fighting together with the Chechens, is Jihad in Chechnya (qoqaz.net) issued by the British publisher
Azzam Publications (azzam.com),
Jihad in Chechnya carries news from the front in a highly ritualized language and unique video footage from the Chechen side. The website is available in an impressive array of languages:
Albanian
- Arabic
- Dutch
- English
- French
- German
- but not Russian!
ichkeria.org
is run from Holland by "a group of democratically orientered young people of Dutch, Russian and Chechen descent". Here are large amounts of material, current and history, cultur and politics. Good ausio/video links, many pictures.
Prague Watchdog (//watchdog.cz) is a Czech website (in English) about Chechnya and the North Caucasus, focusing on three specific areas: human rights, humanitarian aid conditions and media access and coverage. Weekly news summary, and listing of important articles. A vast and well organized links section.
Chechenistan (//geocities.com/chechenistan) Compares the officiel losses of the Russian military with independent figures. And the (waning) support of the war in the Russian population. A number of articles.
BABEL (olestig.dk) carries a dozen background articles on Russian minority and language policies and Islam in the Russian colonies.
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A Polish website about Czeczenia (republika.pl/dzochar12)
Free Ichkeria (//cecenija.hypermart.net), a Lithuanian website about Cecenija.
The Chechen and North Caucasian Diaspora
RUSSIA
Some other Large Link Collections
Prague Watchdog (//watchdog.cz) is a Czech website (in English) about Chechnya and the North Caucasus, focusing on three specific areas: human rights, humanitarian aid conditions and media access and coverage. Weekly news summary, and listing of important articles. A vast and well organized links section.
Another vast collection of links from Germany. Many German links, naturally.
Slavic Research Center at Hokudai University in Japan has an extensive collection of links sorted by subject. Not only for Chechnya, but for alle the present and former colonies of Russia.
INCORE (Initiative on Conflict Resolution
and Ethnicity) (incore.ulst.ac.uk). Numerous links to ethnic conflicts sorted after country and region. From Ulster University, Derry, Northern Ireland.
International News Organizations
Internet Public Library (ipl.org) 's list of (many of) the world's newspapers online
Chechnya: News in English
The Internet catalogue Yahoo (yahoo.com)
links to a number of English-language media's material on Chechnya on a single page: Chechnya Conflict
BBC's theme of Chechnya collects the latest news and some background information.
Battle for the Caucasus. BBC Special report (bbc.co.uk)
The Independent (independent.co.uk)
the Guardian (guardian.co.uk)
CNN (cnn.com)
abc news (abcnews.com)
New York Times(nytimes.com)
World Radio News (wrn.org)
Worldwide Media Relations (west.net)
Tschetschenien in Deutsch
A vast collection of links from Germany.
Brennpunkt Tschetschenien. Die Welt (welt.de)
web.de
Der Spiegel (spiegel.de)
Erklärung zu Russlands neuem Krieg gegen das tschetschenische Volk
from "German-Russian exchange" i Berlin.
Komitee Cap Anamur - Humanitäre Radikalität
Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker (gfbv.de)
Tchétchénie en Français
Daily news from many sources French Yahoo
The daily Libération (liberation.fr)
has a Dossier: Russie - le bateau ivre with its most important articles.
The correspondent in Moscow, Anne Nivat, has collected her articles from Chechnya in the book "Chienne de Guerre", Fayard, Paris 2000.
Le Monde Diplomatique (monde-diplomatique.fr)
Médecins sans Frontières (msf.org)
Médecins du Monde (medecinsdumonde.org)
The Parisian Chechnya Committee
The French photographer Brice Fleutiaux was held hostage in Chechnya from October 99 to June 00. A campaign group worked for his release and runs the website
Free Brice Fleutiaux
Russian News
Ex-Soviet specialists
Johnson's Russia List (cdi.org/russia/johnson)
is one of the Net's best sources of in-depth information about Russia. By mail you receive 2-3 articles a day from many different sources. You subscribe by mailing David Johnson himself directly. You can also search in arkivet that goes back more than 5 years, but is not completely uptodate yet.
Radio Free Europe (rferl.org)
provides a very comprehensive service with daily news from all of the former Soviet bloc.
Has a page dedicated to Chechnya Crisis in Chechnya
You subscribe to Radio Free Europe by sending an e-mail to watchlist-request@list.rferl.org with the word "subscribe" as the subject of the mail.
A similar service is Monitor - A Daily Briefing on the Post-Soviet States (jamestown.org)
Institute for War and Peace Reporting (iwpr.net) 's news page about the Caucasus and Chechnya.
IWPR "was founded in 1991, to support the development of the independent media and other moderate voices as part of the process of strengthening independent civil society and reducing political tensions in countries undergoing conflict or other major political transformations"
Issues a regular news bulletin..
English language Russian media online
- Ekho Moskvy. (Or here: Ekho Moskvy radio)An influential talk-radio station founded in 1990 under the Soviet Union. Bought by Gusinski in 1994. Contains transcripts of important interviews, in Russian.
The Moscow Times(themoscowtimes.com) You can only read the daily online, access to the archives costs a subscription.
The St. Petersburg Times (sptimes.ru)
Russia Today (europeaninternet.com/russia)
The news agency Interfax (interfax.ru)
gazeta.ru (gazeta.ru)
online.ru (rol.ru)
Radio Mayak (radiomayak.ru)
lenta.ru (lenta.ru)
Internet Public Library (ipl.org) 's list of
Russian newpapers online
Russian human rights organisations
Human Rights Online (hro.org) updates news in English twice a day. Many different Russian NGOs are assembled here. Almost all the homepages are in Russian. So is.
Soldatermødrenes Komité They can also be contacted at the address
per. Louchnikov 4/3, k.5. Ru-101000 Moskva, Rusland. Tel: 928-2506 - Fax: 206-8958
Email: usm@glasnet.ru
The Comittee of the Soldier' Mothers was founded in 1989 og in 1996 they were awarded the 'alternative' Peace Prize, The Right Livelihood Award "...for their courage to insist on the common humanity of Russians and Chechens ... "
The grand old human rights' association of Russia, Memorial (memo.ru), is partly in English.
Antimilitaristskaïa Radikalnaïa Assotsiatsia (ara.ru)
The Russian human rights activist Andrei Sakharov's Foundation (wdn.com/asf). With material on. the history of the Chehcn conflict,
Glasnost Defense Foundation (gdf.ru) Monitors the Russian media.
Carnegie (//pubs.carnegie.ru)
Soros Foundation (soros.org)
The Kremlin
The official website of the Russian Government (gov.ru)
Rosinformtsentr (infocentre.ru). The propaganda unit of the Mediaministry . Here you can follow the Russian authorities' official versions of what is going on in Chechnya.
The Human Disaster
War crimes - Human rights
Human Rights Watch (hrw.org)
monitors the situation in Chechnya very closely and has issued several protests since the Russian assault began.
You can receive press releases and background information in your mailbox by sending an empty mail to
hrwchechnya-subscribe@igc.topica.com
Human Rights Online (hro.org) updates news in English twice a day. Many different Russian NGOs are assembled here. Almost all the homepages are in Russian.
Amnesty International (amnesty.org)
published a large report on the war in Dec 99. You can receive press releases from Amnesty in your mailbox.
The International Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (ihf-hr.org)
Islamic Human Rights Commision - UK (ihrc.org)
Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker (gfbv.de)
UN's Declaration of Human Rights
Refugees, Relief, Aid
International Committee of the Red Cross (.icrc.org)
Doctors without Borders (msf.org)
People in Need Foundation, (pinf.cz)
a Czech relief organisation, active in Chechnya.
UNHCR - United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (unhcr.ch)
A large number of relief organisations have joined in Reliefweb (reliefweb.int) Here one can study how a number of organisations assess the situation and what they are doing or intend to do about it.
Chechnya Emergency Fund(.afsc.org)
Global Relief Foundation: Emergency Appeal Chechnya
Komitee Cap Anamur - Humanitäre Radikalität
ISAR: Initiative for Social Action and Renewal in Eurasia. Building Support Networks For Chechen and Russian Grassroots Activists.
Muslim relief organizations
Organization of the Islamic Conference (.oic-un.org)
Islamic Supreme Council of America (islamicsupremecouncil.org)
Hostages in Chechnya
The French photographer Brice Fleutiaux was held hostage in Chechnya from October 99 to June 00. A campaign group worked for his release and runs the website
Free Brice Fleutiaux
War Photos from Chechnya
The Dutch photografer Eddy van Wessel (fotograaf.com/wessel) has travelled in Chechnya in 1995, 1996 and 1999. He has published about 50 of his photos on the web
Photoessay from Grozny in the American weekly Time (time.com)
Peace & Conflict, Geopolitics, Strategy, Military
The American organization Stratfor (stratfor.com) ("private intelligence company, serving businesses globally. In-depth analysis focusing on geopolitical issues that can affect an organization's economic interests")frequently publishes some of the most interesting - and sombre - analyses of the situation in Russia and her colonies.
Searchmil.com A database containing hundreds of documents on military aspects of the war(s) against Chechnya.
The search results are not shown by relevance as in normal search-engines, but by popularity!
International Peace Bureau (ipb.org)
militarynews.ru
Center for Defense Information(cdi.org) American institution that analyses the Russian military and the war in the Caucasus.
Center for Security Studies and Conflict Research (fsk.ethz.ch)
Center for Strategic and International Studies (csis.org)
Crisis Web (crisisweb.org) from International Crisis Group, Bruxelles.
FEWER. Forum on Early Warning and Early Response (fewer.org)
Geopolitics (globalissues.org)
Peacenet (igc.org)
Institute for Democracy in Eastern Europe (idee.org)
Maps over Chechnya and the North Caucasus (and Russia)
UN's Cartographic Sectionhas published its entire collection of maps on the net. Most are in pdf-format which requires the application Acrobat Reader
Maps in the News from Minnesota Universitet.
Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection, at the University of Texas, Austin. Here is a large map of the ethnic and linguistic diversity of Caucasus.
Chechnya and the Caucasus: Culture, Art, Music og Language
ichkeria.org
Here is a lot of material: current and history, culture and politics. Chechen music. Good audio/video links. Many pictures.
(amina.com).
Here is also a lot of material: current and history, culture and politics. Chechen music. Good audio/video links. Many pictures.
There are no websites in Chechen. Why not? (in Danish)
The American missionary organisation Summer Institute of Linguistics (sil.org) publishes the largest catalogue of all the languages of the world (6.700+), in order to monitor if they lack a Bible translation. Including the (50) North Caucasian languages.
Leila's homepage carries Chechen music..
The Chechen painter Anya Lauchlan (anya.lauchlan.btinternet.co.uk) who lives in England.
Russia's Colonies
Norwegian Institute of Foreign Policy (nupi.no) has - since Spring 1996 - compiled an excellent database on Russia and all its current colonies. You can search in
Chronology
Persons
Political parties snd groups
Institutions
Administrative units
Ethnic groups
INCORE (Initiative on Conflict Resolution
and Ethnicity) (incore.ulst.ac.uk). Numerous links to ethnic conflicts sorted after country and region. From Ulster University, Derry, Northern Ireland.
Hokudai University Slavic Research Center has a very extensive collection of links on all present and former Russian colonies.
Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst, et webtidsskrift, udgivet af intet mindre end The Central Asia-Caucasus Institute of The Johns Hopkins University-The Nitze School of Advanced International Studies.
North Caucasus in general
The American missionary organisation Summer Institute of Linguistics (sil.org) catalogues all the languages of the world, in order to monitor if they lack a Bible translation. Including all the many (50) North Caucasian languages..
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The Abkhaz government's official homepage (apsny.org)
Land of the Souls Background of the conflict between Abkhazia and Georgia (in Danish).
DARC Danish Association for Research on the Caucasus (caucasus.dk). On the background of the conflict between Abkhazia and Georgia. (in Danish).
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The official homepage of the government of Ingushetias (ingushetia.ru) (in Russian)
UCB Ingush Project from University of California i Berkeley. Led by Johanna Nichols.
International Institutions
A list of the governments of the world
USA
searchgov.com is a search engine that indexes the entire American state apparatus and sorts the results after popularity.
USAs State Department has a page about Russia and the Newly Independent States
USA, the Senate (senate.gov)
USA, the House of Representatives (house.gov)
NATO (nato.int)
Europe
OSCE (osce.org) Assistance Group to Chechnya
the Council of Europe (coe.fr)
the European Union (europa.eu.int)
the European Parliamentet (www.europarl.eu.int)
The rest of the World
UN, United Nations News Center
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (unhcr.ch)
IMF (imf.org)
World Bank (worldbank.org)
Chechnya in Danish
Danish Support Comittee for Chechnya
Chechnya: News in Danish
The Danish Support Committee for Chechnya
Danish online new organizations give more or less access to their archives.
In Information you can search the whole of the archives, in Politiken in a large selection, in Jyllandsposten and Berlingske Tidende a somewhat smaller sample and inDanmarks Radio news one month back + plus radio- and TV-programs several years back.
Information (information.dk)
gives access to the complete archive back to Aug 97, pt towards 600 articles with the word "Tjetjenien"
Politiken (politiken.dk)
wants money for full access to the archive, but offers 200+ news and background articles about Chechnya. Politiken also has a Theme: Rebellion in Caucasus..
Danmarks Radio (dr.dk)
offers news one month back
JyllandsPosten (jp.dk)
Berlingske Tidende (berlingske.dk)
Chechnya: Background in Danish
BABEL (olestig.dk) carries a dozen background articles on Russian minority and language policies and Islam in the Russian colonies.
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DARC Danish Association for Research on the Caucasus (caucasus.dk) is the forum for Danish researchers and others interested in the Caucasus region, both north and south of the mountains. Here you will find background articles in Danish and English, maps, addresses etc There is public access to DARC's lectures and meetings on the Caucasus region, that are published on the website.
Eight peace organizations have joined on
Peace on the Net (fred.dk) where you will also find material on Chechnya (in Danish).
slavist.dk
has an extensive collection of links on all sides of Russia, language, culture, society, colonies.
There is a very well-written book in Danish on Chechnya. It was published in the beginning of Yeltsin's first Chechen war:
Peter Dalhoff-Nielsen: The Impotent Bear. 200 years of Russian war against Chechnya. Vindrose 1995. ISBN 87-7456-523-0.
Czeczenia po polsku
A Polish website on Czeczenia (republika.pl/dzochar12)
Alias: Abkhazia, Cecenia, Çeçenistan, Chechenya, Chechnya, Daghestan, Ingushetia, Ingusjetien, ingusjetisk, Grosnyj, Groznii, Groznyj, Gusinsky, Tjetjenia, Tschetschenien, Tshetshenia, Tsjetsjenia, Tsjetsjenien
