Organizations or Websites

Online Articles

• ChechnyaFree.ru has pages in English as well as Russian. The copyright is in the name of "Voice of Russia," but it's not clear who this is. 

• The Fund for Humanitarian Assistance to the Chechen Republic strives seeks to establish partner relations with NGOs from SEE and CEE countries particularly, those "experienced [in] ethnic conflicts and violence." The fund is concerned with networking youth NGOs from the Chechen Republic, engaging them in regional policy issues so as "to initiate their active part in reconstruction." The Fund was created in 2000 at the N. Miklukho-Maklai Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Website is in Russian and English. 

• Human Rights Watch

• Jamestown Foundation publishes a Chechnya Weekly, perhaps the most up-to-date source of information on the Chechnya conflict in English. The website has archived back issues from late 2000 to the present.

• Military Conflict in the Northern Caucasus is a site maintained by the Memorial organization, and it features some important documents in English, but most pages are in Russian. Daily logs of information are produced by offices in Chechnya, and there is an extensive set of links to other sites on Chechnya.  See also the organization's Kavkazskii Uzel "Caucasus Corner."

• Prava Cheloveka v Rossii "Human Rights in Russia" is mostly in Russian but the link is to an English section on the war in Chechnya.  

• Referendum Results. Many questions surrounded the Chechen Constitutional referendum held in March 2003. The political process that preceded the vote was brief and public participation was limited. The granting of voting rights to thousands of Russian soldiers whose homes were not in Chechnya was also considered highly irregular. And how was it that more people voted than were actually registered voters? Some answers are provided, and some are not, by Jamestown Foundation's issue of Chechnya Weekly devoted to the referendum.

• Outspoken Mayor Who Said No to Atrocities is Murdered (December 2002)

• The Glasnost Foundation in 1999 issued a Position Paper on the war in Chechnya. The document is in English and the ideas proposed in it are still valid.

• Report on The Ways to Peace in the North Caucasus: Conclusions and Recommendations, undated essay by Valery Tishkov.  Part of Kavkazskii Uzel, in English. 

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