Chechnya

The Chechen Republic (Chechen: ??????? ??????????/Noxçiyn Respublika, Russian: ????????? ??????????), informal Chechnya (Chechen: ????????/Noxçiyçö/Nokhchiyno, Russian: ?????), sometimes incorrectly refered to as Ichkeria, Chechnia or Chechenia, is currently a constituent republic of the Russian Federation. Bordering Stavropol Krai to the northwest, the republic of Dagestan to the northeast and east, Georgia to the south, and the republics of Ingushetia and North Ossetia to the west, it is located in the Northern Caucasus mountains, in the Southern Federal District.

External links

• BBC Chechnya profile
• Chechnya veterans association (in English)
• Free Chechnya site (in English)
• Official site of the government of Chechen republic (in Russian)
• The News Service of the ChRI President (in Russian)
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the ChRI
• The Chechenpress, official bilingual site of the ChRI news media
• The Kavkazcenter, islamist ChRI news media
• Prague Watchdog - collects and disseminates information on the conflict in Chechnya
• Russia's Splitting Headache - A Brief History Of Chechnya
• Daimokh in Russian
• The Russian-Chechen Peace Treaty, May 12, 1997
• Moderated Chechen news database in English
• PINR - Chechnya: Russia's Second Afghanistan
• Almanac "Chechenian Phenomenon" in English and Russian
• CBC.ca News Indepth: Chechnya
• Validata polls in Chechnya (there is also more information in the Russian version of the site)
• Who is to blame?
• Opinion of a group of Baltic politicians regarding the latest presidential elections in Chechnya
• Russians polled on Chechnya
• Rally in Grozny protests Budanov's pardon
• The PACE report on the Chechnya political situation
• The PACE: The human rights situation in the Chechen Republic
• WashingtonPost: Is there no solution to the nine-year-old Chechen bloodbath?
• Chechen demography
• The Human casualties since 1994
• Einnews: Russia Today: Chechnya
• Chechen struggle ignored
• Moscow Times expresses surprise at 30% jump in Chechen population in 3 years
• New York Times: Rights Group Reports Thousands of Disappearances in Chechnya
• The Rise and Fall of Chechen Independence Movement
• UT: Chechnya mapsand a Chechnya topographical map
• CSRC: The Caspian: Comminatory Crosscurrents, Oil and geopolitics
• Significant excerpts are available online for free at the Rand
• The CSRC publications in the Caucasus Series
• The Jamestown Foundation, Chechnya weekly
• Chechen Death Toll claimed to be 160 000 by Chechen Authorities (in Russian)