Abkhaz "Christians" and "Muslims" profess the common religion of their ancestors

Abductions and persecution of women in Chechnya

Today's Grozny looks at the world through shop-windows and embrasures

Demography, population losses, and migration in the armed conflict area, Chechnya.

A fragment from the book Essays on the Theory and Politics of Ethnicity in Russia. - Moscow: Russkii Mir, 1997, 532 p.

Given its specifics and potential, the republican oil and gas sector ought to become the most prosperous industry in Ingushetia.

Presently, Ingushetia is the least developed regional economy in Russia

An interview with Baudi Dudaev, chairman of the regional public organization Forced Migrants Union

An interview with Khusein Israilov, first deputy minister of economic development and trade, Chechnya, Russia.

A speech at a press conference on December 3, 2003

May-October 2003

Increased centrifugal trends in Georgia along with Russia's increased activity in Transcaucasia make one recall the early 1990s. That time, this country, as a regional superpower, acted here as in an "area of its vital interests." Now the "country of unlearned lessons" is reviewing its path. Contributing to this cause, we present Memorial member Alexander Cherkasov's article "The lost Chegem" posted on Polit.Ru two months ago, to the 10th anniversary of the end of the Georgian-Abkhaz war.

A reference drawn up on the basis of monitoring the living conditions in refugee camps in Ingushetia, Russia, and "temporary accommodation points" in Grozny, Chechnya, Russia.