Fifty year old Natalia Estemirova was a human rights campaigner working with Memorial, the Russian human rights organisation which investigated human rights violations both in Chechnya and Russia. She has documented hundreds of human rights abuse in Chechnya and was a well known regional expert. She was a close friend and colleague of famous human [...]

The war in Chechnya is over. The Kremlin will sign a decree on March 31 that would end the so-called ‘anti-terrorist operation’ in the area that began in October 1999 with the Russian incursion into Chechnya. Russia said it only wanted to neutralize the bandits that were holed up in Chechnya’s mountains. Kremlin justified the [...]