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World news about “Chechnya” published by euronews.

  • Boston bomb suspect transferred to prison facility from hospital

    The Boston Marathon bombing suspect has been transfered from hospital to a prison facility. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been undergoing treatment for gunshot… 26/04/2013

  • Mother of Boston bomb suspects berates US authorities

    The parents of the Boston suspects have denied that their sons planted the bombs, believing they were framed. Appearing together in the Russian region of… 25/04/2013

  • Watertown residents recall lockdown drama

    People living in the Boston suburb of Watertown – the scene of the dramatic shoot-out between police and bombing suspects – have been recalling their… 22/04/2013

  • FBI seeks motive for Boston bomb attack

    Investigators are trying to establish a motive for the Boston Marathon bombings. Specialist teams are waiting to interview Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the 19… 21/04/2013

  • Boston bombing suspect remains in hospital

    The suspect in Boston’s marathon bombing lies in hospital in what the Governor of Massachusetts Deval Patrick describes as a “stable, but serious condition”… 21/04/2013

  • Mother of Boston bombers says sons were ‘set-up’ by FBI

    The mother of the Tsarnaev brothers has pleaded her sons’ innocence saying they have been framed for the marathon bombings in Boston. She said neither of… 20/04/2013

  • Czech Ambassador: Chechnya Is Not Czech Republic

    The ambassador of the Czech Republic to the United States stressed Friday that his country is different from Chechnya, the region with which one of the Boston… 20/04/2013

  • Russian analyst explores Boston suspects’ Caucasus connections

    The Tsarnaev brothers come from a Chechen family which once lived in the Russian region of Dagestan where the authorities are battling an Islamist… 20/04/2013

  • Grozny skycraper blaze

    The highest building in the Chechen capital Grozny was ablaze on the evening of April 3. No casualties were reported from the fire at the 40-storey… 04/04/2013

  • Brand new Grozny high rise goes up in flames

    Firefighters in Grozny have been battling a blaze that broke out in a brand new 45-storey building. The construction, meant to highlight the regeneration of… 04/04/2013

  • Depardieu dances in Chechnya – nocomment

    French actor Gerard Depardieu, who recently accepted a Russian passport amid a tax row with Paris, arrived Sunday evening in Chechnya where he was greeted by… 26/02/2013

  • Human Rights award goes to Russian group

    The Russian organisation, The Committee against Torture, has won the 2011 Human Rights Prize. It was awarded by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council… 23/06/2011

  • Chechnya security operation kills 12 militants

    Twelve Islamist rebels have been killed in a shootout with Russian forces in Chechnya. Among the dead were two of the country’s most wanted militants… 25/01/2013

  • 10th anniversary of Moscow theatre siege

    A memorial has taken place for the 130 victims of the October 2002 Dubrovka theatre siege and the rescue operation that followed. Chechen militants stormed… 26/10/2012

  • Bomb blast kills four in Grozny

    Three soldiers have been killed in a bomb blast in the Chechen capital Grozny. Local media suggest that two suicide bombers attacked an armoured car as the… 06/08/2012

  • Chechen scientists find dinosaur eggs

    Scientists in Chechnya have discovered a cache of fossilised dinosaur eggs. They made the discovery on April 9 whilst surveying two waterfalls in the… 17/04/2012

  • Renewed fighting in North Caucasus kills 24

    At least 24 people have been killed during five days of fighting on the border between Chechnya and Dagestan in Russia’s North Caucasus. Officials say 17… 19/02/2012

  • Chechen poet murdered in Moscow ‘contract killing’

    A prominent Chechen academic and poet has been shot dead outside his home in Moscow. The Russian authorities are describing Ruslan Akhtakhanov’s murder as a… 16/11/2011

  • Kadyrov dances as Grozny celebrates

    Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has danced on a specially constructed stage to celebrate the City Day of Grozny which conveniently has been moved to coincide… 06/10/2011

  • Grozny rocked by deadly suicide bombings

    A triple suicide bombing in the Chechen capital Grozny has left at least nine people dead and many more injured. One man is reported to have blown himself… 31/08/2011

  • Grozny hit by deadly suicide bomb

    Police in Chechnya say at least eight people have been killed in a suicide attack in the capital Grozny. Seven of the victims were police officers. Another… 31/08/2011

  • Politkovskaya murder suspect detained – reports

    Rustam Makhmudov, the main suspect in the 2006 killing of investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya has been arrested, according to reports from… 31/05/2011

  • Islamist rebel says he ordered Moscow airport blast

    A Chechen warlord has apparently claimed responsibility for last month’s carnage at Russia’s busiest airport and warned of further such attacks. In a video… 08/02/2011

  • Doku Umarov: Russia’s most-wanted

    He has been dubbed “Russia’s bin Laden” and declared public enemy number one. Doku Umarov is seen as the leader of the Islamist insurgency in the North… 08/02/2011

  • Chechen rebel claims Russian airport bombing

    A Chechen warlord has apparently claimed responsibility for last month’s carnage at Russia’s busiest airport and warned of further such attacks.   In a video… 08/02/2011

  • Chechnya – a bloody history of conflict

    For more than a decade, the blame for terrorist attacks in Russia has been laid at the feet of separatists from Chechnya. There have been more than 10 years… 25/01/2011

  • Islamist rebels attack Chechen parliament

    Islamist rebels have stormed the parliament of the Russian republic of Chechnya in a brazen suicide attack. At least three gunmen hurled bombs and opened… 19/10/2010

  • Parliament is attacked in volatile Chechnya

    Authorities say four gunmen who attacked the parliament building in the southern Russian republic of Chechnya have been killed. A suicide bomber set off an… 19/10/2010

  • Deadly rebel attack on Chechen parliament

    Arrmed insurgents have attacked the parliament of Russia’s volatile Chechnya region, killing at least four people in battles with security forces. A suicide… 19/10/2010

  • Chechen separatist released by Polish court

    A Chechen separatist leader who was arrested in Poland at Russia’s request has walked free from court. Akhmed Zakayev is considered a terrorist by… 18/09/2010

  • Poland detains exiled Chechen rebel leader

    Polish prosecutors are deciding whether to release or extradite an exiled Chechen rebel leader wanted by Russia on terrorism charges. Akhmed Zakayev… 17/09/2010

  • Poland detains exiled Chechen leader Zakayev

    Exiled Chechen rebel leader Akhmed Zakayev has been detained for questioning in Poland where he is attending a congress. Viewed by Russia as a terrorist, he… 17/09/2010

  • Akmed Zakayev, Chechen leader in Poland tests Russian ties

    The arrival of an exiled Chechen rebel leader in Poland is threatening to strain improving ties between Warsaw and Moscow. Akmed Zakayev, who was granted… 17/09/2010

  • ‘Militants’ strike Chechen presidents home village

    At least 19 people have been killed in a gun battle in the birth place of Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov. The Kremlin-backed leader personally took… 29/08/2010

  • Chechen rebel leader quits on health grounds

    Russia’s most wanted Chechen rebel commander Dokou Oumarov says he is stepping down for health reasons and has appointed a successor to carry on waging jihad… 02/08/2010

  • Russia backs CoE rights abuse report on North Caucasus

    Russia has supported, for the first time, a condemnation of human rights abuses in the North Caucasus region by the Council of Europe Parliamentary… 22/06/2010

  • Chechen rebels admit ordering Moscow blasts

    Russia has started to bury its dead following the suicide attacks on Moscow’s metro system. Shortly after the first funerals of the 39 victims killed in… 01/04/2010

  • Chechen forces claim to have killed notorious warlord

    In bleak conditions in the mountains of Chechnya security forces have mounted a special operation to flush out suspected terrorists. One of the men they… 18/03/2010

  • Rebel car bomber brings more carnage to Dagestan

    A suicide attacker has detonated a massive car-bomb in the capital of Dagestan, Makhatchkala, bringing more carnage to the troubled North Caucasus… 06/01/2010

  • Policeman killed in Chechnya bomb blast

    A bomb attack in the Russian province of Chechnya last night has left one policeman dead and 14 other people injured. The device was detonated by remote… 10/10/2009

  • Suicide attack in Chechnya

    A suicide bomber has killed herself and possibly others in the centre of the Chechen capital Grozny. Reports are still confused, but some sources said the… 16/09/2009

  • Violence flares in North Caucasus

    Attacks in the volatile North Caucasus are the latest deadly episode in a wave of violence to hit the region. In Dagestan, Russian security forces killed… 12/09/2009

  • Violence rocks Russia’s North Caucasus

    There has been a fresh upsurge of violence in the mainly Muslim North Caucasus as militants press ahead with a campaign against Kremlin rule. A suicide… 12/09/2009

  • Chechen bomber defies Moscow

    A suicide bomber has killed himself and four police officers in Chechnya. Another has been seriously injured. The attack took place in the village of Mesker… 25/08/2009

  • Chechen rebel defies Moscow

    A suicide bomber has killed himself and four police officers in Chechnya. Another has been seriously injured. The attack took place in the village of… 25/08/2009

  • Grozny bicycle bombers

    A wave of Islamist-inspired violence continues in Russia’s mainly Muslim North Caucasus. In the Chechen capital Grozny, suicide bombers on bicycles… 21/08/2009

  • Deadly bombings in Grozny

    Early reports of a series of explosions in the capital of Chechnya say at least five people have been killed, policemen among them, according to a Russian… 21/08/2009

  • Chechen human rights worker murdered

    The kidnap and murder of a Chechen human rights worker and her husband have been condemned as inhuman crimes by the leader of the troubled region. Zarema… 12/08/2009

  • Chechnya ‘out of control’ – Human Rights Watch

    The leader of a children’s charity in Chechnya has been found dead with her husband, just hours after being kidnapped. Zarema Sadulayeva and Alik Dzhabrailov… 11/08/2009

  • Charity head found dead in Chechnya

    The kidnapped head of a charity helping children in Chechnya has been found dead in the boot of a car beside her murdered husband. The deaths of Zarema… 11/08/2009

  • Suicide bomb attack in Chechnya

    A suicide bomb attack has killed 5 policemen and a civilian in Chechnya. The regional Emergency Ministry said the attacker approached a crowd near a… 26/07/2009

  • Kadyrov says killers will be found

    The man some accuse of being behind Estemirova’s murder, Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov has also been quick to react. However he has concentrated on the act… 16/07/2009

  • Estemirova murder shatters image of calm in Chechnya

    Chechnya pacified and renewed: that is the image that has been shattered by the assassination of Natalia Estemirova. And once again it raises questions about… 16/07/2009

  • Russian rights activist kidnapped and killed

    A leading Russian human rights activist has been kidnapped and later found dead. Natalia Estemirova worked for the Russian group Memorial. Of Chechen origin… 15/07/2009

  • Grozny stages contemporary art exhibition

    The first exhibition of contemporary art to open in Chechnya for decades has gone on display in the capital Grozny. Paintings by a Russian winner of the… 10/07/2009

  • Chechen police killed in Ingushetia

    In the worst attack of its kind in months nine Chechen police officers have been killed and another 10 wounded by assault rifle and grenade fire in… 04/07/2009

  • Chechens celebrate but NGOs remain wary

    There was jubilation outside the Chechen parliament in Grozny at the announcement that Russia was to end its security operation there. It will strengthen… 16/04/2009

  • Mission accomplished for Moscow in Chechnya

    Russia has ended its decade-long tight security operation in Chechnya. Moscow says the mainly Muslim republic has stabilised considerably under its… 16/04/2009

  • Moscow lifts anti-terror regime in Chechnya

    After a decade, Moscow has lifted its tight anti-terror regime in Chechnya. Russia fought two full-scale wars with separatist forces in Chechnya after the… 16/04/2009

  • Russia reviews terrorist plans in Chechnya

    Claims of normality and improved security have persuaded Russia to review its anti-terrorism operations in Chechnya. Grozny today bears little resemblance to… 27/03/2009

  • Police hold suspected killer of Chechen torture witness

    A man suspected of murdering a key witness in torture accusations against the president of Chechnya has been arrested. The suspect, a Russian man of… 22/02/2009

  • Funerals for murdered Russian pair

    Mourners have paid tribute to a young Russian journalist, killed during the murder of a prominent human rights’ lawyer. Anastasia Baburova was shot as she… 23/01/2009

  • Abbas in Chechnya ahead of Russian visit

    Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has arrived in Chechnya. It was a rare visit by a foreign head of state to the capital of the troubled Russian region… 21/12/2008

  • Politkovskaya murder trial opens in Moscow

    The trial has opened in Moscow of four men charged with involvement in the murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya. The court ruled this morning it… 17/11/2008


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