After a guerrilla attack on the village of Muzhichi, members of the “Memorial” human rights centre conducted a painstaking survey of village residents, gathering comprehensive information about the raid. Tamerlan Akiyev, head of Memorial’s Nazran office, has kindly provided an article written specially for Prague Watchdog about the results of …

Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state, has urged Russia to help resolve tension in Georgia’s rebel regions rather than “contributing to it”.   Rice was in Tbilisi, the country’s capital, on Thursday in a show of support for Georgia, an ex-Soviet state which wants to join Nato and is …

Gangs of the Russian invaders from the so-called North Caucasus Military District are ready “to provide assistance to the Russian troops in case the situation gets more aggravated in the conflict zones in Abkhazia and South Ossetia”, as gang leader of Russian North Caucasus Military District, Sergei Makarov, said.