Analytics

In 2011, at least 34 persons fell victim to the armed conflict in Karachay-Cherkessia, of whom 22 persons were killed and 12 more injured. The number of victims far exceeds the figure for 2010, when the republic had 4 victims. These are the results of calculations of the "Caucasian Knot", based on the data from its own correspondents and information from open sources.

In 2011, at least 108 people fell victim of the armed conflict in Ingushetia; of them 70 persons were killed and 38 more wounded. The number of victims is more than three times less than in 2010, when the count was 326. These are the results of calculations of the "Caucasian Knot", based on the data from its own correspondents and information from open sources.

During 11 months of 2011, from January 1 to November 30, 103 persons, including 69 killed and 34 wounded, became the victims of the armed conflict in Ingushetia. These are the results of calculations of the "Caucasian Knot", based on the data from its own correspondents and information from open sources.

During 11 months of 2011, that is, from January 1 to November 30, at least 1203 persons fell victim of the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus, including 684 casualties and 519 injured persons. These are the results of calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot" based on the data from its own correspondents and information from open sources.

Since the beginning of 2011, at least 1005 persons fell victim of the ongoing armed conflict in Northern Caucasus, including 594 casualties and 411 injured persons. These are the results of calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from open sources.

During the first six months of 2011 no less than 653 persons became victims of armed confrontation going on in Northern Caucasus. Among them there are 392 killed and 261 wounded. These are the totals of calculation by the “Caucasian Knot” based on its own materials and other open sources.

At least 203 lost and 150 injured from January 1 to June 30, 2011, – this is the sad statistics of the ongoing armed conflict in Dagestan. These figures are based on the calculations of the "Caucasian Knot" materials and information from open sources.

In June no less than 104 people, included 61 lost and 43 injured, were killed and wounded in the armed conflict in the Northern Caucasus. These are the results of calculations of the "Caucasian Knot", based on the own materials and official information from open sources.

Statistics on explosions and terror acts in the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) of the Russian Federation for the first half of 2011 in comparison with that for the same period of 2010 gives grounds for cautious optimism: in general for the District, the number of explosions fell from 138 to 93, the number of perished in the result of these incidents decreased almost two times, from 81 to 42 persons, and the number of wounded decreased more than three times, from 297 to 94 persons.

During May this year, at least 97 persons were lost and wounded in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus, including 54 casualties and 43 injured ones. These are the results of calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and other information from open sources.

During the first three months of this year, at least 468 persons suffered or became victims of the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. Of them, 211 persons were killed and 257 injured. These are the results of calculations of the "Caucasian Knot", based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

In March, at least 96 people were killed and wounded in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus: 68 of them were killed and at least 27 injured. These are the results of calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

In January this year, the smouldering armed conflict in Northern Caucasus caused harm to 248 persons. Of them 84 were lost and at least 164 were injured. These are the calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot" on the basis of its own materials and information from other open sources.

In 2010 the most severe armed confrontations of the strongmen and extremist underground in Northern Caucasus became apparent in the territory of three republics: Chechnya, Ingushetia and Dagestan. No less than 639 people were lost in these confrontations and at least 622 persons got wounded.

The loss of 178 people and injuries obtained by at least 895 persons more in 238 explosions and terror acts committed in 2010 in the territory of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) and in Moscow are most tragic outcomes of the glowing Northern Caucasus conflict.

Russian authorities have managed to isolate the Chechen Republic from western journalists and almost completely block the flow of independent information from the region. However, the commitment to act most cruelly and violently in Chechnya is in fact an evidence of Moscow's weakness; while the best way out is in improvement of social and economic life in Chechnya and launching the negotiation process. This was told in the interview to the "Caucasian Knot" by Lord Frank Judd, participant of the inter-party parliamentary group for defence of human rights of the British Parliament, former PACE's Rapporteur for Chechnya, who paid a visit to the republic as the head of the British parliamentary delegation on February 15-18, 2010.

Thomas de Waal, British journalist and writer, former editor of the Caucasus department of the British Institute for War and Peace Reporting, co-founder of the non-government organization GO Group, one of the best-known Western experts on the Caucasus. In an interview to the "Caucasian Knot" he commented on the situation around the ratification of Armenian-Turkish protocols, on the prospects of settling the Nagorno-Karabakh problem and the relations between Azerbaijan and Iran.

On 25 September, the president of the International Federation for Human Rights (IFHR) Souyer Belassen attended the Moscow court sitting that was considering a suit of the Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov against the chairman of the Memorial Human Rights Center Oleg Orlov. After the sitting, the human rights activist gave her vision of this legal process and the overall situation with human rights in the Russian Federation.