EXECUTIVE PROFESSION Zoya SVETOVA In November 2008, two months before his death, Stanislav Markelov spoke at a rally on Chistye Prudy. The rally was organized in defense of anti-fascists. Markelov was a lawyer for several members of this movement who were persecuted by the authorities. Now, after his murder, friends remember this speech at the rally. Stas Markelov seemed to have a presentiment of his death. For many, his speech became a kind of testament: “I’m tired.

IN THE VEGETABLE BUSINAS, AND IN HISTORY IS A FAIRY TALE Ali Magomedov As is known, in the USSR, as the state program of revolutionary restructuring of the country and society as a whole was implemented, all peoples were subjected to various repressions. Including such as forced deportation with subsequent deprivation of civil rights based on ethnicity, which befell a number of small peoples of the country. A particularly massive blow was dealt to the peoples of the North Caucasus.

True about the Chechen Holocaust Said Bittsoev , especially for "Dosh" In the mid-eighties, I worked in the youth newspaper Komsomolsky tribe and, on the instructions of the editorial office, once went to a meeting of students with the famous writer Ahmad Suleimanov, who took place in the Chekhov library. Here I first heard the name of the ancient aul Haybach and the terrible story of the burning of people during deportation in February 1944.

Circles on the water Almaty-Malovodnoy-Kazak-Almaty-two years later Sanat Urnaliev, Lukpan Akhmedyarov especially for "Dosh" Two years ago, on March 18, 2007, in the villages of Malovodnoye and the Cossack under Almaty there were pogroms of Chechens. Five people were killed: three Makhmakhanov brothers, as well as Sadykov and Bugutov, participants in the attack on the house of this Chechen family.

Disappointing statistics Ruslan Malsagov In 2008, a general trend in crime in Ingushetia was observed. The number of registered crimes reached 2275 crimes, which is 8% more than 2007. The prosecutor of the Republic of Ingushetia Yuri Turygin announced the following regrettable figures at a press conference: as a result of criminal actions in 2008, 39 law enforcement officials died and 88 more were injured in varying severity. 28 were killed and 61 soldiers were wounded.

Abdullah Khamzaev: "I could not refuse to defend the Kungaev family" On January 15, 2009, Colonel Yuri Budanov, who was serving a ten -year term for the murder of Elsa Kungaeva, was released by parole (after eight years). Despite the protests of the family of the murdered girl and contrary to the cassation protest of lawyer Stanislav Markelov, he came out.

She stepped into immortality Marem Yalkharoev On February 23, 2009, the Bath of Gaitukaeva would have turned 50 on her country in a sky of Chechen poetry flared up and disappeared, illuminating one of the most beautiful corners of the earth, a bright star with a rare name - a ban. “Whoever wants to understand the poet should go to his country,” said Goethe's great German poet. And what is she - the country of Bana Gaitukaeva? ...

WHILE THE MEMORY LIVES Nurzhan Kubadieva On the cold morning of March 7, 1944, Anisat and her eldest son Zeytun left their native village of Khabaz for the village of Kendelen, which was located several tens of kilometers from their home. Winter was already over, but the need to replenish corn supplies forced them to set off on such a long journey in a cart.

Talhigov’s ordeal continues Elena Sannikova Zaurbek Talkhigov is now in PKT. This is a room like a camera where he is punished for violation of the regime. Zaurbek was transferred there by the verdict of authorities from another intra -camp prison, where the regime was softer - SUS (which means "Barak of strict conditions of detention"). Prisoners of PCT are not supposed to date. They are limited in many other, without that scarce rights, usually granted to prisoners.

President of the Republic of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Bamatgireevich Evkurov Appeal Dear Mr. President! We, friends and colleagues of Magomed Evloev, from the Caucasian independent magazine "Dosh", who knew him closely, without false pathos, as a true patriot and worthy son of his people, we are asking you to perpetuate his memory.

INSUCTURE PIKHT A gloomy frosty day on February 5, 2009. A small picket on Pushkinskaya Square participants in the anti -war movement and just sympathetic people remembered victims of the tragedy of nine years ago. Then, in the Chechen village, the new Aldes were shot and burned by dozens of civilians. They were killed and robbed by military personnel of the Russian army. Few of the fellow citizens managed to tear themselves away from the sofa into a cold Moscow evening.

KHAIBAKH - AUL THAT IS NOT Said Bicoev In February 1944, several hundred civilians were burned alive in the mountains of Chechnya. The oldest turned 110 years old, the youngest were born on the day of the tragedy... On the night of February 27, 1944, heavy snow fell in the mountains, complicating movement to high-mountain villages for NKVD troops carrying out a special government task. A few days ago, the order to deport the Chechen-Ingush people was carried out.

Only names remained from many ... Rukish Khadzhiev - How is it possible? For what? Where are we being taken? - Each Chechen asked himself in that frosty February morning of 1944. Everything happened, as in a dream. It cannot be the same! Barking dogs, anxious mooing of animals. The frozen faces of men, crying women and children, infinite grief in the eyes of the elders. Everything was mixed ... everything collapsed overnight ...

Three bags of corn Ruslan Malsagov Bazaar days in Nazran in the 40s were on Wednesdays. Zaam Aushev left the eight -year -old son of Mohammed with his relatives who lived near the bazaar, and left for Surkhahi, so that, returning in the morning, to sell three bags of corn left here. Corn Zaama and Mohameta had to be sold in small portions, not bags - there were few people here. All night the boy rushed about in a dream, he was tormented by nightmares.

UNJUDICIAL EXECUTION IN A MOUNTAIN VILLAGE Former prosecutor of the Urus-Martan district Musa KHADISOV (now a lawyer) recalls deportation, returning to his homeland and the investigation of the tragedy in Khaibakh I was born during deportation, in 1946 in the village of Belovodskoye. There, in Kyrgyzstan, my parents, deported in different carriages from Chechnya in 1944, met. Of course, I know more about the life of Chechens in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan from the stories of relatives.