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ISIS is being controlled by Russian secret services says Hon. Ahmed Zakayev, Chairman of Government of Chechnya on Exile. Zakayev received asylum in Britain after escaping Putin's regime revenge.

For centuries, the small Muslim country has been subject to a series of Russian occupations. Expect Vladimir Putin to use the marathon bombing to further rationalize Moscow's brutal rule. Breaking reports indicate that the alleged perpetrators of the horrific Boston Marathon terrorist attack were born in Chechnya. This Russian-occupied, landlocked Muslim nation of 1.3 million is the center of a Russian war that has taken the lives of more than 200,000 people over the last two decades. It is also one of the world's most poorly understood conflict zones. On social networking profiles, the Boston bombers reveal themselves as supporters...

Like one of those dark mysterious beech forests of the Caucasus, Chechnya still contains many secrets and most of what is going on there is hidden from outside view. From a distance, it looks as though war is over and the republic's leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, is firmly in control. Kadyrov is now busy eliminating the threat posed by the last substantial visible armed group operating in Chechnya, the Vostok battalion run by the Yamadayev brothers. Somewhere in the shadows, a much less visible armed resistance numbering perhaps a few hundred men still flickers on in the southeastern mountains, but they...

Russia named its price yesterday for providing help in the investigation into the death by poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko. It demanded that Britain hand over the enemies of President Putin who have been given asylum in London.The ultimatum came as Russian officials imposed strict limits on how Scotland Yard detectives will be allowed to operate as they began their investigation in Moscow. The strict conditions threatened to deepen the diplomatic rift between Moscow and London caused by the death last month by radioactive polonium-210 poisoning of Litvinenko. John Reid, the Home Secretary, pledged this week that no diplomatic obstacles would...

VILNIUS. Sept 17 (Interfax) - The Lithuanian Defense Council decided at its Friday session that the Kavkaz-Center website which belongs to Chechen separatists and is operated from Lithuania will be closed in the near future. "This website has been inciting ethnic and religious hatred. That is why a decision was made at the Lithuanian Defense Council's session to recommend that its operations be stopped in the near future," Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Brazauskas told journalists after the session, which was chaired by the country's President Valdas Adamkus.

Russia Warns West Against Meddling in Chechnya By Oliver Bullough MOSCOW (Reuters) - Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned the West not to meddle with Russia's Chechnya (news - web sites) policy on Thursday in the wake of a bloody hostage crisis, highlighting a growing rift over the issue between former Cold War foes. He said, in a reference to British and U.S. offers of asylum to spokesmen for Chechen rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov, that the West was directly interfering in an internal issue. "When our Western partners say we should re-examine our policy, what you call our tactics, I would...

Russia’s foreign minister pointed an accusing finger at Britain today for exercising double standards by granting asylum to Chechen separatists. Sergey Lavrov said the moves weaken global anti-terror efforts. His comments, in a Moscow newspaper interview, reflected long-time Russian anger over what Moscow sees as the West’s receptiveness to Chechen militants accused of a string of recent terrorist attacks. The Kremlin instead contends that the militants are trained and supported by international terrorist groups, like al-Qaida. “Granting asylum to people involved in terrorism – and Russia has documented evidence of this – not only causes us regret but also effectively...

LONDON (AP) - A Chechen leader wanted in Russia on charges of terrorism and murder has been granted refugee status in Britain, the government said Saturday. A British judge had rejected a Russian government request to extradite Akhmed Zakayev earlier this month, saying he risked being tortured if he was sent back. "We can confirm that Mr. Zakayev has been granted refugee status," a Home Office spokesman said. He did not give further details. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Vladimir Chizhov called the decision politically motivated and said it would hurt relations with Britain, which he accused of double standards on...

In 1998 three Britons and a New Zealander were kidnapped, tortured and beheaded by Chechen rebels. The world has known little of their ordeal, but now Magomed Chaguchiev, who spent 57 days with them in captivity, reveals to Margarette Driscoll how they met their terrible fate.