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| '''The Kavkaz Center''' is an Internet publication that claims to be "a Chechen independent international Islamic internet agency". It was founded in March 1999 in the city of ], by the ], headed by ], former Minister for Information of the ], currently wanted under terrorism charges in the ] and ]. Although purported to provide news and commentary of interest to Muslims, The Kavkaz Center in practice serves largely to spread Chechen rebel propaganda and disinformation, and to promote Udugov's political aims. Supposedly published in three languages, ], ], and ], the contents of the three language web pages differ wildly and seem to have no relation to each other - the Russian version primarily lists articles attacking the ] and used to feature a bizzare collection of sexually-explicit tabloid stories collected from around Russia (this part of the site has now been toned down), while the English version contains articles that seek to draw attention to supposed human rights violations by the ], and to support anti-American ] and ] insurgents. Most articles have authorship attributed to seemingly non-existent people (some sources allege that most content on The Kavkaz Center is written by Udugov himself under pseudonyms ). | |||
| '''The Kavkaz Center''' (the ''Caucasus Center'') is a Chechen independent international Islamic internet agency. It was founded in March 1999 in the city of ]. It was founded by the ]. Covering events in the Islamic world, especially in the ] and ], the Kavkaz Center is based in the ]. | |||
| The Kavkaz Center caused a controversy in September of 2004 when the server it was being hosted on, located in ], was shut down by Lithuanian authorities on hate speech charges, after a letter from ] claiming responsibility for the ] was published on the site (Basayev and Udugov are claimed to be close friends). The website subsequently re-opened on a webserver in ]. | |||
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The Kavkaz Center is an Internet publication that claims to be "a Chechen independent international Islamic internet agency". It was founded in March 1999 in the city of Grozny, by the National Center for Strategic Research and Political Technologies, headed by Movladi Udugov, former Minister for Information of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, currently wanted under terrorism charges in the CIS and Turkey. Although purported to provide news and commentary of interest to Muslims, The Kavkaz Center in practice serves largely to spread Chechen rebel propaganda and disinformation, and to promote Udugov's political aims. Supposedly published in three languages, English, Russian, and Turkish, the contents of the three language web pages differ wildly and seem to have no relation to each other - the Russian version primarily lists articles attacking the Russian government and used to feature a bizzare collection of sexually-explicit tabloid stories collected from around Russia (this part of the site has now been toned down), while the English version contains articles that seek to draw attention to supposed human rights violations by the Russian army, and to support anti-American Iraqi and Afghan insurgents. Most articles have authorship attributed to seemingly non-existent people (some sources allege that most content on The Kavkaz Center is written by Udugov himself under pseudonyms ).
The Kavkaz Center caused a controversy in September of 2004 when the server it was being hosted on, located in Lithuania, was shut down by Lithuanian authorities on hate speech charges, after a letter from Shamil Basayev claiming responsibility for the Beslan school hostage crisis was published on the site (Basayev and Udugov are claimed to be close friends). The website subsequently re-opened on a webserver in Sweden.