James Kilner
James Kilner joined AlertNet in July 2009. He previously worked in the Reuters' Moscow bureau from where he covered the war in Georgia among other conflicts.
MEDIAWATCH: Murder of Chechen human rights worker shines spotlight on North Caucasus
With thinly disguised understatement, Alexei Malashenko, an analyst at the Moscow branch of the Carnegie think tank, summed up the security situation in Chechnya and the North Caucasus. It's clear that the picture is less than rosy, he wrote in an opinion piece for the href=http://www.themoscowtimes.com/article/1016/42/379916.htm target=_blank Moscow Times. ...