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The Online Media Environment of the North Caucasus: Issues of Preservation and Accessibility in a Zone of Political and Ideological Conflict

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Published/Copyright: February 3, 2017

Abstract:

As one of the world's most ethnolinguistically-diverse and conflict-prone regions, the North Caucasus presents particular challenges for librarians seeking to preserve its rich and varied online news media content. This content is generated in multiple languages in multiple political and ideological contexts, both within the North Caucasus region and abroad. While online news media content in general is ephemeral, poorly-preserved, and difficult to access via any single search interface or search strategy, content relating to the North Caucasus is at additional risk due to ongoing insurgency/counterinsurgency activity, as well as historical, political and linguistic factors. Various options for preserving and searching North Caucasus web content are explored.

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Kit Condill

Kit Condill is the Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies Librarian and an Assistant Professor at the Library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), which is the largest public university library in the United States. He is a 2004 graduate of UIUC's Graduate School of Library & Information Science, where he teaches a Slavic Bibliography course each fall, and a 1995 graduate of Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. He spent seven years as the Central Asian Reference Specialist for (and then Manager of) the federally-funded Slavic Reference Service.


Appendix 1 : Explanation of search terms for Chechen-related websites

байханов—Ismail Baikhanov (Minister of Education for the Republic of Chechnya, charged with ensuring that education in the republic is pro-regime and anti-Salafist)

беслан—Beslan, North Ossetia (site of the horrific Beslan school hostage crisis of 2004, perpetrated by Chechen separatists)

кадыровцы -- kadyrovtsy (pejorative term for security services beholden to Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of the pro-Russian Chechen government)

кадыровщина -- kadyrovshchina (pejorative term for Kadyrov’s regime)

дудаев -- Dzhokhar Dudaev (former Soviet Air Force general and first president of post-Soviet separatist Chechnya, 1991–1996)

дудийн -- Dudiin (Chechen version of Dudaev’s last name)

мечеть ахмата кадырова -- Akhmat Kadyrov Mosque (enormous mosque built in Grozny and named after Ramzan Kadyrov’s father, claimed to be the largest in Europe)

кадыров ахьмадан цӀарах дина маьждиг -- Chechen name for Akhmat Kadyrov Mosque

сердце чечни -- "Heart of Chechnya" (another name for the Akhmat Kadyrov Mosque)

нохчийчоьнан дог -- "Heart of Chechnya" in Chechen

ваххабизм -- Wahhabism (Russian term for jihadism/Salafism)

ваххӀабизм -- Chechen term for Wahhabism/jihadism/Salafism

игил -- IGIL (Russian acronym for the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, i. e., IS or ISIL)

исламан пачхьалкх -- Chechen term for Islamic State/ISIL

саракаев -- Ibragim-Bek Sarakaev and/or his son Khamzat Sarakaev, famous Chechen writers and journalists

Appendix 2 : Sample list of North-Caucasus-related news, propaganda, and cultural heritage websites

http://www.abkhaziya.org

https://circassianfischt.wordpress.com

http://www.abkhazmoscow.ru/aps

http://apsua.tv

http://serdalo.ru

http://ajanskafkas.com/kategori/kafkasya

http://www.circassiancenter.com

http://www.istanbulcerkesdernegi.org

http://www.kafkasevi.com

http://www.kaffed.org

http://www.demokratikcerkeshareketi.org

https://www.cerkes.org.tr

http://mcha.kbsu.ru

http://инчха.рф

http://www.mashr.org

http://www.shax-dag.ru

http://chechen.org.ua

http://thechechenpress.com

http://interdag.ru

http://www.asiaalwsta.com

http://circassianews.com

http://news.circassianews.com

http://vd.ag

http://www.abkhazeti.info

http://alashara.org

http://apsuaforum.bestforums.org

http://hakikat.info

http://svet-islama05.ru

http://islamdag.ru

http://www.maarulal.ru

http://gergebil.ru

http://mi-dag.ru

http://azeri.ru

http://forum.bakililar.az

http://haaaman.com

http://j-vaynah.ru

http://www.radiomarsho.com

http://www.radiomarsho.com/a/chechen-online-library/26515068.html

http://www.khutynygharadio.com/z/7737.html

http://www.radioerkenli.com

http://kavkazcenter.ru

http://kavkaz-uzel.eu

http://uncukul.ru

http://ботлихра.рф

http://akhvakh.ru

http://minnacrd.ru

http://suleiman-stalskiy.ru

http://samurpress.net

http://magas.ru

http://zamana.info

http://fond-adygi.ru

http://www.adygvoice.ru/wp

http://apsnyteka.org

http://as-salam.ru

http://khilafa.org

http://khilafa.org/tag/fisyria-com

http://vesti95.ru

http://gums-41.ru

http://zama.fm

http://www.nohchalla.com

http://serdce-chechni/ru

http://dznd.ru

http://nana-journal.ru

http://waynakh.com

http://www.vainahkrg.kz/

http://www.chechensinsyria.com

http://www.chechnyaadvocacy.org

http://marshodergisi.blogspot.com

http://marshodergisi.blogspot.com/p/dergi-arsivi.html

http://chechen.org

http://checheninfo.ru

http://abrek.org

http://www.chechnya.gov.ru/page.php?r=182


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