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This is news? Russian and international NGO's have been extensively documenting Russian war crimes in Chechnya for years, long before the ECHR started hearing cases that got public attention. A few examples:

Civilian Massacres
http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/countr...e6a86d8,0.html
http://www.hrw.org/legacy/reports/2000/russia_chechnya/
http://www.hrw.org/legacy/reports/20...nya3/index.htm
Maura Reynolds, Activists Probe Reported Killings in Chechnya: Russian soldiers allegedly gunned down civilians during season of revelry, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES, Jan. 7, 2002.
Paul Wood, The Pursuit of 'Terrorists' in Chechnya: Blood on Whose Hands?, HUMAN RIGHTS REVIEW 2, no. 3, 134 (2001).

Disappearances/Summary Executions
http://www.hrw.org/legacy/background...hnya0305/3.htm
http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2004/04/1...cuted-chechnya
http://www.hrw.org/legacy/reports/2001/chechnya/
http://www.hrw.org/legacy/reports/20...nya2/index.htm
http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/EUR46/050/2005

Torture
http://www.hrw.org/legacy/background...hechnya-02.htm
http://www.hrw.org/legacy/reports/20...nya4/index.htm
http://www.hrw.org/legacy/reports/2001/chechnya/
http://www.hrw.org/legacy/reports/20...nya2/index.htm
http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/EUR46/020/2000
Noelle Quinivet, Torture in Russia: The Committee against Torture's Assessment of the Russian Federation, HUMAN RIGHTS TRIBUNE 9, no. 2, 27 (2002).

Indiscriminate Bombardment
http://www.hrw.org/legacy/reports/1995/Russia.htm
http://www.hrw.org/en/news/1999/10/3...echen-fighting
http://www.hrw.org/en/news/1999/11/0...rimes-chechnya
http://www.hrw.org/en/news/1999/11/0...llage-chechnya
http://www.hrw.org/en/news/1999/11/0...hechen-targets
http://www.hrw.org/en/news/1999/11/0...nd-novy-sharoi
http://www.aeronautics.ru/chechnya/111299.htm
Wood, supra, at 130-131.

Sexual Assault
http://www.hrw.org/legacy/reports/20...nya4/index.htm
http://www.hrw.org/legacy/reports/20...nya3/index.htm
http://www.hrw.org/en/news/1999/11/0...llage-chechnya
http://www.hrw.org/press/2000/01/chech0120.htm
http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2000/03/2...orces-chechnya

Looting
http://www.hrw.org/en/news/1999/11/2...areas-chechnya
Wood, supra, at 130-131.

Hostage-Taking/Ransom Extortion
http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2001/01/2...pdate-chechnya
http://www.hrw.org/legacy/reports/2001/chechnya/
http://www.hrw.org/legacy/reports/2000/russia_chechnya/