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| '''The Kavkaz Center''' is an ] publication that claims to be "a ] independent international ] internet agency". It was founded in March 1999 in the city of ], by the National Center for Strategic Research and Political Technologies, headed by ], former ] of the ] and current leader of a "national information service" , currently wanted under ] charges {{fact}} in the ] and ]. The self-proclaimed mission of the site is to provide news and commentary of interest to ]. Critics say that it serves largely to spread Chechen ] propaganda and disinformation, and to promote Udugov's political aims. | |||
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| 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 features a bizarre collection of sexually explicit ] stories collected from around ], the ] and ] in a section entitled 'Their Dispositions (нравы)', something conspicuously absent from the English version of the ]. The English version contains articles that seek to draw attention to claimed ] by the ], and to support ], ] and ] Islamic insurgents. Some sources allege most of the content on The Kavkaz Center is written by Udugov himself under pseudonyms . | |||
| The Kavkaz Center caused a controversy in September of ] when the server it was being hosted on, located in ], was shut down by Lithuanian authorities on ] 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 ] in ]. | |||
| After the ] in the republic of ], the Kavkaz Center was targeted by what could be a discredit campaign allegedly from the ], which consisted on a massive worldwide distribution of ] which supposedly came from the Kavkaz Center website. After receiving several ], a message was published in the ], stating that they never sent the spam many people received, and that it was a discredit campaign against them because of their pro-rebel points of view. Another spam campaign was active again on ]th, ], allegedly from Kavkaz center, soliciting donations to a bank account in Sweden. | |||
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