The Caucasus Times attacked by hackers can be restored by 80 percent

The human rights website The Caucasus Times, which was attacked by hackers on December 22, will be able to restore about 80 percent of the information, which was considered lost.

According to Islam Tekushev, editor-in-chief of the website, The Caucasus Times, notable for its strongly pronounced human rights topicality and covering the events in Northern Caucasus, have been long attracting the attention of Russian authorities and power agencies.

"Today, we have no doubts as to who is behind the destruction of the resource. Shortly before it has happened, our correspondent in Dagestan found himself under very strong pressure exerted by the Minister of Internal Affairs of Dagestan and the chief of the UBOP (Department for Fighting Organized Crime) of the Ministry; besides, my relatives in Nalchik were intimidated," Mr Tekushev said.

"We have a project on studying public opinion, and we have held a polling practically in all the Republics of Northern Caucasus to clear out the attitude of residents of North Caucasian Republics (it was before the elections) to the forthcoming parliamentary and presidential elections, and in general to the policy of the federal centre in Northern Caucasus.

The population is highly dissatisfied and disagrees with the policy of power agencies. In the course of the study we asked a question about people's intention to take part in parliamentary elections. Unlike the data made public by the official bodies, on the average over Northern Caucasus, about 40 percent of the population had stated that they would not go to vote and were not going to cast ballots for any party at all," Islam Tekushev explained.

According to his story, there were many attempts to hack the website before.