…FOLLOWING TALKS WITH ALIEV IN BAKU.

During his visit to Baku, Maskhadov met with Azerbaijani president Haidar Aliev. The two reportedly held detailed tete-a-tete talks on regional security, oil pipelines, and U.S. attitudes toward the Caucasus region as a whole. (Turan, November 24)

Former Russian Defense Minister Awaits New Job.