--ETHNIC BRAWL IN NALCHIKIHI Deputy Prosecutor General Nikolai Shepel announced on September 24 that a criminal case had been launched in connection with clashes that took place in Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, on September 22–23. According to Russian news reports, the violence began as... MORE

--REBELS AND COPS EXCHANGE FIRE IN DAGESTAN Dagestan's Interior Ministry announced on October 5 that it had captured two suspects believed responsible for the killing of a police lieutenant and the wounding of a police captain at a police post in the republic's Buinaksky district... MORE

--GEORGIA DENIES PANKISI CHARGES Georgia's Interior Ministry on October 12 rejected Russian claims that Chechen fighters are located in the Pankisi Gorge. Ministry spokesman Guram Donadze told RIA Novosti that the area is currently guarded as never before. "If [rebel] fighters get to Chechnya through... MORE

--TOP REBELS KILLED IN DAGESTAN Security forces in Dagestan killed two prominent Islamic militants and detained two others in a special operation against rebels at a dormitory on the outskirts of Khasavyurt, the Associated Press reported on October 19. One police officer was killed and... MORE

--EIGHT PARTIES REGISTERED FOR CHECHEN ELECTIONS The Chechen parliamentary campaign got underway on October 22, with eight political parties having registered candidates for the November 27 election. As the Moscow Times reported on October 24, the pro-Kremlin United Russia party placed three confidants of Chechen... MORE

--FSB OFFICER ASSASSINATED IN INGUSHETIA An FSB officer, Adam Gorzhkhanov, was shot to death on November 4 as he was driving on the Nazran-Karabulak highway in Ingushetia. Ingushetiya.ru reported that Gorzhkhanov's car was fired on with automatic weapons from another vehicle that had overtaken it.... MORE

--FEDERAL TROOPS KILLED IN CHECHNYA An improvised explosive device killed an Interior Ministry serviceman who was on patrol in Grozny's Staropromyslovsky district, a Chechen law enforcement source told Interfax on November 3. The source also reported that a rebel fighter had been captured in a... MORE

--BOMBINGS AND SHOOTOUT IN INGUSHETIA A suspected Islamic militant was wounded in a shootout with police on November 15 in Nazran, Ingushetia, pravda.ru reported. An Interior Minister spokesman, Roman Shchekotin, said that the suspect, Isa Ozdoev, started firing on police as they tried to arrest... MORE

--TEN RUSSIAN SOLDIERS KILLED IN CHECHNYA Agence France-Presse, citing an anonymous government official, reported on November 22 that six soldiers had been killed and five wounded in 18 attacks on Russian positions by Chechens separatists over a 24-hour period. In a separate incident, three soldiers... MORE

--WANTED REBEL GUNMEN REPORTEDLY DETAINED Itar-Tass reported on November 24 that two gunmen involved in the attack on Grozny on August 21, 2004, which resulted in the death of more than 60 law enforcers, had been detained in Chechnya. Citing the federal Interior Ministry's Main... MORE