--OSSETIAN MILITANTS ATTACK INGUSH POLICEMEN Two Ingush policemen were seriously wounded when a GIBDD traffic police post near Ingushetia’s administrative border with North Ossetia was shot up, Kavkazky Uzel reported on July 19, citing RIA Novosti. The incident took place on the outskirts of the... MORE

--KADYROV AND ALKHANOV CALL FOR A THIRD TERM FOR PUTIN The political council of the Chechen branch of the pro-Kremlin United Russia party is going to introduce in Russia’s parliament an initiative to amend the Russian constitution to allow President Vladimir Putin to serve more... MORE

--ABU HAFS PUT ON INTERNATIONAL WANTED LIST The Chechen prosecutor’s office put the alleged al-Qaeda envoy in the North Caucasus, Abu Hafs, on the international wanted list, Itar-Tass reported on August 2. “The involvement of Jordanian citizen Abu Hafs in crimes committed on the territory... MORE

--UMAROV MARKS ANNIVERSARY OF REBEL SEIZURE OF GROZNY In a statement posted on the separatist Chechenpress website on August 6, Chechen rebel president Dokku Umarov commemorated the rebel operation to retake Grozny conducted ten years earlier. Umarov called the August 6, 1996 rebel operation “a... MORE

--CHECHEN RIGHTS LAWYER BEATEN UP Usam Baisaev of Memorial told Ekho Moskvy on August 16 that a Chechen police officer had beaten up a lawyer, Dzhabrail Abubakarov, who had been hired by the human rights group to provide legal assistance to Chechen citizens complaining about... MORE

--RELATIVES OF DISAPPEARED GATHER IN GROZNY Kavkazky Uzel reported on August 30 that more than 200 mothers and other relatives of disappeared people gathered in central Grozny. According to the website, the demonstrators held photographs of relatives who had disappeared or were being held against... MORE

--EUROPEAN ANTI-TORTURE OFFICIAL CONCERNED ABOUT CHECHNYA The head of the Council of Europe’s Anti-Torture Committee, Mauro Palma, criticized conditions at a detention facility in Chechnya during talks with Chechen President Alu Alkhanov in Grozny, Interfax reported on September 10. Palma said it was his second... MORE

--FIVE RUSSIAN SERVICEMEN KILLED IN GROZNY Five federal Interior Ministry servicemen, including a lieutenant colonel and two majors, were killed on September 21 when their car was ambushed in Grozny's Staropromyslovsky district, the Rosbalt news agency reported. Meanwhile, Chechen law-enforcement bodies captured a rebel field... MORE

--KOZAK VOWS TO PREVENT FUTURE CHECHEN-INGUSH VIOLENCE The Russian presidential envoy to the Southern Federal District, Dmitry Kozak, said on September 25 that those responsible for the September 13 shootout between Ingush and Chechen police on the administrative border between the two republics would face... MORE

REBELS CARRY OUT ATTACKS IN CHECHNYA… Three policemen from an OMON special police task force were wounded when their jeep was fired upon near a checkpoint on the road between the town of Shali and the village of Agishty, Interfax reported. The three servicemen were... MORE