The Agentstvo Natsionalnykh Novostei (ANN) on October 27 quoted Kadyrov as complaining that the federal authorities were ignoring the Chechen leadership’s proposal that revenues from oil extracted in Chechnya should be used to rebuild the republic – an idea which, Kadyrov claimed, is supported by... MORE

Rosbalt reported on October 27 that during a meeting in Grozny of the Regional Operational Headquarters (ROSH) in charge of the “anti-terrorist” operation in Chechnya, which was attended by Chechen Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov, a decision was made to divide up the members of the... MORE

Kavkazky Uzel correspondent Lyudmila Maratova reported on October 24 that Islamist separatists in Karachaevo-Cherkessia have stepped up their activities this fall and that the Karachaevo-Cherkessia jamaat may have been behind a series of murders of clergymen and law-enforcement personnel in the republic. Maratova quoted Fatima... MORE

Kommersant reported on October 28 that only a little more than half of the 69 people accused of involvement in the October 2005 raid on Nalchik and who have been in jail for more than a year will go on trial. The newspaper, citing detainees’... MORE

--MORE THAN 300 SERVICEMEN HAVE GONE MISSING IN CHECHNYA The Unified Group of Forces’ deputy military prosecutor, Col. Vladimir Kalita, reported on November 1 that 376 federal servicemen have disappeared in Chechnya since 1994. “Nothing is known about their fate, but work on this is... MORE

“Four bandit groups continue to operate in Dagestan,” Major-General Sergei Solodovnikov, deputy head of the Russian Interior Ministry’s Main Directorate for the Southern Federal District, said at a press conference in Rostov-on-Don, the capital of the Russian South, on October 25. According to Solodovnikov, the... MORE

The economy of the republic of Dagestan in the mid-2000s remains in crisis, though the situation has improved from what it was in the 1990s. The planned government-centered economy built up during the Soviet period was destroyed by the shock-therapy market reforms undertaken in Russia... MORE

Kommersant reported on October 25 that investigators believe former officers of an Interior Ministry unit from Siberia’s Khanty-Mansiisk Autonomous Okrug, which had been deployed in Chechnya, were involved in the October 7 murder of Novaya gazeta correspondent Anna Politkovskaya (Chechnya Weekly, October 12). Politkovskaya published... MORE

Chechen President Alu Alkhanov said on October 19 that he has no intention of resigning. As Nezavisimaya gazeta reported on October 20, Alkhanov was asked during a press conference in Moscow about the rumors that he would be forced to resign after October 5, the... MORE

A poll conducted by the independent Levada Center timed to the fourth anniversary of the hostage seizure at the Dubrovka theater in Moscow found that a majority of Russians believe the authorities are hiding the truth about the incident. According to the poll, which was... MORE