--FEDERAL FORCES KILLED AND WOUNDED IN CHECHNYA Kavkazky Uzel reported on June 21 that a bomb disposal expert with the federal forces in Chechnya was injured when an explosive device detonated on the road between the villages of Zamai-Yurt and Meskety in the Nozhai-Yurt district.... MORE

Like his predecessors in the war, the leader of the Chechen resistance movement, president of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (ChRI), Abdul-Khalim Sadulaev, has been killed [1]. A. Sardali, a resident of Argun, was quoted by the Kavkazcenter website as saying that up to several... MORE

The violence in Ingushetia spiraled upward another notch on June 9, when gunmen fired on an SUV carrying Musa Nalgiev, the commander of the republic's OMON special police, killing him along with three of his children, a bodyguard, and a driver. Russian and Western news... MORE

Commenting on the violence in Ingushetia, Aleksandr Cherkasov of the Memorial human rights group wrote in an item posted on Ej.ru, the website of Yezhednevny zhurnal, on June 12 that the nearly simultaneous murders of Musa Nalgiev and Galina Gubina were neither coincidental nor unexpected.... MORE

The separatist Kavkazcenter.com website on June 15 posted a video clip of Chechen rebel warlord Shamil Basaev discussing the May 2004 assassination of Akhmad Kadyrov and plans to kill his son, Chechen Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov. While the video was for unknown reasons inaccessible when... MORE

--RAMZAN FANS CELEBRATE HIS FIRST 100 DAYS Thousands of Chechens rallied in Grozny on June 14 in a demonstration marking the first 100 days of Ramzan Kadyrov's tenure as Chechnya's prime minister. "Kadyrov's bearded face topped with a Che Guevara style beret scowled down on... MORE

Intermittent attacks, shootings, and explosions in Chechnya, Dagestan, Ingushetia, and Kabardino-Balkaria have punctured the relative stability that has existed in the North Caucasus since the Beslan school massacre in September 2004. Now it may end with massive destabilization, triggered by resumed fighting in South Ossetia.... MORE

Memorial has published a report about a secret Interior Ministry prison in Grozny where, according to the human rights group, people were tortured and killed. According to the report, which was posted on Memorial's website (Memo.ru) on June 5, at the end May Memorial staffers... MORE

Kavkazky Uzel, citing the Chechen National Salvation Committee (ChKNS), reported on June 5 that 47 families of internally displaced Chechens were facing eviction from a temporary accommodation center, or PVR, on Ulitsa Derzhavina in Grozny on the orders of Khozhbaudi Estamirov, head of the Chechen... MORE

Several reputable observers - specifically, New York Times correspondent C. J. Chivers and Tanya Lokshina, chair of the Demos Center for Information and Human Rights Research in Moscow - have noted the construction boom that has taken place in Chechnya under the direction of Ramzan... MORE