Agency France-Presse reported on February 1 that four Russian soldiers had been killed and six injured in fighting around Chechnya over the previous 24 hours. AFP reported on January 30 that fighting between federal forces and Chechen rebels had left five Russian soldiers dead and... MORE

Amnesty International on January 26 issued a press release concerning Rasul Kudaev, the former prisoner in the U.S. detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who was arrested by the authorities in Kabardino-Balkaria for alleged involvement in the rebel raid on the republic’s capital last October... MORE

--FOUR CHECHEN REBELS JAILED FOR INGUSHETIA RAID On February 1, Ingushetia’s Supreme Court sentenced four Chechens to 17 years in prison for involvement in the June 2004 armed attack led by Chechen separatist field commander Shamil Basaev on police and government targets in Ingushetia, which... MORE

On January 31, President Vladimir Putin held a large press conference in the Kremlin during which he answered questions from Russian and foreign journalists. He touched on almost all issues of current concern to the country, and, of course, could not help talking about Chechnya.... MORE

On January 25, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) passed a resolution on the human rights situation in Chechnya. According to PACE's website (assembly.coe.int), the resolution, which passed by a vote of 117 to 24, stated that the Strasbourg-based assembly "is deeply... MORE

Kavkazky Uzel reported on January 24 that Memorial had received information that the relative of a Chechen who had filed a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg has been tortured since his detention at the end of December. According to Memorial,... MORE

The trial of Dagestani human rights activist Osman Boliev will continue on January 30, Kavkazky Uzel reported on January 25. The previous court session in his trial had to be postponed because of the failure of prosecution witnesses to appear. Boliev, a resident of Khasavyurt,... MORE

A roadside bomb targeting a member of the Dagestani branch of the State Road Safety Inspectorate (GIBDD) went off in Khasavyurt as the officer was passing by in his police vehicle, but the intended victim was not hurt, the Dagestani Interior Ministry's press service told... MORE

A group of unidentified gunmen killed two people and seriously wounded a man and a woman during a January 20 attack in the village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya in Ingushetia's Sunzhensky district, which borders Chechnya. Citing Ingushetia's Interior Ministry, RIA Novosti reported that the gunmen, who were... MORE

--TREPASHKIN PUT IN PUNISHMENT CELL Newsru.com reported on January 19 that Mikhail Trepashkin, the former FSB colonel who subsequently charged that the Russian security services were behind the 1999 apartment building bombings and was convicted on charges of revealing state secrets, had been placed in... MORE