The home of Nazran police chief Dzhabrail Kastoev came under on November 29. Ingushetian Interior Minister Beslan Khamkhoev told Interfax that rebels fired from assault rifles and grenade launchers at Kastoev's house in Ingushetia's Nazranovsky district. "The house was fired at from the local cemetery,"... 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

Kavkazky Uzel reported on November 23 tank commander that Col. Viktor Kindeyev testified on November 22 in the trial of Nurpashi Kulaev, the sole living Beslan hostage-taker to be put on trial, that he commanded the three T-72 tanks that arrived in the town on... 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

The federal Prosecutor General's Office on November 21 sent the Moscow City Court the criminal case involving the July 2004 murder of Forbes Russia editor Paul Klebnikov, RIA Novosti reported. According to prosecutors, the murder was carried out by an organized crime group made up... MORE

Chechen State Council Chairman Taus Dzhabrailov filed suit against Novaya gazeta in Moscow's Basmanny Court on November 21, demanding that it retract information contained in an article published in the bi-weekly's November 17 issue. The article, written by Anna Politkovskaya, was headlined: "A zindan for... MORE

Chechen Election Commission head Ismail Baikhanov said on November 17 that preparations for the republic's parliamentary elections on November 27 were virtually complete. Baikhanov told reporters in Grozny that the lists of those eligible to vote had been completed and comprised 596,000 people, including approximately... MORE

Interfax reported on November 21 that representatives of some 20 human rights and youth organizations as well as Grozny college students were holding a demonstration in downtown Grozny to protest the killing of local residents in the villages of Staraya Sunzha and Starye Atagi by... MORE

Representatives of a number of Chechen refugee organizations have appealed to the European Parliament to take measures to end the war in Chechnya, Kavkazky Uzel reported on November 16. "Our appeal is connected to the fact that over 11 years, Russia has carried out a... MORE

Kavkazky Uzel reported on November 16 that a Russian serviceman was killed in the mountainous Vedeno district when rebels fired on an army unit that was conducting a reconnaissance mission. The unit returned fire, but the attackers escaped into a wooded area. Citing an anonymous... MORE