Interfax reported on July 26 that an explosion targeting a police van in the Dagestani city of Khasavyurt wounded six members of a federal Interior Ministry mobile unit. Sources in Dagestan's Interior Ministry told the news agency that the incident took place 500 meters from... MORE

Some residents of the Chechen village of Borozdinovskaya have again fled to neighboring Dagestan. In June, more than a thousand villagers, who are ethnic Avars, left with their belongings following a violent security operation allegedly carried out by members of the Vostok battalion, the pro-Moscow... MORE

On July 21, the Nizhegorod Oblast-based Committee Against Torture issued a press release stating that that it had received a copy Chechen Interior Ministry documents dated June 5 showing that the 11 Borozdinovskaya residents who had disappeared the previous day were indeed detained by members... MORE

Agence France-Presse on July 26 quoted an anonymous official with Chechnya's pro-Moscow government as saying that nine Russians soldiers were killed and three others wounded in fighting in the republic over the previous 24 hours. Four of the soldiers were killed and three wounded in... MORE

Kavkazky Uzel reported on July 26 that a resident of Grozny's Zavodsky district had reported to police that five cars with armed people in camouflage uniforms had pulled up to the "Internet-Tsentr" café the previous day and abducted his 28-year-old son, an inspector in the... MORE

A Review of Valery Tishkov's Society in Armed Conflict: Ethnography of the Chechen War Prominent Russian ethnologist and anthropologist Valery Aleksandrovich Tishkov published his book, Society in Armed Conflict: Ethnography of the Chechen War, in 2001. The work's main themes, as the author writes himself,... MORE

--NEARLY A HALF MILLION ARE UNEMPLOYED Kavkazky Uzel on July 26 quoted a source in Chechnya's Ministry of Labor and Social Development as saying that the overwhelming majority of Chechnya's workforce does not have regular work and that the number of unemployed continues to grow.... MORE

The Chechen rebels on July 19 capped an upsurge in activity with an attack in the village of Znameskoe in Chechnya's Nadterechny district that killed 14 people, eleven of them police and security personnel. According to the Associated Press, the attackers opened fire on a... MORE

The attack in Znamenskoe was one of a series of attacks that suggests the rebels may have launched a new offensive. An armored personnel carrier ferrying Interior Ministry Internal Troops was blown up by a roadside bomb in Grozny on July 18. Radio Liberty's Russian-language... MORE

President Putin said on July 19 that the attack in Znameskoe showed the need to step up security and military protection on the Russian border in the North Caucasus, which borders Georgia and Azerbaijan. "Considering the recent developments in Chechnya, we must implement everything that... MORE