Like the republic's physical territory, Chechnya's broadcast airwaves continue to elude the federal government's drive to consolidate its control. On the evening of February 3 the underground separatist government succeeded in repeatedly airing a 20-minute television speech by its president Aslan Maskhadov, calling for noncooperation... MORE

The Russian government has won a double victory in Western Europe for its policies in Chechnya. The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), one of the continent's most important institutions for human-rights advocacy, adopted a resolution on January 29 that failed to ask... MORE

Georgi Ekhov reported in a January 31 article on the website Politcom.ru that at a Kremlin meeting of the Security Council--a top advisory body to Russian President Vladimir Putin on military and foreign policy affairs--the president's national security adviser Vladimir Rushailo acknowledged that the military,... MORE

LORD JUDD'S RESIGNATION: ENGLISH SPIN, RUSSIAN DUCK The Russian government has won a double victory in Western Europe for its policies in Chechnya. The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), one of the continent's most important institutions for human-rights advocacy, adopted a resolution... MORE

An aide to Akhmed Zakaev, vice premier of Chechnya's underground separatist government, told the Jamestown Foundation in a February 3 telephone conversation from London that Zakaev is confident the Russian government will not succeed in its current effort to extradite him from the United Kingdom... MORE

Federal subsidies to Chechnya are in effect financing the separatist guerrillas, according to an article by Valery Vyzhutovich in "Moskovskie Novosti." Much of the federal aid intended for Chechnya goes through contractors, an anonymous federal bureaucrat told me, and that about half it never reaches... MORE

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Agence France Presse reported on January 24 that the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe has abandoned efforts to try to persuade Moscow to admit OSCE human rights monitors back into Chechnya. A European delegate to the OSCE council reportedly said that the mission... MORE

The Moscow daily Novye Izvestia suggested on January 22 that one of Russia's security agencies might be responsible, indeed, might have conducted the December 27 truck bombing of the Grozny headquarters of the Moscow-appointed administration for Chechnya. The paper cited a previous statement from the... MORE