On October 8, the official Russian news agency RIA Novosti wrote that Joseph Gyorke, a representative of the administration of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, had informed a Moscow "round table" discussion that he was unaware of single case in which a Chechen IDP... MORE

On October 4, the Institute for War and Peace Reporting noted that, pressured by Russia, the government of Azerbaijan was making it increasingly difficult for Chechen refugees to remain in that country. "With Baku's apparently waning sympathy for the Chechen cause, there have been fears,"... MORE

In an article entitled "Putin Has Introduced Military Rule into Chechnya," written by journalist Vladimir Georgiev for the newspaper Nezavisimaya Gazeta (October 9 issue), it was reported that, as of October 8, a new administrative system had gone into effect in Chechnya. A signed decree... MORE

* Kremlin still betting on Kadyrov* Politkovskaya interviews Sergunin* Kavkaz slams Khasbulatov* "The crisis cannot be resolved without talk"* Maigov embraces Primakov's Six Points* No ties to bin Laden* Perspective: FEWER points the way toward "peace in Chechnya" NEWS

The session of the [Russian] Security Council on Chechnya, which had been scheduled for September 24, has been postponed once again," Sanobar Shermatova, a leading journalist, noted in the October 1 issue of the weekly Moskovskie Novosti. "The reason, as informed interlocutors have stated, is... MORE

In an interview conducted by the award-winning war correspondent Anna Politkovskaya, which appeared in the October 3 issue of the twice-weekly Novaya Gazeta, Yan Sergunin, a convert to Islam who serves as head of the apparatus of Kadyrov's Chechen administration, insisted that "Kadyrov needs full... MORE

On October 4, a separatist website, Kavkaz-Center, which is not affiliated with Aslan Maskhadov and his entourage, wrote that there were recent reports that Ruslan Khasbulatov is to be appointed head of Chechnya's pro-Moscow administration. Khasbulatov, the website wrote, "is reported to have insisted that... MORE

In an op-ed appearing in the October 5 issue of the Washington Post, Masha Lipman, deputy editor of Ezhenedel'nyi Zhurnal, commented on Yevgeny Primakov's recent peace proposals aired on the pages of the Russian government newspaper Rossiiskaya Gazeta: "What Primakov says in his article," she... MORE

The October 4 issue of Nezavismaya Gazeta contained a lengthy interview by Il'ya Maksakov, a correspondent who writes frequently about the war in Chechnya, with Salambek Maigov, the influential chair of the Chechen Anti-War Congress. Together with the official pro-Moscow mufti of Chechnya, Akhmad-Khadzhi Shamaev,... MORE