All Roads Lead to the Pankisi [Gorge]" a headline in the September 9 issue of Vremya Novostei read. Russian law enforcement officials were claiming that those responsible for the terror bombings in Moscow and Volgodonsk in September of 1999, which took some 350 lives, were... MORE

On September 7, Russian Defense Minister Ivanov signed Order No. 59 regarding the crash of a large Mi-26 military helicopter at Khankala Military Base, located outside the Chechen capital city of Grozny, on August 19, after it had been hit by a Chechen separatist hand-held... MORE

On September 9-10, the chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, General of the Army Anatoly Kvashnin, conducted an inspection visit of Russian military and police checkpoints and other sites in Chechnya and then held a meeting with pro-Moscow republican leaders. On... MORE

In his meeting with the pro-Moscow chief of administration, Akhmad Kadyrov, and other Chechen leaders, Kvashnin "underlined that he is prepared at any minute to give a command concerning the withdrawal of military units based in population points, if the heads of the district administration... MORE

On the evening of September 11, relations between Russian military forces based in Chechnya and the pro-Moscow Chechen police became strained "to the maximum." After a Kamaz truck carrying soldiers from the Russian military commandant's office of Oktyabr'sky District in Grozny swerved at great speed,... MORE

During a roundtable discussion in Moscow, which was attended by Russian parliamentarians and political analysts, the U.S. ambassador to Russia, Alexander Vershbow, asserted that the United States now views separatist Chechen leader Aslan Maskhadov with "increasing skepticism." "Russia has not been able to catch all... MORE

In the first week of September, Ivan Rybkin, a former speaker of the Russian State Duma and a former secretary of the Russian Security Council, traveled to Tbilisi to discuss his peace plan for the Chechen conflict with the president of Georgia, Eduard Shevardnadze. "I... MORE

In an interview appearing in the no. 31 (September 13-20) issue of the weekly Vek, retired MVD General Aslambek Aslakhanov, the elected deputy from Chechnya to the Russian State Duma, underlined the pressing need to conduct negotiations with the Chechen separatists. "Otherwise," he said, "we... MORE

On September 12, Reuters reported the fate of one Chechen family that had left a refugee camp in Russia's south to return to their native republic. "Officials ushering them onto trucks promised them rebuilt homes, food and a peaceful life. Instead, with most of the... MORE

The Chekists [FSB] Are Controlling Humanitarian Aid Workers and Journalists" read a headline in the September 7 issue of Kommersant. The day before, the newspaper had reported, "in Chechnya new rules concerning the presence in the republic of representatives of humanitarian organizations went into effect.... MORE