Fifteen bodies have been unearthed on the border of Nadterechnyi and Sunzhinsky Districts. Seven of the deceased have been identified: "All of them had been taken into custody by Russian soldiers" (Hro.org, September 10).

The current month marked the third anniversary of the September 1999 Moscow and Volgodonsk "terror bombings" that served to precipitate a second Russian invasion of Chechnya. The September 10 issue of the government newspaper Rossiiskaya Gazeta featured an interview with FSB Lieutenant General Ivan Mironov,... MORE

In a report entitled "Pankisi: How It Is Done," three special correspondents for the pro-democracy daily Novye Izvestia, Sergei Agafonov, Besik Urigashvili and Valery Yakov, wrote in the September 11 issue of that newspaper concerning what they had seen and heard during a recent visit... MORE

On August 29, a leading Russian polling organization, The All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion (VTsIOM), published the results of a Russia-wide poll taken during the period August 21-27. "Thirty-one percent of respondents," VTsIOM reported, "deem it necessary to continue the military actions... MORE

Writing in the September 5 issue of the Moscow Times, the well-known Russian military correspondent Pavel Felgenhauer drew attention to a key recent development: "The pattern of the war in Chechnya," he observed, "seems to be changing. On August 19, rebels shot down an Mi-26... MORE

Giving the lie to rumors spread by several pro-Putin websites, journalist Boris Kagarlitsky noted that he had just interviewed Chechen separatist leader Aslan Maskhadov and thus determined that the Chechen president is in fact alive, not dead. The interview with Maskhadov will appear in one... MORE

The August 22 issue of the twice-weekly Novaya Gazeta featured an interview conducted by military journalist Vyacheslav Izmailov with Usman Masaev, deputy chief of administration for investments and economic development under the pro-Moscow head of the republic, Akhmad Kadyrov. "The budget of Chechnya for 2002,"... MORE

The 6th of September, Vremya Novostei noted, marked the celebration of Chechen Independence Day, a holiday established by the late separatist president Dzhokhar Dudaev. This year, the holiday is being observed by the head of the pro-Moscow Chechen administration, Akhmad Kadyrov, by officials of his... MORE

The September 3 issue of the weekly Ezhenedel'nyi Zhurnal carried a report by journalist Evgeny Pakhomov entitled "Deportation to One's Home," which sums up his observations made during a recent visit made to the Chechen capital of Grozny (Djohar) to look into conditions at Points... MORE