The official Russian government newspaper Rossiiskaya Gazeta reported on July 26 that, at a press conference held in Moscow, the first deputy head of the Federal Migration Service of the Russian Ministry of the Interior, Igor Yunush, announced that "camps for temporary [Chechen] migrants on... MORE

On July 26, the Nobel-prize-winning humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders (Medecins sans Frontieres) issued a warning concerning what seems to be an impending human rights catastrophe in Chechnya. "Moscow has announced," Erwin van't Land of MSF wrote, "that the estimated 200,000 displaced [Chechen IDPs currently... MORE

On July 20, the newspaper Trud published an upbeat account of the return to Grozny (Djohar) of a column of buses containing Chechen IDPs being transferred from the "Bella" IDP camp in Ingushetia. The returning forced migrants were to be housed in a dormitory in... MORE

The July 22 issue of the twice-weekly newspaper Novaya Gazeta featured an article by award-winning war correspondent Anna Politkovskaya devoted to the plight of Chechen IDPs residing in Ingushetia. On this occasion, Politkovskaya was interested in the opinions of the middle-aged and elderly men living... MORE

Russia Accused of 'Thinning Out' Chechen Youths" read a headline in the July 25 issue of the Times of London. An international human rights group, The Times reported, has accused Russian soldiers in Chechnya of targeting Chechen "men of productive age" for execution in an... MORE

mission of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, which had come to Grozny to visit Chechen citizens who had earlier written to the OSCE, came under automatic weapons fire on July 22 in the Staropromyslovsky District of the capital. "The criminals used automatic... MORE

Citing the newspaper of the Russian military commandants' offices of Chechnya, Vozrozhdenie Respubliki [Rebirth of the Republic], Interfax-AVN reported on July 23 that "a major purge will be conducted in the ranks of the [pro-Moscow] police of the Chechen Republic in the near future." "The... MORE

On July 23, the newspaper Nezavisimaya Gazeta reported that an expanded session of the State Defense Committee of Ichkeria had been held in the Vedeno District of Chechnya during late June and early July. The paper's account was then reproduced verbatim by the pro-Maskhadov website... MORE

In an article entitled "The Arabs Are Coming to an End in Chechnya," which appeared in the July 25 issue of Gazeta.ru, journalist Aleksandr Godin wrote that, according to Colonel Il'ya Shabalkin, "thirty Arabs were destroyed over the past two weeks" in Chechnya. Over the... MORE

On July 19, the newly re-elected president of France, Jacques Chirac, arrived in Sochi for a day of discussions with Russian President Vladimir Putin. On this occasion, Nezavisimaya Gazeta reported on July 22, "Chirac did not even hint at any disagreements with Putin on this... MORE