Writing in the July 18 issue of Polit.ru, the well-known polling specialist Yury Levada reported that, according to a recent poll, "only 27 percent of [Russian] respondents to one or another degree trust the information appearing in the Russian mass media concerning Chechnya, while 66... MORE

Writing in the July 16 issue of the weekly Novoe Vremya, Emil Pain, a former advisor on nationality affairs to President Yeltsin, subjected Russia's present course in Chechnya to withering criticism. "A state," Pain began, "that regularly employs its own army in zones of ethnic... MORE

Writing in the July 8 (no. 48) issue of Novaya Gazeta, the editors of the twice-weekly pro-democracy publication reported: "They have released from prison one of the most cruel of the [Russian] military criminals of the second Chechen war, a man who used a saw... MORE

In an article entitled "Human Rights Defenders Have 'Slammed the Door'," appearing in the July 12 issue of Novye Izvestia, journalist Zoya Svetova reported that on July 8 a number of leading Russian human rights NGOs had "repudiated their participation in regular meetings with representatives... MORE

On July 9, the Nobel-prize winning medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres) issued a press release in which it condemned "the forced relocation of displaced Chechens and Russians to temporary locations in Grozny, where violence and insecurity are a common feature of... MORE

The July 9 issue of Nezavisimaya Gazeta contains an interview with retired General Anatoly Kulikov, a former Russian minister of internal affairs and presently the chairman of the State Duma's committee on security, in which he reveals that "65,000 [Russian soldiers] have been made cripples"... MORE

The Russian forces operating in Chechnya, war correspondent Mikhail Khodarenok wrote in the July 5 issue of Nezavisimaya Gazeta, are fast running out of ammunition for all their weapon systems. Since they have used up almost all of the shells for the modern artillery systems... MORE

In an article entitled "More Terrible than War: Why the Russians Are Returning to Grozny," which appeared in the July 2 issue of Moskovskie Komsomolets, journalist Aleksandr Minkin wrote: "'The [ethnic] Russians are returning to Chechnya! Things are going right. Already 100 families have returned... MORE

They Are Taking Away Chechnya from Kadyrov" was a heading in the July 11 number of Gazeta.ru. "It is going to be more difficult for Akhmad Kadyrov to become president of Chechnya than he thought," Gazeta.ru wrote. "The section [in the draft constitution for the... MORE