The June 12 issue of the mass circulation weekly, Argumenty i Fakty contains an interview with the newly elected president of Ingushetia, retired FSB General Murat Zyazikov. "According to the data of the Government of Russia," Zyazikov affirmed, "they are prepared to receive many [Chechen]... MORE

On June 13, the commission on juridical questions and human rights of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe visited Saratov. On the subject of Chechnya, Rudolf Bindig of Germany, a member of the commission, declared that "the Council of Europe categorically does not... MORE

On June 7, German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer criticized the behavior of Russia's armed forces in Chechnya as "unacceptable." In a news conference devoted to the German government's annual report on human rights, Fischer said that the situation in Chechnya "continues to raise great concerns."... MORE

On June 6, Ambassador Stephan Minikes, head of the United States mission to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, in an address to the Permanent Council of the OSCE based in Vienna, stated inter alia: "The [OSCE] Assistance Group continues to be the... MORE

On June 11, the Foreign Ministry of the separatist Chechen Republic of Ichkeria issued a statement affirming: "The Ministry of Foreign Affairs... is deeply concerned with the failure of the OSCE Assistance Group in Chechnya to fulfill its mandate. As laid down in the decision... MORE

Writing in the June 13 issue of Moskovskie Novosti, journalist Sanobar Shermatova recalled that, in earlier issue of the same weekly for this year, she had written about "proposals for a Stabilization Fund for the 'hot spots' of the Caucasus" which President George Bush of... MORE

The property of Novaya Gazeta is under arrest," the website NTV.ru reported on June 7. Bailiffs from the Basmannyi Court in Moscow have begun to "conduct an inventory of [the newspaper's] property and to place it under arrest." The previous day, the No. 40 issue... MORE

The basic mass of Chechen refugees are prepared to return from Ingushetia to their homes [in Chechnya]," the Russian minister for the socioeconomic sphere of the Chechen Republic, Vladimir Elagin, affirmed at a Moscow press conference on June 3 devoted to the results of his... MORE

In an episode recalling the well-known "Yury Budanov case," Chechenpress.com reported on June 5 that Sveta Muradova, a 26-year-old Chechen teacher at one of the secondary schools in Argun, who had been abducted from her home by Russian soldiers on May 22, had at last... MORE