On June 6, the human rights organization Memorial issued a report entitled "Examples of the Malicious Non-Observance of Order No. 80 of the Commander of the [Russian] Combined Group of Forces during May of 2002" (Memo.ru, June 6). Among the several events described in this... MORE

All week," the online daily Gazeta.ru wrote on June 7, "large detachments of rebels have been making attacks on representatives of the [pro-Moscow] authorities in Chechnya. This past night they attacked the house of the head of administration of the village of Shalashki and abducted... MORE

On June 5, the website Utro.ru, which frequently airs the opinions of the Russian FSB operating in Chechnya headed up by General Babkin, published a no-holds-barred attack, entitled "The Gray Cardinal of Chechnya," directed against Yan (Yakov) Sergunin, chief-of-staff of the pro-Moscow head of administration... MORE

In an address entitled "U.S.-Russian Relations in the Post-Post-Cold War World," delivered on June 1 to the RAND Business Leaders' Forum held at the Mark Hotel in New York City, Ambassador Richard N. Haas, director of the Policy Planning Staff at the U.S. Department of... MORE

On June 5 in Strasbourg, the deputy premier of the separatist government of the Chechen Republic-Ichkeria, Akhmed Zakaev, met with the general secretary of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Bruno Haller. Zakaev discussed in detail current military-political developments in the republic and... MORE

On June 1, Kommersant reported that, on the previous day in Petersburg, Aleksandr Prokhanov, chief editor of the neo-fascist weekly Zavtra, had been announced as the winner of this year's "National Bestseller" prize for literature. Prokhanov received the prize for his 474-page novel Mister Hexogen... MORE

The no. 38 (30 May) issue of the perhaps now-suppressed newspaper Novaya Gazeta contains an article by leading war correspondent Anna Politkovskaya concerning the recent travails of a Russian "democrat" and strong opponent of the war in Chechnya, Sergei Val'kov. A resident of the central... MORE

While visiting the Pratica Di Mare Air Force Base in Rome, Italy following the recent Moscow summit, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell answered a question concerning how he characterized the war in Chechnya by stating: "With respect to Chechnya, Chechnya is an area of... MORE

On May 30, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the separatist Chechen Republic of Ichkeria responded to the secretary's statement by declaring: "The people and the government of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria express their outrage at the statement made by U.S. Secretary of State... MORE