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DUMA ROUNDTABLE INCLUDES CHECHEN CITIZENS.
At the Russian State Duma on January 24, a roundtable completed its work in which residents of the Chechen Republic--Russians, Chechens, Dagestanis and representatives of other nationalities--had participated. One key question discussed at the roundtable was how to convey to the president and to the... MORE
FSB ANTITERRORIST SESSION HELD.
On January 24, at the Russian military base in Khankala, Chechnya, FSB director Nikolai Patrushev chaired a session of the operations group in charge of the current "antiterrorist operation in the North Caucasus." Taking part in the session were: Viktor Kazantsev, Russian presidential envoy to... MORE
U.S BRIEFING ON CHECHEN PEACE SCHEDULED.
On Wednesday, January 30 at 2:00 p.m. in Room 2168 of the Rayburn Building of the U.S. House of Representatives, a briefing is to be held on the subject "The Prospects for Peace in Chechnya." Participating in the briefing will be Ilyas Akhmadov, Foreign Minister... MORE
THREE PACE COMMITTEE REPORTS CONCERNING CHECHNYA SUBMITTED TO THE WINTER ASSEMBLY.
In the run-up to the January 23 session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe devoted to the Chechen conflict, three PACE committees submitted written reports concerning their findings. The full texts of these reports are available in English on the website of... MORE
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PUTIN MEETS WITH ROGOZIN BEFORE DUMA-PACE SESSION.
On January 18, President Vladimir Putin held a meeting in the Kremlin with the chairman of the international affairs committee of the Russian State Duma, Dmitry Rogozin, who also serves as the head of the Duma's delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of... MORE
JOINT DUMA-PACE DELEGATION STUDIES REFUGEE CAMPS.
Earlier in the week, on January 14, a joint delegation of PACE and the Russian State Duma arrived in Chechnya "to study conditions in the camps for Chechen refugees." The head of the PACE delegation was Tadeusz Iwinski, rapporteur of that body's committee on migration,... MORE
UN COMMISSIONER VISITS INGUSH CAMPS.
On January 15, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Ruud Lubbers, a former prime minister of the Netherlands, commenced a three-day visit to Moscow and to the refugee camps in Ingushetia. A spokesman for the commissioner stated that the main reason for Lubber's trip... MORE
CHANGE IN TACTICS FOR SPECIAL OPERATIONS.
On January 16, the first deputy chairman of the Russian Ministry of the Interior, Vladimir Vasil'ev, announced that troops from that ministry operating in Chechnya were "changing their tactics." From now on, he said, the troops would abandon the tactics of so-called mopping up operations... MORE