On September 6, Dmitry Rogozin, chairman of the Russian State Duma's Committee on International Affairs, told the Interfax News Agency that "at the September session of PACE [the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe] a circle of questions connected with the situation in the... MORE

According to a September 7 report by the news agency Agence France Presse, the mission of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) based in Chechnya has been hindered by the Russian authorities in carrying out its activities in the time since that... MORE

On Wednesday, September 5, Boris Nemtsov, one of the leaders of the Union of Right Forces (SPS) parliamentary faction in the Russian State Duma, together with other members of the faction, traveled by motorcade from Nazran, Ingushetia to the Chechen district center of Achkoi-Martan. The... MORE

On September 3, a powerful bomb ripped through the main Russian government building in Djohar (Grozny), killing one woman who worked there. Mufti Akhmad Kadyrov, the pro-Moscow head of administration, had been conducting a meeting of his government on the third floor of the building... MORE

On September 1, the official Russian news agency RIA Novosti reported comments President Vladimir Putin made concerning Chechnya during an interview given to the Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat. In Putin's opinion, Chechnya had, even before the current conflict, been turned into a criminal enclave because... MORE

Friday, August 31 marked the fifth anniversary of the Khasavyurt Accords that had put an end to the "first" Russo-Chechen war of 1994-1996. On that day, the Russian newspaper Kommersant published an interview with the separatist president of Chechnya, Aslan Maskhadov. In late August of... MORE

The no. 61 (August 27) issue of Novaya Gazeta contains the full text of a new book, entitled "The FSB Is Blowing Up Russia," co-authored by Aleksandr Litvinenko and Yury Fel'shtinsky. From 1988-1998, Litvinenko served as an officer in the counterintelligence organs of the FSB.... MORE

Readers of this publication are familiar with the name of the award-winning war correspondent for the pro-democracy newspaper Novaya Gazeta, Anna Politkovskaya, whose coverage of the present Russo-Chechen conflict has been one of the few bright lights in Russian political life over the past two... MORE