On July 10, in a penal colony on the outskirts of the city of Stavropol, a closed trial got underway for five individuals from the autonomous republic of Karachaevo-Cherkessia--none of them ethnic Chechens--charged with blowing up two apartment blocks in Moscow in September of 1999.... MORE

On August 1, a group of eighty-six Chechen refugees set off from their tent camp in Ingushetia on a two-month-long peace march to Moscow hoping that, as correspondent Anna Badkhen wrote in the August 3 issue of the San Francisco Chronicle "it would be the... MORE

In what resembled a game of musical chairs, several top Russian civilian and military officials were replaced by their immediate predecessors. Thus Viktor Dakhnov was replaced as chief prosecutor of the pro-Moscow Chechen administration after serving for a period of three-and-a-half months; his successor, Vsevolod... MORE

On 25 July, it was announced that a consultative council had been formed at the office of the pro-Moscow chief of administration of the Chechen Republic, Akhmad Kadyrov. The council is to be chaired by the head of administration of the Grozny (Djohar) Village District,... MORE

call-up of young Chechen men for service in the Russian military has begun. The head of the pro-Moscow military enlistment office in Chechnya, Anatoly Kryuchkov, reported that 566 Chechen youths had been summoned, and that 25 percent of them had then been deemed unfit for... MORE

On August 1, the organization Medecins du Monde [Doctors of the World], which has been working in Chechnya and Ingushetia since March of 1995, issued a formal warning that Chechen civilians could be in acute danger. The organization condemned the Russian Federation's "multiplying [of] the... MORE

At a meeting of leaders of the "antiterrorist operation," held in the town of Essentuki, Stavropol Krai, the newly reappointed head of the Russian Combined Group of Forces, General Valery Baranov, proposed that elements of emergency rule should be introduced into Chechnya. It was necessary,... MORE

The organization "Common Action," which was founded in 1997 at the initiative of Yelena Bonner, the widow of Andrei Sakharov, has sent an open letter, dated July 2001, to Gumer Bruger, chairman of the Subcommittee for Awarding the Nobel Peace Prize, nominating President Ruslan Aushev... MORE

The no. 31 (July 31-August 6) issue of the weekly Moskovskie Novosti contains a report, entitled "They Showed Us How They Hate Us," by the well-known Russian writer Lidiya Grafova, who is the head of the "Migration" Information Agency, concerning a recent fact-finding visit which... MORE