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SECRET TRIAL FOR BOMBING SUSPECTS UNDERWAY.
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
PEACE MARCH BEGINS.
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
RESHUFFLING IN RANKS OF FEDERAL ADMINISTRATION.
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
CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM COUNCIL FORMED.
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
MILITARY CONSCRIPTION FOR CHECHENS BEGINS. A
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
RIGHTS GROUP ISSUES FORMAL WARNING.
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
EMERGENCY RULES PROPOSED FOR CHECHNYA.
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
INGUSH PRESIDENT NOMINATED FOR NOBEL PRIZE.
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
GRAFOVA CONDUCTS SERNOVODSK-ASSINOVSKAYA FACT-FINDING MISSION.
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