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OBSHCHAYA GAZETA HOLDS A ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION ON THE CONFLICT IN CHECHNYA.
The July 26 issue of the pro-democracy weekly Obshchaya Gazeta featured a roundtable discussion, chaired by the newspaper's editor, Egor Yakovlev, devoted to the current conflict. "We support the idea," Yakovlev observed, "of a roundtable on the problem of Chechnya. We consider assisting the antiwar... MORE
MASS RAPE OF CHECHEN MEN BY FEDERAL FORCES.
According to Andrei Mironov of the Russian human rights organization Memorial, as cited by Miriam Lanskoy of Boston University, Russian forces stationed in Chechnya recently committed an organized mass rape of Chechen civilian males. During a fact-finding trip to the North Caucasus, Mironov learned of... MORE
MINISTRIES SQUABBLE ABOUT CHECHNYA.
In an article titled "Fallings Out after a Pogrom," which appeared in the no. 29 (July 17-23) issue of Moskovskie Novosti, leading independent military journalist Pavel Felgenhauer focused on relations between the forces of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) and the Ministry of Defense... MORE
MASKHADOV SENDS OPEN LETTER TO G-7 LEADERS.
The separatist president of Chechnya, Aslan Maskhadov, sent an open letter on July 19 to the presidents and prime ministers of the G-7 countries on the eve of their summit meeting in Genoa. "If you acknowledge the quiet violence of poverty upon the destitute and... MORE
U.S. LEGISLATORS CRITICIZE PUTIN’S POLICIES.
On July 18, the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a hearing on the topic "The Putin Administration's Policies toward the Non-Russian Regions of the Russian Federation." The session was chaired by Senator Joseph Biden, with Senator Jesse Helms (the committee's minority leader) and Senator... MORE
PACE ISSUES WARNING TO RUSSIA.
On July 12 in Strasbourg, Lord Russell-Johnston, president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), issued a warning to Russia concerning the behavior of its troops on Chechnya. "In recent weeks," he began, "there has been mounting evidence of a rapidly deteriorating... MORE
TATARSTAN PRESIDENT PROPOSES NEW MOSCOW-CHECHNYA TREATY.
During a joint session of the Presidium of the Russian State Council and the Presidential Commission on Delimiting Powers Among the Federal Organs of State Power, the Organs of State Power of the Subjects of the Federation, and Local Self-Government, President Mintimer Shaimiev of Tatarstan... MORE
DJOHAR HAS NEW MAYOR.
The July 23 issue of Izvestia reported that an ethnic Russian, Oleg Zhidkov (born 1956), has been named the new mayor of Djohar (Grozny). Zhidkov spent twenty-seven years living in Chechnya and is a graduate of the Chechen-Ingush State University (major: physical education). From 1984-1992,... MORE
FIELD COMMANDER KILLED.
On July 12, the official Russian news agency RIA Novosti reported that a well-known separatist field commander, Abu-Umar, a native of Saudi Arabia, had been "destroyed" in a special joint operation by the FSB and the MVD conducted in Mairtup, Shali District. At the time... MORE
AID TO REFUGEES THREATENED.
On July 20, the Russian minister in charge of Chechnya, Vladimir Elagin, threatened to begin cutting off aid to Chechen refugees living in Ingushetia. Elagin charged that some 15,000 Chechen refugees whose homes had not been destroyed in Chechnya were nonetheless continuing to live in... MORE