At approximately 11:00 p.m. on April 12, Adam (Shamaluv) Deniev, a deputy chairman of the pro-Moscow Chechen administration and a special representative of that body to the countries of the Middle East and Africa, was killed by a bomb blast as he was making a... MORE

On April 12, Khamzat Idrisov, deputy chairman of the pro-Moscow Chechen government, announced that the republic will be able to take back 1,500 Chechen refugees currently finding shelter in Ingushetia by the end of this month. In Argun, construction and repair work on the buildings... MORE

The much-touted transfer of the pro-Moscow government of Chechnya from the city of Gudermes to Djohar has been delayed once again. It was to have occurred by April 15 at the latest. The reason cited on this occasion for the delay was that windows and... MORE

On April 12, presidential aide Sergei Yastrzhembsky roundly criticized some recent comments made by the former speaker of the Russian parliament, Ruslan Khasbulatov, an ethnic Chechen. One point of Khasbulatov's which Yastrzhembsky attacked was the contention that "the situation in Chechnya is much more serious... MORE

With fits and starts, the trial of Colonel Yury Budanov, accused of having strangled an 18-year-old Chechen woman, resumed in a military court in Rostov-on-Don. A Russia-wide poll taken by the Public Opinion Foundation recently found that "50 percent of respondents wanted the trial stopped... MORE

The European Court for Human Rights in Strasbourg has begun examining three cases relating to the conflict in Chechnya. The cases were brought before the court by the human rights organization, Human Rights Watch. In the words of Dieter Lochman of Human Rights Watch, six... MORE

On April 14--Holy Saturday for the Russian Orthodox Church--President Vladimir Putin made an unannounced brief visit to Chechnya, accompanied by the newly appointed power ministers Sergei Ivanov (Defense) and Boris Gryzlov (MVD), as well as by Media Minister Mikhail Lesin. It was Putin's third trip... MORE

On April 10, it was announced that a new "mass burial ground" containing the bodies of seventeen or eighteen Chechens who had apparently been executed, had been discovered in the basement of a police building located in the Oktyabrsky District of the Chechen capital of... MORE

On April 3, President Putin delivered his annual message to the two chambers of the Russian parliament. Among his statements on the subject of the war in Chechnya were the following: "Having accomplished its basic tasks, the army is leaving the [Chechen] republic. This is... MORE