On April 4 and 5, the new secretary of the Russian Security Council, former MVD Minister Vladimir Rushailo, who has now been charged with general oversight over the situation in Chechnya, held lengthy talks with Akhmad Kadyrov, head of the republic's pro-Moscow Chechen administration, and... MORE

On April 6, it was reported that Shamil Beno, currently an advisor to the pro-Moscow Chechen head of administration, Akhmad Kadyrov, had announced at a press conference in Moscow that, by September of 2001, there will be created centers for the temporary housing of Chechen... MORE

prosecutor attached to the Chief Administration of the General Procuracy of Russia in the North Caucasus, Mariya Semisynova, has called for the death penalty for Ramzes Goichaev (Gaichaev), a former resident of the Shatoi District of Chechnya, who is being tried in the Russian city... MORE

An English translation of French journalist Anne Nivat's important new book, entitled "Chienne de Guerre: A Woman Reporter Behind the Lines of the War in Chechnya," has just been published by Public Affairs in New York. Copies may be obtained from: Harper Collins Publishers, Order... MORE

war of congresses is beginning in Chechnya," journalist Alla Barakhova noted in the April 5 issue of Kommersant, "The struggle for power in Chechnya is growing stronger." On March 23, as was reported in this newsletter, Chechnya's elected deputy to the Russian State Duma, retired... MORE

On March 23, Il'yas Akhmadov, the separatist foreign minister of Chechnya, spoke at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. He noted that he had been in the U.S. capital for two weeks, during which time he had had discussions with Senators Paul Wellstone and... MORE

The March 30 issue of the French newspaper Liberation carried the text of an interview conducted with Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze. Much of the interview concerned the volatile Georgian-Chechen border area. "In this region, on the Georgian side," Shevardnadze commented, "live 16,000 ethnic Chechens [Kists]... MORE

The March 26 issue of the newspaper Kommersant featured an interview with retired MVD general Aslambek Aslakhanov, the elected representative from Chechnya to the Russian State Duma. On March 23, Aslakhanov chaired a conference of the Union for the Rebirth of Peace and Accord in... MORE

The no. 13 (March 27-April 2) issue of the weekly Moskovskie Novosti carried a piece in which two of its journalists, Sanobar Shermatova and Rustam Khadikov, reported that, at the end of February, all of the leading field commanders of the Chechen separatists had gathered... MORE