On January 9, the heads of two large districts of Chechnya lying north of the Terek River submitted a note to the republic's acting chief of administration, Akhmad Kadyrov, in which they affirmed that they were being forced to resign their positions due to a... MORE

It has been reported that two senior officials of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), Lord Frank Judd of Great Britain and Rudolf Binding of Germany, intend to visit Russia on January 13-17. The two monitors are to make use of the... MORE

On December 30, the Toronto Globe and Mail published a summary of an interview conducted with Marie Struthers, a Montreal native and researcher for Human Rights Watch, who had just returned from a two-week mission to Ingushetia, where she had interviewed more than thirty refugees... MORE

bizarre incident continues to have repercussions in both Russia and Chechnya: On November 12, elite Russian military units apparently succeeded in capturing the notorious kidnapper and criminal Arbi Baraev, a key leader of the Chechen Wahhabis. Baraev was then set free by a large armed... MORE

The chairman of the Russian State Duma's defense committee, retired Colonel General Eduard Voro'bev, recently voiced his opinion that the Russian government should enter into settlement talks with Chechen rebel commanders who "are not criminals." Aslan Maskhadov, the Chechen president, was identified as one leader... MORE

On January 2, the Forum on Early Warning and Early Response released a lengthy report concerning the situation in Chechnya. The organization had organized a roundtable, held in Piatigorsk on December 15-16, which was attended by leaders of Chechen communities in Russia as well as... MORE

On December 31, journalist Maura Reynolds published a report in the Los Angeles Times which underscored that the war in Chechnya has been seriously depleting Russia's military stockpiles. "During its blitzkrieg artillery attacks [in 1999]," she wrote, "Russia depleted its massive reserves of ammunition, originally... MORE

The General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces has announced that a new Cossack unit has been created within the 205th Mechanized Brigade. Henceforth, Terek Cossacks are to serve in the Shelkovsky, Naursky and Nadterechnyi districts of Chechnya. The Stavropol Krai security council, which put... MORE

As reported in the most recent issue of this publication, on December 23 Boris Nemtsov, leader of the Union of Right Forces faction in the State Duma, headed a group of Duma deputies which met in Ingushetia with a delegation of separatists who had been... MORE