Meanwhile, in Ingushetia, as another North Caucasus winter approached, Aleksandr Blokhin, Russian nationalities and migration minister, reported at a news conference that there were currently 122,451 refugees in Ingushetia, many of them living in tents and railroad cars, who would not be able to withstand... MORE

Anne Nivat, a young French journalist, has published a remarkable eyewitness account, running to nearly 300 pages, on the subject of the current "second" war in Chechnya (Chienne de Guerre, Paris, Fayard, 2000). Few Western or Russian journalists have had the temerity to cover the... MORE

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In what has been interpreted by some commentators as another sign of the weakening of Russia's hold on Chechnya, it has been announced on that Russia's central administration in the republic will be moved thirty kilometers from Chechnya's second city, Gudermes, back to the ruined... MORE

Meanwhile, in Ingushetia, as another North Caucasus winter approached, Aleksandr Blokhin, Russian nationalities and migration minister, reported at a news conference that there were currently 122,451 refugees in Ingushetia, many of them living in tents and railroad cars, who would not be able to withstand... MORE

Anne Nivat, a young French journalist, has published a remarkable eyewitness account, running to nearly 300 pages, on the subject of the current "second" war in Chechnya (Chienne de Guerre, Paris, Fayard, 2000). Few Western or Russian journalists have had the temerity to cover the... MORE

In an interview with French journalists published in Le Figaro on October 26 (and carried in Russian by Gazeta.ru on October 27), Russian president Vladimir Putin offered a combative and, at times, emotional defense of Russia's "anti-terrorist" military operation in Chechnya. "Shamil Basaev," Putin began... MORE