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EMIL’ PAIN’S PLAN FOR AN END TO THE CONFLICT.
Emil' Pain, an advisor to President Yeltsin during the first Russo-Chechen war, and then director of the Center for Ethno-Political and Regional Studies in Moscow, gave a talk at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington on 30 October in which, inter alia, he... MORE
WAR FAR FROM OVER.
In a move indicating that the Russian leadership remains firmly committed to prosecuting the war in Chechnya, it was announced on December 8 that mobile units of Russian internal troops and other personnel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs are to be quartered in "200... MORE
NEMTSOV AND PUTIN DISCUSS CONFLICT SETTLEMENT.
On December 5, Boris Nemtsov, leader of the Union of Right Forces faction in the Russian State Duma, met with President Putin and presented his proposals for a political settlement to the conflict in Chechnya. Nemtsov declined to reveal the details of the conversation but... MORE
ETHNIC BALANCE IN CHECHNYA NO BALANCE AT ALL.
In an interview with Izvestia on December 2, Tom Trier of the Danish Refugee Council, described by the newspaper as "the most influential international humanitarian organization currently active in Chechnya," cited statistics concerning the population of Chechnya. Some of these figures have been mentioned previously... MORE