During the course of an interview with the newspaper Novaya Gazeta (no. 20, 21 March), Akhmad Kadyrov, head of the pro-Moscow Chechen administration, complained that recent harsh repressive actions by the Russian power structures in Chechnya were de facto serving to replenish the ranks of... MORE

On March 14, Associated Press writer Judith Ingram reported the results of a poll released earlier that day by the well-known Russian polling institute ROMIR: "Of 2,000 people surveyed in February, 37 percent said they supported the war and 48 percent said they did not.... MORE

In an editorial appearing in its March 22 edition, the Times of London wrote that, on the previous day, Anna Politkovskaya, a well-known war correspondent who writes for the newspaper Novaya Gazeta, had been presented with the prestigious Index on Censorship award for "the most... MORE

documentary film, entitled "An Assassination Attempt against Russia," sponsored by oligarch-in-exile Boris Berezovsky, which was unveiled at a press conference in London on March 5, continued to create ripple effects in Russia. On March 10, Sergei Yushenkov, a State Duma deputy and cofounder of the... MORE

The remarkable campaign being waged by award-winning Russian war correspondent Anna Politkovskaya to shed light on the grim secrets of the present war in Chechnya is well known. In the no. 18 (March 14) issue of Novaya Gazeta, Politkovskaya describes the sanguinary aftermath of the... MORE

On March 27, the commander of the Combined Group of Russian Forces in Chechnya, Lieutenant General Vladimir Moltenskoi, signed a special order, Order No. 80, stipulating new rules for the conducting of special operations within population points of the Chechen Republic. The specific aim of... MORE

Recent developments on controlling zachistki may well have been connected with the meetings of the Interparliamentary Assembly of the Commonwealth of Independent States and the Council of Europe taking place at the time in the Tauride Palace in Petersburg. On March 29, the online daily... MORE

On March 26, Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov declared to reporters in Petersburg that there was no possibility whatsoever of creating an international tribunal for Chechnya at The Hague. "All the talk about this topic is a provocation by those who would like to complicate... MORE

On March 25, the French Foreign Ministry confirmed that the French ambassador to Moscow, Claude Blanchemaison, had, on March 15, been summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry in Moscow and informed of the displeasure of the Russian government over the fact that a seminar, entitled... MORE