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HAVE RUSSIAN POWER MINISTRIES DECIDED TO JETTISON AKHMAD KADYROV?
Evidence has begun to mount up that the FSB of Chechnya, headed by General Sergei Babkin, and other Russian power ministries have decided in the fairly near future to jettison the pro-Moscow chief of administration of Chechnya, Akhmad Kadyrov. Two factors appear to be impelling... MORE
DEMAND FOR RE-ARREST OF SERGEI LAPIN.
Writing in the July 8 (no. 48) issue of Novaya Gazeta, the editors of the twice-weekly pro-democracy publication reported: "They have released from prison one of the most cruel of the [Russian] military criminals of the second Chechen war, a man who used a saw... MORE
POINTED QUESTIONS LEFT UNANSWERED.
In an article entitled "Human Rights Defenders Have 'Slammed the Door'," appearing in the July 12 issue of Novye Izvestia, journalist Zoya Svetova reported that on July 8 a number of leading Russian human rights NGOs had "repudiated their participation in regular meetings with representatives... MORE
MSF CONDEMNS GROZNY RELOCATIONS.
On July 9, the Nobel-prize winning medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres) issued a press release in which it condemned "the forced relocation of displaced Chechens and Russians to temporary locations in Grozny, where violence and insecurity are a common feature of... MORE
THE WAR’S TOLL: THOUSANDS OF SOLDIERS CRIPPLED.
The July 9 issue of Nezavisimaya Gazeta contains an interview with retired General Anatoly Kulikov, a former Russian minister of internal affairs and presently the chairman of the State Duma's committee on security, in which he reveals that "65,000 [Russian soldiers] have been made cripples"... MORE
NO AMMUNITION, NO WAR?
The Russian forces operating in Chechnya, war correspondent Mikhail Khodarenok wrote in the July 5 issue of Nezavisimaya Gazeta, are fast running out of ammunition for all their weapon systems. Since they have used up almost all of the shells for the modern artillery systems... MORE
NOWHERE ELSE TO GO.
In an article entitled "More Terrible than War: Why the Russians Are Returning to Grozny," which appeared in the July 2 issue of Moskovskie Komsomolets, journalist Aleksandr Minkin wrote: "'The [ethnic] Russians are returning to Chechnya! Things are going right. Already 100 families have returned... MORE
GOODBYE, KADYROV? “
They Are Taking Away Chechnya from Kadyrov" was a heading in the July 11 number of Gazeta.ru. "It is going to be more difficult for Akhmad Kadyrov to become president of Chechnya than he thought," Gazeta.ru wrote. "The section [in the draft constitution for the... MORE
PUTIN’S NEW HUMAN RIGHTS REPRESENTATIVE GOES HOME.
An ethnic Chechen, Abdul-Khakim Sultygov, was named on July 12 as the new special representative of the Russian president for human rights in Chechnya. Sultygov had been working as the secretary of the joint working group of the Duma and the Parliamentary Assembly of the... MORE
RESTORATION FUNDS EMBEZZLED.
More than 6 million rubles earmarked for Chechnya from the federal budget for the restoration of housing, an official Russian news agency RIA Novosti reported on July 10, have been embezzled by a thirty-year-old resident of Alkhan-Kala. In April 2001, the accused had concluded an... MORE