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CHECHNYA FACTORS INTO RUSSO-GEORGIAN RELATIONS.
The Chechen issue seriously intruded into relations between Russia and Georgia over the past week, and the U.S. State Department was required once again to issue a warning to Russia to respect Georgian sovereignty. In a piece entitled "Artillery Diplomacy," Kommersant reported on August 1:... MORE
DID ITUM-KALE INCIDENT IN FACT HAPPEN?
There was some doubt as to whether the sharp clashes with rebels coming from Georgia that Moscow claimed had taken place in Itum-Kale District had in fact occurred, at least in the way in which they had been described. When correspondent Said Bitsoev of Novye... MORE
RUSSIA HAPPY TO CONDUCT SPECIAL OPERATION.
The August 2 issue of Vremya Novostei reported that, on the previous day, "the commander of the Russian paratroops, Georgy Shpak, declared directly that the paratroops, if they are given a command, are prepared to conduct a special operation in the Pankisi Gorge to neutralize... MORE
WASHINGTON BACKS GEORGIA.
On July 31, Philip T. Reeker, Deputy Spokesman for the U.S. Department of State, had underlined in Washington: "As we've made clear previously, the United States strongly supports the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Georgia. We would therefore be seriously concerned to learn of any... MORE
WOMEN FOR PEACE GET TOGETHER.
On July 29, a congress entitled "Women of Chechnya for Peace" was held in Nazran, Ingushetia. A number of Chechen human rights and public organizations, such as "LAM" and "Echo of War," participated, as did representatives of the Russian human rights center Memorial and the... MORE
REFUGEES CHOOSE BETWEEN EVILS.
In an article entitled, "To Return: A Bad Omen," which appeared in the 2 August issue of the website Grani.ru, journalist Ivan Sventsitsky shared his impression of a recent trip to Nazran, Ingushetia at the invitation of the Chechen human rights center "LAM." He was... MORE
HUMANITARIAN GROUPS SAY NOTHING HAS CHANGED.
On August 1, four French-based international humanitarian NGOs, Medecins du Monde [Doctors of the World], Medecins sans Frontieres [Doctors without Borders-the Nobel-Prize-winning organization], Action Contre la Faim [Action against Hunger], and La Federation Internationale des Ligues des Droits de l'Homme [International Federation of Leagues for... MORE
BUDANOV WITNESS ADMITS LYING.
In an article entitled "A Real Rapist,' which caused something of a political stir in Russia, two journalists, Nastya Lyrchikova and Marat Khairullin, wrote in the July 31 issue of Moskovsky Komsomolets that "the chief witness in the [Colonel Yury] Budanov case has admitted to... MORE
NEW RUSSIAN FORCES COMMANDER A HAWK, HIS PREDECESSOR A —?
An article in the August 2 issue of Novye Izvestia, written by journalist Vladimir Urban, focused on the newly named commander of the Combined Group of Russian Forces in Chechnya, Lieutenant General Sergei Makarov, who had just replaced Colonel General Vladimir Moltenskoi, who was rather... MORE
CHECHNYA’S DUMA REP COMES TO WASHINGTON.
On July 30, Aslambek Aslakhanov, the elected Russian State Duma representative from Chechnya, gave a talk at the Carnegie Endowment in Washington. Aslakhanov began his talk by noting that he had had meetings in the capital with U.S. government officials who exhibited "great knowledge of... MORE