On September 24, a so-called ordinary session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), meeting in Strasbourg, heard a presentation by Lord Judd of Britain on behalf of that organization's Political Affairs Committee on the conflict in Chechnya. During his remarks, Judd... MORE

* Kremlin still betting on Kadyrov* Politkovskaya interviews Sergunin* Kavkaz slams Khasbulatov* "The crisis cannot be resolved without talk"* Maigov embraces Primakov's Six Points* No ties to bin Laden* Perspective: FEWER points the way toward "peace in Chechnya" NEWS

The session of the [Russian] Security Council on Chechnya, which had been scheduled for September 24, has been postponed once again," Sanobar Shermatova, a leading journalist, noted in the October 1 issue of the weekly Moskovskie Novosti. "The reason, as informed interlocutors have stated, is... MORE

In an interview conducted by the award-winning war correspondent Anna Politkovskaya, which appeared in the October 3 issue of the twice-weekly Novaya Gazeta, Yan Sergunin, a convert to Islam who serves as head of the apparatus of Kadyrov's Chechen administration, insisted that "Kadyrov needs full... MORE

On October 4, a separatist website, Kavkaz-Center, which is not affiliated with Aslan Maskhadov and his entourage, wrote that there were recent reports that Ruslan Khasbulatov is to be appointed head of Chechnya's pro-Moscow administration. Khasbulatov, the website wrote, "is reported to have insisted that... MORE

In an op-ed appearing in the October 5 issue of the Washington Post, Masha Lipman, deputy editor of Ezhenedel'nyi Zhurnal, commented on Yevgeny Primakov's recent peace proposals aired on the pages of the Russian government newspaper Rossiiskaya Gazeta: "What Primakov says in his article," she... MORE

The October 4 issue of Nezavismaya Gazeta contained a lengthy interview by Il'ya Maksakov, a correspondent who writes frequently about the war in Chechnya, with Salambek Maigov, the influential chair of the Chechen Anti-War Congress. Together with the official pro-Moscow mufti of Chechnya, Akhmad-Khadzhi Shamaev,... MORE

On October 3, the trial of Colonel Yury Budanov, charged with strangling a young Chechen woman in March of 2000, resumed briefly and then was re-adjourned, because the results of the latest psychiatric examination of Budanov had not arrived from the Serbsky Institute in Moscow.... MORE

In a letter entitled "al Qaida and Chechnya," published in the October 2 issue of the Washington Post, and which took sharp issue with a news story appearing in the September 19 issue of the paper, Lyoma Usmanov, U.S. representative of the government of President... MORE