The October 13 issue of the German newspaper Die Welt am Sontag published an article entitled "The Lost War" ("Der verlorene Krieg"), based on confidential papers leaked from the German Chancellor's office, which attracted considerable attention in Russia. Two newspapers, Nezavisimaya Gazeta (October 14) and... MORE

The October 16 issue of the online daily Gazeta.ru carried a report by journalist Elena Vrantseva entitled, "The State Duma Is Beginning a War in Chechnya." On that day, Vrantseva wrote, the Duma adopted amendments to a draft law entitled "Concerning Veterans," in which "it... MORE

On October 14, Stanislav Il'yasov, the pro-Moscow premier of the Chechen administration, announced that the just-concluded census of the Chechen population had determined that 1,088,816 persons currently reside in the republic. The population of the Chechen capital, he added, is 205,000. "Now," Il'yasov concluded, "we... MORE

The October 16 issue of Nezavismaya Gazeta carried an article by journalist Il'ya Maksakov entitled "A Representative of Putin Has Met with the People of Maskhadov." On October 13, Maksakov wrote, in Znamenskoe, the district center for Nadterechny District in Chechnya, President Putin's special representative... MORE

An account released by a leading Russian human rights organization, Memorial, entitled "Who Broke Off the Negotiations in Chechnya?" noted that the Nezavisimaya Gazeta account and other media reports concerning the October 13 meeting contained serious errors (Hro.org, October 19). The Memorial author noted that... MORE

Citing a report that had appeared in the newspaper Kommersant, the website Grani.ru wrote on October 17: "In Switzerland, in approximately two weeks' time, new negotiations of a deputy of the Duma with representatives of Aslan Maskhadov will take place.... The deputy of the State... MORE

The results of a public opinion survey on the subject of the war in Chechnya conducted in the provincial Russian city of Vladimir by an independent polling organization commissioned to do so by a local radio station were reported by the human rights organization Memorial... MORE

On October 18, the Moscow Times reported from New York that Anna Politkovskaya, a well-known war correspondent who writes for Novaya Gazeta, had been recognized, along with a woman journalist from Pakistan and one from Zimbabwe, as a recipient of this year's International Women's Media... MORE

On October 18, a conference--"Chechen Dead-End: Where to Seek the Road to Peace?"--organized by the Committee of Soldiers' Mothers of Russia opened at the Hotel Rossiya in Moscow. Among those addressing the conference were Salambek Maigov, co-chair of the Anti-War Committee of Chechnya, who asserted... MORE