What will be the fate of IDPs who are successfully induced to return to Chechnya? Writing in the November 16 issue of Novye Izvestia, the well-known journalist Otto Latsis reported that, on the previous day, the pro-Moscow Chechen chief of administration, Akhmad Kadyrov had complained... MORE

The November 12 issue of Nezavisimaya Gazeta carried an interview by a leading war correspondent, Il'ya Maksakov, with Sherip Alikhadzhiev, the pro-Moscow chief of administration of Shali District in Chechnya. "The village of Avtury," Alkhadzhiev remarked, "has more than 15,000 inhabitants, who were always completely... MORE

Writing in the November 11 issue of Novaya Gazeta, award-winning war correspondent Anna Politkovskaya focused on the fate of the estimated 100,000 Chechens living in Moscow in the aftermath of the October hostagetaking crisis. A Russian schoolteacher stood a young Chechen girl named Isita up... MORE

The website Grani.ru has been keeping careful track, with daily updates, of the fate of the 980 hostages originally seized on October 23 at the Moscow theater at Dubrovka. A full list of the names of these hostages is provided by the website. To date,... MORE

Writing in the November 18 issue of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (the article was translated into Russian and posted on the website Inosmi.ru on November 20), journalist Markus Wehner observed, inter alia: "The gas employed by [the Russian special services], journalist Anna Politkovskaya has maintained,... MORE

On November 14, the website Lenta.ru reported that, on the previous day, the State Duma had turned down a resolution in support of the creation of a parliamentary commission to investigate the circumstances underlying the seizure of the hostages in Moscow. Only thirty-eight deputies voted... MORE

President Yeltsin's former press secretary, Vyacheslav Kostikov, maintained on the pages of Argumenty i Fakty (November 13 issue) that Russia is spending US$160 million a month on the war in Chechnya. In an interview appearing on the November 25 in Grani.ru, Sergei Arutyunov, head of... MORE

year-old retired captain in the Russian military, Mikhail Babich, has been named as the new prime minister of the pro-Moscow Chechen government. At the time of his appointment, Babich had been employed as the deputy governor of Ivanovo Oblast. Gazeta.ru reported on November 14 that... MORE

The November 26 issue of Moskovskie Novosti carried a report concerning a recently concluded conference in London devoted to the war in Chechnya. Fourteen speakers addressed the conference, one of whom, Aslan Kadiev, represented separatist leader Aslan Maskhadov. In his keynote speech, Lord Judd, the... MORE