Under the heading "The Chechen Refugees in Ingushetia Want to Flee to The Place of Their Stalinist Deportation," the website Grani.ru reported on November 13 on an appeal sent by 300 Chechen IDP families living in Ingushetia to President Nursultan Nazarbaev of Kazakhstan. A copy... MORE

:* Not enough evidence* Zakaev safe in Britain* "Not one tent will be left standing"* Part of the truth, much of the blame

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On December 3, Denmark released Chechen separatist deputy premier Akhmed Zakaev, formerly Aslan Maskhadov's top negotiator with the Russian authorities, from custody. "After having been through the Russian extradition request," Jakob Scharf, the head of the Danish Justice Ministry's international department, stated, "the Justice Ministry... MORE

Following his release from a Danish prison, Zakaev flew to London's Heathrow Airport on December 5, where British police took him into custody immediately. He was later, after having been questioned, released on bail, London's Scotland Yard reported the following day. British actress and leading... MORE

On December 6, the weekly Moskvovskie Novosti reported: "The first deputy head of the Federal Migration Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Igor Yunash, announced that it is planned fully to disassemble the tent camps in Ingushetia where presently more than 18,000 refugees are... MORE

On December 5, the website Polit.ru reported the results of a Russia-wide survey conducted by the polling organization The All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion (VTsIOM) during the period November 22-25. Asked whether the authorities were telling the truth about the hostage crisis,... MORE

On December 6, the official RIA Novosti press agency reported that only one former hostage from the Dubrovka incident remained in a Moscow hospital. On November 28, however, the website Grani.ru had written that sixty-eight former hostages remained missing without trace.

It was reported on December 7 that Georgia had, that same day, handed over Yusuf Krymshamkhalov to the Russian authorities. Krymshamkhalov, an ethnic Karachai, is charged by Russian procurators with having participated in the September 1999 terror bombings of Moscow and Volgodonsk (Grani.ru, citing Itar-Tass,... MORE

An article entitled "The War in Chechnya," appearing in the December 4 issue of Die Presse (Austria), and posted in Russian translation on Inosmi.ru on the same day, featured the views concerning the Chechen conflict of a leading French philosopher, Andre Glucksmann, who termed Russia's... MORE