Chechen rebel warlord Shamil Basaev warned in an interview published by Sweden's TT news agency on March 21, which was also posted on the separatist Kavkazcenter website, that separatist fighters will carry out terrorist attacks against Russian targets both in Russian and in Qatar, where... MORE

A report from Chechnya published in Moskovsky komsomolets on March 21 suggested that federal forces have not yet captured Shamil Basaev because they do not want to capture him. "Why is Basaev still alive and free to this very day?," wrote the article's author, Svetlana... MORE

Few conflicts in modern times have been so poorly known or understood as the Russo-Chechen war. And as the struggle over Chechnya is propelled to the forefront of the War on Terrorism, further obscuring the war's causes and effects, new works of scholarship are desperately... MORE

Unlike Chechnya's new constitution, that of Tatarstan still uses the word "sovereignty" in referring to the republic. The last six months have seen a struggle between officials of the Tatarstan republic, including its judges, and the federal center, which is working to strike down that... MORE

Was last October's attack by Chechen terrorists on a Moscow theater actually a provocation organized by elements of the Russian security services--or at least known to them in advance, so that they could easily have prevented it? In the opinion of Novaya gazeta correspondent Anna... MORE

The number of Chechen refugees returning to their homeland from Ingushetia has grown since the March referendum, though not dramatically, the Polit.ru website reported on April 22. The authorities have now changed tactics, and are compelling refugees to return by withholding food and other humanitarian... MORE

Some 366.8 million rubles (about US$12.2 million) in federal subsidies to Chechnya have been spent for purposes other than those intended, the head of the Russian parliament's audit chamber announced on April 19. Sergei Stepashin stressed that this does not mean that this entire sum... MORE

Nezavisimaya gazeta's Andrei Riskin has also expressed skepticism about the prospects for a successful amnesty. On April 21 he reported that, according the public prosecutor's office, military servicemen of the federal government or of the local Kadyrov administration are suspects in 300 of the 500... MORE

The Kadyrov administration's deputy prime minister for the security agencies, Movsar Khamidov, who had already confirmed the estimate in a leaked report that forty-nine unmarked mass graves have been found in Chechnya (see Chechnya Weekly, April 15), has now added another telling detail. Khamidov is... MORE

Underscoring another of the tragic dilemmas created by the Chechen wars, some leaders of the ethnic Chechen community in Moscow are calling for special measures to attract back to the republic the ethnic Russians who fled the violence that was committed by both sides in... MORE