The September 15 suicide-bombing of the FSB headquarters in Magas, the capital of Ingushetia, produced heavier casualties outside the building than within it, apparently because the car-bomb exploded before the car could burst into the building itself. In addition to the three dead, more than... MORE

Yet another new book has appeared on Chechnya, this one from a veteran Moscow correspondent for a German newspaper. Der Krieg im Schatten. Ru§land und Tschetschenien ("The War in the Shadows: Russia and Chechnya"), edited by Florian Hassel of the Frankfurter Rundschau, presents still further... MORE

The Chechen residents of the increasingly beleaguered Bella refugee camp in Ingushetia had their water cut off on September 19, Agence France-Presse reported on September 20. Following a September 17 electricity cutoff, this new step is clearly designed to place the refugees under even more... MORE

by Brian Glyn Williams   In 1999, U.S. presidential candidate George Bush spoke for much of the American right when he warned the Russians that they "need to resolve the dispute (with the Chechens) peaceably and not be bombing women and children and causing huge... MORE

U.S. officials evidently gave Akhmad Kadyrov a cold reception during his recent visit to the United States as part of Russia's delegation to the United Nations. Even a September 29 article in Kommersant, which tried to put the best face possible on Kadyrov's trip, acknowledged... MORE

With only days to go before Chechnya's presidential election, the polling service Validata has published the results of a survey conducted in the last week of September. The poll found that 66 percent of respondents said they would cast ballots on October 5. This compared... MORE

President George W. Bush's remarks at his joint press conference with Vladimir Putin closing their recent Camp David summit meeting largely gave the latter what he wanted on Chechnya. The U.S. president's words were interpreted by mainstream news media, such as the Associated Press, as... MORE

Just before Vladimir Putin's and Akhmad Kadyrov's recent visit to the United States, the independent New York-based monitoring organization Human Rights Watch released a twenty-eight-page report on "Russian Abuses in Ingushetia." The report, based largely on face-to-face interviews, provides fresh details about seven separate "zachistki"... MORE

The website Grani.ru has published a digital video received by e-mail from rebel guerrillas who are holding a civilian employee of the Kadyrov administration as a hostage. Nadezhda Pogosovaya, an aide to the head of the republican procuracy, was seized by an unidentified rebel group... MORE

An anonymous Russian officer gave Moscow correspondent Paul Quinn-Judge of Time magazine a vivid example of the distrust between his colleagues and the Kadyrov administration's forces, as reported in that magazine's current issue (cover date October 6). According to the officer, former rebel guerrillas now... MORE