Writing in the no. 29 issue of Novaya Gazeta, award-winning war correspondent Alla Politkovskaya reports the brutal murder of three children and an adult which took place on April 17 in the village of Nizhny Aleroi in Kurchaloevsk District. Journalist Maura Reynolds also investigated this... MORE

On April 23, the online daily Lenta.ru reported that the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva had concluded its examination of the issue of Chechnya by adopting a resolution condemning the actions of the Russian federal authorities in the republic. In the resolution, which was... MORE

The no. 17 (April 26) issue of the weekly Obshchaya Gazeta contains an article by the elected president of Ingushetia, Ruslan Aushev, a former Soviet general, urging the Russian leadership to begin negotiations with President Maskhadov of Chechnya (whose five-year term is due to expire... MORE

The May 5 issue of Izvestia featured the text of a recent interview granted to the newspaper by U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell. One of the questions put to the new secretary concerned the U.S. position on human rights, "especially as it concerns Chechnya."... MORE

The Russian human rights organization Memorial recently revealed to journalist Yevgenia Borisova that "it knows where there are at least three more suspected mass graves in the Chechen capital but is wary of making the information public." According to Lipkhan Bazaeva of Memorial's office in... MORE

On May 4, several hundred Chechen women blocked a bridge in the city of Argun which connects the main Djohar-Makhachkala (Dagestan) highway. The women were protesting against the arrest of a woman teacher at one of the local schools. They also demanded the release of... MORE

On May 2 the Turan News Agency in Baku, Azerbaijan released a lengthy summary of a recent interview conducted with the Chechen separatist president of Chechnya, Aslan Maskhadov. The interview was translated into English by BBC Monitoring and posted on May 3. As spring has... MORE

On April 14, two newly appointed Russian power ministers, Boris Gryzlov, head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and Sergei Ivanov, Minister of Defense, had accompanied President Putin on a flying, one-day visit to Chechnya (see Chechnya Weekly, April 19). One of the stops made... MORE