On June 6, at the Andrei Sakharov Museum in Moscow, the chairman of the Chechen Committee for National Salvation, Ruslan Badalov, handed an appeal signed by 10,000 Chechen refugees living in Ingushetia to Adam Shved, a representative of the OSCE. "Today," Badalov underlined in his... MORE

In testimony before the congressional U.S. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, John Beyrle, acting special advisor to Secretary of State Colin Powell for Russia and the other independent states of the former Soviet Union, affirmed that the issue of human rights in Russia... MORE

On June 2, Viktor Popkov, a leading Russian human rights activist, died in a military hospital outside of Moscow. Popkov had been severely wounded by an unidentified assailant firing an automatic weapon from a car near the settlement of Alkhan-Kala in Chechnya on April 18,... MORE

On June 4, the Russian State Duma held a hearing devoted to the problem of those individuals--both from the Russian military and MVD, and among Chechen civilians--who have disappeared without trace or have been kidnapped since August of 1999 on the territory of the Chechen... MORE

During a June 16 press conference held jointly with President Putin following two hours of meetings in Slovenia, U.S. President George W. Bush observed, inter alia: "Respectful relations require honesty. And we did discuss areas where my country has differences with Russia--over Chechnya, and over... MORE

On the eve of the June 16 Bush-Putin summit, President Aslan Maskhadov of Chechnya sent the American president an open letter on behalf of the Chechen nation. "I write," Maskhadov began, "because my people will not have a place at the [negotiation] table and yet... MORE

On June 11, the plenipotentiary Russian presidential representative in the Southern Federal District, retired General Viktor Kazantsev, met with the former pro-Moscow mayor of Djohar (Grozny), Bislan Gantamirov, and offered him the post of chief federal inspector for the entire southern district. As had been... MORE

As a result of a spate of assassinations of pro-Moscow Chechen administrators and Muslim clergy, General Gennady Troshev, commander of the North Caucasus Military District, ordered on June 8 that, within three days' time, all local pro-Moscow leaders and the imams of Chechens mosques should... MORE

Aleksei Arbatov, deputy chairman of the Russian State Duma's defense committee and a member of the Yabloko faction, believes that most Russians hold a mistaken view of what is actually happening in Chechnya. "People," he remarked, "are of the opinion that, while the federal forces... MORE