The online daily Gazeta.ru reported on July 27 that "President Putin has decided to give Akhmad Kadyrov, the [pro-Moscow] head of the Chechen Civil Administration, the lion's share of the money allocated for the restoration of the war-torn republic. Kadyrov is to receive some US$400... MORE

At a meeting of the Chechen Economic and Public Security Council of the pro-Moscow Kadyrov administration, a warning was issued that the republic "is on the verge of an environmental disaster." According to official reports "3.75 million tons of oil have burnt in flares over... MORE

On August 1, an estimated 150-200 Chechen refugees plan to begin a 2,000-kilometer-long peace march, expected to last seventy days, from the Chechen capital of Djohar (Grozny) to the Russian capital, Moscow. The peace march was announced on July 26 by the organizations "For Human... MORE

The July 26 issue of the pro-democracy weekly Obshchaya Gazeta featured a roundtable discussion, chaired by the newspaper's editor, Egor Yakovlev, devoted to the current conflict. "We support the idea," Yakovlev observed, "of a roundtable on the problem of Chechnya. We consider assisting the antiwar... MORE

On July 10, in a penal colony on the outskirts of the city of Stavropol, a closed trial got underway for five individuals from the autonomous republic of Karachaevo-Cherkessia--none of them ethnic Chechens--charged with blowing up two apartment blocks in Moscow in September of 1999.... MORE

On August 1, a group of eighty-six Chechen refugees set off from their tent camp in Ingushetia on a two-month-long peace march to Moscow hoping that, as correspondent Anna Badkhen wrote in the August 3 issue of the San Francisco Chronicle "it would be the... MORE

In what resembled a game of musical chairs, several top Russian civilian and military officials were replaced by their immediate predecessors. Thus Viktor Dakhnov was replaced as chief prosecutor of the pro-Moscow Chechen administration after serving for a period of three-and-a-half months; his successor, Vsevolod... MORE

On 25 July, it was announced that a consultative council had been formed at the office of the pro-Moscow chief of administration of the Chechen Republic, Akhmad Kadyrov. The council is to be chaired by the head of administration of the Grozny (Djohar) Village District,... MORE

call-up of young Chechen men for service in the Russian military has begun. The head of the pro-Moscow military enlistment office in Chechnya, Anatoly Kryuchkov, reported that 566 Chechen youths had been summoned, and that 25 percent of them had then been deemed unfit for... MORE