On September 18, the head of the pro-Moscow Chechen civilian administration, Akhmad Kadyrov, left on a six-day tour of four Middle Eastern countries to meet with state officials and members of the Chechen diaspora in those countries and also to appeal for financial and material... MORE

On the night of September 19-20, a close associate of Akhmad Kadyrov, the head of the pro-Moscow police force in Kurchaloi, Salman Abuev, was killed in an ambush as they were travelling by car from Kurchaloi to Alleroi. Six other men in the vehicle, all... MORE

Reporting on a series of interviews conducted with Kremlin advisers and political allies of President Vladimir Putin, journalist Susan Glasser wrote concerning what Russia hoped to obtain from the United States in exchange for cooperating with its war on terrorism: "Russia's demands [to the United... MORE

Evidence continued to mount concerning the high degree of importance that both Russia and the Chechen separatists ascribe to the views of the leadership of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). Aleksei Vasin, an advisor to the pro-Moscow prime minister of Chechnya,... MORE

The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has sent a tough, even brutal note to the Georgian government concerning an alleged Chechen terrorist presence on Georgian territory. The ministry prepared a detailed summary of the note and posted it on the official Russian government website Rosinformtsentr... MORE

On September 26, the head of the pro-Moscow Chechen administration, Akhmad Kadyrov, who was continuing visits to four Middle Eastern countries, met with President Saddam Hussein of Iraq and delivered to the Iraqi chief of state a personal message from President Vladimir Putin. During their... MORE

The Union of Soldiers' Mothers announced on September 27 that Russian military and police losses during the second Chechen war are in reality twice as high as the officially released figures. Noting that since March of this year there have been no official reports concerning... MORE

On September 25, it was announced that medical experts at Moscow's Serbsky Institute had completed a third psychiatric evaluation of Colonel Yury Budanov, who has been charged with abducting and murdering an 18-year-old young Chechen woman, El'za Kungaeva. While the experts declined to reveal the... MORE

On September 29, MVD headquarters at the Khankala Military Base in Chechnya confirmed that that a curfew had been introduced throughout the Republic of Chechnya, to last from 8:00 pm until 6:00 am each day. "During the time of the curfew, all movement of traffic... MORE