The news agency Interfax reported on October 16 that President Ruslan Aushev of Ingushetia has issued a decree setting up a commission to prepare tent camps, where refugees from Chechnya are presently living, for the fast approaching winter. Over 50 percent of the tents in... MORE

Writing in the October 18 issue of the weekly Argumenty i Fakty, journalist Lyudmila Averina warned that, "On the ecological map of the planet, Chechnya should be indicated with bright red colors warning: 'Careful! Danger!'" More than 30 percent of the territory of the republic,... MORE

On October 16, an agreement to restore the educational system in the Chechen Republic was signed in Paris by a deputy chairwoman of the Russian government, Valentina Matvienko, and the general director of UNESCO, Koitro Matsuura. This joint project will be funded in the amount... MORE

As reported in last week's issue, the Putin leadership appears to have opted, at least for the time being, for a policy of "Chechenization," which will place additional responsibility and imbue with new powers the pro-Moscow Chechen administration of Akhmad Kadyrov, an ethnic Chechen, and... MORE

At a October 22 meeting of the pro-Moscow Chechen government in Djohar (Grozny), Lieutenant General Vladimir Moltenskoi, the newly named commander of the Combined Group of Russian Forces in Chechnya, reported that over sixty checkpoints manned by Russian military and police personnel had recently been... MORE

On October 23, Moltenskoi stated over the state-run ORT television network that "the plan to withdraw troops from Chechnya is being implemented to the full extent." He emphasized that President Putin's order concerning a withdrawal from Chechnya would be completed by April 2002. Moltenskoi did... MORE

On October 25, Colonel General Vyacheslav Tikhomirov, commander of the internal troops of the Russian Ministry of the Interior, told Interfax that presently the largest centers of resistance of the Chechen separatists are in Vedeno, Nozhai-Yurt, and Kurchaloi districts, and also in the Chechen capital... MORE

On October 22, the pro-Moscow chief of the civilian administration in Chechnya, Akhmad Kadyrov, summoned three high-ranking officials of the Chechen government, presently headed by Premier Stanislav Il'yasov, onto the carpet to give reports concerning their activities. The three officials were: Deputy Premier Zina Batysheva,... MORE

In an article entitled "The Chechen-Bermuda Triangle," appearing in the October 26 issue of Kommersant, the paper took note of the fact that the Chechen Republic was fast emerging as "the Klondike of the twenty-first century." A Russian deputy minister of finance, Aleksei Ulyukaev, was... MORE