Russian expert," who was not named, complained to the official Itar-Tass news agency on November 6 that the Assistance Group of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), which resumed its activities in Chechnya five months ago, "has failed to play a constructive... MORE

.In the period since he was the beneficiary of a meeting in the Kremlin with President Putin on October 15, Akhmad Kadyrov, the pro-Moscow head of the civilian administration of Chechnya, has significantly strengthened his position in the republic. In an article entitled "Akhmad Kadyrov... MORE

On November 15, Minister of the Interior Boris Gryzlov announced to the Russian press that Said Peskhoev, an ethnic Chechen, was being proposed to President Putin for the post of head of the pro-Moscow Chechen MVD. Gryzlov added that all the necessary papers were being... MORE

The head of the Russian Auditing Chamber, former Prime Minister Sergei Stepashin, announced on November 20 that his agency had conducted an audit in Chechnya and concluded that "there are sufficient problems in the republic." "We have established," Stepashin noted, "that Chechnya received only about... MORE

In mid-November, a five-month-long, closed, secret trial of five residents of Karachaevo-Cherkessia, charged with having participated in the terror bombings of Moscow and Volgodonsk during September of 1999, came to an end on the grounds of a penal colony located outside of the city of... MORE

If the Stavropol trial represented, in Yakov's words, "an information bomb no one noticed," the trial taking place in Makhachkala, Dagestan of Salman Raduev and three others for participation in a January 1996 raid on the town of Kizlyar during the 1994-1996 war has been... MORE

The award-winning Russian war correspondent for the newspaper Novaya Gazeta, Anna Politkovskaya, who has been temporarily sent out of Russia by her editorial board due to credible death threats made against her, has been on a book promotion tour in the United States. On November... MORE

On November 13, a commission of the Russian State Duma devoted to the state of human rights in Chechnya met in Moscow. Representatives of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) who, together with several Duma deputies, comprise a joint working group on... MORE