On December 13, the prime minister of the pro-Moscow Chechen government, Stanislav Il'yasov, informed Izvestia that a draft of a new constitution for Chechnya has been sent to the Russian presidential administration. Il'yasov is convinced that the constitution will be approved within a year's time... MORE

In the information war for Chechnya," the Moscow Times reported on December 14, "the empire has struck back. Kremlin-connected Strana.ru on [13 December] launched a Chechnya web site, Kavkaz.strana.ru, in an attempt to counterbalance the many sites set up by Chechen separatists, including the rebels'... MORE

Interviewed in Moscow by Russian TV-6 Television on December 9, Secretary of State Colin Powell stated in response to a question about the position of the U.S. administration toward the Russian government's actions in Chechnya in the wake of the September 11 events: "We noted... MORE

On December 14, the well-known entrepreneur Boris Berezovsky addressed participants in a Moscow conference, which was entitled "Civil Society and Human Rights," from Europe via a TV link. "It has to be said," NTV's "Segodnya" program commented, "that the entrepreneur's address was more like a... MORE

On December 12, Russian Prosecutor General Vladimir Ustinov delivered a three-hour summing-up speech at the building of the Dagestan Supreme Court in Makhachkala in which he asserted "that the prosecution had proved all the points of the indictment and that the accused [Salman] Raduev had... MORE

On December 14, six specialists on the Caucasus region sent an open letter to the editor of The New York Times taking exception to an article by correspondent Michael Wines appearing in the December 9 issue of the newspaper. The six signatories were: Charles H.... MORE

On December 10, the Interfax-AVN news service reported that, "The Administration of the FSB for Chechnya has officially informed the [pro-Moscow] administration and government of the republic that the activity of a number of international organizations on the territory of the region bears an illegal... MORE

On December 17, the Financial Times published the text of an interview conducted with President Vladimir Putin of Russia. A number of Putin's comments touched on the war in Chechnya. "In 1996," Putin recalled, "Russia withdrew all its military and law enforcement forces from the... MORE

On June 10 the last remaining tents of the last remaining Chechen refugee camp in Ingushetia were dismantled in a modest ceremony. According to a June 11 article by Ivan Sukhov for Vremya Novostei, the authorities decided not to make a grand spectacle of the... MORE