Now that the Russian and Ingush authorities have succeeded in closing Ingushetia's last tent camps for Chechen refugees, what conditions await the camps' former residents? According to a report released on June 18 by the Nazran (Ingushetia) office of Memorial, the Moscow-based human-rights organization, the... MORE

On June 27, a conflict surfaced between Ingushetia's president Murat Zyazikov and his former employer, the Federal Security Service (FSB). According to a report published that same day by the Newsru.com website, the Ingushetian branch of the FSB claimed it learned in advance that a... MORE

Last week, police of Ingushetia's pro-Moscow administration mounted a security sweep on the small refugee center located on the former Altievo dairy farm, Gazeta.ru reported on June 25. Beslan Khamkhoev, acting head of Ingushetia's interior ministry, insisted that the raid was strictly legal and targeted... MORE

Last week's sensational raid on Ingushetia gave the anti-Moscow guerrillas a significant moral advantage as compared with other recent tactical novelties such as suicide bombings: To any objective observer, it looked a lot more like a legitimate military operation than a terrorist attack. The planners... MORE

Q. What sort of education do you have? A. A post-graduate legal education. I'm finishing now, I'll be taking examinations. Q. What kind of examinations? A. What do you mean, what kind? Just examinations, that's all. Q. What's the name of the educational institution where... MORE

Contrary to the impression fostered by Kremlin spokesmen, Chechnya's highways still have an extensive network of military checkpoints that are used by federal soldiers to extort bribes from civilians. In a recent article for the German daily Suddeutsche Zeitung, Chechen journalist Mainat Abdulaeva reported that... MORE

A Russian law, little-noticed at the time of its passage in late 2002, authorizes the Russian government to retain the dead bodies of Chechen guerrillas killed by federal troops or police and considered to be terrorists. Since the law does not require the dead guerrilla... MORE

Last week's issue of Chechnya Weekly mistakenly referred to Nazran as the capital of Ingushetia. In fact, the Ingush capital was transferred from Nazran to the newly built city of Magas in 1998. We regret our error.

Just how passive was the federal military during last month's rebel raid on Ingushetia? Issa Kostoev, who represents Ingushetia in the upper house of the federal parliament, provided further revelations in an interview with Sanobar Shermatova published by the weekly Moskovskie novosti on July 1.... MORE

Powerful forces within the Putin administration are trying to make Anatoly Kvashnin, head of the Russian armed forces' general staff, the scapegoat for last month's fiasco in Ingushetia. A June 30 article by Igor Plugatarev in Nezavisimaya gazeta cited unnamed sources in the federal ministry... MORE