Some residents of the Chechen village of Borozdinovskaya have again fled to neighboring Dagestan. In June, more than a thousand villagers, who are ethnic Avars, left with their belongings following a violent security operation allegedly carried out by members of the Vostok battalion, the pro-Moscow... MORE

On July 21, the Nizhegorod Oblast-based Committee Against Torture issued a press release stating that that it had received a copy Chechen Interior Ministry documents dated June 5 showing that the 11 Borozdinovskaya residents who had disappeared the previous day were indeed detained by members... MORE

Agence France-Presse on July 26 quoted an anonymous official with Chechnya's pro-Moscow government as saying that nine Russians soldiers were killed and three others wounded in fighting in the republic over the previous 24 hours. Four of the soldiers were killed and three wounded in... MORE

Kavkazky Uzel reported on July 26 that a resident of Grozny's Zavodsky district had reported to police that five cars with armed people in camouflage uniforms had pulled up to the "Internet-Tsentr" café the previous day and abducted his 28-year-old son, an inspector in the... MORE

A Review of Valery Tishkov's Society in Armed Conflict: Ethnography of the Chechen War Prominent Russian ethnologist and anthropologist Valery Aleksandrovich Tishkov published his book, Society in Armed Conflict: Ethnography of the Chechen War, in 2001. The work's main themes, as the author writes himself,... MORE

The airing by ABC News' "Nightline" of excerpts of journalist Andrei Babitsky's interview with Chechen rebel warlord Shamil Basaev caused an uproar in Russia that has yet to subside. In the excerpts, which "Nightline" broadcast on July 28, Basaev refused to take responsibility for the... MORE

Both Andrei Babitsky's interview with Basaev and the fact that a leading American television network broadcast excerpts of it were widely denounced in Russia and elsewhere. Perhaps the most powerful denunciation came from Sussana Dudieva, head of the Committee of Beslan Mothers and the mother... MORE

Gazeta.ru ran a commentary on July 29 stating that the Russian authorities and Basaev find each other useful. "On the one hand, granting air time to the gangster Basaev – and he is undoubtedly a gangster, whatever your different semantic experiences in this area might... MORE

The trial before North Ossetia's Supreme Court of Nur-Pashi Kulaev, the sole participant in the Beslan school seizure to be taken alive, continues to yield details that contradict the official version of the tragedy. Among the more startling testimony involves the reported presence of at... MORE

Ekho Moskvy radio on July 28 cited reports that special forces had been sent into the republic's Elbrus district. According to the Kabardino-Balkaria branch of the For Human Rights movement, 15 trucks carrying special-purpose troops and OMON special police commandos arrived on the outskirts of... MORE