Deputy Prosecutor General Vladimir Kolesnikov, meanwhile, accused North Ossetian President Taymuraz Mamsurov and the head of the republic's parliamentary commission investigating the Beslan tragedy, Stanislav Kesaev, of being unwilling to cooperate with federal investigators. During a September 7 press conference in Vladikavkaz, Kolesnikov claimed that... MORE

Chechen rebel leader Abdul-Khalim Sadulaev gave an interview to Gazeta Wyborcza that the Polish newspaper published on September 9. The separatist Kavkazcenter website published a Russian translation of that interview on September 13. Among other things, Sadulaev was asked whether the rebels' war is a... MORE

Col.-Gen. Arkady Yedelev, chief of the regional headquarters for counter-terrorist operations in the North Caucasus, told Interfax on September 12 that a total 231 rebel fighters had been eliminated and 890 rebels suspected of crimes arrested in sweep operations in Chechnya during the first eight... MORE

Unknown attackers fired on a police checkpoint on the southwestern outskirts of the Dagestani city of Buinaksk in the early hours of the September 13, killing one officer, Lt. Niyaz Gasanov, and wounding another. In the incident, which took place near a tuberculosis hospital, the... MORE

An explosive device detonated on the side of the Kavkaz federal highway in Ingushetia's main city, Nazran, on September 14, Itar-Tass reported. The blast occurred as a UAZ vehicle carrying officers from the Ingushetian Interior Ministry's patrol and checkpoint service was passing by. The ministry... MORE

The situation in Dagestan continues to deteriorate. Despite the deployment of additional troops and police units from other Russian regions and a personal visit from President Putin, explosions and rebel attacks have only intensified in the province. The majority of observers in Russia, as well... MORE

An officer in Chechnya's Anti-Terrorist Center was killed and three Chechen policemen were wounded on September 20 when rebels fired on three police vehicles outside the Shelkovsky district village of Krasny Voskhod, Interfax and Kavkazky Uzel reported on September 21. Rebels also severely wounded a... MORE

Chechen Interior Ministry personnel in Shali on September 19 seized a videocassette from a Vesti-Chechnya television crew containing footage that they had shot of a demonstration in the village of Novye Atagi, Kavkazky Uzel reported. According to the website, some 20 demonstrators, most of them... MORE

The Chechen separatist movement confirmed on September 17 that Akhmad Avdorkhanov, commander of the rebel armed forces' eastern front, presidential security chief, and head of the presidential guards, had been killed. The separatists, however, denied comments by Chechen First Deputy Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov and... MORE

A battle took place on September 19 between members of the 102nd brigade of Interior Ministry Internal Troops and suspected rebels in a wooded area near the mountain settlement of Gubden, located in Dagestan's Karabudakhkentsky district. Gazeta reported on September 20 that the Interior Ministry... MORE