On March 18 Russia’s Prosecutor General announced the launch of a criminal case involving the participation of a number of Ukraine’s leading radical nationalists as mercenaries in the war in Chechnya. All those charged, including leading ultra-nationalists Dimitro Korchinski and the late Anatoli Lupinos, were... MORE

The Chechen separatist Daymohk website on April 3 published an address by Abdul-Khalim Sadulaev. The Chechen rebel president claimed his forces had destroyed "dozens of pieces of enemy equipment" on "all fronts of the war" this winter. "The most odious figures in the camp of... MORE

The Washington Post on April 1 ran an op-ed piece by Anna Politkovskaya, entitled "Stalinism Forever." The Novaya gazeta correspondent said that hundreds of cases involving alleged Islamic terrorism are going through Russia's courts, and that most of them "have been fabricated by the government... MORE

Chechen Prosecutor Valery Kuznetsov announced on April 3 that 57 graves had been found in Kirov Park in Grozny's Leninsky district, RIA Novosti reported. Construction is currently underway in the park, these days known as Akhmad Kadyrov Park, to build an Akhmad Kadyrov Entertainment Center.... MORE

Chechen People's Assembly Chairman Dukvakha Abdurakhmanov on March 30 called for the withdrawal of all Russian federal forces from the republic except for border guards. "I believe that border guards should remain in the republic today," he said. "Other troops—all regiments and divisions that are... MORE

A homemade bomb detonated in Nazran, Ingushetia, on April 1, killing one person and wounding two. "The explosion occurred near school No. 5 on Mutaliev Street at 8:15 a.m. Saturday," a city police source told Interfax. "It killed the driver of a van that was... MORE

On March 29, Kelly McEvers, an American freelance journalist, was detained in the city of Khasavyurt, Dagestan, when she was leaving the city accompanied by a local reporter from the Chernovik newspaper. The Committee to Protect Journalists reports that McEvers was taken to the Khasavyurt... MORE

Chechen President Alu Alkhanov said on April 10 that 14 people have been abducted since the beginning of the year, Interfax reported. “Unfortunately, the problem of kidnappings has not been fully resolved but the rate of registered abductions has shrunk,” Alkhanov said at a meeting... MORE

A shootout between OMON special police forces and suspected members of the Sharia Jamaat in Makhachkala on April 10 killed two policemen and one gunman. The Associated Press, citing Dagestan’s Interior Ministry, reported a suspected militant was detained, as well as the dead gunman’s wife.... MORE

A shootout between security forces and suspected militants in Nazran, Ingushetia on April 11 left one officer and two rebels dead, the Associated Press reported. A spokesman for the federal Interior Ministry’s branch in Southern Federal District, Roman Shchekotin, said that two other officers were... MORE