CHECHEN HEARINGS CONTINUE.

The Constitutional Court continuedto hear testimony July 14 on the legality of Boris Yeltsin’s orderto intervene in Chechnya, Russian media reported. Among the highpoints were a report by Federation Council deputy Issa Kostoyevthat he had a copy of a decree that would have led to the "forcedresettlement" of Chechens throughout Russia and a statementby human rights activist Sergei Kovalev that Yeltsin’s actionscould not be justified by anything that had happened in Chechnyaprior to the December 1994 invasion. A group of human rights activistssimultaneously held an unofficial hearing in Moscow, Russiantelevision reported July 15. That group plans an internationaltribunal, perhaps in Washington, to try those guilty of the Chechenintervention.

CIS Officers Meet.