MILITARY CRIMES INVESTIGATIONS ON THE RISE.

According to the chief military procurator of Russia, General Mikhail Kislitsyn, seven Russian soldiers have to date received sentences for crimes committed during the 1999-2001 “counterterrorist operation.” An additional fifty-eight investigations into possible crimes have been initiated (Russkaya mysl, March 8). In a recent interview with reporters, Vladimir Kalamanov, President Putin’s representative for human rights in Chechnya, underscored, “We had only seventeen criminal cases [under way] in December [2000], but now there are fifty-eight” (Rosinformtsentr, March 2).