NEWS BRIEFS

Publication: North Caucasus Weekly Volume: 4 Issue: 2

Agence France Presse reported on January 24 that the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe has abandoned efforts to try to persuade Moscow to admit OSCE human rights monitors back into Chechnya. A European delegate to the OSCE council reportedly said that the mission in the secessionist province had become “impossible.”

–NEW THEORY FLOATED ON GROZNY BOMBING